The world knows Wim Hof as "The Iceman", his family suffered domestic violence
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And even among subjects of that show I'd give him a "top 5 worst fathers", which really is an achievement in poor parenting
There’s no better way to undermine your own point.
Maybe he's a bad person, but I would prefer if police and justice would handle this in private. If justice is not good enough, then make noise about laws and justice itself so it's changed, but I really dislike this private type of justice. Morally, I see no difference between this and hiring someone to sabotage him financially or physically.
If the problem is here about the PTSD, then I feel like dissociating themselves from the person and getting therapy should be the correct avenues to seek. This feels like the Nirvana baby from the Nevermind cover that had tattoos about the album cover, but was alleging trauma after 30+ years.
And I say this as someone who actually has trauma caused by family members, but in no way I seek public revenge. Sure in private I am the fucking devil, but people have also asked me to participate in dragging their name through the mud and just considering it already makes me feel like shit.
I knew people who were in cults (EST, Life Spring), and while they were being abused they would say "well some of the teaching really helped me."
If he's doing anything inappropriate currently, he deserves scrutiny, regardless of past behavior. I don't care if he was Jesus or the devil. Rules should be the same for everyone.
If he did anything to his family he deserves to be brought to justice and pay for any crimes if decided so.
We should aim to be better than rationalizing mob-justice.
And it is possible the Hof is suffering from a mood disorder as well: "Wim Hof’s first relevant experiences with the cold goes back to when he was 17: he felt a sudden urge to jump into the freezing cold water of the Beatrixpark canal."
All he is talking about is self flagellation to get over emotional pain, which is disturbing to me at least.
This case clearly the iceman is at the center of it all and the article was a tough read to me. With the grinding downwards spiral so clearly summed up in all the events I'm sure the interviewed people are now seeing all the red flags in hindsight.
And we already know he does not care about people's lives since as of March 2024 there are 32 reports of people allegedly dying in relation to the Wim Hof Method
It is Hof's story that she had Schizophrenia anyway. I have yet to hear anyone else but him say she was mentally ill.
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It’s a reasonable question to consider when faced with the lengthy claims against Wim in the article.
Besides the rightly pointed out conviction and numerous third party sources quoted by the article, this quote by the man himself
> ‘In every relationship people use terms of abuse for each other,’ says Hof in an email. ‘I don’t remember this one.’
Tells it all.
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So that typically implies these people already know that what they’re doing and teaching is extreme and should not be general advice, yet they’re ignoring it. It takes a certain type of personality that is willing to become famous selling people inaccurate / wrong health advice for the sake of becoming famous.
The liver king is another “celebrity” that was recently outed and gave outrageous advice. In theory, there is some truth in what he says (livers do contain a lot of nutrients as it’s where your body stores a lot of vitamins necessary for metabolism), but then he took he 100 steps further with the lifestyle, and also denied using steroids, which he obviously did.
All these people are weird and unhinged.
I noticed that first Vice video Wim had a strange interaction with his son, normalising strange interactions, jokingly calling his son the biggest bastard he'd known. Seemed odd to me.