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I never thought of it until I read this article this country was founded by people who lived through TEOTWAWKI the brith of the Republic surely sit the world on it's ear as much as a great nature disaster.

Their actions, skills knowlege, determination and faith allowed them to preserver as many of them saw what was coming and prepared accordingly. We owe all to these men the Frist American Preppers!

1 posted on 12/07/2013 8:18:35 PM PST by Kartographer
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Preppers PING!!


2 posted on 12/07/2013 8:19:42 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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“Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob, will find himself very much mistaken. They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about.”
3 posted on 12/07/2013 8:23:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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The end of the world as we know it ...


4 posted on 12/07/2013 8:35:24 PM PST by Ken522
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While, I never thought about the Revolution in that light before, I have often thought of the pioneers, the great depression, the two world wars, the trail of tears in that regard. We have a rich heritage of people leaving their comfort zone for the new world, and TEOTWA they knew it.

Bad times come, and bad times go. Some survive, and some do not. That’s the way it is.


5 posted on 12/07/2013 8:45:39 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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“They have men amongst them who know very well what they are about.”

Time changes some things: Women these days are more likely to react when danger approaches than were women of those days. Even my mother's generation, in the late 1800s, would not have taken up a firearm even though she was raised on a farm in Arkansas. The men did that and the women did not. My mother would be shocked to see the weapons I OWN.

She and my dad would be shocked to see I an growing food plants as I stayed away from the garden when I was growing up.

Many women have firearms now and would use them if the family was physically threatened by Hussein's “civilian army” and the women “would know very well what they are about”.

Also, people in the 1770s normally had stored food at home since the women canned food and stored various root veggies in root cellars. People mostly stopped canning when transportation became easy and stores had canned food from food companies. If the country collapses now for whatever reason, not many people will have stored food and millions will die so we are worse off in that area than they were in the 1700s.

7 posted on 12/07/2013 9:16:28 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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Actually, I *have* given this some thought before. I mean, yeah, I am so screwed, we all get that.

But afterwards, when things settle down, and I'm a little less screwed, then what?

Look for my Thought Experiment: Liberty© series soon.

14 posted on 12/07/2013 9:58:34 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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bttt


18 posted on 12/07/2013 11:27:24 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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One of the things about Limbaugh that drives me nuts (admittedly a pretty long list; when I mostly stopped listening in the W administration I thought it would be tough, but every now and then I tune in again and realize that it was not) is when someone called with a fairly sensible observation/conclusion about the dire state of the nation (”Hello, Karen from Whitefish, Montana”), and Limbaugh launches into a “It’s not all over, be optimistic, why don’t you just kill yourself...” blather. He invariably cites the Founding Fathers as proof of his point. What he fails to realize, or at least chooses not to observe, the Founding Fathers made an anguished, self-conscious decision to kill their fellow British subjects in order that the colonists might become citizens.

If that isn’t “It’s all over,” I do not know how to define the term.

I note that they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. I wonder how close we are to that point again?


21 posted on 12/08/2013 6:30:12 AM PST by crusher (Political Correctness: Stalinism Without the Charm)
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TEOTWAWKI


Means === The End Of The World As We Know It


It would be nice to post the meaning of this since it's very frustrating
keeping up with all the ABBREVIATIONS out there!! Good grief..

97 posted on 12/09/2013 3:26:40 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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read


115 posted on 12/12/2013 9:13:55 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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