Can’t Go Lower I have a friend who’d hit rock bottom. A bunch of horrible things happened in a row. First, his girlfriend, who he thought would eventually become his wife, dumped him. It turned out she was having an affair with his best friend who he thought he was going to […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Toothpick Industrial Complex
Nano Bot Toothpicks Recently, the toothpick companies have been secretively and experimentally increase their technology. It turns that on a subatomic surface level, the inter-enamel can create some surprisingly non linear results. This may explain why, despite routine flossing, brushing and tooth-picking, tooth decay doesn’t see to correlate to any particular variable in […]
Life Flows Into Life
Eating Philosophy There are many types of diets. Lately, the keto or carnivore diet has become popular. There are also plenty of variations of vegetarianism. Don’t Hurt Anything https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr23Loop.mp4 One weird and ancient religion is Jainism. Started around 600 BC in India, and it holds that all life is sacred. […]
Imaginary Party Games
Book Club People I have a friend who is a very die-hard, old school, book lover. She belongs to a book club and none of them like to use any technology. They only read hardback books, they don’t have smartphones, and they even refuse to read books written after world war II. […]
Pythagorean Mysticism
Triangle Cult Pythagoras is credited with discovering the secrets of the right triangle, namely A^2+B^2=C^2, but this is not likely true. Not only was Pythagoras likely a fictional creation of the Pythagorean cult who worshipped numbers, but this same idea was discovered by plenty other ancient cultures. For example, long before the Greeks […]
Reverse Engineered Cult
Free Seminar The other day I went to a free seminar at a local community center. Since it was free, I didn’t expect much. Usually at these things, they have some basic ideas in the first half, and then the second half is some kind of upsell. Only at this one, there […]
Alchemist Cult of Metallurgy
Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Alarm Clock Hibernation
Daily Struggle Everybody has their own unique, highly calibrated strategy for making the transition from sleeping to waking up. Because of this, you can find pretty much any alarm clock that will accommodate this strategy. Few people leap out of bed in the morning with an excited feeling of bliss and anticipation. […]
Network Marketing Occultists
Old Pyramid Schemes Back during the seventies, pyramid clubs were very popular, but they were made illegal very quickly. The concept was simple. Show up, pay ten bucks to get in, and try and recruit more members. If you ever got to the top, you would get all the money from everybody […]
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