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[MotivParticipant 441]

Ok i watched all ten programs of a series on the history channel,last one being last night,
Its a bunch of men dumped on a island about 7 miles apart from each other and the last man standing wins 500,00, did anyone else watch this? and see the chap that won staying alone in the woods for 56 days,
To me he looked like he found himself in a very different way than the show put out, Giving hes last words of “The only thing we are here to do is Love everything else is just bulls~~~” (close to saying that but not to the word)

I seen him a little bit different as in at first he wasnt to sure about leaving the woods and wanted longer,he looked like he would be leaving something more of himself behind in the woods, thats what i could see anyway,

Hes wife comes out to greet him on the final day when hes the only one thats not tapped out, she pulls out the check of 500.00 and hands it him, “Oh” he says “that could pay the house off”
Her eyes lit up and smiled with that look women give,
He then says “im going to pay up all my father s~~~ so he can enjoy the rest of hes days free of debt and enjoy retirement..Fair play to the man. .

In went a guy and out of that 56 days of being alone in the woods came out a Man that had come to understand himself and come to peace with all the s~~~ in hes mind..
I think its worth a watch chaps you will see alot of mens weaknesses (women) and you will get something from it.I think.

Cool story babe now go make me a sandwich

[RoyDalParticipant]

Actually, profound changes like that man’s happen surprisingly often to men who undergo long periods of solitude. For example, read up on single hand sailors, fur trappers from the USA’s wild west days, and similar. A pal of mine is addicted to accounts of early explorers and travelers (think “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” said Mr. Stanley). His reading material rubbed off on me; and I observed a lot of those explorers changed their characters from beginning to end.

Joshua Slocum wrote the classic book Sailing Alone Around the World. A reader who is looking for it will see his mindset change, in exactly the same way the History Channel survivor’s did.

BTW, another “survivor” TV show (I think it was a Dutch programme) did a thing with putting a group of men on one island and a group of women on another, both groups isolated.

Three guesses as to the outcome — and the first two don’t count.

Answer: The men prospered and the women went without shelter or food in short order. The showrunners were forced to mix up the groups in order to ensure the women got through the series alive. Then the women made the men their servants, and the men were happy to provide for them.

There is another forum topic with “Zen MGTOW” in the title. Zen adepts, and other dedicated mediators, recognize that change in mindset as the promising beginning of the “enlightenment” they seek. Deep meditation, done over a long period, produces much the same mental states as prolonged isolation.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[MotivParticipant 441]

yeah the whole concept of solitude fascinates me and I see in some of the history i have read where it was a part of the tribes ways of transferring to man hood.
this chap
I did watch the clips from the show you mention and it was no great surpize that women dont and wouldnt cope.
ive also seen a program called 10,000 bc where a group of men and women lived together and a women took charge and they didnt do well insisting the men where wrong by trying to hunt ect.
Silly as the males needed iy for motivation more than the meat i think,
That Alone on the history channel was one of the better ones and all the men that quit was due to missing women in their life.
great read that Roydal

Cool story babe now go make me a sandwich

[Jon the Ex-SquidParticipant 298]

I watched this whole show and really enjoyed it.

If you haven’t seen it, it differs quite a bit from other survivor-type shows. There’s no time limit and there’s a $500,000.00 prize to the last man standing. They get to bring in some things, have to video everything themselves, and that’s it. Man vs. Nature vs. Himself.

Some interesting observations:

Most of the men tapped out pretty early due to fear (bears literally right outside their shelters, wolves howling, etc.). A few couldn’t handle the solitude. One guy went a little nuts but that might’ve been due to the fact that he wasn’t treating the water and probably had too much seawater intake. I believe all of them were married except one guy, who was the 7th (out of 10) men to tap out.

The guy that lasted the longest had a great sense of humor, was 40ish, and seems pretty comfortable in his own head. Part of why he made it might’ve been nothing more than good luck in the location they assigned him.

“I miss my wife and/or kids”. Over and over and over. Their marriages crippled these guys. These were supposedly “veteran survivalists” but a chunk of them couldn’t go 2 weeks without mooning over their spouses and tapping out. Bet they didn’t get the welcome home sex they were thinking about when they didn’t come back with half a million dollars though.

And that’s my final observation. The money. Most didn’t even mention it. Or if they did, then the producers edited it out. I mean really? Half a million dollars? That’s life changing money for everyone I know, and I know some pretty successful people. I’d have busted my ass for that kind of money. You’d have to carry me out in a stretcher. But these guys were all “I wanted to prove something to myself”. I can understand that, but seriously, $500,000.00 and half the guys tap out in a week?

I hope they do it again next year. It was a really interesting show to watch. Especially with prepper MGHOW eyes.

ETA: I bet if they grabbed a bunch of homeless men off the street and gave them 1 weeks worth of training, they would’ve lasted longer than these guys though.

[MotivParticipant 441]

Jon the Ex-Squid wrote:

I watched this whole show and really enjoyed it.

If you haven’t seen it, it differs quite a bit from other survivor-type shows. There’s no time limit and there’s a $500,000.00 prize to the last man standing. They get to bring in some things, have to video everything themselves, and that’s it. Man vs. Nature vs. Himself.

Some interesting observations:

Most of the men tapped out pretty early due to fear (bears literally right outside their shelters, wolves howling, etc.). A few couldn’t handle the solitude. One guy went a little nuts but that might’ve been due to the fact that he wasn’t treating the water and probably had too much seawater intake. I believe all of them were married except one guy, who was the 7th (out of 10) men to tap out.

The guy that lasted the longest had a great sense of humor, was 40ish, and seems pretty comfortable in his own head. Part of why he made it might’ve been nothing more than good luck in the location they assigned him.

“I miss my wife and/or kids”. Over and over and over. Their marriages crippled these guys. These were supposedly “veteran survivalists” but a chunk of them couldn’t go 2 weeks without mooning over their spouses and tapping out. Bet they didn’t get the welcome home sex they were thinking about when they didn’t come back with half a million dollars though.

And that’s my final observation. The money. Most didn’t even mention it. Or if they did, then the producers edited it out. I mean really? Half a million dollars? That’s life changing money for everyone I know, and I know some pretty successful people. I’d have busted my ass for that kind of money. You’d have to carry me out in a stretcher. But these guys were all “I wanted to prove something to myself”. I can understand that, but seriously, $500,000.00 and half the guys tap out in a week?

I hope they do it again next year. It was a really interesting show to watch. Especially with prepper MGHOW eyes.

It was pretty good wasnt it? glad someone else had seen it also and better at explaining it lol i even missed some zeros off the prize, I think it will come back next year.

Cool story babe now go make me a sandwich

[MotivParticipant 441]

Cool story babe now go make me a sandwich

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