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What are some books, practices, observations, philosophies, etc. to help make a better man in the current era?
It's undeniable that technology, politics, religion, and every other facet of life has changed rapidly over the last 100-200 years or so, in relation to the last 2000. What are some principles or guides you have found to make the right path clear? What values have you held onto that you are always able to rely on?
Let's help guide the next generation and perform a social checkup on the current one.

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Tip #1: Don't ask for assistance online.

We're under quarantine.
Where else are we supposed to ask for it?

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Learn to think critically. Practice it. Live it.

Read mein kampf

Learn to ask more questions and talk less. People will do whatever you want if you make them feel heard.

Jordan Peterson. Free youtube videos to watch, doesn't cost you anything. He's not right 100% of the time imho. His suggestions lead to dead ends in every day life some of the time. But when push comes to shove his philosophy is practical

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Suffering is your best friend and greatest teacher.
If you have never experienced agony and complete mental breakage of the mind, you will never understand the true path of light.

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Is OP even here?

Man, those soldiers must be really tired.

dont brag
keep everything about you private

Start here. It's part of an infographic but I don't have it saved.

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Some tips I give is learn to embrace pain. Pain is there for a reason whether it be physical or mental. Dont run from it but embrace it and learn what's causing it, learn a lesson from it.
Also for me personally I use the hatred of everyday life to motivate me to do something different because I want to be as far away from this feeling and i will do anything to escape it

Outside of joining the military, what could a man do to experience something like that?
Or is combat the only way?
Surely there has to be something to experience that is within reason (camping, survival classes) to come close to your own mortality?
Anyone have any breakthrough moments they'd care to share about coming of age/becoming a man or realizing societal burdens placed upon us?

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Listen to meaningwave.

Also, have a real experience with God, and do it completely sober.

That'll straighten you out pretty well, user.

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>Ben Klassen
every Yas Forumstard should read his books

Drop acid.

What drug is that gif most like? Reminds me of a k hole but I've never tried dmt or salvia or any of that crazy shit.

Interesting.
I'm no longer afraid of physical pain, but I've been through a shitload of mental and emotional pain particularly this past year. To the point that it kinda has me questioning everything and everyone's motivations.
I know that sounds kinda trite, but it's true.
I feel like I'm lost again as I was as a teenager or something.
Still here, slow start to this thread.

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Be vegan.
The animal agriculture industry is heavily subsidized with tax money, and is one of the biggest employers of illegal immigrants. Meat, milk, and eggs would cost something like 3x their current prices if the government was not subsidizing them with tax money. (and said subsidies are almost exclusively for meat/milk/eggs; almost none go to crop farmers) Don't believe me? Look up the farm bill.
If you are against taxation (or want taxation to be low) and/or are against illegal immigration, why are you not focusing on fighting the animal agriculture industry? We should be focused on decreasing taxes, getting rid of the farm bill's animal agriculture subsidies, holding the animal agriculture industry accountable for illegally employing illegal immigrants, and we should be eating plants, not animals.

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Books

Black Swan
Anti-Fragile
Be Here Now
The Prince
War of Art
48 Laws of Power

>Still here, slow start to this thread.
Do you know what critical thinking is?

I've taken shrooms and I have to say, that was quite an awakening.
Now that I think about it, I felt a certain connectedness to everything that I haven't felt since.
May be time for another trip if I can ever get my hands on some psilocybin again.

You're not wrong, I've suffered what I guess mild depression most of my life, never really had any hope or motivation. In the last year both of my grandfathers have died, my aunt has died, my dog has died and more recently my father was diagnosed with liver cancer which will likely be fatal very shortly. I felt myself falling apart but have recently felt somewhat hopeful about the future even though I can feel myself almost disassociating, I think I might finally know what is important to me.

I'm still only 19 but I imagine that feeling of being lost is normal. This world is a complex mess. Just try to make the best out of it. Life is what you make it, focus on your goals or anything that will improve you. Remember always take the good with the bad and vice versa.

I've heard the term but I've never applied any particular methods if that's what you're referring to.

I like mushrooms, but acid is much, much better, and it's a cleaner experience to me. They're both funguses. Acid is just concentrated and modified a little bit through chemistry.

