Archive | September, 2010

Money Is Not Value

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Wealth

 
The video above is embedded not in support or against the return of a gold standard, but because it helps highlight a very important concept – “money” is not value.

If you believe it is, I want you to repeat the following with me.

Money is not value.

Money is not value.

Money is not value.

“Money” is, at best in the 21st century, a common medium of exchange (a representation of value). It does not actually have any inherent value, other than perhaps as toilet paper, emergency fuel for a fire, or a paper airplane/paper hornet.

Why is this important to understand?

Well, I hear it expressed often enough (mostly in person, but on this blog from time to time as well), that people want to “make money”.

This counterfeiting operation is actually reserved for criminals, and your respective, benevolent masters in government around the world (as if there were a legitimate difference at this point).

What you…

Reality Check: Muscular Hypertrophy

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

One of the biggest pit falls to avoid in the self education of proper exercise is the application of the right principals, followed by the false expectations set forth by a few decades of consistently poor judgment, mysticism, win/lose commercial interests, and all things ridiculous.

In other words: doing what makes sense, and actually works, but ditching it for the next magic pill of a promise to “get you ripped in 90 days” (or whatever the snake oil, catch phrase of the day is), the minute you don’t see instantaneous “results”.

The reality is, 99.9999% of the people reading this spent at least 20, if not 30 or 40+ years of their life in a biological train wreck.

The fact that more of us aren’t in a vegetative state or recovering from one is a testament to the adaptive capability of the human body.

It’s miracles like this that have bred my deep “faith” in the individual, independent thought, and independent action in the face of overwhelming collectivism on the most…

Compromise, Quackery, and Accepted Norms – No Thanks

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking, Nutrition

Below is my response to a recent comment written by a Professor at Harvard on TDL. His comment was lengthy, and I knew a response of my own would be long as well, so I took the liberty to expand on a few ideas I wanted to share regardless and turn this into a full post.

What selections of his comment I took are quoted via Wordpress.

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I’d like to continue by addressing what I feel is a theme in many of your articles, if only sparsely woven through some. It is the notion that the medical and federal authorities that exist are non-trustworthy.

At this point in time, 99% of medical professionals and and federal officials have no legitimate authority that any sane person would recognize – none because authority can only be found in truth, not the other way around. To think that a sizable amount of either party have any regard for the search of truth left, is sadly, a cruel joke.

Without wasting your time in explaining…