Good Vs. Evil https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan20_Post.mp4 Tools and skills are amoral. Not bad or good in and of themselves. Like the proverbial driving skill. You can drive an ambulance, or you can drive a getaway car. Movies are filled with good guys and bad guys. Some are highly skilled good guys vs. […]
Stuck In A Backwater Town?
Horror Movie Trope https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun14_Post.mp4 A lot of horror movies and other kinds of movies take place in a “backwater.” This is a metaphor to describe a small area off the beaten path. A backwater is section of a river that doesn’t get any flow. So the water is stagnant, not fresh, etc. […]
What Is Your Purpose?
Eyes Of The Holder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May17_Post.mp4 I remember one interesting idea from way back in college. I took a creative writing class. And one of the things the professor said has stuck with me ever since. He said that once we “release” any piece of writing, it no longer belongs to us. […]
Play The Most Ancient Game
Maslow’s Mistake https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar26_Post.mp4 What does it mean to be self-actualized? This is the top of Maslow’s hierarchy. Maslow’s hierarchy is something that is kind of misunderstood. It’s one of those things that’s kind of repeated so much it’s believed to be an iron clad law of human nature. In reality, the […]
Deep Communication Science
Learn To Speak Once there was a seminar. About communication. About persuasion. About seduction. The strategy was both simple. And incredibly complex. Starting up on the surface. With everyday things. And every day conversations. Money issues. TV schedules. All The Way Down https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov25Loop.mp4 But […]
Hive Minded Nobel Gas
Out The Window Once there was a social researcher. He’d always been interested in human behavior. One day, while staring out of his office window he had an idea. About why people never crash into each other while walking on the street. So he wrote a proposal for a study and […]
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. […]
Sewer Living Thrill Seekers
Crazy Hobbies I have this friend, and this guy is absolutely insane. I mean, not locked up in a lunatic asylum insane. He makes pretty good money, but this guy just likes to do insane things for fun. He likes to do dangerous things for fun. Geo-Caching https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept17Loop.mp4 His latest hobby […]
Phase Shift Thought Extraction
Carbon The most important element in life is carbon. Carbon, oxygen and hydrogen make up plenty of necessary chemicals for life and the needed elements to sustain life. Carbon by itself, simply by how it’s organized, can take on vastly different configurations. Diamonds and Graphite https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug18Loop.mp4 Both diamonds and graphite are made […]
Story Of Life And Death
Garden Planning A couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago, I was standing out front of this house that I had just rented. I had written it just as winter was starting and the guy that I was renting it from said that I can do whatever I wanted to the garden. […]