Archive | December, 2011

The 5 Year Itch: Was it all a Waste?

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Curtis Noll

For the past 5 years, I’ve hosted a camping trip to a park in Florida named Cayo Costa. The first year I did it with my best friend, seen above (yellow shirt), who died about 8 months later. The last thing we ever talked about was continuing the Cayo Costa camping trip. We agreed to keep on doing it (together).

He died, and I decided to keep hosting it, as agreed before his death, and in a way, in memory of him.

That was 2008. Its now late 2011, and the fifth trip was just held last week. It was much smaller than all of the previous trips. Only 5 of us actually made it to the island, compared to every previous year being in the range of 15-20 people.

I was initially kinda pissed with myself for this, for the group not being nearly as large this year. I blamed myself, for not investing more time and effort rounding people up, and in general, organizing the trip….

All New The21Convention.com + Epic Underrated Speech

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Lifestyle Design, The 21 Convention

The21Convention.com has been modified previously by Jonas Sandstrom, to the version most viewers are familiar with today. The website (link) recently got a massive face lift however by Jakob at JBS Webdesign. I really do mean massive to — it looks like a totally new website, yet remains structurally almost 100% the same.

If it’s not obvious, the new color scheme was largely adapted from MarksDailyApple.com. It’s not an exact replica however, given that the type of content Mark releases is primarily text, and the content released on The21Convention.com is almost exclusively video.

All in all, I am ultra happy with the changes, and I think virtually everyone else will be as well, at the very least because the site is now 100x easier on the eyes.

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In related news, plenty of new videos have released on T21C. Per the picture, I found James Marshall’s speech especially awesome. One of the best on male/female relationships, being…

Congruent Exercise: The Greatest Exercise Manual in History

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, Reviews

Disclaimer: this is an independent review and is not endorsed in anyway by the author. I do not receive compensation for book sales resulting from this review.

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I’ve been pushing to finish an ultra-long review of Congruent Exercise. “Ultra-long” because I was weaving in so many different ideas into the review, that are important to the discussion, but not absolutely necessary. Well, I’m about to be without internet access for a few days, and in light of those additional discussions not being absolutely necessary, I have decided to write a short and simple review, and release it immediately.

I’ve made this decision because it needed to be made — because there are things about this book that need to be said.

A book that says things about exercise, that absolutely needed to be said.

This 68 page manual is the greatest manual on exercise ever written, and it appears I am not entirely alone in this sentiment.

What is Congruent Exercise?

CE is the follow…

Howard Roark…

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

It was very peculiar, thought Keating. Toohey was asking him a great many questions about Howard Roark. But the questions did not make sense. They were not about buildings, they were not about architecture at all. They were pointless personal questions — strange to ask about a man of whom he had never heard before.

“Does he laugh often?”

“Very rarely.”

“Does he seem unhappy?”

“Never.”

“Did he have many friends at Stanton?”

“He’s never had any friends anywhere.”

“The boys didn’t like him?”

“Nobody can like him.”

“Why?”

“He makes you feel it would be an impertinence to like him.”

“Did he go out, drink, have a good time?”

“Never.”

“Does he like money?”

“No.”

“Does he like to be admired?”

“No.”

“Does he believe in God?”

“No.”

“Does he talk much?”

“Very little.”

“Does he listen if others discuss any … ideas with him?”

“He listens. It would be better if he didn’t.”

“Why?”

“It would be less insulting — if you know what I mean, when a man listens like that and you know it hasn’t made the slightest bit of difference to him.”

 

Mark Sisson and Doug McGuff MD Interviewed by Dr. Mercola

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, Interviews, Nutrition

 

 
As you might guess, both are great. I’ve since invited Dr. Mercola to The 21 Convention. While I was not able to get in touch with him directly, I did get in contact with his press agent. Highly interested at first due to both Mark and Doug being alumni speakers, but lost interest when he found out there was not going to be ~500 people at the event. This is highly irrelevant long term due to the high quality video production + online video distribution, but this is almost impossible to explain to people not intimately familiar with web video.

It’s tantamount to explaining how detrimental minimum wage laws are to the poor, or explaining why corporate tax is an illusion to an OWS protester. I may or may not try to get in contact with Dr. Mercola directly, who I think would be a great speaker. I especially like how much he hates — and rightfully so — the FDA.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

Things are looking up for this country…

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
I believe this is Ron Paul’s single greatest debate performance in history. As I’ve discussed before, Ron Paul is set to win the office of the president and become the next President of the united States — one of the few men in American history who will actually be deserving of that title.

