I Am Above 300,000th Author for 6 Straight Months

According to Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Google Scholar Stats

Search within keywords... According to what I see...

14th for Analytic Philosophy
4th for Coherence Theory
165th for Category Theory
57th for Philosophy of Physics
19th for Metaphilosophy

My Google Scholar Profile with Papers

Over 300 Sales this year

Almost completely above 200,000th author for 2 months!!
Up 33% from last year. Last-minute book shopping? Visit: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Often Above 100,000th Author on Amazon

12 out of the past 18 days I was above 100,000th Author on Amazon!

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1 month above 200,000th author on Amazon

I've only been published on Amazon about four years.

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17 Books in the Top Million

On Amazon:
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Key Accomplishment

2 Years Above 500,000th Author on Amazon!

Author Profile (with Books): http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Recent statistical improvements

54K views to the blog to date.

100+ views to 'successful perpetual motion experiment 2' video.

5 videos above 100 views in the last 90 days.

Holding near the Top 3 - 5 % at Academia.

Amazon books in Top 200,000 authors for now.

Author Status

12 sales in 12 days on Amazon.

Good sign!

My Amazon books: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Sign of success

7 sales in 8 days at Amazon books.

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Improved Book Sales

$449.94 total earnings

$449.94 / $152.29 in 2014 = almost 300% growth in the past year.

Good!

I neglected to mention that during this time I've published about 70 books.

So, I've only earned about $6.43 per book to date.

Averaging about $21 earned every month now, and a book published every 2 weeks.

NATHAN COPPEDGE ABILITY SCORES (FUN & GAMES)

For those interested in details about Nathan Coppedge from his own perspective (there's little other perspective to refer to...)

With a view towards historical glory, much as Einstein's I.Q. was revised, or as some Nobels were awarded posthumously, or as some writers have become geniuses after their time...

The below scores for Nathan Coppedge are estimates based on the assumption that 10 is average, and that Nathan Coppedge tends to be exceptional in a variety of areas. E.g. 8 might be mildly retarded in this system.

Intelligence: 14 - 17 / 20 (70 - 85 / 100)
Wisdom: 15 - 17 / 20 (75 - 85 / 100)
Strength: 13 / 20 (65 / 100) Male, not very athletic. +1 Magical strength.
Dexterity (especially balancing skills): 15 / 20 (75 / 100)
AC: 18 (heavy coat) or 20 (t-shirt) +5 dodge bonus
Hit Points: 30 (new system, used to list 5, 30 is normal for humans)
Luck: 16 - 17 / 20 (80 - 85 / 100) 19 four-leaf clovers, 2 five-leaf clovers, 1 six-leaf clover
Wealth: 10 / 20 (50 / 100)
Charisma: 10 / 20 (50 / 100) +8 for those with an ear fetish. -2 for aging.
Computers: 10 / 20 (50 /100)
Magical Lore: 13 / 20 (65 / 100)
Magical Scrolls: 10 / 20 (50 / 100)
English: 17 / 20 (85 / 100)
Abstract Art: 17 / 20 (85 / 100)
Weapons Lore: 16 / 20 (80 / 100)
Swordsmanship: 8 / 20 (40 / 100) Knows how to hold sword, but limited fighting ability.
Martial Arts: 1 / 20 (5 / 100) Personal style of unpolished t'ai chi / dance
Sneak: 15 / 20 (75 / 100) Camouflage, quiet footsteps, etc.
Mental Health: 6 / 20 (20 / 100) Paranoid schizophrenia +3 with medication. [8 mg resperidone per day will provide +4, 6 mg will provide +3].
Communication: 7 / 20 (30 / 100) Can pass communication and logic classes with moderately good grades. Possible mild telepathy though it has hurt his mental health. Some of the effects of his medication may persist even if he doesn't take it.
Meyer-Briggs: InfP / by age 39 INfj
Zodiac: Libra-Scorpio cuspian. Chinese Zodiac: Dog.
Nationality: American
Politics: Democratic Party (or whatever seems wiser)
City: New Haven
Powers:
* Saving throw of 5 / 20 with new information: think of new perpetual motion idea.
(75% chance of interesting mechanical function until age 70).
* Saving throw of 1 / 20: craft new symbol.
* Commanding presence 1 per day (lost ability: level-drained).
* Saving throw 1/100: craft minor rune.
*Draw mana from heaven at will.
Saving throw 4/20 at will: write poem (limit usually 1 per month).
(If make it, then 2/10: sublime, vs. 3/10 brilliant, vs. 5/10 interesting
8/10 dirty but not gay vs. 2/10 affected but not dirty).
*4/10 saving throw (roll once for each spell) for detect any magic cast on him.
(2/100 detect immediately,  8/100 detect in one or two days, 20 / 100 detect in one month,
21 or greater, roll d100 years)
*Can balance one table knife on a finger for up to 1d20 seconds 1d6 times.
Employment: Makes about $200 / year as an author and occasional unpredictable money as an artist.
Relies on government charity (SSI / SSA).
Relationships: Straight / Asexual (attracted to really curvy, sublimely beautiful women / nymphs/ goddesses. No relationships. May have fallen in love with a stuffed animal he keeps as a companion).
Motivations: Clean Air, Food, Perpetual Motion, Writing, Immortality, Philosophy, Porn
Notes: Accompanied by a spiritually (but not physically) animated stuffed animal named Emend Coppedge that he calls his son.

