Hello Brokennock. I found your question to be very interesting & pertinent to where we are in this world today.
We live in a culture of fear. I believe caused by turning our eyes from Jesus & onto the world. A cult (culture) that worships fear & calls it safety.
I go out into my back yard the other day & the 3 year old girl next door is climbing on the swing set. She looks over & calls out Hey!, Hey!, I fall down.
Do you see that this has been implanted into her head by helicopter parents who, by the way are both school teachers & therefore priests in the cult of fear. If they were to come out & see her climbing on the swing their immediate reaction is fear in the guise of safety & they say to her be careful because you will fall down. She then believes this because it is all she gets trained with.
Now, what I said to her was, you will not fall down, you are a good climber who does not fall down. See the difference.
Way one is to approach from fear & trepidation with negativity to the outcome. Way two is to approach bravely with confidence in ones self & ability & a positive thinking toward the outcome.
If Lewis & Clark had been raised by parents like these they never would have left St Louis for fear of a negative outcome or falling down.
In life it is the same thing as in shooting a flintlock, If we concentrate on the flash in the pan & fear it we do not hit our target.
If we concentrate on the front sight on the target & have no fear of the flash in the pan we then hit the target.
There are many scary looking flashes in the pan throughout our daily lives, just have a look at where the people who concentrate on them are in life, never hitting their targets. It is the work of their enemy telling them that they are safe while shackled.
The people telling new shooters to be careful of the flash just do not know what it is that they do because this has all become so culturally normal. You are the odd one out to have noticed that tum ting is wong here & he is not Chinese.
O.
