Random but interesting moment today.
I was at a local mini mart. My daughter laughed and pointed at a sign on the car next to us. It was a funny sign, and it just so happened to be for something I needed to fix on my place years ago but have been putting off.
So I waved and honked and then after the guy rolled down his window explained how I was wondering if I could get a bid? He asked where I lived? Turned out he lives in my same area. And had the time. And so he showed up and looked at the situation.
In the meantime, as he measured and figured, he for whatever reason started sharing his life story. (It has happened to me for decades, not sure why, but people tell me stuff they say nobody else knows, I always feel so lucky even if sometimes people tell me too much. Or stuff I wish I didn’t know. But they do.)
So he told me how he was born and raised in the same faith as my kids former babysitter. But he said when he went to college he was exposed to ideas he had no idea at the time were so detrimental.
Like a darkness they grew. He confessed he stopped believing, became atheist, yet still knew playing along ment jobs and connections. So he did.
And yet, he said nihilism set in. A dark hour of the soul. And that for the first time, without higher belief, he understood in a way he never had before how people could not care, could in fact become a danger (like in a “how could this ever happen to innocent people who have nothing to do with it?” danger in the worst case and in a “enjoy the fall poolside, bring popcorn” person in the less worst case danger.)
So I can imagine only his surprise when I said I totally got it. Understood. And that it was only in my 40s myself that I realized I had been sold a bum deal my whole life. “Strong independent female” etc.
And that I agreed, society was degenerating daily in a way I could never have imagined even possible ten years ago. And that I did not understand. Or see going anywhere good.
He said in 1855-some his church predicted this — that men would become women and that women would become men.
And then more recently (3o-some years ago) his church predicted that right would become wrong and what was once considered wrong would become right. That it would flip.
And that there would be years of darkness and then it would be followed by an awakening.
Finally he wrapped up his measuring and figuring and gave me a bid. It was more than reasonable and I hope to hire him soon. I get the idea he would do an amazing job.
Anyway I am not sure what the point is except I am sure he’s likely never heard of the red pill. Yet he has clearly taken it. I found that interesting indeed.
What do you think? Please share in the comments!
And without higher belief, he understood in a way he never had before how people could … become a danger
Or we could listen to Ame’s story about how folks with a higher belief also can be a danger.
There are a number of typos in your post which make it difficult to follow.
I think that nihilism is inescapable when society favors consumers over producers.
Sorry Jack, I published it before the draft was done! Hopefully it makes more sense now!
Yes Richard that too. I have seen so myself.
Many people who find truth find it independently. Many times because they are to hard headed to listen when they were told.
I would claim that I started taking the pill around 1990 a whole decade before the movie that gave us the term. I never new about the internet red-pill till about 5 years ago.
In short there is nothing uprising about people finding the truth and having no relationship to the internet term ‘red-pill’. In fact, it is very likely that most people who are noticing the truth do not know the term. From what I can see, it probably has more to do with personalities. There are certain personalities types who would follow this online and other personalities that would not.
I’ve mentioned before I don’t call myself RP. As far as life cost/gains equations, I was aware of those pretty early (I think most people are, it’s a survival thing, they just don’t think about it). When Mike joined the military I started observing that whatever the media said it was typically 180 out from reality (there were several high profile instances, early in life). Made me read with a great deal of skepticism toward everything reported, from then on.
Side note sort of related to the topic, I’m a little over halfway through with a biography of Madam Laura Evens entitled, “My Life as a Whore”. We were at Barnes and Nobel a few days ago, Mike pointed it out and I picked it up and started reading. Couldn’t put it down. She worked in Colorado (lived from 1871-1953). And if this is even half accurate, things really haven’t changed as much as we might think.
