Things that matter

For years and years, misinformed consumers were duped into paying through the nose for television, music, phone calls and information. NOW IT IS FREE. THIS IS THE FUTURE!

Isn’t it funny how with more and more free stuff around people have less and less money? Getting things for free should mean that you’re saving some money. But it just isn’t true. The opposite is. Free costs more.

Things are offered for free, yes. Free calls. Free music. Free television. Free books. Everything is free, but free is selling you something else. Something that isn’t sold to you directly and isn’t the main focus in the picture. Kind of like the current sidebar featured video (the one with the ball). You’re being told to look at the free stuff while your pockets are being picked (okay not really like that but you get the idea.

In the end, free is just another business model. A better one. You’re paying without being aware that you’re paying, and that makes everything in the sales process easier. Which means that you should be more careful who gives you candy. Yes, remember what your mom told you, “never take candy from strangers.” She was right.

Here are the 4 little known truths of free stuff. Read the rest of this entry »

Jainism, one of the oldest religions that originated in India, is a syncretistic religion, which contains many elements similar to Hinduism and Buddhism. Jains have an ancient tradition of scholarship and have the highest degree of literacy in India. Jain libraries are India’s oldest. Tatvagyan Pathmala Part – I (edited by. Dr.H.C. Bharill), a Jain writing, tells us that:

Pleasures arising out of several joys are not happiness. They are, in fact, unhappiness because they have the restlessness, which makes one unhappy. Happiness means ease and complete lack of restlessness and pleasures of senses do not have that mental ease. Whatever we enjoy with the help of the senses is sensual pleasure only. It is a kind of unhappiness. It is happiness in name only. Psychic bliss is above senses and cannot be had from their objects. Just as the soul, being psychic, cannot be achieved with the help of the senses; non-sensory happiness, being in the nature of the soul, cannot be obtained with the help of the senses. Read the rest of this entry »

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
— Jules Carlysle

The question is simple: do you know your mind? More specifically, do you know what it is biased towards detecting when you look at things? What is the above picture about? Get voting! Read the rest of this entry »

Penny Dollar: Can I borrow that book of yours How To Become A Millionaire?

Penny Wise: Sure. Here you are.

Penny Dollar: Thanks – but half the pages are missing.

Penny Wise: What’s the matter? Isn’t half a million enough for you?

Which is kind of what all the ‘how to make money’ and ‘how to get rich’ coaching programs are doing.

And that brings us to money, and with money, to the saying that “money is the root of all evil.” Which actually is an incomplete quote. “Money is the root of all evil” came from “The Love of Money is the root of all evil.” Some dumbass(es) somewhere along the line lost the first part and started a huge pointless debate on whether or not money is evil. Read the rest of this entry »

Eww, Valentine’s day tomorrow, also known as international act like a sheep day. Who let the dogs out?

I had to do that.

Now, onto serious business. Can you remember the last argument (debate) you had? If you don’t remember, go on and have one right now. You can debate the existence of the abominable snowman, thought by some to stalk the Himalayan Mountains. See if you can prove or disprove his existence to one of your friends/family members.

If you do remember the last argument you had, are you familiar with these terms: “Argumentum ad Ignorantiam” and “burden of proof?” If you are, good for you. : ) But if you’re not (sometimes even if you were), you might have used them to defend your claims. Used them the wrong way, don’t get your hopes high. Read the rest of this entry »