The Biblical story of the Hebrew Judge Shimshon (his name meaning a man of the Sun, shemesh in most ancient Middle Eastern languages) is one to hail and follow by all men today. Indeed, the tale is one of glorious victories, subservient loyalty to a higher cause, leadership and modesty – on the one hand. The rise and fall of Shimshon on the other hand is also a warning sign, a broad red flag placed there thousands of years ago by men wiser than us today.
In an era when suffering, death, and hard work were not unknown terms from mouldy history books but rather everyday realities, people still knew the value of educational guides on being a man of virtue, a leader, a prophet and a warrior.
Shimshon was certainly all of them: and the reasons he failed in the end are written on the wall with grim letters, staring at us today and cautioning us on all the vices that might take hold of a brave man, even one as brave and wise as Shimshon. In this article we will examine the positive side of Shimshon’s life and deeds.
Shimshon’s Character
Shimshon was exceptionally strong and tall. Added to his earthly strength was the strength of God: Hebrew tradition holds that he could lift two mountains and break them into little pieces with his bare hands. His shoulders were supposedly so broad, that even later religious authorities had to point out that this part of the tale was probably fiction.
Scholars hold that Shimshon was probably a mixture of other traditional Eastern demigods, like Enkidu and the Shumer Guta. This question is one for theological and historical debate; what interests us is what virtues and vices the men of old might have wanted to explain with Shimshon.
Shimshon definitely was strong and humble, a man of few words who preferred to follow his own path and who rarely called for the help of others. In fact, tradition holds that never in his entire lifetime did he ask for the help or assistance of another Israelite. He could handle problems alone and had all the capability and willingness to do so.
One of the chapters of Shimshon’s tale that the Bible shares with us is of exceptional importance. Shimshon had seen a beautiful Philistine woman in the village of Timnah, and went back to “pick her up.” And
“as he approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.”
Presenting your dad’s condo as yours ain’t manly. This however, is.
Biblical-Era Neomasculinity
This, gentlemen, is a passage of Scripture that should be engraved upon seats of height for all men to see. Which one of us could handle a healthy young lion, in its prime of strength and agility, charging at us from an ambush, with nothing to protect ourselves with? Shimshon had slain the beast without a sword or shield; for sure, not many Biblical characters could claim to have achieved a feat such as this. And this is the part where all men should take notes: he said nothing of the whole affair.
Let us analyze the story a little further. Shimshon went on a “date,” so to say – he definitely did have the intention of approaching a young and attractive female with the aim of making her his lover. In a similar situation most emasculated Western men would arrive with a list of their “deeds” to recite in vain hopes a quick shag. Shimshon did not do so: in fact, he did not even utter a single word about his heroic act.
Demigods Don’t Brag
Make no mistake, she was just as much of a game player as modern chicks.
Did he have a reason to brag? Although he sure was a man of splendid physical attributes, he could still have expected the Philistine woman to put him through a series of tests. If he did have such expectations, he had certainly been proven correct. Only a few lines later the Bible says, as Shimshon did not share the solution of a secret riddle with the woman in question, she “threw herself on him, sobbing, ‘You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.’”
In case you don’t realize what this means, here is the answer: this, gentlemen, is the proof that women have been giving men shit tests to solve for thousands of years. Yes, even if you are a Judge of the Lord Almighty himself, bitches will still hurdle tests and riddles at you.
Yet Shimshon said nothing. He kept the story for himself, just like he didn’t brag about his other accomplishment, slaying a thousand enemies with a jawbone of a dead donkey – a story which the Scripture shares with us later on.
Alpha Males Don’t Brag Either
Keeping your positive secrets, your great deeds and your truly remarkable achievements can be a vast source of inner strength and pride. It gives you the option of merely smiling when people ask you about your exploits and silently saying: “I don’t get around much.”
Women will instantly feel that it isn’t true, and they will feel a deep urge to find out what you are hiding. While they do, they will cling at you for the rest of your – fleeting or more serious – relationship.
