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u/Aisha11 · 26 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

As an aside, this:

> This will almost guarantee low self esteem because we esteem ourselves for doing esteemable things--accomplishing things, meeting challenges and overcoming them, taking on difficult tasks and succeeding, having a job and paying your way through the world. At the point that you are lazy and don't like yourself very much it becomes really easy to isolate and end up picking up hobbies which tend to isolate you further (video games, obscure and obnoxious media like anime--the seizure-y Japanese cartoons). It becomes natural then to connect with online communities of similarly isolated folks: hence, neckbeard.

Is quite a traditionalist viewpoint which greatly underestimates the potential of the individual. Video games are constantly written off as wastes of time because they do not produce any quantifiable, real world products. But they do have their benefits in developing a person. I can almost guarantee that the games this guy is playing is something like World Of Warcraft/DoTA/miscellaneous fantasy role playing game. These games offer pretty much exactly these things: accomplishing things (levelling, questing), meeting challenges and overcoming them (combat), taking on difficult tasks and succeeding (raids), having a job (role play) and paying your way through the world (economy). Do not underestimate how hard those types of games are, and how skilled the best players are. The AVERAGE young person of today will play 10,000 hours of video games before they are 21. According to Malcolm Gladwell, that makes the average young adult an expert in video games. Imagine how much a person obsessed with games has played. Don't be mistaken in thinking that time would be spent in a state of constant overstimulation, either. There is a lot of hard, repetitive, frustrating, tedious graft involved. But it is pursued because there is a set goal for every action in these games. Every wild boar slain is verifiable as a step towards a greater goal. This is really hard to find in reality, where goals are often ambiguous or non-existent, and your personal progress is not easily judged.

I used to play a hell of a lot of video games in my teens. I wasn't exactly a layabout, I did work (at a mind-numbing job) 8 to 5 on weekdays. All of my spare time was sunk into games though. Honestly, I didn't play them for the sheer enjoyment of the gameplay. I played them because they provided a very obvious framework for personal improvement (albeit virtual) in which I was ALWAYS progressing. I was also one of those students that seemed to have great potential but little motivation. The motivation was lacking because there wasn't I never had that goal-setting and progression framework. I suspect this may be true for many young video game obsessives these days.

I discovered this after making a concerted effort towards getting into shape (I was under 130lbs at 6'1, underweight). I loved how direct the feedback is from working out. Every rep of the dumbbell burns the muscle you want it to. Every finished workout leaves your muscles pumped, and achey the next day. Every week the scales tip in your favour if you worked hard, or against you if you didn't really work (or eat right). This is EXACTLY how many hardcore games work, except they flash the feedback in your face every few minutes of play. With pretty graphic design. And with a congratulatory musical motif. And a badge. And a new piece of armour or weapon skin.

Translating the kind of affirmation framework that games offer into the real world is SO fucking valuable, especially for enlivening obsessive gamers. For me I became so involved with personal development in the real world that games kinda fell by the wayside. I still really enjoy playing. I just don't nearly as much because I also have other pursuits to be getting on with. This book is a fantastic read on the growing obsession with games, and how gamers can translate their in-game experiences into real world value.

u/Mmh63 · 1 pointr/justneckbeardthings

These are small books by Joseph Stalin on Marxist philosophy.

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

[Marxism and the National Question] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/149059065X/ref=rdr_ext_sb_ti_sims_2)

It's a popular argument on the internet that "communism has never been tried."

This is wrong. Communism has been attempted. Clearly, the largest attempt was not successful. Still, emerging governments all over the world attempt to create communist governments. In many cases, despite its failures, the theoretical outline of a communist government allows for the strongest case of independence from the largest ruling/imperial/colonial powers on earth (IE the united states). For this reason, people will continue to attempt to create communist influenced governments.

Edit: You don't seem to understand that I'm giving you an out here. I'm basically making every argument for you that you can still hold right political beliefs and not be default a nazi. I'm even fucking pointing out the history of anti-semitism in the communist party. I'm pointing out problems that communist governments have caused.

I'm not even trying to justify people like Chavez. I'm not bringing up that health care was universal under the soviets. I'm not talking about how Chavez oversaw the development of the best AIDS treatment program in the developing world. I'm not bringing up that his model was adopted practically all over the planet as the most affordable and effective plan for AIDS treatment.