The first brothel the woman worked at, madam was married to the chief of police in the area. Way they got the money was…a millionaire had a young wife who disappeared under strange circumstances. Shortly after that, he married the boss’s daughter and was rich. The Madam’s cop husband came into possession of the skeleton of a young woman who fit the description of the millionaire’s first wife pretty accurately. So he put the body on the guy’s property and then “dug it up”. Used this to blackmail him for the money to buy the brothel for his wife (a prostitute).
A good many of the whores were married. Most had run away from their husbands. Some had husbands in prison. When the miners were paid (it was a mining town), they’d have sex until they couldn’t sit down (one said she did 75 men or so on payday, they didn’t even undress and kept their boots on, it was swift business, literally). A buck a pop, which was good money in those days. They took Sundays off.
Fascinating stuff.
@redpillgirlnotes: I enjoyed your post. I used a quote from it in one of my posts.
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@RPG – my comment was partly tongue-in-cheek, partly serious. With the typos, and with lacking your traditional closing comment, I thought maybe someone had hijacked your blog and posted something. So I was a bit snarky with my comment, just in case it wasn’t your post (I though the real you would have already considered what I posted). Now that I see the cleaned-up version, it is obviously something posted by you.
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe to men mighty at drinking wine,
Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,
23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away justice from the righteous man!
24 Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble,
And the flame consumes the chaff,
So their root will be as rottenness,
And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5:20-24
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Ames and Liz
I am not cold hearted just jaded and practical.
I have sat on the board of the local united way unpaid for a decade.
I am a walker weekly at the local therapeutic horse ranch where we help disabled kids ride.
All my animals are rescues.
I have built dams, hauled sandbags almost every spring flood for years.
Many of my senior customers get work done at cost.
But
I will not hold doors open for anyone but seniors.
I wont dig out an able bodied neighbor of either sex because the snow is heavy.
If the car isnt dangerously damaged I wont stop for a breakdown
Nobody gets to use my generator, heaters, woodpile when the power goes out
My favorite quote
“Funny. When you treat people like they treat you, they get upset.”
I will teach the ignorant but ignore the stupid
I will carry the infirm but mock the lazy
I will feed the downfallen but leave the poor
I will honour the elder but shun the expired
I will defend the committed but cast out the needy.
The golden rule is bullshit.
I treat and expect of others that which I do for myself.
Look at the trust and contentment of my horse in my avatar (taken around xmas)
Is that a heartless asshole?
Hang on!
Horseman – i never thought you were a heartless asshole 😉 … i always thought there was this side in you, but as you’re not one to share those things, i had to assume. i’m thankful my assumptions were correct 😉
btw – did you have your wife blow up that pic and have it framed? y’all need to do that 🙂
Liz – there is truly nothing new under the sun! Those stories always just … startle that truth in me.
i know they say all these good things are wasted on the young … but i disagree. God knew what He was doing. we get so jaded as we age. we need the youth to keep us living … to keep the ‘dream’ alive. we need their naivete … without it, i fear humanity would come to an abrupt halt 🙂
There are a number of typos in your post which make it difficult to follow.
…….
LOL punctuation and spelling is for bitches. Or sober people. Or both
Horseman, back when you mentioned the sledding with neighbor children (during the holidays) I knew you had a soft spot.
I’m only going by what you type.
I do like the gravatar photo. 🙂
@horseman said: I treat and expect of others that which I do for myself.
Those who study chemistry and biology know that genes carry instructions for building the biological body that results. That includes instructions that determine how quickly or slowly the electricity flows down the neurons. That includes instructions for whether the required neurotransmitters are available in the synapses, and how quickly they carry the electrical-signal-turned-chemical-signal across the synapse to trigger the electrical impulse down the next stretch of neurons.
Horseman, for your statement to be logical, those instructions for everybody else would need to be identical to your instruction set. They are not. So we get tall and short, black, brown and red hair, different levels of melatonin in the skin. That’s what we can see. But we have the same biological variation inside of us in terms of neurons and synapses and nurotransmitters and skin sensitivity and ability to store new memories and ability to retrieve old memories and abilities (or inabilities) to keep our thoughts structured and ordered.
