James' Personal Blog

Apocalypse > Zombie Apocalypse > Vampires > Zombies

2012-02-25T20:43:00.005-08:00

It may be the most wide-spread type of fantasy in society: An Apocalypse. How do I know? The fact that when you really stop to think about it, you realize there's been more sci fi / fantasy films based on it than any other sci fi / fantasy topic... as you'll see in this conversation...

James: world war z is a zombie movie coming out this year with a $125,000,000 budget starring brad pitt and likely going to end up being a trilogy

proving once and for all that zombies are more awesome than vampires

thegoldknight: lol

or vampires just have to come up with $250 million budget

James: ya i dunno if zombies are more awesome than vampires but i do know 1 thing

there's no films featuring a legit "vampire apocalypse"

and based on movies like armageddon, apocalypse now, deep impact, the day after tomorrow, pretty much all alien invasion movies, and pretty much all zombie movies...

people are big on the apocalypse thing

THAT'S why there's so much interest in global warming... I totally get it now

i dont think christianity would be so popular without the famous rapture and it's end of times theory

my god, even star wars, and star trek were full of apocalypse type scenarios, and battlestar galactica was built upon a post-apocalyptic scenario!

This all explains how National Geographic can get away with airing the show "Doomsday Preppers"

I'm Actually Doing Good

2012-01-10T19:26:00.001-08:00

For a while now I've been dominated by looking at all the things NEGATIVE. My mistakes, my bad luck (between getting major motivational let downs in business and getting sick and bothered by family), my problems. That's all I've been thinking about for a while, and that perspective has truly paralyzed me.

Recently I've actually identified with being a deranged loser, someone who tends to go crazy and lose sense of reality, who does wrong, who disappoints, hurts others, hurts himself, is selfish and distant, a bad influence on the world.

Today I've had to face this perspective, and get the FACTS sorted out.

In facing the facts, I've come to realize my current self-image, and my current perspectives on my business, are ACTUALLY wrong, and the perspective is what's haulting my progress in my business and my own self-development.

A more accurate perspective on myself is that of a flawed hero. I am one of the few truly good people: I encourage others, right wrongs, make people feel good and see the right things in life, I help people see their positives that they lose perspective in. I am a greatly loving son, which by itself negates the view that I'm a disappointing failure, I am a greatly generous friend, and people see me as a good force in their lives, which is why old friends seek me out and very few have pushed me away, whereas I'm usually the one that pushes others away. The reason is that I am liked because I am good.

I have made many mistakes, and I've put myself into a much worse position that could have been, and I've been very unlucky of late and of broken spirit. But there's no reason to let this sink me when there's so much opportunity and promise surrounding me, as I've also ascended myself to a great position in life.

The truth is that I will probably get a job soon, but that it cannot stop me, and that I will disappoint my family soon by refusing to go through college, but it's my life and their negative feelings are caused by their high expectations and their own perspectives, it's not my fault for living my life the way I want to.

The fact of the matter is that I am in a position that many would kill to be in. Even my neighbors envy me. The facts are...

-I have a profitable business that's a ripe fruit, all it needs is traffic, which is limitless in a world that has a 10% rate of serious insomnia, in an Internet that is doubling in size every 2 years.

-Even with a job, I won't be working 20% as normal like expected, I will maintain work at 40 - 60% of my normal rate, which will mean quick growth of my business now that I can focus nearly purely on traffic. This is due to a schedule keeping me on course and the fact that it's easier to get myself to work like that, as well as the next fact...

-I have taken my good circumstances in life and truly ascended myself. I have actually gotten myself to work consistently, for months at a time, at 50 hours per week, WITHOUT ANYONE MAKING ME DO IT. I managed this consistency by myself, I did it WITHOUT PAY, I can get myself to overcome incredibly daunting obstacles that stop ANYONE ELSE I KNOW. It took years to achieve this, major training and self-help growth, it took putting into practice some of the best training in existance for improving myself, but I did it, and I overcame obsticles that I didn't think possible to overcome, and then I LAUGHED at it, and took it to even higher levels of achievement. That is FACT -- it's not an opinion -- it's what actually happened, time and time again. So many times and so many obsticles, I can't even count them any more if I tried my hardest to do so for days, I'd never count them all.

-My future, my happiness now, and the way I affect the happiness of those around me is determined more by my attitude and actions than anything. If I go forward determined, happy, and full of awesome perspectives, my family won't worry so much knowing that I am enjoying my circumstances and that I am happy, my friends will seek my presence, and I will again overcome my obsticles and laugh at the circumstances. I will also see that with a job comes social opportunity, consistency with which to strengthen my work ethic (getting myself to work 1-2 hours after work is easy compared to getting myself to work 10 hours a day with NOTHING to keep myself on track), and a steady paycheck that will eliminate most of the feelings of chaos that de-motivate me the most.

-My mistakes of the past have always been amplified by 2 main factors: inexperience and weed. The fact is, I'm experienced now and will continue to grow ever larger as I have for years. The fact is, I've been doing better than ever to quit weed, and I have the best shot ever at going the longest I've ever gone without it, as I've already gone over 2 months and continue to refuse it despite depression and failure to achieve almost any work for weeks, showing true resolve to rid it from my life permanently for at least 1.5 years.

The facts, the reality, the true nature things reflect a good, grounded, sane, measured person who has made mistakes, but also has more potential than ever. Someone who isn't delusional, but instead is actually making solid choices and will undoubtedly succeed if keeping strong to their path. The facts say that my self image as a loser is wrong. The facts say the accurate image would be one of a flawed hero. Someone who took their circumstances and built a life with promise and ripe with opportunity.

College isn't necessary when knowledge of how to make profitable websites has proven itself fruitful, and I intend to take everyone's ideas that this is untrue and prove them wrong.

I'd say there's a good 50% chance that I'll be finally free and able to quit any job I get before 2013. And if it all goes wrong and I hit the wrong side of that coin flip, 2013 - 2014 will see my odds rise to 75%. I can't prove it, but I believe that too is a FACT.

Christwire -- A HILARIOUS christian mockery site

2011-12-06T00:34:00.001-08:00

http://christwire.org

Go visit to save yourself from your heathen sins and be with the grace of god, or go back to watching your child rape pornography and burn in the white hot fires of hell for eternity.

make sure this video doesn't work on this web address. SLEEP MASTERY LAUNCHED!!!

2011-11-21T22:04:00.001-08:00

If there is a delay, please allow the video a couple of minutes to load. For best performance, pause the video (after starting it) and allow it to download it's contents before watching.

THE PLAN (The Upward Spiral of Motivation)

2011-10-24T18:49:00.000-07:00

This could become an UBER solution and the printed paper is to end up in my NLP file paper-clipped to "How to Motivate Yourself to do Anything"...

The Plan

Early today was VERY hard. The big win is that I became aware of and identified a few patterns of thought that were essentially "broken", and I made progress towards fixing them.

For example, anything I think about, 25 - 50% chance that I'll go negative. I think or feel something bad in regards to ANY subject.

In June, that was probably around 1% chance of going negative, and I always saw the good in just about anything, which empowered me greatly.

...

It's fun identifying all the BS coming from my mind. 40,000 thoughts a day, and we make a choice to think about hardly any of them -- so they're not really YOU so much as your MIND. Your mind is just another muscle and you can choose how to apply it, same as using other muscles, there's a lot of control there.

So when the mind is shooting out 20,000 negative thoughts... even though you CHOOSE to think postively... it can be a lot of fun to laugh at some of the incredibly pointless, mind numbing, stupid negative thoughts that the mind thinks about. I didn't choose those thoughts, and they're crippling me, and all I have to do is go "that was a stupid thought, how would I change it to something worthy of being chosen?"

I can't help but laugh at some of the self-sabotage my mind is creating. It's just so stupid and makes no sense it humors me. And that gives me a lot of power over it.

So tomorrow, I'm going push harder, which will cause more resistance and more stupid thoughts, which will cause more laughter and fun. That's the plan.

I may end up "settling down" in Oregon

2011-10-24T16:44:00.000-07:00

Where I may live when I decide to "settle down"...

Likely OREGON.

Why?

1. Not far from CA, but still has the "northern" feel without the bad weather, AND has world-class ALL SEASON snowboarding (Mt. Hood) without the trip into the backcountry of the Sierras (Mammoth; it wouldn't be worth it to live in the Mono Basin).

2. Great, homey people, great drivers, pretty Libertarian politics, and my very favorite scenery with the pines and cliffs.

3. Cheap living, unpopulated (although harder to find work)

4. Rated "Best State" by an author who wrote, "The Best and Worst of the 50 States", and I agree with almost everything the author thinks.

Here's what they said,

"Overall Best State: Every state is wonderful in its own way, and hopefully every person will think their own state is the best, because that's why they live there. And so I think Oregon is the best state, despite its drab winters. Oregon has nice folks, generally good weather, progressive politics, great scenery, it's uncrowded and, unlike California, people there can actually afford to buy houses. Yes, it has an ugly capitol building, but overall there's no state that can top Oregon. But to paraphrase former Oregon governor Tom McCall, just don't move there, o.k.?"

THE KEY:

The key thing to remember is that the state isn't going to determine your experience so much as you are going to determine your own experience.

If you move to a different state, you'll want to do it with the right attitude & state of mind. You'll want that adventure spirit where change is good and new challenges are fun.

A state can be amazing if you adapt to it in a way that is AWESOME.

A state can be strait shit if you fail to adapt and bitch instead.

It's really more ON YOU. You can turn the worst state into your favorite one, and you can turn the best state into your most hated one.

So here's another quote from that same author...

A Fable

Regarding the unending American quest to find the "perfect place," here's a story that I read a few years ago:

A bitter young man named James once wandered through the countryside in search of a place to live. He arrived in a town and asked an elderly gentleman there what the people in the town were like. The older man asked, "What were the people like in the place you used to live?" James said, "They were rude and unfriendly." The older man said, "Well, that's what the people here are like, too." Upon hearing this, James moved on.

A while later, a kind young man named George, also in search of a place to live, arrived in the same town. He asked the same elderly gentleman what the people in that town were like. Once again, the older man asked, "What were the people like in the place you used to live?" George said, "They were polite and warm." The older man said, "Well, that's what the people here are like, too." Upon hearing this, George decided to stay.

Top 10 Signs You're Not An Alpha Male

2011-09-23T16:49:00.000-07:00

Great article, very insightful / helpful:

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/top-10-signs-youre-not-an-alpha-male_1.html

ALL NEW MOVIES

2011-09-11T12:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dvd/top_rentals.php

HOW TO START YOUR OWN YOUTUBE SHOW

2011-06-23T02:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8PtXYakDk

...because I like to be wined and dined after I've been FUCKED!

2011-05-02T16:53:00.001-07:00

HUMANCENTiPAD
Tags: SOUTH
PARK Kyle Broflovski,Eric Cartman,more...

Merlin: The worst show on tv

2011-03-07T20:07:00.000-08:00

...because of the script the actors cannot perform.

Merlin to his Caretaker: "I saw the chick you like doing dark magic".

Caretaker to Merlin: "This is the second time you said that... you're just jealous."

The actor playing merlin, thinking to himself "Ok seriously what the fuck my character is never jealous, is always right, and my caretaker is waaaay to wise to even say that... ever."

Caretaker to Merlin: "So fuck off dude"

............................................................

Chick to caretaker "What's wrong?"

Caretaker "Just an argument between me and merlin".

Chick: "Was it about me???"

SERIOUS WTF! HAVE YOU READ THE FUCKING SCRIPT HOW THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!! WOULD YOU KNOW THAT?

SOMEONE PLEASE REPLY WITH THE ADDRESS OR PHONE # OF ONE OF THE WRITERS SO I CAN MAKE THEIR LIFE A LIVING HELL.

Seriously though... I wanna know who wrote these fucking scripts.... so I can make sure I never have to read their half ass'ed bullshit ever again. This is FUCKING TERRIBLE.

testing

2010-10-15T19:54:00.000-07:00

just a test

Sweetest BMX Biking Video Ever

2010-07-12T01:52:00.001-07:00

I love Red Bull.

Awesome Story from Darkfall

2010-06-26T13:18:00.000-07:00

YA YA... it's tl;dr... but I think you'll find it's a really sweet read that's worth the time. Really goes to show the awesomeness of darkfall... and you've got to remember, in this game if you die, you lose everything you've got on you... so naturally the game feels a lot more "real" than any other game I've ever played.

You can't die too many times in a row... you'll end up with only trash gear left.

So anyways, me and my gay partner Dave just had an awesome pvp sesh.

Above: Dave and myself in Monkfield 40 minutes before server maintenance.

We took out a few mahirim and picked up a ton of scale armor and shit before getting chased out of the mahirim lands by a vet. He killed my friend and still managed to chase me down somehow, getting my horse to a sliver of health even by shooting arrows over a fuckin' hill without LOS and hitting me 3/4 times at super far range.

But I slipped away. He let me know he was eagerly awaiting my return to gank more noobs... so me and Davius hightailed it over to human lands.

First we pulled some ninja shit on a guy farming the mercian guild masters, sneaking up to practically melee range before popping out and owning his ass. Naturally, thousands of gold and scale/banded armor was looted.

I tell Dave (who's blue) to go to the local wildness bank, which has a tower, and bank our shit. I remain behind to go over to the local hamlet and see if there's any action there.

Well the guy we killed lived in the nearby hamlet (Charlies Angels) and came running back, meeting me half way, naked with another rank 40 bow and a rank 20 2h sword, and while yeah, he must have been nub, he still hit through my armor really hard and had some fantastic stats... he killed my horse and we duked it out in a awesome fight. He was better than me at archery, but sucked shit at melee, so I'd jump at him, whirlwind, wack his sorry frantic ass a few times, and then jump back and make him think we were going archery again just long enough to get whirlwind back. I repeated this 3 times and he couldn't touch me.

