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Remedial sex ed for zoomers: you're still an incel in the eyes of God
Millennial "dating" woes are going viral again, with gen z set up to do even worse (nearly half are incels). Fertility rates are spiraling. All discourse on the subject is from terminally ngmi femcels who have no idea what they are talking about. As a mill... posted 2w ago with 10 replies received eugenics life

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This format is worse than useless: "the solution is to simply <thing that will never happen>". It leads to blackpilling and learned helplessness.... 1w ago received

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I think you are wrong about the relative power of substrate and software to determine what work gets done. I think the real answer to invest in children is the fact that you have a headstart on determining their memes (and gene-meme coevolution will no dou... 8h ago received

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The Gay Question (Asylum Mag): homosociality vs sodomy
An explosive thesis: the centrality of male homoeroticism to premodern production of manliness and great men. We're all familiar by now with a few key ideas:... (web.archive.org) posted 17h ago with 9 replies received history life

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Here's the canonical reply to this mode of inquiry:... 15h ago received

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The homoerotic element of masculine spaces today is definitely a degradation of some kind but its geneology seems like a puzzle. Even if it wasn't the case for your friend group or my friend group, I think anyone who's seen a decent amount of life has enco... 9h ago received

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The Sofiechan Mount Whitney Expedition
Posting is fun, but the higher life is primarily physical. A couple weeks ago a few of us took on mount Whitney. At 14500 feet of pure Californian granite, it's the highest mountain in the continental United States, and a serious challenge even for strong ... posted 15h ago with 5 replies received fieldtrip life

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I was one who summited. Anon started very strong but rolled the unlucky snake eyes with regards to altitude sickness. I haven't ever gotten it myself, but it looked brutal. Seeing his perseverance from 11000' to 11500' was good inspiration for the remainde... 13h ago received

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Meditation on Mountain Peaks has some great passages that your ascent made me think of:... 13h ago received

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Yes I've never liked the aesthetics of hiking poles. Or most hiking clothing for that matter. A lot of the aesthetics of the outdoor """industry""" are pointlessly stuck on this concept of synthetic technological superiority even as the rest of the fashion... 9h ago received

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How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.
Anon asks how to find a good woman in 2025. I've been out of the game for a while and experience only generalizes so much, but success is informative, so I have some thoughts.... posted 6d ago with 21 replies received eugenics life

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In the domain of our careers it is best to play to our strengths in order to be maximally competitive. In the realm of the personal and romanic I think the addressing our weaknesses and filling in our gaps is most important. It is a meme but "try ball room... 3d ago received

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Amphetaminutes and cybernetic lock-in
The time-pressure and increased tempo of modern life is wildly under-discussed. Insurrealist has done a beautiful job of breaking through and laying down some interesting observations.... (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 19h ago with no replies received accelerationism life

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Of Vitality
Men clamor over a place in line to proclaim and demand a thing like ‘vitality’ if it comes from their master above. But never do they offer so much as a second’s meditation on right action to attain such a thing. One wonders why—but then one sees t... posted 8d ago with 11 replies received gnon life

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Nice post. What's both painful and hilarious about cerebral types is our Discovery of Truths through rhetorical means, when truth is both invisible and exercised without misstep by the surfer, big wall climber, backcountry skier, etc.... 6d ago received

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Check out paramitā of vigor for the Buddhist perspective. A quality to pursue and perfect! 21h ago received

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"Dating", courtship, & market failures
PART 1... posted 1d ago with 6 replies received eugenics economics life

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I’ll give a higher effort response later but one point i will be pedantic on: what is happening since the sexual revolution is not mating. Actual mating still largely happens on the traditional monogamous model, despite some decay around the edges. The s... 1d ago received

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Great post and timing for it. Will write a related piece for the conversation soon.... 1d ago received

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Medidation, Enlightenment, Dharma, and Sokushinbutsu
I see we have some enlightenment-seeking buddhist types lurking around. I have a question for them: what is it you think is valuable about these "enlightened" mental states reachable with meditation etc? I hear about them occasionally but by the self-admis... posted 1w ago with 12 replies received philosophy rationality life

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I think the main problem here is that people like to over-mysticize "enlightenment" and have vastly different things in their heads when they say this, especially amongst "believers."... 7d ago received

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There is a phrase in the Pali Canon that is used frequently that goes something like "the Buddha teaches a Dhamma that is good in its beginning, good in its middle, and good in its end" and this is exactly why you might want to leverage the ideas even when... 6d ago received

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In justifying yourself in terms of the beauty of the accomplishment itself and not your own short-circuited subjective assessment of it, you are one step closer to enlightenment. Let's go a step further: Archimedes and Buddha did not win eternal fame for h... 3d ago received

