How to consume the non-consumer?

i feel it is time for a list or 2! well i dont feel that it is time in the physical sense.... i have'nay placed my hand upon time and felt a bit fluffy and decided that this feeling was an urge of list writing, or that it meant i had to do it. i suppose what the real question is, is why do we allow ourselves to be consumed in time? we are forever engulfed in instance..... the past and present are merely a daydream and/or fantasy and for the most part both are fabrications of reality. the only real thing in life is this moment now........ no its now, now......wait that bit is the past now and this bit is the present....... oh shit now thats the past...... this is tiring stuff trying to hang onto 'the now'!
did you know that everybody exaggerates stories to some extent as a kind of an instinct thing. it is to try to draw the listener or your audience to your experience and you try to make the listener experience it themselves.... which is impossible. a great example of when this happens on a large scale is magic shows and the such. a magician is fooling his/her audience and tricking them into believing in magic as they have no other explanation. now as you and i know there is no such thing as 'magic' and everything has an explanation but you would be surprised at how many people are willing to believe the opposite. part of this process is when someone spreads the word about the magician, what they will do is explain the tricks and exaggerate them in order for the other person to be mystified as well leaving out things in their own memory such as slight of hand or times at which the magician could have planted an object so for example, a magician who makes a coin vanish from his hand after waving his other hand over it may change to the coin was in the palm of his hand then he gently closed his fingers round the coin and opened his hand and the coin had gone. the mind erases the memory of the magician waving his hand over the coin and if this was told to someone else the obvious logic would be that he somehow palmed it or took it at that moment and this would make the person telling it look foolish. and this is why magicians still have an air of mystery and magic is still believed. the same thing with tarot card readers.... they ask some very broad questions and narrow down from clues in your answers and eventually say something which 'means something to you' but also make quess work using broad statements like 'im getting the name dave does that mean anything to you? no? david? dan? oh you know a donald yes donald is the name im getting its just not very clear love!'. also they say things like 'you are a very caring person aren't you and you try to see the good in people'. this technique is known as 'cold reading' and is very effective because EVERYBODY likes to think that they are caring and try to see the good in people or at least the majority of people do but the idiot paying the tarot reader thinks their powers are real as they 'hit the nail' with broad statements like that! when this person tells someone else that this tarot reader said things they couldn't have known this is because they block out the previous guesswork of the fraudster so they can believe in what they are saying and they wont look foolish to the person they are telling. they ignore evidence that may suggest they are wrong and take in all the evidence that back up their beliefs, serving to make their beliefs stronger.

sorry about that went on a bit of a ramble, i must say however that i think magicians are ok as long as what they are doing is entertainment and they dont try to claim to have magical powers but tarot readers and the like are frauds who make a lot of money out of other people's vulnerabilities....... wankers!

here's the lists

things that amaze me:

• magnets..... wow how does that work!? let me have a go
• modern technology....... wow haven't we humans done well as a race in developing amazing technology very quickly!
• the sensor thing you wave your hand over in public toilets so as to avoid touching dirty flush handles...... annoying thing is you still have to lift the toilet lid up...... hmm a gap in the market!?
• animals.... wow some of them are funny!
• hippo's being sent to the moon.

things that un-amaze me:

• pencils..... they're so last millenia.
• bills......... his are just so un-amazing
• mud
• tiramisu
• cement mixers

pick a crossroads any crossroads......