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Post by michaelsees on Jan 9, 2011 12:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by loverofall on Jan 9, 2011 13:22:02 GMT -5
I've been down this road the last year. Got some storage, bought a couple weapons. Don't bother getting any of this together if you are not willing to protect it. It would be better to have a quick exit from this world strategy if you don't want to kill a part of your self off.
Legal drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and the biggy you could trade for everything. TOILET PAPER. LOL.
If your going to stock pile up on addictions make sure you have extra weapons and guards. This is what the human animal will do to stop feeling reality when things get bad.
On another note ZD is right. Once you prepare, move on live. I am growing my business because my competition is in a state of fear. Everyone is holding back out of fear and I am attacking. I enjoy this whole game so much at times and the more I see it as unreal the more I enjoy it. Does that make sense?
Fear, once you see it all gets back to fear and desire you can really make some money.
Also, my happier easier going personality that genuinely cares for people and like helping comes across to people and they want to hire me. I could be make some serious cash or I could be playing survival and running from zombies. Who knows. Thats what the ego fears. Unpredictability and uncontrollability.
Later dudes.
Keep the good posts. They keep undoing the patterns.
Love peace joy:)
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Post by michaelsees on Jan 9, 2011 13:47:33 GMT -5
Hey Lover,
Well I agree but the real simple thing is just leave. It's Not the whole world though we think that way because we are Americans and we think if the US goes that's the world.
Personally for me the US sucks now and is not getting better, yesterday shooting in AZ well that type of thing will be happening everyday soon. People here are sick of the way the economy is being run , they outsourced so much leaving the typical American out of work. Get prepared for a revolution but here's the danger of that. The US government is more afraid of what the people will do than the people. Don't think for a min the government here has not prepared for this.
I am not into Jesse Ventura conspiracy stuff. I know for fact what has been done so far and I probably know only 25% of it. The people in the US do not have jobs, money to feed their families and it's not like most of them are into this nonduality stuff. They are very identified with their bodies, children and so forth and the majority of them have arms.
So I say why even bother with all that noise just go to a nice calm latin-american country and you will not have to deal with this unless you just want to cuz you think it might be fun!
Sure everything is perfect the way it is but for me I rather be a happy guy in the mountains of Panama living off good food, nice simple people then getting pushed into some holding camp. I just prefer not to do that. My Mom will probably die soon so no longer needing my help and I am out of here. I saw a interview just a while ago with the Federal Reserve chairman he was scare stiff through the whole interview. He knows what is happening and cannot stop it.
Peace
Michael
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Post by karen on Jan 9, 2011 15:26:16 GMT -5
I'm planning on staying in California myself.  |
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Post by popee on Jan 9, 2011 18:02:32 GMT -5
The crap won't hit the fan for a while, somewhere near the winter solstice in 2012 would be my guess. :=))
Yeah michael, there are powder kegs in the US just waiting for a spark. The Beck/Olbermann types just keep adding fuel to the fire, the future looks highly unpredictable.
Yet the vix index is at an uncanny 17, just buy the dips zendancer. :-)
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Post by michaelsees on Jan 9, 2011 18:50:51 GMT -5
Yeah I want to spend one more year in Cali before it hits hope to spend around 6 months in Harbin Hot Springs is it happens. I'm planning on staying in California myself. |
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Post by popee on Jan 9, 2011 19:23:49 GMT -5
I'm near the other coast, living in Yorktown VA (the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary war). Southerners are tough, once we secede from the Union again, I think we'll be ok.  |
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Post by michaelsees on Jan 9, 2011 20:05:58 GMT -5
Yup. Here's the funny thing I would like to be out of the US when and if this happens but in truth I have no control of anything what happens next is what happens next but this does not mean just stop doing anything. Just like a vacation to Hawaii I will plan pack the bags it may or may not happen. It's very funny throwing in what is with the imaginary what is will win every time but it just may be the same as you imagine he he. Michael I'm near the other coast, living in Yorktown VA (the site of the final battle of the Revolutionary war). Southerners are tough, once we secede from the Union again, I think we'll be ok. |
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Post by Peter on Jan 10, 2011 8:17:25 GMT -5
Sounds like it's a good time to sell gold and buy frozen fish and fowl in preparation for the Aflockalypse.. ...and bacon, in case it turns out to be the Aporkalypse. ;D |
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Post by robert on Jan 10, 2011 9:48:19 GMT -5
did i end up on the wrong website. where is all of the unafraid of death talk. or is this scared
sh*tless .com?
