Hello, 'somnia my old friennnn....
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Gah, well.. this nice tall glass of Tequila should remedy that soon, but.. Meantime..
The biggest issue I see almost everyday,... ...Most people who are even capable of educating themselves that well........are not capable of living a prepping lifestyle....
Aye, I'll never forget the "EE" who I was training on operation of a ride-automated Laser Sys I designed / built, for a Theme-Park install in NY, way-back in the day - who was like 'wedding-night giddy' about a position he'd recently landed at Disneyworld in FL - making something like $95K
to start.. And I had to,
literally, show this kid how to Use his DMM..
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I was gobsmacked...
...Or, more recently, the
Brilliant Chinese Engineer I worked under in CA, who 'invented' / designed an otherwise-unparallelled Laser system for 'Raman Spectroscopy' - that the Co sold for $250K a pop
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- and this guy used to go on and on about this 'great Asian Fresh-market' he'd stop at - literally, like Every night, on the way home from work -
to Get 'Dinner' for that night.. And how they didn't like to 'store much, because "Fresh" was So much better', etc, so I interjected once 'So.. you don't ever worry about supply-chain issues / don't have like, a week at least, put-back, just in case'?
..He laughed, and said 'nah, "doomsday preppers" is just a tv show, hahahahaha!' (and solicited chuckles from the Other "Engineers" in the room..
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) I just gave him my best 'Beluga-cat face' / blinked eyes a few times and returned to my lab, quietly shaking my head... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Astonishingly, there's Often little correlation between "education".. and "intelligence" (which, personally, I define as 'The degree to which / how well a person
Uses the Knowledge they've gained from whatever "Education" they've gotten in life'.. ie: I'd rank that African kid who built the 'windmill generator from junk', Far higher on an "intelligence scale" than even my old Boss / the "EE", discussed above.. And
I'd hire the kid sooner, still.
Or religion for that matter, unless your counting on literal super natural magical intervention.
Aye, again. There was a recent discussion over yonder about 'Normalcy-stockholmed Older ones' deriding their younger kin about "prepping", and My quip was centered on accounts in the Bible (which, I personally, take as a
literal History Book, first and foremost..
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) and I said (in support of others who dropped the Usual mention of 'Joseph / the 7 years of plenty vs famine', etc, etc:
..Let's not forget Moses (leading the Israelites out from under the tyranny of Pharoah, et al) - and Think about all that is 'written
in-between the lines' of those Historical accounts: ie:
..What did it 'take' for those
Million+ Israelites -
of All ages - to even
Get to the Red Sea,
to witness the "miracle-parting / salvation" from Pharoah? I'll tell ya what it took:
Lots and Lots of: FOOD (Animals for food, Wheat / Flour, Salt, Lard, smoked/dried meats, etc), WATER (as much as they could Possibly carry, no doubt) Shelter (Tents) Clothing / Blankets, etc, Pack-mules (good transpo), Carts / Wagons, and
spare parts for mending wheels, etc / TOOLS of all sorts: Cart / Tents / Clothing, etc Repairs, Cooking, chopping cooking-Wood, Hunting / self-defense weapons (No Doubt that wilderness was Quite nasty, and snakes / hyenas (?) or other predatory animals would Likely abound) Water jugs / pitchers, Food-storage vessels, Medicines / tools for care, etc, etc, etc - YHWH did NOT make all that stuff just 'rain from heaven', and even the "Manna" didn't start 'raining down from Day 1' - not for a Good-while
later..
No, those Israellites were
Well Prepared, and
maintained Survival Skills / Knowledge to make that journey of salvation happen - They did Not just stand outside with their palms raised to heaven, waiting for 'Stuff and Deliverance', nope -
they Worked for it.
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And, "faith that the Lord will Provide" - comes into play
when the Preps Run Out / health fails / injury, whatever, and one
Cannot work.
'Faith in FEMA' will Not Save You.
.02
jd