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So, working smart outperforms simply working hard.
IMO success in life is a combination of 1.5% hard work and smarts and 98.5% luck. Brains and working yourself to death will get you nowhere unless it’s coupled with a few lucky breaks…
There may be a little truth in this when it comes to those who have made it really big. Sure they worked hard but so did thousands of others, they just got a very lucky break in most cases or got a good idea at the best time for that idea and now they are 100 times richer than those other hard working guys. However that line of thought is to ignore the thousands who worked hard and struggled and by doing so did just about OK. That’s just the price you have to pay for being here on earth and leaving the next generation as well prepared for the future as you can manage. Life and natural selection is a race and the sooner you start to run the better because entropy will stalk your every endeavour and reap you in the end yourself.
When I was 21 I realised that I had to stop complaining about every mistake my parents had made and assume total responsibility for all that I was including their mistakes. (I was all I had to work with and it was now my turn to face adulthood). I swore I would be a better father than my own father and while I know I have done better than he did in the areas he fell short (because I have made dam sure to), it still remains to be seen how well I will have done in my own blind spots (I imagine my knocking up side chicks creating bitch fights and half sibling rivalries will be blamed for much, while my dad was a good Beta, who only played around once and said sorry and groveled for the rest of his then sexless marriage). We all have our faults.
One has to forgive their parents (at least if they stuck with you to adulthood and didn’t grossly abuse you) or they will be a recycled teenager all their life. Most of us fail to win significantly in nearly all our endeavours. Even breaking even with the bank is a far off dream for many folk. Life, and particularly parenthood, is a race against entropy (you get wiser with time but also everything you know about the world is getting more out of date, you see in your kids how old and slow you have got mentally and how you have lost your physical edge too, you are earning as much as you can to push them forward but it all seems to get eaten on just getting them to adulthood leaving you unable to fulfill may things you wanted to do. Getting to the finish line with something to show for yourself is a victory itself and once one has been a parent one generally accepts than in one’s own parents.
Try to forgive your old man. He probably ran the best race he knew how to for you and he would have run smarter if you could go back and tell him.
A woman is like fire -fun to play with, can warm you through and cook your food, needs constant feeding, can burn you and consume all you own
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
Grease a few palms, step on a few toes. Sleep your way to the top.
Be the wolf in a sea of sheep.
F~~~ them all, it’s all moot anyway.
several years working two jobs seven days a week. Aircraft mechanic throughout the week. Automotive mechanic on the weekends
My father was a Pilot, my broth was born at Scott AFB.I grew up around men like you.It took that to kept. the life they chose going. I vowed to never be like that.our sisters playing house.We boys were going to be NFL,NBA,MLB stars.
My friends mostly ending up worked from can to can’t. They bought girls real house”s in th right neighborhood.His children went to right schools etc.It was never enough. He worked all the time and was too tired from workng to do anything.
My next door neighbor has 5 kids. Nothing is payed for. He can’t afford to do a lot of needed repairs.
My brother was AP mechanic… After 4 yrs USAF he got job at Naval air station in Florida.He has two grown kids.He has always had a nice boat.He lives on a lake. He does not work second jobs.
If you just have to have a certain life. you have to pay for it.
I spent a ton on a bunch of women. I could p~~~ aay a lot of money in the two weeks i was home.Go back and work for more weeks and just get more. I made a lot of money buying and selling classic cars 427 corvettes,Shelby GT 500. I spent $0 when I was at work.I bought a modest fish camp to live in cash.I drove the same 1984 GMC I drive today. I just took shampoo ,tooth paste (I do not smoke ) My money made money. Peole like you scared the hell out of me when i was 11. I was never going to live on scraps and struggleSky-O.
Are you SURE your father left when you were one year old? Maybe your mother left your father. Maybe she doesn’t actually know who your father is.
My mother had lied about my father for years. I didn’t realize hey were lies until I became an adult and finally had the chance to hear my father’s side of the story.
