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legendofpasta

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Hello friends,

Since discovering the Red Pill I have been made aware of my blue pill beta ways. Now, like many of you, I was somewhat disgusted with what I'd let myself become due to conditioning. I was gaming like a champ, but still in the wrong frame.

With my new knowledge I have been actively doing things in my life to change my ways. To embrace my masculinity. I'm going to share with you my intimate hobbies and I invite you to share yours for our collective benefit:

1. Shaving with a straight razor. This bad ass shaving method uses a lethal sharpened razor that slices through skin like a hot knife through warm butter. Best shave you'll ever have, but you need to be skillful. I sharpen and hone my razor myself. Make my own shaving cream every time I shave (scented Bay Rum) and shave. So fucking alpha. Before that I used to have a fashionable beard. Go to /r/wicked_edge if you want to get started on this.

2. Lockpicking. I bought some military grade lock picks and a practice lock which allows me to set my own pins with varying degrees of difficulty and then learn to pick it myself. I got some instructional videos from /r/baconbits and bought the tools myself online. Its a handy skill to have. Challenging, and will make you a boss the one or two times you wanna use it. Go to /r/lockpicking for more info.

3. Programming in Python. I love games. Specifically final fantasy type games. With Python I am learning to make text based rpg's. I love this shit. Once I get my skills up, I will be able to add basic graphics and actually have a little dude walking around, then doing turn based combat with monsters. It is a very intellectual pursuit. For more info on how to get in this go to /r/learnpython or just download an intro ebook like I did here

3. Guitar. I picked up guitar last year when I was fresh out of a relationship with the worst kind of woman. I needed something to devote my time into. I loved learning everything. A C chord sounds great. Going from C to G is great. learning a new song is great. Learning to sing while you play is great. I started fingerpicking. Its the most fun I"ve had in a long time. One could say I fell in love with the Guitar. I love Guitar so much I'll capitalize the word. What could be more alpha than maintenance of your instrument? I learned to tune the thing using my ears! With harmonics! I know how sound waves from one string to the next behave and I can tune a guitar with this knowledge. I can restring my own Guitar. This is awesome. And bitches and gentlemen alike respect it. I email people on youtube who play really good songs and ask them for their tabs (nicely of course, and with tact) and more often than not, as long as you've subscribed, they send it to me. I play Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy songs on guitar by fingerpicking. I play rock, I play classic. Whatever my fucking fancy.

4. Soldering electronic circuits. Did you know that for about 25 bucks you can makes blinky light things and stuff? Check out this comment in an IWTL thread I made. I'm soldering circuits together now. Melting metal and creating electricity. I control nature. Manly as hell. I'm learning to mod xbox's. Takem apart and solder them up and program them to do some extra shit.

6. WorkOuts on hard mode. I Do Squats. All. The. Time. Deadlifts, bench, overhead press. Download "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe. I got mine of r/baconbits. He'll teach you everything. I used to be 140 pounds in high school. I'm 195 pounds now, down from 205. I'm not ripped but I'm strong as hell and I can toss around my girlfriend like a rag doll, which turns her on.

7. KRAV MAGA. The Israeli military self defense. It is the most brutal fucking martial art in history. When I first joined and watched people practice holding peoples heads back and attacking the exposed throat, I thought it was brutal and it made me cringe. Now I attack throats. And groins. Its not pretty but sometimes I walk down the street and just wish someone would attack me. But then again, I know how brutal these fights can get, so I also am perfectly happy to not fight ever. Knowing how though makes me feel great. I walk with a straight spine and look people in the eye and speak clear as fuck. Rawr!

Thats enough list for now... Please feel free to add your own, I would love to know what my fellow red pillers have been up to!

Warm Regards,

legendofpasta

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One thing I have found that helps with fitness, posture, confidence and leading women is learning to dance. Partner dancing that is. There are so many forms of it to suit all tastes: salsa, jive styles (the easiest), swing and tango. Tango is the hardest and most intimate (and boy are the women hot and wet afterwards). It's important not go as a sweaty, smelling, predatory male. The kind of guy that thinks he's in a sweet shop. You're not. You will be marked as a loser fast and wonder what you did wrong.

