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1: 2018-10-27: The investors of the world now have a weekend to think things over. On Monday morning, will they shop for bargains, or will they read all the warning signs and bail out?
2: 2017-12-07: Oxymoron Alert: Prune juice is impossible! A prune, by definition, is a dried plum. There’s no juice left. We don’t have “raisin juice“; it’s grape juice, so prune juice should be “plum juice“. #investigativereporting #prunepolice
3: 2017-07-14: In love, employment and politics, people do not choose the best qualified candidate but the one who least threatens existing investments.
4: 2017-03-21: Personality is a story of investment. The more you invest in something, the more you believe in it, regardless of whether it's good for you.
5: 2017-01-22: Now that Trump is in power, my big stock of Forever stamps looks like a bad investment.
6: 2016-10-26: Anyone who is already made a substantial investment wants you to make the same investment to help validate their own decision.
7: 2016-09-19: What people seek in love is not compatibility or virtue but endorsement of the investments they have already made.
8: 2016-06-05: ownership bias — n. the tendency to rate positively the thing you have already invested in. (Remember this when reading online reviews.)
9: 2015-07-04: An investment in an adult is not worth as much as an investment in a child, and that's not worth as much as an investment in birth control.
10: 2015-01-13: News Flash! Anderson Cooper is reporting LIVE from the scene of the latest disaster. "The investigation is continuing," he says.
11: 2014-05-06: Disease of Success: people fighting for the life they want, getting it, not being happy but not changing because of all they have invested.
12: 2014-04-26: You want a safe investment with a proven track record and solid performance year after year. Choose Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities.
13: 2014-03-17: Everyone is walking on eggshells through their own life, trying to not to offend the ego or devalue past investments.
14: 2014-03-08: "We might not pay our debts. We might seize your assets." — The best way to discourage investment in your country. #russia #notwinning
15: 2014-03-08: Defeat your own demons, or invest in a fantasy where the demons are defeated for you? Fantasy usually wins.
16: 2014-01-21: People who have made investments are always trying to manipulate you into making the same investments.
17: 2014-01-12: Novel idea: Unusual detective with amusing personality quirks investigating a murder among a cast of colorful characters.
18: 2013-11-29: Families are by nature conservative. They are predisposed to defend the emotional investments the parents and ancestors have already made.
19: 2013-11-16: If you invest a lot in it, you want there to be more to it, so you pretend it's there even if it isn't.
20: 2013-10-28: The most valuable advice cannot be spoken because it threatens ego and investments. Your audience will only get angry and pull away.
21: 2013-10-25: My location: halfway between Bernard L. Madoff Investments and Angelica Escorts. Time to get off. http://t.co/26eFLwj27b
22: 2013-09-12: Stock market investing is based on the assumption that you're smarter or luckier than other investors — aka "gambling".
23: 2013-09-11: People should be growing and getting more productive their entire lives, but most don't, because they get trapped in their past investments.
24: 2013-09-11: A law of nature: Whenever a good thing happens, parasites come along to suck off it, so the good thing has to invest in defenses.
25: 2013-08-10: Ego is your emotional investment in your current path that prevents you from accepting any contrary information.
26: 2013-08-08: @MinnieGupta "Tax break" Is how people justify a lot of bad investments.
27: 2013-07-31: Vines are parasites of the forest. They can climb trees to catch the sun. They don't have to invest in wood.
28: 2013-07-21: Those who have already made an emotional investment will always be able to find evidence to justify it.
29: 2013-07-17: You become trapped in The Matrix as soon as you make investments within it.
30: 2013-06-29: "People who receive frequent news updates on their investments earn lower returns than those who get no news."
31: 2013-05-28: People who have already invested in a certain lifestyle want you to join them, because it helps relieve doubts about their own choice.
32: 2013-05-08: RT @latimes: College is a bad financial investment for a fair number of people, a new study says http://t.co/cHiBTjU2k0
33: 2013-05-07: People are prisoners of their own investments.
34: 2013-05-07: When belief is reinforced by investment, it is immune to all logic and argument.
35: 2013-05-02: With infinite mysteries and limitless lines of inquiry, science is the human politics of what gets investigated first.
36: 2013-04-20: @BadDalaiLama Also known as "investors".
