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 […]
Superstitious Alchemy Connections
Thunderbolt of Pain The other day, I was walking down the street just minding my own business when out of nowhere I was hit in the gut with an emotional sucker punch. I was in a pretty good mood, I wasn’t going anywhere in particular, my eyes just kind of wandering around on their […]
Gold Horsemen And Apocalypses
Wizard Of Oz One of the most interesting stories that is been around for a long time is the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is a good story for a lot of reasons. For one it follows the heroes journey to a T. There’s been a lot of comparisons between the Wizard of […]
Science Alchemy and ROI
Origins of Physics Physics was invented before chemistry. In fact Isaac Newton, the guy who wrote the very first book on physics is why we call non-quantum physics Newtonian physics. Isaac Newton was a proponent of alchemy. Today alchemy is usually thought of as a kind of magic to turn dirt into gold or […]
The Magic Of The Earth
Boring Movie The other night I was watching this interesting movie on TV. It started out interesting but then it started to get kind of boring. A lot of the conversations that characters were having were outside in this very beautiful garden. Because the movie was boring, I stopped paying attention to what they […]
Gold Giving Box
Free Car Wash The other day I was driving around town and I passed by a group of kids having a carwash. They had a few hand-painted signs that said free car wash and that the bottom the sign said donations accepted. Since it looked like a worthy fundraising cause I got a free […]
Satanic Overlords
Free Seminar I went to this really cool free seminar couple weeks ago. It was a type of free seminar that I particularly enjoy because the topic was how to make money in the stock market or how to make money in any market. It was set up like most free seminars where the […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Fiat Death
How Paper Money Slowly Kills Us Quite a bold article, right? There’s plenty of posts from economic and fringe sites about the dangers of fiat currency, but I’d like to focus on how fiat currencies slowly whittle away our motivation. We’ll look at this from a personal development and motivational standpoint. What Is Money? […]
The Different Ways To Classify Human Behavior
There’s three types of people in this world. Well, there’s actually all kinds of types, and you can categorize people in pretty much any way you like. People that wear hats, and people who don’t. People who eat chicken, and those who don’t. People who believe Elvis is still among us, and those who don’t. […]