Squatting and deadlifting, any exercise, is a way to get connected with the present moment there is nothing ridiculous or self righteous in saying so. Doing it only for what I can get out of it in terms of bodybuilding hypertrophy does not factor in to my thinking.

I could write at length in a "self righteous", almost religious terms about lifting too, like deadlifting. There are aspects to it that have little to do with bodybuilding per se. We had a group that got together every friday for like 15 years straight to just deadlift, sometimes new years eve or around christmas and it was the highlight of the week (if we did well). At times I have felt like I'm losing touch with reality but if the weights move you must still be connected to reality You can argue you are attaching great importance to totally irrelevant things in life but you can easily argue otherwise too. Now our group is kinda dead due to life circumstances but I haven't given up on getting back to the routine once more, my 60 year old friend just texted me we'll take it up again at the end of the year

I doubt he was being literal.

I feel Platz was melodramatic and perhaps building a myth but he talked about training in religious or spiritual terms a lot. He had these little 'irrational' little rituals connected to the lifting as well. Like the old gym towel tied to the thigh. Using certain color pants for squatting, associating sounds with lifting like leaving a little space between metal plates so you could hear it when he squatted, drinking expensive liquor and smoking cigars as therapeutics to recover from lifting. Associating the roar of his Corvette with good lifting sessions. Saying he would train another 25 years for one more moment like a certain posing routine at the O. I don't know if this was all an act, he might have trained like a retard even when cameras weren't around (I mean cheating and jerking in exercises until it didn't move another millimeter). I'm sure he still squats even if there might not be any "logical" reason to do it.

I wasn’t being a douche, you posted something ridiculous and I mocked you.

That aside, based on your posts here you seem like a good dude. Keep up the good work.

He seems like a decent bodybuilder and a terrible person, very self righteous and intellectually lazy yet incessantly insists on attempting to project an image of the mystic savant on the mountain

Correct. My mistake.

No worries, that's what friends are for

I was one of those assholes that would bring Tupperware to Christmas and birthday parties and such.......looking back I feel pretty fucking dumb........dumber than I normally am. 

I get very uncomfortable watching Kike Israel's nose. Is it GH induced cell growth?