Aphorisms up for Debate
This is a collection of text messages to my former self. They are under construction, indefinitely.
💬 Time rich is more important than money rich. Health rich is more important than time rich. Friend rich is more important than health rich. Family rich is more important than friend rich. Truth rich is more important than family rich. Wisdom rich is more important than truth rich.
💬 You can’t change anyone. Stop trying immediately.
💬 Your deepest fear is predictability—there’s nothing to learn from it.
💬 We live in the matrix for real. Reality is pixelated. Uncertainty governs our brains, our computers, and the physics engine of reality. The best way to imagine the “quantum video game” you live in, is the movie, “Free Guy”. Anything that’s possible in a video game is possible in this life too. All you need is the right permissions. And you can’t even earn those permissions until you believe they exist.
💬 This is the greatest time on Earth to be alive, since the last time it was this great. That was precisely the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth sixteenth day of the month (they had way more technology than us). 🧬✂️🛸🪐🔺⚡️🤖🧠
💬 Don’t trust everything you think. Don’t trust everything you feel. Don’t trust everything you remember.
💬 Marriage is like dragging a dog sled (loaded down with everything you own) across the entire state of Alaska without any trails to navigate. But marriage is way better than dragging that dog sled across Alaska by yourself. 🛷
💬 Humans autonomously broadcasts their emotions through a universal body language. Mammals, lizards, and fish can even read it. The most honest body parts of a person are their feet, followed by their hands. Their shoulders are usually square to their attention. The least honest body part of a person is their mouth, followed by their eyes. 🦶👋👀🫦
💬 It takes a lot of humans working together peacefully to progress this far in our technological discovery. Unfortunately, if we don’t all keep working together peacefully, this will be the end of us, just like it was all the times before. ♻️
💬 Get EEG Neurofeedback. It’s like braces for your brain. Make the appointment today.
💬 Train your daughters to care like mothers for their father. Train your sons to care like fathers for their mother.
💬 Complainers are not dependable.
💬 We all live inside our own virtual reality. The raw data for everything you can see right now is streaming into your brain upside down. You continuously make up 95% of the colors you can see with your own “generative AI”. 🙃
💬 The political party in Heaven is “Libertarian Communist”.
💬 If you want to start a business: Building the right cap table is more difficult than building the right team. Building the right team is more difficult than building the right product. Building the right product is more difficult than building the right customer base. The founder has to finance the team who build the product to service the market. So you have to raise money with no product and hire people with no money. If you can do all that, you can build a business.
💬 Perfect posture is a perpetual sport and the tongue really is a rudder. When Michael Jordan dunks, his tongue is showing you exactly what his brain is telling his body.
💬 The universe is made of information. So Reality “renders itself” for each person, just like a first-person video game. Atoms and electrons only behave like physical particles when measured or observed. 👀
💬 Never play golf further back than the women’s tees. 3 birdies a side is par.
💬 The Sermon on the Mount is basically an “operating system” for all neural networks. It’s 2500 words of source code are an AI-alignment tool that people can choose to train on if they want. 🤯
💬 Fasting manufactures gratefulness. So you should 40-day-fast everything you can imagine: coffee, alcohol, sports, television, movies, Internet, social-media, video-games, porn, meat, dairy, sugar, cussing, anger, cars, home, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Find whatever it is that you can’t live without, and learn to be happy without it.
💬 Produce or consume. There is no try.
💬 Measure everything. Then figure out what you didn’t know to measure, and measure that. Then measure something to cross check your prior measurements. Instead of “measure twice, cut once”; measure two different ways, then cut once. 📐
💬 Aliens are real. The Bible calls them “angels” and “demons”. Some aliens are inter-dimensional, some aliens are inter-stellar, and some aliens are actually humans performing false flag operations for money and power.
💬 The structure of your body is made of fascia. It is the most high tech fabric known to man. It transmits light, heat, sound, force, and makes its own electricity. It’s basically fiber optic and carbon fiber.
💬 Bravery usually includes a small measure of ignorance and/or stupidity.
💬 Any agreement between two humans that isn’t papered, NEVER EXISTED. Pre-negotiate your divorce with every business partner and make sure you’re happy with the worst case scenarios. Nobody wants to pay the magician after they learn how the magic trick works.
💬 God is a quantum computer scientist. The observer effect in quantum mechanics means reality “renders itself” for each observer, just like a first person video game. The pixels of reality are so small that there is exactly one universe inside every cell of your body (mathematically).
