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Dave's avatar

"and twice stopped to help motorcyclists who had been hit by cars. My instinct in all three situations was to try to help; everything seemed to slow down and I don’t recall feeling anything at all, I was far too focused on seeing what, if anything, I could do for the injured individual."

This is uncannily similar to the Sigma I know. At a house party a pedestrian outside got hit by a drunk driver. Everyone was stunned and staring but my Sigma friend was instantly on him, checking his breathing and doing CPR. There were actual nurses and combat medics at the party who were stunned with us and had to bring themselves back to their senses and get their game faces on to follow up and take over from my friend.

In another instance I was driving him around when we saw a fresh car wreck on a rainy day on the freeway; my friend told me to pull over which I did in a daze of sort of watching the wreck and assuming I'd just drive on. He jumped out of the car, hopped the freeway barrier and took the keys out of the guy's running ignition and made sure he was conscious until police arrived.

To me it's hard to comprehend because he'll do heroic levels of action like this one day and most days he'll be completely indifferent to doing tasks like putting in resumes or even eating and sleeping. Through brute force pattern recognition I assume he ignores or cannot perceive anything that requires social expectation or habits that society wants you to build and instead pays attention to what's happening immediately around him with no biased lens or social expectation.

So he'll treat a homeless exactly as the homeless merits at the time whether it's giving him a wide bearth because he's dangerous or talking to the guy for an hour because he needed it and was an interesting fellow. Most normies will just take what society or their own bias said, whether it be giving a dollar or being afraid, and blanket apply it without any thought or alteration. But in an extreme situation like a man dying in front of you with stuns a normie because they are not told what to do in that case but the Sigma I know takes the data in as equally simply as he takes in what clothes he has available that morning so he can act.

In regards to edgy gamma highlighted here the imagined pain he thinks he'd inflict won't happen. The idea, "Oh boy this guy killed himself because I rejected him asking me out on a date!" hardly works on normal hierarchy muchless a Sigma. It only seems to have any effectiveness with women. Oh wait a second that's -exactly- how Neil Gaiman got laid, by threatening to kill himself! Or how little boys get the extra cookie by threatening to hold their breath until they pass out to mamma!

Most men's reaction: Sucks for him, glad he's gone. Better stigmatize and avoid people who act like that in the future.

Sigma: What a waste that he hated himself so much, ok time to blank that out and move on to the next thing. I'll warn the next gamma not to shoot himself, in case he didn't know.

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Mile High Bear's avatar

Dave, this comment about your Sigma friend is quite frankly SPOT-ON. Most of us don't have that kind of insight or observational awareness concerning Sigmas or any other sort on the SSH, being more likely to myopically navel-gaze or stand there, as you said, "stunned" like barely-conscious sheep. Excellent commentary on this Sigma fellow. Thanks for sharing your perspective, Sir.

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Dave's avatar

Thank you. This substack has been invaluable in understanding my Sigma friend more so any chance I have to connect dots I take eagerly. Incidentally my friend enjoys hearing what I read on this substack and discussing the ins-and-outs but said he would never read it on his own and doubts any other sigma would. He also says Vox's content is spot-on.

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Eric R. Ashley's avatar

Family friend, a woman, told us how some guy in Chicago or thereabouts, climbed on top of a water tower, and threatened to jump if some girl did not date him. Girl involved and others urged him to jump, which he did not. Family friend thought this was funny.

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Joshua's avatar

Sadness. I'd feel sadness at anyone trying to get "a look" from anyone for offing themselves. Surely this is written by a women.

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The Kurgan's avatar

I think I know exactly who this hunchback might be. And if it is the same person, he is definitely not mentally healthy. Somewhat schizophrenic level of weirdness in his mental processes, and yes, absolutely self-obsessed as well as bizarre in his meltdown, which was far stranger than mere Gamma melt-down.

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Nemesis's avatar

There was definitely something seriously off with him. If you've interacted with him before, would you say to the level of possession?

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The Kurgan's avatar

I'd guess mental illness first.

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Nemesis's avatar

For me the jury's out on mental illness for now, but I dare say it's difficult to tell when you can't look them in the eye. Interesting times

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Nemesis's avatar

Can confirm the world slowing down and calm clarity aspect of this for both my brother and myself. Perhaps the Kurgan can proffer his tuppenceworth or non-sigmas that have experienced it?