Nothing says “high value male” more clearly than achieving much and sharing little. Shimshon knew this, and it unquestionably is a lesson that men today should internalize. Shimshon, then, was in possession of a number of alpha male qualities – but also a number of weaknesses of character, which evidently led to his downfall, as we may see in another article.
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Samson was the man all right…too bad he let that Philistine woman get to him 🙁
By the way, I’ve never seen his name spelled that way :/
Its the Hebrew transliterated, which is odd. The author shouldve used the more familiar Samson.
Thanks, that’s what I thought.
Theres a few typos
“and they will feel a deep urge do find out what you are hiding” – to find out
There is so much wisdom in the Bible. And yet many here trash it as controlling men. Yea, you needed to control men a bit when women were completely subservient and to restrain the alphas. The betas do have the ability to restrain the alphas, or stone them at the city gates.
And even more important, imparting religious values to your children will inoculate them against feminism, socialism, and other evils. Had our parents and grandparents instilled religion in us, feminism and that other nonsense wouldnt exist.
“Yea, you needed to control men”……
Agreed.
Better still , men need to control themselves.
There is so much truth in what you say. Had the west stuck it’s Christian values radical feminism, homosexuality, transgenderism, crossdressing, wouldn’t have reared it’s ugly head. Children and adults would have Christian valves and would know that Bible stands against these things, and they would never be manipulated to accept these things as “normal”.
No wonder the feminists and leftists, attack and shame religion so much, and try to steer the society towards secularism.
you seen christian male teaching
do diapers
wash dishes
cook dinner…
nothing is ever asked of women…
christian men may have beards, but are wimps…
That’s because the modern Church has become too feminized. Everything is expected of men and everything they do is taken for granted. They are constantly told how to be a good husband, while the wives are never told how to be good wives.
Verses which the modern world would consider “sexist” are almost never read. These tell women to submit to and respect their husbands.
Christian men today may be wimps, my friend, but in the past they were strong, masculine men, because in the past, the Church was not feminized, there was division of labor between men and women, which each gender understanding their specific role. This meant that men got to interact with other men freely in the workplace without the interference of women. Also, the Church made it clear that men were the head of the household, and women the head of the domestic sphere. Both sexes did what what they were supposed to do, and excelled in it. There were no delusions about the roles of men and women being equal. Instead their roles were equally balanced.
Then arrived feminism, secularism, and cultural marxism, and since then things began to go downhill.
Delilah.
Notice how feminists give the name of their publication Jezebel ?!? Wasn’t she some evil bitch who sacrificed babies to Baal ?!? Not sure.
But if that is true, that will teach lots about modern feminism.
I’m not sure as to the history of Jezebel, but I do remember it having negative connotations.
Samson’s Marriage
1Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. 2When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
3His father and mother replied, “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?”
But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.” 4(His parents did not know that this was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)
5Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. 6The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. 7Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.
8Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. 9He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
10Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. 11When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.
12“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. 13If you can’t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.”
“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let’s hear it.”
14He replied,
“Out of the eater, something to eat;
out of the strong, something sweet.”
For three days they could not give the answer.
15On the fourtha day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”
16Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.”
“I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?” 17She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
18Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
Samson said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have solved my riddle.”
19Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father’s home. 20And Samson’s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.
This is also a cautionary tale of what happens when pussy becomes more important than God and your own integrity.
Just goes to show, never give your heart or any pertinent secrets away to a broad.
Just about every hero in the bible suffered a hit because of a woman. Not all of them but most.
Thanks for this, Wladislaw.
I liked how Samson killed 77 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. That’s one of my favorites. Fightin’ evil !
Was it 1000 ? Dang, he was tough
SAMSON was his name. Come on. If you are going to write in english use the proper name. Otherwise excellent.
The author mentioned that he was going to write down another article, wich will certainly reach -amongst others- this conclusion, “The efficient soldier does not hesitate, he doesn’t fall twice on the tale of Delilah”.
