I Thought You Didn’t “Believe” in Supplements?

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Nutrition

I’ve gotten this question twice in my life before. The question makes as much sense to me as me taking “supplements” does to the person asking the question.

 

Meaning, the question is faulty. I do not “believe” in supplements. To the contrary, I am convinced by the sum of my knowledge and available evidence that various substances are beneficial to my body, and consequently, my life, and some of those are best ingested in uncommon forms.

 

Truthfully, I make very little distinction between “food” and “supplements” at this point in my life, so long as I am convinced both are overwhelmingly beneficial – if not outright necessary – for the best and highest quality of life possible to me.

 

This means that when I scarf down dark chocolate, I am fully aware that there are compounds in the saturated fat difficult to find elsewhere, and as far as I am aware, those compounds are beneficial to my health.

 

This means that I purposefully eat at minimum 1 tablespoon of…

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

I often wonder to myself why I continue to live the life that I do. I could probably walk away from it all now, “get a real job”, and make a lot more money than I do blogging and with T21C.

Yet, I continually come to the same conclusion: that life is good, that happiness is possible, that good things and good people do exist — and that all this is worth fighting for.

My happiness, my achievements, my ideals brought into physical reality — my greatest self actualized.

And the people and things that matter — things that are good, right, congruent, and true; people that benefit my own life in the process of living theirs — people that hold reason as their absolute, and truth a their unstoppable hammer for the world.

I see these things in the achievements and creations of others. In books, movies, TV shows, websites, inventions, exercise machines, videos, speeches, music, cars, buildings, guns, contracts — even the fucking computer…

No Treason

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

Lysander Spooner was one of those “confused” American individuals who fully opposed slavery, and opposed the northern federal invasion of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. According to part of his “about the author” section on Mises.org

the author of some of the most radical political and economic writings of the 19th century, and continues to have a huge influence on libertarian thinkers today. He was a dedicated opponent of slavery in all its forms — even advocating guerrilla war to stop it — but also a dedicated opponent of the federal invasion of the South and its postwar reconstruction.

Gee, was this guy crazy, or absolutely right and fully consistent in his philosophical and political views?

Why on earth would anyone oppose those Northern do-gooders who came to free the slaves?

Maybe, because the American Civil War had didly shit to do with freeing slaves, and everything to do with destroying the voluntary federal union the States had created just a few decades prior…

Living Congruently [Video]

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

 
To sacrifice everything for some thing you are fully committed to, is not a sacrifice, but an easy bargain. To take it to its full extent, it is to live congruently — congruent to your chosen hierarchy of values.

This is not easy. In fact, it is probably the most difficult thing one can do: what you actually want.

Funny how the world tells you to restrain yourself from the things you want, and to compromise, to give in, to surrender, to submit, to get along, to co-operate, to co-exist — to obey.

Obey government, obey school, obey your parents, obey your friends, obey your boss … obey “everyone”, but your self.

Yet your individual life is yours to live. This is never changing. You can die for someone or some thing, but you can’t live for them.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

Bill DeSimone’s Congruent Exercise [Full Video]

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

A pleasant change of topics on TDL — back to exercise we go. This time around we have Bill DeSimone, the champion of bio-mechanics as it applies to exercise (although the official disclaimer is that Bill is not formally educated on the subject).

Of course, I am not formally educated on event planning and hosting, and I seem to do OK at it. Similarly, I think Doug McGuff would be the first to say that 95% of the things he learned in medical school relating to nutrition are not only false, but the complete and total opposite of reality.

The list goes on and on. What else is new? The mainstream, conventional wisdom status-quo sucks — and Bill does a fantastic job of tackling it, and laying the foundation for a more effective (and infinitely safer) way to exercise in this presentation.

Watch Congruent Exercise now.

– Anthony Dream Johnson