It’s been a busy few weeks for me, but a number of very good queries came in recently, and I figured that I should put in the time and effort to answer them with the thoroughness that they deserve. I got a couple of emails and comments that I felt deserved significant treatment, and some of those messages merited full podcasts in their own rights. Today’s post, therefore, contains a wealth of information, so pull up a chair, put on some headphones, and enjoy at your leisure.

If people like this sort of thing, I might make it more of a feature around here. I like and encourage reader interaction and feedback, of course, so if you have a burning question in mind, or you want my thoughts on a particular issue, either leave a comment, or shoot me an email.

Domain Query: To Settle or To Grind

The Domain Query series is finally back with a new episode – two of them in one day, actually – with a very involved and interesting question from LRFotS Randale6, which I quote in full below:

A request for one of your next episodes, I suppose you could call it “hope for a hailmary woman or just grind on”. I was walking in the park one day and noticed something, all the couples walking the paths had muscular men…and half the women were fat, another quarter overweight and only the remaining quarter was thin.

Simply put, even if I achieve the body of Adonis all I’m going to get is a fat, worthless whore. This makes me wonder, is it a better idea to simply grind onto an early retirement via stock market investment (Nikolai Vladivostok’s The Poor Man’s guide to building wealth is my bible for this)?

I know that in latin america a gringo with even just 1 million (equating to 40k at a 4% withdrawal rate per year) would be living at the minimum a middle class lifestyle if not a fully upper middle class one. I would live well…and courtesy of latin america’s poor social safety net for women I would have a fairly wide selection of mujeres. 

If I go that route though…how do I keep myself functioning in the meantime? I have to live long enough to enjoy the benefits of early retirement after all. What do I do to keep my body from aging into a broken, dottering corpse?  Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

In this podcast, I go over the following points:

• Red Pill 101 conditional logic that dictates which option to take – women now, versus money now (oh yeah, I finally remembered the name of the Pacino character from Scarface – TONY MONTANA);
• What to do about the scarcity of attractive women in one’s area, and where to go to get past the issue;
• Why the “poon/payola” dichotomy is actually a false, and indeed dangerous, one from a Christian perspective;
• How to avoid boredom and dissipation as a man in a foreign country;
• Potential dangers and issues with moving overseas, and emphasis on fitting in and acculturating;

On a related note, the Limitless Living course will, at some point, be spruced-up, re-branded, and re-released – at a MUCH lower price than it was initially. By that point, there should be enough people interested in getting out of Western hellholes to generate some actual sales, which would be nice.

Here’s the actual podcast:

Domain Query: Fear of the Long Dark

Here’s the second of the day’s Domain Query series, based on a very interesting long comment from LRFotS Kapios on my post about resilience:

It gets worse before things get better. Knowing that intellectually and feeling it to every last bone in your body is a big difference as I’ve realized.

There is one subject that I would like to see you tackle in a post sometime in the future, and that is overcoming the fear of death. Not the YOLO I’m taking cocaine and partying kind, but the one that you hear about warriors in the past who had a lot to lose, their lands, properties, families, etc. and yet they were still able to fight as if they were not attached t those things.

How do people do that? I have been thinking about this a lot with the recent trend of mandatory vaccinations.

Someone who had lived in a monastery for more than a decade told me this about a week ago: ‘The threat to lock me up and starve me to death if I don’t put the vaccine will not change my mind. I would rather die of starvation if it comes to that, because it’s my choice’.

My country has not introduced mandatory vaccination like Austria (probably because they are waiting to see what happens with other countries), but I believe the person who told me that. He is not perfect, but he and a few other people who live there have been threatened and harassed by the police, unjustly criticized by others in the past and yet, they haven’t changed their conviction.

I answer this question from the straightforward point of view of a Christian (an extremely bad one, mind you), and why Christians might fear dying – I certainly do – but not death itself. I unpack an answer rooted in Scripture, starting with Matthew 10, and drawing on references within the texts, and come to the conclusion that the way to avoid this problem of fear of death is to find something bigger than yourself, which you believe in and love enough to give your life to protect. That is the way out of this dilemma.