Everything in the previous paragraph varies from individual to individual, based entirely on the instruction sets carried in the person’s genes. A horse cannot become a zebra just because it wills itself to, and none of us can become horseman just because we will ourselves to. A person whose skin blisters upon exposure to sunlight cannot get “normal” skin just because they will themselves to. And a person with a legitimately-measured low IQ cannot become brilliant just because they will themselves to.
It is not a one size fits all world. Because of the instruction sets carried in the genetic material of each person.
And we must water plants – because they need it, not because they deserve it. Even so, humans.
But I agree that we extend these curtesies and ministrations to family first. If there is anything left over, then to those close by that interact with our own lives. That is, our close and extended family and the village or tribe in which we live and operate.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Proverbs 4:7 kjv
Within the constrainst of the previous two paragraphs, it is wise to keep this in mind also (some translate “charity” as “love”:
… though I have .. all knowledge; … and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1 Corinthians 13 kjv
Because – genetics determine that it is not a one-size-fits-all world.
Therefore, expecting of others is quick to be taking its toll; don’t start thinkin’ they’re somethin’ that they’ll never be. h/t Delbert McClinton
“melanin” in the skin,, not “melatonin” (unless one is injecting it).
For those who don’t know Delbert, here is something up tempo. It’s live, so there is a spoken intro. Check out the sax player.
A thought did occur to me, that this world would be all the better if women lightened up.
Not going to happen.
Oh well.
I thought it couldn’t get worse. It did. Runs twenty three and a half minutes.
Ame: there is truly nothing new under the sun! Those stories always just … startle that truth in me.
Me too. I read a book called “In Spring the War Ended”, a semi-autobiographical novel by a US soldier who went AWOL and spent years working in the black market underground economy in Belgium (he wrote the book after he was caught, in prison). THAT was quite a read. Puts to bed any misconceptions about the wholesomeness of that generation. 😆
i know they say all these good things are wasted on the young … but i disagree. God knew what He was doing. we get so jaded as we age. we need the youth to keep us living … to keep the ‘dream’ alive. we need their naivete … without it, i fear humanity would come to an abrupt halt
Agreed and well said. 🙂
forgot to mention, In Spring the War Ended= WWII era.
Liz – the book by Steven Linakis?
when we are young we think ‘*that* won’t happen to me!’
when we’re older we are either very grateful *that* didn’t happen to me b/c we know ‘but for the grace of God go i’ … or we’ve come to terms that *that* did happen to me.
we need the young to be naive and strong and at least slightly reckless. we get too cautious as we get older (well, most of us! i doubt Ton can be included in that 😉 )
Yep, the book by Steven Linakis. 🙂
“we need the young to be naive and strong and at least slightly reckless.”
Now that sounds fun!!!
“we need the young to be naive and strong and at least slightly reckless.”
No we don’t. Think of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
No we don’t. Think of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We don’t want or need them in public office, but she probably made a very entertaining bartender/cocktail waitress.
@Liz I will have to pick the book up, sounds interesting… and I would agree, humans are humans and there is nothing new under the sun. Even Shakesphers plays are filled with red pill tropes — so it’s not new, it’s just a new word to describe it.
We don’t want or need them in public office, but she probably made a very entertaining bartender/cocktail waitress.
Well, she has boobs.
Not only does she have them, it is a valid description of her mental abilities. So, she can’t be that much of a threat. Last night, I watched several videos of Kamala Harris, US Senate D-Ca, she is a threat in addition to being vicious. It had been said that she is a Presidential hopeful for 2020. She would be worse than Hillary.
Speaking of boobs and politics, this is for Farm Boy. the name of the character is Charlotte Yeager and, in keeping with stereotype, American girls are well fed.
Orange girl good!
I was understating my revulsion for Harris earlier. She is vain, contemptuous, and vicious. How do people like that get elected?
