The Hangover

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I woke up at 6:33 in the morning with a raging, pounding headache. I jumped out of bed and nearly missed making it to the toilet. All the shit that I had imbibed came back up in a rush. My stomach clenched and heaved, forcing the contents out.

My legs were shaky and it was a miracle that I was able to stand. I staggered to the sink to wash the bile from my mouth. I looked into my own bloodshot eyes as I cupped water from my hands into my mouth. A six day old corpse looked better.

I flushed the toilet before staggering back into the bedroom, the smell of vomit and last night’s, whatever, was potent. My stomach fluttered at the smell.

Goddammit, I need to quit doing this. I can’t keep doing this. Something has got to give. Enough is enough. I keep going at this rate I’m either going to overdose and die, or I’m going to put a gun to my head and pull the trigger. This shit has got to stop.

Jumbled words and sentences swirl in my mind, voices screaming gibberish in the dark. It’s maddening.

“Semen retention!” “Alpha!” “Don’t lean in bro!” “Tell your son this!” “My legacy!” “I only bang 9’s and 10’s!” “Just lift!” “Keto!” “Carnivore!” “Feminism!” “Toxic masculinity!” “A real man!” “Save the west!” “In a society!” “Don’t call her immediately, wait a few days before you call her…”

Black coffee…

Cold showers…

I felt my stomach lurch and I sprinted to the bathroom, but this time I didn’t quite make it. The vomit splattered on my bare feet as it hit the floor.

Fucking guys.

Dumb assholes who don’t know anything about anything acting like they know everything about something. Fucking spergs.

You don’t really want to do anything except masturbate. It’s clear now that’s all you want to do. You want credit for something you haven’t done and probably never will. You want a participation trophy just for showing up.

You want that magic pill or that magic bullet that will magically make you… Whatever it is that you think you want to be. The problem is twofold though.

One. There is no magic bullet that will magically make you do or be anything.

Two. You don’t even know what you want. Except to jack off and waste both yours and my time.

I think you’re just mad. And possibly a little insane. You’re mad that things didn’t work out like your mom told you they would. She lied to you. That girl, that special one, that little prize on the pier lied to you too. She’s just like all the other girls. That’s what you tell yourself and what you say to me.

Newsflash: I don’t care. Tell it to someone who does. Go jerk off somewhere else, I don’t have time for your horseshit.

You have all of the information in the world right at your fingertips and yet you don’t want to do the work. Guess what? You get to burn. I realize now that you don’t really want solutions, you just want to masturbate and have someone pat you on the back.

A sheep in search of a shepherd is going to be slaughtered. Might as well be you. Better you than me. Besides, nothing has quite the taste like bitter tears. Your tears. Filling up my glass. I’ll toast your health as I down it. Better that than the pablum that you’ve been issuing from your sewage-hole called a mouth.

I’m not going to block you on social media. Oh no. That would be a trophy to you. “Did you see what that weesh guy did! He blocked me! What a sensitive asshole! LOL!”

I’ll just mute you. That way you’ll shut the fuck up.

You go on and on and on, typing your drivel on your keyboard for the other dipshits that follow you, and honestly, you remind me of my ex-wife. She wouldn’t shut the fuck up either.

A feminized man getting his fix from outrage and revenge porn, talking nonsense about saving the west and not jerking off. You sound just like the women that you hate. Oh I know, you claim you don’t hate them, and yet you do. You carry on about them like they are a scourge and how they “deserve” what they get. You’re fingering your own asshole the whole time.

I thought I disliked you, but I was wrong. Dislike is a strong word in this case. I actually pity you. I pity you because all you want to do is jerk off on your keyboard with nonsense, rationalizations, and excuses. You don’t want to do the work, you just want to be mad. So stay mad, I don’t care.

I’m going to do what I did when I did readings. I’m going to agree with you from now on and tell you what you want to hear. I’m going to bullshit you. I’m going to lie to you. I’m going to do it with a smile on my lips and a twinkle in my eye. You wanted it, you’re going to get it. After that I’m going to mute you so I don’t ever have to hear from you again. I’ll never see another word that you write again. It’s going to be such a relief.

What do you know? I’m feeling better already. The hangover from your bullshit is receding. The headache is gone and I think I can eat something and keep it down now.

I’ve got to go, I’ve got vomit to clean up. I need to take a shower and shave. Then maybe some lunch or something. After that, I’m off to get some sex.

Have a great day!

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When Binary Goes Bad…

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I had a conversation with a guy the other day who chooses anonymity online for a variety of reasons. One of them apparently is that he doesn’t look a “certain way.” That got me thinking…

We judge a book by its cover, it’s just the way it is. If you are going to preach a certain way, you had better know what you are talking about if you want to be taken seriously. Those that do know will find out eventually. This guy knows a lot of things about a lot of subjects. If I had to hazard a guess, a lot of his wisdom and knowledge he has gained through the “school of hard knocks.” He’s lived it and he’s lived through it.

It’s a damn shame that he hasn’t come out of anonymity. I for one would like to know what he looks like. Not to judge him and think he’s a fraud and a phony, and to point out discrepancies, but to look upon him as another Man, a peer, and hopefully one day, to call him a friend. The more interactions I’ve had with him, the more I want to sit down with him and have a beer and talk shit. The guy has had life experiences, a lot of them I recognize because I have had similar ones.

