Are you an alpha or a beta?

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Are you an alpha or a beta?

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Perknose

Forum Director & Omnipotent Overlord
Forum Director
Oct 9, 1999
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Anyone who needs to assert publicly that they're an alpha obviously isn't one. You'll never see a true alpha wasting their breath bragging that they're an alpha.

Weak-sauce wannabes, on the other hand, never shut up about their illusionary gifts and accomplishments, especially on the internet.

The OP is fresh off spinning his yarn about an imaginary threesome at Christian Camp.

What he failed to mention is that it was all a dream-induced, involuntary nocturnal emission and that the counselors made him clean his sheets for Christ.

To atone for his sticky, sticky sin, they even made him forego the sacred sheet of Downey! :eek: :awe: :biggrin:
 

Doboji

Diamond Member
May 18, 2001
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I was a beta up until a year into college. I got dumped by my girlfriend at the time and it was a huge reality check for me. After spending about a year transcending, I became an alpha. Sometimes I'm more of an asshole alpha than a tactfully assertive alpha, and I'm working on that. Understanding my transcendence has helped me to become more tactfully assertive.

Also, I feel there is nothing wrong with being a beta.

What say you?

So this is how you get to 12K posts in 5 years.
 

OCGuy

Lifer
Jul 12, 2000
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Anyone who needs to assert publicly that they're an alpha obviously isn't one. You'll never see a true alpha wasting their breath bragging that they're an alpha.

Weak-sauce wannabes, on the other hand, never shut up about their illusionary gifts and accomplishments, especially on the internet.

The OP is fresh off spinning his yarn about an imaginary threesome at Christian Camp.

What he failed to mention is that it was all a dream-induced, involuntary nocturnal emission and that the counselors made him clean his sheets for Christ.

To atone for his sticky, sticky sin, they even made him forego the sacred sheet of Downey! :eek: :awe: :biggrin:

Haha
 

Drako

Lifer
Jun 9, 2007
10,697
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Anyone who needs to assert publicly that they're an alpha obviously isn't one. You'll never see a true alpha wasting their breath bragging that they're an alpha.

Weak-sauce wannabes, on the other hand, never shut up about their illusionary gifts and accomplishments, especially on the internet.

The OP is fresh off spinning his yarn about an imaginary threesome at Christian Camp.

What he failed to mention is that it was all a dream-induced, involuntary nocturnal emission and that the counselors made him clean his sheets for Christ.

To atone for his sticky, sticky sin, they even made him forego the sacred sheet of Downey! :eek: :awe: :biggrin:

Wow, I did not know Downey came in sheets! I learned something new today. :)
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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I'm a pretty passive guy.

it's not that I'm unwilling or unable to stand up for myself or be aggressive, it's just that I usually don't give a shit.
 

davmat787

Diamond Member
Nov 30, 2010
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To all beta's trying to become alpha's: simply being more of an assertive asshole does not make you an alpha. It is not something you can simply become.

Plus, what Perk said.
 

HAL9000

Lifer
Oct 17, 2010
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Can someone explain what this thread is about? What's an alpha and whats a beta in this context?
 

Mr. Pedantic

Diamond Member
Feb 14, 2010
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And Messrs Dunning and Kruger rear their head again...

Beta, probably. I just don't really care, to be honest.
 
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SMOGZINN

Lifer
Jun 17, 2005
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I was a beta up until a year into college. I got dumped by my girlfriend at the time and it was a huge reality check for me. After spending about a year transcending, I became an alpha. Sometimes I'm more of an asshole alpha than a tactfully assertive alpha, and I'm working on that. Understanding my transcendence has helped me to become more tactfully assertive.

Also, I feel there is nothing wrong with being a beta.

What say you?

There is nothing wrong with being a beta. The world needs leaders and followers.

One of the things I seem to notice though is that you might have the wrong idea about what it means to be Dominant. You don't have to be an ass to be Dominant, you only have to be willing to make decisions and accept the consequences of those decisions. It is mostly about being confident. Not asking for permission or apologizing for making a decision.

Want to learn to be Dominant? Then start small. Anytime someone asks you want you want to eat, answer them immediately. Don’t ask them what they want, they already asked you. Just make a decision. Once you see that making that decision not hard, has little negative consequence, and is actually less of a hassle then the constant, ‘I don’t know, what do you want’ game your confidence will start to grow. Start to do that with every decision in your life. Then you are a Dominant.
 

vi edit

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Oct 28, 1999
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There is nothing wrong with being a beta. The world needs leaders and followers.

There's a whole lot of middle management/team lead positions that are perfect fit for beta personalities. A beta likely won't be a CEO or director but from a people management perspective beta personalities make good bosses.
 

SMOGZINN

Lifer
Jun 17, 2005
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Can someone explain what this thread is about? What's an alpha and whats a beta in this context?

Another way of saying the concepts of Dominants and submissives. Even if most don't go for the kinky side of it, every relationship has a Dom and a sub.