Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
Jesus FOMO and the Madness of Crowds
Irresistible FOMO One of the strongest psychological motivating factors to get humans moving is the fear of missing out. The idea that everybody is getting something good and because that good thing is so popular that the good thing is slowly disappearing that combination of effects will make us want to get that thing more […]
Consciousness Hallucination
Non Fiction Book Club Lately I’ve been going to this nonfiction book club once a week. It’s a fantastic place to go and have really really interesting discussions. Usually we talk about history books, sometimes we talk about economics or we read economic books and talk about them. We’ve learned to not read and […]
Fear Of Abandonment
Reunion Party I went to a reunion recently. It was a reunion with people that I hadn’t seen in a few decades and because I’m from the generation X, we grew up, we were raised in an environment with no Internet and no social media. Generation X people are a lot less likely to […]
Homeless Industrial Complex
Ex Non Girlfriend A couple of years ago there was this girl that I was really interested in. She went to my church and so I was trying to do anything I could to get together with her. She invited me to come with her one evening to help feed the homeless at a […]
Re-Calibrated Sexual Energy
Car Maintenance A couple of weeks ago I had to take my car in to get some scheduled maintenance done. I think it was a 60,000 mile maintenance and when I got it to the shop the guy was looking at the car. He had hooked up to his machines and he said there were […]
Post Hypnotic Suggestions
When Blind Dates Were Blind A long time ago I went on a blind date. This was back when blind dates were really blind dates because it was before the Internet and you’re going to blind date because when you friends set you up with somebody and you didn’t actually know what they looked like […]
The Money Energy Connection
Once Upon A Time There Was No Money I’ve always been interested in the invention of money. Once upon a time there was a bunch of people that were anatomically similar to how we are today but they didn’t have any money. Then there came a time where they needed money. They say that […]
Comfort Zone Expansion
Boy Scouts When I was a kid my parents thought it was a good idea, would be a good idea for me to join Boy Scouts. First it was kind of cool we’d meet every Thursday night to Boy Scout type stuff. Then we started going camping and that was kind of cool. We […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]
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