The success of a prophesy is its FAILURE! (The GLP effect) | |
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Asciikewl
(OP) User ID: 33034568 South Africa 04/03/2015 04:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This does leave the prophet without much apparent material profit. Because you're close to indistinguishable from the charlatan. This is a good thing as fame eats time and listening requires quiet time. The important lesson is to ingrain the habit of listening to God/the universe/your uncle/the tomatoes as the positive news also arrives through the same channel. Small risk high reward things. And the rewards are typically enough, not excess. True abundance is always having enough with sufficient left to share. Excess inhibits your inclination to listen. Is 'Question everything!' a good idea? (The Gödel take on conspiracy theories) |
Asciikewl
(OP) User ID: 33034568 South Africa 04/03/2015 05:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Exactly! But his challenge is even bigger than the Oracle's profit problem. (She want exactly living in a palace was she?) GLP is inhabited by a fair subset of highly "sensitive" people, some of whom I guess can exert significant influence at some non-mainstream level. And this influence seems to be inversely proportional to their ego in proclaiming it. So that has a tendancy to FIRMLY place you in the lunatic fringe classification. With a fat slice of rest of GLP. :) Now let's say Neo did win the war by simply dreaming the whole red pill/Zion bit. And then suddenly, everything improved. Without any externally referencable causal link. That is virtually indistinguishable from schizophrenia (using the urban, not medical definition). Interesting conundrum isn't it! If there is a Neo like that in this world, I hope he's the guy at the bar that I suddenly have the urge to buy a beer for. And I certainly hope he stays away from the Is 'Question everything!' a good idea? (The Gödel take on conspiracy theories) |
Asciikewl
(OP) User ID: 33034568 South Africa 04/03/2015 05:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Long live the GLP effect! (Raise your glasses, milk jugs, joints, DMT bongs and alien nutrition tubes!) Last Edited by Asciikewl on 04/03/2015 05:05 AM Is 'Question everything!' a good idea? (The Gödel take on conspiracy theories) |