Will You Lead or Abandon Your Community?

Will You Lead or Abandon Your Community?

In my mind is a scene from the TV show The Walking Dead, where a Minister of God denied his flock a chance at survival, and only sought to feed himself with what resources he had in his secured church. That decision haunted him, and would the rest of his life, in a real-life situation. He allowed fear to control his actions, even though he was A Man of God. He abandoned those principles that he preached to them, in their most dire time of need for leadership, resources, and comforting words. He actually betrayed himself internally at the spiritual level.

This man suffered from great fear. His self-centeredness and self-righteousness, came from overwhelming fear that made him delusional and took him off the path of the spiritual solution to human short-comings. Fear is a debilitating force, whereas service to others is an uplifting and freeing force. If you have ever done even the smallest action of kindness and service to another person, you will remember how good you felt inside. If you took your hands and credit off of that good deed and left it at merely following the rightful guidance of a Higher Power, then no matter what the other person gave you back or whatever they did afterwards, was of no consequence.

Of course, if they did you wrong, you are a fool to continue to aid them, but helping the weaker person can teach some people to strengthen themselves and lift them up. All us of have or will experience lows in our lives where others that care about us will help us and lift us up out of the hole we are in, so we should be careful when leaning towards judgments of others that are experiencing short-comings in life or in the aftermath of disaster. Just like old cars, some people just need a little work and they will run fine, while possibly being the top runner in the challenge of survival. This concept does not include evil-minded people that have sunk low enough to harm others for gain and paid the harsh price for their actions.

It’s when we expect something in return for doing the right thing, that we tie the first knot of righteous bondage within ourselves, that when strained, causes us spiritual harm. Gifts are given freely or we only seek to control others. If we help each other freely, then the bonds of friendship and community form naturally. When someone seeks to control in some way, we will always get some kind of form of tyranny that comes with it. We must merely help each other through tough times by being of service when a need presents itself, leave it at that, and remove any expectation of reprisal. That is how a group will be successful. If someone wishes to give nothing back, then merely stop giving to them without declaration of any kind. 

I will not abandon my community when a disaster strikes my area. Most people around me may not meet the standards that I have set for myself, but when I look at the truth, neither do I sometimes. When we are judging others, they best thing to do at that moment is to take a long look in the mirror of our own lives. Are we selfish, self-righteous pompous asses, or are we preparedness leaders that seek to strengthen the bond in our communities within the chance given by the adversity at hand? Will we attempt to hide from our “good” neighbors, observe their suffering, and do nothing to help them, or will we rise up as leaders andguide them through such trials to a better future.

Call me a dreamer, but I guarantee you right now, that you will not be safe hiding out on your own, unless you are deep in the wilderness or seriously secretively hidden in a bunker that no one knows about and no one can find. That is just not possible unless it was built many, many years ago in the cold-war era. Otherwise, there is a recorded location of your bunker, someone has watched from afar and seen it buried, or a trusted friend of your’s told someone that told someone else, and so on. Your are not safe in a bunker that has been discovered by the hungry and thirsty human, that is full of fear, and has all the time in the world to figure out the problem of how to get at what you have, as well as you.

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The best chance we all have is to unite and guide our communities in a concerted effort to defend each other from the evil people that will also be seeking to survive, but not in a nice friendly group-way. Those people will be a mob of many, that will burn you out of your house in the basic frustrated mindset that if they can’t have what you have then you will die with it. This is not some fantasy that I have dreamed up, either, because it is historically accurate to human behavior throughout the centuries. Mobs of people, full of fear, and bent on mere consumption and satisfaction, will go from neighborhood to neighborhood, house to house, and take what they want until stopped by a stronger force of good.

The severe scenario I present is that of one where a disaster and aftermath is of such great magnitude, that the government resources are overwhelmed, non-existent, and people are basically on their own as individuals or in larger groups. Please remember that there is strength in numbers. Whether you choose a group of good-intention or ill-intention people, is not for anyone but you to decide. My hope is that good will conquer evil in this situation, and good people will grow in number as numbers of evil people shrink.

I would suggest at least getting to know more people in your area on a basic level of friendly conversation, so that you at least know whom each of you are if you meet face to face in the aftermath of disaster. Depending on what each of you has experienced up to that moment, it might prevent two or more people that can help each other from shooting each other dead.It would be best to meet up andincrease your defenses immediately, thus increasing your chance of survival. 

Getting your church and/or other groups together for mutual benefit in the aftermath of a disaster is a great idea. Have a huge barbecue and invite anyone and everyone. Make the main theme, that of good-people survival. If someone doesn’t like that theme, then it will be easy to see whom will be the adversary in the aftermath of disaster. I would advise noting this in all minds, so you are aware of these individuals immediately upon disaster. Meet people at this get together and make plans to look out for each other, regardless of any differences in politics, religion, or personal preferences with any pursuit in life or lifestyle.

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Nothing has to be written in stone, but knowing that you can rely on each other in the premise of mutual survival, will remove a lot of mistrust that can lead to unnecessary negativity when you can all be working together in the future to survive. The evil-minded people will gang-up together and seek to take whatever they want from whomever they choose. If they are stopped immediately by a great force of good people working together, then fewer good-people will die, and some kind of order can be established where people are improving their situation, rather than merely surviving each day through major struggles.

While many people will consider this dreaming, I know that I will help others, defend others, and pull many good-people together to defend each other, watch each other’s backs, and make a great effort to improve our situation and that of many more around us. My hope is that more people will adopt this positive frame of mind and planning, over a self-serving, self-centered effort of survival that will merely get them and a lot of other good-people killed as they are picked off one by one, by massive group of other people of the same mindset, but not prepped in food and water. May more people choose to increase the size of survival, versus shrinking their chances of survival.

If God gives us greatness and we seek it in others, then why not combine that greatest?

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