It's funny, I actually tried this the past two months before food started becoming scarce in stores here and I felt noticeably better cardiovascular wise.
Since things have been flying off the shelves though I've relied on things besides beans and rice to fill me up again.
Thx fren, I've read a couple of those. Good books. I'll check out the rest.

Don't waste any more time. Learn it and practice it every chance you get. Don't assume anything, look it up. It'll change your life. You'll never read the news the same. You'll learn to debate better. Nobody in this material and superstitious world should be without the skill of critical thought. Seriously, it will change you.

You are trying to be something you are not, something that is not real. You are an animal. Be an animal. You will all be fine.

I'm not against trying it, it's just that I can't really find any and don't know where to even look for that. Weed and other hard drugs aren't that difficult to find (not that I'm interested in that stuff), but psychedelics are much harder if not impossible to find.
Any particular guidebooks or methods you find helpful or have come across?
I think practice is probably the most effective technique, but having a logical list of a,b,c is helpful sometimes for initial development.

Sorry for the ramblings, just trying to get a non-slide thread going on that can hopefully inject some sort of beneficial conversation on this forum.
It's pretty late and I'm pretty damn tired right now, lots of stuff on my mind. Sure I'm not the only one.

Learn to love history. Modern men worship comic book super heroes and athletes but have never heard the names,Giustiniani, Sulla, or Mithradates. Pick something, anything from history that interests you, spend 5 minutes researching who writes the best book about that subject, then read it.

If books are scary, give Asha Logos Our Subverted History series a watch. It's fucking incredible and he mentions a few really good books you may find you're interested in.

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It costs you the most important resource you have...time. Don't waste it on some fuck-up like Peterson who only wants to create a cult.

OP was asking to improve himself not become something he is not. Demoralization isn't a pleasant thing to do. He should follow his own path how he finds that is up to him be it through a study of philosophy or by just falling to his base instincts but it's his path, not ours.

Why would you ask here, of all places? An insipid den of hatred, insanity, and groupthink populated by vapid boomers and incel manchildren?

Let me give you advice from someone who comes to Yas Forums only to watch the car wreck and almost never posts:

Leave Yas Forums.

>Why would you ask here, of all places? An insipid den of hatred, insanity, and groupthink populated by vapid boomers and incel manchildren?
Because a lot of people here notice patterns in things that society tells them to ignore.
This place is a safe haven to explore those ideas, regardless of their moral connotations.
Long story short, for better or worse, there is a lot of unedited dialogue here.

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What is a man, my dear friend?

what he said!

The beggining of wisdom.
Can you see the lie, can you percieve the truth?

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>Any particular guidebooks or methods you find helpful or have come across?
I took a class. The class was actually very helpful, as every exercise challenged us in some way to critically think. the textbook was thin and simply called Critical Thinking. I'm sure you could get everything you need from such a book, but having it taught was the way to go for me. Either way, it's not really a method that you need a list for; you just learn to question everything individually for the values that will expose information that's not put forth. Detectives use a lot of critical thought. You'll be amazed what the world looks like with the subjectivity removed and stripped bare. I'm afraid I don't have a specific book for you, though.

>psychedelics are much harder if not impossible to find.
Grow your own mushrooms. Buy spores online. Completely legal to own spores. Build your own grow kit. It's super easy if you're patient and know how to maintain a clean environment for them.

As for the acid, you gotta know someone. Sorry.

It's easy to read and is nowhere near the worst of what Reddit brings to Yas Forums

I'd ask here. This place is a fountain of knowledge for the disenfranchised. I learn all kinds of cool shit here.

I trust myself in my decision. I learned that when i was about 19, and was new to the workplace. It was a task and everyone was arguing about how this thing should be done, and i was alone on the opposite side. Turned out i was right all along, even thou i was both young and new to the situation.

I applied this alot of times later on, and now at the age of 28 people often turns to me for judgement, advice and leadership.

Reddit spacing is a meme. Even using this attack is a pathetic attempt to pretend you aren't too boring to contribute something meaningful. Please give it up.

>Because a lot of people here notice patterns in things that society tells them to ignore.

noticing patterns is called pareidolia and isn't inherently valuable.

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We're in a similar boat, user.
Best of luck to you.
So, confidence, in a nutshell.
Thx for all the advice user, I'm seriously gonna look into that.
I'm a bit nervous about doing acid, but I have nothing but time to grow my own shrooms so I may start there.
I'm passing out now.
Later Yas Forums

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