C. S. Lewis, Christian extraordinaire, knew a thing or two about Game. From his Mere Christianity,
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. That is why children’s games are so important. They are always pretending to be grown-ups—playing soldiers, playing shop. But all the time, they are hardening their muscles and sharpening their wits so that the pretence of being grown-up helps them to grow up in earnest.
Now, the moment you realise ‘Here I am, dressing up as Christ,’ it is extremely likely that you will see at once some way in which at that very moment the pretence could be made less of a pretence and more of a reality. You will find several things going on in your mind which would not be going on there if you were really a son of God. Well, stop them. Or you may realise that, instead of saying your prayers, you ought to be downstairs writing a letter, or helping your wife to wash- up. Well, go and do it.
Great quote, and I left the second half in as delicious Matt King bait.
The Great Men of Christianity were well-acquainted with the mind-body-penis reinforcing feedback axis, and though Lewis likely would have disapproved of yer ‘umble host’s lifestyle, he would have spared a gentleman’s respect for our shared worldview and perspicacity, though he arrived to our point of confluence via the Light and I via the Dark.
The pretense of being a ladykiller alpha male will help you grow into a ladykiller alpha male in earnest.
As I said a thread or two back, the Good Book is packed full of great information, whether you absorb the religious message or not.
It’s no surprise then that genuine practitioners of The Faith (not the screeching harpies that pass for “clergy” today) would be the same.
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Adam and Eve, Sarai and Hagar, Jacob’s 4 women, Potiphar’s wife, and that’s just the first book.
Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheeba, Elijah against Ahab and Jezebel come later.
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LOL. The “umble correspondent” paralleled himself to the great Christian literature guru of last century. Assuming the sale the CS Lewis would at least approve of his sultry intellectual wares. That made me laugh. At best, an gracious perspective on how he needs to change.
I will say this, had I listened, really listened, to what the Book of Proverbs really says I probably would never come here. Or at least less than I already do. And I would have a whole lot less issues in my past.
A proverb a day keeps the foolishness away.
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Ideologues can’t fathom what great men have in common. They only have their categories and condemnations and charges of hypocrisy on a hair-trigger.
What matters is truth and its earnest pursuit, which all of the saints have in common, because
“Every one who is of the truth hears my voice”
and
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me”
If you keep your intention pure, and do not pursue truth for some vulgar end, you have been baptized by desire. The only issue with those who do not explicitly profess the proper name of Truth, which is Jesus Christ, is that they live a life of euphemism, and all the needless complication/temptation to evil such a once-removed life entails.
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Matt, your words brought tears to my eyes. I’m literally lying on the floor here sobbing.
tell us, what’s it like up there, in the clouds, where you and God hang out, surfing the internet together, shitposting and mocking us mortals? is it cold? do you have to wear clothes? is there a furnace to turn on? do you and God split the utility bill? or do your apostles here on earth take care of that?
what about food? do you eat food like mortals eat, or do you eat pure light? and when you’re noshing on pure light, do crumbs of pure light fall and stick in your keyboard?
do you go to the bathroom, Matt? or does your divine constitution absorb all the pure light sustenance it takes in? do you take shits of pure, beautiful, angelic white light? and if you get the pure light runs does look something like the rapture?
and how do you write your comments to us heathens? do you dictate them directly to God so he can type them? or do you type them yourself? or do you give them to angels to pass them directly to the intertoobs? do you have broadband up there? who’s your provider?
please dazzle us with a few tantalizing details of your day-to-day life as a pretentious fuck who lives in the heavenly realms, far, far above us benighted mortals. pleeeeeeease!
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Heh. That’s exactly how a pig living in his own shit would imagine it. Dreaming of relief from his lower functions, which are all of his functions. You have no frame of reference for sublimity, you only know how to mock the idea of its possible existence somewhere very far away from you and your Fart Joke QED.
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“You have no frame of reference for sublimity…”
shitting is the PERFECT reference for sublimity, and for sniffing out (pun intended) a fraud.
it’s also the perfect reference for your long-winded, patronizing sermons of disdain for your fellow man. you either shit like your fellow man, walk your fellow man, die like your fellow man, or you don’t. you’re either one of us, or your not. and if you are one of us, then you also shit like us, and your condescension is your way of taking a shit.
except instead of placing your shit where it belongs, in a toilet, you shit on your fellow man. which makes you a piece of shit.
unless you’re divine. because apparently divine beings, such as you present yourself, think they can shit on their fellow men with impunity.
so which is it, Matt? are you divine? or are you shit? or are you a bit of both, like the rest of us?
