Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

By David Wong, Elizabeth Benefiel February 17, 2009

5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won't)

If 80s movies taught us anything, it's that at some point you're going to run into a mysterious relic that lets you switch bodies with other people.

Would you use it? Would you choose to switch lives with, say, Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie or Dale DeBone? Most people would.… Continue

6 Bullshit Facts About Psychology That Everyone Believes

#4."Cult Members are Stupid, Gullible Sheep!"


Quick, go find an Internet article that mentions Scientology. Now check out the comments.

You will find almost universal agreement that anyone who p… Continue

I shall leave you all with this.

Perspective is everything. Learn to change it. Shift it. Use it. See a problem, and the solution from every angle. I realise I think on a level most don't.

See the metaphor in everything. Realise that everything is connected.

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Do you remember when you were a little kid, watching TV, seeing Superman, and Spider-man? You remember how you wanted to have superpowers so bad?

I wasn't into superman or those guys. I wanted to be psychic. Seeing all those street magicians, and mediums, I wanted to be able to read minds, move objects, and do all the crazy shit that people think of when you think of a psychic.

And I just remembered that a little while ago. I had this sudden thought, like a bus, and I went...

"HOLY SHIT I"M P… Continue

... is you.

When it comes to empathy, we are our own worst skeptics.

"I must just be tired."

"That wasn't real."

"It was just coincidence."

"It was something I ate."

We are always with us. So we always have to deal with ourselves, and our opinions. We are the most annoying bastards we will ever meet. When we are skeptical of ourselves, it's because something is challenging our beliefs. Generally, we associate empathy with psychic powers. Energies, absorbing emotions, it goes on and on. And… Continue