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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Supposedly the two great motivators are fear and greed.  I only want 
contentment.  But contentment to me would not be the same as to another man.  
Your advice to be pro-active is good advice, thanks.  Euell Gibbons is dead, 
he choked to death on a bowl of grape nuts after he ate a tree   ;-)

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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld  -- feel free to ignore
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 9:55 PM
> I'm saving your post, Bob...
> It is a scary scenario you paint.  I hope we don't go
> there. I would
> never ridicule you for saying what you believe will happen.
> I was motivated to make my move as I was worried about Y2K
> collapses. I
> am not ashamed of it, either. Of course, as we neared zero
> hour in late
> 1999 , I was not worried about it, but in 1996 and 1197, I
> certainly
> was.  By the time I got here, in late 1998, I felt like I
> was in a race
> against time.  By the time I realized that the Y2K crisis
> was a
> non-crisis, I was already in high gear here and it took me
> several years
> to gear down.  In fact, it took my health to fail for me to
> gear down.
> 
> I say, whatever motivates you to become more self
> sufficient and to live
> a more sustainable lifestyle is a good enough...whether
> that is the fear
> of depression, hyperinflation, Barack Obama,  trucking
> strikes, Neocon
> Bushies, The Farm, jobloss, Greenpeace, Euell Gibbons or
> Les Stroud...so
> be it.  The point is, don't  be reactive to whatever
> happens, be
> pro-active and hedge your bets against anything that might
> happen.
> 
> Bev
> 
> bob ford wrote:
> 
> >>> 
> >>> ******  Lynn, I'll go out on a limb and
> put to
> >> paper,
> >>> publicly, what I think will, happen, and what
> I fear
> >> might
> >>> happen if the things I thnk will happen
> 'do'
> >> occur.
> >>> Later, in 2009, you will all have a record
> with which
> >> to
> >>> ridicule my errors.
> 
> 
> -- “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to
> anger. Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda