This is a short, condensed list of concepts and acronyms/terms that I wished I had access to when I first found this subreddit. It's a condensed list - not a replacement for doing your own research, reading, or putting in the work (practice into theory, theory into practice, looking up these concepts and terms, etc.).

This post has five main sections:

  1. Briffault's Law (key/crucial to understanding the framework of everything else)
  2. Selected Concepts/Terms
  3. Knowledge to save you the trip to CVS at 4am to pickup plan B because the condom broke
  4. Savagery, Whiskey, and Motorcycles
  5. Escaping the Matrix: Everything that lives, is designed to end

1. Briffault's Law (Robert Briffault)

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family.

Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

Past benefit provided by the male does not provide for continued or future association.

Any agreement where the male provides a current benefit in return for a promise of future association is null and void as soon as the male has provided the benefit.

A promise of future benefit has limited influence on current/future association, with the influence inversely proportionate to the length of time until the benefit will be given and directly proportionate to the degree to which the female trusts the male.

2. Acronyms/Concepts:

  • AWALT, NAWALT, Unicorn
    • "In the end, a predatory female, no matter how beautiful, will always be the succubus; exciting, momentarily thrilling, mesmerizing - but as dangerous as a green mamba.” ― Lawrence Shannon, The Predatory Female
    • The concept of "The wall"
  • Alpha fucks/Beta bucks (dual mating strategy)
    • The effect of hormonal birth control on a woman's sexual preferences, and how hormonal birth control is a critical destabilizing agent for every aspect of female character (emotional, health, mental, mate preferences, etc.)
    • The sharp testosterone increase in women between ages 26-32 that affects their sex drive as they approach the wall, which can in part push hypergamous behavior into overdrive while they are a third party observer to their own destructive behavior, which they are (often) unable to stop
    • Simp, Chad, Tyrone, Chang Thunderwang, Billy Betabucks
      • Dark Triad
      • Cuckolding, Polyamory, "open" relationships
      • Blissful ignorance
      • Cognitive dissonance
      • Crabs in a bucket mentality
      • "The primal stare", aka the look of true desire, the exact opposite of "starfish sex"
    • How men change when they get a girlfriend, engaged, or married.
      • It's similar to taking your pet to the vet, and having their balls be cut off. You've spent 18+ years in formal education just to escape asking your parents and teachers permission to do something - you're going to rush right back into that when you have the choice to be free?
      • "Who hurt you?"
      • "You just haven't found the right one yet."
      • Karen taking the kids, but it actually happening and it not being a meme/online internet joke
      • "I'm just trying to find myself."
  • The Matrix: Red Pill, Blue pill
    • Black pill, clown world and the relation to the both the Joker memes and thematic message of the movie
    • "Women are only there at the finish line when you've made something of yourself."
    • The Female Dating Strategy (FDS) subreddit, the Dark Triad Women subreddit (closed access), and RedPillWomen subreddits
      • Related: The Adultery, DeadBedrooms, RelationshipAdvice, Affairs subreddits
  • Hypergamy, smartphones, and orbiters
    • 80/20 rule, Okcupid/Tinder dating statistics, divorce statistics
    • Sexual crypsis
    • "She's not yours, it's just your turn."
    • Stages of red pill rage:
      • Denial
      • Anger
      • Bargaining
      • Depression
      • Acceptance
    • "Watch what they do, not what they say" - Give more weight to actions taken and observed vs. what is just being said (words).
    • "Uninterested women will MAKE rules for you. Interested women will BREAK rules for you. With that, your crawl into the lobster trap is made easier. "
  • Women dating their smartphones
    • "Self-control and discipline is becoming a lost "art" in our society. "
    • “A man who wants to gain power over a woman must follow the example of women and condition his sex drive. If he succeeds in becoming as cold as she, she can no longer bait him with sex into the role of provider. At most she could offer herself as an equal sex partner, as dependent on him as he is on her. If men could abstain from sex at judicious intervals they might even succeed in normalizing the female sex drive - even make women desire them more than the other way around.” ― Esther Vilar, The Polygamous Sex
  • Semen retention and sexual sublimation
    • "IT ONLY TAKES ABOUT 30 SECONDS TO a MINUTE CORRUPT THE SOUL. - There is a fine line between clarity, and corruption. That is the power of pornography. It is an instant gateway into darkness. Call me an over-paranoid wacko. I only know truth. Never in a time in history did man have, a plethora of every conjuration of darkness within his fingertips. Now if the eyes are the window of the soul, then surely what we put our eyes on will easily corrupt us. And all it takes, is a mere 30 seconds, to a minute."
    • Sexual sublimation: The art of redirecting sexual energy into creative energy - conceptually similar to the age old goal of the alchemic pursuit of turning lead into gold. In this case, the "lead" is your desire to rub one out and/or bust a nut; the "gold" is whatever goals you want to pursue, however small or large.
    • Attention as a prime form of currency, a derivative of time that you can't get back once given. You can always make more money, but you can't "make more time" or take back attention given to something, someone, or an activity once given.
  • Waifus
    • Japan's heribvore men. They've been going their own way before us, and offer insight into where we might be going in the future.
  • Fitness
    • Fitness starts at the plate (what you eat), continues at the gym or in your physical activities (what you do/deliberate movement), and finishes when you rest/sleep (muscle repair + growth).
    • Sleep is important - don't let entertainment, smartphones, and screens cuck you out of your sleep rest, or before you know it, you'll be back on the plantation starting with netflix, pornhub, and gaming binges slowly but surely reprogramming you.
  • Supernormal stimuli
    • Bruce K. Alexander, The Rat Park experiment (1978-1981)
    • Gary Wilson, Your brain on porn (2015)
    • Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction (PIED)
    • Increasing extremity and variety of porn genres and tastes from escalating porn usage - the impact on your own sexual preferences and tastes
    • Tinderella (collegehumor video - links to it are instantly banned from being shared on facebook in both posts and in messenger/private messages, go figure.)
  • Crap in, crap out
    • This applies to everything - what you eat, what you read, what you listen to, what you do, what you see, what you think. Everything you do ends up reflecting in your character/personality and actions, eventually, whether you realize it or like it or not.

