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The Top 8 Deadly Myths About Survivalism
Survival Mom ^ | 8/13/12 | Sheila

Posted on 08/15/2012 5:55:42 PM PDT by Kartographer

1. It’s just like camping.

2. You can buy enough food and supplies for forever.

3. Your neighbors will gather around and help each other.

4. If I buy enough gadgets (mini washing machine, generator, solar tracker) I’ll be OK

5. I can get to my survival location when TSHTF.

6. I can convince my “significant other” that this is the right move.

7. I don’t need to prepare a place. I’ll just grab my Bug-Out-Bag and find a cave somewhere.

8. My kids will be bored.


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To: editor-surveyor
Simple:

Pnuemonia, chew peeled garlic three to four times per day. (way more effective than any antibiotic, and doesn’t destroy your immune system)

Aren't you forgetting the supplemental O2? Are you considering bacterial, viral, fungal, or chemical pneumonia? What about bronchodilators or steroidal anti-inflammatories?

Heart attack and strokes, take tincture of capsaicin in a little water, under the tongue. (this works equally well for those that are unconsious) In most cases they will have no lingering effects from the attack. For strokes, retreatment hourly for several hours is beneficial.

Is that the treatment for atrial fibrillation, PEA, arterial blockage, ventricular fibrillation, DVT, CVA, CHF, CAD, or heart valve abnormalities? Why not use ASA? It's cheap and effective.

Cayenne (capsaicin) is also excellent at stopping bleeding.

I'd rather use merthiolate or battery acid. Regular flour is also good at stopping bleeding.

121 posted on 08/16/2012 7:19:40 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: Pollster1

I think that if they are solar flares that cause the EMP, then they will cover the entire planet. Another thing that complicates the scenarios are the global implications of industry. To replace that electric transformer in Kansas, you need all the parts which may come from around the country or world. You need communication, capital, management, workers and resources including electric to get the replacements manufactured, shipped and installed. Keep in mind that a transformer that hangs on a electric pole is very simple and some replacements could be in stock, however, most will not have enough for the entire country or large sections of the country. Now lets go to the multi-billion dollar switching and routing stations and sites that are 100% micro-chip based and consist of thousands of components that will need to be replaced. Oh, by the way, most of the workers required to perform these tasks will be more worried about their families and such rather than going into work. Think about all the Italians in the centuries following the fall of Rome that walked on their roads, used their aqueducts, etc. but could not replicate them until hundreds of years later. Financial and the other catastrophic events would eventually have the same results but at a slower pace.


122 posted on 08/16/2012 8:10:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Skittle pooping unicorns are more common than progressives with honor & integrity.)
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To: editor-surveyor

A bit off? How so? I think the fit perfectly. God’ often warns his people of direr times coming, but then he expects us to prepare for them. God didn’t build the ark, he told Noah to. God didn’t send food to feed the people during the famine he told Joseph to store food. You have to do your part. I believe and pray that God will watch over me and my family should bad times befall us, but I don’t expect him to provide that which is in my power and my duty to provide.


123 posted on 08/16/2012 8:10:46 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: from occupied ga
I understand perfectly...I mentioned getting penicillin at the tractor supply and you saw it as irony...I simply took it one step farther and mentioned their fashion department...You obviously don't know anything about carharts, ever farmer has a wardrobe of the... you save up your money and buy a sense of humor, and you made the first move on these answers.
124 posted on 08/16/2012 10:01:14 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: editor-surveyor
B.S.

You are seeing reference results for Lagostino because there's not a match on Dictionary.com.

Did you mean: Langostino
Panulirus_argus
www.reference.com/browse/Panulirus_argus
Panulirus argus is a species of spiny lobster that lives on reefs and in mangrove swamps in the western Atlantic Ocean. It is known as the Caribbean spiny lobster, Flori ...

125 posted on 08/17/2012 3:28:13 AM PDT by tdscpa
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To: goat granny

Of course...they’re MADE to soak up blood!


126 posted on 08/17/2012 3:47:06 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (WTB new tagline, PST!)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
Nuclear sub ordered into Hawaii port to provide temporary power This was only 30% of the power for an island of 39,000 residents, and the power lines were still up, but it's still significant. With perhaps 25 US Navy submarines submerged at the time of a global EMP, that's 25 pockets with electrical power and technical expertise available to begin rebuilding. That would provide a tremendous boost to the speed of reconstructing a technological culture.

