Be prepared for anything.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
In my life I strive for complete preparedness in every situation I encounter. Because of my Jedi realist training, I’m not content unless I am confident that I’ve thought through every eventuality and am thoroughly prepared for any possible outcome of every experience-at any time.
99% of this preparedness is mental, the other 11% is achieved through training and practice. The rest is just good luck and instinct…things that, by the grace of God, I have a surplus of.
Living such a well-prepared life might be difficult for most of you to imagine as being necessary at all, much less possible for someone like yourself. I’ve been doing it so long it’s second nature, but for those of you content to live your lives just waiting to be killed unexpectedly, the level of everyday perfection I’ve been able to accomplish must seem amazing and impossible. But if you have the ambition and desire to live a life of reactive perfection…it’s not only possible, it will probably save you or a loved one eventually.
On this blog I spend a lot of time talking about my beliefs in very non-actionable ways like “The gays could save the economy” well, that’s true as you now well know, but what does that mean when one of them tries to kill you?
Here I will give some very specific examples of seemingly small things you can do every day to begin to prepare yourself to be able to handle life’s unexpected dangers. Some of these probably belong in the survival tips section of the site, and I’ll likely add them there in the near future. For now, I’m only including seven items on this list, because while I’ll be teaching you everything you know about preparedness, it would take me a lifetime to teach you everything I know.
1. Sleep on the floor.
I never sleep in a bed. Neither should you. This luxury makes a person weak and ill-equipped to handle situations where comfortable accommodations may not be available. I began the practice because my undersized bladder makes it undesirable for me to sleep on any porous surface, but I assure you that once you’ve grown accustomed to sleeping on a floor, you will be well prepared to sleep anywhere.
2. Never wipe yourself (or allow others to wipe you).
Toilet tissue buffs and tenderizes the skin of the anus to the point where in a survival situation you wouldn’t be able to utilize natural materials like sand or bark to scrape clean. An additional benefit to wipe-avoidance is the lack of appeal your third eye will have to any potential sexual deviants who may attempt to take advantage of your poorly-surveilled backside.
3. Visualize killing everyone you meet.
The benefits to this behavior are obvious. When a cashier or member of your family eventually tries to kill you, you’ll be one step ahead and kill them first.
4. Drink poison regularly.
By ingesting small amounts of household cleaners and other deadly substances, your body will be prepared when the day comes that a coward, too afraid to face you like a man, tries to off you by tainting your food. After a heated Superbowl “discussion” with my wife some years ago she tried to poison me in my food. The joke was on her however as she didn’t know I had developed an immunity to the poison she had used. Later she stabbed me in my sleep as I slumbered on the floor, something I was not prepared to defend against at the time, but now am.
5. Never sleep around your loved ones.
They may try to stab you in your sleep.
6. Smash your head into things.
When I come home I open the front door with my chin. When I honk the horn in my van, I do it with my face. When I need to hammer a nail, I try to do it with my forehead before finishing the job with a hammer. This constant barrage of impact turns your head and face into a device that is not only capable of administering a painful blow to an opponent, but also allows you to take blunt-force trauma to the head with ease. This is a practice I learned after watching Muhammad Ali, who spent a successful career being ruthlessly pummeled until it no longer effected him.
7. Adhere a small tab of sandpaper inside your undergarments.
Over time this will desensitize your penis and allow you to last longer during sex. At first this can result in minor or major bleeding, so you should augment the sandpaper with a maxi pad.
Hopefully this set of tips will set you on the path to complete Jedi-realist preparedness.