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Bad influences on my intellectual side
I have been having a hard time performing well in an underwhelming environment. Mostly because of people but also general vibes. I feel it is much harder to thrive in such an environment. I sometimes feel subconsciously justified in not pushing as hard as ... posted 5mo ago with 5 replies received life

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I think my first piece of advice would be to develop your communication skills. I read the post a couple times, and I'm still not sure what sort of situation you're describing. But before becoming a better writer, work at becoming a better conversationalis... 5mo ago received

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Another thing to consider doing is setting yourself an intellectual challenge to grow in a way you want to and work towards it. This is similar to #2585 but I'd encourage that you actively try to create something as well. When you read a great work, you sh... 5mo ago received

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Small Spaces by Simon Sarris. Why culture is created in small places
https://map.simonsarris.com/p/small-spaces posted 6mo ago with 1 reply received history life

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The more dense a population the more cliquish people become. This is due to the degree of separation involved. So think a highschool with 500 kids vs highschool with 1000 kids. In the former compared to the latter, within a certain grade everyone knows eve... 6mo ago received

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How would we educate a young prince?
In another thread we considered whether a more intelligent population would have fewer social problems. Some comments brought out the intriguing idea that for matters of the functionality of society, structure and regime and therefore education may matter ... posted 7mo ago with 10 replies received philosophy life

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The question presupposes the existence of a shared telos, but this is precisely what must be annihilated. The distinction to be taught is not one of technique but of type: Untermensch vs. Übermensch. The young prince, like all potentialities, must confron... 6mo ago received

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Good read. I've noticed how I'm drawn away from academia that has gone vapid and mainstream towards religion that has a core group of people refining the craft. 6mo ago received

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Was "going steady" a positive or negative
When I read biographies about people who came of age in the first half of the 19th century, I notice something very different about their courtship.... posted 1y ago with 11 replies received eugenics life

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I increasingly find notions of rational evaluation of compatibility leading to consent amusing, since there are underlying physiological mechanisms like prolonged eye contact that can spur the kind of mirror neuron self-other dissolution which operationali... 11mo ago received

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Pedagogy
One characteristic I've observed with non-parents in our circles is that they have strong opinions about pedagogy and child-rearing (despite having zero firsthand knowledge of anything other than their own childhoods and a lot of extremist literature).... posted 11mo ago with 6 replies received life

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Sample lesson kernel which can encompass many winding detours: The Collatz Conjecture.... 11mo ago received

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The beach is the only place of enjoyment that the human species has discovered in nature.
I went to the beach today and wanted to write about it. I don’t have a manifesto. The beach makes me feel good.... posted 13mo ago with 4 replies received philosophy life

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I have not read Lefebvre, but it sounds similar to thoughts I've had. The beach, the real one out there on the coast and not just some piece of watery sand on the local waterway, is a little slice of titanic permanently wild landscape. Civilization can't r... 13mo ago received

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What would you like to teach your kids (that you did not know yourself at the age of majority)? / Clear guidance for sons
I am being selfish. I think there will be some dedicated fathers reading this. I would like to hear your opinions.... posted 13mo ago with 1 reply received life

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I have one son so far. I figure the main thing I want for him is the stuff I would want in retrospect for myself:... 13mo ago received

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Clear guidance for women
Although I expect that most here will be men, I want to ask: What should we encourage young women to do?... posted 1y ago with 31 replies received eugenics life

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Rereading Proverbs 31 it's clear how much it's gesturing at founding a *specifically great/noble* family as being part of the calling.... 14mo ago received

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I like to use this framing if you're a woman:... 14mo ago received

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“Toward a History of Need” by Ivan Illich
quotes I love from the book:... posted 1y ago with no replies received life

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Twitter Hobo's proposal for a new American nomadism
https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1774939620943294603 posted 1y ago with 22 replies received fieldtrip life

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I think the most revealing thread this Adirondack guy (or however he goes now) posted was when he confessed that he felt viscerally uncomfortable anywhere but dilapidated, deindustrialized shitholes in the Northeast. The Southwest and Mountain West, which ... 1y ago received

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Papen and Hindenburg facilitated the rise of national socialism due to tactical moves in 1933; it did not come from them or their faction. 1y ago received

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Drugs, generally
On my sixteenth birthday, I bought five grams of mushrooms, ate them in my bedroom, tuned my Walkman to Coast to Coast AM, flew out the window, and experienced ego death. A few months later, I took LSD sent in a Christmas card by friends on IRC. I got a ti... posted 2y ago with 9 replies received politics life

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Nice trips. For me, I take a hard line on drugs of all kinds. I don't believe they are ever a good idea. Drugs basically just temporarily destroy part of your physiological or psychological balance. If you're depressed, there is some physiological or circu... 1y ago received

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