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Originally Posted by dreadgeek

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I meant mentally prepared. If psychics can keep a nuclear device from exploding, more power to them. I was using psychic to mean mental/psychological and should probably have realized that using the term would cause confusion.

Cheers
Aj

Well, Aj, maybe some psychics can; I've seen some pretty amazing things lately.

I personally cannot affect the physical world so directly. BUT what I can influence, what I'd like to think I DO influence, is the likelihood of it ever coming to that. You have to follow it backwards from the thing you wish to prevent; you have to think about all the causes of such a thing, layer by layer, and figure out what one small thing you can do that would switch the whole train of events onto some other, more benign, track.

Sometimes the most powerful thing a person can do is to ask those around her to hold onto hope. There is always power in numbers. If a large number of people is determined that safety should prevail, I believe it is more likely to prevail... and in the meantime, if it does nothing else, it creates more positive lives for those people, since hope breeds optimism and creativity.