"The gods of most nations claim to have created the world. The Olympians make no such claim. The most they ever did was to conquer it."
Five Stages of Greek Religion, Murray, p. 46
„Spartan law demanded that the young men stand naked in public for inspection every ten days. They were commended if their bodies were solid, strong, and well honed by exercise. But if any were soft or had gained fat through sluggishness, they were beaten.“
- Aelian, History, 14
“Their height rarely surpassed the right mean. Excessive fleshiness and fattiness of body were equally rare. They were freer than other mortal races from all that hinders and oppresses the motion of the mind.”
“A life of labour on the land would never have suited me, nor would a house, even if it was full of handsome children. I loved war, and the oared ships, shining spears and arrows, fateful things that make others shudder.”
- Odysseus
The SS would have forged a new pan-European nobility after the War; one destined to sweep aside the decrepit monarchs and effete aristocrats of old Europe; one acutely aware of the primacy of Nature and breeding—thus able to install itself as a ruling caste in perpetuity
being good at video games generalizes to everything else, as long as you break out of video games
countless degenerates wasting a decade+ of their lives
anyone i know who moved on are wildly successful people
When a foid approaches an animal, she does it to look cute and improve how society perceives her. But when a sensitive young man approaches an animal, he does it to connect with nature and get closer to God.
Céline: "So I sacrificed everything, because, don't forget this: the real inspiration is death. If you risk nothing, you have nothing. You have to pay. What is done for free smells like gratis, and stinks of gratis. Right now there are only gratuitous writers. Gratis things..."
Wrestling, by far, not all combat sports. Same applies to rowing, some disciplines give you Polykleitian fyzeek, but not all. Swimming doesn’t give you Classico-Hellenico-statuesque physique, look they swimmers flat arse