You want to earn trust and become a good dance lead. This will take six or more lessons and lots of practice. You'll be able to take this skill away to any situation where there are women that want to dance and lead them in simple styles they don't know but, you do. Women love to be lead and particularly when a lead knows how to show off a woman on a dance floor. They'll queue up. Young and old, fat or thin. Dance with all of them. You get better and have a room full of women fantasising about you.

You'll learn to lead with confidence. You'll get high from the number of women you touch more intimately (not like that! you'll lose fast doing that) in one night than most men will manage in a month. You'll lose weight faster. You'll learn how to stand up straight and look like a man. You'll meet a lot of women and, with a little self control, know who the decent ones are.

[deleted] 11y ago

I especially agre with number 6 ~

Also, despite what many body builders say, I love distance exercise.

Cycling, running or swimming for 50 minutes 3-6 days a week will keep your mind nice and sharp, and your waist trim. Even if it hurts your bulking attempts, the mental and physical health benefits are too great to pass up.

legendofpasta 11y ago

Yeah 6 is universal. SR shaving or programming in Python are more personal and stem from interests, but I don't know anyone who shouldn't be busting his balls in the gym.

I wanna get into running eventually... but for now I don't have the gear or the passion (I usually reserve my time for things I have a fire in my belly for)

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If you ever get a chance I really recommend it. It will change your world view if you can maintain a 6 day a week 50 minutes a day cardio routine for a few months in a row. Other stuff is fun too though ~

redpillschool Admin 11y ago

I won't disagree with the list, except to say that I get about 5x more attention from girls with a persistent 5 o'clock shadow.

legendofpasta 11y ago

That was the hardest part about the new shaving thing. My beard got me tons of ass.

My game was moderately cash too, but man. the beard

I remember the first time I shaved I thought "Who is this little boy... or girl.. staring back at me in the mirror?" But then... the call of the straight razor is a little too much to resist. I only shave because I enjoy the act of shaving... its not so much a large preference for the look. If I were single its likely I'd be scruffy

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legendofpasta 11y ago

lot of pasta in this thread.

Did we just become best friends?

RcskaSedd 11y ago

What straight razor did you buy? and any suggestion for a beginners kit?

legendofpasta 11y ago

I bought a Dovo razor, 5/8". I also got a leather/linen strop, a razorstone and a badger hair brush. If you take care of your razor it will last you two generations. You'll never need to buy cartridges again.

I found an oldschool barbershop in my city that could order it for me, but you can also get them online.

There are only two reputable brands for razors in the world, really. Dovo and Thiers-Issard.

Steel razors from Pakistan are widely considered to be inferior quality.

I really love my Dovo. It was like 120 bucks, but it was a good investment. If you're not looking to shell out some serious upfront costs, you could always ask for the best alternative on /wicked_edge. And someone else posted a link to whipped dog which I've seen mentioned on that sub alot. I don't see how you could straight raze without a sharpening stone though.... All blades are advertised as 'shave ready' when you buy them, but they are most certainly not!! They all need sharpening. The blade should never pull on your hair, just slice cleanly through. The first time I tried to shave mine it was pulling all over the place. Only through sharpening and honing a little everytime did I find the right sharpness

controversial_views 11y ago

This is what most people go with at /r/wicked_edge.

Kepaso 11y ago

me: always been travelling the world, solo or with friends. i work from my studio, as an artist. Being my own boss and having some recognition is great. Just joined a local gym. Always reading, tring to educate myself, and discovering new art.

legendofpasta 11y ago

I havent done any travelling. Something on my wish list. Working from your studio as an artist. Whooooa thats something right there. Ballsy. I'm getting ready to go to the office right now. Enjoy your freedom

Kepaso 11y ago

yes, since i'm an artist i have contacts from other artists all over the world and they give me a direct access on the country i'm travelling in, and not ust the touristic stuff. Also travelling solo forces you to be independent and to rely on yourself, and going out of your confort zone, especially in a poor country where you don t know the language.

RedHonest 11y ago

I don't like the concept of "hobbies", in my opinion they are compartmentalized masculinity.