All I'm trying to do is get you to understand that the Nazis were on the right. I'm not saying you're a Nazi. I've made the case for you to still hate progressives and communists and Marxists. All I'm trying to do is to get you to understand how the political compass is laid out. That's it.

u/doncolo · 3 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

As someone with his own self-esteem issues to work out, I found that this book came recommended highly. It's a long journey with lots of day by day, step by step mental work, but this seems to be one of the best resources someone could use to begin improving their mental state by themselves:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Six-Pillars-Self-Esteem-Definitive/dp/0553374397

I am about halfway through it. It was published in 1994 but the author seems to be the foremost pioneer in self-esteem. It's eye-opening how well he can explain some of the most complex issues we can face. For ten dollars, you must check it out.

u/SageWaterDragon · 14 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

I can't speak for most people, but when I went through my "I want to live in Japan" phase it was due to reading Confucius Lives Next Door, which is a book about how western culture can learn from eastern culture based on the author's experiences in Japan. It's a wonderful book, but reading responses to it (mostly surrounding the author's cherrypicking of the good elements while only spending a chapter talking about the bad) did balance out my viewpoint a lot.

u/ctenop · 1 pointr/justneckbeardthings

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Book-Magic-Antiquity-Enlightenment-Hardcover-Classics/0241198569

It is also a pretty nice looking book, plus a lot of chapters in the beginning are short and succinct, meaning it's easy to get into

u/hexthanatonaut · 2 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

I'm pretty sure the dude is disabled. This picture went around a while back. I think he also was like trying to sue Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande for not dating him or something.

Here he is, he also wrote a book

https://www.reddit.com/r/niceguys/comments/6502wq/guy_who_sued_taylor_swift_heartbroken_over_ariana/

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Sued-Taylor-Swift-Frivolous/dp/069297010X



edit: oh and this is apparently also him, but the name is blocked out so no way to know for sure

https://imgur.com/a/FR7YC

u/monocline · 27 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

Because I read a book called Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering

https://www.amazon.com/Perv-Sexual-Deviant-All-Us/dp/0374230897

u/armrha · 6 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

Fair enough. There is an interesting string of legal arguments to look over if you are curious. A good book on it is 'The Harm in Hate Speech' by Jeremy Waldron, covers many cases and international laws.

u/Tagget7889 · 6 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

Obviously people haven't read the "How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Natural Disasters" book.

Its real

u/letsclarify · 1 pointr/justneckbeardthings

I'd like to provide some information since it seems that the OP is the one who is engaging in revisionism here.

Here is the Wikipedia page about rape during the occupation of Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany

There is also a book written by a victim/eyewitness of these atrocities:

http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Berlin-Eight-Weeks-Conquered/dp/0312426119

Also, Red Army had a pattern of this behaviour, you can read more about Soviet atrocities here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes

I'm disgusted by the fact that OP is trying to pretend that these things didn't happen and brush it off to some "Nazi propaganda" (???).

Soviet Union was great at propaganda, and modern-day Russia is as well, judging by the fact how unaware Russian people seem to be about atrocities comitted by the Red Army, or Soviet Regime in general.

Please ignore the OP who is trying to whitewash history, and please pay attention to what the actual consensus among the historians is.

P.S. I don't understand the argument that pointing out well-documented atrocities comitted by the Soviets somehow downplays (victim-blames Soviet women???) the also well-documented atrocities comitted by the Nazis.

u/LazyHeckle · -11 pointsr/justneckbeardthings

You're allowed to make generalizations about biologically separate beings, like squirrels and fish. That's what biologists do.

The male and female brain are in fact different, and females are more emotional whereas men are more rational thinkers. 1.

This would logically lead to women (in general) being more prone to devote resources to the more unfortunate people of the world, regardless of the consequences of such actions.

And to be completely hospitable and generous to everyone all the time quite clearly could lead to negative consequences. You wouldn't let hoards of homeless people into your home to eat your food and sleep in your living room because some of them might be crazy or stupid or violent or thieves or something. Likewise, letting hoards of strangers (especially who come from countries where the crime rate is higher than your own) into your country can likely have negative consequences for your contrymen.

u/HaMMeReD · 1 pointr/justneckbeardthings

Neckbeards didn't learn those essentials, hence they need help. There aren't many books called "how to shave and not look like a fucking loser" and they aren't looking for how to clean up, they are looking how to meet women.

I just don't think it's good to stereotype, but I mostly agree. Anyone who calls themselves a PUA is likely a scumbag on the wrong side of things, but it doesn't mean that all the material is inherently evil, or being exposed to unethical ideas will turn you into a bad person.

Edit: Even the guy who wrote The Game (which is a pretty neutral view into the world of PUA's) wrote "The Truth" recently which was about how fucked up he got, and his slow road back to domestication and a healthy relationship.