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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 09:33:11 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
   People talking about all the dead on mt everest, and there's perhaps something interesting in this metamorphosis:
   
   >Hillary makes the climb as a pioneer, alone, intrepid, and brave
   
   > His accomplishment is commodified and packaged into a monetary experience
   
   > Thousands of yuppies turn his act into an achievable piece of bragging rights, completely strip away the hero's DNA within the climb = it's now pure vanity & braggadocio
   
   > Aged hero, in the twilight of his life, sees his imitators - weaker, less pure of heart - ruin all that he loved about his accomplishment
   
   IDK, it's interesting to me. There's something that's very spiritually disgusting to me about "everest" people today, they have a palpable sliminess that you don't feel from others too often
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 09:39:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     I’m not quite sure what lesson to draw here

     Could be a lesson on diversity, after all, Everest is now the home to all these disparate nationalities, all vying for the same prize.

     A lesson on boomers? Inheriting something and bastardizing it into a twisted mockery of its original self?

     A microcosm of what happens with a population exclusively composed of driven, success-at-all-costs / fuck-you-I-got-mine personality?

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 09:42:51 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Hey look at that: Woggy says “spiritually slimy”, they appear immediately.

     I wish I could inter the soul of Edmund Hillary in a suit of haunted armor, then he could gate the path up the mountain to only the worthy. People who day-trade for a living would, of course, be decapitated by his giant halberd

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 09:46:22 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     I know my misogyny skill is actually very low-ranked because I still get sad when I see these women climber stories. There are posts out there of the corpses of retardo feminists going up grossly unprepared, only to die in days but no matter how insufferable they were in life, my empathy outweighs the catharsis.

     Ladies have no business being in danger like this, the fact they got up there meant they weren’t loved by someone strong enough to save them.

   • :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad: (wisconsin_kraut@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 09:56:48 JST :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot why would you curse a great man so?
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 09:56:48 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad:

     @Wisconsin_Kraut I think he’d get a kick out of it

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:45:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad:

     @Wisconsin_Kraut Only if they’re untrained, I assume the everest crowd has a lot of MMA wannabe’s too. WOuld be a fun way to wait around ‘til judgement day

   • :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad: (wisconsin_kraut@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 10:45:17 JST :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot
     I feel like it would get old after your sixth or seventh half jewish streetshitter pension robber.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 11:08:17 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad:

     @Wisconsin_Kraut He sees the light of Christ’s second coming from over the horizon and says “aw…over already? Oh well, it was fun while it lasted”

   • :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad: (wisconsin_kraut@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 11:08:19 JST :sonnenrad: ✝️ Wisconsin_Kraut ✝️ :sonnenrad:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot
     2055:
     SirEHbot sighs and leans on his halberd.
     "You would have thought they would have known that a cannon would cause an avalanche." He says and looks over the feild of pulverized ice and mangled bodies. The Israeli teams were always so predictable, trying to blow apart the mountain to get past him. He thought about Peter again, what had it been 15? 20 years? Since he moved on, moved on an left SirEHbot to rust and remain the lonely guardian of this desolate place.
     "Alas it cannot be helped." He said, with a sigh, as the blizzard rolled over the mountain.
     "Alas
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 11:14:55 JST BroDrillard

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     Helping people up there is a difficult question. Not even sherpas have a lot of extra energy beyond dragging themselves and the necessary gear up and down. Traditional wisdom says trying to help someone up there is a good way to die yourself. If the scenario was two brave explorers like Hillary meeting while doing something pioneering and meaningful than sure help the other guy.
     
     But why would anyone take on additional risk of dying (and throwing away years of preparation and lots of money) to save a Darwin award contestant from his unpreparedness or wrong decisions on a commercial trip.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 11:15:32 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • BroDrillard

     @BroDrillard See? That’s what’s so savory about it. The honorlessness, the trophy hunting, the diversity, the selfishness, it’s all tossed in this juicy gumbo pot

   • Twoinchdestroya (twoinchdestroya@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 07:53:04 JST Twoinchdestroya

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     • BroDrillard

     @WashedOutGundamPilot @BroDrillard Seeing what was once a mark of man conquering odds and heroism turned into a Walmart line is a little sickening

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   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2023 08:20:07 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot It's the imitation of pioneering, rather than forging your own trail.