“A new study has “discovered” the world’s most boring person in the world. According to new research from the University of Essex in the UK, the most boring person in the world is a religious data entry worker who likes watching TV and lives in a town. The most boring hobby is sleeping.”
While this might be an interesting piece of small talk, once the conversation has turned to the most exciting topic of all in Philippine politics, remember that somebody paid money for that research.
Maybe it is all the ‘2’s in the year 2022, but this year is developing as “historic”(?). Some numerologists say that the number “two” is “a supremely feminine force, one that represents both grace and power. It is cooperative, always aiming to bring peace and balance back to a situation.” How’s that “peace and balance” working out so far for planet earth?
“While it (number two) holds great power over any situation, it wields it with such diplomacy and tact that the result is not control and authority, but harmony and teamwork.” Perhaps it is time to go back to the “most boring person” research as 2022 is turning to the “feminine side” like Medusa, the winged human female with poisonous snakes instead of hair.
Humans have since time immemorial always looked for any sort of logic during chaos. These two and a half years certainly qualify as chaotic. We are looking, and usually without much success, to find answers and we look in unusual places maybe on purpose.
The go-to-guy even when he was alive is Michel de Nostredame or Nostradamus. About 1550 he gave up medicine and turned to the occult, publishing an “almanac.” He made so much money he decided another almanac would be a financial winner and he was right. As with any seer, you must be weird enough to be “mysterious” and vague enough to “always” be accurate.
If you watched the Netflix series Vikings, you have to agree that “The Seer” is one of the best characters on the show, particularly since he looks much like the blind mystic Baba Vanga.
It is probably not a coincidence that so many prophecies from many sources have something to do with Russia as that place has been in chaos particularly since early in the 20th century. The Bolshevik revolution overthrew a monarchy going back several hundred years that had its roots in several other European countries and dynasties. That is not supposed to happen. Time to call in the seers.
The key is that you need to learn to take advantage of the chaos. The Nostradamus quatrains are meaningless. That is, until you say the man was so brilliant to write so “cryptically” or that a person needs to be on a higher intellectual place to understand them. But he did die rich.
Amid the chaos are great financial opportunities. In fact, more chaos means more opportunities. Capitalizing on other’s misfortunates is not acceptable. Just do not tell that to the hundreds if not many thousands of people that started new and now successful businesses during the lockdowns.
And it is not just people. Japan has been looking for a justifiable excuse to re-militarize for decades. “Japan has to be tough on Russia, because otherwise it sets a precedent, and perhaps encourages China to think that they could do the same thing.” Japan, which has territorial disputes with Russia, will need to reassess and further strengthen its security.
Relatively pacifist Germany announced it would increase its defense spending to 2 percent of GDP. “Switzerland has decided to impose the same sanctions on Russia as the European Union and don’t ever accuse us of being money launderers again!” I added the last part.
Remember the wise sports saying: “It’s not how you play the game. It’s whether you win or lose.” I added that part too.
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