Darkness Coming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun20_Post.mp4 Once upon a time, a astronomer was giving a lecture. He was talking about the lifecycle of stars, and mentioned that our sun will burn out in about 5.5 billion years. A woman in the front row stood up, shrieked, and passed out. The astronomer rushed to her aid, […]
Release The Anchor Of Death
Sunken Metaphor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun19_Post.mp4 Once there was a guy on a ship. His first time on a ship. And he was on the deck, carefully walking around. He wasn’t a big fan of the ocean, but so far he was having a pretty good time. Then he heard some thunder off in […]
How To Thrive In Clown World
What Happened Next? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun18_Post.mp4 There a pretty decent series called “Band of Brothers.” A series about a few guy guys in WWII in Europe near the end. How their relationships were formed, etc. An interesting thing about this is the end credits. A few movies about real stories have these at […]
Escape The Most Evil Con
It All Adds Up https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun17_Post.mp4 Your entire life is the sum total of what you do on a daily basis. This is very hard to really accept. Most everybody has a plan for their life. But this “plan” is more of a wish. And this wish either involves somebody else doing […]
How To Destroy Evil
Modern Hero https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun16_Post.mp4 A long, long time ago, I took a class at a local church on the Book of Revelation. It was at a Catholic church, which has a slightly different view of that particular book. Their stance is that it is a metaphor, and can’t be interpreted on its own. […]
Stuck In A Time Loop?
Human Origin Story https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun15_Post.mp4 One of the most important things that ever happened in human history was the “discovery” or “invention” of agriculture. Before that, humans had to hunt. But then there was an ice age, and people had to worry about encroaching glaciers. Just like in the movie where that squirrel […]
Stuck In A Backwater Town?
Horror Movie Trope https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun14_Post.mp4 A lot of horror movies and other kinds of movies take place in a “backwater.” This is a metaphor to describe a small area off the beaten path. A backwater is section of a river that doesn’t get any flow. So the water is stagnant, not fresh, etc. […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Parasite Demons In Your Brain
Poor Mouse There’s a messed up parasite called Toxoplasma Gondii. When I mouse eats this, it switches his fear polarity. Normally when a mouse senses a cat he runs away as fast as he can. But once a mouse ingests the Toxoplasma Gondii parasite, it makes them believe the cat is his […]
Best Medicine Is Food
Free Health Seminar I went to this pretty interesting free seminar a couple of weeks ago. It was a health seminar, an alternative health seminar and right when I walked in it seem that it was all themed around the idea the ancient idea of Hippocratic’s. The guy who came up with the Hippocratic […]