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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 2738396, member: 22602&quot;]These words are typical conspiracy-theory speak: <i>&quot;We</i> need to stand together against <i>these people </i>who have no ability to think through things logically,&quot; think for themselves, etc. Lots of <i>we</i> vs. <i>they. We </i>have the secret knowledge no one else is bright enough to realize or uncover and therefore <i>we</i> will be vindicated for our noble efforts when we survive the next catastrophe while the sheeple run amok and rue their lazy lives.</p><p><br /></p><p>For all your claims of thinking independently, there certainly are a lot of &quot;we&quot; statements in your comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;logic&quot; argument is the most tedious. We (all of us) humans are flawed creatures living in an extraordinarily complex world. We like to think we make decisions based on &quot;sound reasoning&quot;—men take particular pride in this—but the reality is our emotions, guided by our psychological underpinnings, dictate, or at least highly influence, most of our decision-making. The decisions we face at all levels, from buying a pair of shoes to deciding as a family which house to buy to collectively deciding as an institution what policy direction to go in, are all influenced by our psychological state(s). A really simple example of this is that judges have been shown to mete out different degrees of sentencing based on the time of the day: harsher when they&#039;re hungry before lunchtime, e.g.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would go further to say that those who tout the importance of &quot;logic&quot; the most seem to be most out of touch with, and least understanding of, their own emotional makeup. They hide behind &quot;logic&quot; because it&#039;s easier than confronting their own emotions, particularly those such as fear, insecurity, inadequacy and vulnerability.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which leads me to my comment about &quot;courage,&quot; which was not a swipe at anyone but a sincere, if rhetorical, question. I understand the (basic, emotional) desire to protect oneself and one&#039;s family. But when that desire crosses over the threshold to obsession—exemplified by some websites, as an earlier poster pointed out, where members practically wish for an apocalypse—what is the real reason?</p><p><br /></p><p>We all face the threats of our modern world. Any sentient adult is aware of them unless he/she is truly incapacitated mentally or psychologically. How we choose to spend our time navigating them is what&#039;s at issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t address your second paragraph because nothing I said spoke to preppers vis á vis bullion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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