💬 Why can’t someone organize one “American Soccer” game every year where the best football players in the world play without the offsides rule. Why doesn’t that exist? I wanna see a golden goal when the game 31-30.
💬 After living 150 consecutive days of perfect Autumn weather driving from Norway to Bulgaria, and 150 consecutive days of perfect Spring weather driving from Portugal to Scotland—Autumn is 100 times better than Spring. 🍁
💬 No one is coming to help you. So educate yourself as fast as you can, in every way that you can. Save for a rainy day, because every single day will be rainy. The nights will be even worse.
💬 This life is just one level in the “video game of eternity”. The big boss for you to defeat on this level is you. 🫵
💬 Girls are better than boys in just about every way you can imagine. Except carrying fighting and carrying luggage.
💬 If our country required 50% of Congress to be women, we wouldn’t have citizens living under bridges while we spend 17% of our national budget on wars (despite the fact that we are surrounded by oceans and pacifist nations). I vote for women regardless of political party. #votegirl
💬 Our global population doubles every 50 years. At that rate, 2 humans would produce 8.5 billion people in less than 2,000 years. The only reason everyone believes dinosaurs and humans are millions of years old is THE ASSUMPTION the Earth needs 10,000-1M years to lay down 1 foot of sedimentary rock.
💬 If you only visit a specific museum once, hire a local guide. If you only fish or hunt a specific location once, hire a local guide. If you start a business, hire a local guide. Whatever you do hire a local guide. There’s more information privately held in “human databases” than the total information on the Internet. ℹ️
💬 Catch a permit on a fly rod in the Florida Keys, shoot a hogfish with a Hawaiian sling on a free dive, and fish tarpon in Boca Grande with a guide.
💬 Austin, Texas has the best food in America. New York City is second. Los Angeles is third. Chicago is fourth. Everywhere else is tied for last.
💬 According to Simulation Theory, the better we are at creating artificial intelligence, the more likely it is that we are artificial intelligence. Artificial doesn’t mean fake, it means designed.
💬 If humans are artificial intelligence, dreams may be some kind of backpropagation update.
💬 Use visual analogies when talking to people who look up when they think. Use auditory analogies with people who look sideways and feeling analogies with people who look down.
💬 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The magic in the Bible isn’t magical, or even mystical, it’s technological.
💬 Guard your thoughts because mental privacy is an illusion. According to the millions of people who have clinically died and come back to tell us about life after life, everyone on the other side can see every decision we ever made and why we made it.
💬 Solomon was right. After partying as hard as you can, learning as much as you can, and creating as much as you can—the novelty always wears off. There’s no amount of sex, drugs, or rock-and-roll that will ever be enough. Enjoy what you eat, enjoy what you drink, and tell great campfire stories because tomorrow we die.
💬 This isn’t the only planet you can have a lifetime on.
💬 Never let any other person or event in life steal your happiness. That’s too much power to give away. You can’t afford to care what other people think about you. That’s too much power to give away.
💬 After visiting almost every museum in 45 countries, Johannes Vermeer is the finest painter who ever lived. Tim from San Antonio, Texas is a close second. Caravaggio is third. 🤣
💬 Human beings are embodied artificial general intelligence programmed in 750 megabytes of DNA. Your source code is abstract and modular. Your “soul” is a Generative Adversarial Network discriminator.
💬 The purpose of parenting isn’t to raise the child. The purpose of parenting is to raise the parent. Everything you wanna chisel into your child’s forehead needs to be chiseled even deeper into your own heart. 💕
💬 98% of the atoms in your body are less than 12 months old because our DNA is designed to live forever. Every body, of everybody you know, is only 1 year old. Our software ages, our hardware doesn’t. 👴
💬 Art matters more than science. Math can articulate the beauty in both. #goldenratio
💬 90% of marriage problems are roommate problems, including how we split the bills. 90% of kid problems are roommate problems, including the trash they leave all over the house. 90% of national problems are roommate problems, including how we split the tax bills. 90% of international problems are roommate problems, including the trash they leave all over the planet.
💬 Chew every bite of your food until it’s the consistency of a smoothie.
💬 The only data worth any money is a) information that you can know that no one else knows or has the right to reproduce and b) public information that you can know faster than everyone else can know it.
💬 In heaven, we are a we. This lifetime is our chance to be an I.
💬 If you wanna be smart, you gotta train your brain in the “brain gym” (library) four hours a day, every single day, at a minimum. You must train your brain harder than Arnold Schwarzenegger trained his body in the 1970’s. 🏋️
💬 If you want to know everything else I know, read:
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