37: 2013-04-04: Once someone is emotionally invested in a choice, no logic will change them. Only catastrophe will change them.
38: 2013-03-30: On My Bucket List: Squander my massive lottery prize on foolish luxuries and bad investments.
39: 2013-03-07: For a pleasant conversation, free of stress, figure our what your listener has already invested in and completely avoid that topic.
40: 2013-02-19: Being invested in a work of art, you gain motivation but lose perspective.
41: 2013-02-12: She was heavily invested in the trivial and couldn't be budged into meaning.
42: 2013-01-25: Most of what passes for investing is everyone racing to the slot machine where the last jackpot was won.
43: 2013-01-22: Every investor is tempted by the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
44: 2013-01-22: Investment means you are willing to accept second best for yourself to avoid its loss.
45: 2013-01-22: Children adapt quickly not so much because their brains are supple but because they are unburdened by investment.
46: 2013-01-22: Adults are willing to grow, just not in ways that upset their prior investments. So they don't grow.
47: 2013-01-17: Diplomacy is figuring out what someone has already invested in and carefully tiptoeing around it.
48: 2013-01-05: If you expect to keep growing your entire life, you need to avoid investments that hold you down.
49: 2013-01-04: The first step to getting out of the trap you're in is accepting the loss of your investment.
50: 2012-12-28: Human relations is a minefield of ego sensitivities. Whatever you say, it is bound to offend somebody who has invested in the opposite.
51: 2012-12-24: The more you have invested in something, the more you have to believe in it and continue investing. Right or wrong, you'll keep doing it.
52: 2012-12-18: People have problems, but they only want solutions that won't disrupt their existing emotional investments, so the problems persist.
53: 2012-12-09: "Depression vs. Cancer: An Investigation" - my new philosophy essay from North Carolina http://t.co/G0KSsXZ0 http://t.co/94c8TKec
54: 2012-11-25: "I wouldn't want to live anywhere else," is a suspicious assertion if you are already heavily invested there.
55: 2012-11-23: RT @KilroyCafe: Curiosity is rare in adults because it threatens the assumptions they have already invested in. They will look but not e ...
56: 2012-11-10: Asking a question does not imply one is prepared for an answer. Usually people just want affirmation for their existing investments.
57: 2012-10-03: My Super Spam Attractor: weight loss fat vitamin supplement nutrition loan buy gold male enhancement investment foreclosure plastic surgery!
58: 2012-08-25: No one wants to hear that the investments they have made are misguided. They won't listen. Only hard consequences can teach that lesson.
59: 2012-08-22: Hot investment tip: Time to dump FB and buy AAPL because everyone else is doing it. What could possibly go wrong?
60: 2012-08-10: Children can change quickly not so much because their brains are supple but because they have few prior investments to get in the way.
61: 2012-07-14: Got this beach all to myself. Protected by a reef. The perfect place to test my $15 investment. http://t.co/m004a7mR
62: 2012-07-10: RT @KilroyCafe: No censorship is so draconian as that imposed by the individual upon himself to defend his current investments.
63: 2012-07-08: The Sunk Cost Fallacy: The bigger the investment one has made in a bad choice, the harder it is to acknowledge the error and retreat.
64: 2012-07-05: What is the point in investigating the universe in outer space or within the atom? Is the gain worth the costs?
65: 2012-06-30: With a price this low, I'm thinking of investing. Better than Facebook stock! http://t.co/uNJ4ivuu
66: 2012-06-10: Everyone claims to want the truth. Few will accept it when it conflicts with their existing investments.
67: 2012-06-08: There are smart people and dumb people. Every person is valuable, but only a few are worth investing your time in.
68: 2012-06-05: Anyone would avoid disaster when there's no cost in stepping aside. When ego becomes invested, the costs go up and the blinders go on.
69: 2012-05-28: Beliefs are formed to protect the emotional investments one has already made. The rationalization is filled in later.
70: 2012-05-21: So here's the plan re $FB: Stock will stabilize @ $20; late-investing idiots will take a bath, and the rest of us can go about our business.
71: 2012-05-21: Today is the day Facebook starts trading for real, not propped up by its investment banks.
