How do you protect yourself from bad things?

In the torah , there were people that predicted the future in a special way : they told all about the bad things to come if and if and if... so , when the bad things didn't happen , the prophecy was considered to be true because , the people did all of what they needed to avoid the punishment from GOD. That kind of prophecy was a true prophecy. For example : one could tell the people that GOD will punish them all , making them suffer and etc ... if they keep following and worship statues for example... So , if the people stoped worshiping the statues , the punishment didn't come so the prophecy was true. If you get ready to the bad things to come , you do all it takes to prevent them , they won't happen , or if they happen , you will handle them elegantly. Thoughts have power and many books like "the secret" tells it , so I also believe in what you say.

True!! I love that affirmation. That's exactly how one should pray. The power of affirmation :)x

Hello there , WakeUpKitty , I always like reading your responds , I haven't seen you lately and I hope you will be more active. About this discussion , many unexpected things are likely to happen to us everyday : when we drive the car , someone can suddenly stop the vehicle and make us crush his car. We have to keep a distanse of at least 2 seconds behind him. If it doen't help , we also can drive our car to the side of the road but we can probabely not do more than that. When we walk in the street , some gangs can just start a fight with us and we can maybe run away , or pretend we don't see them or aware of them . we can also try to fight back but we can die. We have to be aware of everything that might go wrong and take some security about it : I personally had to go to work and my car didn't have a starter so I had enaugh time to take the bus because I always go a lot of time sooner to avoid being late. If I play with my dog that can be aggressive to people or other dogs , I make sure no one is around and only then I set him free. Sometimes he starts chasing cats or other dogs but I run immediately after him and shouts at him to stop , but it rarely happens because I stand on the guard , making sure he will have to run through me. To act by our instincts is not always the best thing to do. We have to plan in advance what to do to avoid or handle surprises. In my age , 30 , I still have things to learn about it. Have a nice mylotting , your discussion is really interesting me. Thanks for starting it.