That said, I don't like "recreation" either. Either you already are doing your passion for your living, or you are spending your off-time investing in yourself.

For this time:

Acquire skills and knowledge that are useful, not for survival and protection (those days are over), but for the attainment of power. Attain power for it's own sake, there is no other reason.
Do things that enrich your life, treat yourself like royalty. Even if you're at the bottom of the social or economic ladder, don't treat yourself as if you're on the bottom. King yourself.

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legendofpasta 11y ago

Shaving with a straight razor is theraputic. You have to focus, relax, breath... concentrate. Its so good for you. Its not just some silly chore in the morning like a regular shave; its a luxurious ritual.

You'd look ridiculous going to work in a loose-fitting, pleated-pant double-breasted suit with wide lapels topped with a fedora.

Yeah... but sharpening and honing your own blade and getting the best shave you ever had is not the same thing as a ridiculous caracature walking around in period garments.

Do you have any suggestions to grow the list? I appreciate discussion on mine, but I'd love to read other people's

zionController 11y ago

So fucking pointless, actually.

Straight razors sound awfully pointy to me

dreamingawake09 11y ago

Or you can use a safety razor. Cheaper than cartridge razors and a better and closer shave(at least personally for me).

redditalias7 11y ago

Edwin Jagger with Feather blades and Proraso shave cream for the win.

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masculinity is a mindset, imo, and nothing else. i feel it's more about honor and survival, not the way you do certain activities

[deleted] 11y ago

masculinity is a mindset, imo, and nothing else. i feel it's more about honor and survival, not the way you do certain activities

While there is an aspect of it masculinity that relates to your general mindset and approach to the world, there are also activities that will most certaintly affect your body and mind to fit that mindset naturally, without concious effort on your part. And if it requires concious effort, then you certaintly havent made it there, and some of these activities might take you a step closer, so it's not so black and white of an issue.

RedHonest 11y ago

honor

This is one of those concepts that are either a great virtue or a great vice to this concept of positive masculinity. We've discussed the vices, e.g. chivalry, and it's appropriation by the feminine imperative, and Rollo's discussion of honor.

The virtues: Honor, in my opinion, is how you treat someone in whom you see genuinely high value. It's like involuntary respect, that feeling that "holy shit, this guy has his shit together."

And then there's the old idea, and I don't know where I got it from, is that you only show honor towards those who have honor. No more of this "I respect everyone because they are a human being" nonsense, this reduces the value of respect. Respect is earned, not given. And "having honor" is a matter of merit, most people have none, that's why honor is rarely shown. It's the aristocracy within democracy.

survival

I hate seeing this obsession with "survival". Today, it is true, men don't feel like men because they don't struggle, and there are men who accumulate weapons, survival gear, and rations, waiting...even hoping...for the day they can act like men again.

In an ecology of scarcity, survival is the ultimate goal; but in an ecology of abundance, and ecology in which all of us currently live, the goal should be power. In the jungle, rain and sunlight are plenty, but the trees still race to the canopy for the sun.

Hobbies are great, but at some level I think women, and men, look down on them, as they should. By having a hobby, you are admitting the irrelevance of what you do.

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I mean survival as in dedication to your means of making money, so you can put food on the table and a roof over your head. I don't mean stockpiling supplies to survive some scenario.

legendofpasta 11y ago

a mindset, imo, and nothing else

Thoughts are nice, but actions speak the loudest about what you are and aren't

i feel it's more about honor and surviva

Honour.... hmmm is it honourable to game a woman?

Survival.... in modern society we all survive. If you can't do it yourself, the government will put you on welfare and make you survive for you.

I maintain that you can do better.

[deleted] 11y ago

but your mindset influences your actions. you're doing something naturally because you think a certain way instead of making yourself to do it conform to some kind of standard you've imagined. nothing else is implied, like your question about gaming a woman.

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but your mindset influences your actions

Your actions influence your mindset far more than your mindset influences your actions.

I can sit there and tell myself all day that I'm a super badass alpha male that all the women love, but still crumble when I make the approach because reality struck me head on. The true way to attain the mindset is through molding your everyday actions, faking it won't even get you halfway there.