72: 2012-05-20: (May even Facebook ISTS — Investors Shitting Them Selves)
73: 2012-05-20: Facebook IPO soon to be followed by Facebook VUI. (Very Unhappy Investors)
74: 2012-05-17: "I invested in Facebook" is the new "I have an account with Bernie Madoff."
75: 2012-05-14: "Abandoned Places" - My new index album of all my past ghost investigations http://t.co/WT7h9Lr8
76: 2012-05-13: Abandoned strip club in Georgia: new photo album shot today http://t.co/KdxNa6yh (95+ photos) An anthropological investigation.
77: 2012-05-06: People want to accomplish great things, but they aren't willing to give up any of their prior investments, so those things never happen.
78: 2012-04-27: Personal growth slows in adulthood not for any biological reason but because adults become entrapped on their own emotional investments.
79: 2012-04-25: Most people say they want the Red Pill, but when the risk to their investments becomes apparent they quickly go back to the Blue Pill.
80: 2012-04-22: I got ¥1000 burning a hole in my pocket. Should I invest ¥800 in some premium Hokkaido french fries? [pic]: http://t.co/BHtOlC8Y
81: 2012-04-12: People believe what they need to believe to protect the emotional investments they have already made.
82: 2012-04-12: Catch-22: People who have made absurd investments won't accept criticism from you unless you have made the same absurd investments.
83: 2012-04-12: People who have invested their lives in dubious belief systems will always say, "Don't criticize what you don't understand."
84: 2012-04-09: For 65 years, UFO investigators have been on the verge of a great breakthrough. Alas, it always gets delayed.
85: 2012-04-09: A whole generation of UFO investigators has lived and died without getting any closer to "the truth". Martyrs to the cause! Are you next?
86: 2012-04-09: 65 years after the first flying saucer claims, still no visible progress in the investigation. Time to hang it up? #UFOs
87: 2012-04-05: The most effective charities are those providing services to at-risk children. A small investment can have a huge benefit to society.
88: 2012-04-03: RT @xtinewu: @BadDalaiLama i would say that purposeful apophenia to bolster investment decision = data-mining. Omitting anything contrar ...
89: 2012-04-03: If you start making hard investment decisions based on apophenia, you're screwed, but you can still find inspiration in it.
90: 2012-03-29: Most investing consists of people running en masse to the slot machine where the last big payout was given.
91: 2012-03-13: Most of "investing" is just people running to the slot machine where the jackpot last hit.
92: 2012-03-08: The world is full of opportunities. The question is whether your own investments and attitude are going to get in the way of them.
93: 2012-02-27: There is no more effective censor than the individual, blocking any input that would challenge his own investments.
94: 2012-02-20: If you think you have a brilliant idea, don't expect the world to embrace it, because most people are already invested in the old ideas.
95: 2012-02-17: The last thing a religious person wants to investigate is the history of their religion.
96: 2012-02-05: Rule #1 of technology investing: There will always be a new thing to blow away the old thing. #FacebookIPO
97: 2012-02-01: "Value investing" is common sense in any field, from stocks to relationships. Amazing how few people get it. Most are emotional investors.
98: 2012-02-01: The #FacebookIPO will be driven by naive investors who say, "I use Facebook. It's cool! I want in!" Stock price is irrelevant to them.
99: 2012-01-29: The impending #FacebookIPO may be the greatest gold rush since, well, the Gold Rush, with the same unhappy results for most small investors.
100: 2012-01-28: I expect the coming #FacebookIPO to be a big success - because a lot a naive investors with poor math skills are eager to climb on board.
101: 2012-01-25: RT @nainysahani: Only those in love will invest time in fighting and making up one time after another. Its when either of these stop tha ...
102: 2012-01-24: It doesn't take a Sherlock to know where the investigation is heading in the Hollywood body parts case. http://t.co/5RAMuQKf
103: 2012-01-17: Everyone claims to want the truth about themselves, but they have also made emotional investments that usually demand censorship.
104: 2012-01-14: You gain a consistent brain by investing time in it, by ruminating for extended periods on what has happened to you.
105: 2012-01-13: Every relationship is an investment. There can be no reward without some commitment of capital.
106: 2012-01-13: Emotional blocks are when we become invested in our past mistakes and can't move beyond them.
107: 2012-01-07: When you get divorced, your friends say either "Congrats!" or "So sad to hear that!" It all depends on their own investments.