I said twice when you don’t really need to fall once, but many of us in the ‘sphere had to go deep down once to discover the red pill.
Note: I quoted the conclusion because it is a translated version of a song made by a religious rapper in Brasil called Pregador Luo, the music name is Bate Pesadão.
The number one lesson I always felt was most important about Samson that I personally felt was this: your enemies are not always in front waiting to fight you in a straight up honorable match but rather can come from behind or off the battlefield where the seemingly most beautiful can be the most treacherous of all.
In other words, never let your guard down. Especially around women.
After surviving ten years of literally epic warfare, how did Agamemnon die?
How he whooped that lion is a mind bender. Samson had to know a lot about the anatomy of the body and he no doubt learned by ripping apart enough men and beasts to qualify for a degree. With the lion it is possible he did a ‘lightning strike’ martial arts move with sharp fingernails kind of like the move Aztec priests did when removing a beating heart, only Samson looks like he’s going for the lion’s mouth. He’d have to enter the mouth while prying back the jaw and sideways dislodging it while holding it open at a large enough angle to compromise the connecting tendons and where the jaw muscle cannot clamp but can only pull backwards on itself like eyelids turned inside out. Then the ‘lightning strike’ of hand in the mouth, to the back of the throat reaching upward into the sinus through the soft skin of the upper palate and pharynx . . upward . . TO THE BRAIN. One . two . three . DING DING Samson wins the heavyweight title.
Back when I was a kid, we’d play fight and wrestle in a vacant lot. One thing I learned and had going as a skinny kid was the ‘sleeper hold’. You get at the neck fast and put the twist on. Bigger kids playing around would get slow and atrophied when I managed to get the hold on them and when I let them go, they’d get their balance and say ”what the f?# was that shit?”
OR – although the pic with the lion is only an artist’s rendering, he may be attempting something akin to the ‘sleeper hold’ while maybe perhaps doing the ‘ball scissors’ whereby which you reach down with your foot and get the lion’s ballsack between your big toe and second toe like the ‘claw’ nail pry on a claw hammer. Right above the balls (and lion’s balls swing pretty low) where the ballsack skin is narrowest, and where the two pound balls below look like an inverted weather balloon, you ‘scissor’ with all your might of your two toes, gnarling and wrenching, severing the sack off like the floppy head of a rag doll.
It’s possible.
Is the sleeper hold the same as a headlock. I opened up a can of whoop-ass on a biker poaching on our land when I was 16. Got him in a headlock when we were fighting on the ground. But when I let him up, he wanted some more. So I have him a backfist on the side of his nose. Must have ruptured something in there as blood was gushing down from his nostrils like a dang Nile river turned to blood.
Enjoyed the fight story, but that Azztec priest stuff is some scary, freaky shit. (Pardon my French).
The Mayans were high tech, possibly approaching type 1 civilization. What happened, they degenerate into the typical Aztec blood drinkers ruled by psychopathic high priesthoods. Secular governments are no different. Elitism and entitlement always begets blood drinking psychopathy. Just look at the feminized women in planned parenthood.
In the West back when the ‘Flat Earth’ narrative was popular, it used to be that the best and brightest youth were literally ‘steered’ into the priesthood. The church would constantly do a brain heist on its subjects and groom the finest and most intelligent minds into the priesthood. The power of the church became awesome and trumped dynasty after dynasty of inbred royalty.
Today the best and brightest are stered into stem and yoked into compartmentalized corporate assets. Still the elites, governmental and clerical try to wind things up for what they believe is a long overdue blood fest. It is spiritual in origin.
Procreation is a dangerous feat and through the walls of the birth canal enters a soul from a place that also leads to the labyrinth of fire. Sugarwalls by day and firewalls by night. The pussy must be capped and kept under strict control by the virtuous patriarch. It is every man’s duty to hammer down the bitch fire. Bitch scorn can scorch the Earth. Just like it turned a budding civilization like the Mayan back into animals.
