That's not entirely the case. It's actually a matter of risk assessment. You need to consider the "cost" of being prepared based on the risk (likelihood x consequence).
The effort/cost/maintenance of being prepared. Everyone has a different threshold.
For example in what op carries in case his car goes off the road, what happens if you suffer a large cut in that accident? Do you carry clotting agents? What about snake bites and allergic reactions? Do you carry the appropriate medication too?
At a certain point being "more prepared" is the wrong choice. For some people, in an urban environment, simply have a phone and some cash is prepared enough, and that's not necessarily wrong.
That's not entirely the case. It's actually a matter of risk assessment. You need to consider the "cost" of being prepared based on the risk (likelihood x consequence).
The effort/cost/maintenance of being prepared. Everyone has a different threshold.
100% agree. There's always a cost/benefit analysis in play. Nobody can truly be "prepared" for every eventuality, and even if it were possible in principle to do so, some preparations would have outlandish costs that would not weigh well compared to the likelihood of that event in question ever actually happening.
I self-identify as a "prepper" to a very mild degree. Eg, I don't spend half my monthly salary on stockpiling ammunition and food, and I don't have an underground bunker, yadda, yadda, yadda. I do keep a couple of extra boxes of ammo in the closet for firearms I own, and I do keep a (small) stash of certain dried and canned foods in my storage unit... but that's more a byproduct of that thinking that "I rent this storage unit anyway, why not keep a little bit of survival food in here just in case?" Not like I would rent a storage unit just to stockpile survival supplies.
But ya know... some people would (and do). Some people do build complex underground bunkers and stockpile thousands of rounds of ammo, etc. To each is own, I suppose. I'd like to think I take a fairly balanced approach of spending a small amount of time and money on things that could have a big return someday, or if that doesn't ever come up, can simply be taken out of storage and used normally or whatever.
At a certain point being "more prepared" is the wrong choice. For some people, in an urban environment, simply have a phone and some cash is prepared enough, and that's not necessarily wrong.
Yep, yep. I lean the way I do for various reasons despite living in an urban area. Some of it is that I grew up as a "country boy" and some of those life lessons were internalized at a young age. For me, carrying a knife, carrying a pistol, etc. are very normal, routine, expected things. Add in the fact that I do spend quite a bit of time outdoors, doing solo activities, the thought of carrying a flashlight and a ferro-rod or whatever becomes just another "cheap, lightweight, non-intrusive thing I can do that might never be required, but causes no harm or undue burden and might save my life one day."
> a device allowing the user - the Vatican - to peer back through time
In fact they have many such devices, although the fidelity and reliability of the information they provide leaves something to be desired. They call these devices "books".
> a device allowing the user - the Vatican - to peer back through time
There should be a Godwin’s law like principle where anytime a conspiracy theory mentions the Vatican the conversation ends. The sheer number of paranoid/delusional/motivated conspiracy theories involving the Vatican makes my eyes roll. There are a few well documented conspiracies involving the Vatican, but they weren’t kept secret for very long because the place is so full of people with wildly different linguistic, cultural, and political influences that there’s not enough cohesion to ensure secrecy in very much.
Yes, exactly, excellent example. Imagine someone earnestly arguing that the Vatican possessed a Chronovisor, and had used it to watch the crucifixion of Jesus, or the speeches of Cicero on the Senate floor. How seriously would you take that person's disclosures about Pentagon programs they heard about secondhand? That's the situation you're in with David Grusch.
The well was "poisoned" by Avi. He makes similarly unfounded leaps in this instance, as he has in very many instances in the past. There's no foul play here, just the reputation he has earned for himself.
There's poisoning the well and there's tempering expectations. I think the parent comment is more of the latter in that is speaks to the author's other works that are announced with great hype but haven't played out as definitively as the early hype claimed. This is a problem everywhere and acknowledging that this author in particular is a standout isn't a terrible thing--they just might be right this time.
This is only partially true. Sure the company has a lot of cards but they are playing a different game. They are Hikaru playing 12 blitz chess games at once, and potential employees are offering something, else they're not negotiating they're just working out the terms of their slavery.
Consider, thoroughly, the hypothetical lottery jackpot. What is it you would choose to do, pursue, aim for, if money were no object and you had nothing except your inner volition to drive you. Would you spend your days reading, exploring philosophy and knowledge? Or would you travel and see the world you've yet to traverse? Maybe you're an individual striving toward community and you want to focus on family, friendship, charity. Maybe a bit of everything?
Design, intentionally, the dream you would live if you could. My friend often responds cynically, saying if he is asked about his dream job he would be a space explorer like some Marvel movie. I hear him as flippant and he's clear he thinks it's a dumb idealistic pontificating exercise. . I go toward the path of okay, what would it take to BE that thing or pursue it...
If you can visualize and reason your way to how something might happen, you can reverse engineer it. You can think of it like chess. Position yourself with strength, understand openings midgame and endgame, but know there are many, many, undiscovered lines left in many positions. Now expand from 64,64 squares and so many moves to the infinite variability in Life. You have levers and positions you can exploit and transpose.
Circumstances will always have a hand as will pure luck, fate, or Higher Power, but... you have immense power to craft your reality and I mean this in no woo terms. You change your thoughts, your words, your actions and most crucially, your influence and environment.
I want to respond and thank you for taking the time to reply. I want to put that here first because what I am about to say will seem flippant.
But I literally want to do nothing. I don't want to do anything - I want to not exist. Life is suffering. I derive no enjoyment from anything. I just make other people happy and wealthy and then go home and suffer until I go back to work and suffer.
Because this is not a non-starter as suggested. I leave services because of their terms... I have rebuilt services because of their terms... You start what need to.
