1/ Recorded a great @InfiniteL88ps with @BrianMuraresku, Author of "The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name" which posits that early Christians "borrowed" from an ancient Greek religion where adherents consumed a psychedelic sacrament mixed in beer.
2/ Must admit that reading this quote from @joerogan "Absolutely one of the most fascinating podcasts I've ever done ... fucking sensational" before jumping on with Brian made me a bit worried that I was out of my league. But Brian's easy manner and encyclopedic knowledge
3/ of that early period put me immediately at ease and even though I'd read the book, I learned lots of great stuff about that chaotic, but fascinating, period in history. The more you dig, the more interesting things get.
4/ If his thesis is confirmed through further research, lots of "truths" will need to be reexamined.
In the meantime, the book is really a great read. He managed to make it fun, almost like a gripping mystery novel. I highly recommend the book.
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"Truth isn't an idea or a concept. Truth isn't about knowing things, you already know too much. It's about unknowing things."
3/ Rick and Morty take a more lighthearted approach to dealing with the 'truth.' Interdimensional Cable or neuralyzed memory redaction--dealer's choice.
Um, hate to disappoint those coming to my @interintellect_ Salon about "Rick, Morty and Jed McKenna" but, ah, well, if you've read Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave" and Seen 'The Matrix' (but I repeat myself) then you're probably already 75% of the way there.
But, there's also a lot of good Monty Python insights on to where we seem to always find ourselves, getting distracted by people not wearing enough hats rather than focusing more on the bigger picture.
Plus, you might want to listen to my JedFather @Dan_Jeffries1 and me discuss these issues on a recent @InfiniteL88ps podcast:
1/ Always fun and educational when @InfiniteL88ps's recurring guest @Alex_Danco joins us for a chat. We covered world building and Alex's much loved "Michael Scott Theory of Social Class" in which we learn that if you:
👉🏻Take being called "serious" as the highest compliment;
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👉🏻Brag about driving a Subaru but would never drive a Cadillac;
👉🏻Would have a serious discussion about the relative merits of IPA beers and actually care about the opinions;
👉🏻Are proud of the fact that you know how to use chopsticks correctly;
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👉🏻Actively desire a blue checkmark on Twitter (modified for special cases like me, where it just appeared with me never applying for or seeking it);
👉🏻Become engrossed to the point of obsession with things like competing in triathlons and seek approval from your friends
"The fewer resentments you harbor, the happier your life will be. Why are we all such fools as to ignore this obvious lesson, which a truly rational person would have figured out by the age of 8 or 9, if not sooner?"
“I think cheerfulness is one of the most important and least appreciated virtues in the world. Anybody can bring the room down by sitting around bitching and griping, but it takes real creativity to bring the whole room up.”
“We can only be sane and responsible if we stop looking outside ourselves for strength (Big Daddy or God) or for somebody to blame (The Devil). God and Devil are real, but inside us.”
Jesse: "I think the intrinsic value of an asset is what it's worth is in itself, from owning it for, for its own sake. I think a good way to test this is to just ask yourself for
2/ any asset or anything in general, anything, whatever it is, what would be the most that you would pay for it? If you were stuck with it forever?"
~@Jesse_Livermore
Next, we have Transactional Value which Jesse describes thus:
3/ "The transactional value would be the value that comes from the fact that there's this network of confidence in the market, that people have been doing this for hundreds of years and we know that when you wake up tomorrow, the S&P is not going to be at 500.
I'm delighted to introduce you to my newest colleague at Infinite Loops: Vatsal Kaushik (@antilibrary_vk) who, in addition to being an incredibly talented man, demonstrates the emerging power of the Digital World
2/ Time, Space and Geography are collapsing--Vatsal lives in Bangalore, India, but that no longer matters in the digital world.
We've already established an easy working relationship via text, emails and Zooms. Yesterday, I marveled this would have been impossible just a
3/ few years ago, but one of the positives of the global lockdown is it accelerated trends that might have taken years absent our need to adapte.
It's now clear to me that geography no longer matters--if you have access to high speed Internet,