Quote: (07-27-2016 04:01 AM)GlobalMan Wrote:
Quote: (07-22-2016 06:07 PM)RexImperator Wrote:
If you think it is unhealthy, why do so many religions promote or require it?
As far as the question itself- That the practice exists within religions has nothing at all to do with health.
Jesus said one grows closer to God through prayer and fasting. That has a lot to do with health, by my reckoning.
Frankly, depriving yourself of something makes you more cunning.
I broke my roller, thus depriving myself of cigarettes. On the second day in a winter storm, I carefully whittled a pipe from a tree limb. I would have not bothered otherwise.
Deprive yourself of pussy willingly, stupid as it sounds, to the effect of honestly working on your inner game, is pure genius. Taking a break for a few months or a year to make serious cash, lift serious weight, and try fistfighting at bars or conquering your fears (again, self-honesty is CRITICAL) is the smartest thing one can do. A woman around while you are fighting your OWN demons and conquering your inner bitch is liable to reault in felony arrests.
Think like Diogenes. I bet he pulled some serious Greek pussy in his day.
Women are master manipulators. Why not step back amd learn HOW to manipulate like a woman through observation? Why not step back and cultivate masculine virtues? Take a week long vacation alone?
Go on a three day bender in a foreign city with nothing but 200 euros and wake up in a gutter or alley each morning in a random town with your shoes nibbled by mice?
Go out one night with the goal of getting wasted and high with the intent of finding a cop and calling him a nigger to his face?
I have done completely fucking retarded things to conquer my fear and shame. Why don't you? I fear fuck all. If twenty guys ran at me with pipe irons they better have brought their own body bags.
I make no secret of my long stretches of celibacy that puzzles friends and family alike. Even while dispirited I kept talking to people and watching gamesmen at their craft (listening to gamesmen too) only greatly increased my personal brand of ruthlessness and cunning.
Much like the rags to riches parable, oftentimes the wealthiest of men came from humble origins. They know themselves.