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Post by popee on Jan 10, 2011 10:11:15 GMT -5
did i end up on the wrong website. where is all of the unafraid of death talk. or is this scared sh*tless .com? funny robert I am completely unafraid of death ... but I'd be curious to see if that holds true if some gunman put a gun to my head and said .. "any last words?" lol I think the Tao Te Ching is pretty good at explaining some of the paradoxes we face in our day to day lives. |
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Post by angela on Jan 10, 2011 11:18:01 GMT -5
before enlightenment stock up on wood, stock up on clean water
after enlightenment stock up on wood, stock up on clean water
hahaha. i need more coffee.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2011 11:39:40 GMT -5
All that is good – especially stocking up on wine. I had been thinking of cans of beans, a cow and chickens. But wine, that’s some tasty currency!
In the meantime, the economic situation is killing people and causing myriad forms of suffering. The fact is that this shirt I’m wearing is built on a massive chain of exploitation. At each link in that chain a bit of life is taken from someone and commodified into a profit and given to some gent(s) for their own personal egoic pleasure.
The ‘buy local’ concept seems pretty good – and my family is able to do this pretty well where we live in terms of food. But clothes, fuel, and all that other stuff have massive exploitation built right into it.
To build on angela’s last post
Before enlightenment, work for justice.
After enlightenment, work for justice.
And stocking the cellar with wine. And corkscrews.
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Post by popee on Jan 10, 2011 11:39:53 GMT -5
before enlightenment stock up on wood, stock up on clean water
after enlightenment stock up on wood, stock up on clean waterhahaha. i need more coffee. brilliant angela, funniest thing I've read in quite a while (and probably words to the wise as well) |
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Post by zendancer on Jan 10, 2011 15:18:07 GMT -5
Let's see, where to begin? Hmmmmmm. In the book "Everyday Enlightenment" the seven people interviewed by the author came from all walks of life. On one end of the spectrum there was a successful businessperson, and on the other end of the spectrum there was a social worker living on a very frugal budget. There's no good or bad in that spectrum. The businessperson remained a businessperson after awakening and the social worker remained a social worker, and there's no implication in that, either. Awakening does not imply either change or no change. One person may continue doing what she was doing prior to awakening, and another person may change and do something totally different than what was done in the past. This is how "what is" manifests. Some people wake up and become teachers; other people wake up and never say anything about what they have discovered. Some people are extroverts and some people are introverts. Some people love to get up and speak in front of huge crowds, and other people enjoy being hermits. There's no right or wrong in this cosmic play.
In the past, however, most of the famous spiritual teachers were fairly unusual. Ramana sat in silence for seven years. Jesus reportedly raised someone from the dead, walked on water, and performed lots of other miracles. The Buddha walked all over India teaching for forty-four years and ended up with tons of enlightened disciples. Mahavira came back from the desert stark naked and refused to wear clothes. Ryokan's hermitage was robbed of something insignificant, and he ran after the robber to give him a coat that the robber had overlooked. Kabir reportedly raised someone from the dead and did many other strange things.
Because all of the major historical spiritual figures taught the same sorts of things (treat others as you would want to be treated, help people who need help, give up self-centered desires, don't spend time worrying about anything, put your focus upon the Absolute, be grateful, be humble, be kind, etc) people developed lots of ideas about what a spiritual life should look like. Today, however, we're luckier than in the past because now we have a much wider range of peoples' enlightened lives to consider. The lesson that stares us in the face today as we look at the evidence is this: one size does not fit all; there are as many ways of manifesting non-dual realization as there are people who have realized their non-dual nature.
Each person is always manifesting Source whether it is realized or not, both before and after enlightenment. The fundamentalist is manifesting oneness with Source even though he imagines that he is maximally separate. As Angela pointed out, there is no difference between ordinary life and spiritual life; only ideas make it seem otherwise. In the absence of ideas the truth shines forth.
Uh oh, this borrowed computer is about to shut me down. I'll have to re-log in on another machine and then relate some funny stories about money and the economy because that is the subject of this thread, and I don't want to stray too far away from it. More later....
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