In regards to that link
the following list are personality traits that I try to achieve for in everyday life:
patience
being chivalrous (why is chivalarism not a word?)
giving and demanding respect
perseverance
Being a stoic when life gets hard (many men need to learn this)
fortitude
intelligence
and
kindness to strangers/all
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Since when is being respectful a bad thing?
Then you guys bitch about some female who’s insecure and wonder why this happens to you. Because you just want to sleep around with females who have no respect for themselves and you have no respect for.
Make up your mind; either fuck every female you see and don’t bitch about their personality or insecurities (which is why majority of females are promiscuous in the first place) or respect them and hope that they respect themselves so another thread on how females aren’t worth the trouble isn’t made.[/quote]
Have I ever told you I respect your mind, and as a Southern Gentleman I respect your honor?
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
Find someone that you admire and respect as a role model. Hang out with him and watch what he does.
When you become disappointed and no longer regard him as you once did due to the flaws that you have observed, you are on your way to becoming a man.
When you can look back at what a fool you were and notice some pangs of guilt for losing respect for him, you will be a man.
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THIS
So hang out with Jesus, not only will he make a man out of you, you’ll also go to Heaven.
P.S. Don’t worry about telling me to keep it in PWI, because Jesus is omnipresent he’s in more forums than PWI, he’s also in Steroids…I know this because I once had a T-shirt that had Jesus doing a pushup while he had bigger shoulders and traps than Ronnie Coleman, and everyone know Bodybuilders take the juice.
[quote]JaX Un wrote:
the following list are personality traits that I try to achieve for in everyday life:
patience
being chivalrous (why is chivalarism not a word?)
giving and earning respect
perseverance
Being a stoic when life gets hard (many men need to learn this)
fortitude
intelligence
and
kindness to strangers/all
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Fixed.
Mind OS(doc Paul), which I have been going through because of confession thread defines masculinity as - (your ability with women) + ( Your ability to pursue your life “mission”). I think this is a pretty good starting point for a definition. Implicit in this definition are all the traits necessary to have success in your career(or whatever your mission may be ) and with women. Things such as tenacity, confidence, intelligence, wisdom, social abilities etc.
[quote]JaX Un wrote:
being chivalrous (why is chivalarism not a word?)
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Because that’s what the word “chivalry” is for…
Something else that’s important that I don’t think anyone has directly said is taking personal responsibility for your actions. Since we seem to be pulling some quotes out, here’s one from a book I’m currently reading that’s particularly relevant:
[quote]destroyedquads wrote:
(First of all I intend this to be a serious thread.)
I’m 19 years old. I’m going to admit that I have been having a personal crisis recently. I’m also going to admit that it’s a crisis of manhood. It’s probably mostly because of my age. But I know it’s also because I’ve grown up without a father.
I’ve been questioning myself recently. This is a public and anonymous website, and as such I don’t want to make this too personal (nor do I think most people give a shit), but I’ll say that my life is different from a lot of my peers.
What makes a man? Is it how many women you sleep with? Is it how commanding and respected you are among other men? Is it how good of a father you are, and how well you provide for your family? Is it something else? [/quote]
Stand up for yourself and don’t be a door mat (some people call this being an asshole, but their fucking dumb anyway), don’t be a douchebag and do what you feel, as long as it doesn’t involve you being a Dbag. Outside of biology, the terms “Man,” and “Woman” are useless since the qualities people ascribe to either sex would be good for all humans.
Learn about America’s manliest President, Theodore Roosevelt.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all
times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a
great cause.
~Theodore Roosevelt
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Since when is being respectful a bad thing?
Then you guys bitch about some female who’s insecure and wonder why this happens to you. Because you just want to sleep around with females who have no respect for themselves and you have no respect for.
Make up your mind; either fuck every female you see and don’t bitch about their personality or insecurities (which is why majority of females are promiscuous in the first place) or respect them and hope that they respect themselves so another thread on how females aren’t worth the trouble isn’t made.[/quote]
um, what? lol[/quote]
Quiet Count, we already know that you don’t respect anyone.