I could personally make incandescent light bulbs without referring to any books, given the (plentiful) raw materials available and a small number of attempts. I could, using books in my home, make vacuum tubes. There are others with a great deal more expertise who could make transistors and other components, or reasonably sophisticated steel or aluminum alloys, or copper wire. We could rebuild the America of my youth (pre-Internet, pre-microchip) easily, even after a global EMP, perhaps even more. It would not be pleasant, and we might lose millions or tens of millions of Americans due to looting, hunger, loss of medical care and infrastructure, or other issues, but rebuilding is more practical than you think. I suspect preppers would take a leading role in that rebuilding, after the feral looters had disappeared.

127 posted on 08/17/2012 6:56:14 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Fire_on_High

easy to carry and hardly any weight.....


128 posted on 08/17/2012 8:12:45 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Kartographer

The old testament is full of such wisdom...I guess a few here never read the bible they spoke of....I also like the one that says....he who does not work, does not eat...I don’t think the democrats have ever heard of that one...


129 posted on 08/17/2012 8:32:52 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: B4Ranch
I have an old thick book from the late 1800’s that have recipes for all imaginable illness's for man and beast, the only problem is now a days you probably couldn't find the ingredients....In those days narcotics could be bought over the counter from the pharmacy in town...no hospitals and not too many doctors, farmers and herds men took such thinks with them back home....The book was used so much by my fathers family (he was born in 1901) I have to keep it together with heavy rubber bands....but I'll be there are things in there that could still be found...all medicine at that time were plant based, not synthetic medications....Foxglove a flower I love is what heart medications came from...even animals don't eat them, unless you know what to use and how to use it, its deadly poison...Now a days digoxin and lanoxin are used, based on the foxglove....you just need a modern book on herbal medications....
130 posted on 08/17/2012 8:46:51 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Sarajevo

I’m not forgetting anything.

The chewing of garlic produces alicin, which directly enters the blood via the many blood vessels in the mouth. Alicin has hundreds of effects on the body, much like capsaicin, and through the same pathways.

The strong sensations you feel in your mouth are also sending strong signals to organs and glands to secrete enzymes and hormones that assist in the task.

You don’t have to wait for assurance that you’ve done the right thing with either herb, Garlic, or Cayenne, as the desired result is close to instantaneous. With either of them, the increase in O2 absorption becomes evident as the skin becomes pinker, and warmer in seconds.

This doesn’t mean that they use the same mechanisms, and they apparently do not. Both herbs have been studied by pharma, with the intent to produce a patentable variant with the same effect, but no dice, so back in the drawer they go.

We don’t need pharma for anything, since the natural substances are so vastly superior in effect, and have no negative side effects beyond halitosis, which is curable with ordinary baking soda. Why would anyone want bronchodilators or steroidal anti-inflammatories when natural substances are so much more effective and safe, to boot (something that cannot be claimed for any drug)?

You seem to want to use the less effective, and clearly dangerous drugs instead of the real thing.


131 posted on 08/19/2012 3:29:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
With either of them, the increase in O2 absorption becomes evident as the skin becomes pinker, and warmer in seconds.

That is due to vasodilation, not O2 absorption.

Why would anyone want bronchodilators or steroidal anti-inflammatories when natural substances are so much more effective and safe, to boot (something that cannot be claimed for any drug)?

Ask any asthmatic where they can get immediately acting bronchdilators. Not from garlic, cayenne, or capsaicin. Ask a cardiac patient where they are going to get natural anti-arrhythmics.

Personally, I am glad that you are not my physician. I've seen witch doctors before, and you are right up there with the best of them.

132 posted on 08/20/2012 2:40:49 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: Sarajevo

Oh shallow one, ask any asthmatic that has discovered Lobelia and you will see why we definitely do not need med mafia doctors, nor big pharma.

Your med mafia doctor’s investment advisor is so glad that you eschew knowledge.


133 posted on 08/20/2012 6:49:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
Late to the thread as usual...

Can you supply a link or details on the metastasizes and isopropyl?

Cheers!

134 posted on 09/03/2012 9:32:48 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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