Sense & Nonsense
Truth is revealed in action. Beliefs, attempts, intentions, thoughts, words and feelings mean nothing until they are translated into deeds. What I do is the truth about what I am. All the rest is just cheap talk. So what have I actually done to prepare for hard times?
You might say my entire life has been spent preparing for difficulty. As a result, I have actually encountered very little of it. Strange how that works and worth thinking about.
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- Created: 01 March 2011
One way to approach preparing for unexpected events is to look for vulnerabilities and then try to minimize them. These vulnerabilities are different for every individual, so one persons reasonable preparation might be another person's foolishness. One size does not fit all - not even close.
My current lifestyle is very dependent on continuous, affordable electric service. Without it, I am in trouble. How much trouble depends on how long and how frequently power is interrupted. Also, my vulnerability is somewhat dependent on how widespread a power outage is. If it is just my house or neighborhood, it is a nuisance, but if power is off for 200 miles around me, then a lot of other services will be affected in fairly short order.
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- Created: 01 March 2011
"In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to seem anarchic, even lunatic." - Alvin Toffler, Preface to "Power Shift" (1990)
Events seem to occur in such rapid succession that it becomes impossible to digest and react to one before focus shifts to another. Governments, businesses and individuals find themselves implementing solutions to past problems that are no longer appropriate in light of more recent events. Decision makers are forced to spend their time and effort reacting to emergencies rather than making plans to avoid them.
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- Created: 10 December 2010
Parents have no choice about what children will be taught in public schools under Federal Law. Parents have three choices for educating their children - Home School, Private School or abandoning that responsibility to the government, a phrase used in the Federal Court ruling that forces parents to accept whatever curriculum public schools offer if their children attend public school.
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- Created: 15 September 2010
The federal government in the USA does not have the authority under the Constitution to allocate resources. The fact that the federal government does shift resources from the young to the old, from the industrious to the lazy or from the healthy to the unhealthy does not make it legal.
It just means that they do it in violation of the most fundamental body of law in the United States of America. The rule of law has been replaced with the rule of people who have seized sufficient power to act illegally.
Most people will take exception with that statement, particularly with the idea that the federal government is operating in violation of the law of the land. Some will latch onto general phrases in the Constitution (such as the very first paragraph) to justify ignoring the remainder of the document.
Others will argue that the fact that the government does it makes it legal under the dubious reasoning that “precedent” is part of the constitution. (I say dubious because the same people who make that argument would find it ludicrous for me to say that the fact that I have driven at speeds in excess of the legal limit in the past, I can legally ignore speed limits now and forevermore).
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- Created: 09 April 2010
Interesting ... Maybe Useful Article Count: 6
Things you might not know that may or may not matter.
Collapse Experiences Article Count: 4
Personal stories and pictures of social collapse in the United States of America, Argentina, Russia, and Chile.
About Sense & Nonsense Article Count: 5
The Who, What and Why of Sense & Nonsense
Greek Report Article Count: 1
Real- time account from a typical Greek citizen as Greece collapsed during 2011 and 2012.
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