Which Type Of Person Are You: Service To Self, Or Service To Other

Do Preps Matter?

Suppose that you have a basement, garage, or pole building full of supplies that you have responsibly accumulated to get you and your family through just about any emergency.

Now suppose that some emergency has befallen the US, and suddenly the electric grid is down, and there is no power.  Stores, including super markets, are closed.  Natural gas and water and sewers fail over the next week.  Looting empties out the stores, and hungry scavengers mill about, looking for a meal.  Soon, your neighbors are at the door.

As you face your hungry neighbors, you must now decide:

Are you a Service To Other or a Service To Self kind of person?

In that moment, you lower your gun, and become a Service To Other person.  You welcome your neighbors in, and feed them, giving them some of your provisions to keep them fed for the next week, or so.  

Over the next week, other folks in your neighborhood stop by, as word gets around.  You have planned preps for your own family, not for the entire neighborhood.  The crowd outside your door grows over the next week, until you have a mob of 20, 40, and finally 60 people demanding to share your preps.  Soon, your preps are all gone, and you are standing admidst the wreckage in your house, wondering whether you can repair the door, now ripped off its hinges.  Wondering where it all went so wrong.

Rewind to the first time your neighbors knock on your door.

In that moment, you make the decision to be Service To Self.

You raise your gun, and send the neighbors running for their lives.

Over the next week, as word gets around that you have preps, which you aren't willing to share, the hungry mob milling around in the street in front of your house grows from 20, to 40, and finally 60 people demanding to share your preps.  Soon, rocks are breaking your windows, and gunshots are coming through the walls.  In spite of your guns, and your willingness to use them, after a sleepless week, you crawl wounded (if you are lucky) across the floor of your trashed house, all preps looted, your arms and gold taken, wondering if you can repair your front door, now ripped off its hinges.  Wondering where it all went so wrong.

Now, consider which orientation is the best one to be:  Service To Other, or Service To Self.  Both end up the same way.  So, you may as well be a Service To Other type of person.  Sure, lay in enough food to get you through a week or two without power or opened supermarkets.  But then, enjoy the day, your family and friends, and enjoy your life.  You have done all you can.  Best of all, you have become the best person you can be.  

But, realize that after a month or so, one way or another, we are all going to ge in the same boat anyway.  So, you might as well invite the neighbors in, and throw some steaks on the grill.  Enjoy the day, and let tomorrow take care of tomorrow.

In the end, neither mindset works.  Service To Self, survivalism, and preparedness doesn't work any better than a Service To Others mindset.  Either way, you end up with nothing at all, and,sadly, join the rest of the scavengers, prowling the neighborhoods, looking for something, anything, to eat.

Fukushima Five Years On

Fukushima After Five Years
On 3/11/2016, Earth will "celebrate" the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima Disaster, in which the great Japanese earthquake and tsunami took out at least 4 nuclear reactors at a Fukushima nuclear power reservation.  What are the results of this worldwide disaster, from the perspective of five years out?
1. Missing Corium.  Three operating nuclear reactors experienced loss of coolant, grid power loss, loss of backup generators, and failure of all redundant safety systems.  These 3 reactors suffered a total meltout of their atomic cores.  Two blew up.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp77oZ0yt-I. The three missing cores have not yet even been located.  The reactor ruins remain too radioactive for workers to enter, and the radiation seems to be too much for robots to function well.  Without knowing where those melted nuclear cores are, without an accurate 3D map of the missing cores, no long-term planning is possible.
2. Little Progress.  Progress at the site has been lacking recently.  Plans to video the interior of Units 1&2 Containment Vessels  are on hold.  The Frozen Wall project has been on hold.  So, the underground river has yet to be diverted around the reactor ruins.  Muon imaging has failed to find any corium inside reactors or containments.  Little to show for five years of Tepco "effort".
3. Spent Fuel.  Fuel has been removed from the spent fuel pool of Unit 4.  Removal of spent fuel from Unit 3 will begin in 2017.  Spent fuel has not been removed from the spent fuel pools of Units1-3, Units5&6, and the common spent fuel pool.  Work on a dry cask storage yard for cooled spent fuel has not begun.
4. Underground River Flows.  An underground river under the plant, which flows at an estimated rate of 1,000 tonnes per day, has yet to be diverted around the reactor ruins.  Corium is being washed into the Pacific Ocean day and night, with no end in sight.  An underground Frozen Wall has been on hold, in a disagreement over how to proceed.  Late word is that the wall will be tested soon.
5. Pacific Ocean Dieoff.  Numerous stories of mass dieoffs of many species of wildlife have begun to surface in the mainstream press.  See any of the recent stories on ENEnews,com, which has been cataloging the extensive dieoff.  The Pacific Ocean Ecosystem appears to be in real trouble.
6. Tokyo Evacuation.  Tokyo has yet to be evacuated.  It appears that drinking water contains substantial amounts of Iodine-131, which has a half-life of only 8 days, and is definitely from ongoing criticalities within the missing corium at Fukushima.  Ongoing spikes in Iodine-131 in sewage sludge indicate that Fukushima corium is still fissioning.
http://optimalprediction.com/wp/iodine-131-rises-in-chiba-prefecture/
And, where there is one isotope, there are probably hundreds of isotopes present.  Evacuation of Tokyo is a logistical nightmare, and would ruin the Japanese economy, which is already in recession.  So, year after year goes by without the necessary evacuation taking place.  And, all the while, criticalities within the Fukushima corium, seem to be rising (not falling) over time, as seen in the graphs of Iodine-131 in Tokyo sewage sludge.
Conclusion:  Sequester?  Sarcophagus?  Removal of debris to a long-term repository?  No plan can be formulated, and little progress can be made at Fukushima, unless the 3 missing cores are located and mapped.
Tepco, the entire world wants to know:
"Where are the 3 missing cores?"

PhilipUpNorth 2016
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