Expecting the worst is the best mentality and most logical position. If it happens then you are prepared. If it doesn't happen, then it is a nice surprise and you lose nothing.
Too many people allow nihilism to sneak in however. This is also illogical and unhelpful. You will face these trials prepared, so why worry and despair?
Worrying about things that haven't happened is a waste of time. You cannot control outside events, only your response to them.
Exactly. If Trump somehow ascends to the inauguration stage tomorrow afternoon and swears the oath of his second term as Kushner is catapulted into a formation of Blue Angels doing a flyover, I'll be the happiest camper in the gulag.
But everything from November 6th onward has pointed towards Trump being a dupe or a stooge. Pardoning rappers and drug moguls in the 11th hour isn't rehabbing that image.
I'm prepared for Scenario B.
Or he just lost. Not everything has an actual plan, and not everyone who fails did so deliberately.
I mean, he didn't "lose", he was cheated due to massive, super obvious, easily verified election fraud.
But he also didn't fight it at all so here we are.
Well any one who can think and see KNOWS he did NOT LOSE. Immediately, I turned off the rest of your message b/c the first words were LIES!. And boy am I sick of YOU LIARS.
but i was talking about people predicting the worst as fact.
Understood. That is the reverse side of the same coin. Both doomers and hopium addicts are blindly walking forward pretending to know what lies ahead.
We should understand anything is possible from here and prepare accordingly. If the hopium addicts are right, nothing is lost and we can continue as normal. If the doomers are right, we need to be prepared. Pretend they are right when preparing.
But do not despair. That serves us not at all. In the end we will prevail, though it may be more difficult than anyone expects. Read the story of James Bond Stockdale.
https://thewisemind.net/the-stockdale-paradox-and-its-connection-to-stoicism/
Not really true. The hopium bullshit is completely created by shills and propagated by useful idiots.
There has always been room for discussion and discourse, but the shills forced binary discussions and purposely distort and misrepresent accordingly. Which is not representative of the bulk of people.
All speaking of hopium have been affected by propaganda. In ways they likely do not know. This is how useful idiots are created.
If you control the language of debate, you win the debate. This is also the purpose of political correctness. Literal mind control.
People screeching of hopium are shills or useful idiots. That's the power of propaganda.
Over preparedness for worse case outcomes can spend energy and resources better spent on more likely outcomes.
Spending your time attempting to locally group up with like minded individuals can yield dividends in the long run. However if you are so black pilled you spend all your energy on retreating away from civilization than you will fail to capitalize on opportunities to improve the common position.
The ultimate outcome of anyone who fully blackpills is Ruby Ridge, regardless of whether that is inevitable you stand a far stronger chance of success operating on the assumption we can still rebuild community, rebuild people, and ultimately eventually rebuild nation.
Fair point, but I would argue that what I do isn't retreating from civilization or over-preparing. I see it as living the way in which we are meant to live and having true "life insurance". Life insurance in the traditional sense is really "death insurance". "Life insurance" as I mean it is truly something to continue to help you live in the case of a supply chain or civilization breakdown. Our ancestors always prepared for harsh winters and famine. They were always trying to get ahead and prepare for "what-ifs". That is all I do, just in a modern way.
Ruby Ridge happened because of a tyrannical government agency who were desperate to justify their existence along with a President and AG who were trying to increase their standing and status. It was a complete setup, and that guy did nothing illegal, and was later exonerated in court with the exception of one bogus failure to appear charge that couldn't have been avoided due to the court changing his dates. The only reason he got caught up in it to begin with was because he DIDN'T retreat completely from society.
I also do not spend all of my time preparing for the worst and retreating from society, I simply expect things to degrade quickly and I prepare accordingly. I exercise, work a normal job, study emergency medicine, practice bushcraft, prepare for emergency communications, spend time improving my community, gardening etc. It is far better than sitting around perpetuating rumors and hopium on 4chan.
And in the time I do these things, I attempt to redpill my neighbors and get them to prepare in similar ways. No man is an island, and it will take a community to survive. On this, I believe we can agree.
Great name btw. My absolute favorite saying that I remind myself of daily.
Thanks, with a fuller explanation of your meaning I see we agree on a great many things. I grew up in a suburban highly liberal area. Outside of as a novelty, I never considered fire arms part of my life. I started last year living my life discussing the issues and keeping my body prepared for the occasional protest brawl against Antifa. I have now concluded a season of learning to grow my own food, and I own three fire arms I regularly practice with. I have a turkey hunt planned in a couple months when the season opens with some friends, and I have been broadening my local network of red pillers.
So I too believe things may degrade accordingly, and have shifted my readiness to match. I agree that balance needs to be struck. We must each individually cultivate the skills and strength to be an island of calm in the storm, but we must also form a network with those like us to weather its gales as a team.
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