108: 2011-12-22: While it is within your power to learn anything (Greek, particle physics), the question is whether it's the best investment of your time.
109: 2011-12-12: Discovery is unpredictable but not random. It happens mainly when we invest in exploration.
110: 2011-12-12: The risk of exploration is that it will reveal flaws in our existing investments. That's why most people rarely leave home.
111: 2011-12-07: People choose beliefs that support their existing investments. Evidence is then selected to support those beliefs.
112: 2011-12-06: RT @pixieinthedark: Asking the cat for investment advice leads to a rather skewed portfolio.
113: 2011-12-05: "Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last." ~ Marcus Aurelius <== If we lived by that, no one would invest in the future.
114: 2011-12-05: What makes someone "old" is not aging of the body but an accumulation of investments that makes them unwilling to change.
115: 2011-12-04: You can't just live for today or you'd invest in nothing, but if the goal is too long, you put off hard decisions and don't act now.
116: 2011-11-29: Some ideas are offensive because they are exploitative, others only because you have already invested in the opposite.
117: 2011-11-26: Selfless service to others is NOT your first priority. First invest in yourself, then you will have the tools to invest in others.
118: 2011-11-22: To evaluate your own work, you must overcome your own ego and resist the emotional pressure to defend your investments.
119: 2011-11-13: Curiosity is when you see something unusual on the side of the road and you turn back to investigate instead of blasting past.
120: 2011-11-05: In any investment decision, monetary or otherwise, what matters is ongoing value, not past cost.
121: 2011-11-04: The Sunk-Cost Fallacy: Just because you have made a huge past investment in something doesn't make it the right thing to continue doing.
122: 2011-10-28: You cannot grow unless you are willing to give up old habits and investments. Anything new requires the displacement of something old.
123: 2011-10-25: People believe what they need to believe to justify the investments they have already made.
124: 2011-10-23: People stop growing when the weight of their own investments catches up with them.
125: 2011-10-23: Childhood ends when you get trapped by your own investments and stop growing.
126: 2011-09-05: Identical twins separated at birth have many traits in common but also investments that greatly distinguish them.
127: 2011-09-05: Personality is the sum of ones investments.
128: 2011-08-22: Whether you continue to learn and grow throughout adulthood depends on the investments you get yourself locked into.
129: 2011-08-03: Don't look to logic to predict people's behavior. Instead figure out what they are emotionally invested in and need to justify.
130: 2011-08-01: "Old" is the state of being so trapped in your past emotional investments that you can no longer significantly change.
131: 2011-08-01: Most of the inertia of old age has little to with age itself but with an accumulation of investments that make change seem impossible.
132: 2011-07-24: Do you love someone because they are best for you or because you have already invested so much that you have no choice?
133: 2011-07-21: There are many obvious observations you make about others that you can't tell them, because you know they're invested and can't change.
134: 2011-07-16: The strength with which a delusion is held is proportional to the investment one has already made in it.
135: 2011-07-15: The main purpose of religion is to justify the investments you have already made.
136: 2011-07-10: You can't expect to move toward new goals without giving up some of your past investments.
137: 2011-07-10: Wile E. Coyote is trapped in the Sunk Cost Fallacy. The more he fails, the more he is compelled to press on, to justify his past investment.
138: 2011-07-10: @xtinewu If you had invested in a flying car you wouldn't have these problems. #Carmageddon
139: 2011-06-30: The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the main thing keeping people from changing. "I've invested so much in this path that I can't turn back now."
140: 2011-06-15: RT @Stonerpreneur: @baddalailama have you thought about investing in a bald cap?
141: 2011-05-25: To grow, you always have to give something up. That's the hardest part: letting go of your past investments.
142: 2011-05-17: "Real estate is the one investment that always appreciates, never depreciates." — One of our friends during the housing boom.
143: 2011-05-03: RT @TheBosha: Starting a new paranormal investigation group called FEAR: Find. Evaluate. Authenticate. Run.
144: 2011-04-28: When you have "plateaued", your personal development isn't going any farther because you have fenced yourself in with your own investments.
145: 2011-04-28: If you want to move ahead in your life, you have to be prepared to give up things you have already invested in.