Mind you, I was low on rank 40 bows and don't have anyone who can give me a stockpile or anything so I rely on PvP to get that stuff. So it was nice getting two new bows... but before the night was over I'd have about 10 fresh new rank 40s.

We went over to Monkfield and took an SG who was afk mining down to one hit before she got to tower range. The best part about this, really, is that she taught me how to dodge -- you don't just strafe, you literally jerk your mouse and run in the direction you'd normally strafe in. The effect is twice the dodginess without the loss of speed that comes with strafing... making it much, much easier to get away. This maneuver ends up saving my ass before this story ends.

Without much luck in Monkfeild, and with only 40 minutes left 'till server down (nightly maintenance is from 4-5am), we trekked it south to the hivekin queen / mercian spawns looking for some action. Finding no action, and with little time left, we decide to take a shot at someone in NEW's Hammerdale before calling it a night.

Man... did we find the biggest moron in Hammerdale. We see a NEW Captain farming the farm with some plate on, so with 5 minutes left, we banked all the gear that we didnt want to die with on us and set our weapons to up / down stance. We get behind the guy, who's now just standing there AFK, and coordinate our motions to strike him down from behind as fast as possible...

I don't even think he had time to alt-tab back into the game. We looted 2 plate chestpieces, lots of scale shit, a few bone armor pieces, many dozens of herbs and mats, and I score big (at least, big to me, seeing as I'm desperate for bows)... the guy has around 8 rank 40 bows on him. We loot all this as 2 other NEW recruits wack us, following us to the bank, where we bank everything (Idiots should have just looted him).

Davius doesn't quite make it out alive and I'm being chased to the city wall, using my newly learned dodging techniques to stay alive. I run up the ramp to the top of the wall and pull one of the SICKEST fake outs I think I'll ever pull. The part of the wall I ran up kind of sticks out from the rest of the wall and has a dark overhang you can kind of hide in pretty well, and even though this guy is only about 25 feet behind me, I jump off the wall as if I'm leaving the city only to strafe a little and land inside the overhang. He runs around for the last two minutes before server down wondering how the fuck I vanished on the other side of the wall as I try to contain my excitement over vent.

And now when I log in, the bank... and gankable noobs... are readily available for me. Right in the heart of the most populated, noobiest land there is... which spells p-e-r-f-e-c-t p-l-a-c-e-m-e-n-t for a red newfuck like myself.

I freakin' love this game... and I don't see any reason to do the grind with only about 10 hours a week to spent on darkfall and fun like this available on friday night.

Landmark's WORD (An e-mail I never sent)

2010-06-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

I never sent this e-mail because it's just a little too serious, plus I'm trying not to randomly help people or preach my shit so much. I'm trying to become more humble, and I'm just getting started... so obviously sending this would go against all that I'm trying to balance in my life.

But I still had to write it... because I used to have an EPIC tool for controlling myself that stopped working after only a few days of using it, called "The Whip" (whipping myself into submission mentally).

This is "The Word" and it replaces "The Whip" in a way that actually works.

***

Landmark said something that I never quite got,
which is that "all you have is your word".

Two days ago, I continually broke myself down over
and over while simultaneously installing "my word"
in the place of the old shit I was throwing out.
I didn't know I was doing it. But the result was one
I'd been building for a while, and yet unexpected.
Over the last two days, I haven't hesitated for even
a second one time to do exactly what I told myself
to do (and what I knew from A TON of previous
thinking that I should do.) I have thus gained full
control of my word... my mind is going to work and
doing what needs to be done on autopilot for once.

Alrighty Business Circle, you can stop reading now.

That's the POWER of landmark's idea of YOUR WORD

(I... think. It's been 2 years since I did landmark and I'm just now getting what this meant... so I could be quite off.)

Below is something that's VERY tl;dr (too long; don't read) [the whole email including this totals to 5 pages] It's so long, I'm not even going to attempt to edit it... which I think is a first for any article I've written that spanned over 1 - 2 pages.

But, I think it's a pretty good explaination of Landmark's word, and since you're in the business circle, I kind of feel obligated to give you a shot at this one.

I'd recommend you window mode your browser so the text doesn't stretch across the screen. It's going to make it much easier to read, trust me.

For the record reading this WILL significantly impress me, lol... so yeah I'd love to hear if you read it even if it's just a quick reply that says, "I read it. FUUUUU---"
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So what is "your word"? And how is it "all you have"?

First, you've got to understand who YOU are... or more accurately, WHAT you are, and that's a little more complicated than Landmark's explaination that you are "a biological, *meaning making* machine".

That is to say, you're technically a robot with a really, really complicated brain that goes around making meaning of things.

Which makes a lot of sense if you consider that nothing in the real world "means" anything. If you didn't see it, sure it existed... but it may as well not have. Two comets smashing in space are just two objects colliding. The same thing goes for the most awesome thing that's ever happened to you. You got super excited and remember it to this day, but it only matters to you because your mind went "that was amazing". That amazingness is merely a "meaning" that your mind has created.

...Now hold on to your horses, sparky, cuz I gotta ask... did the holocaust mean anything? We've all thought it was one of the most horrible, terrifying things to ever happen and it taught us about the evil mankind is capable of. And that means a lot... to mankind. But really, it's all just a planet that happens to have plants and animals and people who end eachothers lives. None of it means something if no one made the meaning... outside of your head, or the heads of all people, there's nothing (other than perhaps God depending on your religiousness beliefs) that makes it mean anything. SOMEONE has to judge it before it has any meaning.

So to US, the holocaust means tons of things... but in reality (outside of our brains) the holocaust, feeding starving children, and even "love" have absolutely no meaning. In the reality, they're just things that HAPPEN.

Okay, did ya get all that? For the record, I ask about the holocaust because that seriously is going to challenge some of your beliefs. If you can't understand how the holocaust doesn't mean anything except to YOU (since you're a meaning making machine) or OTHER PEOPLE (since we all have minds that make meaning out of the world around us)...

If you just can't get that right now... that's okay, because it took landmark something like 30+ hours almost STRAIT before they tried to tell us that.

But if you're not getting that, you gotta stop reading now. The rest of this simply isn't going to make sense... you'd be wasting your time. So think about the above and see if you can distinguish things in your head from what they really are.

So, back on point.

Literally, what you are is CONSCIOUSNESS. That implies that you are MORE THAN JUST YOUR MIND.

How can you be more than just your mind, when it's 100% of what makes you conscious?

Well, imagine you were born, but just as consciousness should have developed, it didn't. You're born and your mind grows to be just as powerful as it is today (well, at least in the pure sense of brainpower, but it obviously doesn't have any of the work you've done on it or whatever), and although just as powerful and equal as your current mind, this brain has never experienced a thought. It's never run an emotion or responded to anything. It's a vegetable.

If that were true, YOU would have never existed. Only your mind would have. Hence, YOU are more than your mind.

Your mind is kind of like the projector, and YOU are the image projected.

I think I've told you before about a "clearing" or "vacuum"... if you were to magically create empty space free of air and atoms in the middle of your room, what would happen? Everything would immediately rush in to fill the empty space.

So you are essentially the empty space which the mind is continuously filling.

YOU have never seen anything. You experience images, but they come from the mind.
YOU don't have any emotions. You experience them, but they come from the mind.
YOU don't have any thoughts. You experience them, but they come from the mind.

So what do you have?

YOU have choice. That's what's meant by "all you have is your word".

Your mind projects several things into your experience, and then inside of your experience you ***USE*** your mind.

To illustrate how twisted and confusing it is, and then to make sense of it all and show where you can really see YOURSELF APART FROM YOUR MIND, I'll bring up a following hypothetical story.

One day, you are feeling sad, and your mind might project, "I don't like this, I want to be happy." You then use your mind by asking it, "how can I be happy?" It brings up that you should be more responsible, and you consider that until it then projects all the games you can play with an overwhelming emotional pull that quickly fills your experience.

At some point, you can't just keep playing games because they're not worth it any more. The fun emotions you get off of them turn grey. Your emotions change and your mind tells you that you're sad again. It brings up the same stuff as last time, this time with a stronger emotional pull towards responsibility.

And so it repeats but this time, you choose to do some responsible things in your life. Then responsibility becomes less enjoyable until you're back to games. But every time you are responsible, you see more of the good sides about it.

Now that was almost completely PROJECTED STUFF. YOU chose to follow what you're mind was saying, because you FELT (from the projected emotions) that your thinking was sound.

But one day, you're not so sure the pattern of repeated behavior is right anymore. The good sides of doing something greater with this responsibility stuff has been growing on you. You find yourself, one day, back at sadness, and feel another projected emotion that says "I should REALLY think about this..."

And then something magical happens.

I've seen my friend Alex Shahparnia make this click, I've seen myself make this click, and I think most people had a moment in their life that was more empowering than any other moment they've ever experienced by a long shot.

You spend a few hours running the show a little more than usual. You start out asking yourself if it'd be better if you really started getting responsible. Your mind projects that playing games all the time is "living the life". You think about that for a while and eventually end up comparing it to all the times you were sad even though you were playing lots of games, and in making the choice to listen to your emotions and spend this time thinking, you have enough control over the experience to really compare past events side by side, until an overwhelming emotion gets projected that says, "BULLSHIT. Playing games all the time is NOT the life, look how depressed I've been".

Powerful emotions take over. Empowering emotions take over. Emotions that completely overwhelm other emotions until you've locked your door and turned off your phone because you're literally crying and yelling at yourself. In these critical moments, YOU CHOOSE to throw out certain emotions (very specific, suddenly outdated ideas of yours) ONCE AND FOR ALL. At this point, YOU (YOU meaning, you VERY CONSCIOUSLY) make a CHOICE (something the mind, on it's own, is uncapable of doing.)

And with that strong choice you give YOUR WORD that you'll start being on the responsible side of the tracks from now on.

End of story.

Now go back and notice that you...

...DO NOT OWN YOUR EMOTIONS. You share them with the brain, as it continually is projecting them into your experience.
...DO NOT OWN YOUR THOUGHTS. You share them with the brain, as it continually is projecting them into your experience.

So how do you then actually OWN your word? Isn't that shared? How is "your word" the "only thing you have".

Your word was formed from comparing projections and then making a CHOICE. Only you could make that choice, since the mind can't make it without you. It needed you to be conscious, to recieve all the thoughts and emotions, and then piece them together. You didn't have to make that choice... as a matter of fact, you could have made it ANY of the times you were being responsible, but the emotions being projected weren't powerful enough for you.

AT NO POINT DID YOUR BRAIN EVER "PROJECT" THE CHOICE INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. It only projected all the things you used to make the choice. It can be said that you were BOUND to make that choice based on the emotions, thoughts, and process, but THAT CHOICE IS YOURS, AS IT COULD *ONLY* COME FROM YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS (and remember, your consciousness is YOU, and YOU can control your mind, and since you).

Now, that choice was yours for the moment... but it can fade off with time. I believe you own it, but you may not maintain it. Hence, the reason your word is all you have is because...

Your WORD, which comes from your CHOICES, was never projected from the mind, it came from within consciousness. And you can CHOOSE TO FOLLOW YOUR WORD DESPITE PROJECTED THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS.

Now don't get confused here and think you've given your word to show up to your job / class on time. You haven't. You show up to those things because the second you consider not showing up, your mind projects emotions that say "Nope, you gotta go." And even if you decide to stop going to work, it's just your mind going "I can't take this any more." At no point have you GIVEN YOUR TRUE WORD.

But if you decide you're going to do something no matter what... you can simply FREEZE THE PROJECTOR. You can actually just say, "I gave my word, I'm going, and I'm not going to think about it, I'm just going to do it." Isn't that a projected thought, though? Not if you've set that thought up before hand, and you've SET that CHOICE up BEFOREHAND.

Now for the sake of sanity, let's say this is 90% true. Let's say you can't complete freeze up the projector, but you can get it stuck in a certain loop you've desired by rigging it before the show starts.

So take my friend Alex. He was always up and down in his grades in school... smart kid but lacking motivation... and then in college his grades began to plummet. He was on the fast track to drop out.

Then... outa freakin' nowhere... he starts getting strait As and gets into UCLA faster than you would have thought possible.

What happened there? Well, the story from above... and one day, or over the course of a week or a month possibly... I don't know the details... he came to a strong choice that he was going to turn it all around. And then he got stuck in a loop of getting strait As. He rigged the friggen projector. He made his choice, and whether he knew it or not, he had given his word... because he certainly followed it.

Could it be that his mind just started projecting all the right stuff? Yeah... that's exactly what happened. My question is, could the mind do that without Alex's choice? I don't think so. And that's why Alex owns his word, that's why it's something that's HIS. It's not something his mind projected origionally. It's something that he concluded and then used effectively.

It's lunch time... Health food, or hamburger? Emotion --> I want yummy. Emotion --> I want to be healthier. The more powerful emotion and thought process behind it wins, and you are decided. But if you gave your word that "will always eat health food for lunch" based on previous choice, you might eat health food no matter how much the mind yells "I WANT THE FRIGGEN HAMBURGER. ONE TIME MAN. ONE TIME!" you can say, "nope, talked about this, the word says eat the health food" and you can thus automatically eat the health food without having to think about it.

That's because your word is YOURS, not your MIND'S, and you have power over your mind. You can choose what gets projected. You don't always gotta just decide.

The Fundamental of Landmark -- Biological Machine

2010-06-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

For the record, this landmark stuff can serve you really well. I'm about to discuss how I'm a "biological machine". You might be thinking "No... you're HUMAN." I ask you, what is a human being, really? If you made a robot out of stem cells and started it up using a replicated human brain, would it not resemble a newly created human being? What if you were in control of it's emotions?

Let's say this artificial human then became passionate about doing something, but wasn't able to get passed some of it's emotional hangups (for example, it just won't stop playing Halo). If you had the ability to make it stop liking halo for a short time and start liking work more, wouldn't that be good for that artificial human's life? ...Aren't there times you wish you had that kind of control over yourself?