Here’s the podcast itself:

The DeepFake Instathot

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Polish (!!!) reader chiroro wrote in with a very good set of comments about Ms Kanika Batra, who inspired a post about the terrible dangers of the Jezebel spirit. Here are his comments, redacted and edited where necessary:

• Her photos on Instaham, with all of the makeup and digital post-processing, really should count as “deepfake” images;
• She has “dead fish eyes” about 99% of the time, together with that baby voice, but she does show flashes of life when speaking about herself, or about someone else being hurt – see this video, for example;
• She doesn’t actually want to be evil, but psychology (as one of many Christian heresies) won’t save her – see this post from Darek (Roosh’s Polish diminutive name);
• Offering prayer and Holy Communion for her is not a waste – however, we [Catholics, presumably – Didact] believe that if someone rejects grace, God can “transfer” it to someone else;

Also, quoting directly here:

Darek is the Polish diminutive of Roosh’s full name. I know he associates Poland with (his?) sin, but he’s too hard on us. Even when he was still an active PUA, I’ve listened to one of his rants on YT and thought: wow, this guy sounds just like some Polish priests (and he was wearing all black to match). Well, he’s become an Orthodox monk instead, but it’s close enough. It would be so funny if he became a Greek Catholic priest in Poland (rare) or Ukraine (common).

— chiroro

It’s really interesting to see where all of my various readers and commenters come from – honestly, I usually think that about three men and a dog read my posts, and they’re all in America. So when I see that my podcasts and posts are listened to and read in Russia, Poland, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Israel, and Mexico, and a lot of other places besides, I really feel quite heartened by that.

With respect to the points above, I absolutely agree about the fact that Ms Batra is a deepfake girl. And that is entirely consistent with her narcissistic personality disorder. If you read Michael Trust’s book on the subject of narcissists, you’ll understand very quickly that they live entirely fictional lives in their heads. They have to construct a false reality in their heads, and that is the reality that they attempt to present to the world.

The best of them can convince you very easily that what you see is the real person. But most narcissists cannot do this. They are actually quite toxic to be around – if you feel mentally exhausted after being around someone, yet recover very quickly simply by going for a walk and feel much more energetic as a result, you are very likely dealing with a narcissist.

I also agree that Ms Batra won’t be saved by psychology, though I will say that secular psychology can do a lot to undo the damage caused by these disorders. It is possible to train one’s mind using those methods to deal with past traumas and move to a better place. But it is not a permanent fix. The only way to do that is by accepting Christ and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

It is also important to understand the distinction between psychiatry, which Roosh rightly largely condemns, and psychology. They are categorically NOT the same thing.

Psychiatry involves giving people pills to rewire their brain chemistry. This is HUGELY dangerous. It so happens that my own grandfather was on quite powerful antidepressant drugs for YEARS, and after his death, looking back, we concluded that it probably ruined his mind.

Psychology is about exploring the inner recesses of the mind, digging out past trauma, confronting it, and moving past it. Modern psychology is pretentious and stupid beyond measure, certainly, but when understood properly, it is simply an extension of philosophy, and when used in that manner, it is definitely useful. Most modern forms of psychology are all kinds of wrong, but there IS a core of truth behind it all.

Christian psychology, or therapy, is useful and effective, because it centres one’s mind on Jesus Christ and on God. This is good. However, there are some flaws in Christian psychology as well, particularly when it refuses to address actual psychological issues behind someone’s trauma and simply gives out shibboleths like, “be meek”, or “do not be anxious”, without looking into the reasons why someone is anxious and then pointing the way back to God as the solution.

Finally, with respect to transferred grace, well, if that is a core Catholic belief, all I can say is that I don’t agree with that, at all. I fail to see where it says anything of the sort in Scripture. That, to me, smacks of yet another Catholic invention, like the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or her role as an intercessor, or the existence of Popes dating back to Peter, or the nature of the Mass, and so on and so forth.