I think the SAMA threads are ruining my peace of mind with the male gender. From now on, I’m only looking at the TILF thread 
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I have a list of people I respect, its written on the back of a receipt somewhere.
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Since when is being respectful a bad thing?
Then you guys bitch about some female who’s insecure and wonder why this happens to you. Because you just want to sleep around with females who have no respect for themselves and you have no respect for.
Make up your mind; either fuck every female you see and don’t bitch about their personality or insecurities (which is why majority of females are promiscuous in the first place) or respect them and hope that they respect themselves so another thread on how females aren’t worth the trouble isn’t made.[/quote]
um, what? lol[/quote]
Quiet Count, we already know that you don’t respect anyone.
I think the SAMA threads are ruining my peace of mind with the male gender. From now on, I’m only looking at the TILF thread
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x2[/quote]
I didnt know that women who sleep around dont respec themselves…I just thought they liked orgasms and experiencing different partners. I assumed its just human nature to want lots of really good fucks before you die…guess I was wrong. =(
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BTW Women are awesome. Most of my friends are women…from that, I gather there’s no difference in male and female emotional responses…some people are just better at handling them than others…across the board…there are just as many batshit dudes out here as women. I find no difference in interactions with men or wqomen…everyone is a fucking human afterall. lol
There is no simple quick answer to this question. There are half a dozen ways to approach answering it.
I will try to address some of the aspects that I see as being the most important, but this is not conclusive or exhaustive by any means.
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In terms of of physical maturity, I suppose you could say you probably have the body of a man between the ages of 17-25. Most stop growing in their teens.
So at that point you could say that physically, you are a man but that’s not all there is to it by any means.
Being physically grown does not make you a man in terms of adulthood. -
Adult male = a REAL “man”. immature full grown male = man child, or in some cases a sorry candy ass sissy.
This involves a certain measure of EMOTIONAL and PHILOSOPHICAL maturity where you have been through a number of trials and changes, you know who you are, what your weaknesses and strengths are and gotten a good grip on crucial issues like how the world works etc.
Being an actual “adult” invovles having made firm decisions about the kind of person you want to be and sticking to it. It’s actually kind of easy. You look at all the bullshit in the world that you don’t like or think is wrong, and then you just cleanse your life of it. If you don’t like liars, then don’t be one. If you don’t like racism, then don’t fucking be one. That kind of thing.
Another big chunk of that is how you aproach the various relationships you have. Proffessional, emotional, familial, sexual etc. There is a certain way a mature adult deals with people. It is in that where that “integrity” which was mentioned before becomes the most important, because at the end of your life it’s the relationships you have had that end up being the most important to you. Or so I have heard. So if you tell your girl you never hit women and then you turn around and slap her up, your probably not a real man. See how that works? Moral/philosophical behavior and emotional maturity go hand in hand. It doesn’t matter how OLD you get. If your not there, then your not there. And the difference between someone who is there and someone who isn’t is LIGHTENING clear. Especially to WOMEN.
That’s one reason why modern society is so fucked up. Because as a general rule people don’t know that stuff any more. -
Awareness of mortality. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Well it ain’t.
Anyone can tell themselves “yes of course I know everybody dies. Duh”. But truthfully that’s just not enough.
You have to, with absolute self honesty and in no uncertain terms KNOW balls to bones that someday your just not going to be here anymore. Someday YOU WILL CEASE TO BE. Niether science, nor philosophy have ever explained exactly what life is, but one thing we do know is that eventually it will simply STOP.
So the obvious implication is that since life is so finite, wasting time is a very stupid thing to do. When your young and immature you THINK you have all the time in the world, but you don’t. Our lives are a nanosecond compared to the age of the world or the universe, so in order for your life to matter or have any significance whatsoever you need to do something good with your time. The ancient Toltec seers referred to death as an “advisor”. They knew that in light of the fact that you can go out of the world at any time and your existence is so fragile and transient that it’s better to sepnd your time doing somethng that’s usefull or valuable to you or to your family or the world. There’s place for entertaining yourself but generally speaking, entertaining yourself with media or the interwebz or the fucking PS3 just isn’t good enough.
