People of the Lie
Issue #2133
- WEALTHY: When having limited resources is a privilege (Michael Masterson)
- HEALTHY: Brainpower and body strength from a single source (Jonny Bowden)
- WISE: William Penn on trust
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- The key to keeping professional liars at bay (Robert Ringer)
- How to beat the record passport delays (Jennifer Stevens)
- It’s Good to Know… about paper batteries
- Add "traduce" to your vocabulary
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Dear Michael Masterson: "How can I stay competitive and still be able to pay for university?"
"I’m going into my final year in high school, and I’m applying to a very competitive university program. My parents have limited resources and can’t contribute much to help me. I have to work 20 hours a week during the school year and about 70 during the summer. This puts me at a major disadvantage against others who can use this time to study.
"How can I stay competitive and still be able to pay for university?"
- Warren Smith
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dear Warren,
You are not at a disadvantage. You are privileged. Your parents’ financial situation has given you the opportunity to become a more powerful, productive, and ultimately more successful person than those students who don’t have to work.
My parents gave me the same privilege. The only difference between you and me is that I worked 40 hours a week during the school year. When I got to graduate school, I worked even more.
So that’s my first bit of advice: Reverse your mental frame. See yourself as privileged. Be happy about it. Be grateful to your parents.
Second… don’t worry about keeping your grades up. You won’t have any trouble doing it. Nine out of 10 college students are spending their spare time surfing the Internet and going to toga parties. Be happy you don’t have time for that crap. The 20 to 30 hours of study time you have available to you each week should be plenty to be at the top of your class.
You will have to be strategic about your course selection. You didn’t tell me what you plan to major in, but unless you are committed to a medical degree, here’s my best advice to you. Follow a liberal arts program, emphasizing the four basic skills that you will need to be successful in life: reading, writing, speaking, and thinking.
To become good at thinking and reading, take literary criticism courses - at least four or five of them. To become good at writing, take courses that require you to prove what you know by writing essays rather than taking short-answer tests. These courses should be in history, economics, theoretical science, philosophy, and English - to name a few. Limit the number of technical courses you take - engineering, specialized math, lab sciences, etc. Consider them hobbies, not career builders. To become good at speaking, join the debate club and stick with it.
Don’t take too many business or marketing courses. Eighty percent of what you will learn in those classes will be useless to you, and the 20 percent that will be helpful you won’t recognize as being good. You are going to learn about business and marketing the only way you really can - by being in the workforce.
This brings me to my final recommendation: Be careful in choosing a job. You can start off doing just about anything you like that will bring in a steady source of income. But keep your eye out for little service businesses you can start on your own on weekends - building pools, painting houses, etc. You’ll make more money running these businesses once you learn to correctly estimate your jobs. And you’ll also learn what you are worth as a worker so that later on, when you own a multimillion-dollar business, you will know what to pay your employees.
- Michael Masterson
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"Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee."
William Penn
People of the Lie
Remember how, a couple years back, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (known to his closest friends as Mahmoud Muttonchops) came out and said that there was no holocaust? That’s right, it never happened. The films of those hideous corpses being bulldozed into mass graves in Auschwitz and Dachau - forget about them. It’s just part of a vast Zionist conspiracy to evoke sympathy for Israel.
Likewise, the people who claim to be survivors of the holocaust are making the whole thing up. They even went to the trouble of tattooing numbers on their forearms to add authenticity to their stories. I tell you, these Zionist conspirators have absolutely no shame. No wonder Jimmy Carter has such revulsion for them.
The main thrust of the Muttonchops strategy to recreate the world in his own image was to employ what has come to be known over the centuries as The Big Lie. The Little White Lie might be likened to a neurosurgeon performing delicate brain surgery with a scalpel, while The Big Lie is more like a lumberjack chopping down a huge tree with an ax.
The Big Lie is a tool used only by high-level, professional liars, as most people are not endowed with the genitalia necessary to employ it without smirking. These professional liars fully understand that when you tell The Big Lie, you can’t be defensive when the facts threaten to expose you. On the contrary, you have to be prepared to feign indignation and immediately go on the offensive.
But there’s something even worse than The Big Lie. There are people on this planet who wear personality masks intended to deceive. They are, in the words of M. Scott Peck, "People of the Lie."
A few examples include:
- Famous media personalities at the major networks who position themselves as professional commentators while relentlessly pushing their hateful agendas. They are, in fact, People of the Lie.
- Politicians who cast themselves as saviors of "the little guy" or "the working class." They are, in fact, People of the Lie.
- Psychics who employ verbal sleight-of-hand to make gullible and vulnerable people believe they are connecting with their deceased love ones. They are, in fact, People of the Lie.
- Religious leaders and heads of state who make up revelatory doctrine as they go along in order to twist the minds of the angry and frustrated. They are, in fact, People of the Lie.
- And so on… the list is endless.
People of the Lie will always be with us. People of the Lie will do and say anything to accomplish their ends - which almost always include achieving power over others. In fact, for many of them (e.g., politicians), power is an end. In his book 1984, George Orwell, through his character O’Brien, underscores this reality when he says:
"Now tell me why we (the Party) cling to power? What is our motive? Why should we want power?… The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power…. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end…. The object of power is power."
Power and force are not mutually exclusive, because a person can use his personal power to act either constructively or destructively. And the ultimate destructive use of power is force. Force is the use of physical or intellectual power to compel or restrain, so force robs other people of their power.
