Posted on 09/19/2014 3:49:37 PM PDT by Kartographer
“I know where you live, that you have plenty and that you have to sleep, then I’ll take what I need.”
fso301m, when you try that with one of our preppers, you will be committing “suicide by prepper”. Preppers have surveillance means and protection as well as supplies.
I always think of the old saying:
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
JMHO, but I think normalcy bias has played a part and continues to play a part in the evolving Ebola crisis.
I have my priorities, but I wish I could fill them faster. Still I have lots of things nailed down, and continue to modify and expand.
/johnny
It’s fun,,,
till somebody gets hurt.
Yep. Good one!
Bottom line though. God is ultimately in charge. He looks with favor on those that prepare but nothing is for sure. A well prepared person can be lost while an unprepared person can be blessed. Each person has to do the right thing with in their hearts and then let God sort it out from there.
I don't know you, or where you live. I know shark24's daughter and my only concern is given how freely she talks about it, a lot of people know and there may not be much left for me after the mob gets through with her dad's place.
Having an awareness that desperate people can do desperate things should also be a conservative trait. Preparing oneself helps ward off personal desperation. Not advertising ones preparedness helps avoid attracting desperate people.
After all, I can only be killed once, and they can't eat me, I'm mostly gristle.
/johnny
Perhaps you need to do some reading on the Ukrainian Holodomor, or the Volga Famine circa 1921, or what civilians in Eastern Europe did during WWII to survive, or what the Chinese did to survive Mao's starvations.
And I'm not that easy to kill, or I would have been dead in 2009.
/johnny
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