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http://www.wernererhard.com/integrity.html

The mastery of life includes integrity. Integrity is the process of cleaning up the mess you made. We made a whole bunch of agreements and didn’t keep them. I said I wanted to be a chemist and never kept that agreement. I only made that agreement with myself, but I am very important in my life. So I have to get my agreement that it is alright to let that agreement go. Once I do that, the agreement ceases to exist. I start to look at the things that I agreed that I wanted to be, do and have, and find out that it’s all right not to be, do and have those now, and the agreements go.

I’ve also made some agreements with other people and I will have to handle those agreements. I’ll have to say to whomever I made the agreement, "Look, I made an agreement with you and what I’d like to do now is not to keep that agreement. I’d like to know what you need in order to be willing to accept that."

^^^this is from what is supposed to be the cutting edge of business ethics, according to Werner Erhard and Michael Jensen, and their acolytes

I love Werner. He's such an engaging lunatic.

This is probably the best bit form the interview:

And then he says: “Look, I’m going to do something with you we do in the training. I’m going to ask you where you are, and you are going to say, ‘Here.’ ”

So we do this, and then he asks: “And you are always here, right?”

No, I say, I’ve never been here before. He looks annoyed.

“But you are here. Where you are, Lucy, this object you call Lucy, is here.”

I nod.

“And where Werner is, is there.”

I agree.

“You do see me, do you not? Where is Lucy-seeing-Werner happening?”

On the back of my retina, I say. He shakes his head.

“What you told me is your theory about seeing. I want to know where you seeing Werner is happening. Point.”

I duly point to my brain.

“You have no idea what’s in there, woman!” Erhard jabs an angry finger in my direction. “Godammit, Susie, your seeing Werner is happening where Werner is.”

amazing link, silby!!! still getting through it and the embedded videos but:

http://i.imgur.com/Lqx7w.png

KLurker can you please start posting this on your fbook every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck that verge article is amazing. really explains everything tbh

that fucken guy

"It’s really critical," Keuilian says, "that you either go to these seminars or somehow find a way to penetrate their knowledge base because each of them are good at one thing. This is a pretty small community, Internet Marketing, a pretty weird subculture. Everybody knows each other, they all lean on each other’s strength to better their business, and we found that the common denominator amongst all these guys is they’re unemployable.”

[...]

“It’s the same learning disability," he continues. "They lose interest in things quickly. It was interesting to interview them and talk to them and say... you all have the same profile here. And as I see new, up-and-coming internet marketers coming into the industry, no matter what their niche is, they kind of fit into that.”

the whole article is just o_O
i liked this quote that comes before the "learning disability" part too:
"This is a pretty small community, Internet Marketing, a pretty weird subculture. Everybody knows each other, they all lean on each other’s strength to better their business, and we found that the common denominator amongst all these guys is they’re unemployable.”

feel like this thread should be xposted to the current thread about psychopaths tbh

some of them for sure, but some seem delusional, stupid or possibly in some cases schizophrenic

haha true enough...

feel like this thread should be xposted to the current thread about psychopaths tbh

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, May 11, 2012 3:03 PM (3 minutes ago)

solitary posts that etc

hahaa

“Are you ready to learn how to build massive lists and bullet-proof launches?” he bellows at the crowd. Not interested? How about “super-targeted, geo-local pay-per-click?”

I hope they aren't charging by the hyphen.

lol

found this while looking for bohannon songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiJGU2K2PLU&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgaKnzgfH7E&feature=relmfu

When I was in high school I thought it would be cool to start a cult and rake in suckers' money, but the huge flaw in the plan was always that I'd have to be able to keep a straight face while shoveling all the pulled-from-my-ass dogma. Plus, I'd have to spend all my time in the company of people who genuinely believed what I knew to be utter bullshit. So I have a weird kind of respect for these people, because they're much better at that stuff than I could ever be. Either that or they believe their own bullshit, in which case...I guess I pity them while envying them the money they've made?

i always have a brief pavlovian buckle-my-mental-saftey-belt reaction when i see this thread get bumped

Her "passion" looks to me like a highly uncomfortable itch.

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haaa one of my fave things about these people is inspirational quotes from ppl nobody has ever heard of:

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“The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is not spent in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love” ~Jennifer Edwards

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+beauty+of+life+is%2C+while+we+cannot+undo+what+is+done%2C+we+can+see+it%2C+understand+it%2C+learn+from+it+and+change.+So+that+every+new+moment+is+not+spent+in+regret%2C+guilt%2C+fear+or+anger%2C+but+in+wisdom%2C+understanding+and+love%22

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Edwards ????

huh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heidi_Game

http://o7.no/MVHdfm

your life, your life, your life, your life!

in the sunshine

http://i.imgur.com/CMmQH.jpg

http://www.thesnuggery.org/index.html

http://i.imgur.com/oXPMm.jpg

would snuggle

just focus on the eyes. it made my boner go into witness protection.

At least she's not an affiliate marketer.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xwE0rBDpg1Y/SDLSFMviYiI/AAAAAAAABGo/aoqzCTfWSQY/s400/wide-eyes-dog.jpg

just focus on the eyes. it made my boner go into witness protection.

― Spectrum, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

needs a z s gif treatment.

Can I snuggle that dog?

i don't really think this belongs here but i don't know where else to put it:
http://www.twinfocuscapital.com/team-taryn.html

"family cousin"

"chromosome-close" idk what that even means

like chromosomes get really close to each other during meiosis when (wikipedia helps me remember 9th grade) synapsis occurs but idk if that's what she meant

oh dear god Mordy why did you post that, I can't believe I just read about six bios

Mordy, that is amazing and horrible, please explain what it is and who wrote those .... things

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how is that not a 'state' alum