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3rd October 2014, 14:41
#31
Senior Member
We got to take as it comes…remembering the Serenity Prayer; only worry about what you can control.
If you think you might survive the pandemic, prepare best you can to continue to live the life you wish to lead, integrating the information you are receiving the best you can, in the context it becomes apparent to you, as the situation allows…and adjust accordingly.
I used to be a big time prepper, my first pet issue and what lead me down the path of understanding my reality was fear of PEAK OIL…it turns out, even if the most plausible of my worst case scenarios occurred, I wouldn’t want to live in hiding with a stockpile of supplies defending myself and my family—I really tried to empathize with the bunker mentality I lied myself into believing was a preferable existence, and realized that may work for some people, but I’d rather die than spend the rest of my incarnation in fear.
So what to do? I learned as much as I could, and realized, all of our problem are our VALUES. The numbers and ideas and “science” I was believing, like the cost of a gallon of petro, was such a lie. Whining about $4 a gallon of gas? A substance that propels my car 30 miles from where I am right now is worth WAAAAY more than 4x the amount of a Coke (I would use for immediate gratification in slowly poisoning myself with horribly addictive BS)
So what else is undervalued? Besides our survival needs, which seem to be artificially purposely deflated? Does it really take less energy inputs (aka value) for you to have Quarter Pounder than cook a home made beef patty from the nearest local source of beef?
I found the most under-valued, under-appreciated resource, the one most for the survival of humans, is none other than: RELATIONSHIPS.
I believe I am a creature that finds itself in a reality where the cooperation of others like myself (I call us HUMANS) is vital, that it is nearly impossible for me to exist in (at least the way I want to) it without good relationships…and that with them, we not only can get what we need, but maybe even what we WANT.
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4th October 2014, 20:31
#32
Senior Member
well first probable ebola case has arived in holland also.
with love
eelco
Have a great day today
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5th October 2014, 05:20
#33
Senior Member
Ness (my love) told me she dram* that I was asking somebody for something because I had contracted Ebola, not having heard me talking about it (because I don't in real life). Man, I hope she was just reading my mindset the other day when I was thinking about how this thing seems to be really getting legs. Got that weird, next chapter of the boy who cried wolf feel to it (previous chapters being bird flu and swine flu and mad cow and whatever. Hope it's another one of those anticlimactic ones
*her word for past tense of dream, she's from Ecuador, English (with an AlabAma twang) is her second language. She's shown prescience in the past before, as well as told me stories that sounded more like experiences than dreams
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5th October 2014, 09:14
#34