Havamal Snippets 55: The wise man's heart is seldom glad

This is one in a series of very short posts containing snippets from the Havamal text (which can be found in full here - http://www.beyondweird.com/high-one.html)

Why post snippets of an old pagan text here, in a blog that's supposedly about the Androsphere?  I’m posting them because they contain helpful everyday advice that is applicable in the modern world e.g. being aware of your surrounding environment, drinking alcohol responsibly, how to score with women.  And for many of us, it is part of our heritage that goes back to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) beliefs that stretch back 4000 years or more.

Christianity and demi-nihilism offer the only other dominant philosophical view points in the Androsphere, the former represented by bloggers like Vox Day and Simon Grey, the latter by many PUA bloggers.  Christianity, and indeed the other monotheisms from the region draw, from the mythologies of the PIE culture.  For instance Noah’s flood is a replication of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the story of the Angels rebelling against God in the bible is just a copy of the Giants rebelling against the Gods, which is present in both the Greek and Norse religious traditions, as Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out in the eighteenth century.

So, instead of offering you snippets of second-hand wisdom from the Bible, I will offer you snippets of first-hand wisdom from the (probably) older and much more concise Havamal text (roughly 5,000 words compared to the 190,000 words of the New Testament).

(My own thoughts/comments are in italics).

Like with the previous stanza, 54, it seems to imply that too much wisdom is a bad thing.  Perhaps wisdom and happiness (gladness) are two ends of the same pole.  You can either tend toward happiness at the expense of wisdom, or wisdom at the expense of happiness.

55

Meðalsnotr

skyli manna hverr

æva til snotr sé

því at snotrs manns hjarta

verðr sjaldan glatt,

ef sá er alsnotr er á

[2] Each man must be

[1] moderately wise,

but never too wise;

because the wise man's heart

is seldom glad,

if he who owns it is completely wise.

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The Dieting Industry:

[In 2011 the] U.S. Weight Loss Market [was] Worth $60.9 Billion(http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8393658.htm

  The dieting industry is an interesting phenomenon.  It is interesting because it reveals the character of the Western World at the present time.  It reveals that the Western world is a world that was built and sustained by men and has been largely inherited by women. 

The Western World as excelled so much in meeting the needs of the human being (food production and distribution, clothing production, shelter construction sources of warmth, access to water, protection from physical attacks by animals and humans) that women have nothing better to do that eat too much food and become corpulent, and then seek out another person to take responsibility for them loosing that weight; that weight that they CHOSE to put on in the first place.  That's what the dieting industry shows.

It shows that despite giving women an abundance of freedoms, personal freedoms that they have never had in the history of Earth, that women ACTIVELY seek out people to molly-coddle them and make their decisions for them.  That's what the Dieting Industry shows.  It shows that women (and feminised men) cannot and do not want to take responsibility for themselves.
The dieting industry also reveals other character traits of women:
-- The number of diets and dieting companies shows that women treat lifestyles like clothing fashions: something that comes and goes with the seasons.  Something that they DON'T commit to.
-- That women quite often 'aim to fail' rather than 'aiming to succeed'.  If women really wanted to lose weight, then they would, and the company that produced the 'perfect diet' would become the market dominator.  But there is no market dominator that excels in successful dieting, why?  Because quite simply women aim to fail where men aim to succeed.  That's why female headed households produce unsuccessful children (either criminals or social mal-adapts full of neuroses).

When men begin to take full control of society once more, then women will physically shape up.  And then the Dieting Industry will lose it's source of revenue, it's foodstuff, fat neurotic women, and will shrivel up and die.  Because, let's face it, male dominated households produce balanced children, and so a male headed society will produce balanced future generations, and a male headed society has no need for anything so superfluous as a dieting industry.

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Havamal Snippets 54: Partial ignorance is bliss

This is one in a series of very short posts containing snippets from the Havamal text (which can be found in full here - http://www.beyondweird.com/high-one.html)

Why post snippets of an old pagan text here, in a blog that's supposedly about the Androsphere?  I’m posting them because they contain helpful everyday advice that is applicable in the modern world e.g. being aware of your surrounding environment, drinking alcohol responsibly, how to score with women.  And for many of us, it is part of our heritage that goes back to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) beliefs that stretch back 4000 years or more.

Christianity and demi-nihilism offer the only other dominant philosophical view points in the Androsphere, the former represented by bloggers like Vox Day and Simon Grey, the latter by many PUA bloggers.  Christianity, and indeed the other monotheisms from the region draw, from the mythologies of the PIE culture.  For instance Noah’s flood is a replication of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the story of the Angels rebelling against God in the bible is just a copy of the Giants rebelling against the Gods, which is present in both the Greek and Norse religious traditions, as Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out in the eighteenth century.

So, instead of offering you snippets of second-hand wisdom from the Bible, I will offer you snippets of first-hand wisdom from the (probably) older and much more concise Havamal text (roughly 5,000 words compared to the 190,000 words of the New Testament).

(My own thoughts/comments are in italics).



It's awfully cold and lonely the top of the organisation, the top of the ladder.  More so at the top of Mount Noos (mind).  To be at the top means to have your head in the clouds and to know the future, but be unable to shape it, that's where the loneliness comes from.  See the melancholia of Philip K Dick and other prophets: they are not especially cheerful people.  They tend more towards the 'darker' the 'melancholic'.  The anti-pode of this (of dwelling on the top of Mount Noos) is living on the Plains of Phusis, living in the 'now', 'the present', 'living for the moment'.  The people who live on the Plains of Phusis are happy, but dumb.  Hence the stanza says: 'it is most pleasant to live when they don't know a great many things.'

