Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) - View Single Post - Best preperation: Get out of "survivor mode"

minimeister · 10-06-2008, 12:44 AM

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

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Have the folks on the "think happy thoughts" bandwagon stopped to think about how self righteous you come across? You're implying that anyone that takes the time to be prepared is a knuckle dragging throw back to the great evil time of humanity. Is this the so called universal love you supposedly endorse? Did it ever occur to you that some people in this world may have been born with a great enough spiritual awareness to know how useless and hokey your new age platitudes are in the great scheme of things? Are you going to eat your copy "How to be more self absorbed through Transcendental Meditation"? And I'm ranting here a bit yes because the purpose of this site is to help prepare places of assistance if things get bad and this Polly Anna attitude is dangerously deceptive. What true spiritual master has ever advocated such ignorance? None that I'm aware of.

When/If hard times come where would you rather be, dear reader, in a community with the "happy thoughts will stop bullets" types or with the "better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it" types? I mean come on!

If you don't like what I'm saying then this definitely applies to you. I don't like it when people that are trying to actually better their situation get lead astray. If you think what I'm saying is just to promote fear than you are incapable of recognizing what real help looks like. After having read this forum over the last few weeks it's apparent that a bucket of cold water is what the situation calls for so please believe me when I say this is coming from a sincere desire to help.

OP, I did read your take on this and I'm not lumping you into my generalizations, nor trying to single anyone out. Thanks for the interesting thread. And also thanks to the user that started the "For Survivors Eyes Only" thread in an attempt to keep the purpose of this site in focus. I'm all about thriving versus surviving but last time I checked surviving was the prerequisite.

10-06-2008, 12:44 AM	#83
minimeister Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 14	Re: Best preperation: Get out of "survivor mode" Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain ----------------------------------------------------------------- Have the folks on the "think happy thoughts" bandwagon stopped to think about how self righteous you come across? You're implying that anyone that takes the time to be prepared is a knuckle dragging throw back to the great evil time of humanity. Is this the so called universal love you supposedly endorse? Did it ever occur to you that some people in this world may have been born with a great enough spiritual awareness to know how useless and hokey your new age platitudes are in the great scheme of things? Are you going to eat your copy "How to be more self absorbed through Transcendental Meditation"? And I'm ranting here a bit yes because the purpose of this site is to help prepare places of assistance if things get bad and this Polly Anna attitude is dangerously deceptive. What true spiritual master has ever advocated such ignorance? None that I'm aware of. When/If hard times come where would you rather be, dear reader, in a community with the "happy thoughts will stop bullets" types or with the "better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it" types? I mean come on! If you don't like what I'm saying then this definitely applies to you. I don't like it when people that are trying to actually better their situation get lead astray. If you think what I'm saying is just to promote fear than you are incapable of recognizing what real help looks like. After having read this forum over the last few weeks it's apparent that a bucket of cold water is what the situation calls for so please believe me when I say this is coming from a sincere desire to help. OP, I did read your take on this and I'm not lumping you into my generalizations, nor trying to single anyone out. Thanks for the interesting thread. And also thanks to the user that started the "For Survivors Eyes Only" thread in an attempt to keep the purpose of this site in focus. I'm all about thriving versus surviving but last time I checked surviving was the prerequisite.