146: 2011-04-14: Invest in a dolt and years later they will still be a dolt. And you will be watching your words very, very carefully. {ibid}
147: 2011-04-14: People who are heavily invested are easily offended.
148: 2011-04-12: When is the last time you saw a real investigation in print?
149: 2011-04-11: In the Brave New World of the internet, everyone is a recycler of other people's work. There's little incentive to invest in new content.
150: 2011-04-10: A 40-year-old doesn't usually change like a 20-year-old, not for any biological reason, but because he is blocked in by his own investments.
151: 2011-04-09: The greater investment one has made in one's faith, the more one believes.
152: 2011-04-08: "Retroactive investing" is buying into a "hot" product that has already shown huge gains. You're joining a bubble just before it bursts!
153: 2011-04-08: When everyone agrees on the wisdom of an investment, you're a fool to join them.
154: 2011-04-08: #### End. This has been a live essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Delusions of Investing" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming.
155: 2011-04-08: Leave investing to gamblers who have nothing better to do with their lives.
156: 2011-04-08: Every investor, like every gambler, thinks he is smarter than everyone else, that he can outwit the system, until he loses his shirt.
157: 2011-04-08: Investors are the poor saps who fund the lavish lifestyles of corporate executives.
158: 2011-04-08: Investors don't make money. People who serve investors make money. Corporate executives, brokers, etc.
159: 2011-04-08: The main delusion of gambling and investing is that the winners get all the publicity while the losers vanish into obscurity.
160: 2011-04-08: If you had invested all your money in the stock market ten years ago, prudently you thought, you would have made close to nothing.
161: 2011-04-08: A bold thesis: Investing, at least at the retail level, is a loser's game, little better than taking your money to a casino.
162: 2011-04-08: "Investing" is distinguished from "gambling" when you have a better chance of winning than losing.
163: 2011-04-08: In investing, there are winners and losers. The question is whether winners really outnumber losers in the long run.
164: 2011-04-04: Investor wanted. Pagosa Springs, Colorado. http://twitpic.com/4h0fdb
165: 2011-04-03: On the set of my latest movie, "Man Investigates a Plumbing Problem". http://twitpic.com/4gmdow
166: 2011-04-03: Wisdom is the willingness to experiment and investigate to determine the structure of reality for yourself.
167: 2011-04-02: People believe what they have to believe to justify their past investments. Logic is filled in only later to rationalize the belief.
168: 2011-04-02: Renamed my new 1-minute movie to "Investigating a Plumbing Problem" http://youtu.be/P53-qtSeb3I - Nephews wanted more blood.
169: 2011-04-01: Our new video: "Investigating the House" http://youtu.be/P53-qtSeb3I - A one-minute suspense movie filmed and edited tonight in Orlando.
170: 2011-03-30: "I married the most wonderful man in the world!"—of course! You invested everything in him, so you have to believe he's the best.
171: 2011-03-30: Once people grow up, they start making emotional investments, and then have to defend those investments to avoid painful regret.
172: 2011-03-30: Children are less effected by the sunk cost fallacy because they live for the moment and have invested little in their past decisions.
173: 2011-03-30: The sunk cost fallacy is not just a quirk of human behavior but one of its main forces. We all tend to stick with our investments.
174: 2011-03-30: The sunk cost fallacy: "I've already invested so much that I can't turn back now!"
175: 2011-03-28: There is no more effective censor than the individual, blocking the input that would challenge his own investments.
176: 2011-03-26: For $1000, you can invest in this impressive swing set, which your kids will use approximately five times. http://twitpic.com/4dlz2s
177: 2011-03-25: People believe in whatever they have already invested in. The greater the investment, the greater the belief.
178: 2011-03-20: Beethoven is a product like any other. The question is whether the benefit you are getting from it is worth the investment of your time.
179: 2011-03-20: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Love and Investing"
180: 2011-03-20: In love, like investing, underlying value is more important than surface trends.
181: 2011-03-20: The recurring error of investors everywhere is to take the "trend" of today and extrapolate it in a straight line into the future.
182: 2011-03-20: People in love are essentially investors, betting on a future outcome based on the trends of today.
183: 2011-03-20: Naive investors tend to mistake trends for underlying value.
184: 2011-03-20: Bubbles happen when investors start looking around at what others are doing instead of understanding the value of what they're buying.
