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Overview on the Monday of Holy Week
If you glance at the previous post … the programme for Holy Week, you’ll notice what’s on Monday.
All right, now look at Steve’s two part comment below the post (and in sidebar) or else go direct to 1337:1 and 1337:9 (same thing).
All right, before even getting onto Steve’s other (regular) fayre from last evening (Mon 2) or DAD’s coming up around 5 a.m. (Mon 3), there’s a succession of emotions, yes, provided of course that you are still of sound mind.
And there’s the rub … staying sound of mind.
For example, how much doom and gloom can one person take in a sustained assault on our minds over a long period of time? We’re talking here about those not yet shellshocked, not yet in deep PTSD. You know how it goes … succession of emotions until they reduce you to a quivering wreck. They can do that you know … over a long enough time period, esp. by controlling food, water, heating, digital ID.
The alternatives, imho, are two … either become that quivering wreck, still trying to keep the head down below the parapet, hoping the croc eats you last … until it does … or drop into “fight or flight”, the most primal of human reactions.
I’m assuming here that you’ve already taken care of your home defences for when the economy crashes, including barriers to your home, food, water, shelter, medicines. How long will those last, incidentally?
So yes … we’re assuming here that you’re still sound of mind, you’ve not yet succumbed.
Or have you actually succumbed, like everyone else, e.g. Reform voters, refusing to face reality, e.g. the reality on the streets, in hotels and barracks, in every town centre, as the orcs roam around, picking off the vulnerable? Sitting ducks.
Now, that whole point of “succumbing or not succumbing” is physical, mental and spiritual … there’s been enough on the first two to know which steps you MUST take … but what about your soundness of mind?
We’re moving here onto another level … sheer survival and Steve, for example, plus a few other readers, having had either military, boy scout or survivalist training in the past, will probably do better than the couch potato or wimpy new SNAG or vulnerable lass.
By the way, who’s coughing a lot of late under these poisonous skies? How well are you? How’s the health?
And there’s another question here … about me, myself, JH. Am I a fiend relishing in all the horror or am I trying to find ways for both of us to stay of sound mind, simply in order to continue to function, in order to be able to fight or fly when it comes to it? In order to prevail, not to put too fine a point on it?
Lastly, I’m going to drop, in here, a fairly standard Anglican prayer-intro from long ago, not to “proselytise” by any means but because it might just be a last alternative.
In this prayer intro, the wording goes: “Lord [or whichever terminology you use], bless, guide, protect, comfort and give courage to …” … and then you add all the people you’re praying for … family, nation, people needing respite and even redress, justice.
I hasten to add here that it does not actually save you from the assault, the slaughter, the poisoned land or skies per se but it does give all those things listed in the prayer, if you believe it can … and incidentally, further keeps you safe by keeping your mind clear enough to make the right choices at each point along the way. But again … only if you believe it can.
From my point of view here, I could either write that above … or not write it, not tell you at all, for fear of what someone might think of me, how someone might mock. Which of those two choices would be gutless and which, alternatively, a responsibility towards our readers?
Are we not here to find solutions?
Another question is that Palpatine question, the Anakin Skywalker … are we to succumb to our anger and hatred of the enemy and go out slaughtering whole villages ourselves, or are we to focus on clearing obstacles threatening our territory and protecting those needing protecting?
Which solutions leave our mind clear enough to still be effective? /END.