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When I was a kid, there was this bit called Evelyn Wood Speed-Reading and it would show some guy supposedly reading as fast as he could turn the page.  It was debunked by the fact that human beings actually have a very narrow field of useful vision and can only recognise something like five ordinary type written words in a line  and you have to visually register them. The rest is hypothesising based on context.   

That kind of makes me want to come up with some scam like those guys on infomercials. Or if I had played my cards right, I could have had like a church and been a preacher of some sort that mesmerised the flock into giving up their loot. That seems to be a very popular and very lucrative career for those so inspired.

My dad had a curious take on tele-evangelists. My dad never expressed any interest or opinion on church or religion one way or another. But he said that guys like Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Bakker deserved to make millions of dollars a year. He pointed to the tv and said look at how happy those people are. They love this guy and he's entertaining them. He has thousands of employees, he's running a production company, a school, his church... He deserves to make as much as the head of a corporation that size. He's providing a product to millions of consumers. His shows run on hundreds of stations world-wide. The guy's global.

I thought that was an odd take on it.