Binary is a bad thing because life isn’t binary. Nothing is truly black or white. Nothing is completely either/or. Sometimes “and” shows up. Sometimes it’s not either/or, but both. A lot of guys who have binary thinking are missing the nuance. Life is nothing but nuance really.

What works for me may not work for you at all. One woman may find me to be irresistible. Another right behind her may find me to be insufferable. I “opened” them with the exact same “lines and phrases.” I used the same tonality and as far as I know, I used the same body language. Why did it “work” on one and not the other?

Truth? Who really knows. That’s nuance. All I can say is that one was receptive while the other one was not. I succeeded and I failed all within a few moments.

Binary thinking on one end would say that my “system” was a roaring success, but that same thinking on the other end would say that it was a complete failure and doesn’t work. That’s what I’m seeing a lot of these days. Guys getting to the granular level with things that when taken to that level of granularity, lose their context. They lose their nuance. Like I said a paragraph or so ago, everything is nuance. Seduction is nothing but nuance.

Taking nutrition advice from a guy who is morbidly obese is probably not a good idea. But does that guy need to be absolutely “shredded and jacked?” I don’t necessarily believe so.

Taking dating advice from a guy who isn’t necessarily attractive may seem like a bad thing to do, but then again, what’s his track record? I’m not just talking about pure, raw numbers here. Plenty of guys can buy pussy. How does he interact with women? History is full of examples of men that were not attractive by any means, nor were they tall, or wealthy, or even necessarily fit, but women loved them and flocked to them.

Taking financial advice from a guy, just because he has money may not be in your best interest. How did he come about attaining his money? Did he inherit it? Did he walk into a bank and point a gun at the teller? Did the money fall off the back of an armored truck? Nuance. Binary thinking would lead you to believe that just because the guy has money, he knows how to make money.

Just because a guy is old enough to be your father doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It doesn’t necessarily make his thoughts and rationale outdated. Dig deeper keeping context in mind and look for the nuance. Yes it takes time and it takes work. It takes energy and it takes critical thinking, and it won’t all happen immediately. Just like life itself, nothing usually comes easily or quickly.

Learn to get out of binary thinking. Learn that everything eventually is nuance. Learn this lesson or you get to burn. Learn that it’s okay that you want to judge a book by its cover, but maybe, just maybe, once you’ve judged that book by its cover, maybe instead of putting it down and walking away from it, maybe it might be worth your time to read a few paragraphs of the first chapter. Maybe give it a quick skim before moving on.

Or stay locked in your on/off binary line of thinking, I don’t care. All I can say is that it will be your loss and that lost opportunity may never come around to you again.

To you Good Sir, the one I had the conversation with.. I hope you read this, I hope this finds its way to you. I hope one day to see your face and to be able to sit down and have a drink with you and talk about life. I think that we have a lot in common.

Here’s to one day. Cheers.

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“Hold My Beer…”

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When we talk about men versus other men, we are talking about intrasexual competition. We are guys, we like to brag, to boast, and to compete. You all are with me so far right?

What if it all sums up to:

“Dude, hold my beer.”

A guy goes online and mentions/brags that he just got laid.

Inevitably another guy sees this and..

Dude! Hold my beer!

“I ONLY bang 9’s and 10’s Brah!”

Another guy goes online and mentions that he’s happily married with children.

Hold my beer…

“I’m happily married with children too AND a side of JESUS!”

A third guy talks about working out.

Hold my beer…

“Dude! I just benchpressed a Mack truck!”

A final guy talks about firearms and getting into “prepping.”

Hold my beer…

“Dude I own a HK-AR-AK-4792FS! I have a DECADE of supplies in my thermonuclear-proof, heavy duty, solid-steel and concrete Fort Knox of a bunker, two and a half miles underground under my house! And I just cranked out 40,000 rounds of 45 ACP, 100k of 7.62 full metal heat seeking missles, all while fixing my 1/2 ton while banging my wife of 35 years who is only 22 and happens to be a soft 9, impregnating her with our 7th son! What the fuck have you done you fucking loser?!”

Hold my beer indeed.

Power Dad’s and Mommy bloggers are just saying hold my beer.

Guys pointing at green lines on pictures of guys leaning in are just saying “Hold my beer! Look how straight and fucking narrow I stand!”

I’ve mentioned to a couple of people who stumbled onto the ‘Sphere that it’s like going back to high school and peeking into the boy’s locker room. Lots of bravado, chest thumping, bragging, and outright lies. But I actually think it’s more like going camping and hanging around the campfire and getting drunk and then Billy decides to jump through the fire to get a few laughs and to show how “brave” he is.

Of course Wade can’t be outdone, so it’s “Hold my beer…”

The next thing you know Wade is naked from the waist down other than his boots, his ball hairs just got singed off, and he has a first or second degree burn on his sac.

That’s what the ‘Sphere is. Come to think of it, that’s pretty much what all of Twitter is.

“Dude! Hold my beer…”

The next time your favorite “guru” decides to run at the mouth, throw that phrase in front of whatever he said. See if I’m wrong. Check the replies too. Lot’s of guys telling other guys to hold their beers.

Keep this in mind when you decide if you want to believe in whatever shit they are shoveling.

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