QUOTES NOVEMBER 2015 PART 2

"The end days are a phenomenon of personal religion. The end days are God's official 'delusion.' For no immortal God would proscribe 'end days' for other immortals. Immortality by definition does not end, perhaps even if it undergoes morphosis into a different form. The differences must be small enough that a continuity of consciousness takes place."

"Atheism is also a nominal religion, because it is a position about religion. In a strictly categorical sense, that is what a religion is. Everything that is not religious either ignores religion or is without spirit. But atheism, whether it has a spirit or not, defines itself on religious terms, because without religion there is no atheism."

"They always save the divine language for earlier. This explains the disappointment with badly predicted old age."

"Sometimes I think in my previous life I was an ant who thought of Platonism and viewed a Schizznik, which was a form of pastry, and vowed to never get married. But, on other times I think I was the son of William Tell, or a Chinese God."

"I conceive that doubt may be additional to knowledge."

"One of the foundational tenets of gnosticism is that thought is the mind: thought is what to mind, and thought influences the world."

"If anyone repeats a thought over and over again, it will eventually be admitted that it is not just one person's influence. So the claim that a single person has stolen the soul is as strong as the idea that any more than one has done the same. And both of these claims are weaker than the idea of self-possession, since it is clear that the repetitions are created through interaction with the original self."

"The Coppedge Curve: Brian was genuinely brilliant, but I was a genius but stupid."

"It is also possible that the 4th - 7th dimensions will occur together, in one larger experience that not everyone is ready to experience (for lack of imagination, I guess: which is the same as saying a lack of information)."

"Of course, it would be interesting if time were as civilized as we are. Basically, though, we're always trying to cheat when we change dimensions. We get technical, so we're in a pigeon-hole, so 'nature understands' and something happens. If you believe in God you might be led also to believe that 'there are no shortcuts' and therefore it's always a big deal to shift dimensions."

"I doubt that many people would say that all knowledge is semantic. I think that would be too extreme. But I wouldn't call this system metaphysics, either, although in some ways its the first example of a coherent metaphysics." 

MORE QUOTES AT POEMHUNTER: http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Nathan%20Coppedge

AMAZON MONEY MAGIC

+1 permanent point for every four-leaf clover
(+2 permanent points for every five-leaf clover
+3 special points for every six-leaf clover)
+1 temporary points every time you eat a whole tomato
+2 permanent points if you have your own living space

-1 temporary point every time you think negative thoughts

+1 for up to 5 consecutive days of eating good food.


Overall:

6 points = sell 1 book.
12 points =  sell 10 books.
18 points = sell 100 books.
24 points = sell 1000 books.
32 points = sell 10,000 books.
44 points = sell 100,000 books.
58 points = sell 500,000 books.
70 points = sell 2,000,000 books.
140 points = sell 5,000,000 books.
280 points = sell 100,000,000 books.

Repeatedly.

But, remember, J.K. Rowling has a magic ring, according to one interview (I think).

Guide to Luck and Fortune

The Most Recent Releases Sept - Oct 2015

The Structure of Philosophical Revolutions: https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-structure-of-philosophical.html

The Golden Notebook: https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-golden-notebook-improvement-on.html

Metaphysical A.I.: https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/10/recent-release-metaphysical-ai.html

A GUIDE TO SPIRITUALITY

GIANTS DONE NOODLES (GDN, GDDN, KBN, KBBN)

(ALTLIGHT:ALTL:TLT)

GIANTS ARE WORTH GIANT BOOBS, THOUGH JEWS USUALLY AFFORD THEM SUPPER INSTEAD.

SMALL PEOPLE STARVE ORIGINALLY, THEN IT STARTED TO BE ABOUT COLLECTION PRECIOUS THINGS.

PRECIOUS THINGS OWNS ALL THE BIG THINGS IF THEY LOOK FOR PRECIOUS THINGS.