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You sound like a jew. Are you also producing a trailblazing Netflix comedy about the “truth” of pubic hair and boners and zit pus that we goys are too uptight to incorporate into our conception of the best life?
You either obsess about body functions or you don’t obsess about body functions. You either regard it as central to your thinking or you don’t regard it as central to your thinking.
Do you pick your nose on dates? (Do you pick your date’s nose?)
To sum you up: No class.
Nonsensical, as often happens when your repertoire consists entirely of bathroom metaphors.
If you interpret an advocacy for the better things as a prudish denial of the low, that says more about you than me. I am not divine, but I do strive to be in my choices of what to think, how to behave, and who to associate with. You choose to associate with the Cult of Muh Dikk, and then find it hilarious that anyone else would even want to focus on anything else.
The Christian story is about the most high making himself low, consorting with whores and scheming kikes, not to become like them but to lead them to divinity by their imitation. God became man so that man might become God. I know your world; the difference is, you don’t know mine.
I like locker room bantz as much as anybody. However, I have the self-awareness (read: class) to understand its place, rather than mistaking it as the permanent shithole we could never transcend like a bantu in Senegal, much less believing it has to be the key constituent of everyone’s philosophy for life.
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“You sound like a jew.”
“To sum you up: No class.”
“You either obsess about body functions or you don’t obsess about body functions.”
“You choose to associate with the Cult of Muh Dikk”
“God became man so that man might become God. I know your world; the difference is, you don’t know mine.”
….
King on January 27, 2018 at 12:03 pm:
Oh, eat a dick.
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Sputter, sputter. I used to admire your observations. Now with the slightest pushback I see how little fight you got.
Sic transit gloria mundi…
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Do you pick your nose on dates? (Do you pick your date’s nose?)
To sum you up: No class.”””””’
getting a booger removed by your woman is a pure love experience
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[…] The Great Men On Faking It Till You Make It […]
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OT: Another example of how far back we’ve gone in a mere 20 years. Bill Clinton channels Donald Trump at the 1995 SOTU.
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Lol.
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Ha! That’s great.
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Let’s go 2-for-1 on CS Lewis.
From Mere Christianity:
“Something else, even more unpopular, remains to be dealt with. Christian wives promise to obey their husbands. In Christian marriage the man is said to be the “head.” Two questions obviously arise here, (1) Why should there be a head at all -why not equality? (2) Why should it be the man?
(1) The need for some head
[CH: lol!]
follows from the idea that marriage is permanent. Of course, as long as the husband and wife are agreed, no question of a head need arise; and we may hope that this will be the normal state of affairs in a Christian marriage. But when there is a real disagreement, what is to happen? Talk it over, of course; but I am assuming they have done that and still failed to reach agreement What do they do next? They cannot decide by a majority vote, for in a council of two there can be no majority. Surely, only one or other of two things can happen: either they must separate and go their own ways or else one or other of them must have a casting vote. If marriage is permanent, one or other party must, in the last resort, have the power of deciding the family policy. You cannot have a permanent association without a constitution.
(2) If there must be a head, why the man? Well, firstly, is there any very serious wish that it should be the woman? As I have said, I am not married myself, but as far as 1 can see, even a woman who wants to be the head of her own house does not usually admire the same state of things when she finds it going on next door. She is much more likely to say “Poor Mr. X! Why he allows that appalling woman to boss him about the way she does is more than I can imagine.” I do not think she is even very flattered if anyone mentions the fact of her own “headship.” There must be something unnatural about the rule of wives over husbands, because the wives themselves are half ashamed of it and despise the husbands whom they rule. But there is also another reason; and here I speak quite frankly as a bachelor, because it is a reason you can see from outside even better than from inside. The relations of the family to the outer world-what might be called its foreign policy-must depend, in the last resort, upon the man, because he always ought to be, and usually is, much more just to the outsiders. A woman is primarily fighting for her own children and husband against the rest of the world. Naturally, almost, in a sense, rightly, their claims override, for her, all other claims. She is the special trustee of their interests. The function of the husband is to see that this natural preference of hers is not given its head. He has the last word in order to protect other people from the intense family patriotism of the wife. If anyone doubts this, let me ask a simple question. If your dog has bitten the child next door, or if your child has hurt the dog next door, which would you sooner have to deal with, the master of that house or the mistress? Or, if you are a married woman, let me ask you this question. Much as you admire your husband, would you not say that his chief failing is his tendency not to stick up for his rights and yours against the neighbours as vigorously as you would like? A bit of an Appeaser?”
[great realtalk. lewis basically getting down to brass tacks here: men think in terms of principles, women in terms of family.]
