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Watching & Waiting

I added a note to my post about the end of the world (namely, that it didn't end. Again.) but I'm seeing some alarming things online that made me want to write a bit more about the growing amount of nonsense people in positions of influence use to fear-monger and scare others into doing what they want.

Don't fall for it.

99.9% of the time you'll discover you're being exploited for purposes of politics, profit or religion. The other .1% of the time it's simply malicious crap instigated by the twisted who find it entertaining to manipulate and terrify the unwary with a lot of lies.

I believe nothing anymore. Someone can tell me an asteroid is going to hit our planet in a couple of years, but I'm still not going to buy the doomsday bunker they want to sell me. Same thing with all these weather news entities that have been screeching about this being the "worst hurricane season to date" in order to sell us protection from the storms, be it emergency supplies, window covers or even extra insurance.

Notice how calm the hurricane season has been so far? Yep. Zero storms here. Zero.

Guys, if this is the worst, then these pinheads forgot about 2004, when we endured four hurricanes in a row here and lost power for almost a month. We were heating up bathing water on our grill and pouring it over each other from pots. Neighbors borrowed water from our rental house's pool to flush their toilets. What about Andrew, Katrina, Irma and Milton? Were they a walk in the park? Do these weather people have marketing-related amnesia?

All news sources have become corrupted, so I pay no attention to any news. I'm about to unsubscribe to the one current events newsletter I was reading because even they've become slanted. I'm tired of seeing all news sources present their version of what's happening tailored to their politics. Done with that.

What can someone depend on when everything has been ruined by the exploiters? Pay attention to what matters to you. Watch. Wait. Gather information that hasn't been corrupted and draw your own conclusions. Example: my guy and I now watch the satellite images of the Atlantic to decide if we need to get ready for a storm (we pay no attention to the commentary, plublic advisories or any other crap issued about the weather.) We've lived through enough hurricanes that we know by tracking the movement of these storms which are most likely to affect us -- and because we've done this every season since 2004 we're very good at it.

As for the rest, why waste your time on anyone screaming at you to promote their cause, buy their product or join their church? All they care about is what you can do for them, not what you need to know.

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