fair enough. oh, and i didn't sense any combativeness from you, not at all. that being the case, i will attempt to respond to both your overt and possibly unspoken questions. if i miss, please take time to request attention on my part to any particularly missed nuances.
what part of 'my world as presented in my previous post' don't you want to live in. you know, what is the 'yikes' part?
you posit: What's the point of this venue other than to share and prepare for.....?
i thought that was what i was doing, sharing that is. we're not all in the same stage of preparation, trepidation, validation, investigation on this issue.
i shared my sense of sadness.
i shared my personal and family responses resulting from my 'interviewing' power generation credible persons.
i shared my paradigm shift/into one of comparative insulation and isolation, geographically.
i shared my resentment of being lied to individually and corporally
i shared my faith in the 'still small voice' and its Source.
i shared my sense of individual responsibility and skill assessment
i've shared my financial exp. in the 'trading for a living' arena
i've shared my concerns over the human refuse issue
i've shared my response to the IEEE pending legislation
i could go on, but the point is made.
i've moved from overwhelmed to a sense of challenge, yes, even adventure. but there is sadness inherent in dramatic change.
it is a different sourcing of grief than i was brought up to face...you know, the kind of grief one feels when one loses a job, or loses a dearly loved one. but it is grief and sadness, nevertheless,
and the 'stages' of grief are very real in the dramatic changes due to facing y2k fouling/dismantling of the power grid truth.
i am fortunate to be speaking from a place of 'post re-location', post paradigm shift. but the vestiges of sadness experienced now hopefully will in some small way innoculate me and my family when nationally, and globally millions hit the wall quite literally in about 187 days.
i do not 'feel' gloomy.
i feel pragmatic,
i feel responsive,
i feel i'm individuating within reason,
i feel the learning leader in my home,
i feel a captain of my family ship.
that doesn't feel at all like like gloom on this end of the post dramatic re-location.
YES, i am telling my family to align themselves with truth. seeking truth while practicing love and vulnerability to those i love and share truth with is just about the highest 'challenge' in can think of. it squares with my sense of community. my religious teachings.
my philosophical bent.
is that all i'm telling them? No.
we are currently tackling our winterizing concerns at this early summer inflection point.
we've already done the water prep thing,
the food prep thing,
just about completed the med prep thing,
done the relocation/moving thing,
done the 'firearm' assessment thing,
done the financial prep thing,
done the alternative power thing,
done the alternative transportation thing,
currently are practicing the hydroponic thing,
doing the best we can 'thing' with this new batch of skillsets and information overload as we have 187 days left.
i/my immediate family have alredy done my 'elderly parent thing,'
my teaching thing,
my voluteer thing,
my religious thing,
my talent thing, etc.
(have no desire to do a travel thing.)
congratulations on your super successful commodities, real estate and equities thing you are enjoying. and, YES, you read me correctly that i hold no high levels of hope for the masses, especially in those three disciplines to whit you write of your involvement.
have you ever dealt with ONE severely disillusioned soul over any sustained period of time. multiply that disillusionment times several million lied to neighbors and friends,
and, sincerely, now,
let's hear how you are planning on handling/fielding manifestations of:
--pandemic unanswerable questions, by adults, not 2 year old children,
---engulfling, national and global shock,
----grief and anger on a massive scale,
---wholesale destruction of real estate equity,
--profligate unemployment,
---military dictates implemented on main street,
----evaporated 401-K retirement funds,
---125% margin requirements in commodity contracts to flush out
speculators,
--truth in corporate quarterly fine print as the piper FINALLY gets paid ON BALANCE SHEET
---benevolent dictatorship instead of 'one man one vote'democracy
----runs on banks
---snarled transportation
--nationalized industries
---controlled news dissemination
----dead telecommunications
---impure water
--medical crises unheeded
---religious zealots proclaiming righteous retribution instead of grace
----lack of food in a JIT environment
--multiple crises and no one 'to fix it for you'
y2k is just about to become one big margin call, balloon equity payment, dollar devastating mid-life crisis snafu for millions and millions. and you seek optimism as a caffeine type motivator?
i'm prepared and preparing.
and i'm sharing just one person's post-dramatic relocation perspective. if it is not useful to you, skip my posts. if there's something you can use, grab it and run with it.
i'm hopeful for me and for mine AND for others who are prepared and preparing.
i am NOT hopeful for the real estate, commodity, stock equity laden, sound as a dollar types you speak of.
why should i be?
human spirit is defeatable.
human effort can be for naught.
human lives can be broken
human finances can be ruined.
human spirituality can be traded for a sawed off shotgun and black trenchcoat roaming highschool hallways.
human 'brotherhood' can be reduced to me, mine, and ours.
why is this such a surprise that in order to be 'truly prepared' one must see clearly the overwhelming potential, yay, even banana peel slide toward these manifestations of human experience recounted above, yes, NOW in these the best of times?
if one can't envision the potential for engulfing disillusionment when the world decides Bill Gates was evil incarnate, and steve jobs got hit on the head with one too many apples, how can one prepare and insulate, i.e., 'train for that eventuality, that scenario, that war-game' if it isn't first envisioned and the 'stinger removed' by additional training and preparation?
so, if i never need my karate black belt, should i regret acquiring that skillset through discipline and perserverance?
if i never need all my retirement funds, should i regret the years of work that 'entitled me' to receive xyz amount in salary, bonuses, stock options, etc?
if i never get to sell all my equities at THEE top, should i regret the discipline of poring over 10-Ks?
if i never short another stock, should i apologize for the analytical skillset and personal balance sheet which makes risking all that margin possible?
if i have no intention of killing someone, should i regret time spent shooting target practice at the firing range?
if i cannot personally, possible eat all that i have canned, should i regret the gardening i've done?
frankly, i'm glad to be on the post side of relocation.
i'm glad to be re-forming community in a much more relaxed, rural setting, not unfamiliar from my youth.
do i miss the hours poring over Globex quotes? No.
do i miss the GMT phone calls in the middle of the night containing some hot tip from a trusted source? No.
do i miss the hustle and bustle of a former successful options player's life? No.
do i miss fishing? Not anymore.
do i miss my grandkids? Not anymore.
do i miss cold dinners and the unintentionally hurt wife and watching my kids grow up without me?
do i miss weeding, turf building, moss killing, lawn edging, leaf blowing weekends? No.
NO!
NO!!!!
will i miss the global wretching that comes from massive disillusionment with americans, technology, our almighty dollar?
I SURE HOPE SO, until sanity returns and some semblance of been there done that is validated.
me and mine will be part of the re-construct, with full intent to do it better this time.
time to turn in and turn off. God's blessing on you and your Mom as well. |