In bygone days, the civilized world did not hesitate to use overwhelming, retaliatory force to destroy People of the Lie who tried to establish their power over increasing numbers of people through the use of force. Despots like Hitler and Mussolini were crushed without ceremony.
Whether the civilized world (read, U.S.) still has the moral strength, the courage, and the will to eradicate People of the Lie who now threaten to bring down Western civilization remains to be seen. As I write this, People of the Lie are in positions of great authority and are taking ever-greater control of world events.
In the meantime, all you and I can do is try to deal effectively with the People of the Lie in our own lives. Unfortunately, we can’t eradicate them, but we certainly can keep them at bay by being strong, vigilant, well-informed, and willing to face up to the reality of who and what they are.
By this I mean being candid with ourselves when it comes to recognizing that a person we may want to become involved with - or perhaps someone with whom we are already involved - is a fraud. If it’s obvious that someone is wearing a psychic mask - trying to represent himself to be someone other than who he really is - don’t try to convince yourself that it’s your imagination.
In my experience, when someone hisses like a snake and crawls like a snake, he is a snake. Further, in every encounter I’ve had with a snake, I came to find that, sooner or later, others were also able to spot the snake under the mask.
By all means, give family, friends, and seemingly well-meaning strangers the benefit of the doubt. But when it comes to those whom you suspect to be People of the Lie, benefit of the doubt can be an invitation to a snakebite.
Do you really believe the teller of The Big Lie is going to respond to your presentation of the facts by saying, "Gee, I hadn’t really thought about it that way before. I guess I was wrong." Forget it. People of the Lie thrive on telling The Big Lie; it’s what they live for.
What I’ve learned through all too much firsthand experience is that the most rationally selfish way to handle People of the Lie is to respond with my feet. Eradication is not an option, but walking away is.
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Keep Your Brain Young
I don’t have to tell you how important exercise is to your health and well-being. But did you know that exercise can actually help you grow new brain cells?
For baby boomers, worries about senior moments, memory loss, and worse are high on the list of health concerns. But if you’re forgetting where you put your keys a lot these days, don’t despair. A new study, published this year in the Journal of Gerontology, offers a lot of hope for aging brains.
Researcher Dr. Arthur Kramer and his associates investigated the result of aerobic exercise on the brain - specifically, whether or not there were any changes in the amount of the white and grey matter. The results showed that exercise increases the grey matter (which contains neurons - the computational units of the brain) and white matter (which contains axons, which are like telephone wires that connect the neurons).
In other research at the Salk Institute, neurologist Fred H. Gage has demonstrated that human brains are capable of growing new nerve cells throughout life, a process called neurogenesis. Asked at a cocktail party what someone can do to protect their mental functioning, Gage replied, "Put down that glass and go for a run!"
You might think you’d have to do traditional long-duration cardio to achieve brain-protecting results - but Kramer’s subjects just walked. The goal is to get oxygen into those brain cells, get your blood circulating, and get nutrients delivered. A good short-duration, high-intensity circuit program, interval training, or Dr. Sears’ PACE program should all power up your brain… plus give you extra benefits like increased endurance and strength.
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What to Do to Ensure You Can Still Leave the Country
Delays in passport processing may well threaten your overseas travel plans. If you’re waiting on a passport or about to apply for one, here’s what you need to know…
If you’re slated to travel by air to Mexico, Canada, Bermuda, or the Caribbean between now and September 30, you can do so WITHOUT your passport - as long as you show a valid government I.D. and the official receipt from your passport application. But if you’re headed elsewhere in the world, you’ll still need the actual passport - and you could find yourself stuck.
I applied for my one-year-old’s passport 13 weeks before our departure for France. Three days before we were to leave, it still hadn’t arrived - despite assurances that it would. Finally, we were told we’d simply have to miss our trip.
Rubbish. Here’s the deal:
At 13 Regional Passport Agencies, you can make an automated appointment for a passport if you’re traveling within two weeks. You show up at your assigned time and get a passport that day. Problem is, right now, it’s nearly impossible to get an automated appointment, because the computer tells you nothing is available and then disconnects you. But, if you’re traveling within three days, you have some pull.
Call the National Passport Agency (877-487-2778) to check the status of your application, and ask the person you speak with to make you an appointment at a regional office. They can do this. They did it for us. If you’re told that they can’t, call again until you get a person who will.
If that doesn’t work, show up at one of the Regional Passport Offices first thing in the morning. (We were told we couldn’t do this, but I met several people who did - and they left with passports.) Arrive with your passport photos, your tickets or flight confirmation, and the proper paperwork. Get a list of what you need at travel.state.gov.
Tomorrow, I’ll tell you how you can completely avoid this messy situation.
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It’s Good to Know: Paper Batteries
Researchers from New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a type of paper that’s embedded with miniscule carbon nanotubes and can store energy like a conventional battery. So far, they have been able to create a postage stamp-sized battery that produces about 2.3 volts, enough to power a small light, but they believe additional research could make cars powered by reams of paper a reality.
(Source: BBC)
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Word to the Wise: Traduce
To "traduce" (truh-DOOS) - from the Latin for "to lead across" - is to expose to contempt or shame by means of false statements.
Example (as used by Peter Bazalgette in The Guardian): "I sometimes wonder whether those who traduce today’s television have any conception just how much is on offer to the growing number of us with multi-channel television."
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Michael Masterson
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