Landmark training gives you greater control over being able to tweak yourself in ways that help you do big things for yourself. The training is fundamentally okay. It's their training process at large... one that is largely based on Scientology's... that has some corrupt nature to it. It's "tainted" as my dad would say. But you CAN, as a matter of fact, throw out parts of landmark and things they say ENTIRELY and still get all the right stuff. They'll tell you you can't, which is fucked up cuz it's not true.

What is true is when they say you can't get the "full experience"... and IMO, there's a little too much thought reform going on... you don't want the "full experience"... trust me. Don't share landmark with everyone like they tell you... cuz, it's for YOU, NOT for everyone else. You should reject all notions of trying to change other people. It is an ineffective method of achieving the end results you really wanted all along. (Having others around you into what you're into is ALWAYS a huge plus, people close to you have a GIANT effect on the way you think, and landmark makes it seem like you NEED that plus when I swear to you, you absolutely don't. It's a bonus, NOT a requirement.)

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I didn't get this the first time I saw it, but after:

-Understanding the process of breaking someone down and building them back up (thought reform)

-Training myself to "come off it" (to essentially hit the "reboot" system on my mind when it's not serving me well),

-Generally expanding my own "lore" (not jargon, "understanding" just isn't deep enough here) on how I really function as a biological machine, and what I really am (logistically speaking) as a human being.

...Now I really get how this video sums up landmark quite well. It also sums up thought reform really well. And that's sort of the point -- one ought to have the power to reform their thoughts to achieve their goals. That's the fundamental of landmark.

Copypasta: A Little Revenge

2010-05-23T14:50:00.000-07:00

(You'll want to zoom in / shrink the window size for this...)

Now, I’m sure many of you have encountered little shits in supermarkets. Little kids running about and knocking things over, being rude, walking all over their parents, you know the kind. But the worst are the biters. Yes, those little cunts that feel it is okay to bite you whenever they feel like it. Okay, here’s the best part. A biter got me today when I was grocery stopping. He broke the fucking skin, too. This was when the gears started turning, the moment I saw a tiny sprinkle of blood on the little shit’s teeth as he was grinning at me like the little cunt he is. I made my eyes get wide, and started screaming “SHIT! SHIT!.” Now, my good friend, Tom we’ll call him, was there too, and he instantly picked up on it. He started shouting “FUCK! MAYBE HE DIDN’T GET IT! FUCK!”. By now, the kid is scared shitless and starts crying, and instantly, Mizz Mom appears out of nowhere and starts getting pissy at us for yelling at her kid. Here’s the kicker, I look her straight in the eye and say, “Ma'am, get your son tested as soon as possible, he just bit me and I’m… I’m FUCKING HIV POSITIVE.” And now there is silence. Not a peep in the entire store. The brat knows he just fucked up big time because his mom isn’t defending his ass. She just stares at me wide eyed. I walk away from them, buy my shit from the wide eyed cashier, all the while blood is dripping from my calf, making a nice little trail on the floor. And, just as we leave, we start to hear the mother sobbing. Sobbing like the cunt she is. I have never felt any more satisfaction than the moment I heard that sob. I'm not really HIV Positive, but that little shit must've gotten in a fuckheap of trouble.

The Coolest Thing You May Ever See

2010-05-19T19:40:00.000-07:00

Okay, this IS the coolest thing I've ever sent my "inner circle" email list.

If you haven't heard about this, you have to watch this video. Seriously.

Possibly within the next 10 years... you won't have to wear a watch, you'll instantly know which brand of any product is best for you just by looking at each product, ...

you WON'T EVEN have to take your phone out of your pocket to use it to make calls,
send text messages,
surf the internet,
watch videos, etc (you'll be able to project all of this stuff - even the dial pad for your cell phone - onto the wall in front of you and simply click on the wall)

Anything you can do with your computer or cell phone is essentially becoming a screen-less sixth sense...

...I'm totally blown away. When this evolves into it's prime, it's going to turn the Kindle and iPad (and maybe even the cell phone and PC) into outdated technology. And it's not going to be expensive... and it's already here and convenient.

People actually stand up to applaud the genius behind this at the end of the video.

...I can't wait!

James

I Fuck With a Biased Critic & Learn a Valuable Lesson

2010-05-11T23:55:00.001-07:00

First you gotta see the video that inspired this prank:

First of all, props to Quentin. Seeing this really helped make up for the false advertising he pulled on me when he named his Anne Frank movie "Inglorious Bastards" ("hey, sorry I'm 10 minutes late to the movie man... *2 hours later*... wait... where the HELL were the inglorious bastards? I could've SWORE I saw like 5 commercials of nothing but nazi killing hardasses!?"... "dude, this is why you don't show up 10 minutes late to the movies you asshat.")

So, being in a not so postive, not so productive place at the moment, I decided to pull a prank on Jan Wahl, the retarded hat lady. To be honest, I just really wanted to show her how her "soulfulness" made me feel.

THE PRANK--- It's time to take a shot at a critic...

Jan Wahl has a nice website up where you can book her for one of her lectures. As seen by the video above, she seems to care a lot about spreading the anti-violence message, so I decided if I set my approach right and asked her to supplement one of her lectures with some anti-violence material for students, she'd take me seriously enough to read my embedded, personal message to her.

Pretending to be Jason Perry from San Francisco School District's KALW-FM radio station, I sent the request on her website.

A very professional booking in the first couple of paragraphs, I proceed to point out that this is not a usual request, as we are supplementing it with an anti-violence message.

That's where it gets exciting. Pulling from her need to help inform parents about violence, I ask her if she'd be willing to participate in this fantastic opportunity and critique how her lecture on Critical Thinking of Movies and Television relates to the affects of media violence on society.

I explain that I need to know from Jan herself if this will work and proceed to provide a long article found on the internet that she'll no doubt get wet reading.

Except, in the middle of the article, out of FUCKING NO WHERE it says,

"Yata yata yata...jan is arrogant, obnoxious, and so clearly biased that no one can take her seriously. She does damage to the anti-violence community's message and if she doesn't believe that, she should take a look at herself in the now viral youtube video of her bashing quentin."

=D.

Trust me, this was WELL PULLED... and I've got experience with this kind of prank. I'd say there's roughly an 90%+ chance that she read the article with my embed in it, as it's (A) a job and (B) too long for a webmaster to read, plus it said that I needed HER opinion over whether the job would work for her. So even if she had a secretary (unlikely), and the secretary read the first couple of paragraphs, it's very unlikely the secretary would have read the whole boring article before giving it to her... and even if she skimmed through it, she would have missed my embedded message as it was smack in the middle of pure boredom with nothing (not even capitol letters) to call attention to itself.

Wish I copy and pasted before hitting the submit button, lol. I made a fake email with forwarding to myself, so if any follow up messages come I'll be getting them.

Sigh... what a waste of time (>.<)... but it feels nice to take a shot at her for this. She's not gonna be happy that the article was, in fact, a prank and a major waste of time. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Jan responds!

Jan Wahl

to jasonperrycoun.

show details 7:11 AM (9 hours ago)

"Hi Jason..Great to hear from you. Is there a phone number where I can call you and we can have a brief chat about this? Thank you!"

Well, now I'm thinking she either hasn't read it, or wants to see if I got the balls to talk about it to her face.

So there's three approaches I can take:

1. Tell her what a fat bitch she is over the phone, personally. Hey, I've stood up to people before and put my foot down, but doing so here wouldn't be very funny since I can't record it, and I've already wasted enough energy on this prank as it is.

2. Actually give her a number of someone over at the school district. I've actually got some numbers ready on hand. She'd have a super confusing conversation, and then probably go back and read my full comment. Buut that feels kind of illegal... and I can't just waste the time of innocent bistanders, now can I? Oh yeah, and I can't record that, either.

3. Make sure she read my embedded comment by replying to her email with a link to the youtube video and my embedded comment included. Since she has PERSONALLY EMAILED MY FAKE ADDRESS, I know it'll get through to her this time.

So, option #3 it is. I don't feel super happy about picking on her... but she's asking for it... and if she happens to reply at all, I'm sure lulz will ensue.

Let's see if we can piss off a biased critic.

"Hi Jan,

Thanks for your prompt response to my comment.

This is a youtube video of you in an interview that has accumulated over 1 MILLION views on youtube. You've probably already seen it, but here it is if you haven't watched it yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2ukSJFgCM

In this video, you are arrogant, obnoxious, and so clearly biased that no one can take you seriously. You do damage to the anti-violence community's message. And I agree with whoever posted the video when they say, "Quentin simply destroys you."

Thank-you for considering my message,

The Real Jason Perry"

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She responds... and KILLS IT. Yes... she completely, utterly pwned the lulz. But I gotta post it, cuz there's a REALLY VALUABLE lesson (just so valuable since I'll be using this from now on)...

Jan Wahl

to me

show details 4:49 PM (1 hour ago)

Jason..This was done many, many years ago. I hope in your life you never have such a terrible thing happen to you. This has caused me danger and heartbreak I hope you never know. So the entire school project thing was bogus?

So I apologized briefly, letting her know I felt bad, though I'm not gonna sit here and cry about it. You just don't fuck up on TV like that, and she's paying the price.

But I will walk away with a valuable lesson.

If a video has over 100,000 - 1,000,000 + views, /b/ has already unleashed it's wrath. (100K - 1M = the amount of views required for a production youtube video to be considered a "success" by the producing studio.)

This means several things.

-No need to post to /b/ at all if X is within that view count.

-No need to harass anyone who's within that view count... they are paying for it drastically.

-In general, anything popular or over 10,000 views (99.9% of everything you see) should just be left alone.

-Harassing other human beings... even if they deserve it... sucks. It's no better than complaining about shit and justifying your complaints... you'll just feel a lot worse afterwards even if you're right.

See what I'm sayin'? I DONT feel like I'm really in the wrong here... she WAS asking for it on public TV. I DO feel like this was stupid, lame, and a mistake. The only real reason that this wasn't a waste of my time, is that spending my time was worth the lessons it yielded.

I doubt she can say the same, that the price was worth the lesson. Now I feel bad for her.

A Metacritic > A Movie Critic

2010-05-11T22:24:00.001-07:00

"...I believe that the era of the movie critic is over. Sites like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes are the best way to get a quick numerical rating without falling victim the indulgences of purposefully contrarian or idiocynratic reviewers such as Mick LaSalle or Jan Wahl. Going to the theatre is an increasingly expensive and cumbersome process and people are less willing to gamble their time and money based on the whims of a single reviewer..."

How did knights train horses to charge into a bunch or infantry or other cavalry and not be afraid?

2010-04-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

How did knights train horses to charge into a bunch or infantry or other cavalry and not be afraid?

(origional article should be linked ^)

It’s hilarious because some people have a problem getting their horse into a transport when in the ancient ages they pulled chariots into battle and in the medieval ages knights used them to charge into battle all that with arrows flying everywhere and catapults going off and everything.

The same way anyone PROPERLY trains a horse to do anything. By gradually getting them used to something that’d normally spook them, make them get that it’s not something bad, and reward them. Over _2000_ years ago the ancient Greek cavalry leader Xenophon wrote the earliest book on horses and said, "The one great precept and practice in using a horse is this – never deal with him when you are in a fit of passion. When your horse shies at an object and is unwilling to go up to it, he should be shown that there is nothing fearful in it, least of all to a courageous horse like him; but if this fails, touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him, and lead him up to it with gentleness. Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear; and when horses are at all hurt at such times, they think what they shied at is the cause of the hurt." Xenophon also credited an earlier horse expert named Simon, so he wasn’t the first person to come up with this kind of training.

Sure, there have also been people who beat the crap out of their horses and treat them like machines. Unfortunately, there’s always been a good number of brain-donors in the world. I’m only an intermediate rider, but don’t suggest a battle of wills with an often unpredictable half-ton animal unless you want a horse that IS afraid of his/her own shadow, waiting to pitch you into the dirt, crazy, just plain mean, or any combination of these.
FWIW, I’ve heard of people getting "difficult" horses onto trailers armed with nothing more than oats and a little patience.

These Insects Pretty Much Sum Up How I Feel About How The Economy Has Been Handled...

2010-03-22T18:38:00.001-07:00

Has to be shared... too well done

2010-01-30T12:51:00.001-08:00

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

MOST AWESOME SKIING TRICK EVER and Red Bull's Stratos Project

2010-01-29T05:32:00.000-08:00

Stratos -

The Tornado -

Also, this trick will be the death of me: http://www.redbullskiing.com/news/2010/01/jon-olsson-releases-clip-of-ne.php

*For promoting bands, note how they list the myspace pages of the music makers @ the end.

Firefox Favorites Bar

2009-12-28T12:29:00.001-08:00

This is old, just posting it here so I have a backup...

"Paradigm Shift" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift#Examples_of_paradigm_shifts_in_the_social_sciences

http://pandora.com/

http://skreemr.com/

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,,1651341,00.html

"FIND SHOWS HERE!!!" http://btjunkie.org/

Gmail

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http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/

https://www.happier.com/form.htm;jsessionid=35C2D3BE0C0B9CC0D504C02932FA01A0?rc=301



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"fibro - ..." http://www.webmd.com/living-with-fibro/fibro-pain-impact-tool

"fibro - ..."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbalta#Fibromyalgia

"insomniac flies - ..." http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/06/08/Insomniac-flies-resemble-insomniac-humans/UPI-82521244473194/

"Testimonials - ..." http://www.teamanr.com/C9_T11_Muscle_Maker_s/24.htm

"Testimonials - ..." http://www.sleep-sound.com/



-------Common-------
"Official Entertainment" http://jamesmontague.blogspot.com/2009/05/official-sources-of-entertainment.html

http://www.socialnetworkingchallenge.blogspot.com/

"All Entertainment" http://games.allmyfaves.com/

http://ebenpagan.wordpress.com/

I wanna be able to do this some day

2009-12-05T18:17:00.001-08:00

Goes with the comedy stuff:

Good with Technology?

