Old Family There is, allegedly, a very ancient and powerful family. This family invented and patented simple chemical formula that is in all high end perfumes and colognes. Marketing study after marketing study has demonstrated that without this secret chemical component, no cologne or perfume will sell for more than $10. But […]
Free Will Paradox
Never See It Coming It’s common for large companies to keep their employees in the dark as long as possible before any large layoffs. They want to keep them from knowing so they can get a maximum amount of productivity out of them. Individually, this is much easier to manage. God vs. […]
Elephant Brain Theory
What Do You See? There’s a familiar story of a bunch of blind guys feeling around an elephant. Each person feels a different part, and they all believe they are feeling a different animal. Anthropomorphism is a very common human trait. My Cat Speaks French https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr24Loop.mp4 We give human characteristics to pets, […]
Ukulele Preacher
Beach Magic I went down to the beach a couple weeks ago. There was a guy sitting there, staring out at the ocean, playing a Ukulele. He stopped right when I looked at him, and told me he could control people’s behaviors with his music. Music Teacher https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31Loop.mp4 There was a music […]
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 […]
Self Replicating Hallucinations
Man In God’s Image In the book of Genesis, we are told that God made man in his image. There are plenty of different interpretations of what this means. There is obvious and naive interpretation that we look like him. This is not believed by any serious scholar. Another interpretation is […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Connect To Universal Mind
Drive To The Beach A couple of weeks ago I drove down to the beach, about an hours drive from my place. I parked and I was walking out to the end of the pier and I passed by these three kids. It looked like two brothers and one sister and the older brother […]