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found the kalevala very underwhelming. it was almost entirely in the following formula:
Tärvälättajohoukinätäinenattara wanted to get the thing. Another person said "You can not have this thing unless you perform this absurdly impossible and completely nonsensical made up task!" and so tärvälättajohoukinätäinenattara sang a song to turn himself into a 6000 foot tall eagle with winds made out of the sea and did it.
repeat 100 times in a row. and sometimes it really is only a few sentences long, it's written in such a basic and immature way. i've heard that most stories and basically all fantastical stories were written like this before don quixote which makes me hesitant to read medieval literature
there's almost no real mythology in this, it's mostly a loose invented narrative to connect the events of a bunch of poems together. there's no information on the gods and godesses outside of their names and what they're the god of. i was really hoping to know more about them and i was interested in mielikki, vellamo and terhenetär the most but i didn't come out of the book knowing anything more than before i read it. suonetar would be a very interesting character to learn more about as i want to know what exactly being the "goddess of veins" entails, but that's ALL that you get from the book. her name is suonetar and she is the goddess of veins. someone's veins need to be reattached and she is mentioned in passing, someone's veins get ripped out and she is mentioned in passing. that's it.
i did like that the heroes in the story aren't good people and are shown to be arrogant, overly prideful, childishly tempered and prone to idiotic mistakes. i found the story of kullervo particularly unexpected in how it's set up to be a really typical and obvious "you killed my parents... and now i must kill you!" story but then he goes jocker mode on a herculean level and blames everybody but himself for a situation he was clearly capable of solving but had given himself a slave mindset, with a vaguely valid excuse that does not at all cover the lengths he went to.
however i'd also want to know how that story was perceived morally at the time, considering that finland was under russia's control at the time and how this book kickstarted finnish nationalism and probably indirectly caused the civil war, especially considering how vile both the white terror and red terror acted in the name of their own country
Tärvälättajohoukinätäinenattara wanted to get the thing. Another person said "You can not have this thing unless you perform this absurdly impossible and completely nonsensical made up task!" and so tärvälättajohoukinätäinenattara sang a song to turn himself into a 6000 foot tall eagle with winds made out of the sea and did it.
repeat 100 times in a row. and sometimes it really is only a few sentences long, it's written in such a basic and immature way. i've heard that most stories and basically all fantastical stories were written like this before don quixote which makes me hesitant to read medieval literature
there's almost no real mythology in this, it's mostly a loose invented narrative to connect the events of a bunch of poems together. there's no information on the gods and godesses outside of their names and what they're the god of. i was really hoping to know more about them and i was interested in mielikki, vellamo and terhenetär the most but i didn't come out of the book knowing anything more than before i read it. suonetar would be a very interesting character to learn more about as i want to know what exactly being the "goddess of veins" entails, but that's ALL that you get from the book. her name is suonetar and she is the goddess of veins. someone's veins need to be reattached and she is mentioned in passing, someone's veins get ripped out and she is mentioned in passing. that's it.
i did like that the heroes in the story aren't good people and are shown to be arrogant, overly prideful, childishly tempered and prone to idiotic mistakes. i found the story of kullervo particularly unexpected in how it's set up to be a really typical and obvious "you killed my parents... and now i must kill you!" story but then he goes jocker mode on a herculean level and blames everybody but himself for a situation he was clearly capable of solving but had given himself a slave mindset, with a vaguely valid excuse that does not at all cover the lengths he went to.
however i'd also want to know how that story was perceived morally at the time, considering that finland was under russia's control at the time and how this book kickstarted finnish nationalism and probably indirectly caused the civil war, especially considering how vile both the white terror and red terror acted in the name of their own country
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I completely read roosh v's old pua books "bang" and "day bang",
Did i need to read 600 pages of books to understand how to talk to women, was it really necessary for my development of this social skill? Yes, for the first time in my life a month ago I told a woman I liked her, something most boys do in middle school I delayed until my 20s, but once I did it once I could do it again with ease, and It feels very rewarding to be able to do something most men are afraid of and cannot do without being inebriated and with loud music blasting, totally stone cold sober. In summary of the books in bang he tells you to be over confident in bars and clubs, to kind of jester a little bit, etc, then try 2 bang the hoe the same night via switching venue to make her think she has known u for longer, then escalate touching (he has a whole autistic guide on when to do which touches and where and how to gauge reaction), etc untill shes in ur bed, funniest line was he said if shes not letting u in her apartment say u have to pee (lmaooo) to get in, it works every time.