3. Knowledge to save you the trip to CVS at 4am to pickup plan B because the condom broke

  • Always wrap your meat (USE A CONDOM), otherwise it will go bad. No excuses.
    • "Condoms feel terrible." --> 5 seconds of pleasure for 18 years of child support and a few potential STDs (if you're lucky, you'll only get a child, no STDs).
      • Remember: What is the NATURAL outcome of sex? A child.
      • Put a little bit of lube inside the condom and get condoms that fit your dong if you're still complaining about having to use protection. There's no excuse.
      • Getting a vasectomy doesn't protect against STDs, and is still viewing every problem like a nail, with your penis being the hammer. You're still going to smash, but now you're going to think you're "safe". You're still putting your dick on a hot stove, except your dong has the testicle equivalent of those cheap rubber bouncy balls from those vending machines at malls/Chinese restaurants instead of lively sperm.
      • Take the condom with you when you leave. Do not flush down the toilet or throw in the trashcan. Always use your own condoms, and inspect for damage. If the package/wrapper is greasy, DO NOT USE. That is lube/spermicide leaking from the condom to the outside package due it being compromised. This is a common tactic NBA All Star thots use during all star season - probably similar for other Pro-level sports as well.
      • "If she wants no condom, then ass fuck her. " - DangZagnut (There is still risk of pregnancy/STDs, but if you have to use no condom, then ass fuck her is solid, but still questionably shitty advice, for all the aforementioned and listed reasons, pun intended).
  • Condoms do not protect against herpes, genital warts and syphilis, all of which can occur with skin-to-skin contact
    • HSV-1 and HSV-2 (oral and genital herpes) are NOT included by default on your standard STD panel in the United States. You have to specifically ask for them to be included on your next panel/test.
      • People can be asymptomatic carriers of HSV-1/HSV-2. This means, even if they never show or have any of the symptoms of herpes, they can still infect people.
      • Some people are allergic to the medications used to manage treatment of HSV-1/HSV-2 outbreaks. Left untreated, that shit can kill you - look it up.
  • Plan B (levonorgestrel/progestin-based) is effective up to 3-5 days, but they'll work best in under 3 days; ideally, it should be taken as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the less effective it will be in preventing pregnancy. Depending on the type of morning after pill, the timeframe could be even shorter, or require multiple doses (READ THE INSERT/Instructional pamphlet).
    • Morning after pills can cause irregular cycles and bleeding, including the next period cycle. If you're in a "serious" relationship and your significant other is going out partying, doesn't come back some nights, and starts having irregular period cycles....well.....(obligatory AWALT goes here).
    • If you're hell bent on that 5 seconds of pleasure from doing it raw, while cognizant/knowledgeable of the risks involved, then that's your choice. Humans have an often hubristic, dumb way of thinking we're above mother nature and biological programming - it was because of sex that you are here today and reading this post, among other things.
  • Hormones released during sex
    • Oxytocin
    • Dopamine
    • Prolactin
    • Vasopressin
  • Women will claw the shit out of your back and draw blood during sex if they haven't already - be warned that this is a thing that isn't often discussed.
    • If the woman you're seeing isn't used to guys that actually know what the fuck they are doing in bed, be prepared for scratch marks on your back and blood being drawn.
    • This is one of those things that TRP fetishizes along with the primal stare - that shit is painful as fuck, it's not fun to have your back clawed up by a feral cat.
  • Do not let a woman leave ANYTHING at your place, ever. No clothes, no care products, none of that shit. This stance will be called abusive/controlling, but it's YOUR place - you don't want random shit laying around that isn't yours. Simple as that.