185: 2011-03-12: Our investigation of a SECRET UNDERGROUND FACILITY next to the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. Blog entry: http://j.mp/f0FrlI
186: 2011-03-09: The main thing keeping you from a new and better life is your own refusal to give up investments in your old life.
187: 2011-03-09: Personal longitudinal studies can be quite enlightening—watching friends and family make investments then seeing the results years later.
188: 2011-03-09: Most who seek "self-improvement" will tolerate it only in a very narrow range where it doesn't threaten their emotional investments.
189: 2011-03-07: If a little voice whispers something in your ear, listen to it! Why not? Don't change your life based on it, just listen and investigate.
190: 2011-03-05: It's mostly parents who are hung up about sex, not children. Adults have invested so much in it that they can't see it as routine.
191: 2011-03-04: People want solutions to their problems but without disrupting their existing emotional investments. So... no real solutions!
192: 2011-02-26: In most cases, adulthood is the shutting down of creativity. You become invested in a path and stop seeing any others.
193: 2011-02-24: In investing, money is made mainly through the strategy of making others lose it.
194: 2011-02-24: From Fremont Street early this morning, our linguistic investigation of "Double Entendre" http://youtu.be/M5o3VxD8EXo
195: 2011-02-04: The sole reason to maintain a romantic relationship is because it gives you good value for your investment.
196: 2011-02-04: A small investment in a child can have substantial effects on their development. This is rarely true with an adult.
197: 2011-01-29: So far, I have only invested $15 in the Egyptian visa. I can accept the loss if there is real risk involved.
198: 2011-01-18: Value investing—seeing the underlying value of a stock—also applies to the rest of life. Ignore the fundamentals and they'll bite you!
199: 2011-01-15: Growth is permissible only within the confines of the investments you have already made—which means, in most adults, no growth at all.
200: 2011-01-11: The main delusion of growth investing is the same as gambling: You only hear about the winners, not the losers.
201: 2011-01-11: The best gauge of future performance is past performance—except in investing where the market already factors that assumption in.
202: 2011-01-11: bubble surfing—a form of speculative investing in which one buys an objectively overpriced asset on the assumption it will go even higher.
203: 2011-01-11: Investment advice for the new Graduate: plastics!... also: railroads, airlines, bathroom fixtures. Leave Tech to the gamblers.
204: 2011-01-10: Changing your gender is a giant placebo pill. After you have invested so much in the change, you have to believe it made your life better.
205: 2011-01-09: So, yeah. Bet YOU have never been investigated by Homeland Security! It takes a special breed of iPhone user!
206: 2011-01-09: ***BREAKING NEWS!*** We are Investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security for Suspicious iPhone Photography! http://j.mp/hOJykk TRUE STORY!
207: 2010-12-29: A person's beliefs are dictated by their existing investments, with reasons backfilled later to support the chosen beliefs.
208: 2010-12-18: Someone can be "smart" and "talented" but that's only part of the story. The rest is how they are emotionally invested.
209: 2010-12-11: The college student is invested in the parading of knowledge and the expounding of opinions untested by experience.
210: 2010-12-11: The risk of exploration is that it will reveal flaws in our existing investments. That's why most people never leave home.
211: 2010-12-10: Discovery is unpredictable but not random. It happens mainly when we invest in exploration.
212: 2010-12-08: Intellect shuts down when investments get in the way.
213: 2010-12-06: People choose beliefs that support their existing investments. Evidence is then selected to support those beliefs.
214: 2010-12-05: What makes a person "old" is not the deterioration of the body but an accumulation of investments that makes them unwilling to change.
215: 2010-12-04: Doctors, lawyers & engineers are some of the most imprisoned workers—personal growth frozen by their educational investment and high salary.
216: 2010-11-29: Some ideas are offensive because they are exploitative, others only because you have already invested in the opposite.
217: 2010-11-26: Selfless service to others is not your highest calling. First invest in yourself, then you will have the tools to invest in others.
218: 2010-11-19: Investments are future commitments to an object, idea, person or activity. They make us who we are—and are the main block to our growth.
219: 2010-11-16: People tend to value their possessions and investments based on how much they spent on them, not on true market value or usefulness.
220: 2010-11-11: There is no sense in arguing with someone who has already invested his life in the opinion he holds.
