When I was a kid I ran away from home and I was throwing a tennis ball against the wall of a supermarket. A homeless man then walked over and asked me to throw the ball to him. I did so. We threw the ball back and forth for a bit. I then told him I had to go. He said his name was Jesus and he could see that I was an angel sent from God! I thanked him and got pizza. True story. As I was ordering my pizza the cashier asked me, "What do you want on your pizza?" In that moment I realized God had just spoken to me through the cashier. God was actually saying… YOU GET TO CHOOSE HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. After I returned home my father was still mad at me, but all was right again in the world. My story is similar to a lot of religious parables. To then solidify my saintliness I just need to make vague enough predictions about the future or science that you could then use mental gymnastics to say see, "How could he have known this?! The only rational explanation must be that Anthony is indeed a walking angel sent by God!" I predict that one day there will be a basic income, world government, humanity will become a-mortal and multi-planetary, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be elected President of the United States. My predictions are more specific than ancient religious text, which means if I'm right then shouldn't I be the one you follow?! But if some of my predictions turn out to be wrong then my followers could simply write that off as a "metaphor." My followers can say something like "Saint Anthony wasn't saying Dwayne Johnson was going to be president, but simply that in all our hearts we must be the rock to our own inner United States!" Or my followers could redefine "elected". Or the more fundamentalists of my teachings could contend that "The Rock" must be in reference to someone else in the future who isn't born yet and who will take up the mantle to someday fulfill the prophesy and therefore everyone on Earth will get an unlimited amount of pizza! It would be nearly impossible to rationalize with an Anthony Fundamentalist because his logic is predicated on an irrational preposition: "I choose to believe the less likely explanation (Anthony is an Angle) over the more likely explanations (delusion, deceit, luck, imaginative, wishful thinking)". You can say things to him like, "Yea but he wasn't the only one of his time period to hold those beliefs. He wasn't right in all his predictions. If God wanted more people to believe him then why not use more convincing evidence? O.J's defense team was more persuasive." To anyone who says their god is the one true god. The question then becomes what is the goal of your god? In religions like Islam and Christianity the goal is to get humanity to believe their god is thee god. But if that ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efcgysq8htY

Society gives us a default track: Go to school, go to college, get a job in an organization or corporation, get married, have kids, retire. There’s nothing wrong with this track if you choose it. But too many people simply live it because they are too afraid to choose anything else. People live to minimize the downside instead of maximize the upside. This is part of our human survival instinct. People often live their fears instead of their desires, the “what if” over the “why not”. “I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50-years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that’s the worst of it. That’s the real enemy. So, get up, get out in the real world and you kick that as hard you can right in the teeth.” — Walter White After breaking from the default track, Walter White confronted conflict. Society doesn’t like it when you break from the norm because it questions the norm. It’s easier to believe life is a series of steps to complain about: A-B-C.  But if someone decides to do A-C-B and then succeeds, then people who lived A-B-C start to question their path and might feel a tinge of jealousy and regret that they were either too afraid or too ignorant to do A-C-B. For the first 50 years of Walter White’s life he was a passive observer mindlessly going through the motions of what he was “supposed to do”. It took a life threatening illness to make him snap out of it and fully embrace life as an active participant. In the face of death, “what if” doesn’t matter. One starts to live out the “why not” by jumping out of planes, seeing exotic places, reconnecting with old friends and family, but why wait to hear we’re going to die before we start to live? For Walter White though, he didn’t just switch up the A-B-C. He took it to a whole new level… the B-A-D. Upon learning that one of his former students was recently involved in a D.E.A. bust, Walter White looks up the student’s home address and goes to his house. Jesse: You — wanna cook crystal meth?! Walt: Either that, or I turn you in. Walter White didn’t give Jesse a choice, but for the first time Walter White made a choice, a questionable one indeed, but a choice nonetheless: He will cook crystal meth. Jesse wants to know why his former teacher would do such an outlandish thing… At first Walt claims it’s about the money. Jesse: Nah. Come on, man! Someone straight like you, giant stick up his all of a sudden at age, what, fifty, your just gonna break bad?  Walt stares at Jesse for a long time, considers how to answer.  Wal ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlu4kQ3c60