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As I was saying before, people will need to choose soon. Waiting for a crisis under extreme stress and less than optimal operating conditions isn't exactly the best time to have to choose. Doing this is the same mindset that causes all of these poorly prepared people to be out and about NOW scouring their areas for firearms and ammunition because suddenly they realize that the freaks aren't as freaky as they once thought and perhaps there is something to be said for having some real physical security.

But the time to decide that one has a problem is NOT when the problem suddenly bursts forth and becomes a roadblock in our lives.

Of course, most people will read things like this and evaluate where it gets filed in their mental list of things that are important to them, and most will file it somewhere under "pay no attention because these people are barking at the moon crazy". But at the same time, inwardly they'll wonder to themselves of the possibility of truth and they'll start paying a little closer attention, even if they don't talk about it, or outwardly acknowledge it. But by the time they decide to actually act, they will be in a true crisis and of course they'll expect everybody to share it with them. These people aggravate me so much that I can't possibly convey it. They've come to me (and others I know) before in a crisis but we watched it in its initial phase, and tried to warn them...watched it through its development, and tried to warn them...watched it become a "real problem", and tried to warn them, and then observed it flourish into a full blown crisis. At that point, these short sighted and willfully stupid people run around in full panic mode as if the crisis had JUST STARTED, and of course everybody around them is expected to share in it, and many do. But we don't. We move back and distance ourselves and shake our heads in sheer amazement. Then (of course) we are accused of being mean and heartless because we've distanced ourselves. More criticism will be hurled at us if we tell them WHY we're generally avoiding them! We've pretty much come to terms with the general opinion from the types described above that we're just mean and heartless people.

It's sort of like this classic moronic argument for or against God. All but the most hardened and willfully stupid atheist will admit that something had a hand in the creation of the natural world around us. Frankly, I think it's a little hard to deny. But people will work through this crisis, ignoring it until it comes to a head with them internally, at which point they willfully ignore truth to their own detriment, or admit the obvious and then act...which is typically described as faith...something which too few Americans seem to have. Far too many Americans incorrectly believe that faith involves kneeling and praying that a huge pile of poop will magically disappear while in truth it has more to do with us grabbing a shovel and working on it one shovel full at a time! Faith is a VERB...as is INTESTINAL FORTITUDE...and the two compliment each other very well!

This is why I laugh to myself every time I read the Obama propaganda about hope and change. How many times when we were AD did some crusty old SNCO tell us to "piss in one hand and hope (or wish) in the other"?...and then tell us to "see which one fills up first!" Passivity justified by baseless hope and the empty (or MISDIRECTED) promise of change is one of the most worthless and dangerous things I've ever heard. Worse than this, people use it as a basis for their actions, because they choose to believe something that can't possibly be true! It's the basis for JUSTIFIABLE COWARDACE. But far worse than this, some 51% of the voting adults in this nation saw enough in it to vote in that direction. I've asked myself if so many people can truly be that stupid, and the answer is obviously "Yes. They really CAN be THAT stupid!.

I didn't mean to turn this into a discussion of faith. But the point is the same. Most people are just willfully stupid until the facts come crashing down on them, and then suddenly it's REAL to them. But the truth is that it is as REAL now as it's ever going to get. Those who ignore the facts ignore them at their own peril.