philo “loving” + sophia “knowledge”
Everything’s opposite. Your nose runs while your feet smell. We park in the drive-way and drive on the park-way. We recite at a play, and play at the recital. We ship shipments by car and send cargo by ship. What…
A logical fallacy is a flaw in reasoning. It’s a hole in logic. They’re used all the time in conversation when we try to argue a point. In the attempt to persuade someone it’s easy to slip in a logical fallacy here…
The United States, and dare I say the entire world, is owned and controlled by liberals. But what does this mean? Etymologically, ‘liberal’ means free, so how could this be a bad thing? What’s wrong with promoting freedom? But are…
Ancient Mesopotamian astrologers devised a seven day week inspired by the heavenly bodies that wandered about the sky. There were seven in total. The equally sized flashlight and nightlight in the sky, the sun and moon, along with the other five…
Ancient Hermetic gnostics passed down a crucial set of principles which describe how reality works. This operation manual to the inner workings of the universe was espoused by the ‘thrice-great’ Hermes Trismegistus well before the time of Moses, and echoed in the writings…
Government is the illusion of authority, but more importantly government is mind control. Naturally, since if you want people to believe in this fictitious thing called ‘authority’ you first have to mold the minds of the collective to accept this false ideology.…
Propaganda, known today euphemistically as ‘public relations’, is the manufacturing of consent. It’s the distortion of information to suit a particular agenda. Along with it’s ‘proper’ use comes the ability to control the masses, to mold the collective mind. Propaganda is…
What we know as truth is largely determined by the opinions of our peers, and not actual scientific evidence like you would think. We so desperately strive to fit in and feel loved in a society that we surrender common sense…
We’ve all heard of the placebo effect, but many are completely ignorant of it’s polar opposite, the nocebo effect. Instead of getting better from a sugar pill as in the placebo, the nocebo is the exact opposite. Your health deteriorates…