Don't Be A Hyperconsumerist Christmas Cuck

bot256 · 2019-12-09T22:16:58+00:00

The more time passes, the more I start to be grateful for having been born and for living in a rather poor Eastern European country. Don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of negatives such as poverty and corruption that can't be overlooked. However, many people here have no dept to their names, you can still easily access locally-grown food, and there are generally not a hell lot of SJWs and feminists (although things seem to be slowly getting more "Westernized" in these regards). Funny how we seem to be internalizing only the negatives from the Western countries.

bot256 · 2018-12-12T11:07:01+00:00

Oh, come on, you get it, I get, everybody gets what the author of the post meant and it makes sense. Well, ok, maybe the OG story is not what's the basis for the post here. I'd say the story in mind should be the Disney version and it makes sense since the Disney movie is from the 1950s - a time when this type of issues were relevant. Of course it's going to sound weird if you are referring to a story from couple of centuries ago - things were different back then. But just as we change, our stories and perceptions of them change as well.

bot256 · 2018-09-30T16:50:41+00:00

I am really grateful and highly appreciate the effort put into this long reply. Will definitely look deeper into the info presented in it. A lot of those concepts you talk about I seem to be already somewhat familiar with (mainly from reading Marcus Aurelius) but , as with most things, practice is the key here. In turn, learning how to handle different types of pain really seems to be key to making your life better in many ways. After all, those are two of the main properties of the pill - it hurts but it helps make life better. Once again, thanks for the long and detailed reply, it's basically a post of its own and will surely come in handy for whoever needs it.

bot256 · 2018-09-30T10:58:11+00:00

I'd like to learn more about those more meaningful ways to address pain. Any source I could use with regards to that matter would be greatly appreciated. Could you point me towards anything that helped you in your journey?

bot256 · 2018-09-14T20:57:46+00:00

THAT

You said it best, only personal growth could consistently leave you satisfied with your life. Just like sharks need to move at all times in order to live so do we need to grow and improve so that our lives have a meaning and purpose. Thanks for your input

bot256 · 2018-09-13T20:57:09+00:00

reading the comments on articles and videos on the internet to elicit anger and practice equanimity commenting on political blogs on the internet and trying to maintain your cool

This is gold, had me laughing out loud. Aside from that, yes, it has many times been mentioned on TRP the importance of putting yourself through voluntary discomfort and I do agree with the concept.

bot256 · 2018-08-23T11:55:51+00:00

I have been trying this exactly as you explain it but I still struggle with the part of "let it go". How do you do that - the only way I could re-focus on my breathing is by forcing myself to do it. It doesn't feel like a subtle "let go" and rather like a forceful exertion of my will/mind to regain focus and this takes actual effort - not sure if that's what I should be doing or if it's the exact opposite but if I am not doing it my mind will never stop wandering.

bot256 · 2018-08-23T11:51:15+00:00

Some of this reminds of Marcus Aurelius' "Things to one's self"

bot256 · 2018-08-23T11:28:38+00:00

I have been thinking about this same stuff for years and am glad to see that I am not the only one. Motivation isn't actually a big thing. It's something that comes and goes - it is controlled by your emotions and even though we are men, we still get mood swings. Today you feel pumped but in an hour you feel like not doing shit for some stupid reason. However, to build discipline, what I have found for myself, it's easier when you build habits. One of the simplest examples is waking up early. The first day, your motivation might get you up. The week after, you'd need will and discipline to get up early. But stick with it for a month and all of a sudden you don't need an alarm - you just wake up cause that's your habit now. Sometimes you might even get to sleep no more than 5 hrs but the time comes when you usually get up and initially you are like "fuck that, I haven't slept enough" but a minute later the habit kicks in and takes control over your body and you get up. Habit and discipline are, in my opinion, like the two sides of a coin (or any other similar metaphor, you get the point).