4. Savagery, Whiskey, and Motorcycles

  • Blue pilled men will resent you for having money and time to enjoy your hobbies that they have to ask their girlfriends/wives permission for. This extends to just about everything:
    • What you do for living
    • What you drink (quality alcohol doesn't have to be expensive, but it can certainly be in the realm of "not cheap" if you enjoy the drink)
    • What you drive, especially if sports cars or motorcycles
    • What you're fucking, or in their case, what you're NOT fucking and having to deal with day-in, day-out
      • Advice: Don't shit where you eat or dip your pen in the company ink (no sexual relations with coworkers or people you encounter frequently at the ethnic supermarket and gym/library).
    • Where you are traveling
    • Your attention span/focus compared to theirs
    • Your bank account
    • The clothes you wear
    • What games you're playing
    • Your health
    • Your passions/dreams/aspirations
    • What makes you happy
    • The alive look in your eyes even when shit is tough/everything is figuratively shit (being broke, poor health, not happy, etc)
    • The skills you acquire through your natural interests/development of character without a parasite draining you of your time/energy
  • Social media
    • Get the fuck off that shit/delete or disable that shit. It's a waste of time
    • LinkedIn is used lowkey by women to scout out orbiter changes in status/ascensions out of the orbiter ring into potential cuck/simp/chad territory.
      • Either way, it paints a target on your back, regardless of whether you've recently swallowed the red pill, had a stroke of luck in business after struggling for years, or are moving up the corporate ladder. You're a target, all the same. It's not the job, but the potential status and resources associated with that job and career that makes you a target. Women are expensive in every sense of the word, and an excess of resources allows them to show off to other women how your earning potential allows them to live an extravagant lifestyle of consumption. Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
      • You can't temporarily disable your LinkedIn like you can with Facebook, but you can keep the information you post on there to a minimum, making sure your interactions/information you post serves you first and foremost, and everyone else that would seek to manipulate you or paint a target on your back second.
  • Dealing with walls of text
    • NOPE. You glanced at the long ass novel and didn't actually read it. You've got better things to do.
      • It's easy to fall in love with someone's words in the age of online dating, smartphones, and social media - similar to how we can be captivated by the words of a good book or novel.
      • The difference here with online interactions is that it is both asynchronous and synchronous, giving ample room and time for curated,designed responses (or lack thereof) to achieve a desired outcome/impression/effect.
  • Dealing with gym thots if you don't have a home gym. Two mindsets/approaches:
    • "I don't give a fuck, I'm going my own way."
      • Wear whatever you want, observe but don't touch, maybe plate a hot one or two. You don't care if they single you out or try to baby trap you once they follow you out to your car and see what you drive or how you live, or what you do for a living after pillow talk. Did I mention see your place/house(s)/etc? Right.
    • "I don't give a fuck, I'm going my own way, but I'm curious to what you have to say on the matter."
      • Don't let them see what you drive - go the gym during steroid/serious athlete crew hours (early morning right when they open).
      • Women are distraction at the gym, nothing more
      • Don't jack off your phone in between sets and waste time - get in the gym, do your routine, then get out.