2009-11-22T18:29:00.000-08:00

If so, you'll like the technologically impaired duck:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/technologically-impaired-duck

lol @ kanye

2009-11-22T16:20:00.000-08:00

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kanye-interrupts-imma-let-you-finish

...plus...

Three Wolf Moon

2009-11-16T23:27:00.000-08:00

Twilight: three wolf moon video to go here. For now, search on collegehumor.com (until they post it to youtube.)

I'm going to get an "International Citizenship"

2009-11-15T17:37:00.000-08:00

I'm NOT kidding. I'm actually DEAD SERIOUS.

The idea is that you choose which country you think gives you the fairest deal... and you become a citizen of that country (even if you don't technically live there. Yes, this requires upfront money... but on an ethical and moral basis, I think it's the right thing to do.)

There's 2 sections to this page which represents my ideology:

Ethical / Moral JUSTIFICATION
Details of gaining an "International Citizenship"

Part 1: JUSTIFICATION

If someone you don't even know really fucked up... and they came up to you and said, "Please sir, can I have half of your money?"... what would you say?

Let's say you actually gave them your money... do you think there's a good chance they might just fuck it all up again... because they know they can just get someone to give them a bunch of money if they do?

Well, that's exactly why I would say "Sorry, but no. There's a good reason you have to earn your way, and you'll survive in the end".

Yet, if someone fucks up in America... which is supposedly not socialist... I end up paying for their food, their house, and now, their good health, too.

Nice.

How much of your income does the government need to provide all that? How much do income tax, sales tax, state taxes, local taxes, etc all add up to? 25% of your income? More?

What percentage of that is actually for your protection? (whether it be from telecallers, terrorists, or from huge corporations taking a crap on you for more profit)

Look -- I DO NOT buy into this re-distribution of wealth (via "stimulus bills" and "free health care") shit for one second. I believe you should have to earn your way, taking total responsibility for your own life. I do not believe in spoon feeding from the government. I think this is just a way for politicians to secretly pocket some of the money in the midst of ineffective bureaucracy.

It's just against what I believe to be ethically and morally right. It's your job to take care of yourself. Not my job. And if it were my job, what's to motivate you to ever grow passed basic necessity?

Once taxes pass the 25% mark, to me, that's clearly socialist. And as you can see, I'm anti-socialist. That's just not for me. And that's where I'm living. I can either deal with it and live feeling like I'm giving up my income so others can live lazily... or I can stop paying the system which supports those which fail (thus, supporting failure, and building a country on that principle), stop paying the corruption that is politics, and instead give myself at the very least, some options:

-Stop paying the % taxes that account for "free hand-outs" to others and risk getting nuked by the government.

-Pay taxes to another country in which I find the tax % to be more agreeable (less perfect, but far less risky. And in the end, I'm all about happiness... I wouldn't be happy knowing the government could nuke me for not giving them 100% of what they ask for.)

Part 2: International Citizenship

So what is it and how does it work?

Instead of "you live here, you pay the taxes here", you get to live anywhere you want and pay the taxes of the government you most agree with (instead of 1 government to support, you get over 100 to choose from.)

Cheating? Maybe. But it seems a lot better to not have to give up everything you love just because you can't stand the people who own your land and you aren't willing to pay increasing demands in which you get nothing back.

And in this post-internet world, you don't have to. You can legitimately pay taxes to the government of your choice while living in the land of your choice. It does cost time, money, and convenience... and the price isn't low... but it might be a lot better than the alternative.

Here's how I'M going to do it. There might be cheaper, better ways... and if you find one, let me know... but here's how it works from my viewpoint.

You choose a country.

You "move" there (meaning, you buy yourself a one way ticket, get yourself a permanent home, and announce to all authorities that you are now a resident and wannabe-citizen of this new country.)

You "take a vacation" back (meaning, you buy yourself a "vacation home" in the land of your choice and pay and act as if you were from the other country visiting. There is technically no limit to how long you can spend on vacation.)

You pay taxes to the country in which you have chosen to become a citizen, you pay your rent in that country, you pay a higher price to get anything here as a "non-resident", and it ends up being pretty impractical and expensive. Especially if you've gotta fly back and forth every once in a while.

But, if the USA fucks up the economy and needs 50% of your money to fix their problems... and the value of the US dollar goes out the window and everything turns to shit while still demanding half your money... it might very well be worth it... especially if you get your income from the internet and have a good amount of money (with a job on the internet, I make FAR more money getting paid in Euros than in a 3rd world currency.)

So if you consider that I want to have a lot of money from my job on the internet... and that I disagree with our government... and that I love this land to death and would never want to live in a foreign country over my homeland... then you can see why this is the direction I'm headed in.

United Socialist States of America

2009-11-15T16:48:00.001-08:00

I'm committed to not thinking about political news but it just got the best of me for the last 30 minutes.

So here's my commitment to getting back on track... I'll say this and be done with it. No masterminding this one. This is for documentation.

I believe the government's job is to protect us (even if that means thousands of laws including provisions to stop advertisers from filling our mailboxes and to prevent big companies from shiting on their employees.)

I DO NOT buy into this re-distribution of wealth (via "stimulus bills" and "free health care") shit for one second. I believe you should have to earn your way, taking total responsibility for your own life. NO spoon feeding from the government. This wasn't the vision of the founding fathers in the slightest!

-Politics and relationships are to be kept separate. I need to remember this. Only time they should overlap in when I'm starting to think of leaving the USSA and my friends are supporting the socialist movement... if I'm actually getting ready to leave... fuck them. We're not going to have a hunky dory relationship if you're not considering the fact that it's people like you driving people like me out of the country. With that said, I will probably never leave the USSA... I will just find more and more ways around paying taxes.

The Physics of Judgement Day

2009-11-07T12:27:00.000-08:00

by Dr. Mohammed HumaYoun Khan

JAMES' NOTE: FINALLY Something Religious That Makes Sense. If you see your whole life played backwards before you and someone clearly comes from another dimension to "lead you to higher planes"... follow THAT person, don't hang behind (if you'd like to keep on existing...)

"When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then, indeed be raised again?"
Al Quran Sura 37 verse l6

We did not will ourselves into existence nor do we accept death willingly. Life seems almost endless especially when things are going well. As we rush through our daily business we hardly notice the irony, that all this must eventually end.
All major religions of the world ascribe to some form of belief in life after death. The Day of judgment is one of the fundamental beliefs of the Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Hindus also have their almost endless reincarnations followed by the final reunion with the supreme being.
Even if we believe firmly in "The day of Judgment," anything that can enhance our belief is highly desirable. In this context let us look at the story of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be on him) given in the Quran. (Sura ii verse 260). Prophet Ibrahim wanted to know how Allah gives life to the dead. He said that he believed that it is the truth but he would like to have some reassurance. Allah then showed him a miracle. If a great prophet like Ibrahim could wish for reassurance then surely simple folks like us are in need of a lot more.
This is especially true in the present day world where many beliefs have been demolished by advances in science. Fortunately for the Muslims, scientific advancements have explained many of the obscure verses in the Quran and have given new meaning to others. Quran, because of this, stands raised far above other religious books in its authority as a truly revealed book.
There is only one version of the Quran. It is the only religious book that even the critics of Islam admit was never altered since its revelation to Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) fourteen hundred years ago. There are many verses in the Quran that describe scientific facts that were discovered only in the last one hundred years. There is consistency in its description of various phenomenon. The verses accurately describe ideas that are in agreement with modern observations about the universe. According to the Quran, life originated in w ater and was created in numerous stages. There is mention of the orbits of sun and moon and possibility of numerous other worlds like the earth. There is also the impression of higher dimensions. The paradise and hell appear to be beyond this universe in some other dimension.
In this article, I would like to propose that even at the present time with our limited knowledge, there are remarkable similarities between some theories of cosmology and the day of judgment described in the Quran. I believe in the future, science will reinforce these predictions. However this is not the only way the day of judgment could come and indeed the real knowledge is with Allah only.
In the name of Allah The Beneficent,The Merciful Man thinks that We shall not assemble his bones Yes Truly! Yes, We are able to resfore his very fingers! Sura 75 verses 3 & 4

INTRODUCTION TO COSMOLOGY
To understand how the fiuture of the universe is linked to the day of judgment we will need to know some cosmology. We will in the next few pages learn, how the universe began, what it is like now and what are the future possibilities in store for us. Our solar system consists of earth and nine other planets that are moving in an orbit around a star we call the sun. The sun along with two hundred billion other stars, comprises our galaxy "The Milky Way," which is similar to "The Andromeda" galaxy, that is shown on the cover of this article. The galaxies are roughly shaped like a disc, with the stars moving in circular orbits at various distances around a large central mass.

THE LIGHT YEARS
The vastness of the universe requires, that the distances be measured in "Light years." Light year is the distance, traveled by light, in a year, at the speed of three hundred thousand kilometers per second. The distance from the earth to the sun is eight minutes at the speed of light. Compared to this the nearest star from earth other than our sun is four light years away. Our galaxy, "The Milky Way," is one hundred and fifty thousand light years across. This means that traveling at the speed of light, it will take one hundred and fifty thousand years to go from one side of it to the other. Average separation of the galaxies is about ten million light years. Many hundred billion such galaxies are part of the truly gigantic universe.
The creation of the heavens and the earth is definitely greater thing than the creation of mankind, but most of mankind knows not. Sura 40 verse 57.

THE RECEDING GALAXIES
When the light that is coming from galaxies other than our "Milky Way," is analyzed, using an instrument called the spectroscope, we find that they are moving away from us at tremendous speeds. The more distant a galaxy is the greater is its speed of recession. This motion of the galaxies is due to the expansion of the universe. The universe began in a tremendous explosion called "The big bang" and is expanding since then. The universe is not just a sphere of galaxies rushing away from each other into unending emptiness of space. It is like a balloon with many dots on it, each representing a galaxy. The surface of this balloon, that is two dimensional, represents all the three dimensions of our space, and is expanding into a higher dimension, that is beyond our imagination.

THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
It is not known if the universe would expand for ever, or one day it uould start contracting. In either case the future of all the inhabitants of the universe would be rather bleak. If the expansion continues then aRer billions of years all the energy of the sun and the stars will be exhausted and every thing will die a cold death. After a while only expanding emptiness will remain. Alternatively if there is enough mass then the gravity will one day stop the expansion and the contraction will begin. A contracting universe will eventually end in a very hot and compressed state called "The Big Crunch." This will destroy all the life forrns as we know.
Besides the above two depressing and purposeless scenarios of the future there is a third possibility. Some physicists feel that time may reverse when the universe starts contracting. This possibility, has a striking resemblance to the Quranic description of the day of judgment.
Now, let us turn our attention to the evolution of the universe. We will learn how this leads to the end that coincides with another beginning, that we call the day of judgment. The uncanny agreement of cosmology with the Quranic revelation will become self evident

THE PHYSICS OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
For some, science has taken the place of the miracles in the twentieth centurys and religion is nothing more than an interesting cultural pastime. The commonly overlooked fact is, that it is God who has made the laws of the universe upon which science and technology is based.
Physicists and cosmologists all over the world, are working towards a better understanding of the structure of the universe. However to the misguided mind, the universe has a purposeless existence. It is a universe with random design and aimless laws. From the Islamic point of view, the universe has been created for a purpose and it will exist till its purpose is fulfilled; then it will cease to exist.
There are numerous scientifically accurate facts in the Quran that was revealed fourteen hundred years ago. This is nothing other than a miracle for the believers. The scientific truths described in the Quran were discovered only in the last one hundred years. Maurice Bucaille the author of "The Bible The Quran And Science," says "There is not a single scientific error in the Quran." It should not come to us as a surprise that in the present day world that is obsessed with science, the truth of the day of judgment may become apparent because of the scientific knowledge given in the Quran.
We shall show them our signs on the horizons and within themselves until it will become apparent to them that it is the Truth. Is your lord nor sufficient since He is witness over all things? Al-Quran Sura 41: verse 53

RESURRECTION: IS LIKE REVIVAL OF BARREN LAND
And Allah it is Who sends the winds and they raise a cloud; Then We lead it to a dead land and revive the earth after its death. Such is the Resurrection. Sura 35 verse 9.
Raising of clouds and growth of plants following rain are not miracles but are due to various laws of physics and biochemistry. The Quranic verses suggest that revival aRer death is also based on some physical laws, that we are not aware of as yet. We believe that Allah is the creator of all the laws of the universe.

THE BIG BANG
The universe came into existence billions of years ago in a tremendous explosion called"The big bang." This is mentioned in the Quran in the follosing verses: have not "those who disbelieve " known that heavens and earth were of one piece and We parted them and We made every living thing of water. Will they not then believe? Sura 21 verse30
The discovery of "The Big Bang" and of "The aquatic origin of life" was made by the non Muslims, ("those who disbelieve"). In the beginning all the matter and space (heavens) were at one point (one piece). Then every thing was separated in what the physicists describe as "The big bang." The evidence for "The big bang" is so overwhelming that it is now considered a fact and not a theory.

THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE
The Universe has been expanding since its creation. This great discovery was made by Hubble, an astronomer, in the early part of this century. It was also predicted by the Einstein's theory of "General Relativity." The expansion of the universe is clearly mentioned in the following Quranic verses:
The heavens we have built with power and We are expanding it. Sura 51 verse 7

THE CONTRACTION OF THE UNIVERSE AND REVERSAL OF TIME
Time is one of the most elusive mysteries of the universe. No one knows what time really is. Albert Einstein said that time is the thing that we measure with the clock. Time passes slowly at high speeds and stops- altogether at the speed of light. Time has a direction, it always moves towards the filture. We see rain falling from the sky, objects breaking up, people getting older, and people dying. We never see a glass getting unbroken or any one coming back from the dead. Physicists like Michael BerTy, Thomas Gold, and Steven Hawking have proposed that-time may reverse then the universe starts contracting. Verses in the Quran suggest that one day the universe will start contracting and then the day of judgment will begin.
The day when We shall roll up the heavens as a recorder rolls up a written scroll. As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it. Sura 21 verse 104
In the above verses the contraction of the universe is compared to the closing of a scroll. That is when time may reverse. Reversal of time will cause man to rise back from his grave and again become alive. Every event will happen again as every thing, is recorded in time.
This book pronounces agains you with truth. We have caused (all) you did to be recorded. (in time). Sura 5 verse 29
And there is nothing hidden in the heavens or the earth but it is a clear record ( in time) Sura 27 verse 75.
As the history of earth runs backwards, nations will retum one after another. All the good and evil deeds of the individual as well as the nations will become completely apparent as the time runs backwards.
(time reversal)
And you will see each nation crouching each nation called to its record. (In time). And it will be said to them: This day you are repaid for what you used to do. Sura 45 verse 28
Playing back of time will make people see what they had done before. They will have no control over their hands, feet, mouths, and eyes. All the wrong and right things that were done before will be repeated by them again. In this sense the hands, feet, etc., will become witness against them in front of all the angels and Allah. They will not be able to deny any of their wrong doings.
(time reversal)
On the day when the their tongues and their hands ond their feet testify against them as to what they used to do. Sura 24: Verse 24
We warn you of doom at hand. A day when a man will look on that his own hand has sent before, and desbelievers will cry "Would that we were dust" Sura 78 verse 40
(Prophets will be returned into their time as time runs backwards) And the messengers are brought into their time appointed. Sura 77 verse 11

NO FREE WlLL IN THE CONTRACTING UNIVERSE
Man is given free will to choose between right and wrong in the expanding universe. That is when all his deeds are recorded in time. In the contracting universe there will be no free will, and no one will have power to harrn or do good to others.
A day when no soul has power at all over any other soul. The absolute command on that day is Allah's. Sura 82 verse 19.
REVERSAL OF GRAVITY
Gravity is due to minute differences in time at different heights. Time passes at slightly faster rate at the top of a mountain as compared to sea level. This difference in time although imperceptible to us, can be measured with the aid of atomic clocks. If time reverses in the contracting phase of the universe then this time difference will also reverse. This will cause the gravity to reverse producing an earth quake of a magnitude never seen before.
: 1 When earth is shaken with her final earthquake Sura 99: Earthquake (Gravity reversal)
When the trumpet is blown one blast. And the earth with the mountains shall be lifted and crushed with one crash. Sura 69 (Reversal of gravity) Verse 13-14
(Breaking up of mountains, throwing out of molten lava) When the sky will be like molten copper and hills will be like flakes of wool. Sura 70 verse 8
Despite reversal of gravity, mass of the earth will not disperse completely, as reversal of time will constantly direct all the matter to return to its previous position.

EARTH: "EMPTY FROM INSIDE"
The reversal of gravity will cause the earth to throw out all of its insides to become a gigantic empty ball.
And when earth is spread out. And cast out all that was in her and is "empty". Al-Quran: Sura 84 verses 3-4

THE CENTER SKY IN THE HOLLOW EARTH.
As reversal of gravity changx the eath into a hollow structure, sky or heaven will also ch~ so that it will be in the center of the hollow earth.
On the day when the earth will be changed to other than this earth, and the heavens also. And they will come forth unto Allah, The One The Almighty. Al-Quran:Sura 14 verse 48
The following verses describe the day of judgment in a comprehensive manner. The day of judgment will start with the final earthquake as the gravity reverses. The reversal of gravity will cause the earth to throw out all that was inside it to become completely empty. The people will come back alive one after another, (in scattered groups) inside this hollow earth that will have sky towards its center. The history of nations will be played back as time passes backwards. Nations as well as people will then see what they had done before, and they will be judged accordingly.
1. When earth is shaken with her final earthquake.
2. And earth yields its burdens. (From within)
3. And man says what aileth her.
4. That day she will relate her chronicles..(History in time)
5. Because your Lord inspires her.
6. That day mankind will issue forth (from earth) in scattered groups to be shown their deeds. (As time runs backward)
Sura 99: Earthquake.
To an inquiring mind it may occur now that reversal of time will lead to resutrection from the grave and then we should get younger, go through our childhood and regress into nothingness in our mothers wombs. This is what the time reversal theories would have us believe; again a purposeless exercise. Well not quite so. The great earthquake is not to scare us, it is part of the phenomenon that will make the higher dimensions, the beyond, accessible. That is where, is hell and the gardens of Eden. In the next few pages we will see how precisely God has designed the universe. Not only life is recreated, arrangements have been made for it to escape the collapsing universe, into the worlds that exist in the higher dimensions.

THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS
Mathematically there are infinite number of dimensions. However we live in only a three dimensional space. Every object in our daily lives, has a length, width, and height. The concept of dimensions more than our three is impossible to imagine. Near the sun the gravity is more intense and an extra curvature in the space in a higher dimension is present. This was first taken into account by Einstein to accurately calculate the orbit of the inner planet, Mercury.
There was a time when people believed that the earth is flat. They were afraid of the possibility of falling off the earth if they traveled too far. This cannot happen because the surface of the earth is curved and continuous like that of a ball. To get off the earth we just need to move in a dimension (direction) that is perpendicular to the surface. That is straight up, from any where we are.
We face a similar conceptual problem in understanding the higher dimensions. We may imagine that we can leave the universe only by traveling very far, and that is not true. Even if we travel billions of miles, we will still remain within the confines of our three dimensional space.
And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight.Sura 72 verse 12
The only way to go beyond the universe is by moving into a higher dimension in a direction that is perpendicular to our three dimensional space, from right where we are. However that is also not possible as our space is not continuous with the higher dimensions. For that to occur, our space will have to be literally torn apart first and then get connected to the higher dimensions. This may happen only in the center of the black holes.
And heaven is opened and becomes as gates. Sura 78 verse 19

THE BLACK HOLES
The opening of gates in the sky is a concept similar to that of black holes. Such openings can be the gate ways to beyond the universe through the higher dimensions. Massive stars that collapse inward under their own weight can form the black holes. Gravity in such objects is so strong that even light cannot escape and they become completely invisible. Hence the name black holes. Physicists believe that space time may be ripped apart in the black holes, producing gateways to beyond this universe. SQwever th~ mas of the black holes also obstructs the opening it is supposed to produce.
In the contracting universe this problem will not exist. The reversal of gravity in the contracting phase will change all the heavenly bodies into massive hollow structures leaving ernpty skies towards the center, where even the reversed gravity of relatively lighter objects like earth, will have a run away effect. Thus the fabric of space time will be torn apart, forming portals or gateways to the higher dimensions in the center sky of the hollow earth.
And the heavens will split asunder For that day it will be frail. Sura 69 verse 16
ANGELS DESCEND THROUGH THE PORTALS IN THE CENTER SKY, NO ONE WILL BE LEFT BEHINDA day when the heavens and the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down a grand descent .Sura 25 verse 25
And think of the day when We remove the hills and you see the earth emerging and we gather them together So as to leave not one of them behind. Sura l8 verse47
The collapsing universe will be ultimately destroyed in a fireball which physicists call the "Big Crunch." Every one will be gathered. Any one remaining behind will regress to nothingness, because the time will be running backwards. The gathering and removal of humans to "The beyond " would probably be accomplished by the angels of "the grand descent."
In our final journey through the gates that will open in the center sky we would go across many planes or dimensions. The word "ride" is used in the Quran as if this journey will be accomplished by riding on "something."
That you shall "ride" on from plane to plane. Sura 84 verse 19

WHEN WILL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT ARRIVE?
Men ask you of the Hour. Say the knowledge of it is with Allah only. What can convey to you it may be that the Hour is Near. Sura 33 verse 63
They bid you to hasten on the doom And if a term had not been appointed, the doom would have deSnitely come on them. And it will come upon them suddenly when they perceive not. Sura 29 verse 53
Superficially it seems that if we knew the rate at which the expansion of the universe is slowing down then we should be able to predict when the day of judgment will begin. However if time is related to the expansion of space, then we cannot observe the slowing of the expansion. This would be like trying to measure the speed of a car with a clock that is connected to its wheels. As the car slows down the clock will also slow down and speed would always appear the same.
The threatened hour is near. None beside Allah can disclose it. Are you surprised then at this statement? Sura 53 verse 57,58,59
Even the most advanced civilization in the universe would always Observe that the universe is expanding at the same rate as it started with. This of course means that the day of judgment cannot be predicted by any one and may come at any time. Only God or the angels who are independent of our time will perceive the slowing of time in the universe as the day of judgment approaches. The concept of slowing of time and higher planes is implied in the following verses.
1. A questioner questioned concerning the doom to fall.
2. Upon the disbelieves, which none can repel.
3. From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways.
4. As the angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day
The span of that is fifty thousand years.
Sura 70 verse 1-4
The Ascending Stairways. (Dimensions)
The ascending stairways imply many levels, planes or dimensions, and Allah is the Creator of all the dimensions. As the day of judgment approaches, an observation made from outside our universe will suggest, that our time has slowed down as compared to some standard time that exists beyond our universe. The above verses do not say that human beings will make this observation. The observation that one day on earth has become like fifty thousand years appears to be made by Allah as the angels come back to him.

WAITING IN THE GRAVE FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT TO ARRIVE?
In the Quran the soul is compared to consciousness and death is compared to sleep. Once death overcomes us there is no perception of passage of time and next thing we would see will be the Day of Judgment.
And agony of death comes in truth. This is what you wished to avoid. And the trumpet is blown.This is the threatened Day. Sura 50 verse 19-20
. And on The Day when the Hour arrives the guilty will swear that they remained (dead) butfor an hour, thus they were ever deceived. But to those to whom knowledge andfaith are given will say: "The truth is that you have remained (dead) until the Day of Resurrection By Allah 's decree. This is the Day of Resurrection, Butyou used not to know. Sura 30 verse 55-56
On that Day, when the real truth will become apparent to every one, those who disbelieved will be regretful and full of remorse. They would wish that they had never existed; but then, there would be no room for a second chance on the Day of judgment.
And to Allah belongs the Sovereignty of heavens and the earth On the Day when the Hour rises, Those who follow falsehood will be lost. Sura 45 verse 27

SUMMARY
With the tremendous scientific advancements of the twentieth century, we have placed our trust in science and technology to solve all our problems. Daaled by the ability of technology to give quick results, our faith in Allah has become weak. Our actions are for worldly goals although a stronger belief in God and accountability in afterlife would have made better people out of us. We can see the results of this in the moral decay that is afflicting many societies all over the world.
Allah has sent guidance to human beings according to the conditions existing at that moment in-history. When Pharaohs ruled, magic was a very popular past time. Then Moses (Peace be on him:Pbuh) came with miracles from Allah and defeated the magicians of the Pharaohs court. The people at the time of Jesus (Pbuh) were deep into miracle mongering, and we can see that life of Jesus (Pbuh) is full of miracles. When Mohammad (Pbuh) came, Arabic language and poetry was at the height of its development. Quran with its clear message was revealed in the most eloquent poetry with a unique unmatched style. Quran is a miracle and guidance for all times, therefore it is only appropriate to believe, that it may be the source of the most exciting discovery of the age of science. Science with help from Quran may discover, what religion has maintained all along, that rising from the grave is going to happen. There are many theories about the future of the universe. Despite a great deal of knowledge scientists are unable to decide which one of these is really correct. The belief that the universe has a purpose and the knowledge given in the Quran, may be the best guide in search for the truth. Hopefully Muslims will play a major role in any such future discoveries.
Many verses in the Quran describe the day of judgment. We live in a universe that is expanding since its creation billions of years ago. Both the birth of the universe in the "Big Bang" and its expansion are described in the Quran. Scientists do not know if the expansion of the universe will continue for ever or one day it will start contwacting. Qur!anic verses suggest that the universe will not expand for ever and that the day of judgment will begin with the contraction of the universe. Similar to some theories of cosmology it appears that time and gravity will reverse with the contraction of the universe. Reversal of time will bring about the resurrection from the graves. In this time reversed world we will see again all the good and evil that we did in our life. Reversal of gravity will change the structure of the earth so that it will be turned inside out and will transform into a giant hollow ball. This event is clearly described in the Quran in many verses. Reversal of gravity will be the cause of the final earthquake, mentioned in the Quran. The reversed gravity focused towards the earth's hollow center will have a runaway affect on space. The space in the center of the hollow earth will be literally torn apart to produce openings or gates to the higher dimensions that are beyond our universe. Through these openings we will be able to escape the collapsing universe. Every one will be taken away to escape the unrelenting effect of time reversal that could take us back to nothingness in our mothers wombs. In the higher dimensions we will face the judgment for our deeds and hell or heaven. From the Quran it appears that the timing of the day of judgment will be never known and it may come at any time. However again I would like to add that the real knowledge of the day ofthe day of judgment is with Allah only.
I hope this article would serve as a source of warning as well as encouragement for the believers. As for the non believers I hope this would become a starting point for further investigation into the world of Islam.

Disgusting Self-Indulgence of How I Made Such Massive Success (even though I'm not sure if I have yet)

2009-11-05T07:55:00.000-08:00

What I Did...

Spent 2 years learning quality salesmanship skills.

Applied that training with the missing link: The MARKETING training from the 28-day business building blitz. Now having the knowledge required to be a master marketer and copywriter, I tore apart the best books written by insomnia experts and built my own system.

When it showed real potential and really started working, then I did the most important thing of all...

I started talking to my prospects 1-on-1, looking for what copy worked the best on them and what information they needed the most to make a good product.

I looked specifically for things I could use in the age-old AIDA formula of salesmanship: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action.