Be the wolf in a sea of sheep.
Don’t be a “fool in cheap clothing looking like broken hearted clown
Be the wolf in a sea of sheep.
Don’t be a “fool in cheap clothing looking like broken hearted clown
Self-loathing with a frown upside down.
I am a retired boat captain.If I was still working I would make between $160k and $200k. There things that kept from marring.!) I was not going to have a hot chick in my house,where may paycheck came when i was gone. 2)I would see what other captains old lady would be doing while they were gone.3) I knew some guys that had a ex few wives that got all his money. Some would have to work all the time.They would sat in flea bag hotel when off. I am happy today.
I work with some ex-maritime guys and have heard quite a few stories about this stuff. All their older never married coworkers all seemed to be set up well financially with paid off houses/toys, and all the ones dumb enough to get married were broke slaves. You get to fund some slut to party, f~~~ around, and spend all your money behind your back, and then when you/she had enough its going to cost you to get rid of her. The worst part is when the judges base child/spousal support off a large income so you can’t even afford to take a pay cut and work a shore side job or to deploy a few less months a year. They aren’t even working to support a loving wife…its all just going to some c~~~ who f~~~ed them over.
The only thing worse than the wives in the industry I’ve heard about are the women who go out to see. They most have the dirtiest holes on the planet.
There is this phrase I got from a general: “luck is a lot of work”.
While its true that some positive events are random, most situations need a conscious setup. Working hard by itself gives you nothing, working hard with an objective in mind, however, might get you somewhere.
Definitely. I’ve been told by a lot of my fellow millennials over the years I’m “lucky” to not have any student loans. There wasn’t any luck about it…I simply chose to go to school part time, commute, and work a lot so I could pay for it as I went. Not a single one of them said I was lucky when I had days I was waking up at 3am to go to my first job, squeezing in a morning classing, going to my second job, followed by a night class, not getting home until 11pm, and having to wake back up at 3am the next day, or graduating a few years later than they did. Anyone could have done it, most just don’t want to, and saying I’m lucky is easier for them than admitting they were lazy or made poor choices.
Nobody gave me any money for college, and I certainly didn’t get my dream job right after I graduated. I didn’t get into a company I’d have considered a career instead of a job until I was 30. I know people that will look at where I’m at and what I have in life now and say I’m lucky, but the reality is that it took a lot of hard work and a lot of shots on goal during my 20s until I finally made one. I know people who say I’m lucky who literally had the bank of mom and dad pay for their degree, who got bulls~~~ degrees as they just wanted to party, and are now miserable and working in low paying fields. From my perspective, they were lucky with the free ride through college and they blew it, I don’t really see how I’m lucky for busting my ass and being rewarded with better end results.
The only things in life I’ve really felt lucky for that required zero effort on my part are being born in a middle class area in a first world country to parents who gave a s~~~.
Sky-O.
Are you SURE your father left when you were one year old?Yeah. Because one of his sisters (which would have been my aunt) still called my grandmother for years regarding him and how his side of the family couldn’t find him at times.
I found pictures in a shoebox of him holding me when I was less than a year old. (Writing on the back of the pics with dates)
He left a letter with his sister years later for me that got to me. I read it and threw it in the garbage. And was never able to meet him.
I agree some women (mothers) lie but there are alot of guys that become fathers that should not.
…but there are alot of guys that become fathers that should not.
I’m glad I didn’t become a father: I probably would have been incapable of handling it and created another miserable human being.
Thats intriguing. As well as many that shouldnt have been fathers…
there are many that should have been but will never… and humanity is worse for both these problems.It sucks how this one little root cause, denial of sexual dimorphism, leads to an entire tree of disarray, with every branch and leaf a sociological catastrophe. Its all a giant Ripple effect of perpetual sh!t
I’m glad I didn’t become a father: I probably would have been incapable of handling it and created another miserable human being.
