Thinking the Unthinkable and Surviving the Worst Case Scenario.
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Preparing for the unthinkable is never really a pleasant exercise, but a necessary one that everyone living in today's unpredictable world should do. Over the past 5-6 years, I have noticed how much and how many television programs have been created to further prepared them for the unthinkable.
It is almost as is the same masonic/illuminati forces that are conditioning our minds to the inevitable through big Hollywood blockbusters, are also trying to warn and prepare us through smaller TV programming with shows such as Survivor Man, Man vs Wild, Apocalypse Man, and a host of other catastrophic type of scenarios on National Geographic stations, Discovery, and The History Channel.
Everything from shows such as "Life after People," to "Day after Disaster," are all meant to prepare those individuals that will listen and begin to not only prepare physically for such a potential, but more importantly mentally and spiritually.
Just yesterday I was talking to a very good friend of mine and she introduced me to a very interesting author who has studied and researched survivors from everything from POW camps to the Holocaust and the one common characteristic he found in all of them was that they were what he calls the "optimist realist."
His name is Ben Sherwood, and he is the author of "The Survivors Club." He mentions from a recent interview that one of the key things he has learned from talking to some of the world's most effective survivors and thrivers, is that these individuals have two main qualities that are at the core of their ability to survive for having survived very dire circumstances.
The first one is that they were highly adaptable. They saw new and certain situations arising and they changed there attitudes and their actions to how they would respond in such situations. Across history people who adapt and saw coming threats, were usually the ones who made it out alive in the end, and all of us currently living owe a great deal to those who survived in past generations.
The other characteristic or quality they possess is that they were resilient in the face of very strong adversity. No matter the situation, or the negative circumstances, they also kept getting up after being knocked down.
One of the key things to remember notes Sherwood, "Is that resilience is something that can be learned and there are even certain things that you can do to increase it. There are particular steps you can take to create and strengthen it. This is especially important today due to the fact that most Westerners, after having lived years in affluent and comfortable circumstances are missing these two key qualities which are basically non-existent for lack of use and necessity.
hv.
Preparing for the unthinkable is never really a pleasant exercise, but a necessary one that everyone living in today's unpredictable world should do. Over the past 5-6 years, I have noticed how much and how many television programs have been created to further prepared them for the unthinkable.
It is almost as is the same masonic/illuminati forces that are conditioning our minds to the inevitable through big Hollywood blockbusters, are also trying to warn and prepare us through smaller TV programming with shows such as Survivor Man, Man vs Wild, Apocalypse Man, and a host of other catastrophic type of scenarios on National Geographic stations, Discovery, and The History Channel.
Everything from shows such as "Life after People," to "Day after Disaster," are all meant to prepare those individuals that will listen and begin to not only prepare physically for such a potential, but more importantly mentally and spiritually.
Just yesterday I was talking to a very good friend of mine and she introduced me to a very interesting author who has studied and researched survivors from everything from POW camps to the Holocaust and the one common characteristic he found in all of them was that they were what he calls the "optimist realist."
His name is Ben Sherwood, and he is the author of "The Survivors Club." He mentions from a recent interview that one of the key things he has learned from talking to some of the world's most effective survivors and thrivers, is that these individuals have two main qualities that are at the core of their ability to survive for having survived very dire circumstances.
The first one is that they were highly adaptable. They saw new and certain situations arising and they changed there attitudes and their actions to how they would respond in such situations. Across history people who adapt and saw coming threats, were usually the ones who made it out alive in the end, and all of us currently living owe a great deal to those who survived in past generations.
The other characteristic or quality they possess is that they were resilient in the face of very strong adversity. No matter the situation, or the negative circumstances, they also kept getting up after being knocked down.
One of the key things to remember notes Sherwood, "Is that resilience is something that can be learned and there are even certain things that you can do to increase it. There are particular steps you can take to create and strengthen it. This is especially important today due to the fact that most Westerners, after having lived years in affluent and comfortable circumstances are missing these two key qualities which are basically non-existent for lack of use and necessity.
One of these key steps he highlights is realistic optimism/prudence.
This is basically where one has to face certain blunt and hard to swallow facts, in our current world's situation, but with a prudent optimism.
He references James Stockdale, who was one of the highest ranking military officers in Vietnam, and a POW, who was once asked who lived and who died in the POW camps, and Stockdale's reply was that the optimist were always the first to die.
He mentioned that they were the first to die due to their unrealistic expectations of being released in Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or that there was ongoing talks for their release in the works, and that when their self imposed unrealistic expectation deadlines came and went, they wilted a little more until they would finally end up dying.
But on the other hand, it was the optimistic realist who never lost faith in God and His Will, his country and his fellow man, that were the ones who were best able to adapt and condition themselves throughout their captivity, with a steady and consistent faith that were the ones who made it through.
There are many examples such as the one Mr. Sherwood has given us that point to the fact that it is always the individuals who have faith in a bigger Cause than themselves who are the ones that best survive in dark and dire situations. For as many great Christian writers have said, "For it is not the lack of dark events throughout human history that have created the optimism in Christianity, but rather the response of Christians through the countless dark periods through the past 2000 years that have sealed and preserved this Faith and these people."
I am always reminded of the fact of how one of the greatest Christian writers of all times, C.S. Lewis came to the Christian to faith after having been an atheist for much of his young life. For it was during World War I that he came see one of the darkest periods of human history, when he, as a soldier in the great war, was suddenly left with nothing to hope and pray for in a dark trench, as bullets whizzed over head. And it was here, such as has been the case in many other times, that he came to pray and hope and wish is something greater than he.
These dark times are around the corner, and for the past 5 years I have come with these messages to you all not as a pessimist, or an optimist, but as a realist. For I would not be a good friend and Brother in Christ to you all if I did not ultimately desire the best for you all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84Hoi4NB6A (day after disaster)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLomB6SCmk (apocalypse man)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWwF41W7lk&feature=PlayList&p=967C2A9DB1867309&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
Man vs. Wild Urban Survivor.
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