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Mental resilience
Ignoramus30509 wrote:
On 2011-01-06, Wes wrote: Think about people you would take with you to a recon mission, and those you would not. Very few and those would tend to be game hunters. Oddly enough, the friend who I had in mind as someone I would go to a recon mission, happens to be a game hunter. Interesting observation Wes. There is a long history of those that hunt excelling in the military. Everything from guys walking point, sniping, or being gunners on bombers back in WWII. Wes -- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller |
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Larry Jaques wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:22:01 -0600, "Pete C." wrote: Only 1,500 people died out of 336,000 people, however this was due to the very localized nature of the incident and the fact that the other 334,500 people were able to evacuate a relatively short distance to areas where infrastructure was intact. Had this not been the case, the bulk of those 334,500 other people would not have survived. I don't think any real collapse of civilization is likely in any of our lifetimes, however I do think that the Great Global Tidy Bowl Swirl (tm) is going to continue and overall conditions will continue to deteriorate. I'm not so much into the "survivalist" thing, but I do think it is a reasonable goal to become as self reliant and self sufficient as practical so as to minimize the impact of the continued decline on yourself and your family. What amazes me is that the insurance company and gov't both allowed them to rebuild in the same sinkhole after it dried out. Amazing. Head-up-their-asses Dumb, too. Two points to remember: 1. Insurance companies exist to make a profit, not to make anything safer. The insurance premiums the people rebuilding are paying are supposed to be proportional to the risk of claims. The insurance companies will make a profit from those premiums if they have calculated the risks of future claims properly. 2. The government might be able to buy out and eliminate people living in some Super Fund spot where the people don't want to live anyway, but there is/was no way they could get away with eliminating a place like New Orleans. They would have ended up stuck re-enginering the entire city for trillions of dollars if they pushed too hard. As it is they didn't want to pay just to rebuild the levies properly. |
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Larry Jaques wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:22:01 -0600, "Pete C." wrote: Only 1,500 people died out of 336,000 people, however this was due to the very localized nature of the incident and the fact that the other 334,500 people were able to evacuate a relatively short distance to areas where infrastructure was intact. Had this not been the case, the bulk of those 334,500 other people would not have survived. I don't think any real collapse of civilization is likely in any of our lifetimes, however I do think that the Great Global Tidy Bowl Swirl (tm) is going to continue and overall conditions will continue to deteriorate. I'm not so much into the "survivalist" thing, but I do think it is a reasonable goal to become as self reliant and self sufficient as practical so as to minimize the impact of the continued decline on yourself and your family. What amazes me is that the insurance company and gov't both allowed them to rebuild in the same sinkhole after it dried out. Amazing. Head-up-their-asses Dumb, too. All they had to do was scream 'RACISTS!!!' -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated. |
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Rich Grise wrote: Pete C. wrote: Ignoramus30509 wrote: Why is it, that some people are more resilient to stress and keep acting rationally, whereas some others, at the first trouble, break down completely, start getting hysterical, blame others instead of being constructive, etc? Think about people you would take with you to a recon mission, and those you would not. Genetics. Contrary to the feel-good ideal of "all men created equal", the reality is that is anything but the truth. Oh, were _created_ equal. What you do with that from that point on is up to you. Yea, the Nobel laureat and the poor slob living in the group home were created equal... Sorry, that "created equal" ideal is simply not true. |
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On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:31:15 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote: Rich Grise wrote: Pete C. wrote: Ignoramus30509 wrote: Why is it, that some people are more resilient to stress and keep acting rationally, whereas some others, at the first trouble, break down completely, start getting hysterical, blame others instead of being constructive, etc? Think about people you would take with you to a recon mission, and those you would not. Genetics. Contrary to the feel-good ideal of "all men created equal", the reality is that is anything but the truth. Oh, were _created_ equal. What you do with that from that point on is up to you. Yea, the Nobel laureat and the poor slob living in the group home were created equal... Sorry, that "created equal" ideal is simply not true. DBAD, Pete. The best grok of this I have heard is from Michael Prell. He said, in the _Underdogma_ book preview I read: The Declaration also held that 'all men are created equal.' But it did not promise all men that they would live their entire lives equally, or achieve equal outcomes. Alexis de Tocqueville correctly called American equality the "equality of conditions" writing that, because our abilities are all different, "man cannot prevent their unequal distribution." Among the unalienable rights spelled out in our Declaration are the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. If one man’s pursuit of happiness makes him wealthier than another man, it is the duty of the American government to secure that man’s wealth, not to disparage him for having earned it, or to confiscate it or, as Barack Obama said, to‚ spread the wealth around to underdogs. -- You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.? -- Ronald Reagan |
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