RE: Government is Slavery
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I take what you say very seriously. You do not lightly consider, and while not all your reasons may be reasons I myself share, they seem to me well chosen for you, well considered per your experiences, and I respect them.
I am sure some folks around there are quite prepared for power outages, food shortages, and crises of every kind, because I speak to people from Germany, and all around the world, on other forums, where even people from UA and RU can speak directly. It can be very enlightening to see people presently at war agreeing on various matters. Sometimes it feels like the apocryphal tale of WWI enemies having cease fire on Christmas and singing carols together. Other times it seems like that would have been impossible, and people could never be less than murderously hostile in such circumstances.
I hope that if matters become very difficult for you it is in the good company of your family, and you benefit from community and strong bonds of affection.
"Those who prepare now and prepare for hard times benefit from the lack of knowledge or ignorance of those who do not."
Maybe, by staving off panic buying, as you said. But those that are prepared will benefit from each the others' preparations, in having certainly prepared differently and having things to trade, or different skills to help each other with. That's the real magic of community in difficult times, having help and other eyeballs watching your back.
I would very much enjoy meeting you. Perhaps someday we will.
I feel the same respect towards you.
Yes, you are talking about a very peculiar situation. Probably the most bizarre thing of all, that the weapons are silenced for a fixed period of time. It's so strange because actually, when you're in a fight to the death, you would think that a pause would promote the moment of awareness where you say to yourself "let's not do this". I've seen something similar in Asian martial arts films. Fighters ready to die, ready to take their enemy's life. And yet no lust for killing. The question this raises, if there is no real thirst for murder, why kill each other at all?
The only reason for continuing then seems to be that the fighters do not consider their lives to be the most important thing and death seems far less terrible to them than it is commonly feared. So, as you noted earlier, death is not the worst of evils. Those who let themselves be overcome by murderousness will, if they survive, have a hard time with it.
I am a woman, I can give life and I have given birth to it. Thus I would wish that men could face their enemies eye to eye, than that we should all suffer the banality of evil from the bondage of having before us not warriors, but righteous men.
Right, in difficult times, it is the pooling of different skills and looking out for each other. I come from a family of expellees and grew up with such stories of hard times. I had wondered at times if I would experience the same as my parents and grandparents, but I preferred not to live with that fear.
Thank you for this conversation. It gives me both, hope in that magic and also sorrows.