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[deckardcanine]

I've become aware of people "preparing" for things they fully expect never to happen, so as to gain benefits unrelated to the purported reason. For example, Douglas Adams (thank you, level_head) spoke of how feng shui entails arranging buildings as tho a dragon would live there, not in case a dragon comes, but so that, oddly enough, humans feel more at home there. He used the analogy to suggest that atheists may improve themselves by feigning theism. Elsewhere, I've read that preparing for a zombie apocalypse can make one secure against likelier threats.

In that spirit, after watching Trouble in Paradise, I felt like training myself to be the ultimate sneak thief -- the romanticized kind -- only I wouldn't steal anything. It would take a lot of general and specialized knowledge, stealth, speed, dexterity, charisma, skill at deception, planning ahead, thinking on my feet... all the better if I could theoretically pull off the heists alone.

The main downside to the training is that someone might mistake me for a real thief. And even if not, I'd probably feel more paranoid than necessary.

If this whole idea sounds absurd, know that one of my college friends trained himself in the way of the ninja minus the violence. Come to think of it, maybe that's why I haven't been able to contact him in years.

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[thatcatgirl.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting idea.