54

Meðalsnotr

skyli manna hverr

æva til snotr sé

þeim er fyrða

fegrst at lifa

er vel mart vitut

[2] Each man must be

[1] moderately wise,

but never too wise;

for those people

it is most pleasant to live

when they don't know a great many things.

 
[End.]

Scavenging:

Scavenging allows you to acquire goods in exchange for a little of your time.    Quite often scavenging can offer you a better return for your money/time than buying shop bought goods.

The quality of the garbage that you can recover depends on the quality of the garbage being thrown away.  If you live in, or can get access to, a wealthy middle class city, then your pickings will be a lot better than from a poor town.  For instance one municipal/public recycling depot near to where I live has a constant supply of near-new printers and other computer components, all thrown into the skip for landfill.  That's how much wealth is just being tossed away.  It's remarkable when you think about it.  Anyway, it's the same thing at the car boot sale at lunch time when they all pack up their fold-out table and go home: a melange of unsold goods dumped by the nearby rubbish bins because the owners don't want them anymore.

Don't worry about the stigma of sifting through garbage; you're the one that benefits by it.  If you spend half an hour scavenging for a bag full of items that would cost 2 or more hours of labour then you've made a decent saving.  Also don’t worry that it’s just part of a passing fad that SWPL or trendy MC’s do, because I’ve seen working class people do it as well.

You should be aware of the legal implications before hand though.  It seems that sifting through refuse can get you into trouble (theft, destruction of property, trespassing etc), so if you’re interested but don’t want to get nicked, then stick to bins on public property or ask the store manager and/or security staff before hand.

JD, a freegan, says almost everybody who shares his lifestyle will have encountered security personnel during foraging escapades. He says: “I have personally encountered a number of threats from store managers and the occasional policeman.

(http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2010/04/freeganism-and-the-law/)

A few links (or just put the related terms into a search engine):

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

http://freegan.info/

http://www.wikilaw3k.org/law/Law-Enforcement-Police/Freegan-Is-it-Lawful-or-Ilegal-Under-U-K-Law-378415.htm

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Havamal Snippets 53: For every wise man there is a fool

This is one in a series of very short posts containing snippets from the Havamal text (which can be found in full here - http://www.beyondweird.com/high-one.html)

Why post snippets of an old pagan text here, in a blog that's supposedly about the Androsphere?  I’m posting them because they contain helpful everyday advice that is applicable in the modern world e.g. being aware of your surrounding environment, drinking alcohol responsibly, how to score with women.  And for many of us, it is part of our heritage that goes back to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) beliefs that stretch back 4000 years or more.

Christianity and demi-nihilism offer the only other dominant philosophical view points in the Androsphere, the former represented by bloggers like Vox Day and Simon Grey, the latter by many PUA bloggers.  Christianity, and indeed the other monotheisms from the region draw, from the mythologies of the PIE culture.  For instance Noah’s flood is a replication of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the story of the Angels rebelling against God in the bible is just a copy of the Giants rebelling against the Gods, which is present in both the Greek and Norse religious traditions, as Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out in the eighteenth century.

So, instead of offering you snippets of second-hand wisdom from the Bible, I will offer you snippets of first-hand wisdom from the (probably) older and much more concise Havamal text (roughly 5,000 words compared to the 190,000 words of the New Testament).

(My own thoughts/comments are in italics).

This stanza is an observation of the basic injustice of duality in the cosmos: for every wise man there is a dunce; for every strong man there is a weakling.  The modern 'Bell Curve' of height, IQ or anything else attests to this.  While the injustice of duality is covered in this stanza, the 'blessed AND cursed' aspect of duality is dealt with in stanza 69 when it explains that each man '..is not wholly wretched though he be in rotten health; one is blessed with sons, another with kinsmen...'.

The concept of duality is an important one to understand, because the cosmos was/is/shall-be created by God/Being/Will (call it what you will) dividing 'Nothingness' (zero) into two opposing things (in conceptual terms, 'A' and 'Not-A').  So for every -1 there is a +1, for every electron there is a proton, for every yesterday there is a tomorrow, for every man there is a woman, for every life there is a death, for every capitalist there is a communist, for every murderer there is a murdered, for every nobleman there is an ignoble rascal, for every nagging wife there is a brow-beaten husband, and so on.  Once you see this, then you must understand that it is God/Being/Will that decides the Context in which the two opposing things will exist.  For example:

Context: direction; opposites: inbound and outbound.

Context: extent; opposite: infinite and finite.

Context: monochrome; opposites: white and black.

Context: charged subatomic particle; opposites: proton and electron.

Context: human gender; opposites: man and woman.

Context: foot attire; opposites: workmans boots and stilleto shoes.

Humans are at one with God/Being/Will (as is the rest of the cosmos) so humans can Will certain contexts into being.  In an everyday example if you approach a woman and act in a masculine manner then she will form the opposite, a feminine woman.  When you know this fact then you can use it in everyday dealings with people: choose the Context and make the other person form the Opposite.  Be a leader and they will follow, be a comedian and they will laugh, be an antagonist and they will be provoked to hating you.

53

Lítilla sanda

lítilla sæva

lítil eru geð guma

því at allir menn

urðut jafnspakir

hálf er öld hvar

? [of small sands,]

? [of small seas,]

Small are the minds of men,

because all men

have not turned out equally wise,

? mankind is everywhere halved.

 

[Edited 13/05/2013]

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