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By: b-166er

b-166er — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:33:52 +0000

Fantasia
August 18th, 2012 at 1:46 am
Yup, with many PUA-type or conquest bragging posts I can barely get beyond the first paragraph because they usually reek of an exercise in creative writing as opposed to a real life experience.
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In addition, don’t forget that to one extent or another, all blogs are “moderated”. Unless you’ve had a comment blocked and/or deleted, you have no idea what information is being withheld from you?

The real world will always trump the web because of your lack of ability to control the behavior of the people in it.

On the web, you can train an Afghan and give him a gun, and he will fight the Taliban.

But in the real world, he might take that gun and use it to shoot you.

Everything on the internet is managed. Sure, the truth slips through from time to time… but even then, most people reject it because its black and ugly.

The more popular a site is, the less truth is being revealed.

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By: Fantasia

Fantasia — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:46:44 +0000

Yup, with many PUA-type or conquest bragging posts I can barely get beyond the first paragraph because they usually reek of an exercise in creative writing as opposed to a real life experience. With many of them being impossible to verify as they are in, or claim to be in, some obscure or even mainstream spots far, far away from any chance encounter with their core Western audience.

By: Drak_ool

Drak_ool — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:02:53 +0000

Definitely agree that theory alone is useless. On the other hand, simply “doing it” (aka Naturals), without any theoretical basis, is fine as long as you are getting the girls you want.

As far as posting FRs, I agree with you that you can always doubt the OP. Unless he posts videos of the pick up, then videos of the follow up, then videos of the bang, you will never know. Even just posting pics of the girls doesn’t mean much, I could be copying and pasting thousands of pics from chicks on facebook all day long.

There is one aspect of the manosphere though that does contradict your premise: the simple fact that in each forum, there are so many KJs who NEVER post FRs, yet have 1,000+ posts totals. Obviously these guys spend a lot of time on the forums, yet they don’t feel the need to make up fake FRs. This gives me a certain level of trust in the posters who actually write up FRs, not to speak of the posters who maintain approach journals, something I was never able to accomplish myself over an extended period of time due to time constraints.

By: YaReally

YaReally — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:13:00 +0000

@Solo

Agree completely with everything you wrote, including the assessment of the communities at the end.

It’s hard for people now to understand how much field experience was stressed back in the underground days. Theorists (aka certain regular commenters in the manosphere who very clearly don’t go out) were laughed at if they didn’t rigorously test their controversial theories.

Part of why I hit Heartiste and this blog is that both authors writing jives with game concepts. Even if they aren’t out in the field testing it, what they’re saying doesn’t contradict it.

By: Michael of Charlotte

Michael of Charlotte — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:02:07 +0000

Ahh, I gotcha’ Mike C. I must admit, I haven’t been following that thread at all. I suppose that makes sense. Mark gave a much better response that I could so I’ll leave it at that.

…and wait to buy Rollo’s book.