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[Architekt]

Just finished Animal Farm. There were several times I just wanted to put it down and rage at something

 

[Cincinnatus]

Started reading The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar. This is the most hardcore, truth-dropping, worldview-challenging book I think I've ever had in my hands. I could knock it out in the next hour or two but I want to read and re-read every chapter until the words have firmly taken root in my brain. Holy shit.

 

[Bill]

While surfing on longform.com there was an article about Roosh in Denmark. Nothing special nothing we don´t know but a nice quick read.

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cockblocked-by-redistribution

 

[cardguy]

Started reading The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar. This is the most hardcore, truth-dropping, worldview-challenging book I think I've ever had in my hands. I could knock it out in the next hour or two but I want to read and re-read every chapter until the words have firmly taken root in my brain. Holy shit.

Yeah - that is some next level shit. And written by a woman to boot.

For some reason, I thought she was a lesbian - but she is actually straight.

 

[2Wycked]

One of the best conservative blogs that leans red-pill/manosphere.

Been a faithful reader (not as much since joining the forum) for about 3 years:

http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/

 

[Architekt]

One of the best conservative blogs that leans red-pill/manosphere.

Been a faithful reader (not as much since joining the forum) for about 3 years:

http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/

Cool blog, lots of insightful and interesting posts. Just found this in one of them: http://womenformen.org

A new website called Women for Men has been launched. If you read the mission statement you'll notice that some of its aims fit in well with traditionalism.

First, there is a recognition that equality doesn't have to mean sameness:

At WFM, we know there’s an alternative view of equality than the one our culture teaches. The word equal implies two things are interchangeable, which men and women are not. That doesn’t mean the sexes aren’t equally valuable...It just means that, generally speaking, men and women choose different life paths based on their inherent, biological differences.

Second, the website breaks with the portrayal of men as privileged oppressors of women:

The American male is tired of being told there’s something fundamentally wrong with him. He’s tired of getting shafted in family courts, or even in college tribunals, where men are assumed guilty until proven innocent. Decades of feminist propaganda have landed us in a place where women are hailed as heroes, and men are viewed as perpetrators—or just losers.

That’s what WFM seeks to remedy. The battle of the sexes will begin to erode when America stops making men pay for women’s so-called oppression. If we do, marriages and relationships will improve—as will the health of the American family.

 

[cardguy]

Heard a cool thing about the new Anchorman film.

The guys had so many jokes that didn't make the final edit - that when the film is released on DVD there will be an alternate version of the entire film.

With every joke taken out and replaced with a different one.

Pretty neat.

 

[Architekt]

This comic is quickly turning into one of my favourites

 

[cardguy]

Greart comic. I really enjoy thinking about Gettier problems as well. That is a nice analysis above!

 

[Architekt]

Just discovered a collection of several hundred history books on my laptop.. Some interesting looking titles in there

 

[Sombro]

"We Are the Radicals Now"

http://mises.ca/posts/articles/we-are-the-radicals-now/

The boomers never intended to swap the pressures of responsibility for anarchy and medieval squalor. They wanted the freedom to do as they please, without being deprived of modernity’s comforts. As long as their sugar daddies were free to place conditions on their generosity, they would be bound by the responsibilities they were determined to throw off. So the state was employed to take that freedom away and bring about the municipal quagmire that envelops us today.

The people responsible for hate crimes, speech codes, the smoking ban, debilitating taxes, and a soul-sucking state bureaucracy would have us believe that they are chilled-out hepcats, who totally dig your scene. If you think what they think, do what they say, and accept the terms of their ‘generosity’, it might be possible to enjoy their simulacrum of freedom as though it’s the real thing. But wander too far from the coop and soon you’ll soon collide with the chicken wire.

They have promised to look after the boring admin of life, so we might set off on its great adventure, like Georgian gentlemen embarking on Grand Tours. Even if this vision had not soured to a living nightmare, it would have still been profoundly dehumanising. Coping with the vagaries of life is life. It’s how we express our individuality and become more mature, rounded human beings. By seeking to liberate us from life’s challenges, the Left has turned us into a nation of children, trapped in a shabby, impoverished society, the primary function of which is to subsidise its least productive members.

 

[Cincinnatus]

I have eight books on loan from the library right now. I'm borrowing and reading often enough that library books have their own pair of bookends on the shelf.

 

[cardguy]

My dad is a smart guy. Yet he hates the fact that I read alot of books. 'Filling your head with other people's nonsense' he calls it.

Really weird.

I think to somebody who doesn't read it might seem like you are an intellectual poseur or something. But to me it is just a relaxing thing to do. And ten time more interesting than watching TV.

 

[Beyond Borders]

My dad is a smart guy. Yet he hates the fact that I read alot of books. 'Filling your head with other people's nonsense' he calls it.

Really weird.

I think to somebody who doesn't read it might seem like you are an intellectual poseur or something. But to me it is just a relaxing thing to do. And ten time more interesting than watching TV.

That's an interesting point of view at least.

 

[Bill]

My dad is a smart guy. Yet he hates the fact that I read alot of books. 'Filling your head with other people's nonsense' he calls it.

Really weird.

I think to somebody who doesn't read it might seem like you are an intellectual poseur or something. But to me it is just a relaxing thing to do. And ten time more interesting than watching TV.

That's an interesting point of view at least.

That reminds me of the saying that speaking different languages has only the consequence that one can say his bullshit in onother language not more.

As to reading books it can be paralyzing as the brain is then filled with a lot of alien stuff so that there is no more room for one´s own things. I think Platon critisized this about books too.

 

[cardguy]

Yeah - Socrates was anti-book. But only because he thought information should be taught be a wise older man to a younger student.

As for my dad - he is a teacher. I should remind him that his position doesn't make sense in light of the job he did for 35 years.

 

[Beyond Borders]

 

[Bill]

Female vaginal orgasms:

I knew that it´s difficult but i didn´t know that it´s that difficult. Wiki says that only 20 per cent get a vaginal orgasm. But looks like the numbers could be much lower:

I read today an german newspaper article where the number of only 4% is given. That is like nothing.

Another number is also very astonishing from the article that 90% of the women lie about having an orgasm to their sex partners.

There is no hope.

 

[Cincinnatus]

Another number is also very astonishing from the article that 90% of the women lie about having an orgasm to their sex partners.

That figure alone tells me most men are clueless about getting women off. If you have to question whether or not she orgasmed, chances are she didn't.

 

[Bill]

Another number is also very astonishing from the article that 90% of the women lie about having an orgasm to their sex partners.

That figure alone tells me most men are clueless about getting women off. If you have to question whether or not she orgasmed, chances are she didn't.

I would not blame men but nature.