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Latest Articles: All is Vanity
A Tale of Two Tales (Fred Reed Gets It)
Post Date: 2012-03-09 13:29:08 by Turtle
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As I listen to American fury against uncoöperative Afghans, to Congress furiously denouncing Pakistan for anemic aid in conducting the current wars, I sometimes wonder whether the US is playing with a full deck. The anger arises I suspect becaause the US and the rest of the world work from very different premises. They believe in, as we say, distinct narratives. The American narrative holds that the United States is a light to the world, the freest, richest, most productive country the world has ever seen, the greatest military power, the most prolific producer of technlogy and of Nobel laureates. America is a force for freedom and democacry, a champion of human rights, a land of ...
What I've Learned Pretending to be a Man
Post Date: 2012-03-07 13:21:28 by Turtle
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So, I’ve been posing as a guy online for nearly twenty-four hours with positive results. I am competing against a pool of polyamorous-vegan-feminist-omegas, but it’s still a minor feat nonetheless. A few things I’ve learned: - Men constantly have to be on. Not only were my initial messages to girls necessarily concise and witty with a healthy dose of denigration, but every succeeding message has to be interesting even if – as in most cases – the girl gives you a minimal level of conversational material to work with. It also has to be sensitive to her mood and the changing tone and course of the interaction. As my friend put it, the messaging process goes something ...
Meaningless High School
Post Date: 2012-03-06 13:28:03 by Turtle
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When I was in high school my life consisted mainly of four things: high school, family, partying, and science-fiction. The first two were close to meaningless, and the last two meant a lot. In fact, they were pretty much the focus of my high school life. It took me years to figure out what the answer was to that puzzle of why the first two meant so little and the last two so much. I didn't have a bad family life. It was just that, like a lot of kids then and now, family just didn't mean that much (I'm sure I would have realized just how much it meant if I didn't have it). Finally, I realized the answer was pretty simple: it had to do with meaning. The first two had little ...
Fixing the Female Brain
Post Date: 2012-03-06 12:46:10 by Turtle
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The Founding Fathers didn't deny women the vote as an oversight. They realized about 80% of women were natural socialists (Pareto was right with his 80/20 law) and since they realized socialism only destroys and never creates, they denied them the vote. Incidentally, they denied most men the vote, too. They only wanted intelligent, responsible, employed landowners to vote, since they were trying to found a country they hoped would last. Unfortunately, not only does socialism destroys countries, it can also destroy lives. I know a woman who had been a socialist until she was in her early 40s. She had been a particularly unfortunate kind -- an anti-gun, pro-universal-health-care ...
I'm So Pissed! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-03-06 00:03:18 by abraxas
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An asshole burglar broke into my home while I was at work today. He was going through my things in my office and in my bedroom. Rummaging through my closets and clothes and personal items. He wasn't here long before I rolled home. His footprints were left sprinting across the back yard and the back door was wide open when I went around the back of the house to get in. The Burglar had tripped the top interior lock to buy some extra time to run if somebody came home. I think the burglar cased my home, for how long I do not know. Prick could live in some of the apartments down the street. This neighborhood has gone to shit! The burglar picked my front locks while a two man road crew was ...
The Hypocrisy and Cruelty of the Leftist Feminist
Post Date: 2012-03-05 19:56:43 by Turtle
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"Feminists of the Sixties and Seventies," wrote Nicci Gerrard in The Guardian, "have had to pay a terrible price for their dedication—most of them are forgotten, reviled, poor, and alone." How did they end up like this? Didn't the late Betty Friedan but still-blathering Gloria Steinem promise them otherwise? Paradise on Earth? Of course, there is oftentimes a difference between what one promises and what does in one's personal life—that is the definition of hypocrisy. And what Friedan and Steinem promised to others, and what they did in their personal lives, made them the vilest of hypocrites. Both of these women insisted women follow their teachings, ...
Romantic Relationships and Envy
Post Date: 2012-03-01 13:29:07 by Turtle
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Envy is the worst and most corrosive emotion in the world. And in the history of the world, for that matter. Probably the best-known myth in the Western world is that of the Garden of Eden. And one of the things it is about is envy. Adam blames the woman for his transgression and Eve blames the serpent, which is a symbol of envy. The lesson is that blame often blame their problems on other people out of envy. Worse, envy brings murder in the world, as shown in the story of Cain and Abel -- Adam and Eve's children. They are the original dysfunctional family. Cain murders Abel because he feels humiliated when God accepts Abel's sacrifice and rejects Cain's. That feeling of ...
