Posted on 11/30/2010 5:47:13 AM PST by Kartographer
In the opening article of this series I painted the following picture:
Close your eyes and imagine a world without electricity: no Fox News, no facebook, no email, no Blackberry, no cold drinks, no heat in the winter, no automobiles, no food and no way to cook it even if you had it. It’s the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI) and you and your family are going to die.
That’s a pretty bleak picture. But I left you with a little hope.
I clarified it by saying: “Unless, of course, you are prepared.”
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
When I was a kid, we were all waiting for a modern future with jet packs, robots to do manual work, little to no disease etc.... Today, we are planning for a future where we have to survive like Mad Max. Do you think this is a sign of the times or just a collective fear that things can go really wrong? Just a thought.
Me too. It just makes sense. Same reason why I keep a generator and gas handy....they don't eat or drink anything. And, the scant handful of times that I've needed to use it (ice storms), we've liked the flexibility.
That having been said..... I’m really not interested in figuring out how to survive in a Mad Max world
Me either. Lots of Freepers that have Armageddon fantasies, though. I think that they believe that it'll be sunshine and happiness, and occasionally manning the walls of their compounds to shoo away rampaging hordes of liberals that are trying to steal whatever they've hoarded.
'Tisn't as much fun as they'd like to imagine, I think. For instance, I've worked on a farm before, and IMHO,it's a whole lot easier to go to the grocery store, than to raise your own food. It's a lot of dammed hard work, just to eat. Never mind everything else that's needed to be self-sufficient. AND, to be well armed (and practiced, and able to walk sentry duty to protect what you've got), so that you can shoo away all of the miscreants.
Nope. No TEOTWAWKI fantasies here. I like modern conveniences.
Spiro,
I have one of those mugs put away in its box. Hilariously funny and soooooo true should it ever happen!!
MFO
Heaven is forever, but it’s not going away. Life on
this side of the turf is finite. I’m aiming to enjoy
it as long as possible. Death is inevitable. There
isn’t an opportunity to resume life on this side
once death moves you down the path. The
promise of eternal life and resurrection is still an
unfulfilled one. I choose not to be careless with my
time here.
Outstanding Post!! I briefly looked at the first 75 pages before printing it out but it contains much good information. It addresses many tough topics for preppers to take seriously. A toughness of mind and spirit imo is first and foremost, of which is a part of my Southern Heritage. Thanks for posting this!!
I always wondered what was going on in that mindset that caused her to always seek to have plenty stored during the years I grew up when everything was plenty and readily available. Since 9/11, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent world events which constantly remind me of just how thin a sheet of ice we all skate on in our daily lives, I have to admit that I finally am beginning to understand some of what was going through her mind during the Depression and I've found myself acting to be prepared like she did all those many years, in the event a SHTF scenario plays out.
We look at prepping as just being prepared for any evenuality. We don’t think the end of the world is coming anytime soon but we are concerned about an “event” that might disrupt the normal distrubution of electricity, food, water etc for say even a year. If you can get the through the first year of an EMP, Solar Flare, etc you will have a chance.
I haven't quite gotten us to the point where we can do a test run and shut the electricity off for a month and see how we fare. But we're a damn sight closer than most folks we know.
Me too! And in all honesty my health wouldn't permit me to do what it would take to live in a post-TEOTWAWKI world. Where will I get my Plavix? LOL.
You've obviously never seen Les Stroud, the Survivorman.
That dumbass could easily put himself down for the dirtnap long before any of his support staff could get to him.
I like to think of him as playing russian roulette wuth a leatherman ;o)
Good thing Joseph listened to God instead of just planing on keep an extra three or four weeks of food on hand.
Oh heck no! I look at it as an adventure.
There will always be free loaders but there will be fewer if the worst happens. It will be up to the “haves” to help the “have-nots” and I won’t be helping anyone who could help themselves.
I am active in a church and it makes me furious when free-loaders have their hands out but I love helping those who just need a temporary hand up.
If you can find them order a set of The Foxfire Books.
THX.
HAVE sure spent a lot of time pondering and praying on such issues.
At some point, God has to provide, intervene . . . we lack so much capacity to do what needs done.
I think that a year to two years is a reasonable goal. Long enough to survive things like a EMP or a Solar Flare. Do I want to live in the world like ‘The Road’ no, but the world of ‘Mad Max’ isn’t that much different than that of our recent ancestors, the western pioneers who managed to tame a Continent,are you saying we should not or can not do what they did? Have Americans becomes so soft that we can not match the sacrifices of those who gave us so much? If so many you are right and we are all better off dead.
oops ... I forgot scribd requires membership.
I dont think God HAS to do anythink. History tells us that He often does NOT intervene.
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