Cool New Ponzi Scheme to Join!

Ponzi Schemes seem to be everywhere there days! With their ever increasing popularity, it gave cause to some thoughts about your World.

The population of the World is increasing. Each generation adds additional demands upon the limited resources of the World. What is the best way for our generation to make the most of it? How do we get our fair share? It's as easy as sin!

How do Ponzi Schemes work? Say you want a million dollars. Now say you go out and find 1000 suckers who will give you $1000 each. Why would they do this, you ask? Because you tell them that you will give them $2000. But where will you get this $2,000,000 (ie 1000 people at $2,000 each is your debt) from since you only have $1,000,000? You go out and find more people to give you $1000 each and give that money to the first people! And why do these new people give you money? Because you tell them that you will give them $2000 each. Go back to step one and repeat. Basically, as long as you have future suckers willing to give you money to pay off your past debts, you can keep that initial $1,000,000 for yourself!

Combining these two ideas we get what we have today! We can borrow money from the future, ie the children of today, by telling them that we will give them a lot more money in the future if they just give us a bunch of money now. Then they do the same thing to the next generation. Repeat!

And why will this work? It works because there are more people in each generation. As long as we keep ahead of the borrowing curve by producing more children, we can, generation after generation, live in the lap of luxury! We can fuck ourselves into a good life.

Just keep it up, we need a new larger generation of suckers in order for the Ponzi Scheme of Life to succeed! The more children in the next generation, the better our current lives will be, since we will have much more to borrow against.

The Edward

Hello Stranger

I was reading something the other day, something that I have heard many times throughout my life: The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine. Then I thought about it... am I not part of this Universe? Doesn't that imply something about me?

The one thing I like about that quote is that it fits nicely with my World View. Or Universe View. Why is it that Humans assume that they can understand the Universe? Can dogs understand our World? Give enough time, would they understand our Science? What makes us believe that we have the mental facilities to understand the Science of the Universe?

If an Alien lands tomorrow, I doubt we could understand their Science, even if we have all the Time in the World. Our Belief about the Universe and its rules... shocking!

The Edward

My view indeed!

http://www.sciencecodex.com/individual_primates_display_variation_in_general_intelligence - it appears that one of my posts came true! Score another one for the Arcane World.

I guess it is as the old saying goes, "Even a blind monkey finds a nut once in a while."

The site I found this article linked from was filled with comments like "Oh yeah, I guess that makes sense." Man alive, can you imagine a world in which everyone read Edward's Arcane World... the madness that would ensue.

Well, you are asking yourself, "Did he break his vow of silence to come here and gloat? Is that all he is reduced to these days?" No, I came here to congratulate you. You read the posts from before and are reading this one now - you are one of the well informed. You knew that there was variances in monkey IQ years before science came around to even considering it. While everyone else is going, "Hey, that kind of makes sense. Look at me, I know something new! Ook ook", you are smugly sitting around saying "I knew that years ago, tell me something that I don't know."

Good job. Keep up the good work. I'm guessing that the next blog-to-come-true will be the classic theory on dinosaur satellites - just watch and see, soon everyone will be going "Oh yeah, that makes sense."...

The Edward

PS Assume 10,000 years of human history. Now imagine all of that happening again and again a 1,000 more times. Now realize that that is still less time than the dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

About that God fellow

I heard something on the radio today - but what would I do with an extra 2-3 inches? After that I heard someone call to tell the host about God, which was weird. Weird, because I was just thinking about God right before I turned on the radio. I had just realized something, something that I had read in Ram Tzu's book, something about God being in the outhouse.

I was thinking about Right and Wrong. God, I was told, created man in His image, gave him the power to decide between Right from Wrong, etc. Something I never really thought about before though: Does God know Right from Wrong?

Assume that there is a God as described. Why would he create a being, and allow him to choose between Right and Wrong, but if he chooses Wrong he gets the opportunity to burn forever in Hell? Seems like there is no real choice there. But that was when I realized it, How can there be a Wrong?

God, before He created man, would have had to know Everything. Contained within him would be thoughts that we consider Wrong. If there is a Right and Wrong, then they must be ideals outside of God, and God chooses Right. If God didn't know Right and Wrong and was just the embodiment of Right, how could he create a Devil or create humans that knew of Wrong - how can there be anything other than God? So, either everything is part of God, all thoughts and deeds and etc, or God deals with Right and Wrong on a daily basis just like we do, but he choose Right and punishes those who choose Wrong.

Ram Tzu stated something about the "clever" look for God in churches and temples, but he then follows that by saying Ram Tzu knows that God is also in the outhouses and abattoirs. I'm going to have to agree with him on this point - God would be everywhere and everything. All thoughts that we judge as Right and Wrong are really just right and wrong to us. There is no such distinction for God.

The Edward

PS The man on the radio was calling to tell the host that his opinion was wrong. The host thought that a woman having an abortion after being raped was a-okay. The man calling was claiming that God had a plan for that baby and that the host would never know the love of God because of his views on abortion. The host was claiming that there was no God because if so, God would have stopped the rape. Because of my thoughts just before I turned on the radio, I realized that both were wrong.

