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Anonymous Sat May 7 16:25:22 2022 No.20336480 [Reply] [Original]

>The male figure here, as all the world over, is notably superior amongst the lower mammals, to that of the female. The latter is a system of soft, curved, and rounded lines, graceful, but meaningless and monotonous. The former far excels it in variety of form and in nobility of make, in strength of bone and in suppleness of muscle and sinew. In these lands, where all figures are semi-nude, the exeeding difference between the sexes strikes the eye at once. There will be a score of fine male figures to one female, and there she is, as everywhere else, as inferior as is the Venus de’ Medici to the Apollo Belvedere.
>Captain Sir Richard Burton - Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains
>https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8wQb1T8dMCUC&pg=PA110-IA1&dq=In+Abeokuta+and+the+Camaroons+Mountains&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
Was he right bros? No homo.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 16:27:44 2022 No.20336494 >>20336480 bent

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 18:19:03 2022 No.20337029 >>20336480 Burton was one of the few human beings to ever live.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 22:06:40 2022 No.20338063 >>20337029 The rest are NPCs?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 22:51:35 2022 No.20338207 noodle arms could never overpower a woman LOL

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 23:00:20 2022 No.20338227 >>20338063 Since the death of Alexander the Great, yes, more or less.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 23:16:12 2022 No.20338285 File: 1.92 MB, 1532x742, rg1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20338227

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 23:41:14 2022 No.20338355 Attractive females are a dime a dozen. Truly well-sculpted males are a rarity worthy of applauding

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 23:53:16 2022 No.20338385 >>20336480 Baste homo

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 23:54:33 2022 No.20338390 >>20338285 >your name shall be remembered in history b-but I had children!!!! Cope

>>	Anonymous Sat May 7 23:54:52 2022 No.20338391 >>20338285 holy reddit Batman!

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 00:04:11 2022 No.20338411 >>20338391 >Tell the truth >Hear an advertisement for some other bulletin board site This is a spam bot. Flag these things for the jannies when you see them

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Anonymous Sun May 8 00:09:55 2022 No.20338428

>>20338285
Psychopathy and high intelligence are virtually indistinguishable. Reality is like a game of chess: how intelligent you are perceived to be, which is indistinguishable from how intelligent you actually are, is totally dependent simply on how far ahead of the other players you're capable of thinking, rather than some absolute measurement of thought which we've never been capable of quantifying. This is the reason you'll notice a huge amount of successful scientists and other thinkers are diagnosed psychopaths.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 00:13:21 2022 No.20338436 >>20338428 >Psychopathy and high intelligence are virtually indistinguishable No. Not at all. In no way whatsoever.

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Anonymous Sun May 8 00:28:38 2022 No.20338481

>>20338285
I don't see how that makes the typical NPC more laudable. Great men follow their own megalomaniac delusions till it breaks them, while NPC normie types are content to spend their whole life battling for a spot in the pecking order of whatever small niche they're born into. Is one more vain than the other, or does it just demonstrate a greater overall intelligence and ambition?

I've never seen any measurable quantifiable reason to believe that normies are actually better human beings. In most cases, these people are the first to turn on someone in need, to gossip, and to lie, and it's only once you point out the general hypocrisy and egotism underlying most human interactions that they suddenly become defensive and angry, throwing around accusations of cruelty and cynicism.

If we are going to consider morality as anything more than a popularity contest among hypocrites then your definition of psychopathy falls short. At least great acts, even ones that result in tragedy or spectacular violence, have a chance of impressing God.

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Anonymous Sun May 8 02:24:17 2022 No.20338733
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>>20338227
What do you think of his involvement with the freemasons, along with other adventurers of the time? Can they still help an individual to live to the full, or are they just a club for dusty old men now?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 06:35:06 2022 No.20339390 >>20338428 there is no such thing as a diagnosed psychopath

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 06:40:05 2022 No.20339411 File: 524 KB, 471x812, rgep.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20338390

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 06:41:59 2022 No.20339418 File: 1.10 MB, 1456x427, rg2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20338481

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 07:03:14 2022 No.20339490 File: 78 KB, 563x760, soft.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20336480 But he looks soft, curved, with rounded lines, and graceful in a twink kind of way.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 07:07:35 2022 No.20339509 >>20338227 Wait until you learn about this guy called Napoleon

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Anonymous Sun May 8 07:18:11 2022 No.20339542

>>20339418
>be julius
>get captured by pirates
>become good friends with them
>play sports etc
>one day write a poem
>read it too the pirates
>pirates gently mock you
>mock them back saying "you are all barbarians when I am free again I will have you all crucified" lol
>pirates laugh it off
>your ransom gets paid
>you are free
>proceed to buy large fleet of ships
>then you return and crucify every last pirates

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 08:31:35 2022 No.20339718 File: 51 KB, 503x93, rg3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20339542

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 08:38:03 2022 No.20339733 >>20338207 Actually he can, you’d be fucking surprised how weak the average woman is. Literally the very bottom tier of men were shown to have an equal strength to the most strongest women. (This is obviously untrained population)

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 09:24:42 2022 No.20339851 >>20339411 Retarded

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 17:07:41 2022 No.20341618 >>20339490 So what is superior, twink or woman?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 21:31:17 2022 No.20342599 >>20338733 >What do you think of his involvement with the freemasons Was he really?Auspicious dubs btw, although I've heard that freemasons are in league with the antichrist.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 21:45:49 2022 No.20342643 >>20339851 would you like me to explain it?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 22:59:07 2022 No.20342896 >>20342643 Actually, would you?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 8 23:02:14 2022 No.20342912 >>20338285 This smells of resentment.

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Anonymous Mon May 9 00:31:38 2022 No.20343160

>>20338285
>Alexander, Napoleon, Hitler
I don't think any of these three have anything in common besides being rulers of their respective countries. Alexander never saw defeat, Napoleon was a strategic genius but was defeated by his own hubris, and Hitler is not even comparable to the other two as he was merely a politician, his battlefield record devoid of Alexander's heroism or Napoleon's brilliance.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 01:16:05 2022 No.20343266 >>20338428 >Psychopathy and high intelligence are virtually indistinguishable Psychopaths are mentally stunted animals. This is clearly distinct from some incel thinking he's eclipsed what he is to become a perfect rational actor automaton.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 01:18:39 2022 No.20343269 >>20339418 lmao it's hilarious how people like this are so willing to assert sweeping claims but take a step back when it encroaches on their feelings

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 04:44:08 2022 No.20343805 >>20336480 >Was he right bros? No, he's not right.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 04:54:38 2022 No.20343838 >>20341618 Depends if you want to breed or just have fun.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 04:57:52 2022 No.20343845 >>20343838 I meant aesthetically, not sexually.

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Anonymous Mon May 9 09:22:36 2022 No.20344614

>>20342599
>Was he really?
Yes, like a lot of British officers of the time. His wife burned a lot of his papers after he died though, so there are probably a lot of things we will never know about him.
>Auspicious dubs
Spooky. Didn't notice that.
>I've heard that freemasons are in league with the antichrist
Not sure about that one. They did attract some black magicians back in the day, but most masons are regular churchgoing men.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 09:29:03 2022 No.20344632 >>20338285 Napoleon had children and his blood lives to this day

>>	Anonymous Mon May 9 14:05:10 2022 No.20345937 >>20344632 doesn't have any direct descendants