Why didn’t they run? Why did they just stand there like a bunch of idiots?
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Would you run for your life or just stand on the beach as a gigantic tsunami rushed towards you?
You’d run, right? Don’t be so sure.
During the Boxing Day Tsunami, many vacationers just stood on the beach and watched as the ocean receded into a monstrous wave...
Why didn’t they run? Why did they just stand there like a bunch of idiots?
This has a name: normalcy bias.
Huge portions of the American church are underestimating and therefore under-reacting to the disaster that is racing our way.
What disaster do I speak of?
Now do you really think this will stop just with political conservatives?
If you do, you’re a fool.
We are a threat because words are powerful, particularly the Word of God.
Many churches have already canceled or restricted in-person worship. This was a wicked compromise. That'll become all the more obvious when they start to censor your streamed services for “hate speech” (e.g. Rom 1:18-32).
Your sermons will be removed from podcasts directories. The payment services will stop processing your tithes and offerings. They will get your leases canceled on the grounds you are a health and safety risk to the community.
Are you awake, Christian?
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I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
Ironies of Luck https://t.co/5BPWGbAxFi
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