A Puzzling/Amusing/Sad Turtle College Interlude
Post Date: 2012-02-28 14:24:06 by Turtle
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One summer in college I stayed in an apartment with a friend of mine. One evening as I was walking through the apartment complex a door opens and a woman, apparenly in her 40s (I was 21) comes out and asks me if I had any beer. I told her no, but I did have some wine. She asks if I could bring it over. Now, believe it or not, I had no intention of living out a Mrs. Robinson fantasy. I just wondered what was going on. I was more curious than anything else. I got the bottle of Boone's Farm I had (yeah, I know, couldn't be any cheaper) and bought it to her apartment. She guzzled the entire bottle in front of me, with wine dripping down her chin. That was the first time I had ...
Guns as Equalizers
Post Date: 2012-02-24 12:31:40 by Turtle
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Pistols, in the 19th Century, were called “equalizers” because they made the tiniest woman equal to the biggest man. I’m not even going to say I’m a believer, because I don’t “believe” it’s true, no more than I believe 2+2=4. It just is true. I have known three women who were murdered. I did not know them personally. One was strangled by a serial killer a few weeks after I left my job and she was hired. She was a small young woman, and for that matter, the guy who killed her wasn’t that big. I could have taken him, which is why these guys kill the weaker, such as women. The other two were sisters, and I did meet their mother. They were raped ...
I Encounter Some Vampires!
Post Date: 2012-02-23 13:17:27 by Turtle
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While there does exist the occasional psycho lunatic who really does drink people’s blood, these people are so rare it’d take several lifetimes to meet one, unless you go out of your way by becoming an FBI profiler. What are much more common are what I’ve heard described as “emotional vampires,” and I’ve met several of these. They’re known as Personality or Character Disorders, and fall under various headings such as Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorder. They all have certain traits in common. The main one is: it’s always someone else’s fault. It’s never their fault. This trait has been noticed for ...
Hobo With A Shotgun (2011) - Unrated Trailer [HD]
Post Date: 2012-02-21 18:29:18 by FormerLurker
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The State Against Families
Post Date: 2012-02-18 13:50:49 by Turtle
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It’s impossible to choose any exact point when the State started destroying families. I’d say it’s been more of a slippery slope than anything else, so you can’t choose any point and say, “This is where it started going downhill.” But one watershed moment was in 1943, when Americans started having taxes withheld from their paychecks. Before then, Americans paid on tax day. But when they started having money withheld from their checks . . . the effect was great for the State and bad for the citizens. Income tax withholding raised revenues from $686 million in 1943 to $7.8 billion in 1944. This meant the State got richer and all the citizens got poorer. ...
Gender and Good and Evil
Post Date: 2012-02-17 14:45:24 by Turtle
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When I was about 13 years old I read a story by the late Robert Sheckley called “The Girls and Nugent Miller.” He wrote the story in 1960, and I was always surprised how visionary Sheckley was, and how he had predicted the shape of society. In the story there had been a nuclear war, and the only man left alive was Miller, a pacifist and a college professor whose main interests were art, literature and music. Miller stumbles across what are apparently the only women left alive, several naïve teenage school girls under the domination of what Sheckley describes as a stocky, square-jawed, man-hating lesbian. This woman, claiming men were the cause of every problem in the ...
The Tragedy of the Mid-Witted
Post Date: 2012-02-17 13:41:31 by Turtle
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It is truly remarkable what the moderately intelligent consider to be markers of superior intelligence: "I was a terrific little snob who thought she knew everything, and subsequently, I was about to learn a great deal. "As soon as I started, I realized I had no idea what I was doing. Fortunately, the other cocktail waitresses were quick to make suggestions. My first night on the job, a fellow shot girl offered practical advice. “You have to be a little cold,” she explained. “Make them feel like you’re doing them a favor by letting them buy shots.” But it’s difficult to maintain a Queen of Sheba demeanor while trying to rub globs of green glitter ...
The Myth of Extrovert Empathy
Post Date: 2012-02-16 14:37:55 by Turtle
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Popular belief would have it that being effusively social in nature is to be more empathetic, more in tune with others’ feelings. I would say from personal observation however that the opposite is true. Extroverts are adept at picking up every little sign that flickers across the surface. They are excellent at functioning in groups, quickly perceiving hierarchies and balances of power. They know how to be friendly to everyone when it suits them, and will talk about their personal matters to anyone. They love to be around people as a whole but not necessarily persons. This is where the introvert reigns. One who knows how to listen, who isn’t worried about dominating a given ...
Tools of the Trade
Post Date: 2012-02-15 13:42:29 by ghostdogtxn
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The Misfortune of Feminism
Post Date: 2012-02-14 14:26:01 by Turtle
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It was in college that I first encountered feminism and realized it was not as it was portrayed. I had actually been somewhat sympathetic, believing then as I do now, in fairness. I did not find this “fairness” in feminism. Instead I realized it was founded by man-hating lesbians, and was dumbfounded to find they had conned straight women into feeling sorry for themselves and being hostile toward men. And, instead of it claiming that men and women were equals, it instead insisted women were the victims of oppressive men – of “patriarchy,” a word I still read even today among far leftists. These claims, as it true for all such claims, are based on the idea that ...
Introversion, Dominance and Sigma
Post Date: 2012-02-13 15:43:35 by Turtle
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Ever since Vox articulated his socio-sexual hierarchy I have been very interested in idea of a second dominant type, the sigma. For some reason I found the idea more attractive as an ideal than the more common alpha type. Initially it also seemed to be a genuinely original idea, though as I considered it I realized that without ever explicitly naming the concept, writers have instinctively acknowledged the second dominant type. Vox's hierarchy was simply the first to give it a name within the discussion of game. There were however some problems. Since the discussion of game frequently revolves around the practical application of theoretical ideas, sigma seemed out of place. There was ...
The Appeal of Intellligent Women
Post Date: 2012-02-12 13:10:18 by Turtle
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Susan has some interesting digressions from her post on the sex appeal, or lack thereof, of Emma Watson: I am not saying that some men might not find above average intelligence to be attractive, but as a general rule it isn’t something that most guys look for, and unless the guy is a brainiac himself it is likely to be a negative. Susan: Sounds like you’ve been reading your Roissy. Anything over 120 is just a pain in the ass, as I recall. Guys with smarts at the upper end of the bell curve wouldn’t agree with Roissy’s maxims, however. Some of them tend toward the Asperger’s end of the spectrum, and I find them to be good company. We “get” each other, ...
The Dilemma of the Libertarian Homosexual
Post Date: 2012-02-11 14:35:51 by Turtle
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Most people don’t know it, but most "pure," anarchist libertarians are homosexuals. Specifically, the leftist libertarians. They also tend to be anarchists, or, as they put it, anarcho-capitalists. They are stuck in a dilemma. Like the Marxists they so strongly resemble, they believe that once the State "withers way," then all will be equal – there will be no prejudice, no sexism, no ageism, no "homophobia," no racism. This is why they are leftist. The words they use -- "sexism," "homophobia," etc. -- ultimately mean nothing because they can mean anything. This "equality" is the leftist, utopian, never-will-exist ...
The Impac - Too Far Out
Post Date: 2012-02-11 01:01:00 by Dakmar
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Poster Comment:too weird not to share...
Judging Police Brutality on a Tase-by-Tase Bais
Post Date: 2012-02-09 12:59:57 by Turtle
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Dark decades of direct experience with human beings have given us reason to operate from an ecumenical distrust of human nature. Although perfectly natural, human nature is a foul entity regardless of what skin color, genitals, or ideology the individual human in question chooses to hide behind. Them humans is sneaky snakes, sho’nuff. Since there’s literally no “government” beyond the humans authorized to run it, our distrust of human nature leads us to a special wariness of those who possess the legally sanctioned power to harm and extort others. Without ways to keep government power in check, the whole world would devolve into the Stanford Prison Experiment within a ...
Titanic, Alpha and Beta
Post Date: 2012-02-06 12:28:19 by Turtle
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I have had my rows with Aunt Haley, but the fact always remains that she is an excellent analyst of both mainstream American religious messaging and secular pop culture. She’s hit another home run with her post Jack Dawson game, concerning the 10th anniversary re-release of James Cameron’s maritime epic Titanic. I don’t want to steal all of her fire, so just go read the post, but I want to highlight one key factor. She pushes back against a commenter who describes Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cal (Rose’s betrothed) as beta and alpha, respectively. Haley notes: I disagree with vitabenedicta that Cal was alpha and Jack was beta. In actuality, the reverse is true. Titanic ...
Sad News
Post Date: 2012-02-02 19:26:26 by abraxas
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My little foster hound passed away today. It was completely unexpected. I had gotten her dental work done and cleared up an infection she had. She was going for walks daily and generally very happy. Even her blood work was great. Then this morning she had no appetite and then an accident on her bed. Then another accident on her second bed. So, I moved her to the kitchen. Her hind legs did not want to work for her. This alarmed me so I was preparing to take her to the vet. Then, her breathing became very labored and then she stopped breathing. The vet said that she had a blood clot and a stroke. Just like that. Fine one day and gone the next. I knew that she was an old hound, but she was ...
What Kind of American Accent Do You Have?
Post Date: 2012-01-31 12:34:34 by Lysander_Spooner
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/american-accent-quiz.html Inland North. From Upstate New York State, lived in Chicago, and now Ohio. Click for Full Text!
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