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12 Tips To Trick People Into Thinking Your Smart

Ive recently come across a few ways to trick people into thinking that I am super smart. This is especially useful on social media when you want to impress your friends.  The following is a list of tips on how to appear intellectually superior, even though your not the brightest tool in the shed, or sharpest crayon in the drawer… 1. Use big words when small ones will do just fine.  Put another way; Employ a grandiloquent vernacular when banal rhetoric will suffice. A superlative verbiage is likely to impress those friends from high school whom scored higher than you on your verbal SAT. 2. Use a lot of semicolons.  It doesn’t even mater if you use them correctly; most people don’t know exactly how they work; so you can get away with it; quite easily. People are stupid; but you;ll super look smart.…

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Fiat Current Sea: Maritime Money

Our currency is like current in the sea The stream ebbs and flows, directed by the banks on either side The river-banks control the current; but the money-banks control the currency This is why our ‘cash flow’ is a ‘liquid asset‘ ‘Liquidity’ is literally available current-sea Water is a metaphor for money We use marine and aquatic vernacular to generically describe financial terms every day without even realizing it. When we make a lot of money, we make barrels of it. But if we are broke, we’re in deep. We’re drowning in a sea of debt. Or maybe we’re in hot water.  Our bank accounts have dried up. But the economy can be tough, and we’re often just trying to stay afloat or keep our heads above water.  (above) The Black River Bank of Watertown, New York was established in 1844 and ran until 1864…

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Peak Petroleum, Abiotic Fossil Fuel: A Bone To Pick With The Oilagarchs

We’ve been trained to believe that petroleum is a fossil fuel. It’s supposed to have been generated over millions of years from the remains of dead organisms that were buried beneath sedimentary rock long ago.  There’re only so many of these ‘fossils’ left, therefore they say, we’ll eventually run out.  This is what ‘peak oil’ is all about, and it’s absolutely ludicrous. As the story goes, since there are only so many dinosaur bones, zooplankton, algae and other decayed biological matter from long ago; there is only so much oil.  This is good news for the ‘oilagarchs‘ since they can create artificial scarcity and raise the price due to the supposed lack of supply.  This happened in the 70’s for those old enough to remember. But what if this wasn’t the case? What if oil isn’t a so called fossil fuel, but simply a product…

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Pedagogic Logic: Conundrums, Puzzles, & Riddles

The answer is 35 because banana(15) + onecherry(5) x apple(4) = 35, Remember PEMDOS

I’ve always enjoyed brain teasers, puzzles and paradoxes. What at first may seem pretty straight forward, can trick us into believing the illogical and outright insane.  There are many reasons for this.   Here is a series of puzzles, where the answer may not always be as obvious as it seems. Using your logic, be your own pedagog. Click on each picture to reveal the answer, but only do so when you’re ready! Take your time. Some of these are very difficult! Video on this puzzle above   Video on this puzzle above.  This is a difficult one. This next one is even more difficult. People will come up with all kinds of different answers, most of which are wrong. This video includes the puzzle above   How many circles do you see in this next picture?   How many times does the letter…

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Race Is A Biological Reality: Your Opinion Is A Social Construct

The main reason people are afraid to admit there are differences among the races -or even admit that race is a biological reality and not a social construct- is because it conjures up sentiments of ‘superiority’ and reminds people of Hitler’s Germany. They think, “Well, if there are racial differences, then that means that some races are better than others, and I don’t want to go there.”  It’s better to just ignore any differences and acquiesce to the pressure of their peers and claim we are all exactly the same; we are all one. Scientists and professors are human. We all make mistakes. Rather than admit the truth about race, they prefer to ignore the vast amount of evidence on racial differences, mostly so they don’t have to live in fear of potentially being called a ‘racist’. The following are peer reviewed studies that…

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The Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming Soon To America

A total solar eclipse occurs when the New Moon (the absence of the moon) comes between the Sun and Earth and casts the darkest part of its shadow, the umbra, on Earth. A full solar eclipse, known as totality, is almost as dark as night.  On August 21st 2017, the United States will witness this amazing phenomenon.  For about two and a half minutes day will fall to night, Nature will hold its breath, and the continental United States will witness a feat not seen for over 38 years. It’s going to be something; don’t miss it!

The total phase of this total solar eclipse will be visible from a narrow path spanning all across the USA from the West Coast to the East Coast , weather permitting. Continue reading

Inspirational memes

“Out of the corruption of women proceeds the confusion of castes; out of the confusion of castes proceeds the loss of memory, out of the loss of memory proceeds the loss of understanding, and out of this all evil.”. -Bhagavad-Gita, 1:41-42; based on Eugène Burnouf’s nineteenth century French translation—Ed.

“The more thou searchest, the more thou shalt marvel.”
– Esdras

“We can do nothing against the truth” -St Paul

“Great is truth, and mighty above all things.” -Edras

“ ‘Tis strange – but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.” – Byron

‘Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’ -Hugh Nibley

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. -Arthur Conan Doyle

He that hath an ear, let him hear.  Revelation 3:22

 

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Why Aren’t White People Having Children Anymore?

It’s true.  Europeans aren’t having children anymore, at least not at replacement levels. White people, it seems, might soon be a thing of the past.  Whoopi Goldberg is pretty excited, are you?

“Replacement level fertility” is the total fertility rate—the average number of children born per woman—at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, without migration. This rate is roughly 2.1 children per woman for most countries, although it may modestly vary with mortality rates. -World Resources Institute

As the Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin puts it, “White people are dying out”

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016.

 

But the question is not if, but why. We already know that in just a few short years, White people will be a minority in almost every White country.  Some people are rejoicing at the fact that White people are dying out.  Others are literally thrilled about it. But should they be?  What if it was Japanese people, or Indians, Mexicans, or Blacks?  Would it still be acceptable? Continue reading