More good stuff from DeAnna Lorraine’s book, Making Love Great Again. She gives the best narrative that I have yet seen of why guys like me are the way that we are.
There are innumerable negative impacts of divorce on children. For one, there is an epidemic of males who have grown up with no solid father figure, so they don’t know how to be a “man” in a sense and assume traditionally male behaviors. I witness this constantly in my coaching practice. I’ve found that men who are raised by a single mother without a present father figure tend to have a very difficult time romantically attracting women. A lot of these young boys grew up witnessing their mother’s pain as a single mother and were often put in a role of being her emotional support system. They develop the ability to comfort and empathize with women, and they tend to be very sensitive and respectful to women because they’ve seen the pain that “bad” men have caused their mothers. And if boys have witnessed their mothers bad-mouthing men growing up or seen them date men who were jerks, they will likely be even more cautious with women. This will cause them to have the ability to connect with women on a platonic level, and probably have many female friends. However, without a strong masculine father figure to balance out the sensitive side, they will often come across as “too” sensitive, and almost effeminate. Because they lack the male role model to teach them healthy assertiveness and confidence, their masculine characteristics will usually be underdeveloped so that they lack the ability to cross over to the “romantic,” sexual side and thus aren’t able to create chemistry with women.
DeAnna Lorraine describes one side of the coin, that of the blue-pill-beta-male-monkey-simp-white-knight-maginas like me. Nicole Michelle (black dating coach in Atlanta with Inner-Beauty Youtube page) describes the other side of the coin. Nicole Michelle only wants alpha male. She states that women in her crew are here to exercise hypergamy. Her man has to be taller, smarter, and doing better. If she makes $100,000 per year, he has to be making at least $120,000 per year. His job is to pay all of her bills. Her job is to be a stay-at-home mother. She may try to push her man around emotionally and even physically. But she is only five foot, two inches tall. She cannot respect any man who lets her push him around physically or emotionally and cannot put her in her place. He is the man with the plan. He almost never asks her opinion about anything. He just solves her problems. If she has to come up with her own plan, and if she has to come up with her own solutions, then she doesn’t need him.
Both DeAnna Lorraine and Nicole Michelle are describing traditional conservatism. Women are fed up with feminism because it took away many of these rights and privileges. I, on the other hand, have no interest in being a traditional conservative woman’s alpha male. My only solution is the MGTOW quadriad; i.e., hookers, pornstars, sex dolls, and high-definition virtual reality pornography. By the way, my hookers love them some Roger because I am a blue-pill-beta-male-monkey-simp-white-knight-magina.
Roger,
While DeAnna Lorraine believes we can accommodate gynocentrism, I don’t believe we can or should. That is the problem with tradcon women.
As for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she has managed to get into trouble already over irregularities in campaign funds to the tune of one million dollars. She is running from journalists. Not in office two months and already in big trouble, does she define the word “boob”?
@fuzzie: I’d be interested to hear what you think that life without accommodating gynocentrism would look like. I would guess that you mean that a man should be living a life like the one that I am living. It is interesting that our superheros in movies and comic books don’t have women. I guess that men need to get on with the business of saving the world while ignoring women.
Roger,
I honestly don’t know what it would look like, but it would be very much different. As for superheroes, they are written that way to give the writers maximum latitude. I always thought that Catholic priests were forbidden to marry so that they could pack a bag and be on their way with little notice. Then there is the old Army adage, “If the Army had wanted you to have a wife, they’d have issued you one.” to which I added, “She would arrive wearing an olive drab dress.” Perhaps what feminists don’t fully understand is that women are optional in a man’s life while women need men. This may be the most powerful message that MGTOW can convey to women.
Another word of caution about DeAnna Lorraine, she is husband hunting while she has left it until she is thirty five. For her, the wall is approaching.
Another thought. I don’t think we can make a compromise with women who are openly monkey branching and hypergamous. It doesn’t sound like good life partner material.