Disaster is inevitable. What goes up must go down and things are always bound to go wrong.  There is a line between being prepared and being overly paranoid. I once read about a man who took out a second mortgage on his home so that he could spend over $350,000 on preparing for the end of the world. The man stated: “What is certain is that in my lifetime, there is a strong likelihood that there will be a catastrophe of some kind — the sun destroying power grids, a flu pandemic that kills millions, an asteroid or meteor or comet striking earth or a magnetic pole shift.” He may have a … [Read more...]