Prepping for Y2k is still not about $$$$ !!!!!!!!!!!

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Prepping for Y2k is about making choices. Informed intelligent choices. Whether you are rich, poor, black, white, asian, single, married, heterosexual, gay, Christian, Pagan, Buddhist, vegetarian, carnivore, yuppy, Joe-6-pac, WHATEVER!!!!!

It is not about money. The whole reason that Y2k is going to cause such devastation is because of preoccupation with material riches rather than strength of spirit.

I don't care how much stuff you have. I don't care how much TP, beans and ammo you have stashed. I don't care how prepped you think you are. If you can't face Y2k without your stuff you are already doomed.

We are in this predicament now because we don't know how to simply walk into the world and provide for our own needs with the skill in our hands and the will in our hearts.

There is not enough money in the world to prepare you to think for yourself. Yes, I am poor. Get over it. I have. Yes, me and my children may get hungry, we may die. That is true of the majority of the world's population today. You know what? We still find reasons to dance and sing. We still find reasons to rejoice and it has nothing to do with what we do or don't have in our bank accounts or cupboards.

We rejoice because we love and are loved. DUH!!!!!!!!!!

Get smart and be real. If you are living in a bad Y2k location because of monetary concerns then you are a fool. If you can walk then you can leave. Sell what you have, buy a sleeping bag, a tent, some matches and some good survival books and get busy.

If, because of health or family constraints, you can't do that then you have my deepest sympathies and I wish there was something I could do for you. Fortunately there is. I can pray. And I do every day. Every spare moment I pray that all of us will receive courage, compassion, love and joy in the days to come.

I suggest you do the same. Because real riches are not counted in cyber digits or pounds of lentils.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 12, 1999

Answers

Is THAT what the Tarot revealed?? Look, R., those of us responsible for the elderly and disabled in our communities could use, in addition to "spiritual" preps, a little more of the material means, like petroleum products like gasoline to transport those to the Doctor and Propane to help cook their food. And don't forget a little $$$ for prescription Meds!

But I agree, Y2K will be "taxing" on the Spirit.



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), October 12, 1999.


K,

Didn't I say those with health concerns are in trouble? On the other hand, since when are those with health concerns not in trouble? Isn't that why sick people are ALREADY dying? Because they can't afford to get their meds or operations or whatever they need? Perhaps all the meds and services in the world won't help them. because they are just too sick.

Isn't that why most charities are aimed at helping the ill?

If you are sick you are in trouble. Y2k will obviously not help the situation. Maybe there is something wrong with the way we treat disease in this culture. Maybe we should have been more concerned with providing healthy poison-free foods and air than making more and more drugs.

Sick people are gonna die. Healthy people are gonna die. You are going to die. We are all going to die some day. Is it fair? Is Y2k fair? Wrong question. The question is how are you going to alleviate suffering to the best of your ability?

Any resources you take now will deprive someone else sooner or later.

How are you going to face death? In yourself, in your loved ones, in strangers? Do whatever you need to strengthen yourself for that reality because it will come. If not today or next year then it will come later. May as well start prepping for death now. Its the one thing in this life we can be sure will happen.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 12, 1999.


TROLL ALERT.

First request to delete this idiocy.

-- Solange (birlady@hotmail.com), October 12, 1999.


Gee, I think I'll sit around praying all day and maybe, just maybe someone will come rescue me. Forget about buying anything especially a tent, sleeping bags, etc. The Lord will provide those things, no need to do anything. Whine, cry, pray, it will happen. You do not need money, only a prayer in your heart. Keep those Tarot cards handy, I'm sure the Lord will reveal hiss will for you in the cards. It's not by luck, not by chance, but by doing nothing. Dance, party hardy, don't worry about anything. BTW, how can you afford a puter and online service if your in dire straits?

-- praying hard (prayinghard@prayingharddd.xcom), October 12, 1999.

God helps those who help themselves. By all means prep to the best of your ability. Still, all the material goods in the world will not help you if you can't learn how to think for yourself. You can spend millions of dollars on cases of canned goods but if you are still in Beverly Hills during Y2k you are in trouble.

Eventually, if you don't know how to grow crops or find food in the wild then you will go hungry. If you can't figure out what to do with bodily waste you will get sick. If you don't know how to take care of yourself when you are ill you will die sooner than later.

Learn skills, go somewhere with natural resources. Get out of places that freeze or places with no water. Stay away from places with more asphalt than land. Find your inner resources. Your will to live. Your ability to meet a crisis.

Know that you could have nothing in your pockets and still be able to trade on your skills and knowledge to get by.

Make informed intelligent choices. Make them now. Stop whining and fretting. Get a move on folks. WAKE UP!!!!!!!

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 12, 1999.



S,

I don't understand how you can call this idiocy? Have you not considered the death of yourself or your loved ones as a consequence of Y2K?

I think that R has some very good points, and he/she is not alone in considering the real spiritual nature of what is about to happen. I believe R is trying to point out how ironic our y2k prep. focus can be. I think that's called irony not idiocy.

We can plan and prepare all we want, but it may not be enough. And the whole reason we are in this situation is because we have relied too much on our intelligence and not enough on our spirit and god's spirit for our LIFE. I think a lot of the technologies that we have created (including LIFE support systems and drugs), have actually robbed us of real life, and we are about to find that out.

Anyway, I find myself thinking about these things daily, and the man- made world that we have created. If we could all prepare spiritually as much as we are preparing physically, I think we would be in better shape... I know I would be.

It is possible that all that will happen will be for the best.

(fyi... i am not a religious fanatic, but i am a software developer with some idea of the complexities involved in the Y2K problem)

-- (patricia.rotman@us.landisstaefa.com), October 12, 1999.


R,

I think I love you...

tail waggin'...

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), October 12, 1999.


Riversoma,

I stand corrected. Thank you.



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), October 12, 1999.


Dog,

I know I love you!

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 12, 1999.


K,

Aw shucks. Your welcome ;-)

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 12, 1999.



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