Posted on 06/25/2022 9:19:14 AM PDT by rktman
As a former wildlife biologist, I have a fascination with animal behavior. One of the lessons I've learned during my time observing wildlife is how attuned animals are to situational awareness and "red flags." In the kill-or-be-killed crucible of nature, to ignore a potential threat may be the last thing an animal ever does.
Yet people have developed the astounding ability to totally ignore red flags because "it can't happen here" (or "it can't happen to me"). Modern humans living in a modern society with modern conveniences have been able to bury the situational awareness all creatures possess by instinct. Americans in particular have cultivated an amazing ability to disregard warning signs, both internal and external. We still have the instincts, but we're often too "civilized" to pay attention to them. After all, it can't happen to me. It can't happen here.
With this in mind, let's discuss the normalcy bias, shall we? Wikipedia defines this as a mental state which "causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects." It's sometimes called the "It can't happen here" syndrome. The assumption is that since a particular disaster has never occurred before, it never will. Any disturbing indications that something bad may happen are dismissed or trivialized.
But ever since 2020 when governments across the entire globe united to forcibly lock down their populations, we've been veering into unknown territory. Or is it so unknown? Vaccine passports ("You're papers, please"), supply-chain disruptions, shortages of everything from fertilizer to baby formula, war in Europe, horrific weather extremes, electrical grid issues, civil tensions, riots, crop failures, avian flu, inflation, domestic terrorism from abortion radicals, diesel shortages …
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I am convinced that both “normalcy bias” (your friends) and paranoia (me :-) ) are at least partially genetic.
That is why (imho) logical discussion on these points cannot change a lot of minds.
Good article.
However, what if many of us SEE all the Red Flags Mother Government throws in our faces on pretty much a DAILY basis, we bring them to the attention of our ‘elected representatives’ over and over and over again and then...
*CRICKETS CHIRPING*
So frustrating!!
(Great Reset. All economies collapsing. National governments collapse. Then comes the fix. New ‘stakeholder’ based digital economy and NWO.
At least that’s what some people want.)
Daniel 7:23 and Revelation 13:16-18 says they will be successful in the short term.
But. not in eternity, praise God.
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We need to hang Red Flags on the government, because that’s where the greatest danger is.
They don't need free abortions, they need free lobotomies..
I bought my 9mm right before President Pudding declared it to be like Corn Pop - one bad caliber according to him.
I’ve never felt so validated in my life.
The communists have decided to go ahead with this bullchit but I suspect that if the court remains pretty much as it is, these Red Flag laws will be dealt with down the road.
aka “normalcy bias”.
Search that term.
(“normalcy bias”)
They are ALL infected with that.
AND fully-jabbed and boosted.
Because they’re basically decent people and God would never allow anything bad to happen to them.
Book of Job shows that the Enemy sometimes inflicts severe testing but only with God’s permission.
However what with their money and assets, these passages come to mind:
Luke 17:27-30
English Standard Version
27 (A)They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of (B)Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
29 (C)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—
30 so will it be (D)on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A27-30&version=ESV&interface=amp
One thing that is kinda fun is that when I inherited a few extra guns from my father, It included, for my Glock 19, two 34 round magazines. 😁
When I tell them the world is changing rapidly and it is accelerating, I get shrugs, rolled eyes 🙄, and basically, I’m ghosted.
Cares of this life..... Biblical - lots of good stuff in this one.
Mark 4:19
King James Version
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+4%3A19&version=KJV
Whoa nice
On a side note: what is to keep me from accusing my angry neighbor as a red flag? Am I reading this red flag business correctly? I could turn in anyone, correct?
Yeah I may order a little bit more ammo.
Simply because I expect it could be harder to get down the road.
I don’t even target shoot anymore.
Too expensive.
You don’t even need to go down the route of safe guards. They are moot. Red flag laws disarm law abiding citizens when they have committed no crime. There is no need for due process for someone that has not committed a crime because due process is only needed after a crime is committed. The last thing we need is someone in government deciding safe guards and making decisions on peoples constitutional rights.
The article is not about the Gun related Red Flags. It is about the warning signs that YES IT CAN HAPPEN HERE.
I’ve been able to go about every 1-2 weeks, but I have to hard-stop at 100 rounds, even if I get the itch to keep going.
I’ve been able to go about every 1-2 weeks, but I have to hard-stop at 100 rounds, even if I get the itch to keep going.
She’s got that, “I’m a woman, and I’m in charge!”, look.
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