PhiConcept wrote:visavis wrote:PhiConcept wrote:If you are moderate, worry free and at the same time aware of your surroundings then you won't run into situations that involve authorities.
With all due respect, that is a horrendously short-sighted statement.
Quite the contrary visavis. I meant to present my statement in a general form and the formula, if applied towards activities that put a person at risk of opposing authorities, will work perfectly to avoid unnecessary conflict.
I don't know. Perhaps the pessimism is somewhat unwarranted in the big picture, with my analysis of what I'm seeing with the erosion of liberties. I'm not sure, maybe in the bigger picture we are safe in our being and there is ultimately no long-term threat. But I cannot help but be concerned with seeing, in this immediate reality timeframe, what appears to be a police state slowly roll in.
A bit of a shift perhaps into a different perspective: I think maybe deeper in my spirit is a greater understanding; that they (tptb) will try this, they will try that... but they will not necessarily succeed. I think that they may not succeed because what they are actually trying to control, the infinite part of the human Spirit, will reveal itself in a way so as to truncate the plans of control; though even as I have encouragement in my own spirit at present to be positive in this regard, I cannot foresee the specific ways in which this would happen.
"The unknown does not incite fear, but dependence on the known does." - J. Krishnamurti