{"id":9338,"date":"2016-09-21T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2019-11-21T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T05:52:24","slug":"its-beyond-our-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/conspiracies\/its-beyond-our-control\/","title":{"rendered":"IT’S BEYOND OUR CONTROL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IT’S BEYOND OUR CONTRO<\/strong>L<\/span><\/h1>\n

\u201cWhatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not\u201d – is an excellent quote from Ana Monnar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The wisdom inherent in that saying is vast. People are endlessly addicted to worrying \u2013 from my mother to about half of everyone who posts anything on the internet. Self help gurus like Louise Hay are constantly saying that what you think about and focus on become your reality. And Carl Jung once said \u201cWhat you resist persists\u201d. There are many variations of the basic premise that what you focus on, you get more of.<\/p>\n

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On Steemit, the whole process is accelerated, so it\u2019s like watching life at hyper speed. I\u2019m watching people here posting about corruption, censorship, oppression, incompetence, dire future predictions, and daunting realisations. And I\u2019ve long been drawn to that sort of stuff myself. But it\u2019s essentially all beyond my control.<\/p>\n

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Switching to the other side of the fence, on Steemit I\u2019m also reading posts full of wisdom, hope, positive predictions, and ground breaking new ideas. I don\u2019t think Louise Hay is on Steemit yet, but her spirit is. And one of her key messages is that “the only thing we are ever dealing with is a thought, and a thought can be changed” \u2013 or as Bobby McFerrin once sang, \u201cdon\u2019t worry, be happy\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not writing this from a background of being a happy go lucky, glass half full, positive sort of guy. I\u2019m writing it from a history of being a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d since well before 911, who has been calling \u201cbullshit\u201d since I first learnt the words \u201cbull\u201d and \u201cshit\u201d and grasped that it was possible to connect words together without hyphens.<\/p>\n

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Now I could go on about bullshit until the cows come home, but it won\u2019t do either of us any good. So instead, I\u2019ll focus on something I\u2019d rather be dwelling on than bullshit \u2013 Steemit. I\u2019m genuinely impressed with this platform. In 18 years of using the internet and posting stuff online (my first website, from 1998 is still online) I\u2019ve never seen anything else that has so strongly held my interest and given me so much hope for the future. Steemit strikes me as part of a whole new future (a brave new world) and it looks like a good future too.<\/p>\n

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If you are ever looking for an archived copy of a website, I highly recommend Wayback Machine –\u00a0https:\/\/archive.org\/web\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is an archived copy of my very first website from 1998:
\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19981111190459\/http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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I put that point about Steemit first because unlike in the following two points, I\u2019m not making any effort to modify my default behavior in saying that. I really do have a very positive view of Steemit, and it was no effort at all to say so.<\/p>\n

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Now for some subjects I\u2019ve decided I\u2019m just going to have to jump the fence on. Firstly, America. I\u2019m not an American, and my webpage \u201cAmerica\u201d which is essentially a pretty scathing collection of facts about America, is my second most popular webpage (of more than 1000). Yet for all its shortcomings, America is somewhere we all seem to tend to be focused on quite a lot. It\u2019s sometimes appalling and sometime really quite disgusting, but on occasion it\u2019s also pretty inspiring. So right now I can choose to focus on the America of Hillary Clinton or the America of Steemit. Yes, that\u2019s a pretty harsh black and white contrast, but really if we get more of what we focus on. I\u2019d prefer to keep my eyes on the potential of Steemit.<\/p>\n

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Another big one for me is the whole \u201cit\u2019s the end of the world and everything is buggered\u201d mindset. Really, it\u2019s all a giant collection of monsters under the bed, designed to keep people in a state of fear and worry. But there is a good side to this. As I\u2019ve written on the odd webpage or two, there is no \u201cglobal warming\u201d or \u201cclimate change\u201d, oil is abiotic, it\u2019s not a fossil fuel, so is in no danger of ever running out, there are no \u201cnuclear bombs\u201d (they are entirely a fabrication) and mankind as a whole currently enjoys the highest overall standard of living (lifespan, education, income and all sorts of other cool stuff) of any time in human history.<\/p>\n

