[quote=arraya]Well, jeez, Nos. You assertion the partypup is advocating panic is ridiculous. If you feel that way from reading this thread maybe you should re-examine your own life. This is the old “I’m not going to live in fear” thing I hear so frequently.
Like… um… wouldn’t the only reason to actually “live in fear” be if there were something in our lives that was ongoingly frightening and threatening?[/quote]No offense, but have you been drinking this evening? I didn’t say anything about living in fear, but you had a whole conversation with yourself about it.
[quote=arraya]This is like watching a slow moving ever morphing category 5 hurricane making landfall that nobody but a few people are watching. Constant updates and honest discussion are needed.
Maybe you are well prepared and that’s great but many people are not. So if you really feel this thread is detrimental to you mental health which you have alluded, go back to your de-sensitized bubble and pretend everything will blow over.
[/quote]Like… uhm… did I mention or even allude detrimental to mental health? Again it’s the wine talking I think.
[quote=arraya]However, when we begin to look closely at the situation in it’s totality, it becomes very clear, very quickly, that de-sensitizing and wishin’ and hopin’ are about to go the way of the Yangtze River Dolphin in terms of effective life strategies. Which is where most Americans dwell.[/quote]
I’m sure in 2004 there were many REAs who could convince people that they had better be prepared to “act now or be priced out forever”. Look where that got us.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t have healthy discussions but I do find these threads to be quite alarmist and many times wrong. I can say “something really really bad is going to happen tomorrow…” and then the day after tomorrow add “…in Somalia”. What’s going to happen with the economy is anyone’s guess. I have “insiders” as well but wouldn’t etch their words in stone.
If you’re alarmed, scared, or anything more than entertained about what you’re reading on a blog, you are the one who needs to re-assess your life.
[quote=arraya]I’m embarrassed to have to write this… if there’s something ongoingly frightening and threatening in our lives, don’t we actually want to know about it, discuss it and maybe, the gods forbid, respond? Isn’t that what fear is for? And this thread for that matter.
[/quote]I too would be embarrassed if I wrote that. Uh-oh, something scary is threatening me… better run to the BLOG for help!
Anyway, I’m not trying to derail the panic train so go on with it if you like. Sell your stocks, liquidate your assets, buy into gold, hurry hurry hurry.