I had already tested headlines and starting copy that got their attention... but through talking to them one on one, I saw what got EVERYONE , what things insomniacs were most worried about and their reasons for really a cure, and then, talking to the first person who bought my book for an hour on the phone, I found out what was missing to get them to take .

After 2 months of talking to insomniacs 1-on-1 and testing my best items for AIDA, I took the system I had constructed to the next level and started making sales on the first few people that came by before I could even start up the advertising (on day 1, I officially had at least a 25% rate of tears [that's how moved the lady was, leading to the phone call mentioned above.])

Now it's time to start advertising...

I'm such a kid...

2009-10-29T21:27:00.000-07:00

Just look at these blog posts lol. Gotta long ways to go..

T.V. Rapidly Goes On-line with the Start of the Fall 2009 Season...

2009-09-19T22:12:00.001-07:00

TV is finally going online... rapidly... which reflects
a larger shift in entertainment shifting to on demand /
on the internet.

It's now the start of the 2009 season and Hulu.com is
picking up Disney and ABC as well as other various
networks' shows, looks like it may be doubling or
tripling in size with the new season.

Just was looking for a show called "Shark Tank" on
youtube... and was shocked to see it's already on
Hulu.com!

Current downside: TV is still 99% dominant, with all
the shows mainly airing there, and most shows will
only air the 5 most recent episodes on Hulu due to
studio restrictions.

But, seeing all the hot new shows like Fringe and
Glee on Hulu, it's very exciting to know that my
"passive entertainment" (e.g. watching a screen) is
now going on demand!

It's an evil plot to take over world. Check it out: www.Hulu.com.

James

I officially support pirating

2009-09-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I'm not saying go pirate stuff, don't ban my blog Google!

But seriously, when is TV going to move online?

It helps shows get discovered and make money long after they've died (by being rediscovered on ADVERTISING friendly mediums), it gives the consumers what they want, everyone wins.

The shift is coming. My fear is that it will take another decade, which would just be INSANE with all the demand out there, for example, right now, Ice Age 2 is being uploaded by OVER 100,000 people. That means something between 500,000 - 5,000,000 people are going to pirate that movie illegally, which means somewhere in the ballpark of $1,000,000 lost in potential advertising. And that's just torrenting.

Oh yeah... this shit IS coming down... I'm glad I just added that up ;-)

And to help speed it along, I'm going to start showing people who say they've bought ANY DvDs how to pirate online virus free, and I'll encourage them, talking about how they're helping the world. Because they are... if they want on demand, free entertainment sooner rather than later (it is not a matter of if, but when.)

So that's it. Not only will I continue to steal that which the studios are too stupid to make available to me, I'm actually going to encourage others to do the same and to show their friends, too. Seriously, I've had enough. Just look at hulu.com. You can watch full shows, whenever you want, and for that, they only ask you watch some advertising. No problem. I'd be happy to. Why not just do it for everything, already?

TV is running out of air.

Let's try this...

2009-08-19T17:47:00.001-07:00

This is just a post for testing things...

test

test

The Great Flaw of the News Media

2009-07-14T09:59:00.000-07:00

The news media is fundamentally flawed in it's own nature.

I don't know if they actually do "live polls", but the concept stays the same.

Also, don't miss Al Qaeda's comments on the 9/11 conspiracy theories:

Do Want: Settlers of Catan

2009-06-10T17:43:00.000-07:00

The game has rapidly become popular in part because its mechanics are relatively simple, while its dynamics are quite complex.[3] The game is well suited for family play, since no one gets eliminated, and players who are behind can strive towards goals that are within their reach.

Gameplay

The players in the game represent the eponymous settlers, establishing a colony on the previously uninhabited island of Catan. The island itself is composed of hexagonal tiles ("hexes") of different land types which are laid out randomly at the beginning of each game. Numbered tokens are then placed on each of the tiles, except for one desert hex.[4]

Starting with two settlements and adjoining road sections, players build roads, settlements, and eventually cities as they settle the island. Roads are built along the edges of the hexes, and settlements at the corners; no two settlements may be built on adjacent corners. Positioning of roads and settlements allows a player to deny other players access to essential resources, and good building is one route to victory.[3]

Each turn, a roll of the two dice determines which hexes produce resources. Production of resources (clay, lumber, wool, grain, and ore) is the main random element in the game. Normally, players with settlements adjacent to those hexes receive resource cards of the appropriate type, with cities yielding more resources. However, if the dice roll is 7, the "robber" token must be moved to a different hex. This allows the player to prevent that hex from producing resources and to steal a resource card from another player.

The resource cards can be spent to build more roads or settlements, upgrade settlements to cities, and to obtain development cards for later use; or they can be stored for trade or later use. When a seven is rolled, players with eight or more stored resources lose half their stored resources, making the choice of whether to build or store resources a difficult one.

Players are allowed to trade among each other the resources they have produced, and to trade "off the island" for a hefty price. By building settlements in certain positions, players may obtain better off-island trading prices. Bad luck in the game can be mitigated by trading, and trading is the main method of player interaction in the game; astute trading is another route to victory.[3] If a player is winning, other players may refuse to trade with him or her; this allows them to catch up with the leader.
A game of giant Settlers of Catan being played at Gen Con Indy 2003. This is one of many Settlers of Catan custom extra-large boards seen during demonstrations and tournaments at Gen Con.

A player receives a victory point for each settlement built, and another for each settlement upgraded to a city. Various other achievements, such as establishing the longest road or building the largest army, grant a player additional victory points. The victor is the first player to possess ten victory points on his or her turn.

There is no combat. Players may harm each other by moving the robber, refusing to trade, cutting off building routes, taking the "longest road" and "largest army" cards, and using certain development cards. The layout of the board and restrictions on building allow for a player to be boxed in through poor play or bad luck. Also, given the random component of the board layout, it is possible for a player to gain a monopoly on a certain resource, then demand steep trade rates from the other players. Home games generally take between one and two hours to complete.

Teuber's original design was for a large game of exploration and development in a new land.[5] Between 1993 and 1995 Teuber and Kosmos refined and simplified the game into its current form. Unused mechanics from that design went on to be used in Teuber's following games, Entdecker and Löwenherz. The game's first expansion, Seafarers of Catan, adds the concept of exploration, and the combined game (sometimes known as "New Shores") is probably the closest game to Teuber's original intentions.

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Thirteen terribly weird facts about women from english.pravda.ru

2009-06-06T10:27:00.000-07:00

It is generally believed that the difference between men and women is enormous. Women and men differ in almost every imaginable aspect of human life, especially when it comes to psychology.

Men and women can never combine (beautyanalysis.com)

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A woman does not have a man’s habit to scratch her noggin when she thinks of an answer to a confusing question, for example. Women doe not like to show they are confused. They never want to ruin their hairdo with that gesture either.

Women will never understand why footballers stand in a line with their hands crossed before a penalty kick during a match. In addition, women never shudder when a male character gets kicked in the groin in a movie.

When a woman yawns she covers her mouth with the palm of her hand, not with a fist.

After taking a bath, a woman grabs a towel and makes a turban on her head from it, at least for one minute. The reasons of such a weird Oriental ritual are unknown.

A woman does not get mad when her underwear gets stuck between her buttocks. Women joyfully wear those items of torture called bikinis.

Many women worry about their looks when having sex.

Women open bottles with bottle openers.

A woman feels awkward if she does not carry anything in her hands. That is why they always carry their handbags around.

Women are absolutely indifferent to their genitals; they hardly know each other. Women do not talk to them, they do not give funny nicknames to them and they never get angry with them.

Sitting down in public transportation, women keep their legs together. That is why men often prefer to sit next to a woman because in this case they can sit spread-eagle.

If a woman finds her fly unzipped in a public place, she does not seem to care too much about it.

When a woman dresses up to go out, she puts on a blouse first. Pants come second. Men work it vice versa.

Finally, when an act of love ends, women do not feel like sleeping. They feel like talking and kissing.

Translated by Dmitry Sudakov
Pravda.ru

Chuck Norris Jokes Are Still Funny

2009-06-01T21:34:00.001-07:00

Some people like to eat frogs' legs. Chuck Norris likes to eat lizard legs. Hence, snakes.

When Chuck Norris falls in water, Chuck Norris doesn't get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris.

If you Google search "Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn't happen.

The show Survivor had the original premise of putting people on an island with Chuck Norris. There were no survivors, and nobody is brave enough to go to the island to retrieve the footage.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

When Chuck Norris goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.

Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

There is in fact an “I” in Norris, but there is no “team”… not even close.

Chuck Norris doesn't stub his toes. He accidentally destroys chairs, bedframes, and sidewalks.

Chuck Norris proved that we are alone in the universe. We weren't before his first space expedition.

Chuck Norris has two speeds. Walk, and Kill.

Chuck Norris drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.

Chuck Norris is ten feet tall, weighs two-tons, breathes fire, and could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing.

The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed miserably.

Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chuck Norris has 72... and they're all poisonous.

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.

Chuck Norris once ate three 72 oz. steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with his waitress.

What was going through the minds of all of Chuck Norris' victims before they died? His shoe.

My Theory on What Dark Energy Is

2009-05-23T11:30:00.000-07:00

It's the 3 dimensional "stretching effect" that happens when a 3 dimensional world lives inside a 4 dimensional world that is expanding.

This works perfect when compared to a "2 dimensional" model of how the universe expands -- put dots on a balloon. As you blow into the balloon the dots will move away from each other and expand. The surface of the balloon is 2 dimensional, where the stretching affect is achieved by the expansion of the 3 dimensional balloon.

So, if the universe is a mere 3 dimensional surface / plane ... inside / surfacing / a part of a 4 dimensional reality... as the reality expands, so does the universe. It's been shown that gravity can't pull the universe back together because of an invisible force called "dark energy" that is stronger than the gravity that pulls everything together, causing the universe to expand at an ACCELERATING RATE. The universe is PROVEN to be EXPANDING at an ACCELERATING RATE.

Let's go back to the balloon -- would the dots ACCELERATE away from each other as more stretching occurred?

What about when we consider that the 4th dimension is NOT commonly thought of as "spacial", but is actually TIME. A dimension, after all, is a strait line that connects with points -- and time is a line that connects to all three dimensions perfectly. Time is what allows the three "space dimensions" to move, and movement controls time (at light speeds, time runs much slower, which has been proven by particles in the atmosphere that couldn't possibly make it down to earth before dissipating - but since they travel past the speed of light, time moves slowly enough to allow them to get much farther than they could if time were a constant.)

If TIME is the 4th dimension, not space, this would explain why time always runs forwards. In physics, time can run forward or backward without any problem. But time always runs forwards. This is because the 4 dimensional universe is expanding -- if it were shrinking, time would run backwards... all the way to creation itself.

Thus, my theory is that dark energy is a very different force than anything single force we know of - more like, what happens to all the forces / elements when stretched 4 dimensionally.

Official Sources of Entertainment

2009-05-13T14:44:00.000-07:00

OUT OF DATE... but here's...

-ALL NEW MOVIES (out on DvD): http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dvd

-ALL POPULAR TV SHOWS: http://www.tvguide.com/top-tv-shows

-DONT FORGET DAILY SHOW / COLBERT / OTHER DAILY SHOWS

-Christwire (christian mockery / parody)

-Dumb quotes off IRC / /b/ / etc: http://bash.org/?random

( Hey, you know what sucks?

vaccuums

Hey, you know what sucks in a metaphorical sense?

black holes

Hey, you know what just isn't cool?

lava?)

<[TN]FBMachine> i got kicked out of barnes and noble once for moving all the bibles into the fiction section

It seems you have been leading two lives, Mr. Anderson. In one life, you are Robert Anderson, assistant cook at a Jack in the Box in Mesquite....in the other...you go by the chat alias "Randerson"...spreading homosexual propoganda, lying, and being a generally immature pest...

One of these...has a future.

LMAO OMFG where's the phone, I have to tell Dean about this

How can you use the phone when you cannot...speak?

*** AgentSmith sets mode: +m

so I was with my friend bryan the other night in a bar

well he got really drunk and said he was gonna puke

so i helped him walk to the toilet

all the stalls were occupied

lol

bryan is a rugby player... so a big guy

so he fucking KICKS one of the stall doors open

and there's this guy in there taking a shit

hahahahahaha

and bryan throws up ALL OVER HIM

then (this is genius) bryan thinks 'oh shit... if i were taking a shit and someone came in and was sick all over me, i'd want to fuck him up... so i'd better hit him first'

so he fucking SMACKS this guy in the face

and runs away

imagine being that guy... WORST NIGHT OUT EVER

I helped the EMTs at a car wreck and got blood all over my arms and shirt. It looked like I murdered 20 people with a fork... anyway, I walked into a convieniance store down the street and said my girlfriend needs a tampon. The guy at the counter was mortified.

The other night my friend had some pot and wanted me to smoke it with him, but we had nowhere to smoke it because both our parents were home.

So we drove around looking for a place to park so we could smoke in the car.

We eventually settled on a Wendys parking lot..

The logic is all there...

I know, it was a ridiculous idea. We were just desperate and that was the first place to pull off..

So we park in the back of the parking lot under this tree, and it's dark out, so we figure we're secluded enough. We start to light up and a cop pulls in. So we both sit really still and hope the cop will think the car is empty and just parked there. Or that he won't notice.

The cop circles the parking lot once, then parks behind us and we're both freaking out. So Bobby, my friend, takes all the pot and shoves it in the glove compartment. But the car smells like pot, so we figure we're busted.

So Bobby says we've gotta distract the cop from the pot. In a huge flash, he rips his shirt off, undoes my pants and sticks his hand inside. Before I can process what's happening, the cop knocks on my window. Then he looks in and sees Bobby shirtless, with his hand down my pants and turns bright red.

I roll my window down and the cop says in this really flustered voice, his face bright red, "you guys be good now" and walks quickly back to his car and drives off.

He didn't even notice the smell of pot.

We drove home in the most uncomfortable fucking silence ever.