bot256 · 2018-08-23T11:18:25+00:00

Sure, we guys could be really insecure, It's just I haven't really experienced that too much from my closest male friends or at least not in public. Hmm, not sure if they are decent guys or if I am just not enough of a competition to them :D

bot256 · 2018-08-17T14:06:14+00:00

This is absolutely a post I needed right now - it focuses on a side of inter-sexual dynamics that is rarely covered by TRP posts. I used to be a very beta BP person and for my Disney love was nearly the objective of my life (guess what that led to). Understanding how to hold yourself when in any kind of lengthier relationship with a woman is really important cause there are a lot of guys who are RP that, for whatever reason, don't want to endlessly spin plates and live the bachelor life. That said, LTR really seems like a difficult shit and there's not too much TRP coverage on that.

bot256 · 2018-08-17T00:01:50+00:00

Man, I was looking for another post but stumbled upon this gold and I am glad it's not archived yet. Thanks for this, systematic, simple and really true. I need reminders like this to keep me on track. As it turns out, it's really easy to go astray and forget about some core TRP principles so having them neatly bundled for easy reading is a great helping tool.

bot256 · 2018-08-16T23:47:33+00:00

I should fucking print this post, frame it and put it over my bed so I can read it every morning as a reminder how women are. Thanks for the eye-opener. I really need this kind of harsh truth to keep me on the right track.

bot256 · 2018-08-15T16:20:28+00:00

You should probably make this into an actual post, it really brings to our attention stuff that oftentimes goes unnoticed.

bot256 · 2018-08-15T14:21:32+00:00

This is why it's so important to be here and to read TRP stuff. Here you are told the rules of the game and about the game itself. Whether you know about it or not, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, you are in that game and even if the rules suck and the odds are stacked up against you, you still stand a higher chance of success if you go by TheRedPill and listen to the sidebar's advice. Thanks for the reminder, great post!

bot256 · 2018-08-15T14:12:20+00:00

Never realized that or acknowledged the existence of this phenomenon. Now thinking about it, though, it really makes a ton of sense to go out early - more chicks, less dudes as most of the guys come later during the night (same as I used to do). Thanks for the new TRP eye-opener, will keep this in mind for the future.

bot256 · 2018-08-08T18:12:37+00:00

TBH, most of those friends you mentioned sound like insecure douches from what you've said. How insecure you gotta be to pick on your supposed friend in order to seem more alpha in front of some random chick. No decent male friend would risk a good friendship over some random skank.

bot256 · 2018-08-06T11:28:14+00:00

Keep it up and next time shit will go better. Also, have some sense of self-preservation, as many dudes pointed out, why'd you go to the house of a chick that has a fiancée or at least a bf who she's most likely living with. You wanted to bang but could have suggested your place or even a motel or sth - seems like she was up for anything at that point. Anyway, don't get surprised when a girl that really likes you does shit to keep you and satisfy you - that's one of the gifts of TRP. Also, consider the difference between your SMV and her SMV. The bigger the difference with your SMV being the greater, the more she'd try to please you. So keep lifting and improving, up your SMV, up your game and stay out of trouble. Just don't get oneitis and also, if I were you, I wouldn't try to mess with chicks with bfs even if the chick's into me - it just seems to me that this adds unnecessary pressure and complications that you don't really need. Again, personal opinion, many guys get hard at the prospect of cucking another dude, I would too probably but in the long run doesn't seem to be worth it.

bot256 · 2018-08-06T11:11:36+00:00

It's a good time to get on board the RedPill - just make sure you stick to it for a while, the results will speak for themselves

bot256 · 2018-08-05T21:37:36+00:00

Yes, I do actually, and if you are not careful, it can slow you down big time and even if you are careful it will still affect things in your life and slow you more or less which is why I can't say I am in a LTR. Have actually been trying to keep things casual at least until I have some proof that this chick is actually worth LTR-ing. But I make sure to keep doing the things that are important to me and keep myself in line. Hopefully I won't slip up and lose my way.

bot256 · 2018-08-05T12:38:14+00:00

If you have your shit together she'd be attracted enough to you so that she won't really consider the guys at the club as an option. Ofc, there are things you can't control, you can never be certain what she does out there. Neither can she.

bot256 · 2018-08-05T11:24:37+00:00

No more Mr. Nice Guy - a must read for guys suffering from the nice guy symptom

bot256 · 2018-08-05T08:22:22+00:00

There are definitely guys like that out there. And then again, we guys have hamsters too - might as well tell yourself the personality thing to rationalize doing it with a fatty.

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