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The Kurgan's avatar

Yes. I have the same thing happen in basic life-death or very serious shit happening type situations that I have experienced. Myamoto Mushashi called it the Void in his *Go Rin No Sho*. I have written about it in some of my fiction too. My brother does not experience this, as in at least one occasion we were together and his reaction was more typical of normies. For him everything happened very fast and he had not even seen or taken notice of a whole motorbike smashing into the car I was driving with two people on it, after I had barely managed to avoid killing a pedestrian that had literally run into the road a couple of metres in front of my car, I managed to swerve fast enough to have him bounce off the windshield and spin off to the side, instead of hitting him square on and killing him, but I had crossed the island and taken out the front axle on the curb, going into the oncoming traffic. I had enough time to turn the steering to try to get back over the island but hard to do when your front axle is gone. A motorbike with two people on it went on to hit the front of the car and send them flying over the car. My brother just registered the pedestrian spinning off his side of the car. I could tell it had been two men on the motorbike and the one behind had cowboy boots I saw as they went over my car.

The contrast in what it was like for him and me was extreme.

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Nemesis's avatar

Thanks Kurgan. That's four of us then, (five I guess if we include Musashi) hardly conclusive but certainly interesting. Glad you survived!

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White Horse's avatar

I've reached the conclusion that somehow, suicide is *less* than giving up.

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Joshua's avatar

Shut up. Suicide is always bitching out. Always. Forever. It always has been.

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White Horse's avatar

You misunderstood my comment, and then you were rude about it. So shut up.

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Swaggins's avatar

Vox can punch the go home line like no other.

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N Bear's avatar

Our words we use show a lot about ourselves. I do not know why a man would ever say that or think it is kool. One, it is not funny and two, that has never been done in history.

Side note: today, a delta was helping me smoothly with online customer service before our connection got disconnected. Then a gamma or woman connects and would not help me at all for the 45 mins of chatting. I told her/him to not use emojis and she/he used one at the end of every reply.

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Shefi1280's avatar

“while [Sigma] is still busy trying to impress everyone with his meaningless job and model girlfriend”.

(In Darth Vader voice). *The projection is strong in this one.*

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Daniel D's avatar

The Hunchback must have OD'd on Pearl Jam videos, especially "Jeremy." I guess Eddie Vedder was a gamma who got famous enough to get lots of people to show up for his pity parties. All Hunchback needs to do is learn how to sing, find some solid musicians to form a band, write some catchy hit songs, play a couple thousand live shows, get signed by a major label, release a blockbuster album, and he'll be able to get that kind of attention too.

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Mile High Bear's avatar

Excellent post and completely agree. "Taking oneself out of the game" is the most selfish act there is. Spitting in the Creator's face by willfully throwing away the most sacred gift anyone can be given other than eternal salvation: the gift of Life. We all get ONE. That's it. At least have the decency to make something out of it, however seemingly small your individual contribution may initially appear to be.

I will likely never leave any lasting works of art like a sculpture or a painting (maybe a good song, recipe, or personal memoir of a life well-lived) or even half of what our SDL will have left the world when my earthly life has ended, but I leave a legacy of many children. Smart, attractive children who are themselves the best thing I could ever leave behind. Thank your ancestors AND your Creator Jesus Christ of Nazareth by seeking to be like Him: Create something of value that will benefit humanity or serve to further God's Glory before you cross the finish line. The length of your life is not yours to decide, but rather the content and depth of meaning and purpose of that very life. Let us concern ourselves with that which is within our scope to affect and change, all to the greater glory of the one who created all.

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IAM Spartacus's avatar

if I had not heard such gamma things myself in real life I would think this is made up. Saddly this mindset of the gamma is to true. The only saving grace is they are generally to much of a coward to go through with it

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Christian Scheuer's avatar

I would probably be digusted and thinking about how it will suck to clean it all up for whoever is responsible.

Also, this seems like sodomizing himself in front of you to try to prove that you are gay. Utter nonsense. He is busy trying to impress everyone, not the Sigma. To the point of killing himself to get a reaction.

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DarkLordFan's avatar

I read some of the reddit AMA by Vox. Illuminating, though I learned most about some of the people asking the questions, who were insufferable. Perhaps this was jijitsu on Vox's part as it perfectly demonstrated the inescapable necessity of the Inevitable Excommunication.

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Dan in Alabama's avatar

Some of those they/thems will be horrified, while feigning smugness, to see their Gamma walls o' text reproduced in Vox's SSH book. Do they not understand why he subjected himself to any AMA, let alone the GammaSecretKing variety? These guys are so retarded, they aren't even in the same zip code as the mid-wits.

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SirHamster's avatar

While many midwits are Gamma, there are also many low status losers on the left hand side of the bell curve.

They do not connect dots by default. IOW, MPAI.

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DarkLordFan's avatar

Xi reacted by waiting for the Clown Circus to burn itself.

Putin reacted by directly addressing the Clowns.

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Abcdefg's avatar

I don't even understand what an appropriate reaction would be. I imagine it would be horrifying to see like a car crash but far stupider.

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Green Mojave's avatar

And people question why Vox keeps his location very private.

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