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as you’re probably aware, most people don’t use obey in the vows at all anymore. even most ‘christian’ women i know balk at the idea. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that divorce rates have risen since people started excluding that very important part of the ceremony. man says love honor cherish, woman love honor obey. different vows for very clear and important reasons
if a man is considering wifing up a woman, he should make sure to get a good take on whether or not she would be accepting of including obey in her vows, if she seems resistant, mocks the idea, or gets angry at you for suggesting it, you know she’s not w1fe material.
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If “obey” isn’t in there, then it’s a fraud. Imagine signing a deal with a contractor and having them strike out all the penalty clauses for non-completion etc. but still holding you to payment terms (in full, 30 days or else).
Even adultery isn’t grounds any more if she plays it smart.
Looks like we’re back to the axe and stump round the back of the shed again, boys. Shame. Civilization was quite good, we got to build and drive some real cool stuff.
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I’d love to see an honest wedding vow:
I _______, take you, ______ as my lawfully wedded wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, unless I become unhappy, or things don’t work out like I expected, or you know, whatever.
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Jesus was a blue-collar construction worker in a backwater town for 30 years before he started teaching. He grew up under a strict religion and a foreign occupation. He knew the stories of the Ancient Hebrews, who had to fight their way out of every morally bankrupt situation they found themselves in.
He cared for his own tribe first, and said that it was wrong to hand your children’s bread over to the dogs, refering to a foreign woman. On the night that he was arrested, he instructed his disciples to carry swords for self-defense.
And when he found those bitchmade moneychangers in his Father’s House, he beat them like dogs.
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Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.
In other words, to start having it.
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It’s not really faking it per se; it’s starting to do in order to be.
A kid may have the aptitude to be a great baseball player, but if he never picks up a ball he will always be a poor ball player. His first attempts will be sloppy, but practicing the movements leads to mastery.
People can have aptitudes they’ve never used. The potential is realized by practicing, to develop skill. Once you’re committed, the trick can be determining what to practice. Online game blogs apparently lead the way for many.
At age 16 I had zero game. Depressed. At 17, virgin desperation drove me to succeed by any means necessary. I studied game, pre-internet (I understood biology, and extrapolated from there), and adventurously practiced self-love, good energy/feels, and applied charisma. That year I went out with multiple girls and got laid, settled in an LTR.
Full disclosure, I looked like an Abercrombie model. But that accomplished nothing before intentionally developing my skills. I discovered that a major part of my personality, sexual masculinity, was just waiting to be applied. And it was me, real me. Like an internal musical instrument, where I had to teach myself to strike chords. Improvising during a date was like playing jazz; I was a true player. There were some cringe missteps along the way. But when I was good, I was brilliant. Still am, when I get in the zone. I’m older and uglier now, and sadly disgusted by what modern women have become.
Maybe one of the reasons it can seem fake is because it takes effort. Mental energy is expended. Unless you’re a natural, you have to manage and develop your mind and express yourself. The same is true for ball players, salesmen, and musicians though.
I think 99% of guys have low SMV-related self esteem, even if they’re successful in other areas. We innately understand hypergamy, and most of us are not top 1% objectively. So manifesting self-belief seems fake because it goes against our SMV self-image habits. I guess the magic is that self-belief, itself, actually increases value. Or if you’re already objectively attractive, self-belief gives you the means to connect.
I’m not sure to what extent guys can game themselves into girls that are well above the guys’ “non-game” SMV, or SMV-on-paper. A fat poor neckbeard trying to “game” an hb9 will nearly always fail. In that respect, his game takes on a fake quality, his determination seems deluded. But having strong skills, strong game, itself gives a man much value. Most of being a man is in one’s mind, in self image, skills, and beliefs.
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But what will it profit a man if he gains the cooze but loses his soul?
😉
[CH: deep fried dopamine receptors aren’t good enough for ya?]
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Don’t know the answer to that Greg but I’d sure like to find out…
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didn’t you say you were gay irish lol
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You gotta go air popped receptors. Fresher.
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God is tolerant of shitlords who do his bidding but like the cooze a little too much. He made them pretty for a reason.
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Looking at you King David… 😉
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“Ladykiller” is an identity like many others, a launching pad for life’s efforts — except the misperception of others creates a heightened temptation to wobble off the straight and narrow. A temptation is not a fait accompli, merely a possible condition for one.
All Things That Rise Must Converge. And in our Father’s house is many mansions. From the sub specie aeternitatis we will finally see how our differences were irrelevant in every journey upward to the same destination.