-a handful of famous / funny youtubers:

...and there's definately some good stuff in the outdated pile below.

---

Any video I like enough to show someone you can bet is on my favorites. My youtube channel is set up to show off my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/user/DrinkElectrolytes

in firefox, flock, or even the new internet explorer if you just type "drink" into the URL bar you should always see my youtube channel come up and you can always find things like that cuz i favorite anything i show u

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HULU (TV -is- going online... and the Fall 2009 season is proving it as the studios cave in!)
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Shows I'm watching:
http://www.hulu.com/sons-of-anarchy
http://www.hulu.com/shark-tank
http://www.hulu.com/dollhouse
http://www.hulu.com/glee
http://www.hulu.com/heroes
http://www.hulu.com/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien
http://www.hulu.com/the-colbert-report
http://www.southparkstudios.com
http://www.hulu.com/flash-forward
http://www.hulu.com/american-dad
http://www.hulu.com/family-guy
http://www.hulu.com/the-cleveland-show

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YOUTUBE COMEDY
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The Whitest Kids You Know

Friday Night Cranks
Know Your Meme
Doug Stanhope
Louis CK
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Dane Cook
George Carlin
Russell Peters
Harland Williams
Jim Norton
Demetri Martin
Steve Byrne
Daniel Tosh
Mike Birbiglia
eddie izzard
Summer of Tears
Brian Regan

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YOUTUBE OTHER
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Michio Kaku (If you're into how science is going to be revolutionizing the world, & advanced physics)

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Internet Roots
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The list is growing so I've categorized them to make the obvious choices obvious -- and the other choices for only if your bored.

TESTING: http://www.skunkpost.com/home.sp

TONS OF GAMES, ENTERTAINMENT, AND THE WORKS (Thank you Alex Wolf!!)
allmyfaves.com

Best Websites
www.knowyourmeme.com
www.thechive.com
www.collegehumor.com
www.failblog.org
www.thisisphotobomb.com
www.onion.com
www.hulu.com

TESTING:
http://autocompleteme.com Odd Google Autocomplete Phrases
http://poorlydressed.com/ Oddly Dressed

Good Shit (but, can be shitty)

www.Stumbleupon.com
www.funnyordie.com
Youtube Favorites Searching / RELATED videos to ANYTHING you're into / SUBSCRIPTIONS
Watch one of these Top Stand Up Comedians on Youtube...
www.digg.com / digg.com/VIDEOS / digg.com/IMAGES / digg.com/news
Google Reader / Everything Philly D (The show)
www.icanhascheezburger.com (must like funny pictures of cats)

Other Shit (can be good if you're into it / find the right thing)
www.atom.com
www.urbandictionary.com
www.encyclopediadramatica.com
Watch Man Tracker
www.jokes.com/funny
www.indecisionforever.com

IN-TESTING: http://www.somethingawful.com/

find a great show on nbc.com, cbs, etc etc
find a great book
find a great youtube show

trip balls: http://www.octavioocampo.com.mx/xgaleria1.htm

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FUN PACKED
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play an EPIC starcraft game
warcraft 3 / CSS with Sensi
call of duty 4 with Sensi

Why I'm an Independent Entrepreneur

2009-05-13T14:39:00.001-07:00

Thank-you Dave for cracking the joke...

COMPETITIVE SALARY
Most of our competitors don't pay much either.

"JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY"
We have no time to train you.

"CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE"
You'll be here very late, very often -- might as well be comfortable.

"MUST BE DEADLINE-ORIENTED"
Your first four projects are already way overdue.

"SOME OVERTIME REQUIRED"
Did we mention that you'll be here very late, very often? And most weekends.

"DUTIES WILL VARY"
Anyone in the office can boss you around.

"MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL"
We have no quality control.

"CAREER-MINDED"
Female applicants must be childless.

"APPLY IN PERSON"
If you're old, fat or ugly, that position has already been filled.

"NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE"
This job listing is just a legal formality. The position was filled by some executive's nephew.

"SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE"
Due to consolidation, you'll be replacing three people.

"PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS A MUST"
This company is a total mess.

"REQUIRES TEAM LEADERSHIP SKILLS"
You'll have all the responsibilities of upper management, without the pay, title or respect.

"GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS"
Listen to management, figure out what they want, don't ask too many questions and get the sh*t done.

Note to self: Get a Peach Tree

2009-05-13T14:37:00.000-07:00

These peaches are BOMB, and there's a fresh batch every morning... automatically... and I can can them... so...

fuck peaches that are picked green and ripe in the box

fuck those

no more man

never again

i dont buy peaches... i buy peach TREES

5 Hour Energy Extreme

2009-05-07T23:57:00.001-07:00

...Steroids for internet marketing.

Seriously.

Unhappy With Obama (title changed)

2009-05-01T10:14:00.001-07:00

I'm thinking about making this into a video and submitting it to Anonymous and other places while getting it's views up on youtube as a little side project. (Note: I will NOT be doing this due to how Obama has been treating others who do this. I don't want it on my permanent record.)

My problems with Obama...

He's flushing our country down the toilet.

Trillions put into the economy INCORRECTLY

CONTROLLING THE MEDIA / His Image to keep his approval rating above 60% despite everything I'm about to point out...

DESTROYING our CIA

Letting terrorists get unfair US trials.

BEING A SLAVE TO THE LIBERAL AGENDA WITHOUT CONSIDERING ANY!! UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES

Re-distributing bankrupted company wealth to the poor, STEALING Crystler's shares from those who owned them, recklessly breaking the law to give to the union and retired employees.

Breaking Many Laws and DECREEing "it's the right move"... when clearly, government fails at capitalism and it's NOT THE RIGHT MOVE.

Bailing out companies that end up going bankrupt.

Heading us towards bankruptcy while declaring that we're "heading out of it" EVEN THOUGH 1000 ECONOMISTS PUT TOGETHER A PETITION SAYING THAT WE ARE NOT...

AND HE COMPLETELY IGNORED IT = He's surrounded by politicians and serves their agenda without even considering what the nature of the situation is.

Pushing over all opposition, all "other ideas", DECREEING the way it is because he's the president so gosh darn it that means he's right.

Completely ignoring and belittling the Republicans despite claiming previously that he wanted to bring the parties together.

Giving loads of money to the poor... when it's obvious to any economist that this is bad for the economy.

Passing liberal bills that would have never passed in a checks and balances system.

Giving bailouts to all the companies that his cabinet is connected to.

Destroying the country I love in less than a 100 days...

So honestly, if you ask me how I feel... this is going to be REALLY HARSH... Obama is a Dictator and the US system of Checks and Balances is being systematically taken over.

You can't play boy king in the most powerful position in the world and expect nothing to happen. It's time someone spoke up and got on his case.

Memes

2009-04-27T20:38:00.000-07:00

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Category:Memes

Encyclopedia Dramatica

2009-04-27T13:08:00.000-07:00

It is now appearent to me that I can get 100% of my entertainment off the internet if I were to work at that a little more.

Here's the DO NOT WANT archive from encyclopediadramatica.com ... there's probably hundreds of memes I can find on encyclopediadramatica.com though.

...by the way... some of this stuff may not be funny to you (mainly just talking about the link below). It's not all funny to me. Since we're looking largly into the "anonymous" community of the internet, which STARTED as nearly 100% hackers and geeky teenagers (who don't even reveal so much as a screen name)... some of this stuff is pretty brutal, while some of it is universally funny.

THE LINK BELOW (but not the other sites) IS NOT RECOMMENDED if the joke of "putting a kitten in a microwave" really pisses you off (note, that's not exactly what all this is / what I like... I think that idea is fucked up myself... but if that statement just really pissed you off, you really SHOULD NOT click on the link below).

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/DO_NOT_WANT

The growing list of free entertainment...

INTERNETS!
www.collegehumor.com (Fairly Safe)
Google Reader / Everything Philly D (Safe)
www.failblog.org (Kind of Safe but may be offensive)
www.atom.com (still haven't been here much)
funnyordie.com (safe)
urbandictionary.com (pretty safe)
www.encyclopediadramatica.com (NC-17)

find a great show on nbc.com etc
find a great book
find a great youtube show

The First REAL Step into Age 2

2009-04-21T14:09:00.000-07:00

Knowing what I say BEFORE I say it and so I DONT naturally think about what I said after I say it (not self aware [state builder])

Age 1 was becoming congruent – largely inspired to be called into distinction as an Age by the “Post Trish but not done with her yet” period, which climaxed with an email (for me) and in person (for her).

Step 1 is now taking that congruence and using it to eliminate probably my largest curse – a field of thinking that was never developed, the unconscious competent think-in-a-strait-line ability that I'm yet to even be able to distinguish decently.

I use self awareness to fight off the douchbaggery that comes with always rolling forward, a combination of focus-switching that repeats itself habitually in social situations which makes me more insecure & negative or “no” (asshole / jerk / brown nose / etc).

Insecure because of the self awareness state... ('cuz it's natural? can't go offensive etc)

Negative because I don't know if what I'm about to say has

un-intended consequences.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and careful observation of the right data, can show me how to experience and develop the introverted-thinking I need to get rid of the Negative, and DYD has everything I need to get rid of the Insecurity.

...

2009-04-16T12:57:00.001-07:00

dammit mom i have the house to MYSELF for once don't come back here for your goddamn 3 hour lunch break (i really hope this doesn't last 3 hours, cuz it's only been 10 minutes and you can already see the damage it's done to my brain...)

CRRAAZZY

2009-04-07T20:25:00.001-07:00

NLP SalesLetter

2009-04-05T12:48:00.001-07:00

I tweeted this...

awesome, a salesletter for NLP... http://is.gd/qSHa (i will be needing this for later)

This is like my "exclusive favorites" blog

2009-03-18T19:17:00.001-07:00

http://failblog.org/ ... so I don't lose it

moving to facebook

2009-03-07T11:22:00.000-08:00

should i just start posting this stuff to facebook? next time you decide the facebook stuff, come here...

endtro idea

2009-03-07T11:21:00.001-08:00

how about a different song at the end of every video =D

go here for a good example of a common theme: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/271592

try and pick a theme everyone who would listen to you / watch this would enjoy (target avatar... but always with testing ;-)).

as soon as your making $4000+ a month...

2009-03-07T11:07:00.001-08:00

"The vault provides me with endless traffic sources. I'm downloading gigs and gigs from the vault's Net:Traffic search, just in case I can't get at that information later."

I need a new hard drive.
viruses. etc. i can't lose this information ever... it must be preserved.

What I don't want my show to be like

2009-03-07T10:55:00.000-08:00

This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZY3gTxI-IU

It sounds kind of like an sxephil rip and fails to answer "why do i care about your show?"

Instead, consider doing what sxephil, ApprenticeA, and MysteryGuitarMan all did: Make shows less frequently, but amazingly to get 5 star ratings and lots of subscribers up front. Then more people will be open to the concept of a show but still... I have a feeling there's two continuums to be revealed... the fact that a great show will always do way better through the course of time (like dear archilles) and the fact that when you're as big as sxephil it really just doesn't matter so much any more.

And of course, the most important fact of them all is your keywords and how much they sound like the kind of headlines that top rank at digg.com (thx you john reeses)

insomnia search:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=insomnia&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=

James FakeIt

2009-02-16T10:28:00.001-08:00

Brand name and show title for future youtube show, using the song "Fake it" by Brad Sucks as the extro (there won't be an intro, show's too short)

Plus here's a funny pic:

Cause and Effect

2009-01-22T23:42:00.000-08:00

THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS "YOU ARE NOT AT CAUSE IN THIS AREA"

The solution has to do with "Becoming at Cause": This sets a framework for building a solution if you make the area and the requirements distinct

I'm going to use this from now on to answer people's complaints, problems, frustrations, and everything else feminine.

Bad Feeling about This...

2009-01-21T00:14:00.001-08:00

Hahahahhaha

Success Guarenteed

2009-01-19T11:49:00.000-08:00

I am happy to be able to make this announcement to the future: My success is now officially guaranteed. I will, without a doubt, be bringing in $50,000 a month within a few years.

I predicted that I'd start making money online, and that one came true, but that was out of pure commitment to the task. This prediction includes that, but is also more solid...

The three reasons my success is GUARANTEED:

Obviously, my level of commitment is there. If I lose it, I lose my guarentee.
My conversion system will use split-testing to continuously improve, so even if I don't yield profit from PPC right away, I can send free traffic at it to improve conversion ratios.
The vault provides me with endless traffic sources. I'm downloading gigs and gigs from the vault's Net:Traffic search, just in case I can't get at that information later.

If you feel trapped, I will free you soon enough! Help me speed things along if you want to hear freedom ring just a little bit sooner...

