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(I like to modify the original quote)Originally Posted by hoarder
"Never underestimate the ability of a small group of highly motivated people that want to change the world - in fact, it is the only thing that ever has."
(I like to modify the original quote)
"Never underestimate the ability of a small group of highly motivated people that want to change the world - in fact, it is the only thing that ever has."
You nailed it. And even before prepping you need a second step; Acceptance.
Awareness, Acceptance, THEN Action.
I made the mistake of jumping from Awareness to Action. I was prepping for every possible scenario. It made me crazy and it made people around me crazy. Then I worked on some acceptance. Accepting that I cannot foresee the future, that the future isn't really my business, that my business is in the here and now. Suddenly my Action appeared to be the irrational, crazy REaction it really was, hell I had no idea if I'd even make it past today. Now when I buy a prep it is something I want and can use today. It may serve me well in the future but it will serve me today. If I buy PMs it works as a protection of purchasing power but it is also something I want to have not feel compelled to have.
Anyway, I 'm rambling and could continue to do so. I just wanted to say Awareness 1st, Acceptance Next then Action (if any).
In my line of work (natural healing) it usually starts out with people telling me how their doctor is trying to kill them or he's not listening to me,
or he's not helping me, etc.
Then I get in their brain about big pharma, FDA, monsanto, etc and then that can lead into all the other aspects of TPTB taking over .
Lots of people are way more aware now than ever. Occasionally the ones that I try to explain things to who DO NOT listen whatsoever are usually the ones who
work within the system who will not, can not accept anything that I say because it is to painful too hear.
(for example, I've had several nurses , pharm reps, and a doctor or 2 resent my opinions) In real life , not online.
I send massive emails out about Ron Paul. ( I basically SPAM everyone I know with it !!!! )
I put out a note.....if you want removed from my contact list.......
please let me know.....or else you will continue to get
my opinions, articles, etc. No one has stopped me yet ? )
Anyhoo, Everyone can relate to even just one thing and that gets their wheels turning in their brain
and when they get the Aha ! moment, I feel blessed beyond belief !! Anutter one starting to see the light............
and then the questions come. How could you not love waking people up.
So fun in a fcked up way !
Correct, every beautiful garden started out as a spread of manure with seeds in it.
The number is not precise because the level of awareness is not clearly defined. Most are capable of some level of awareness and stop there. Our job is to help them reach whatever level they are capable of.
You know what, if their was ever such as a thing as a "SHTF psychologist" (NOT a regular TPTB psychologist) , Mr Hoarder is apparantly the one to go to !
Cuz when this sheyit is driving u crazy he helps to make more sense of it !
Here's something to support the 10% tipping point for awareness:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0725190044.htm
I've been planting seeds in the manure for almost a decade now.
I know there is an awakening going on. Just this last weekend, I saw a fellow I used to work with who thought I was on the fringe, and he asked me the best way to own gold. He was thinking of buying shares in a gold ETF. I parroted Ponce's mantra to him--If you don't hold it, you don't own it. That made my day. Pretty soon everybody will be on the fringe--just like me.
Hatha
Cosmic justice is getting what you deserve.
I have noticed people waking up, too. It seems that Obama's failures have done more for our side of the fight than anything. So many former Obama supporters have completely lost faith in the two party system, recently. Interestingly, the Republicans I know are the most steadfast in their left/right thinking.
I am hearing "Monsanto" in conversations with my friends . . . who I never expected to consider such things. My family and friends have been getting more and more interested in precious metals and food storage. Several of my friends have started gardens, and one is really interested in aquaculture.
911 is still a taboo subject. I just tell people to look up building 7. It seems like the best place to get a big "WTF?" and spark interest to investigate further.
The more you live, the less you will die. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.
Here's a hopeful piece from Strike the Root: (Voluntarism is a form of anarchism)
http://www.strike-the-root.com/crossing-10-rubicon
Crossing the 10% Rubicon
Column by Alex R. Knight III.
posted on January 09, 2012
A very recent article published in Science Daily reveals the findings of a study that has yielded some very positive information for the Voluntaryist movement. In short, that once an ideology or set of beliefs is fervently held by ten percent of any given group or population, it invariably becomes the predominant philosophy throughout the entirety. Any less than this, and things remain more or less static amongst the adherants. Cross the ten percent Rubicon, as it were, and the movement begins to spread hither and yon like wildfire.