This freedom which allows the rarefied few to taste truth on this broken plane comes with a danger, that one might use that freedom for petty or destructive or impulsive ends. But the good news is that the closer to truth you get, the shabbier such temptations appear as they reveal their earthbound natures and compare poorly in the clear, cool light of the highest altitudes.
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Gonna start calling you CH Lewis.
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The Shrewtape Letters
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Our reality is determined by our focus. The simulation can only allow you to change it so much or else the other conscious observers will clue in on the nature of our existance. The rest of your reality shaping powers can be explained away by cognitive dissonance, a built in feature in our programming. (He can only score hot girls all of a sudden because he has money…. they’re using him etc…)
This is the worldview Scott Adams has. Who is betting against that guy lately? Other than the sorest losers on the left that predict his and Trumps demise hourly.
http://blog.dilbert.com/2016/05/01/say-goodbye-to-your-mind/
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“ΗϵlρlηḠ Y0ⓊR ωl₣ϵ †0 ω@$Η Ⓤρ” — Η@!
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Other than that I think there are funnier ways to go with “Here I am, dressing up as Christ,” quite good passage.
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” I left the second half in as delicious Matt King bait.”
LMAO! Gonna quote Larry the Cable Guy on this one:
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It is disrespectful to the host — if not outright gauche — to ignore an invitation!
CH is right. Lewis, along with Chesterton, Newman, and Tolkien, were the original redpillers of the postmodern, civilization-wide cuckening begun by Enlightenment faggots and ratified at Frankfurt.
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I have to disagree. Pretense is a bad thing. What you want is CONFIDENCE. Don’t be overconfident or say you can do something you can’t, but be confident in your abilities. Good hunters make their prey come to them. They go somewhere and wait. Those guys that tell you to go feed lines to women are rank amateurs. Trial and error is for inventors and fools who don’t know how its done. If you want the prettiest girl in the room, then you have to draw a crowd. Best way is to approach a friend. Once a crowd or her friends are around you, she will approach. High value poon is almost always the last to join. Probably because losers are looking at them and feeding them lines. If you want ’em, do not chase them. BRING THEM TO YOU WITH CONFIDENCE AND MAKE A CROWD FORM.
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BRING THEM TO YOU WITH CONFIDENCE AND MAKE A CROWD FORM.
Don’t take this the wrong way, or do, but I have the feeling you’ve never done this, not even once. Ever, in your lifetime.
It reads like a guy talking about military tactics from a manual who has never had to pitch a fucking grenade back at the enemy in real time to avoid being blow to bits.
What I mean is, it is all excellent and theoretical in a classroom setting, and just about completely impractical in reality unless you are a musician or fucking David Copperfield. Please enlighten us with your “crowd-drawing” techniques and magnetism. As I said, if I were a betting man, which I am, you don’t have even two real world examples of having ever done this.
I know this because I go out places, and few and far between are the men who can draw a crowd the way you are describing unless you are one of the two examples above or you just started a fistfight. Enlighten us, vag slayer…
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Listen man, these gurus that say you should go around feeding lines to every gal are just using the law of averages. Yeah you can score some this way, but not much quality will go your way. High value poon will watch you stumble and will just laugh in your face. These gurus don’t seem to score much classy ass to me. For “experts” they don’t seem to have really classy dames to show off. Sure I have no evidence for my advice, but I’m not asking you for money. Why don’t you try this yourself?
You cannot fake cool. Style and cool is real or its cheap. Guys trying to be cool is always lame. You cannot be cool and go around asking for dates from everyone. Playing it cool is waiting for bites. You go in and look around. You want someone, you go up to her friend. You make small talk and don’t act like you’re hungry or on the prowl. If she sees you playing it cool and not trying to get anything in bed, you can pull some high class poon to you.
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Bible is red pill for modern soy eunuchs. When ur shitlib race mixing friends justify their foolishness, remind them of the curse brought upon the Hebrews for banging the Moabite women. And to really get the churchians hackles up, talk about how Phinehas is a hero in God’s eye. They’ll run from you with hands over their ears screaming Purpose Driven Life over and over.
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Men who aren’t even capable of becoming true alphas (due to physical or psychological conditions like codependency) or who are absolute omegas can still benefit from faking alpha at times.
Even just temporarily obtaining an attractive woman’s interest raises the self-esteem of many men. Once a man learns that the Way of the Red Pill is how you can consistently obtain and keep that interest, all bets are off regarding an omega’s loyalty to the globohomo narrative. He will accept other guys being his betters, just so long as he gets to keep what he builds for himself.
It’s like walking for exercise. No one becomes an athelete based on walking, but a guy who is 375 lbs of pure fat can change his life by just adding a 30 min walk into his daily schedule, in a lot of instances.
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