If someone rejects grace, then he or she rejects it – end of story. God knows everything about what one’s heart contains – and God will not violate one’s free will by bestowing grace on someone who doesn’t ask for it. Nor, as far as I can tell, will He then transfer that same grace to someone else who didn’t ask for it directly.

Personally, I have no problem with worshipping in a Catholic church or cathedral, and I have no problem praying for those who need it, like Ms Batra. What they choose to do with those prayers, is up to them. But I really do wish that Catholics would stop just crafting extra-Biblical narratives that have little to no basis in Scripture.

Coming back to Roosh, my good friend from Israel, Dawn Pine, and I were discussing him just the other day. As another friend, Adam Piggott the Gentleman Adventurer, has pointed out, Roosh has a problem with moderation. He tends to see the world in black and white far too much of the time – see what he said about drinking caffeine, for instance, which was plain silly. His PUA tendencies toward extremes have since morphed into extremes with religion. He’ll be OK eventually, whenever he finds a happy medium, but what he has been going through for the past few years is part of the calibration process to get to that point.

Baby Got Back-the-F**k-Away!

This last one is from LRFotS robertdwood, who had a very amusing side comment in relation to the last Great Mondaydact Browser Blaster:

I had a moment at jiujitsu the other day. I’m sitting there watching as my son is in his class, looking through a space the size of two folding chairs. Suddenly a huge bottom with a human attached walks between me and the mat and fills the entire space. All of it, jammed into ‘sleek’ leggings and elevated boots, eg, chunky heels. This lady wasn’t even middle aged yet and clearly put work into her dressy outfit, but was numbingly oversized and oblivious to blocking the entire mat from my view.

My question: is this an American phenomenon? I get that the USA is full of gluttons and that’s not common internationally, but is the trying to look good while being a whale strategy seen anywhere else you go?

First and foremost, I doff my cap to you, good sir, for taking your boy to jiu-jitsu classes at a young age. This is EXACTLY how fathers should raise their sons.

This comment reminds me of that hysterical bit from Jeff Foxworthy from a few years ago, from his “Redneck Fashion Tips” segment:

God bless that man. He is THE funniest man alive.

To the specific point raised by our friend:

No, this is not unique just to American women. But they DO have by far the worst case of this condition.

You will see this affliction particularly among women who inhabit PommieBastardLande. A certain particularly acerbic Sefrikin by the name of Kim du Toit refers to this particularly disastrous category of females as “train smash women”. This is the kind of thing we’re talking about:

I want to make it very clear that these women think that they are PRIME CATCHES, and English culture reinforces that shit.

You also see this a lot among South Asian women, but that is less because of an innate lack of modesty in the culture, and more just the fact that South Asian women are generally significantly uglier than anywhere else outside of Africa.

(Oooooh I can FEEL the hate. Sorry, not sorry, it’s TRUE. I’ve written multiple posts on the subject.)

I don’t quite understand why, but South Asian women really do get slapped HARD by the Hambeast Fairy’s Ugly-Stick. It’s pretty nasty to watch. The moment – and I do mean THE VERY MOMENT – that a South Asian, and especially Indian, woman gets married, she basically sees that as an excuse to let herself go in every department.

And Indian men, being the colossal blue-pill Betas that they are, don’t hold them accountable for it. They don’t know any better or different. So you have an entire subcontinent in the grips of colossal sexual dysfunction and awash with unattractive to outright ugly women.

But Indian women don’t generally think of themselves as “super sexy while fat”. They just like to dress up in fancy clothes while draped in a full jewellery store’s worth of gold. They are much more modest, as a general rule, than their Western sisters.

If you really want to see that awful American fatass-who-thinks-she’s-a-supermodel attitude on full display, outside of the USA, try parts of northern England, or Scotland, or Australia. The fatasses there would give their American hambeast sisters a serious run for their Twinkies.

Et Finis

I hope y’all enjoyed that. It took a while to put together, but I think I managed to address a bunch of different questions all at once. As always, comment and share, and if you want me to do this again at some point in the future, shoot me an email or three. I’ll get around to it… eventually.