The secret to both having and eating your cake is arbitrage. Trade your current cake for a greater size cake that someone will give you in the future. You’ll still get to eat it, just not right yet. Make your wealth produce earnings for others, and you can both have and eat your cake. Figure … [Read more…]
Until you draw your last breath, always understand that you have not lost the war. You can still forge ahead and make your life a success. No matter what happens as long as you can communicate you can continue to make the world a better place. Serve yourself by serving others. Be good to others … [Read more…]
There is a sense of fanaticism that many experience when confronted with the facts of government’s immorality and unnecessary existence. It is defended like a religion, except this particular belief involves mass enslavement of other individuals. No system or absence of a system deserves such rigid adherence. Practice the principle of absolute doubt: free your … [Read more…]
Peace and civility are exist right there alongside liberty. This is not a mistake, for when a new liberty is established, the people rush to provide for one-another. So what can be done to expand the purview that the heart so longs for? I imagine the tool itself lies within your own being. It is … [Read more…]
Dreams tell us life is worth living. Without hope from dreams we don’t have the persistence to finish what we start, the balls to finish what we find scary and hard. So why not live like you’ll accomplish your dreams? Don’t have an attitude of “I’ll give it my best shot for 3 years, and … [Read more…]
“My argument with the pure anarchists is they think the oblivion is the path, from which will spring a healthier society. And I completely disagree with that. It would take decades, and millions of lives, if it were pushed over the brink tomorrow. We would never live to see the new ‘better’ society that would … [Read more…]
Some respond with anger, some respond with fear; the best respond with calculated optimism. You shouldn’t be angry, it accomplishes less than reasoned thought. Spend the energy expanding your mind, instead of obscuring useful thoughts with hostility. Fearing for the future also leads to little progress. Fortune favors the brave, not the cowardly. Calculated optimism … [Read more…]
To know an argument is true requires something humans simply don’t have: infallibility. The brain is too fragile, the universe is too random, for a reasonable mind to accept anything as Absolute Truth. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t signposts that can point us toward better and more rational thoughts. Having the ability to discern … [Read more…]
Some arguments are annoying. One of these is the idea that because we have always done things a certain way, that must be the right way for them to be done. The mistake is thinking history was planned out and then implemented. History is the culmination of people’s experiences, and the reason things are the … [Read more…]
Do not be mistaken by some that claim to desire peace, for often times their ‘peace’ is at the expense of liberty. For instance, if everyone was locked in a padded cell, there would be extreme peace. The issue is not merely desiring peace but instead the balance between civility and liberty. Civility is a … [Read more…]