Anyway, thanks for the info & comments folks!
Posted on 03/12/2013 6:00:02 PM PDT by Kartographer
A) Peer Pressure B) Government Schools C) Dependence D) MBM (Morally Bankrupt Morons) E) Nationalism F) Mental Enslavement G) Stifled Self-government
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You aren't insensititive at all. The universe.... it's insinsitive. It destroys people that can't make do in dire circumstances and it does it with no pity or remorse.
You seem like a caring and sensitive deranged moron for worrying about idiots that won't take care of themselves. ;)
/johnny
John Galt said in Atlas Shrugged, “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
My personal “Galt” in my mind is to ignore what other people say about preparedness, to remove myself from the world when it comes to my preps and safety - to do it myself for no one will do it for me. I am in my own capsule and I do what is necessary for me to survive whatever comes my way.
I can't control the world at large, can't control the government of this country, can't control my state, can't control my county or my city, but I can control myself and what I do. Putting it simply, I said, “Screw you world.” I study for better ways and more ways to make my prep life better and I leave the rest of the world outside my house to God.
I am asking/taking help from JRandomFreeper as I try to grow some damn plants but other that that, I do everything on my own. I read, I study, and I act.
Lemme guess, the crunch ISN'T almonds. :)
/johnny
MANURES AND THE PRINCIPLES OF MANURING
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27274/27274-h/27274-h.htm
Published in 1910
Found this an interesting read. Some of the initial ideas still make sense.
That is one thing that we have in our favor, we know how to do things and we have power and hand tools to do it.
Although I admit I don't have any Paris green for dealing with bugs.... But lots of the book is still useful. ;)
/johnny
LOL! You really aren't the type that likes gardening naturally. You do get points for persistance, though.
/johnny
I had an anti-gun female communist ask me if I was a “prepper” as well as an evil gun owner. I told her, “Nope, don’t need to.” She looked puzzled and asked me why. I told her that when the SHTF and chaos ensues, I’ll just take my gun and take her stuff. She asked if I would actually shoot her to take it. I replied that the answer to that question was basically up to her. She stomped off madder than a wet hen. I walked away smirking because I knew I finally got to that nasty communist hoe.
That’s a great story. I said basically the same thing to a lib and he stalked off. I think he was madder at himself than me.
Wow,this sounds good. Almost makes me HOPE the SHTF.
I did not know about Google Free Library. Will look at what is there.
There are some real gems on the gutenberg.org site.
Federalist Papers
F. Bastiat’s works
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
to name a few off top of my head.
An optimist!
Sports is a diversion that maintains people’s reactions and perceptions of the world on the same level as fourteen seven-year-olds.
They do have a lot of stuff. I think I have a current archive of the entire library. It's plenty, even if I'm missing some new stuff.
/johnny
LOL!
IMO, it’s a, b, and d. People are conditioned to be American Idol twits. Morality is uncool. Peer pressure and government schools have brought up at least three generations of morons in this country — and then we have the uneducated and unassimilated immigrant subculture to boot.
I don’t think you are insensitive at all.
BUT, even if the urbanites know these skills, where would they practice them? It’s too crowded in the city. So they head out for rural areas. That is already owned by other people? From what I have read, a great deal of the rural residents survived the Great Depession far better than the city dwellers. (maybe not the dust bowlers)
I consider myself, and all on this thread, pretty blessed if we are rural, with property and know how to make the best use of the situation.
Huh, had no idea about GA/FL shade-grown wrappers. I like CT shade-grown or a nice Maduro. Not sure I have enough to last a Helicopter Ben meltdown, but enough to enjoy occasionally for a year or two. Or trade for something useful.
Did you or anyone on here see an old “Twilight Zone” episode where this doctor had been making a bunker under his house for awhile in case of a bomb hit? His neighbors were over at his house for his birthday, and they were having a great time until his young son told all of them that was something on the radio/t.v. to warn them all that there was a bomb threat.
They all headed home to their homes all in a panic. The doctor and his wife and son got some water and food that they would need and went down to their bunker. Well the neighbors were all in a panic, because they had no “bug out” shelter or bomb shelter and he had told them they might need one!
So where did they head to? The doctor’s house, of course! They banged on the door and pleaded w/him to let them in. He wouldn’t, because there was barely enough food and supplies/space for his own family, let alone others. More and more neighbors all in a panic showed up, banging on the door and threatening him. They started fighting with each other and threatening him and his family. They had gotten something to ram down his door.
Then, they got a report from an emergency radio that the “bomb attack” had been called off! There was to be no attack, so they could go back to normal life! Of course, they had to apologize to the doctor/family. One guy had made some threats and knocked a Hispanic man down. He had to make apologies to him, saying he didn’t mean it. The doctor said he had a chance to see what they all would be like in an emergency, and it troubled him to see what they would’ve done if they emergency had been real!
He was even more upset with the way they had all behaved like crazed animals that was worse than the bomb! Rod Sperling (sp?) had some interesting remarks after the episode too! If you haven’t seen it and it comes up again on “METV”, watch it, it’s good, and illuminating! I can’t remember the title, though, (shoot)!
I just looked it up, It’s called: “The Shelter”. I got a few things wrong with the description, though. It was a threat of a few inidentified objects flying toward them. They were afraid that would mean a nuclear attack. The doctor had offered to let them use his basement, but that wasn’t good enough for the group of neighbors.
They were told the alarm was off, because the objects were harmless, and there was not going to be an attack. The doctor, after coming out of shelter to confront his neighbors, tells them that he fears they’d done more to destroy themselves than the “nuclear” attack threat had done!
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