221: 2010-11-10: The risk of curiosity is discovering that the investments you have made are not the best. That's why so few adults have it.
222: 2010-11-09: Belief is controlled mainly by investment. Whatever you have already invested in, you must believe in.
223: 2010-11-02: The most secure prison is one without bars or locks, that exists only in the mind of the prisoner because he has invested in it.
224: 2010-10-31: The enemy of growth is investment.
225: 2010-10-23: The child finds joy in discovering new things. The adult sees mainly threat in them because he is so heavily invested in the old things.
226: 2010-10-17: "Enforced belief" is when you have to believe something because your existing investments demand it. That's different from free-will belief.
227: 2010-10-15: The most common and pernicious form of censorship is practiced by the individual against himself to defend his own investments.
228: 2010-09-27: Most adults have little curiosity about the world because it might threaten the value of their own investments.
229: 2010-09-15: People believe what they have to believe to avoid disrupting their existing emotional investments.
230: KilroyCafe: 2010-09-09: If you are heading down a certain road, even an unproductive one, you are likely to stay on it because of all you have invested so far.
231: KilroyCafe: 2010-08-31: People believe what they have to believe to avoid disrupting their existing emotional investments.
232: KilroyCafe: 2010-08-30: Personal growth evolves naturally toward greater wisdom and understanding... until it is blocked by investment.
233: KilroyCafe: 2010-08-18: Children have crazy ideas but grow out of them. Adults are less likely to because they invest in those ideas and can't accept the loss.
234: KilroyCafe: 2010-08-12: Adults are trapped by past investments to which they are emotionally committed. This restricts their vision and their freedom to explore.
235: KilroyCafe: 2010-08-12: The ritualized activities of old age aren't a function of the body but of accumulated emotional investments restricting any alternatives.
236: KilroyCafe: 2010-08-06: When something unusual happens, many will turn their heads. Few will change course to investigate.
237: KilroyCafe: 2010-07-14: Most people live in a blue-pill world, accepting the delusion as presented to them without investigating its flaws.
238: KilroyCafe: 2010-06-28: Among adult humans, curiosity is rare. They may notice an alien presence in their environment, but they won't change course to investigate.
239: KilroyCafe: 2010-06-28: Curiosity is avoided because it carries a cost: It runs the risk of revealing that your own personal investments are in error.
240: KilroyCafe: 2010-06-19: Flashback, 2008: Bad economy? Don't worry about me. I invested it all with Bernie Madoff. Nice, solid returns in good times and bad.
241: KilroyCafe: 2010-06-17: If you invest your identity in being sexy, you'll wake up someday as a pathetic cartoon character.
242: KilroyCafe: 2010-06-06: An "investment" has a high probability of success and a "gamble" a low one. Unfortunately, the latter often masquerades as the former.
243: KilroyCafe: 2010-05-28: With all the noble causes in this world, why would one dedicate ones life to a certain killer breed of dog? Because one is already invested!
244: KilroyCafe: 2010-05-20: The most secure prison is one without bars or locks, that exists only in the mind of the prisoner because he has invested in it.
245: KilroyCafe: 2010-05-06: The most common and pernicious form of censorship is practiced by the individual against himself to protect his own investments.
246: KilroyCafe: 2010-04-28: On my bucket list: Put my entire life savings into an unregulated investment that a psychic assures me "can't lose."
247: KilroyCafe: 2010-04-01: Age doesn't make you old. What makes you old is getting trapped in your own investments.
248: KilroyCafe: 2010-03-25: The pain of life is largely the product of naïve investments that don't turn out as expected.
249: KilroyCafe: 2010-03-09: "Authorities are investigating" — just another convenient way to say, "You can turn away now," even though the story isn't over.
250: KilroyCafe: 2010-03-01: Curiosity is rare in adults because it threatens the assumptions they have already invested in. They will look but not explore.
251: KilroyCafe: 2010-02-12: The best investment is not to be invested at all.
252: KilroyCafe: 2010-02-12: Fewer people would lose their money in the stock market if we used a more accurate name than "investing". How about "bubble riding"?
253: KilroyCafe: 2010-02-12: No censorship is so draconian as that imposed by the individual upon himself to defend his current investments.