Not sure what all that means, but enjoyable reading. I agree with this.
I do think that there is a link between Jezebel style matriarchy and degeneration into human sacrifice. I have read a lot of mystic literaure, and some of that is hard-wired.
I read the Jewish Bible every night … Torah is not for vegetarians.
The Bible isn’t Jewish. It’s an Israelite text (Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic peoples). The original Hebrew is old Phonecian, and the characters of its alphabet are very similar to the old runic languages of Europe that were derived from it.
The Jews are not Israelites, but rather canaanites/edomites. This is acknowledged in there own writings:
“EDOM IS IN MODERN JEWRY.” The Jewish Ency. 1925 Ed., Vol. 5, Pg. 41. ·
“Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a “Jew” or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.” 1980 Jewish Almanac, P.3
They are descended from Cain, who is not descended from Adam, but rather Satan (The “eating” of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden was the fornication of Adam and Eve with none Adamic races. These none Adamic peoples were who Cain was scared would kill him when he was cast out).
The holy book of the Jews is the Babylonian Talmud. A volume of Rabbinical writings that pretty much contradicts every single word of the Bible.
I have heard some of that, too. Not sure if it is true. I love mythology, but I have my doubts about your account.
Could be true, though. Thanks for sharing that. I have been looking for some Jewish sources in English to confirm some of that. I have heard another myth.
That there is the Jewish Lore of Moses who received the 10 commandments and the Jewish lore of below the mountain with those worshiping the golden calf and having orgies.
And that both the good and evil were intertwined in the Jews. Like the wheat and the chaff growing together..
I am not saying that is true either. But I have of late become interested in medieval rabbinical writings. Do not know where to starrt though. Texts are not widely available. Perhaps by design.
I do believe that the New Testament and Old Testament are the inspired word of God though.
And it seems possible to me that the Christian fundamentalists are both right and wrong about Israel. That a “remnant” of true Jews is living among individuals or apostates who simply call themselves Jews. It does look to me as though they modern fundamentalists have been infiltrated and put the interests of the State of Israel above that of Christians.
But who knows ? It is not for us to decide but the Lord !
Christogenea.org has a mass of research on th subject. Obviously, it is extremely controversial, but if you are interested the evidence is there. There are some great introductory podcasts.
Remember, Jesus came not to bring peace but a sword (Matthew 10:34).
I value that perspective even if I disagree. There are two things happening simultaneously. Please research the perspectives on Age of Michael as Regent and Age of Gabriel. I will not explain how the calendar is calculated or its sources at this point.
We are leaving the age of Gabriel or nationalism and entering the age of globalism. Much positive in both. However, there is also a NWO or dark veersion of both of these.
In the age of Gabriel, which culmiinated in the 19th century and world wars of this century, the NWO sought to prop up its designs for planetery control by utilizing a single nation. In the age of Michael, it will seek domination through globalist structures.
Michael will prevail against this. But he is the entity who will lead the fight on a planetary scale.
In an age when bankers are seeking to control the world through finance and subjugate the nations, the Gabriel outlook could seem salutary. But more will be required. Propping up one’s nation or ethnicity is not necessarily wrong but more is required. Although I am against globalist structures, there is a positive role to play for globalists who seek to make these structues less corrupt.
I do not know how the Age of Michael will play out and how the Dragon will be defeated. Rudolf Steiner said the age of Michael would be the Age of the Individual.
As I am obviously not destined for greatness, I am reacting as an individual just to be self-sufficient and reduce my dependance of the Beast System.
All I can do is take baby steps, but you have to start somewhere.
It will take several approaches to defeat the Beast.
1)Self-reliance as much as possible.
2)Globalist organizing by anti-globalists.
I personally do not think Jesus will come and rule as a king as such. I see him living in the souls of individuals who will do his work.
I could be wrong, but I see all the Rapture stuff as manipulation. The book by Tolstoy, “The Kingdom of God is in you” is likely more accurate.
