Post: #51

"We Are the Radicals Now"

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

Quote: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.

Quote: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.

Quote: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.

Post: #52

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.

Post: #53

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.

Post: #54

(12-30-2013 08:58 AM)cardguy Wrote:  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.

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling

Post: #55

(12-30-2013 11:55 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

(12-30-2013 08:58 AM)cardguy Wrote:  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.

Post: #56

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.

Post: #57

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling

Post: #58

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.

Post: #59

(01-03-2014 11:54 AM)Bill Wrote:  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.

Post: #60

(01-03-2014 07:32 PM)MSW2007 Wrote:  

(01-03-2014 11:54 AM)Bill Wrote:  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.

Post: #61

I somekind of missed this info that italian men struggle with women because of the crisis. Funny thing is I listened to some turkish comedy from some time ago and they dealt with that topic and are happy that the italian casanovas struggle and turkish men got up in worth and don´t have to be compared with the casanos.

Quote:One consequence of the economic downturn that has gone largely unreported is the struggle some Italian men now face to woo women with the care and attention - and the lavish expenditure - their predecessors were once renowned for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24065878

Post: #62

Read the first half of "Trust Me, I'm Lying."

I am not impressed with his ability to write, nor his insistence on distancing himself from the media monstrosity he helped create.

That being said, the book is spot on. It goes to show how brilliant The Last Psychiatrist is, as he intuitively picked up on all this shit years ago.

There is great money in trolling white, heterosexual women. Look no further than Tuth's eating disorder article. It would not surprise me that if Tuth wasn't anonymous, he would have a book deal or TV deal right now. Honestly. Dumbass feminists made Tucker Max rich, why not Tuthmosis?

Post: #63

Been reading King Leopold's Ghost recently. Interesting book.

Post: #64

Turns out that Wilbur Smith was a pretty awesome dude with a lot of red pill views and is completely unapologetic about them. Here are some great quotes from the man

Wilbur Smith Wrote:Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

I believe that a healthy body breeds a healthy mind. I am 74 years old now and my wife, Niso, is 38 years younger than me. She absolutely insists that I take regular exercise with her.

I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

Post: #65

From The Manipulated Man:

Quote:Woman's stupidity is so overwhelming that anyone who comes into contact with it will become, in a way, infected by it. That this is not obvious is solely because everybody has been exposed to it from birth and, as a result, has become inured to it. In previous years men either ignored it or believed it to be a typically feminine characteristic which harmed no one. But with the increase in leisure and money to spend, woman's need for entertainment has grown.

Post: #66

Just downloaded all 16 chapters of The 1001 Arabian Nights. I read for entertainment growing up, but dropped it in adulthood. Too much tech stuff to keep up on and garbage in college. I'm still a romanticist of the Middle East and the 1800's, period, which brings in Sir Richard Burton. On many levels. Before I read and understand about him*, I want to delve into his works, then try to form an opinion on his life. Anyways, we know most of the popular stories through Hollywood or from kids books, but have you guys read the more 'pure' translations? Once I get into it I may start a thread, if its worth discussion.







*Just picked up that he was running around in Persia and liked the Kama Sutra. I stopped reading there and want to dissect his mind through his writings.


edit- Oh yeah, I did Google image this dude:


   

Post: #67

(01-24-2014 08:26 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:  Just downloaded all 16 chapters of The 1001 Arabian Nights. I read for entertainment growing up, but dropped it in adulthood. Too much tech stuff to keep up on and garbage in college. I'm still a romanticist of the Middle East and the 1800's, period, which brings in Sir Richard Burton. On many levels. Before I read and understand about him*, I want to delve into his works, then try to form an opinion on his life. Anyways, we know most of the popular stories through Hollywood or from kids books, but have you guys read the more 'pure' translations? Once I get into it I may start a thread, if its worth discussion.

*Just picked up that he was running around in Persia and liked the Kama Sutra. I stopped reading there and want to dissect his mind through his writings.


edit- Oh yeah, I did Google image this dude:

You should read the biography: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice. It's a well-written page-turner.

Burton met up with some Somalis in his travels, they put a spear through his cheeks and broke some teeth, he barely escaped.

One thing that he said about women stuck with me. He said if men considered a woman of their own group attractive, she was usually universally attractive. Also wrote some stuff about fucking some women in Sudan or Somali who were known as "grippers" because they exercised their vaginal muscles so much.

Post: #68

For those who read King Leopold's Ghost - I just came across the following interesting piece of information.

Quote:If Crown Princess Charlotte had not died in childbirth in 1817, she and her husband, Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, would have succeeded to the British throne.

But instead the great powers installed Leopold as king of Belgium — a new, artificial state inhabited by Catholic Dutch in the North, and French-speaking Walloons in the South.

Post: #69

Has anyone read a good biography about Howard Hughes?

Post: #70

Does anyone have good sources for modern stoic philosophy? I've been reading some of ancient texts and thus far it really appeals to me.

Post: #71

Is there modern stoic philosophy? I thought the stoics have been dead for millennia.

Have you read Walden? It's similar.

Post: #72

An interesting thought --

Killing culture kills a country quicker than any other sort of attack:

Quote:One reason why Japan recovered relatively quickly after the Second World War was while the massive aerial assault leveled Japan’s cities it did not destroy the cultural and social institutions of Japan. When the smoke cleared the Japanese were still there and they rebuilt. By contrast destroying culture is so much more lethal. Detroit was untouched by the war. Not a bomb fell on it. But years of public education worked their magic. It dismantled the culture and social institutions which once built its factories. [...]
The design margin is used up; savings are depleted; the institutions are hollowed out; public morality becomes perverted and education becomes nothing but a credential — and it all happens out of the public eye. Only when everything is used up, as in Venezuela, when the whole edifice implodes, as if by magic, does the cumulative effect become manifest.

[...]

Quote:The real damage was internal. A society can survive the loss of things, but it cannot survive without institutions or the destruction of culture. Culture is to nations what an immune system is to people. Nations under siege fall back on some atavistic condition. Thus, occupied Poland becomes more Catholic, as does Ireland, and as Egypt perhaps becomes more Muslim. They fall back on the known and the comforting. City Hall might collapse and the factory temporarily closed but if culture and identity survive these things can be reopened again.

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014...epage=true

Post: #73

Quote:The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance
Her claim of being "the Heiress to $15,000" was just one of the many falsehoods that carried Cassie Chadwick from city to city and bounced check to bounced check

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/th...45/?no-ist

Very interesting and entertaining read about scamming people.[/quote]

Post: #74

I don´t understand the hype about Mike Tyson, Don King is much more funny. This guy is game or what?

http://grantland.com/features/don-king-f...nd-career/

Post: #75

wow now I now why I am so lazy I didn´t have enough bar fights:

Quote:College Dropout Jason Padgett Becomes Accidental Mathematical Genius After Brutal Mugging

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30...64835.html