Time is all relative to the amount of change that occurs in it.  That's why for me and many people I know, time feels to be going faster.  We've been evolving exponentially since our creation.  An individual human is able to learn more about the world than ever before, quicker and therefor increase self awareness more than ever before, quicker.  Humans must find this change within their self, it's happening to everyone, though some are more in tune with it than others.  Humans are becoming smarter and rediscovering the true nature of our reality, which is that we make our reality in our mind.

Hope that helped.

And the eight investors I've had.  What makes you think a job is guaranteed income?  What happens when you get fired or the company goes out of business?  Government handouts, really?

I wouldn't call 100 BTC loans small, by any means.  Renegotiate the terms?  How?  By lowering interest rates for new deposits to increase sustainability?  Dank Bank interest rates are only going down from here, there may be a point when I won't even pay interest, but people will deposit because they support what I'm doing.

Let's not forget these facts: dank has borrowed and repaid over two dozen loans over the last year.  Dank Bank has handled over 340 BTC and repaid 190 BTC in principles.  All while offering mighty friendly interest rates.  People have been calling me a scammer since I started asking for loans, based off nothing and amounting to nothing.

How long until people accept I'm not?

I don't have time to save up money, I'm trying to get things done this year.  It's odd that more people aren't eager to lend to me, seeing as I'm the only deposit taker that hasn't defaulted, and despite all the early accusations/presumptions, I still never scammed anybody.

What's a regular channel for an 18 year old with no credit to get a loan?  The OP explains how the loan is fixed to USD while adjusted for inflation.

Angel, that's like saying it's 2012, we're towards the end.  Time is relative, the peak of this will be at the end of December, a lot has changed over the year but not like it will.

Repentance, time is an illusion, we perceive time as humans but it is not a real 'thing.'  We only live in the present, here and now, we can't time travel because it'd change the present and there's nothing to travel.  We compare rotations around earth's axis to give us an idea of how much time has passed.  Everyday, more change happens than the previous day, as life is constantly changing and humans are constantly evolving.  What would happen if more change occurred in one rotation than the last millennium?  Would time became meaningless?

fgervais, did I say they weren't debt?

Uh, how does one start business with no moneys?  Hmm..

Yes, it is a lot more complicated than I expected, due to government regulations/permits/laws etc.  Not that I can't do it.  Not that I won't do it.  I have a much clearer idea of what is needed to start a hookah lounge, I'm sure I'm capable of doing it.  Far from abandoning the project, I will return to it when I have the financial resources at hand, probably towards the end of the year.

Accumulating debt is very different than zero money.  Otherwise, I could get debt through a loan and have a hookah lounge, with zero money.

You guys have fun talking down each others' children on the internet, while I pursue my dream.

Thank you for answering my question.  Jimi Hendrix couldn't read music either.

How?  Technology makes humans smarter as a species, but not individual humans?  How can a species evolve, if the organisms aren't evolving their self?  And how can humans exist, in an ever changing world, without evolving?

I have three people doing a research project, one can only talk to other people about it, one can read books for information and one can use the internet.  You're telling me the ones with greater access to information/technology will not learn and evolve faster?

What's your reasoning?  Time is going faster.  Look at the advancements in human history in the last year, decade and century and compare that to the last millennial or longer.  The advancements in technology and communication allow us to evolve faster, we can learn and process more information faster than before.  An idea has the potential to spread around the world in a matter of minutes, or seconds even, rather than months or years before.

Try understanding before rejecting.  If you don't understand something, ask questions to get a better understanding.

What attitude?  You can laugh all you want, but you can't have the last laugh.

I like his music too.  Music is a matter of taste, most people get over thinking any music they don't like is objectively bad by high school.  You guys must have moved on to the "Music today is terrible!  Get off my lawn!" phase.

 I can definitely see him having a succesfull career in music but his timeline may be a bit advanced.  It takes a while for people to notice you, no matter how good you are.

I think you guys are being unnecessarily mean to Dank, I'm not saying I would loan him 3000 btc but after his guitar got tuned his mp3 was much better and I actually saved a copy to keep.

This is not how magic works.

And actually, Dank's "music" production could be another good sign of the curse's power.

Words are vibrational frequencies, the universe is made of frequencies, communication is a natural step in evolution.

BorderBits, I talked to a SCORE mentor yesterday, he seemed pretty supportive of the idea, as long as I can get passed the regulations and funding.

