I’ve talked to hundreds of preppers over the last three and the one comment I hear the most is that they have a ‘feeling’.
These people are from all social, education and financial backgrounds. They say that there are demonstrable statistic that show that the number of people missing airline flights that end up crashing is higher than the average number of people that miss flights. I know myself there have been times when I have putted around doing this and that in the morning, which is unusual for me only to leave and find that a big wreck has taken place along my route to work. I say listen to that little voice in the back of you head, because there’s a good chance it knows what its’ talking about.
Don’t let the scoffers and the doubters get you down. They laughed at Noah right up until the first raindrops started falling.
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“They say that there are demonstrable statistic that show that the number of people missing airline flights that end up crashing is higher than the average number of people that miss flights.”
Well then let’s see the statistics. I can put limits on the numbers:
There are not that many flights that crash (100 per year?), and let’s assume an average of 300 seats per crash, and how many could miss a flight with 300 seats available? Even if you assume that all 300 passengers missed the flight that crashed (30,000 per year), that does not come close to the 93,000 commercial flights per day. If one person per flight missed it, that would be 93,000 missed flights.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090405222940AAgDZaF
http://www.quora.com/How-many-people-fly-domestically-in-the-United-States-each-day
I think every human on the planet is experiencing an “angst”. Something big is imminent.
I even sense it in my gov’t worshipping libinlaws, though they react with ANGER when they see that I’m taking steps to prepare my family for a rough time where their precious social contract ceases to function.
Depression era grand parents, parents that were small children in the same era as well as the rationing of WWII. They understood a harvest and thrift as well as depending on no one for providing for them and theirs.
We learned the lessons they lived. I prep for all situations that could impact our sources of food, shelter and fiscal and personal security.
It could be a long term illness that doesn’t allow me to work and provide. It can be a bad economy that also forces unemployment to rise. A natural or man made disaster that disrupts this nations productivity .
Creating different layers of food sources with everything from bulk storage in the pantry from the big box stores to our own gardens, local farmers markets and hunting and fishing harvest stored each year.
It’s a lifestyle, not a bad feeling. Learn from history and don’t allow such to repeat itself on your children . Dependence on others be it friends or goobermint is insanity.
Don’t be a burden. Don’t endanger you family by ignoring your responsibility to provide. All this will remove that bad feeling that keeps you awake at night and provide time to think and work to defeat the socialist trash trying to impose such fears upon the voters.
Obama says vote for me and I will provide endless unemployment funds, food stamps, and medical care as his department of interior fines tourists for feeding the wildlife as it will make animals dependent on a human and not let them learn to fend for themselves...... Go figure.
My opinion.... No bad feeling about the basics of life here. As to prepping and survival .
Bad feelings were something they should have had politically in November of 2008. It’s here folks. It’s upon our nation now. We are treading water in a monster rip tide of trouble.
Vote with your time and dollars between elections to starve the beast.
As stated just my opinion....
The last time preppers had a "feeling" was around Y2K, and we all know how that turned out. The days afterward must have been rough for you guys. Sitting there in sullen silence eating your reconstituted beans with the lights turned on and burning brightly. Looking out at the neighbors on their patio grilling steaks which they irresponsibly bought that very day. Wishing things had gone differently. Thinking about how those scoffers should have been on their knees begging right about now. Looking forward to a future disaster to settle things up and prove to them that you're on par with Noah.
The “Gibbs Gut Feeling” is the result of years of experience and knowledge. Proven psych for those at their cognitive peak from 50-65 years old. Our brains truly are amazing.