BIG PEOPLE OWN ALL THE PRECIOUS THINGS IF THEY LOOK FOR BIG THINGS.

BIG PEOPLE HAVE BOOBS, LITTLE PEOPLE ARE SEEKERS.

I. The Prodigal Child


A very pensive child who is very well-loved

will almost always have the same realization:


‘I am insignificant!’


This is the closest thing to realizing the whole universe!

It is a path, that if not taken, could have harmful consequences for the genuine understanding of all that is!

For truly, we are, in sheerly physical terms, insignificant!

There are literally billions of galaxies, and the Milky Way is but a small, relatively insignificant part of the entire whole!

Compared to the discovery of Einstein, each person is but one insignificant member of society!

Even the things most significant to one individual are not always significant to the entire society. Far less is the society significant for the global ecosystem, or the ecosystem for the solar system, or the planets for the Sun, or the Sun for the other stars, or the other stars for the entire galaxy, and so on for other galaxies, and perhaps other universes!

The mind-blowing fact, such a child already realizes, and it is a remarkable achievement!

Ironically, this is just the type of child that achieves great things in our society!

Now, the first choice for most children is to encourage them to be well-educated. To know their times-tables. To read literature.

But for this child, the potential is greater. And it begins with accepting that the child has great knowledge.

The child has knowledge that his or her own life is insignificant!

Don’t dilly-dally. Make a decision. Lovingly accept your child’s conclusion, or instead set them on the road to arrogance, where they are sure to find some form of failure!

The road from insignificance may be greater.

The world will be in proportion.

Significant things will seem mundane compared to what they are capable of thinking.

They are likely to know about the future, about how people work, and about themselves.

So, path 1 is insignificance.

But, not everyone is capable of taking it.

It is on the insignificant path that people are apt to discover real significance---significance that is contrasted with everything else in the universe!

These people have real perspective!

They know what counts!

They haven’t lost track of objectivity!

They are at a stage beyond all academic objectivists!


II. The Path of Greatness


However, the second (lesser) path is greatness.

This is usually a different beginning than insignificance.

Freud we might say, found his greatness from insignificance.

But it doesn’t usually work that way!

The path of greatness is the path of significance-only.

Prodigies achieve universalism. Seekers of significance, however, have an endless hunger just for significance.

It is the path of arrogance, or competing ideas!

It is a path of words, and other applications, which ‘construct’ reality!

Reacting against great things (which are ‘constructs’) very often leads to a sense of depravity. A sense of loss of reality.

Some, like Nietzsche, blame the system, and create an anti-system!

Others, perhaps like the 20th-C. logicians, conform to some of the assumptions, and build their own assumptions on top of them!

The degree of intelligence and wisdom applied to the system is what seems to get results!

But, at some point, the system succeeds or fails, and one’s own life succeeds or fails with it!

It becomes advantageous to see the system as trivial, or the results as important!

One must live for scones, or else for stratagems!

The great man is forever imitating the child prodigy. Child prodigies have the real wisdom of genius! Only by learning from them can one achieve the impossible!

The impossible becomes a good bet on how to achieve what otherwise only the self-declared insignificants would achieve!

Knowledge becomes a learning process.

One must gain education, and a wide range of book-learning.

It would also be helpful to have encounters of intuition and beauty.

Something like love or madness may be necessary, to give appeal to it!

Something like intrigue, perhaps, or a bizarre personality!

Imitating the child prodigy is not easy. It is somewhat absurd!

The world becomes absurd is one of the few things one can say in public!

One becomes a dusty personality!

It is really better to aspire, gradually, the same insights the prodigy makes!

One can turn it into a spiritual movement!

One can exaggerate!

One can prosper on how the prodigy thought himself insignificant!

One can, so to speak, stand on the shoulders of giants!

It is always possible that what they did was not great.

Maybe the only significant thing the prodigy did was what you observed!

It probably isn’t true, but at least you can hope!

Meanwhile, there are others who think you are a prodigy!

It may not be true, but if it’s true to someone, then it’s significant to you!

Remarkable things can be achieved by ‘greatness’!

If you remember the prodigy is great, then you may even become greater!

It may be a lie, but it may also be true!


III. The Path of Cleverness

There is a path of greatness, and a path of cleverness, but one cannot choose both!

You may be surprised, but the prodigy and the great person are not always clever.

The prodigy is concerned only with what matters, and the genius is concerned only with what is true!

The path of intelligence follows after them, and it is not necessarily worse off than the genius!

The trouble is, clever people have a choice about life.

They can try to ‘wag the dog’ so to speak, and own the system, or they can try working outside the system.