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Maybe (just maybe at this point, because I don\u2019t yet take to this idea like a duck to water just yet) the idea that we are on the brink of giant financial collapse is not fixed in stone, it\u2019s just one of the options. Either way, worrying about it is not going to prevent any economic collapse, and nor is it going to do any of us any good. I\u2019m one of Jeff Berwick\u2019s (\u00a0@dollarvigilante<\/a>\u00a0) many followers and I certainly take into account what he\u2019s saying. But let\u2019s face it, I\u2019m not going to flee to South America (I already live in New Zealand) and if whatever I choose to focus on makes that possible future more likely, I\u2019d rather choose to focus on what I want rather that what\u00a0@dollarvigilante<\/a>\u00a0fears.<\/p>\n

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So here is my thought for the day, and it\u2019s very new one for me \u2013 what if the \u201ccoming financial meltdown is no more real than \u201cglobal warming\u201d?<\/p>\n

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25 great quotes about worry<\/h2>\n

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\u2022 \u201cWorry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.\u201d
\n\u2013 Leo F. Buscaglia
\n\u2022 \u201cWorry often gives a small thing a big shadow.\u201d
\n\u2013 Swedish Proverb
\n\u2022 \u201cIf you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.\u201d
\n\u2013 E. Joseph Cossman
\n\u2022 \u201dPeople become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.\u201d
\n\u2013 George Bernard Shaw
\n\u2022 \u201cOur fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.\u201d
\n\u2013 Dale Carnegie
\n\u2022 \u201cThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.\u201d
\n\u2013 Elbert Hubbard
\n\u2022 \u201cIf you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn\u2019t ask me, I\u2019d still have to say it.\u201d
\n\u2013 George F. Burns
\n\u2022 \u201cWhen I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.\u201d
\n\u2013 Winston Churchill
\n\u2022 \u201cWorry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.\u201d
\n\u2013 Arthur Somers Roche
\n\u2022 \u201cIf you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you\u2019ll die a lot of times.\u201d
\n\u2013 Dean Smith
\n\u2022 \u201cWhen one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.\u201d
\n\u2013 Joseph Joubert
\n\u2022 \u201cThat the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.\u201d
\n\u2013 Chinese Proverb
\n\u2022 \u201cWorry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.\u201d
\n\u2013 Cullen Hightower
\n\u2022 \u201cWorry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere\u201d
\n\u2013 Erma Bombeck
\n\u2022 \u201cThere is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.\u201d
\n\u2013 Harold Stephen
\n\u2022 \u201cPeople get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.\u201d
\n\u2013 John Jay Chapman
\n\u2022 \u201cSomehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.\u201d
\n\u2013 Nelson DeMille
\n\u2022 \u201cThe reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.\u201d
\n\u2013 Robert Frost
\n\u2022 \u201cEvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.\u201d
\n\u2013 Henry Ward Beecher
\n\u2022 \u201cWe can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday\u2019s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.\u201d
\n\u2013 John Newton
\n\u2022 \u201cIf you can\u2019t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It\u2019s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.\u201d
\n\u2013 Dale Carnegie
\n\u2022 \u201cI never worry about action, but only about inaction.\u201d
\n\u2013 Winston Churchill
\n\u2022 \u201cRule number one is, don\u2019t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it\u2019s all small stuff.\u201d
\n\u2013 Robert Eliot
\n\u2022 \u201cA day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.\u201d
\n\u2013 John Lubbock
\n\u2022 \u201cWorry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.\u201d
\n\u2013 Mary Hemingway<\/p>\n

These quotes are from\u00a0http:\/\/www.positivityblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/16\/worry-quotes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

And if you need a few more, here are another 519 more worry quotes –\u00a0http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/tag\/worry<\/a><\/p>\n

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SIFT666 aka Ian Gregson is a professional worry management analyst and crypto-currency investor from Wellington, New Zealand.
\nIn between meditating and making lists he likes to watch YouTube videos about the coming demise of human civilisation and is currently developing a new website portal to rival Steemit called\u00a0https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n

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This post was originally uploaded to my Steemit account \u2013 steemit.com\/steemit\/@sift666\/it-s-beyond-our-control<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SIFT666.evil.1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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