'End Times' Prep

[Ninurta]

Sure, you could "check out" from society by refusing to have anything to do with it, ceasing to participate in its ways, etc. But even after society destroys itself and consumes natural resources, it won't stop there. There will be an attempt to wipe out the earth's vast populations and completely lay waste to its forests. We each have individual responsibility for allowing it to happen to the planet. Also, there's no room for neutrality in the struggle between tyranny and freedom. Admittedly, neutrality can be a temporarily justified position as president George Washington noted. It's better to be a disinterested observer, than falling to the level of the masses. Only intense studying can provide a safeguard.

Fair enough, on the whole. However I do disagree with the statement that "We each have individual responsibility for allowing it to happen to the planet." There can be no responsibility for a thing without the authority to change it. How can someone possibly bear a responsibility to something that is beyond their control to fix? Sure, we can try to influence it or steer it in some small degree, but those efforts come to naught in the face of the fact that "society" is a beast of it's own which will do as it likes regardless of efforts to influence it away from careening off of the cliff. The problem is that there are too many humans "influencing" it, each trying to manhandle it into proceeding in their own direction, and all of those opposing efforts have the effect of cancelling one another out such that "society" moves in the direction it desires to, seemingly of it's own volition, and that direction is inevitably a self-destructive one. Individuals can bear no more responsibility for society than they can bear for the orbits of the planets - all of that is beyond an individual's control.

The most we can, as individuals, hope to control is our immediate surroundings. We may attempt to control what our arms can reach, and our own reactions to events... but we may NOT control what we can not reach to influence, nor are we able to control the reactions of others to events.

On the other hand, it seems like even people with spiritual connections with Nature, have given up on trying to change society and are focusing more on preparing for a post-collapse world. An inventor friend of mine told me, "I don't really think much about the progress of American politics anymore. I think far more about how I can prepare for the eventual downfall of our country, what things I'll have to do, what role I'll have to play, what political opinions I'll have to pretend to entertain." I think he could make for a competent president if he enters into politics, so I gathered together his posts and insights.

Exactly. We can control our own reactions to events, and our own preparations for those events... in short, the area of our own "reach"... and nothing more. Every preparation we make, and every preparation we FAIL to make, is placing a bet on whether our assessment of probabilities was correct or not. Our own lives, and those of the ones we love, hang in that balance, so the stakes are non-trivial. I'm reminded of a line I read years ago, which I think was in the novel "Aztec" by Gary Jennings. to paraphrase it, since I may not be able to recall it verbatim, "The world ends every day. We all die, and many die every single day. So, the entire world, every rock, every tree, every flower, every mountain, every person, ceases to exist every single day... for someone."


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My fellow Americans,
There will be a tsunami coming from overseas, such a possibility was demonstrated by the earthquake in Kamchatka, how it caused waves to reach Alaska and Hawaii.
If anyone lives in the west coast, like myself, it'd be inadvisable to go along with official evacuations, but make your way up to the mountains. I'd rather take my chances with volcanic eruptions. But I don't believe Rainier, Yellowstone, etc. will erupt.

Interesting thought. Have you considered that the "tsunami from overseas" may not be an actual physical wall of water? I spent an inordinate amount of my mis-spent youth fighting communists. Now, in my old age, I can clearly see that what we mistook as "victories" back then were nothing of the kind - they were merely lulls in the fighting while the enemy infiltrated and invaded our shores, to fight us from within. We see the results of that today, right before our very eyes. Rather than an actual physical wall of water, I think the "tsunami from overseas" may refer to "waves" of people and ideologies entirely foreign to the core of what was America, hell bent on taking it over... and the response against it has been lukewarm at best. People in the US seem to be unable to identify their enemies, or else they may just be indecisive as to how to oppose them. When that happens in any nation, the natives drown in the coming waves of invaders, and few if any ever reach the high ground.

I've attached the predictions I've gathered about the two or three earthquakes that will devastate California, as well as predictions pertaining to the upcoming Civil War (estimated 2027-2032, unless Trump succeeds in effecting ceasefires, which could delay events up to 2040). We should expect a nationwide blackout event, during which China and Russia will begin making their move. I've found many predictions about a paramilitary event going on over Europe and about sleeper agents embedded in the US.
I think that Trump's going after the wrong targets, it's not illegal immigrants and our neighbors who represent a danger, but the various races that are servile, pay obsequence, resort to flattery, conquer by economical means and briberyl 

I could see that "Civil War" in America sparking off in Virginia within the next 18 months (so, yeah, late 2026 into 2027) if courses are not corrected very soon. Of course, if it sparks off there, it will certainly not STAY there, any more than the initial spark of a fire restricts the flames to it's immediate location. Fires spread, and so do "Civil Wars", although in the case of America, I would not class what is coming so much a "Civil War" as I would class it a "Revolution". It is sometimes hard to tell the difference between the two as lines blur.

"Clashes" between insurgents and police such as are occurring in Minnesota are nothing compared to what happens when bullets and bombs get involved in the fray, and it then spreads like a wildfire. Some folks may point to the Minnesota fracas as the inception of the Civil War, and attempt to blame it on Trump as they are already doing, but the reaction to the communistic totalitarianism now rising in Virginia my be much more likely to provide the spark that sets it all ablaze, and that cannot be laid at Trump's feet - it will, if any semblance of honesty prevails, have to be laid st the feet of the Totalitarian Left and their inordinate, over-reaching grab for raw power in Virginia.

Even now, they are trying to rivet the chains of slavery on the populace of Virginia. It only remains to be seen what will come of that - whether the Virginians will acquiesce to their slavery without a whimper, or whether they will wrap those chains around the necks of their oppressors and choke the bastards to death with them.

That may well turn out to be one of the larger waves in the "tsunami from overseas".

De Opresso Liber.

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