Posted on 08/24/2013 5:52:29 AM PDT by Kartographer
You can have all equipment ready for SHTF, ammo, weapon, gear… you can even be perfectly good trained in lot of different skills and fields and still when SHTF you can end up dead in the first days just because you what i call „refuse to believe“ whats happening.
It is that state of mind when man simple do not want (or not able) to comprehend new situation.
It can be one quick life threatening situation like folks attacking your home and you just waited few seconds too long to shoot some attacker, and then you are dead, end of the story. Or it can be whole process of failing to recognize new world around you and new rules (or absence of rules) and then again you just not doing correct things for the situation, and again you end up dead.
Example would be that when SHTF you are trying desperately to have and use power generator and light all rooms in your houses just because it mean normal life for you. And that normal life is gone, and trying to bring it back in that situation usually means more troubles.
Holding onto all comforts and behavior you are used to can be dangerous.
To make long story short, what I am trying to say is that you may be trained and equip like SEAL member and still you can be killed easily from some 70 years old dude, with even older rifle just because you were surprised when SHTF with amount of destruction and violence and you did not seen that old dude coming (or being so evil).
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I am so screwed.
Sounds like English isn’t this guy’s first language.
Good stuff. His posts have horrid grammar and structure, but I am assuming English is not his first language. However, the material is legit and potentially life saving.
Actually Lazanataz I think you will do well you are a realist and you won’t expect things to be normal. You are more likely to come to grips with what is happening much easier that many if not most of the people around you.
As Selco writes in this article the people who will survive those who quickly asses and then accept the situation as it is. Those with high expectations of holding on to the normal will not.
Bosnian, I believe.
“Sounds like English isn’t this guy’s first language.”
Correct, it is not. Selco is a survivor of the Bosnia war and has written extensively about his experiences.
A Survival Q & A: Living Through SHTF In The Middle Of A War Zone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2798007/posts
SHHHHH.
The goal is to make people think I BELIEVE I am so screwed, when in reality, I have survived active addiction to drugs and all the fallout that brought, including being homeless, foodless, and with only the clothes on my back... and surviving, even prospering, during those rather difficult times.
I am much less attached to common comforts than most, and am fairly rugged mentally. I even have a few supplies, and some means of protection! :)
As Selco writes in this article the people who will survive those who quickly asses
Selco would love me. I quickly (hit those) asses.
Oh wait, maybe you meant to write 'assess'.
BTW, this is a private freepmail. I have to keep the illusion that I am helpless.
This is private freepmail, right?
Yeah just between you, me, a couple hundred fellow FReepers and the odd DU trolls.
Selco and Ferfal have a lot of useful, real world experience to share about societal breakdown and how to deal with it.
Ok. So long as we limit it to those people, the NSA, the IRS, the ATF, the DHS, HUD, OSHA, Organizing for America, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, McClatchy presses, Bloomberg and Associates, and the White House, I should be okay.
Remember the Goron at that Inauguration - when he said what was up was down and what was going to be done?
Surveillance is privacy, and Obamaoids are going to make it stick.
Just hit it, Laz...
That pretty much describes half of FR post and even a lot of the excerpts written by supposedly professional news reporters.
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My wife and I were in the mall this week and walked by Victoria’s Secret. On the outside wall was a sign inviting people in and saying, “You’ve never seen body’s like these.” I think that just about sums up the state of education in America today.
****you may be trained and equip like SEAL member and still you can be killed easily from some 70 years old dude****
Reminds me of two very good movies from the past.
DELIVERANCE in which Burt Reynolds is ready for ANYTHING! till he breaks his leg and becomes a burden to those around him.
FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER. An INTRUDER bomber hits North Vietnam. drops bombs, evades SAMs, flack and other nasties thrown at him, then on the way out, some peasant pulls an old bolt action rifle out of his cart and with one lucky shot hits the pilot.
One of my relative wears pink slippers (mittens) when he was home sometimes, he would say that he just felt that everything is fine when he wear it. It was spooky and strange to see him in pink slippers while outside world is going to hell, but we all have some strange ways I guess to keep ourselves sane.
What's wrong with pink slippers or mittens?
Darn, Now I need to stock up on pink mittens! It never ends.
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