I actually met a woman whose name was Dalila (in Spanish). Not very auspicious, is it?
If I remember the stories correctly…Samson was actually a huge dick.
These women do not mean anything their are more important things in life go back to god. You are all wasting your lives why be born to just to enter the grave
Was anyone else completely lost on who this guys was until the lion story? ( oh Samson)
Shimshon (or Smason) is the Alpha male who represent power and destruction. He may be teamed up with Thor or Conan.
Note that he was a pussy magnet (3 ladys mentioned in his story) but that he also never hurt his own people (and he had at least once a reason to).
His destruction was, of course, because of a woman nagging him.
See i dont know how much clout there is to this. Being humble is honorable but does not get you laid as boasting a little here and there. A man does not boast to the average person about his accomplishments but if there is a woman he fancy’s or perhaps prove his worth to a man above him then it is alright to boast. Being humble in a situation like that only makes you seem like a beta because you lack initiative and the experience to handle the situation.
Who cares about being with women do you want to be with a whore that badly. We as men have to have standards and be perfect. You need to focus on being a better man
you didnt read everything i wrote…
You were whining about how tactics don’t work with women that’s why said who cares if women say they like stood men are you going to turn stupid if women say they like disabled men are you going to turn disabled. Women are not important just worry about being a better man
“but if there is a woman he fancy’s or perhaps prove his worth to a man above him then it is alright to boast” yea… Read more
You really make no sense, try that in the real world and see how far you get.
The story of samson was stolen from Hercules, the Old Testament is all about jews killing non-jews (goyim) for their vulcan demon Yahu.
This story is recorded several hundred years before the Greek states interacted with the Israelites. If you’re going to make the “borrowed from legend” argument, at least get the timeline right.
I bought this book years ago (http://www.jewishusedbooks.com/prodView.asp?idproduct=12693). It blends Jewish commentaries with the text in Judges (Shoftim), which is rather short. Great reading. Highly recommended. My name is Shimshon. I am named after my mother’s father.
I always thought Samson’s story was a reiteration of the Garden of Eden parable. No matter what paradise one builds or is given, no matter how ideal a mental and physical specimen a man may be, when he allows a woman dominion over him or what else is his, it will be his downfall. While she may be a companion and even a “partner” there are roles for both genders that must be maintained.
With great interest I read your piece.
I think you fail to see the full magnitude of the importance of Shimshon for the period of the judges and as a role model for us today.
The Hebrews were under Filisteen domination for 40 years already. This means a whole generation. ( The same period they needed in the desert for the old generation of slaves to die out so a new generation of free man could be born and take the Land; in the Bible, numbers always express concepts, not necessarily quantities). The Philisteen were much more advanced both technically (they knew iron, unlike the rest of the peoples in the region) and culturally. After a generation of living like this the Hebrews were thoroughly assimilated. They could not even conceive to become independent again and where on the way to disappearance.
So Shimshon’s mission is two-fold: To erode Filistin’s hold on the Land and two resurrect the Jewish identity and desire for independence. All he does is directly related to these two objectives. With the foxes he burns the fields of the Philistines ( they were not by tradition practicing agriculture, it was new to them; by losing with the fields they stop practicing it and a people who doesn’t work the land is not connected to it ). He takes philistine women so he seems to be one of them and as such revenge will not fall on the jews for what he is about to do.
In the same time he shows the Hebrews, and especially the tribe of Yehuda who is supposed to lead them (Shimshon himself being from the tribe of Dan, the lowliest tribe), that it’s possible to fight them and win.
Try reading again the story in this light, suddenly everything will make a lot more sense.
The parallels with today’s world are striking. We find ourselves in a society dominated by foreign values and no one in the mainstream dares think otherwise. From the lowliest, most ignored place (the manosphere) a real man should arise and with tremendous cunning change the direction of the society. There is much to learn from the Bible…
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