{"id":629484,"date":"2024-09-01T13:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=629484"},"modified":"2024-09-01T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:34:51","slug":"dont-sit-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/01\/dont-sit-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Sit on It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riding in a car or driving cars is like sitting on a dick or a dildo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though you are in the black Porsche 911\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc even in the black Lamborghini or Ferrari\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just sitting on a big black dick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tree city\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inflammatory language?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inflame?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HYPER SOLDIER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a pussy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">homophobic?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A random thought on my mind\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Why is it that modern day society, or maybe in the past\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think it is much better now, but notions of homophobia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">homo eroticism?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing that was a little weird for me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Was all this new modern day homoeroticism, especially on the outlier dot NYC product page. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all for everyone for doing whatever they want\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But showing sexy pictures of guys and butts and butt holes and stuff was a little weird for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think maybe the issue is any sort of overt eroticism, whether man or woman is almost too crass. It is almost too obvious, too in your face. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A random thought\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think there was a girl in college named Amber, Asian American girl, pretty and tall\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153white-washed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8211; who I met in one of my sociology classes. I hung out with her a little bit after class, met her weird drama friends, visited her dorm room, and I started to get all these weird sexual advances from her, like I remember when I was sick and I texted her\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And she told me \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ERIC is there anything I can do for you? Because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do anything for you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Anything for you\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 &#8212; clearly enough, this was actually a major turn off. Which is contrary to the generalized notion that men will get tail anyway they could get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? I think there is also this realistic for men is that we avoid potentially catching a STD, STI, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the whole industrial capitalistic complex which essentially markets women as products, is bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the reason why encourage everyone to delete Instagram, is essentially it is child pornography. For example, I think I remember seeing a weird Olivia Rodrigo TikTok video of her singing out loud with her big red lips, and the strange thought is it looked a little weirdly sexual, or almost like fellatio? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even taking it a step further\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I remember when Britney Spears was first getting really famous, and in her music videos I think she wore some sort of sexy high school girl outfits? Once again, if you have 55-year-old unmarried men watching this videos\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that a little bit disturbing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Think ancient Greece<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A very clarifying thing is when you read the Iliad (I love the Emily Wilson translation\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc) \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcwhat you discover about the ancient Greeks is that back then &#8212; all of these dramas revolved around women being trophies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, let us say that I am Achilles, and I helped King Agamemnon sack a town. Then as a prize, to reward my valor, maybe after you take all of the spoils of war, the most beautiful women\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You leave me at least one beautiful woman to take as my prize. And ideally she is beautiful, fair, and skilled at crafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Even the gods were married<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this really weird modern day American trend of people getting married, never having kids, traveling the world, going to Japan, maybe having a dog\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Is a bit bizarre to me. Because even in ancient Greek times, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc the idea was to get married, have kids. Granted that Zeus and Hera were technically brother and sister, which is really weird, technically they had a bunch of kids who were the other gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And certainly there are still elements of sibling rivalry in the Iliad,\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and all these other dramas like Zeus sleeping around, and having illegitimate children with mortals etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think it is good for us to recenter back some practical and pragmatic notions of things. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, put more trust in people who have kids and children\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And who got married, maybe at least once. It is not really 100% certain that they are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 in any regard\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But if they have had kids, and children\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Certainly they have had more Real life experience, lived experiences, real embodied wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And truth be told\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think the greatest virtue of having kids is it opens up your whole universe to everything! To win this your child growing so well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 To develop, is to learn more about humanity, sociology,, physics, philosophy, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, anybody who is a philosopher, who opines on humanity and things, they have no truth or voracity because they have had not the real lived experience of actually raising a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is also where it is wise to read Nietzsche with a grain of salt\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The truth of the matter is that <strong>Nietzsche just could not get laid<\/strong> &#8212; there are funny humorous stories that apparently his beard and mustache was so frightening, that it scared away women. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and also, I think the reason he became so anti-woman and misogynistic was that he got rejected by his true love at least three times\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Which I think made him sad forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And also\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Perhaps the reason why Nietzsche is bad \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc is because his physiology was too feeble\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 He was constantly sick, weak, in the century traveled all around Europe, just trying to find a climate or a place or a town that did not give him constant headaches, shortsightedness, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rethinking sexual pleasure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something you probably cannot do unless maybe you are google is too much pornography behavior of men. Or the ex machina movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, if you could waive a magic one\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And you could instantly see what these guys do when they turn on incognito mode or private browsing mode, or their VPN \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It will reveal much. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Even all these Apple employees who are developing the iOS software\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The reason why they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making all these private and hidden things on the iPhone photos album is because people hide naked and sexy videos or photos etc. The last thing you want to do is have a business meeting, and have your spank bank \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc revealed to everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc probably not good. And also funny thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you are really really really truly a high-level Apple CEO executive type\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Or highly important notable person\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Maybe the smart thing is never have a digital paper trail. Just buy the Playboy magazine print edition\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 because apparently it has even been leaked that brave browser, is not really 100% private even in the private mode\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Probably the most secure browser is safari\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I deleted Google Chrome along time ago. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc even a funny story is that when I Google talk, and I pulled up my browser\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And it was Safari\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Apparently some of the Google Chrome engineers in the crowd gasped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You could just troll people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I used to do this, especially when I met guys in their 20s, 30s etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What do you do when you turn on Google incognito mode? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And then see their eyeballs to see the gears run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Certainly I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anything morally or ethically wrong with pornography. I think maybe the bigger issue is people do it in private\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 My simple suggestion is only consume or watch pornography if you are OK having your partner or kid knowing that you are doing it. Or like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 he was making his beautiful dark twisted fantasy album, and everyone was in the studio together, Nicki Minaj would see him just watching pornography, no shame, for inspiration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, a funny story is apparently one of the head BMW designers, who designed this BMW concept car which look like a big vagina\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Was addicted to going to the strip club?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the funny question\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is all inspiration good inspiration? Even if it is unethical \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc, and also immoral? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">is it possible to be a zero starch vegan?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all know that sugar and starch makes you fat. This is why whenever you meet somebody who is really 100% vegan, they tend to be very overfat. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe this is where I promote people they want to be more religious or ethical or whatever to be vegetarian not vegan. Vegans are\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc a bunch of virtue signaling losers especially the ones that have vegan stickers on their laptops. My simple thought\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 If you really were vegan and truly believed in it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You would not tell anybody you are vegan, or try to force other people to convert to your weird vegan religion.\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, this is where I think Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses are very ethical, because they do it right! They stand in a corner, quiet, smile, dress well all happy etc. And they never tell you that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to hell or whatever. To tell people that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to hell is not a good motivator to have somebody convert to your religion. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A man can only have a true man friend?\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another funny thought\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I remember thinking about this ever since I was a kid, the question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Can a man truly have a real female friend, which is non-sexual, platonic in relationship \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc I think so! My best friend, Grace! I care about her and think about her, for no reason at all besides the fact that I care for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is very interesting and telling in the Iliad is I think for ancient Greek men\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The notion of a friend could only be male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And also this is what is interesting with reading the Iliad is that women are pretty much absent. Maybe besides the goddesses, who are also very martial and good at fighting like Athena &#8212; \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc I think an interesting thing to consider and think about is the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And no no &#8212; I disqualify this notion that Achilles and Patroclus were this weird homo erotic gay lovers\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think this is overblown. I think this comes from individuals who do not understand nuance and complexity\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding in a car or driving cars is like sitting on a dick or a dildo? 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