Thats intriguing. As well as many that shouldnt have been fathers…
If I were a biological father I couldn’t deal with the guilt of bringing another human into this shhit-hole of a world. Adopting a kid would’ve been as close as I would come to being a Dad…
this shhit-hole of a world.
this world is what you make of it. There are plenty of situations where we could all have been Dads under the most ideal conditions, and raised kids who loved life and did well.
The black pill is hyperbole sometimes, or else Id just get drunk, take a hot bath and slit my wrists….
if the Black Pill was totally true… why wouldnt I? Iam an atheist afterall… So this life and this world isnt so bad that life isnt worth it, so bring a kid into it is not that bad…
I want marriage. I want a few kids too. I dont do it because one, I am poor as fvck. Two, women are backstabbing idiots [thats reason 2a] with the entire state behind them ready to either imprison me [2b] or make me a financial slave for 20 years [2c]
On top of all this, and probably more to the real reason Im single, its my personality. I simply wont take sh!t off a woman, you know, her running her mouth at me and making demands. Im insubordinate to women’s wannabe authority. I used to get suspended from school EVERY year atleast once or twice from grade 3 thru grade 10, no lie! It was because there was inevitably some female teacher or assistant principle who would tell me to do something, and I would flat our refuse. And when she pressed the point, Id either run out of the school or curse her out. LOL
Its funny that I never thought I was like this. I honestly saw myself as friendly and nice to women, but had bad luck getting a girlfriend. The truth is that I have always been fiercely independent and am disinterested in wasting my time on the ribbon and tape that you have to fool with to get at the Front Hole…
I pretty much kept my nose to the grindstone and followed the rules. Professional success was just following the rules. But when I put my foot down and told a female manager to stop bullying me, I was out of the house like gas through a funnel. My career ended in an hour.
But it f~~~ed with my head and I made sure those asshole feminists at work had to pay for abusing me. So, I retired on a psych disability with full non-taxable 100% work related disabled disability check to supplement my already pretty retirement.
I retired at 51. I couldn’t have planned it better if I tried.
All by following the rules at work.
#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.
if the Black Pill was totally true… why wouldnt I? Iam an atheist afterall… So this life and this world isnt so bad that life isnt worth it, so bring a kid into it is not that bad…
Did you read up on Antinatalism ? Sums up how bringing a new being into existence is immoral. Haha, just a thought.
Did you read up on Antinatalism ? Sums up how bringing a new being into existence is immoral.
I’d like to hear arguments on how being born is somehow better than never having existed at all. How do people ethically justify bringing another person into this world???
“Some of the earliest surviving formulations of the idea that it would be better not to have been born come from ancient Greece.”
Did you read up on Antinatalism ? Sums up how bringing a new being into existence is immoral.
I’d like to hear arguments on how being born is somehow better than never having existed at all. How do people ethically justify bringing another person into this world???
http://www.vhemt.org/Just another one of their delusions. *wink*
Did you read up on Antinatalism ? Sums up how bringing a new being into existence is immoral.
I’d like to hear arguments on how being born is somehow better than never having existed at all. How do people ethically justify bringing another person into this world???
“Some of the earliest surviving formulations of the idea that it would be better not to have been born come from ancient Greece.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
http://www.vhemt.org/Just another one of their delusions. *wink*
Just another one of their delusions.
Well if we negate the religious angle, there really doesn’t seem to be a rational reason for us humans to continue to procreate. I found the Antinatalism thing most interesting. I now wonder how many people there might be who would actually agree with it. I suspect that it’s another one of those ‘taboo’ subjects that most proponents would tend to remain silent about…
I vehemently oppose Antinatalism.
its a sophomoric philosophy for the emotionally unhealthy
im surprised to see you gents falling for such petty nihilistic bullcrap
morals and values…. find some, figure out why you have them. Figure out why we have them as a species. Embrace what we are, or be lost, confused depressed and eventually suicidal… its that simple.
Read The Moral Landscape. Fvcking read it. Don’t watch youtube, buy the god damn book.
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