A conversation with alex (Networking Concept Raw + Predictions)

2009-01-10T12:51:00.000-08:00

James: did that thing match you at all?

alex: I've still got a few more pages to read, but I love it

James: awesome

sounds so you

if you replace everything SEO with networking

alex: I can definitely connect with the guy

James: there's a whole world of networking

and the goal is leverage

you dont really want to network much yourself

you just want to post, talk to some people about it, and get the viral benefits

THATS leverage, because you can do that over and over and sometimes you'll get really big results, despite getting very little attention in the majority of things you do

alex: your making me want to drop out of school and pursue new dreams

STOPP

haha

James: lolol

alex: just kidding

James: actually, im exploring the idea

been networking all day, exploring the concept of leverage with networking

kinda stems from that interview cuz he did that with SEO

alex: im listening to the audio right now

to reinforce

the article

James: but networking is becoming huge i just need to figure it out

lol, nice, though that might be overkill. always spend your time on only the best of the best

alex: what does seo stand for

James: search engine optimization

doesn't really apply to you

ive tested this

couldn't get your blog to rank for anything when it had pr2, even things i was dead sure it would rank for

so if you can achieve what he achieved using NETWORKING LEVERAGE, I think that would work

and the legacy of the social networking challenge continues...

alex: hahah

Sent at 12:40 PM on Saturday

alex: whats the whole deal with

"linking"

James: ok, so, linking = a link's text tells google what the page is about (like a vote) and a link's authority (what page rank it comes from and how well it relates) tells google what significance the vote has

but here's the thing

MY LINKS BRING IN MORE TRAFFIC THAN ALL MY VIDEOS COMBINED, AND I ONLY HAVE A FEW WELL PLACED LINKS

about.com and a couple of the forums in particular

so that's how that applies to you

cuz the SEO just anit worth it to you UNLESS you can find a political niche

but usually that's thought of as your opinion... we're talking words

like there's a lot of stuff on nutrition, a lot of stuff on anti-aging, but not much on anti-aging nutrition... that's a niche withing nutritional health

alex: oooo

James: within

alex: so I don't need to worry about adsense

yet

James: well adsense is how you make money

so, of course not

i think that interview kind of drives that point home

alex: yeah

James: if i cared about money i'd be making about $1000 / month right now, pretty much guarenteed

but i dont. i care about becoming a millionaire

so im still only making $100 a month... and instead im working on my conversion systems and ad's for PPC hardcore

so i can then split test my way right to the top

can't do that with shitty advertising

drains all the money, even $1000 a month

alex: dang

James: i find it funny when im networking because only dennis karganilla gets the big stuff so far

everyone else, my superiors in the feild, they don't know what they're doing or they do but they're very much in the box with it

but we'll see..... im talking too soon

alex: never!

your going to dominate them

James: lol

hold on.. posting this convo to jamesmontague.blogspot.com lol

One Sexy Ass Geek

2008-12-18T21:21:00.000-08:00

Alexandra Kosteniuk

by Anonymous

Alexandra Kostantinovna Kosteniukis a Russian chess Grandmaster and the current Women's World Chess Champion.

Define Douche Bag

2008-12-18T20:13:00.000-08:00

Douchebag Goes Up In Flames

November 12th, 2008by J Diggles · 1 Comment

Well, you asked for it. Literally.

Switch intelligence for common sense in this definition:

Douche Bag Definition

May 7th, 2007 by Mitch Martin · 14 Comments · 3,748 Views

A douche is basically someone who acts in a way without account to what it looks like, and it just isn't right. Education like Landmark will train us not to care about what others think, when in reality, it's only MOST situations in which not caring is helpful.

In the longer-term type stuff, you should care about what people think, because there's reasons WHY they think what they do. For example, being cool is in general, a really good thing, because it smoothens friction created by our human mind when something isn't cool. We love for things to flow. If you're being a douche bag in any way, it'd be a great thing to know about it so you can stop.

Attractive Girls Union

2008-11-26T12:52:00.001-08:00

Attractive Girls Union Refuses To Enter Into Talks With Mike Greenman

Geek Idol

2008-11-26T12:00:00.000-08:00

Think Different

2008-11-25T10:28:00.000-08:00

Think Different

(Apple Computer Ad Campaign)

From Fellow 20-year-old Entrepreneur: http://bigben.blogs.com/website/index.html

Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Neuro-Programmer 2

2008-11-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

The Neuro-Programmer 2 (NP2) is an innovative software application for the PC, built to help you stimulate your brain and achieve lasting personal change.

NP2 combines brainwave entrainment, hypnosis, visualization and other psychological techniques to help you transform your mind and enhance your mental abilities.

http://www.transparentcorp.com/products/np/

And the do-follow is back!
http://www.transparentcorp.com/products/np/

good trick

2008-11-09T02:28:00.000-08:00

i went through the "Watch full episode" button on the south park clip embedded on the social networking challenge, which is funny considering they took it off the website. Guess it pays to be a blogger.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/187260/?autoplay=false

UPDATE: Nope, just didn't realize they had removed it and replaced it.

What is Landmark?

2008-11-08T18:42:00.000-08:00

This is just some masterminding I did on youtube. Here's the guys response. BTW, I didn't say anything about science, he took it out of context, but he brings up some words that have VERY solid truth behind them.

"Science? I must say I didn't see much science there - it was a mixture between common sense, buddhism, oversimplified "mind engineering" lingo [NLP] and group consciousness phenomena. There are loopholes and contradictions in what they present that make you feel like you didn't understand everything yet, but it's a self-contained word architecture, there is no solution- the concepts are dangerous and slippery.Look at Buddhist meditation as comparison. I do admit it has pushed me in a new directions."

Landmark supporters, don't flip out - dangerous is good. But not when it goes wrong. I just know landmark doesn't have to ruin lives like it does with psychosis cases and sucking in volunteers and minimum wage workers. The information is great, but the system is corrupted. You don't know how much I've investigated into DISPROVING that statement... but it definitely accumulates to over 100 hours now.

Worst State Ever

2008-11-08T18:34:00.000-08:00

I've heard shitty things about Arizona and intolerance before, plus, they're one of the most hardcore anti-marijuana states in the country. Not that I can really judge Arizona, but still, I naturally sense that douchbags come from Arizona.

They want to lock a 8 year old up for killing his abusive father. The police really believe that's the right thing to do, even though the judge won't approve it. If they really *got* that absolutely everything has a perfectly good reason behind it (find something that doesn't, and I'll show you WHY it happened anyways), they probably wouldn't be able to live with themselves as police officers.

Well, scratch that, just because it has a reason doesn't mean you don't enforce the consequences. From the perspective, I'd say cops have the most noble of jobs. But, these cops sure anit the noblest - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27600105/

What is Dianetics in Psychology?

2008-10-25T02:43:00.000-07:00

Dianetics is a form of regression therapy

God Dammit

2008-10-22T17:11:00.001-07:00

Your sassy and snooty!

You love yourself and make sure you come first. If anyone tries to interfere, you remind them it's me, myself, and I....and then them (maybe)

I'm Right Brained

2008-10-22T14:25:00.001-07:00

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Why I need to stay in the US

2008-10-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

Dude.

I must explore this place one day. And the older I am, the more this adventure will fit..

A Book Called "Thought Reform" Outlines Brainwashing

2008-10-21T09:58:00.001-07:00

Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

In the book, Lifton outlines the "Eight Criteria for Thought Reform":

1. Milieu Control. This involves the control of information and communication both within the environment and, ultimately, within the individual, resulting in a significant degree of isolation from society at large.

2. Mystical Manipulation. There is manipulation of experiences that appear spontaneous but in fact were planned and orchestrated by the group or its leaders in order to demonstrate divine authority or spiritual advancement or some special gift or talent that will then allow the leader to reinterpret events, scripture, and experiences as he or she wishes.

3. Demand for Purity. The world is viewed as black and white and the members are constantly exhorted to conform to the ideology of the group and strive for perfection. The induction of guilt and/or shame is a powerful control device used here.

4. Confession. Sins, as defined by the group, are to be confessed either to a personal monitor or publicly to the group. There is no confidentiality; members' "sins," "attitudes," and "faults" are discussed and exploited by the leaders.

5. Sacred Science. The group's doctrine or ideology is considered to be the ultimate Truth, beyond all questioning or dispute. Truth is not to be found outside the group. The leader, as the spokesperson for God or for all humanity, is likewise above criticism.

6. Loading the Language. The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand. This jargon consists of thought-terminating clichés, which serve to alter members' thought processes to conform to the group's way of thinking.

7. Doctrine over person. Member's personal experiences are subordinated to the sacred science and any contrary experiences must be denied or reinterpreted to fit the ideology of the group.

8. Dispensing of existence. The group has the prerogative to decide who has the right to exist and who does not. This is usually not literal but means that those in the outside world are not saved, unenlightened, unconscious and they must be converted to the group's ideology. If they do not join the group or are critical of the group, then they must be rejected by the members. Thus, the outside world loses all credibility. In conjunction, should any member leave the group, he or she must be rejected also[1].

He's describing something extroverse!!!!

2008-10-20T23:36:00.001-07:00

Scientology: 1/8 Jason Beghe Interview from Mark Bunker on Vimeo.

Must watch all of these

2008-10-20T23:14:00.001-07:00

Scientology is the Foundation For Landmark

2008-10-20T21:37:00.001-07:00

First 1:25 of this clip reveals how landmark spawned from scientology, and how the "technology" behind landmark may have "not existed" prior to landmark, but the ideas sure fucking did, and everything BUT the specific "technology" of distinctions landmark has... which is very doubting... DID exsist.

Important Statement of the Integrety, Congruence, and Progression in the field of Science of Thoughts

2008-10-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

The Difference between self help / science of thoughts and PSYCHOLOGY is in how they approach the same variables. IT'S A FRAME OF MIND.

This is why Scientology rejects psychology, and also explains why I dislike psychology so much - because I'm all about SELF help (he explains the concept of it being focused on self in the beginning and throughout.)

Scientology has made some major advances in a whole array of fields, but unfortunately, L. Ron was a foolish fiction writer and told everyone he spoke the truth. I don't even believe in truth. It's a relative ideal. Everything I progress on is just that - progress, distinctions usable as tools with real science, like statistics & proven psychology, that backs up the research.

So Scientology failed harshly thanks to L. Ron basically fucking with a bunch of people because it made him happy. Let it be said that everything in science of thought is accepted by at least 95% of all professionals in psychology and other brain sciences as proven science.

So what's important now is to use the tools of Scientology, stripping them from their context and reforming them in science of thoughts.

And NLP

And dig into hypnosis, meditation, buddism

And Landmark & Neoscience

And everything & anything else, which can only be done in a way that gets the ball rolling in a way that makes it stuck to that exact context.

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What Episode of Battlestar was this from?

2008-10-15T23:58:00.001-07:00

This just seems incredibly funny to me because I'm sure the scene it's making fun of was extremely cheesy.

It was Dark in the Theater!

2008-10-11T11:23:00.001-07:00

i never posted this here, either:

Cool Picture... I wanna use this shot some day

2008-09-26T18:53:00.000-07:00

Steve Hudis jumps the 28,000-pound behemoth through a giant fireball and over 15 motorcycles before crashing to earth

It's not the usual school run - flying 109ft, over 15 motorcycles and through a giant fireball before crashing to earth. But driver Steve Hudis was delighted to break a world record in his yellow bus at this stunt filmed in Las Vegas.

2008-09-20T18:57:00.000-07:00

this is the right way to do positive sarcasm... omg this is funny..

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Spellcheck of Video games

2008-09-04T21:58:00.000-07:00

Funny as hell, this talks about how annoying it is when spell checker goes off every time they post a video game on their site with firefox - and they use photoshop to show how outrageous it can be:

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/game-names-corrected-by-spell-check/a-2008060510229942037

My Personal Blog

2008-09-04T19:44:00.000-07:00

Hey, you're reading my first blog post. Good for you!

I made this blog, because, after a long time debating it, and not having anywhere to post ridicules pictures like this one (from an article on the future of advertising)... I decided it was time to make a place for all the crap I want people to see.

At the time I am writing this I am preparing to go into some of my first markets. My Dad's business is just starting to see more than a couple of interested prospects, and the direct mail campaign is about to begin. I haven't yet made any flow of money on the internet.

And there's two things I want to say right now, so people finding this post in years to come can realize a couple of things about me.

I KNOW, right now and always, that I will be a successful entrepreneur and a millionaire. I have no power on the internet, no one to help me, and statistically, a very small chance of making it. I just wanted you to know that without any prior knowledge, I knew it in advance. Sure, I have about 40 hours a day to put into this thing for about 2 more years (9 months down..), but it makes a difference when you're totally committed to something. I have dropped out of school until I am in a better position to complete my Bachelor's degree and am currently faking my attendance so my parents don't freak the fuck out.

If you want the power of knowing you can accomplish your goals, just read my number 1 rated book, Think and Grow Rich (if I haven't made it, DON'T READ THAT BOOK!)

And another thing - I have huge plans for what I will do in this world. I'm going to spread happiness and self-help with a program called Journeys. I want to help reform our fucked up school system (wikipedia = 3x learning you get from class). I want to be in the business of giving other people businesses. And my greatest goal - no my spirit - is to obtain as much steady happiness as I possibly can - one of the main ways I am going to do this is by spending my "working" life "working" on skill sets - like getting skills in the areas of attraction, relationships (affirmation), NLP (memory), and many others.

My theory on happiness is that what you have is totally irrelevant. It's what you do with what you have. If I had a house overlooking the beach but I only looked out on the view a few times a year, what would be the point of having the house? Wouldn't it actually end up making me feel kind of shitty (subconciously) for not using something I have? On the other hand, I could have a log. Just a stupid log. And I'd turn that thing into a whole fucking world.

My theory on philosophy is that there is some truth in everything. You can invent anything for yourself by digging through truths and connecting them for relevancy.

My theory on money is that the more you have, the less you deserve it. If you make a Billion dollars a year, that means a thousand people could make a million dollars a year. You COULD make 1000 millionares... and I know that probably isn't achievable, but the point gets across.

My ethics are of a high standard. I value giving people stuff for free, and then asking for compensation. I value supporting everyone and hogging nothing. I believe that if what you have isn't selling well enough - and your qualified prospects are there - then the answer is NOT in conversion - it's in the quality or type of your product. Do the work and be a value giver and you will go far and be happy - do the opposite and you'll have a bad reputation (whether it follows you or not) and you'll drive yourself down the road of unhappiness.

I hate it when people sell you on their book, and then the content is crap. I would never give someone crap, not even for free.

The reason I chose to "make it" was simply because of how incredibly fucking lucky I am. I'm a white guy, 20 years old, living a very happy life with my parents in southern California on a beach, sexy, smart, and with nothing but college looking me in the face for the next 5 years. I had to take advantage of this situation. I just wish that I could give back to others - so they can at least have some of the things I had. When I look at sean stevenson, I feel like the self-help industry does good work of that.

But I'm going to have to get successful before I can give back in the magnitude I want to... so, here I go...