Knowing that your not going to be around much longer helps you to know what’s worth doing and what aint.
anyhow there’s actually even more to it than that, but those are some biggies. Also there are numerous differences of opinion on this. So I guess this is just my take.
belch lol
This thread should be titled “What Makes a Great Man?”
If that were the case, my answer would be:
Integrity (The Golden Rule - do unto others…)
Courage (accepting fear and working through it)
Honesty (being up front about your intentions)
Accountability (accepting the consequences of your actions and choices)
Patience (self-explanatory)
Empathy (trying to understand people instead of judging them)
Humility & Confidence in balance (knowing your worth but also knowing your limitations)
Ambition (making a serious, no bullshit effort to excel at something)
I fail on at least one of these a lot of the time, most notably patience and empathy.
^ this
Character makes the man. Read some books:
“Washington, The Indispensable Man”
http://www.ninetyandnine.com/Archives/20000327/review.htm
This Biography of John Adams:
Man of Steel and Velvet:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Since when is being respectful a bad thing?
Then you guys bitch about some female who’s insecure and wonder why this happens to you. Because you just want to sleep around with females who have no respect for themselves and you have no respect for.
Make up your mind; either fuck every female you see and don’t bitch about their personality or insecurities (which is why majority of females are promiscuous in the first place) or respect them and hope that they respect themselves so another thread on how females aren’t worth the trouble isn’t made.[/quote]
um, what? lol[/quote]
Quiet Count, we already know that you don’t respect anyone.
I think the SAMA threads are ruining my peace of mind with the male gender. From now on, I’m only looking at the TILF thread
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x2[/quote]
I didnt know that women who sleep around dont respec themselves…I just thought they liked orgasms and experiencing different partners. I assumed its just human nature to want lots of really good fucks before you die…guess I was wrong. =(
…
BTW Women are awesome. Most of my friends are women…from that, I gather there’s no difference in male and female emotional responses…some people are just better at handling them than others…across the board…there are just as many batshit dudes out here as women. I find no difference in interactions with men or wqomen…everyone is a fucking human afterall. lol[/quote]
You should learn more about women then, or men since you don’t hang out with them as much. Clear difference.
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]Mackk wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Also staring at this picture for 30 seconds straight makes you a man:
4chanarchive.org/images/231087729/1274690425800.jpg[/quote]
Fuck.
You.[/quote]
x 1,000,000 (i didnt get the pic all the way loaded. as soon as it started popping up I closed it out)[/quote]
Let me help you guys out.
When the link says “4CHANARCHIVE” in it, its probably not good. Use this knowledge to master the internet.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]imhungry wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Since when is being respectful a bad thing?
Then you guys bitch about some female who’s insecure and wonder why this happens to you. Because you just want to sleep around with females who have no respect for themselves and you have no respect for.
Make up your mind; either fuck every female you see and don’t bitch about their personality or insecurities (which is why majority of females are promiscuous in the first place) or respect them and hope that they respect themselves so another thread on how females aren’t worth the trouble isn’t made.[/quote]
um, what? lol[/quote]
Quiet Count, we already know that you don’t respect anyone.
I think the SAMA threads are ruining my peace of mind with the male gender. From now on, I’m only looking at the TILF thread
[/quote]
x2[/quote]
I didnt know that women who sleep around dont respec themselves…I just thought they liked orgasms and experiencing different partners. I assumed its just human nature to want lots of really good fucks before you die…guess I was wrong. =(
…
BTW Women are awesome. Most of my friends are women…from that, I gather there’s no difference in male and female emotional responses…some people are just better at handling them than others…across the board…there are just as many batshit dudes out here as women. I find no difference in interactions with men or wqomen…everyone is a fucking human afterall. lol[/quote]
You should learn more about women then, or men since you don’t hang out with them as much. Clear difference.[/quote]
Talking to men and women is the exact same for me. I’m talking from experience…football teams, wrestling…all are basically the same. I think YOU just want a difference so you can explain why you’re failing. lol