Given that the current American population is a rough 312 million persons, this would mean that around 31 million would need to be hardcore zero-government advocates before widespread change becomes feasable. Thirty-two million die-hard anarchists would tip the scales irreversibly. At that point, we’d be cooking with gas. Government would be on the chopping block, awaiting execution.
It would help to know just what percentage of American residents are already Voluntaryists. I don’t know if any reliable studies along these lines have been conducted, but my guess would be that, at very best, we might currently number around one percent. Far more numerous, at present, are the minarchists: Constitutionalists, and other advocates of “limited” government as opposed to none at all. The irony is that the minarchist goal is absolutely unachievable – even given the 10% rule. Should small-scale government ever return to America, it will promptly revert back to what it is now, and worse. Minarchism necessitates that its adherents win every election, indefinitely hold every office, vote correctly on every issue, never make mistakes, never become corrupted, never retire, never die. More likely is it that the Man in the Moon will descend from his lunar home and endow us all with the powers of Superman. It is completely preposterous, and for this reason alone, will never happen.
The elimination of government altogether, however, is entirely possible – and in fact, I will say, inevitable. For it does not rely upon the imposition of violence in order to survive, but rather, only on pre-existing natural forces that are at present suppressed by the inherently aggressive presence of government – and in an absence of which, will flourish.
Take as an example one of the prime elements of libertarian thought, that of private property ownership. It is all well and fine, let’s say, that I own the computer I’m using to write this essay. Probably no one reading this would disagree with that assertion. But what happens if you want proof of my statement? How is it possible for me to provide that? I might be able to show you a sales receipt – assuming I haven’t discarded it – but those can easily be forged or falsified. You might seek out some eyewitnesses or other parties to the sale, but there again the evidence is largely circumstantial if not in fact out-and-out hearsay. You still can’t know to a certainty that I haven’t stolen, or otherwise illegitimately acquired this computer – or at least the temporary use of it. After all, I could be typing this from inside an unoccupied dwelling . . . or one in which I have terminated the occupants.
Before I begin to turn this into some kind of bizarre murder mystery, one point begins to come clear: There really is no way I or you can establish ownership of anything except in one of two ways. Either we extend ownership of personal property to each other by way of mutual consent, or we establish ownership by means of brute force. And it is because of our subconscious or implicit denial of the second means that most of us most of the time opt for the first choice. True, disputes will and do arise from time to time, whereupon we generally, where and when possible, seek non-violent mediation or arbitration of such disagreements. Government provides us only its courts, which are always biased when any case involves that which bureaucrats arrogantly lay claim to, and are only sometimes honest when the dispute in question does not. Either way, courts are financed by taxation, which means extorting money from people by violent force.
As well, there will always be, government or no government, a minority of unscrupulous individuals who will always disregard the sanctity of such unspoken social arrangements as ownership in the name of their own personal gain. Alas, we live in a less than perfect world, or essays such as this would not be necessary. I would only add that there exists a centralized monopoly of thugs who draw their pay from stolen cash who constantly exhibit just such an attitude, and generally act with total impunity. Three guesses as to just what they call themselves, and the first two don’t count. But I’ll even give you a hint: the first letter starts with “G.”
My overarching point here is that a social construct such as ownership of property is already an anarchistic enterprise. It exists in spite of government, and certainly not because of it. In short, if anarchy works in the vast majority of cases in an area as vast and all-important as property ownership, there remains little relevant excuse as to why it can’t work in all other areas of human life.
We Voluntaryists may now only exist in the static numbers I referred to above (though those numbers, thanks in large part to the Internet and alternative media, are larger than ever before and growing), but the mechanism for passing that 10% goalpost is within our grasp, and it’s called The Truth. In other words, we can do this. It will happen.
The only remaining question is: When? That depends on how badly you want it. I’d say it’s time to get busy.
Cosmic justice is getting what you deserve.
I always liked using the building 7 arguement when I ran into people that claimed to have expert knowledge of 9/11.
It shut them up every time. That was before most people knew a third building went down.
DON'T TAKE THE VACCINE!
THE SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN!
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