In day bang its totally diff, to try to rizz hoes at daytime he reccommends "elderly game" aka how old people try to talk to you in public, open with a question relating to something in the shared enviorment and then follow up by rambling for 5 minutes minimum about whatever thing u opened on, as you ramble spice it up with "bait" related to yourself to get her to ask a personal question about you "when I went on a road trip I lost my phone" she could ask where or how u lost ur phone etc if u opened on her phone "Excuse me, is that a good phone?" follow up rambling about different phone models, showing u r not a rpaist and more like an old man, etc. then after like a plesent 15 minute conversation where she intiates more personal questions secure her # and peace out, then refer to bang for text rizz (it dosent exsist, u just try 2 get the hoe on a first date thats it) then u get first date rizz where he just says 2 go somewhere neaturalll like a coffe shop and then venue swap 2 a chill bar to get her a little inebriated then intiate physical escalation by touching her hand w.e, then try 2 get her 2 ur crib, on first date u can display more rizz because she will b more relaxed then when shes buying clothes whereever, so then u just try 2 secure the bang, he says if shes goes on a first date it just becomes a question of how many dates u need 2 slog thru b4 she gives up the gooey hole. so just labor thru it as long as it takes like farming lvl 1 slime it can give good exp with enough time. if ur ego isnt tied up in it and shes just another girl 2 u it becomes a lot more fun 2 practice new lines and see how far u can push it. really ur just trying 2 get her alone in ur or her room and then just spam makeout button and moving ur hands on her body 2 more and more sexual parts till ur banging, so W tbh. didnt seem complicated past the cold approach farming venues (coffe shop, clotheing stores, w.e women do) and text + first date.
Cold approach most giga chad way to show that u dgaf about what women think about you,, it is "creep" or "weirdo" behaviour if u fail kinda, so if ur pressed by made up social standards enforced by retarded women u cannot cold approach, so I think day game is best quickest way to overcome innate fear of female social consensus, and once done it is like the final capstone of social skills, idk, im leaning towards concubine better than porn jerking tbh, jerking without porn prob bttr 2 relieave sexual tension but who can keep up jerkin without porn, not me, so I pursure concubine, and unfourtunatly we live in a co-ed soyciety and u will have to interact with women so being able to talk 2 them is W. idk im prob coping
Did i need to read 600 pages of books to understand how to talk to women, was it really necessary for my development of this social skill? Yes, for the first time in my life a month ago I told a woman I liked her, something most boys do in middle school I delayed until my 20s, but once I did it once I could do it again with ease, and It feels very rewarding to be able to do something most men are afraid of and cannot do without being inebriated and with loud music blasting, totally stone cold sober. In summary of the books in bang he tells you to be over confident in bars and clubs, to kind of jester a little bit, etc, then try 2 bang the hoe the same night via switching venue to make her think she has known u for longer, then escalate touching (he has a whole autistic guide on when to do which touches and where and how to gauge reaction), etc untill shes in ur bed, funniest line was he said if shes not letting u in her apartment say u have to pee (lmaooo) to get in, it works every time.
In day bang its totally diff, to try to rizz hoes at daytime he reccommends "elderly game" aka how old people try to talk to you in public, open with a question relating to something in the shared enviorment and then follow up by rambling for 5 minutes minimum about whatever thing u opened on, as you ramble spice it up with "bait" related to yourself to get her to ask a personal question about you "when I went on a road trip I lost my phone" she could ask where or how u lost ur phone etc if u opened on her phone "Excuse me, is that a good phone?" follow up rambling about different phone models, showing u r not a rpaist and more like an old man, etc. then after like a plesent 15 minute conversation where she intiates more personal questions secure her # and peace out, then refer to bang for text rizz (it dosent exsist, u just try 2 get the hoe on a first date thats it) then u get first date rizz where he just says 2 go somewhere neaturalll like a coffe shop and then venue swap 2 a chill bar to get her a little inebriated then intiate physical escalation by touching her hand w.e, then try 2 get her 2 ur crib, on first date u can display more rizz because she will b more relaxed then when shes buying clothes whereever, so then u just try 2 secure the bang, he says if shes goes on a first date it just becomes a question of how many dates u need 2 slog thru b4 she gives up the gooey hole. so just labor thru it as long as it takes like farming lvl 1 slime it can give good exp with enough time. if ur ego isnt tied up in it and shes just another girl 2 u it becomes a lot more fun 2 practice new lines and see how far u can push it. really ur just trying 2 get her alone in ur or her room and then just spam makeout button and moving ur hands on her body 2 more and more sexual parts till ur banging, so W tbh. didnt seem complicated past the cold approach farming venues (coffe shop, clotheing stores, w.e women do) and text + first date.
Cold approach most giga chad way to show that u dgaf about what women think about you,, it is "creep" or "weirdo" behaviour if u fail kinda, so if ur pressed by made up social standards enforced by retarded women u cannot cold approach, so I think day game is best quickest way to overcome innate fear of female social consensus, and once done it is like the final capstone of social skills, idk, im leaning towards concubine better than porn jerking tbh, jerking without porn prob bttr 2 relieave sexual tension but who can keep up jerkin without porn, not me, so I pursure concubine, and unfourtunatly we live in a co-ed soyciety and u will have to interact with women so being able to talk 2 them is W. idk im prob coping
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bro pls source this is awesome
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