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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2489)	8/29/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Ken, I do not know him personally. He has a great sense of humor (I take this from reading his WRPs). Regards, John

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2489)	8/29/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

'THINK OF SURVIVAL IN FOUR PHASES 1) From here to the public loss of confidence prior to 1/1/00 -- You must not prepare in such a way that you can't afford for the sky not to fall in. (This goes for those who move onto your farm anticipating that the banks will fail so you don't have to pay off all your credited items, like the mortgage.) But you also must prepare in such a way that if the sky does fall you are ready. This is where the information of this thread will be the most valuable. Many analysts do not include the last of the good old days as a phase. But it is the most important. This is your seven fat years to do whatever you will to prepare for the seven lean years. It will end when the computer problem becomes popularly perceived as a major threat and people begin to prepare for the repercussions nationwide. That will be months before advance of 1/1/00 actually dawns. 2) From the failure of public confidence and the turn to government solutions to 1/1/00 -- Many who take Y2K seriously as a threat to our way of life make the mistake of thinking that Cinderella will magically hold together until midnight 12/31/99 and then suddenly all these bad things will happen. But consider this, when it occurs to the investors all over the world that Y2K means the computers running the business they have invested in may go down, Wall Street will drain rapidly. On the heels of this count on a run on the banks. Following this, count on a cry going up to the Federal government to protect everyone and save them from the depression now and enable them to survive Y2K when it comes. When government heeds this call and steps in you can count on a restructuring of society for survival. It would be a good idea to be where you want to live for the next few years within a week of the failure of public confidence. Don't confuse in your planning what government can do before Y2K with it's limitations after Y2K. Two different situations will be in effect. 3) Riots and turmoil after 1/1/00 -- during which time society sorts itself out on a non-technological basis. This time may well begin before 1/1/00 but with the advent of 1/1/00 the breakdown will tear apart government's ability to maintain the martial law that they could place into effect prior to 1/1/00. So even if you are preparing full time right now, you had better take a look at the following situations and dates and be sure that you are watching what's going on around you and ready to upgrade your schedule of preparation. You had better be prepared enough to go to ground sufficiently to survive if things start coming apart any time from the late summer or fall of 1998 to fall of 1999. (The purpose of this site is to give as much data to help you be prepared by the time this process begins, which is the preceding phase.) Once it begins, though strong defensive capability can help, the best survival tactic is invisibility and a heart for ministry. Any beginning karate instructor will tell you that the best fight is the one that never happened. And the best way to assure that is to stay out of as many as possible, and to turn enemies to friends wherever possible. What enables survival will not merely by the strength of your arms, but the strength of your vision. See, What Your children Must Know to Survive and Build under "Learning to Think." 4) After sufficient stability is established to plant and grow. -- Now you will need a whole bunch of things that were useless for the last two or three years of desperate packing and lying low -- Tools, mules, goats, chickens, non-hybrid seed, irrigation, arable soil, sufficient growing season . . . and on and on. See why it's so important to treat Phase One as a distinct phase in your thinking? These are your golden months to get prepared for every phase. Use your time well while you are still ahead of the eight ball. y2kchaos.com