PUA's/Game Gurus Are Cringeworthy Morons

  So I ran into a whining little wimp on twitter called @Lyall who exemplifies a lot of what I find most cringeworthy about the Game types/Pickup Artists; ignorance, numerical illiteracy, and social awkwardness.
  I do not have any idea how many times I have read some clueless gutless nimrod whine,

  "50% of marriages end in divorce. Women initiate the majority of divorces. Women will take your house, your money, and your kids. Marriage is HIGH RISK! Marriage is TOO DANGEROUS! Marriage is BAD!"

  Then you see someone who A) isn't brain dead and B) has read a book say,

  "Well, that isn't actually true."

  And what do the snivelers reply?

  "SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES ARE AS BAD AS FEMINISTS!"

  My usual response is,

  "Whatever, nancy"

  But every now and again I like to try to help people and/or point out what a stone-ignorant fucktard they are, so....

  First, the idea that '50% of marriage end in divorce' is a myth. That was never true. The actual divorce rate was never higher than about 40% and that was only in California. And the divorce rate has been declining for over 30 years and is still going down. In 2013 it was just under 20%.

  "But Mr. Patriarchy, the marriage rate is going down!"

  Shut up, kid, the raw number of marriages isn't what we are talking about. The point at hand is the odds of divorce. Don't try to redirect me.
  So only 1 in 5 first marriages ends in divorce. That is a Hell of a lot different than 50%, isn't it? Now, since we're dealing with the sorts of guys that think Talking To Girls is scary enough that they need to spend money on ebooks, spends months in forums discussing the ideas of girls, talking, and talking to girls, and then practice for weeks before trying it I am sure some of these 'men' think 20% is scaaaaary, so let's talk about how to reduce those odds.

  First, there are some things to avoid. Do not live with her before marriage. Be between her age and 6 years older than her. Don't argue about money (it is the arguing, not the money). do NOT have kids before marriage. And for heaven's sake. DON'T MARRY A SLUT. Further, don't use porn, don't cheat, and have a large family (more than 4 kids). Do these things and your divorce rate goes down.

  What does this sound like so far? That's right, it sounds like,

  "What Social Conservatives tell you to do"

  It gets better! Be religious, especially Catholic. Save money. Go to church at least once a week and regularly. Pray at home with your family. Have plenty of family at the wedding but have a cheap wedding. Don't use artificial birth control (especially not birth control pills).

  Hell, just marrying a virgin and going to church regularly reduces your odds of divorce to about 5%.

That's 1 in 20 for your Game types.

  So look at that list again. What is that list?
  That list is called
  Living and Thinking Like a Social Conservative

  So if you live and think like one of us, a SoCon, then your odds of divorce aabout 0.2%, which is 1 in 500 for you maroons, and effectively means 'one or the other actually just went crazy', which happens. And if your thin blood thinks those odds are too much, get a prenup.

  "But Mr. Patriarchy,"

  I hear the PUAs, Game types, and their other wimpy friends snivel,

  "Why would I ever get married? I just want to have sex and married people don't have sex."

  Actually, wrong again.
  First, marriage is  very good for people. Married people live longer, are healthier, happier, have more friends, etc. Married men make more money and married men with stay at home wives make a LOT for money.
  [No, you idiots, if a young man gets married and his wife stays at home he gets more raises and promotions than his peers. The younger he marries and the sooner his wife stays at home the larger the effect].
  And married people have more and better sex.
  Considering that losers like Deti are married, this means the average married guy must have a LOT of sex!

      Note: Ever wonder how Deti, the sort of spineless loser that couldn't get sex from his own wife for multiple years, is considered a source of knowledge to the losers of the Game sphere? I mean, seriously, why would anyone listen to the sort of nutless moron that needed someone  on the internet to teach him how to get his wife to have sex with him? All I can figure is that he is the man with one eye.

  So let's sum up.
  Social Conservatives are correct.
  Game types are losers.

  Move along.

By Request - Transubstantiation

  A particularly ignorant twitter user, @MitchGoldwyn, who is either too lazy, too stupid, or too dishonest to use google, has asked me to explain transubstantiation, probably in some puerile attempt to 'catch me out', or something.

  The short version is: through a miraculous intervention God alters the essential nature of the bread and wine without (necessarily) changing the accidents of the bread and wine.

  Now, since I get the impression @MitchGoldwyn wouldn't know philosophy if he took it at the 200 level, I will go into more detail.

  What is this?

 

  A chair, right?

  So - all chairs are black, wooden, and have a straight back, right?

  But what is this?

  OOOoooooh! All chairs are black, but some are hard plastic. OK!

 Huh. Still a chair, but not black, not hard, not wood or ...

  What is going on?

  There is an essential thing called a "chair". This essence is the same even if a particular chair is black, or red, or wood, or plastic, Those aprticulars, the things not directly assocaited with the essence, are called 'accidents', a philosophical term that kinda' means 'not important to the essence of a thing'.

  The essence of a thing is separate from the thing. For example, if I took an axe to the first chair very soon it would cease to be a chair and become kindling (the *particular* chair ceased to exist) but the essence or idea of Chair still exists, unchanged.

  If I change the accidents of a thing I don't change its essence. If I spray paint the first chair red it remains a chair. If I staple a pillow to it it remains a chair.

  Pretty simple so far, right?

  So what does this have to do with transubstantiation? Everything!

  What happens in transubstantiation is that the essence of the Eucharist and the wine are changed from bread and wine into the flesh and blood of Christ without affecting the accidents. They look, smell, etc. the same (the accidents) but their essence, their substance, has been altered - that is what the word 'transubstantiation' means.

  So this is, in very, very simple language and with pictures and examples, what transubstantiation means.

Lack of Self-Awareness

  In this article a woman named Jillian Dunham describes a bit of her life. What we glean from the article is:
  -She dated a wonderful man from the age of 25 until about 30
  -This man proposed shortly after her mother died
  -She broke off the engagement when she was 32 because "[her] sense of who [she]was lacked the normal range of experience", whatever that means
  -She was in a string of relationships where "the mistakes [she] made were obvious", admitting she was dating men unsuitable for or uninterested in a relationship
  -After years of this she realized her fertility was decreasing, so she spent the money to freeze some of her eggs
  -Now about 40 she is having trouble finding single men interested in both her and a relationship

  He conclusion?
  Men are the problem.

  This little article is so heartfelt it tugs at me, so ludicrous in its lack of self-awareness it makes me want to cringe, and so common I want to cry.

  I see this same story on the verge of beginning as I speak with young people and their parents;
  "Oh, she shouldn't even date until her education is complete and her career established!"
  "So you want her to not even start looking for a husband or husband material until she's 25 or so?"
  "Goodness, no! 30 is young enough to start looking for a husband! I mean, she's beautiful, she'll be well-educated, and she'll be successful; what man wouldn't want her?"
  "Well, since the median age of marriage for men is 29 and for women is 27 more than half of all the men who every will marry shall be married by the time she starts looking. Also, the average amount of time spent dating before marriage is a touch more than 3.5 years so even if your daughter finds a good guy immediately and everything works out then she will be 34 years old at the time of marriage. And since it takes about 2.5 years on average to find 'the right guy' that's 6 years average, making her 36!"
  "...well, an education is so important."

  Miss Dunham's problem is that she trew away opportunities and now doesn't want to wait.