Usually, working outside the system results in failure. It may happen as a last resort, or because they are particularly blessed!

One might even concern oneself with spiritual matters!

In either case, they are confronted with a difficulty.

They did not take their advantages for granted.

That’s what trickery says.

They are on shaky ground.

In truth, they have to work pretty hard.

Perhaps, the question arises, they are not even really tricksters at all.

They must still work for a living, most of the time.

They overcome poverty through some process or other, or they work the system and become rich slaves who always had money and always worked for it, or sometimes they’re just talkers who blow money around like it’s a very cerebral Christmas.

Whatever the case, trouble is not gone. The more it is evident, the less trouble there is, somehow.

The real tricksters are sitting on a pile of money. But it has little to do with emotion. They’re some cold fish.

The key thing is, they interpret the interpreters. They know how to have substance. They are great learners. Meaning is no object. These people can do their homework.

This may be the path where one gives in to temptation.

But not all the time. Not every time. Not all the way.

Tricksters know how to hold back when they can get a better deal another way.


IV. The Way

The fourth way is the emotional way.

This is what is meant by humility.

But, more clearly, it is the role of meaningful spirituality.

It is the path in which the little things count.

It is the path in which small, significant things happen.

It is also the path where one recognizes the ‘big picture’.

Usually not all of it. But some significant part of it.

It is a way where one knows how to interpret the world.

Where things fall into place.

Where one knows why things matter.

It is a very reasonable way.

It may be a private and a public way.

These people set limitations.

They notice magical events.

They love other people like themselves.

They can predict what is going to matter in the future.

They are not dopes, or not precisely.

They have the best of all possible worlds.

They know how to make shrewd bargains.

They have most of their sanity.

They are admired by other people.

They stay on top of the world.

They are unconditional lovers.

They know how to have friends.

Being in a spiritual way is not a means to an end.

Unfortunately, to the crude mind, it just happens to be so.

But in truth, it has a rationality.

These people are reaping the rewards of their labor.

They have learned to appreciate life in all of its conditions.

They have suffered much, and learned much.

They are tired of suffering.

But they do not toil for nothing.


They are good people, who understand as best they may, how to live, and what to profit by.



SPIRITUAL TEACHING

The type of ethical thinking which takes place in a given dimension is related first to the current dimensional level, second to the second-most dimensional level, and so on, until all the levels are related.

To know the types of ethical thought, one must know the ethical levels corresponding to each dimension.

The dimensional levels I know are:

1. Essential perfection.

2. Non-negation.

3. Complexity.

4. Aesthetic perfection (meaning).

5. Potential power (truth-perfection).

Thus, for the third dimension, what is required is first to acquire complexity, second, not to negate complexity, and third, to acquire perfection. Another possible stage is not to negate the perfection, and a fifth possible stage is to complexify the perfection, which should ideally be done on the way to acquiring non-negated complexity.

In the fourth and fifth stages, the process is the same, although it requires aesthetic perfection and power, respectively.

THE INITIATION OF SOUL IMPROVEMENT

Initiation is one of the key themes of spiritual improvement.

The sooner one begins initiation, the sooner one earns Soul Points.

I see this as relating to the life of oneself and one's children.

Basically, if one doesn't set a standard on how to live, then one cannot acquire prestige for improving one's future life.

The goal of life is at least to improve the future, which depends on initiating the path to self-improvement, enabling one to acquire soul-points.

One way to do this is to avoid forms of physical love, which have the reputation of degeneration.

ONE-HAND CLAPPING MANTRAS

1st Mantra: "Wisdom before youth before age before indulgence"

2nd Mantra: "Gradual improvement is the wise way..."

3rd Mantra: "Strong just as a tree"

4th Mantra: "Have concern"

Still selling about 1 book every 2 days on average this year...

Average is a book every 1.86 days.

Maybe better next year.

My author page is at Amazon Books for those interested.

Tentative Progress in the Success Department

$16.59 coming in September / October, from createspace.

about $5 coming in at kdp. Meeting goal of $20 in September or October (unexpectedly).

number of international sales in one month may be branching recently. Good sign for long-term progress.

sales might actually be going up! yay!

At least, they were in July and August.

If this seems loserly, compare it to my YouTube situation, where I have finally achieved '1 Like' besides me on my Successful Over-Unity experiment.

Earning $20 a month is major for a sometimes self-declared POET! (and male with big ears, hairy legs, and wide hips).

Estimating 210 books sold this year by the end...

That's about a 19% improvement on last year's sales.

So, good news!

Author page at: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Here is a chart showing Geographic Regions for my sales since 2013.

Celebrating 50 reported text sales in Geographic Regions!

Yay!