Many people are still skeptical to varying degrees about this. I believe the majority of skeptics left fall into one of two camps. There is a minority of people left who are genuinely ignorant of Ron Paul. They will “come around” easily as Ron Paul continues to destroy what’s left of status-quo politics.

The two main camps then are

A. Zombie Sheep

Brainless, spineless cowards who long ago lost the ability to think independently. These are the people who will be writing in “John McCain” because they still think it’s 2008. Most of these people will sleepwalk through their entire lives and will never support Ron Paul, life, and liberty. Such a man and such concepts are antithetical to their entire…

When Should You Shoot a Cop?

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
Literally speaking, whenever someone violates your unalienable rights*, with open violence, you have a right to defend your self by any means necessary, to preserve your life and limb from serious or lethal injury. This includes the use of a firearm of any type, size, or power.

What ‘authority’ the violator claims is of no objective consequence so far as your rights are concerned — and declarationally speaking, of no legal consequence.

Good video, good article, give it a watch/read.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

*If you forfeit your rights by violating the rights of others, this no longer applies, such as when a criminal robs and murders someone, and is then shot by police in pursuit, an armed citizen seeing the conclusion of the crime and attempting to stop the criminal, etc.

Richard Nikoley 21 Convention Presentation

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
This is Richard Nikoley’s full 21 Convention speech. He raises some good questions and ideas. In his own words the presentation focuses on,

  • General precepts of the human animal and our current domestication in The Zoo Human that underlies all manner of dysfunction
  • Who am I and what’s my story
  • The Paleo / Primal Diet
  • What to eat and what not to eat
  • Learn to become a competent cook
  • When to eat and when not to eat (Intermittent Fasting)
  • High, moderate or low carb
  • Health benefits of Real Food combined with Intermittent Fasting (Autophagy)
  • Ditching mind creating fantasies that induce unearned guilt and shame that underly actions that work against your well being
  • Evolutionary social hierarchies vs. centralized, authoritarian hierarchies
  • Non-exclusivity in male / female relationships

As I’ve discussed before, the only significant point I disagree with Richard on is voting, although, not in the way some might imagine. I do indeed agree with Richard that having a 1 in 300 millionth say in your own affairs is bat shit crazy, and to say the least, a complete waste of…

Breaking the 2 Million View Threshold

By Anthony Dream Johnson in The 21 Convention

As of 12/9/11, 1:18pm EST, the lifetime views for the following outlets are as follows,

  • The21Convention.com*
    • 922,907
  • TheDreamLounge.net
    • 314,575
  • Youtube.com/under21convention07
    • 934,376

Total content views from all three channels,

2, 171, 858

 *Does not include traffic from discussion forums, or the previous domain, under21convention.com.

Many of the Youtube views are overlaps from embeds on The21Convention.com, but not nearly as many as some may think, having only used Youtube as the default hosting platform on the website since the early Spring of 2011.

All in all, pretty sweet. And the recipe I currently use to release a video is even more sweet, with long range benefits abound. It combines all three outlets, in ways that are obvious to the viewer as well as not so obvious, plus social media, newsletters, and whatever the individual speakers decide to do for promotion on their end (varies widely).

Of course, this was all possible at a much earlier point in time. I sometimes kick myself for not getting the hang of this sooner. Had I, I would be a very rich…

Philosophers to Be Cautious of: Cornel West

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Miscellaneous

 
I’m going to start pointing out individuals to be cautious of. Unless explicitly stated, posts of this nature are not meant to be taken as a blanket “this guy’s an idiot”. These posts are meant to be a general “proceed with caution” because the individuals I will be pointing out are basing their conclusions on false fundamentals.

I pick Cornel West simply because Ben Sima recently linked to him (link).

From the video…

27 seconds in: “Democracy is all about public discussion.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYk4PobHx4&t=27s

The American States voluntarily formed a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Lynch mobs are democracy taken to the full extent. I suspect Cornel thinks of people in terms of groups, i.e., he’s a collectivist. Implication by this statement is that if there is enough ”discussion”, we will end up with the correct conclusions for and about government. Does not recognize democracy’s only useful place in government: for things that are optional and non-life threatening.

Does not recognize that truth and reality exist independent of how well any individual discusses any…