Ancient Philosophy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan27_Post.mp3 Stoicism has been around for a long time. Since at least 300 BC. Invented by a guy named Zeno of Citium. Plenty of Romans were also stoics. Notably, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome. He’s the guy that came up with the phrase, “The Obstacle Is The Way.” What does this mean? Every […]
Master Of Puppets
Self Awareness? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct31_Post.mp3 Here is a very interesting, and very ancient question. Of all the stuff humans have accomplished over the past few thousand years, is self awareness necessary? This is an ancient philosophical question going as far back as Plato. Another way to put it. Suppose you could build a […]
Surf The Ever Changing Now
Now Is Always https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun26_Post.mp4 The idea of “now” is pretty compelling, and interesting. From a purely philosophical view, it’s always now. You can never live in the past. You can lever live in the future. You can imagine the past, while in the now. You can imagine the future, while […]
Egyptian Trigonometry
Pay Attention Once there was a farmer. Who lived next to the Nile. In Ancient Egypt. The farming was stable. The production was vast. But it was not determined by men. Nor by Gods. But by the Nile itself. Go With The Flow https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov26Loop.mp4 Every year. […]
Learning Alchemy
Magic Lady Once there was a witch. She spent plenty of time learning. And studying the ancient arts. Of the occult and dark matter. Contrary to opinion. Witches aren’t necessarily evil. Only they are defined as such. Base Oils https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov11Loop.mp4 She started with essential oils. And borrowed […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Circles Bread and Pi
Bread Making The other day I was making some bread but I forgot to put in the baking powder. You can use baking powder in bread that doesn’t require yeast. Since I didn’t have any yeast, but I had some baking powder, I figured it would work well enough. But I forgot […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Hypnotic Brain Seeding
Birthday Tree I went to a cool picnic recently. It was a 1000 year birthday party for this tree. They had a scientist verify the age with carbon dating. It was a huge event, lots of food booths, barbecues, tons of alcohol. It had a kind of spontaneous, pagan kind of […]
Applications of Hallucinated Infinity
Ancient Greeks One of my favorite characters from history is this guy from ancient Greece called Zeno of Elea. He came up with all these crazy paradoxes. One of them was the idea that motion is impossible. There was this Austrian guy named Godel who studied infinity. He came with all these […]