Dank, I swear to God, the smartest part of you ran down your mother's ass-crack and ended up a stain on the goddamn mattress. You are dumber than a bag of fucking hair, and have all the music talent of a three day old raccoon corpse.

Your music is full of distortion, there is not a SINGLE bit of musical talent in the entire thing. To top it off, in the month or so you have been practicing you cannot even play a single tune at all, when most students are at the point they can plink out on or two little songs on their electric guitar that don't make people feel like you are raping their soul.

You stated that good music you can feel in your soul. That's true. Music can uplift you, raise you up to new heights. Music brings me to great heights of creativity. During the war music helped take my mind off of immanent death or pumped us up for what we were doing. During peace-time music let all the stress of the day flow out of me and let me create things, enjoy life with my friends, and even added something to sex with my girlfriend (now wife). Listening to Dream Weaver, laying there, covered in love-sweat, both of us breathing heavy, is a memory I've held onto during the darkest times.

Your "music" would make my dick go limp, my balls fall off, her pussy slam shut, and cover us both with the audio equivalent of hissing spiders that shoot acid. If you forced soldiers to play it in the zone there would be fratricides and suicide pacts. Prisoners of War would file charges of violation of the Geneva Convention. UN Observers would kill themselves. If you played it during a prison riot the prisoners would descend into a cannibalistic frenzy and the prison would end up like the one in The Suffering. If you played it on the Space Station they'd open the airlocks so your terrible music couldn't travel through the air through sound-waves. If you were to play it the Xenomorphs in Aliens would kill each other and write "PRAY FOR MOJO!" on the wall in their own acidic blood. Superman would ram his head into a kryptonite wall at lightspeed to get away from your music. Your music is so bad it would turn Lex Luthor into an Amish man. It's so bad that somewhere there is a Russian scientific panel trying to decide if America has figured out how to released a sound that kills upon the internet.

You are not the world's worst guitar player simply because you are not playing it. You are playing guitar in the same manner that a hobo screaming from a street corner is giving a State of the Union address. Both are making sounds, that is it.

You are to music what Vogon Poetry is to literature.

You beg for others to support you on the internet, you're basically a panhandler who accepts bitcoin. In that way, and only in that way, are you on the cutting edge of anything, as most panhandlers prefer money. They also make more than you.

You insistence that humans are evolving exponentially ignores both evolutionary theory, science, and cold hard facts. You are actually devolving and have set back the entire human race with your so-called music. Your music, by itself, will be looked at as having completely nullified the advances in the art of music by at least 3 great artists. Somewhere there is a man rapping about how much he likes to squish his toes in dog-shit who is a better musician than you are.

You claim you know how to stop cancer, one of the biggest killers in the Western World, and smugly talk about strong souls and other garbage, proving you are an entitled little shitburger who had never experienced true suffering. You are a panhandling beggar without the suffering of living on the street.

You claim to be able to see the future, and can't pick out a fucking lottery ticket. I can see the future too. It has you working minimum wage jobs all your life and marrying a fat girl who will cheat on you while you raise her boyfriend's kids and keep rubbing your face on the guitar.

You makes claims of magic that you refuse to back up with any kind of evidence, and like a toddler insisting his imaginary friend is real, you demand we disprove you, despite the fallacy of disproving a negative. You are worse than any hyper-religious tool that condemns everyone else because you don't even have a document hundreds of years old, just bullshit you thought up or works written by great men that you misunderstood.

You claim high intelligence, yet you fail to apply it in the simplest manner. You can follow scientific papers basically broken down for the layman without coming up with some kind of idiotic misinterpretation. So far, given every chance, you have failed to apply this so called "high intelligence" to the most basic tests, and frankly I wonder if your iPod continually runs an MP3 of your Mom saying "Breathe in, breathe out" so that you don't pass out from a lack of oxygen.

Now that you realized a hookah lounge will be hard work, and because you are too fucking stupid and ignorant to follow the advice given in this VERY FUCKING THREAD, you have magically decided that it will happen later, after you become the biggest rockstar in the world in 3 months.

You're a fucking child. Pack your shit. Go home. Move into your old room. Ask your mother to beat you the way she should have your entire life.

You're not an indigo child, Dank, you're just one of thousands of idiots.

But keep on panhandling, keep on rubbing your face on the guitar and not even understanding what mistakes you are making. Keep on making wild claims with no basis in reality.

The rest of us will go on contributing to society and the human race.

PS: Go Die in a Magic Fire.