      • Behind every attractive woman, there's a line of men admiring her ass instead of her actual character/beauty and at least one minimum that is sick of her shit. In fact, the ride is short, the wait is long, and there is an endless line of men behind you. You've got more important things to do - dreams unrealized, goals only partially completed, and personal development underway. You refuse to let anyone or anything get in your way, even yourself. It may be hard at times and truly testing, but you make it a point to be a dick to yourself, so you actually make continual progress toward what you want instead of throwing the dice and putting your dick in a random hole.
  • How to get women to GTFO/leave you alone:
    • Tell them you are broke and lost your job. If they don't buy it, tell them you're drowning in student loan debt, both private and federal, and that you wonder how people can live month to month and not be in debt. They'll disappear faster than my attention span, which is short as fuck due to multiple learning disabilities including ADHD.
    • If the above doesn't work, and they have set sights on you as a mark/target as a HVM (High Value Man), and you can't avoid/disengage politely without triggering a shitstorm that will impact your professional/personal life:
      • You're gay and have a boyfriend. You spend so much time in the gym, and on your personal trainers dick. No, you aren't bi - in fact, you enjoy the cock so much that women are your competition, and you're offended that she'd look at you/consider you a potential partner when you're just trying to find yourself on fit guy dick at the gym you go to 5 times a week. She can't compete with that, you know? /sarcasm
      • If they are Female Dating Strategy, Redpillwomen, or Dark Triad Women oriented: Straight up tell them they're better off pursuing a HVM with more simp-like qualities that will open their wallet and provide the emotional support, intimacy, and other qualities that they are looking for.
      • You're actually poor as fuck/broke (like me, the author of this post and several other quality posts to MGTOW I'd recommend reading when you get a chance). There's nothing quite like watching your bank account slowly go down, applying to jobs day in and day out in between working on skills for both employment and the pursuit of happiness, with each rejection slowly eating away at your wellbeing and mental health. You don't have the time or energy for women, much less the money - you're fairly close to being broke, and the margins are razor thin between you and the street. There's no safety net if you fail. When you're up against the razor thin margins and truly, and understand what it's like to open up your fridge/pantry and not take for granted the food on the shelves, you start to realize what's truly important to you - and it's not the material things and entertainment that most people waste their money and lives on (social media, netflix, pornhub, excessive gaming, blue-pilled music and media, etc). Actually being poor as fuck/broke will drive women away faster than you imagine - worst case scenario you're a dick they hop on while they're finding themselves, or a target of their hamster if you trip their one of their illogical novelty circuit breakers.

5. Escaping the Matrix: Everything that lives, is designed to end

"Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him. "― 2B, Nier: Automata

The above quote is from the very beginning of Nier: Automata, a great game from the herbivore nation of Japan, with female characters with objectively great and shapely ass and even greater overall themes and philosophical insight, beyond the ass.

I visited a relative of mine in a nursing/care home, and what I saw there put everything into perspective. The problems you are dealing with now, are part of life. While it's no guarantee you'll make it to the age in which you need assisted living with your mental facilities fully in tact, it's some dark perspective to keep in mind.

I saw both men and women that were shells of their former selves. These people had/have hopes, dreams, aspirations just like the rest of us, but they're running out of time.

There's no such thing as "free" time.

