{"id":1698,"date":"2014-11-16T13:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:18:34","slug":"nine-of-the-biggest-myths-that-people-believe-about-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Nine of the biggest myths that people believe about the system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovereignman.com\/expat\/nine-of-the-biggest-myths-that-people-believe-about-the-system-15575\/\">Nine of the biggest myths that people believe about the system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Years ago, an elderly, frail Japanese martial arts master once boasted a 200-0 record against his opponents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">He claimed to have a unique power that allowed him to inflict serious injury on people without actually laying a finger on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">Was it Chi? Magic? None of the above. It was a total scam. But that didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">You see, the legend of the master\u2019s powers turned out to be far more powerful than reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">His core following of students believed in the master so much that they would fling themselves across the dojo whenever he raised his pinky finger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">And anyone who saw the display would become transfixed by the perception of the mater\u2019s extraordinary abilities. It was an incredible case of mass delusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; word-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine of the biggest myths that people believe about the system. Years ago, an elderly, frail Japanese martial arts master once boasted a 200-0 record against his opponents. He claimed to have a unique power that allowed him to inflict serious injury on people without actually laying a finger on them. Was it Chi? Magic? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,244,338,379,1181,1180,655,965],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-economics-2","tag-freedom","tag-government","tag-grand-delusion","tag-myths","tag-propaganda","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}