Some thoughts on The Return, a thread: This was Emily Wilson’s Telemachus and PTSD Odysseus. It was not over the top, but be prepared for something different.

Bronze Age Pervert, Gigachad, Wyatt and Wilson’s Iliad
Anti-vax, coal burner tax, New York Post word for blacks
Women on the podcast scene, Joe Biden’s eating ice cream
Haitians eating cats in town, Baltimore bridge falling down Tranñies in the magazines, MAGA’s got a drag queen
Elon’s Grokkin’, Twitter ban, Nick Fuentes, Trust the Plan!
Sol Brah, Raw Eggs, the ADL, Greenblatt
Ray Peat, Send Tweet, Trouble in the Group Chat!

Lmao there are women on youtube doing reviews of Blood Meridian, a thread: “You can practically smell the piles of corpses as you read this book.”

In honor of 20k, I will now do a thread of iconic Slim Aarons photographs.

He was a photographer wounded during WW2 and dedicated his life to photographing only “beautiful people in beautiful places doing beautiful things.”

Hopefully will bless the TL from the Haitian cannibals Socialite C.Z. Guest and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest by the pool on their Palm Beach estate, Villa Artemis

Twas the night before Floydmas, when all through downtown
Not a creature was stirring, not even a brown;
The bananas were hung in the bodega with care,
In hopes that St. Floyd soon would be there The niggas were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of Fent danced in their heads
And mamma in her flatbill and I in my cap
Had just settled our brains for a long drunken nap
When out in the city there arose such a clatter
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter

Mrs. Cimmerian signed us up for a dinner party tonight. I am bringing nice wines, will over-consume, and inevitably CHIMP OUT (women love it when you do this).

A small thread on the origin and technique of my verbal expositions. My wife talks about my men’s group pretty often and explains that women are excluded. This has led to quite a few feminist-types getting quite irritated. So I started doing this by explaining why women cannot be in men’s spaces (they make it about themselves or turn it into a sexual competition). You’ve seen the meme.

The Birds of Christmas, a thread: One, a partridge

A ubiquitous companion in the British countryside, intimately connected to how we use the land.

19th c. Poet John Clare:

“ Oft frighted up they startle to the shade
Of neighbouring wood and through the yellow leaves
Drop wearied where the brakes and ferns hath made
A solitary covert – that deceives
For there the fox prowls its unnoticed round
And danger dares them on every ground.”

I am not fleeing the system of Academia like some sort of Luddite, I am in the system.

When i tell you that the vast majority of these people are worthless, I mean it.

https://twitter.com/JamieJPost/status/1693393059076005899

Here’s how it works in hiring:

Over 50% of the Ph.D.s that I interview are pajeets.

Almost none of them can spit over their own chin.

The first thing I do is look up their published works. If they are not published they should not have graduated anyway.

From time to time, a voice will call out of the darkness, extending their hand for help. Will you answer?

A co-worker, severely obese (290 or so) came to me asking, “how do I look like you? What do I need to do?”

I trained him, and he’s down to 215 — here is what I learned: First off, my primary goal is self-sufficiency. Give the man the tools he needs to escape the deathcare system.

I refuse to train people forever. Personal training is a scam.

HOW STEAL SOMEONE’S GIRLFRIEND: A thread Everyone knows that all the goddesses are beautiful. There’s nothing wrong with them. That leaves you, a single Prince of Troy with a desire to cause strife, and claim the most beautiful woman in the world, with only one option: select Aphrodite as the most beautiful.

As a celebration of 7K, I will do a retrospective of this thread I did last year on my success in founding a men’s group:

https://twitter.com/cimmerian_v/status/1463182982135500806

We are past the two year mark of this group with 100% of the original members still remaining. This will be a thread of some of the things I’ve learned along the way.

Tonight is this month’s meeting of this same men’s group. We will discuss Shakespeare play, CORIOLANUS on recommendation from @KingBolingbroke — there will sure be some banger takes from the group tonight. I will post them here.

https://twitter.com/cimmerian_v/status/1463182982135500806

Most of the group tried to compare Coriolanus to modern day figures. We heard Eisenhower, Patton…men of martial prowess that couldn’t navigate civilian government…to Trump and others. But nothing really fit.

Hear me out: Georgia Guidestones…but we built them (it’s ok when we do it) Maintain humanity under 500,000,000?

Thread —> I stole another man’s woman and made her my wife. My city was sacked and the earth salted because of it. Post wedding of Peleus, did some Judging. Unimpressive goddesses.

Picked the prettiest one, gave her a golden apple. Phrygian cap on DNGAF.

Made eye contact with a pretty young Spartan princess. She didn’t look away.

I have always found the second part of Carmina Burana quite interesting:

Fortune rota volvitur;
descendo minoratus;
alter in altum tollitur;
nimis exaltatus
rex sedet in vertice
caveat ruinam!
nam sub axe legimus
Hecubam reginam. The wheel of Fortune turns;
I go down, demeaned;
another is carried to the height;
far too high up
sits the king at the summit –
let him beware ruin!
for under the axle we read:
Queen Hecuba.

I was joined in my squat session yesterday by my 72 year old neighbor (he did 3x10 at 95). He is a caretaker and was considering moving due to lack of mobility and ability to get up the stairs. I trained him and now they are not. I’m going to do a thread on training the elderly.

https://twitter.com/cimmerian_v/status/1491115199403016193

This man told me that he fell and could not get up. He had to crawl to something and pull himself up. This is bad news for the elderly. I have a nice home gym so I told him to report to me the next day.

“Look what they took from you!”

No, we gave it up. I don’t agree with everything he says, but this passage from Machiavelli’s Discourses sums it up perfectly. (II, ch. 2):

“In considering why all the peoples of ancient times were greater lovers of liberty than those of our… …own day, I believe this arises from the same cause that today makes men less strong, which I believe lies in the difference of our education of today and that of antiquity. For while our religion has shown us truth and the true path, it also makes us…

C# minor is a sparingly-used key, at least, until Moonlight Sonata, of course. Being minor, it is melancholic but it is a key of gritty determination in the face of adversity. Embodied perfectly by Rachmaninov’s Prelude and Piano Concerto No. 2…and of course Chopin…but I want to stay away from obvious ones and provide some lesser known examples.

We had our discussion of the Song of Roland last night. I will now to small thread on the topics that came up organically in the conversation around the text. I am starting to understand why unmoderated all-male spaces are actively subverted by the regime.

https://twitter.com/cimmerian_v/status/1463182982135500806

There was some discussion around the unifying thread of the works that we’ve read so far: STAND and FIGHT. There is no running from those who wish to do us harm. We will not be left alone. There is no choice, like Achilles, to return to Phthia to be an unknown farmer.

I will now do a thread on how to start a serious men’s group. The results of mine after over a year…we started as a book discussion group, but now everyone trains together periodically in the gym and on the range. It’s basically a safety squad at this point. I selected 12 men from my area based on social media. Not people that I had regular contact with but had evidence they were serious people.

I didn’t care about walk of life or political leaning.

Excessive politics posting? Out.
Funkopoop soyshit? Out.

You get the point.

Reading 1959 Boy Scout manual…holy shit it’s based. We should retvrn. It says if you read trash, you are trash. Lmao.

It also tells you to “improve your body by getting tan and lifting, throwing, running.”