What you do everyday matters - our habits, defined through our actions and thoughts, shape us, for better or for worse. How you spend your time is what separates you from everyone else, both in the pursuit of constructive goals (skills, personal milestones, small victories, projects, etc.) and in the avoidance of distractions (i.e. netflix, binging media, etc.).

If you've seen both The Matrix and the "World Record" short from the Animatrix compilation film, then you're familiar with how it's possible for people to gain awareness of the Matrix in different ways. While Neo was deliberately given a choice in the form of the Red Pill vs Blue Pill, the athlete (Dan Davis) in World Record gained awareness in another way:

Through relentless training and setting world records for the 100 meter sprint, he realized that something was off about the world.

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”― Socrates

In pushing past his physical "limits" in setting new consecutive new world records for the 100m sprint, he escaped the matrix from the actualization of the realization that the limits he was up against were fake, a byproduct of the Matrix system that bluepillers defend:

The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. When you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of people we're trying to save, but until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?

― Morpheus, The Matrix (1999)

I don't want to end up in a care home, with someone else wiping my ass with my mental facilities not intact. That's not a way to live, or to die. I'll be dammed before it gets to that point, with a fortified mind and body that I'm building now, tomorrow, and the foreseeable future (mental exercise + physical exercise).

Living on the street, being constantly crushed by unemployment and job rejections, or working a dead-end job that takes more than it gives is no way to live or die, either.

Thus, I train. In between job applications and studying programming/SQL, I make myself go train and do martial arts and parkour at the gym or at the local park, even when I don't want to.

There's days I should be doing applications or working on other professional deliverables, but I go train instead of sitting in front of my computer screen, feeling the crushing depression and anxiety from the constant job application and rejection process. I can go into details and shit about resumes, getting into the trades, "It's who you know not what you know" and so on and so forth, but that doesn't change the reality of what constant rejection and being in a state of unemployment does to your morale and mental health. It's not the money - it's the underlying principle behind it, which is freedom and happiness, and you're neither free or happy.

There's only so much consumption (netflix, anime, porn, games, alcohol, drugs, insert something of excess that you consume here) that can temporarily fill the void until you realize it's addressing a symptom, not the root cause. And once you decide to spend your time filling the void with endless pursuits, you can never get that time back.

Thus: I train, even when I don't want do. Through the constant practice of martial arts and physical activities which are skill based (i.e. parkour, breathing control, advanced movement off the ground and defending against common street fight attacks), I've gained greater insight into the importance of self control and structured routines and practice, including applying progressive resistance toward habit development.

Man was not designed to sit idly in front of a bunch of screens, jerking it to women you're not fucking, watching shows of people doing activities and accomplishing goals you're not doing, numbing himself to the pain of the world with substances and other vices in excess. It is not a way to live or die, spending your time being cucked by your smartphone and every screen around you. Those screens are part of the system, the Matrix, the same system both Neo and the athlete/track runner from World Record escaped from.

Much like the blind man that Bruce Lee taught how fight in Longstreet (1971), I never thought I'd feel a sense of peace from practicing arts that are violent in nature.

I've been able to apply the discipline and insight from martial arts toward obtaining employment. It's not that much different from physical training, except the primary focus is on self awareness and control and mastery over the mind. I can't force or demand a potential employer to "give" me a job - all I can do is work on myself through self mastery and applied discipline.

Avoiding distractions in excess (women, netflix, social media, gaming, porn, alcohol, smartphone cucking your time/focus/attention, etc.) while slowly but surely working past my limitations, both personal and professional, that are but temporary obstacles to be overcome and surpassed.

For all the MGTOW out there going through similar struggles, with the weight of the world on your shoulders, there's no light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, there's no tunnel at all:

What you're looking for is not external - the inner light and fire, the eternal forge of the Norse Gods, the alchemist's Gate of Truth that got mankind out of caves and conquering the endless night (applied fire, the invention of the lamp and lightbulb, artificial light) and into skyscrapers, into planes, and into space, is already within your grasp, and is not out of your reach.

Everything you need, starts within.