Experiments

This ia post I was working from a year and a half ago. Oh how my style has changed. Oh how much of a wimp I have become always taking the safe route in my posts. Oh how much I used to talk about pussy and try to fit in as many naughty words as I could just to prove to people that I actually do "swear". Oh how this post, in its unedited form from 10/28/2007, will seem confusing, since the topic thread that it was a continuation of, is so long dead. Still, should be fun to see the reaction! Mine and yours! :) So, here you go, a gift from the past:

As most recently stated, I think of "want" to be equivalent of rape or stealing. If what I stated about myself is true (ie not wanting anything), how do I live, you might ask? Experiments!

It is all a matter of ownership. That pussy you want to fuck belongs to someone. That money you want in your bank account is already in someone else's. If they do not willingly give it to you, and you want it, then you either want to rape it or steal it. Just like the Vikings! :)

Without attachments to the results is a Zen like way to live. And if one isn't attached to the results, there are many things one can do. Say you meet someone and you wonder what it would be like to fuck him or her. (I'll stick with her for now, based on my bias.) You could pursue her in hopes that she will willingly fuck you at some point, a valid strategy to alleviate the want. And once you know her, you might realize that you do not want her, that you spent all of that time and money only to find out that she isn't really what you want. What a waste. Which is why people sit in the background and want. With wanting, she is the ideal woman, no flaws, no conflict, just pure perfection. I think this is what leads people to actually commit rape, they want that person just as she is now in their minds, and if they become involved, she will be just a common person like everyone else. Just a guess since I have never met a real rapist luckily.

Another option is the Zen option. You see her and you see a lot of other women. You think it would interesting in a general sense to have sex. So, you set things in place, keywords here and there, chance meetings, etc, whatever you think will make a good experiment. Then you let the experiment run and see what happens. You do not care whether you fuck her or someone else or no one, because you do not want anything that anyone else has. You are curious to see what others will give you.

A simple example: you say to someone, "I haven't had sex in a while, want to go for it?" If someone says yes, then you have learned something. You do not want something from that person, you are just seeing what is being offered.

Experiments. Try to live life like one. Be the passive observer. Set up the experiment, but do not be attached to the results. This paragraph I am writing now, 1.5 years after the above text. It is my summary of what I was trying to say back then. Interesting, at least to me, on how I never actually got to that point in the monologue. Interesting also is that I cringe while reading it, even though I still think it is funny/interesting. And yet... how much of what I post is a lie, from then and now... oh how much...

The Edward

Seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade

Not just pretty words. I know we're all concerned about the environment. So, this morning, let's discuss how to prevent forest fires. Do you think that when a new baby arrives, one of the other children has to die? Oh, no. He lives.

Well, now that that is out of the way, Hello. And welcome to another edition of Movie Quotes. Tonight's quotes were brought to you courtesy of that lovable 1993 movie, Addams Family Values. Enjoy the hijinx of love slaves and summer camp. See people roped and bound for the pleasure of the viewing audience. Laugh at the death of a family member. And most importantly, hear the quotes that are quotable, and of course repeat them throughout the day tomorrow so that way people who have not yet seen the movie can enjoy the highlights of the movie with you.

Your friends will burst out laughing, as shown in these example:

Biff: Hey there friend, how was your weekend? Do anything new or exciting?
You: Do you know what happens if my mother uses a fabric softener?
Biff: Uh, no?
You: I die.
Biff and You laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

Biff: I just finished this report and I'm going to present it to the big cheese. Give me your honest opinion.
You: Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character and the Aristotelian unities.
Biff and You laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

You, alone in a room: ...look at all of the other children, their freckles, their bright little eyes, their eager, friendly smiles. Help them.
You laugh and laugh and laugh, never leaving the quiet safety of that room again. Thanks Addams Family!

The Edward

Fox News Lies

Well, there you have it. I can not believe it. I was watching Fox News at someones house very recently and I was shocked! I know, people have been telling me for years that Fox News lies. I never really paid much attention to those claims, until now...

They had a breaking news story. Coming up next, Area 51! The story was to be about alien spacecraft told by people who worked at Area 51. They planned to spill their guts and I was going to watch it all happen live! But then they brought out the two guys who proceeded to tell lie after lie about how there were no alien crafts there and how everything that the public saw in the night skies were really supersonic refueling ships that they have invented/developed. The bold lies they told!

After this, I knew the truth, Fox News really is full of lies. I must doubt every story that they air because I disagreed with one of them. Everything must be biased! How sad. :( But, I guess all of those people who have been telling me this for years must be right - I apologize for doubting you! They used point to one or two stories that they thought were wrong, even though they weren't personally there, and then make the claim that all of the other stories must be false as well. Shocking.

Though, now that I think about it, I've actually been at the site of news stories before... and then saw it on tv or in the paper or in a magazine... and in each of those cases, they were wrong. Maybe all news is biased? Maybe all news is pumped up to sell more ads? Maybe they target the news at their audiences?... Nah, if that were the case, then Fox News wouldn't have aired that Area 51 piece, would they? Unless...

The Edward