Slipped In Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug07_Post.mp3 Presuppositions are very powerful. For anything spoken or written, there are linguistic presuppositions. Things you must accept in order to make sense of a sentence. For example, suppose you were selling cars and you wanted to get across the idea that the car is popular. So you […]
Automatic Love Generation
Form and Function https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July21_Post.mp3 Our mind and behaviors work in two directions. Kind of like form follows function and function follows form. For example, it’s pretty easy to prove this by forcing yourself to smile. Next time you are in a bad mood, try this out. Force yourself to stand up, […]
Use Your Words Well
Necessary Imaginations https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July13_Post.mp3 Imagine two tribes of humans way back in the day. The caveman days. Both told stories around the campfire every night. Stories filled with heroes and monsters. One tribe saw them as stories. Entertaining, yes, but still only stories. The characters weren’t really real. The […]
OG Frame Master
Frame Domination https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun27_Post.mp3 Socrates was an OG. They killed him, but not for reasons most believe. In reality, his death was a political maneuver. At least according to certain historians. He existed during three critical phases of ancient Greece. First, the democracy phase. Then when they went to war […]
Diamond Linguistics
Famous Story https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr13_Post.mp4 Once there was a dude. A small business owner. At the end of his rope. His wife and kids had no idea how bad it was. He was thinking about getting some life insurance, so he could off himself and his wife and kids would be taken care […]
See Beyond Now
No Cave People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr03_Post.mp4 One of the hallmarks of civilization is not being a slave to your instincts. This is pretty difficult today. Particularly when everybody feels entitled to everything. Everything right now and without any costs. I’ve even read some people complaining on social media about the structure of life […]
Grilled Cheese Love
Three Ingredients https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar15_Post.mp4 You can get anything you want, so long as you have the three necessary ingredients. And often, only two is enough. One is you need the raw materials. Two is you need the skills. Three is you need the belief that it is possible. For example, suppose […]
Windy Aliens
Always Angles https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar14_Post.mp4 Why do they call newspaper articles “stories?” Because objective descriptions of events are pretty boring. And news companies, TV, online, etc., are businesses. Sure in some countries, they are funded by the state. Which makes them propaganda. Pure, blatant propaganda. But so long as you need […]
Hat Beliefs
Lucky Boy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar10_Post.mp4 There’s a famous story about the farmer and his three sons. One son finds a horse. His neighbors say he’s lucky. The farmer says maybe. Then his son breaks his leg while trying to tame the horse. The neighbors say he’s unlucky. The farmer says maybe. […]
Walk Up Rocks
Rock Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar09_Post.mp4 Once a I went rock climbing with a friend. A long time ago. And climbs are rated kind of like Earthquakes. On a log scale. So a 6.0 climb is twice as hard as a 5.0 climb. And at the time, I felt comfortable on a 5.5 […]
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