The story of a hardcore MGTOW

[UltimaThuleParticipant 32]

Toivo Pylvänäinen (1894-1979) lived alone on a small island in the middle of the largest open body of water on the second largest lake in Finland for 45 years. Pylvänäinen worked as a foreman at a logging site in the 1930s when, rumor has it, he pulled a disappearing act after learning that he had got some secretary pregnant, going into full stealth mode immediately afterwards. He lived in a very modest cabin making a living by fishing and perfecting his lures. Even his relatives only got wind of his whereabouts after he had given a radio interview at the market square of the provincial capital 90 kms away in the 1970s.

Pylvänäinen and Lauri Rapala, the founder of Rapala corporation, a global market leader in lures, were friends and Rapala used to spend a lot of time at Pylvänäinen’s cabin drinking and perfecting lures with him. When Pylvänäinen got too old to make it at home, having burned himself when falling onto the stove in his sauna, he was taken to a nursing home. He is told have made a failed escape attempt where he first threw his boots out of an open window but failed to follow suit because of his frailty and very old age. Toivo Pylvänäinen’s life is a testament to the creative potential of a man going his own way.

Here’s the man himself in a film shot in 1976 visiting the island for the last time.

[Ned TrentParticipant 4894]

Impressive story.

I'd rather die a natual death with a clear MGTOW conscience somewhere off the grid than one within "modern" civilisation with a big stress mark on my forehead and a couple of dozen tubes plugged into my body. Back to the plantation..? Me..? Hey, literally: I won't ever fucking kid myself...YZERLMNTSIC

[Sky-OParticipant 18949]

Important lesson to note from this story.

MGTOW are not born omniscient and all knowing. We develop of philosophy and way of life after being exposed to the world.

And for most, like Toivo, we at one point taste the magical hole prior to launching off on our own. In his case: Going ghost was indirectly induced by having got a woman pregnant.

And realizing he didn’t want to be trapped for decades due to a previous journey inside her hole, he reclaimed his right to his own existence and disappeared.

[SkeptiskParticipant 3679]

Wow, he went level 4 MGTOW, this guy!! 🙂

"Expecting to find a decent woman on a dating site is like dumpster diving and expecting to come out with a gourmet meal." Won'tGetFooledAgain

[UltimaThuleParticipant 32]

Toivo Pylvänäinen grew up in a dirt-poor family with ten children. He had to leave home at the age of eleven and make a living on his own. My guess is that if it is true that he got a woman pregnant and that he became a ghost for that reason, the news of the pregnancy must have felt like seeing the gates of hell re-opening before his eyes.

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