254: KilroyCafe: 2010-02-06: What do people believe? They believe whatever they have to believe to avoid self-doubt and protect their investments.
255: KilroyCafe: 2010-01-25: Modern capitalism is not a system that makes investors rich. It makes management rich as they con investors out of their money.
256: KilroyCafe: 2010-01-25: The individual's ability to understand his own predicament is very weak. Ego and investment cloud his vision. Sentimentality replaces logic.
257: KilroyCafe: 2010-01-23: "Blowing up 78x60x14 inch airbed. By mouth. 65520 cu-in? This may take a while." @GeoffreyHale - LOL! I've tried! Worth investing in a pump.
258: KilroyCafe: 2010-01-11: "Shooting the messenger" is the official human sport. If a message conflicts with one's own investments, that's the easiest way.
259: KilroyCafe: 2010-01-10: Capitalism, as a rule, is not a system that makes investors rich. It makes management rich as they con investors out of their money.
260: KilroyCafe: 2010-01-01: One of the worst investments of the past decade was the stock market. LA Times: http://bit.ly/6jvfGS - I ask: Is this the end of capital?
261: KilroyCafe: 2009-12-30: Ads on TV notwithstanding, you don't "invest" in gold. You "speculate" in it.
262: KilroyCafe: 2009-12-16: The ancient ways, the old traditions, the sacred beliefs of the elders -- you have to believe in them if you are already invested in them.
263: KilroyCafe: 2009-12-10: Mystery cocoons discovered at St. Louis shopping mall. Photo album of my investigation: http://bit.ly/5Yp41G - I conduct an "alien autopsy".
264: KilroyCafe: 2009-10-03: "Enforced belief" is when you have to believe something because your existing investments demand it. That's different from free-will belief.
265: KilroyCafe: 2009-09-04: Most adults have been absorbed into their investments and are no longer open to change. Change can only be forced upon them.
266: KilroyCafe: 2009-09-04: Curiosity is an inverse function of investment. The more invested you are in a certain way of life, the less curious you can afford to be.
267: KilroyCafe: 2009-08-04: "Old" is the state of being so trapped in your past emotional investments that you can no longer significantly change.
268: KilroyCafe: 2009-08-02: I'm now a card-carrying New Yorker, with a shiny new MetroCard subway card. Got $8 invested in this town! High hopes, low expectations.
269: KilroyCafe: 2009-07-22: Real estate is so 20th Century. It just isn't relevant to the 21st. Those who are invested in real estate are entrenched in the past.
270: KilroyCafe: 2009-07-10: Most of the personal investments people make seem to be based on the assumption that they're going to live forever.
271: KilroyCafe: 2009-07-05: Why does growth essentially stop for most people once they reach adulthood? They get trapped in their own investments.
272: KilroyCafe: 2009-06-26: Someone can be "smart" and "talented" but that's only part of the story. The rest is how they are emotionally invested.
273: KilroyCafe: 2009-06-16: Most people decry the idea of censorship but practice it themselves when their own investments are at risk.
274: KilroyCafe: 2009-06-12: People become so invested in sex that they'll come up with no end of absurd ways to make it seem interesting.
275: KilroyCafe: 2009-06-09: Old age is not a physical problem but existential one. People get so trapped by their past investments that they can't change.
276: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-23: Most adults have little curiosity about the world around them because it might threaten the value of their own investments.
277: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-23: One tool of supression is paranoia. If you can imagine a threat in an outside alternative, it won't threaten your own investments.
278: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-23: If you're married to X but meet up with Y, you will look for flaws in Y to justify your investment in X. If none, you make them up!
279: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-23: A doctor can't accept that medicine isn't the best career for him because he has already invested so much. Any other data is suppressed.
280: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-23: People believe what they need to believe to protect what they have already invested in.
281: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-10: Beliefs are driven by investment. People will believe what they have to believe to defend what they have already invested in.
282: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-06: Whatever you believe, do you believe it because it is right or because you are so heavily invested in it that you have to believe?
283: KilroyCafe: 2009-05-06: What makes a person "old" and inflexible is not so much the passage of time but the weight of prior investments accumulated around him.
284: KilroyCafe: 2009-04-22: Before a tsunami hits, there is often a trough (draw back) where the sea recedes. If you go out to investigate, you're doomed!
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