[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Marcella]

Poor Noah, scoffers thought he was nuts but he clung to his God (didn't have a Bible to cling to at that time). The scoffers died.

My grandparents on both sides, in Arkansas, were preppers or they had no food in the winter/spring. There were no scoffers then as everyone stored or went hungry in the winter and spring before the new crops were ready.

So, when did scoffers start? Wasn't during my parent's times because we still canned - everyone did. They wouldn't have known what “prepper” meant.

When gardens were abandoned for plentiful grocery store food, canning stopped for the most part and people didn't store as before because the grocery store had it.

So, dumping on preppers as nut cases is a relatively new behavior. It's like, “I have nothing stored because the grocery down the road has it, so you must be nuts to waste your time to store items anyone can get anytime.

That is what sets preppers apart from scoffers - we see dangers on all sides that could take us back to the 1800s, where storing meant life or death.

We have life insurance not on a piece of paper as it is from Prudential or other life insurance company. Our life insurance is visible - there it is, I can see it, I know it is there. People who don't have physical life insurance that can be seen, are the nutty ones - not us.

[Carry_Okie]

G_d's "prepper plan" for Israel, lost for 3,000 years, has now been recovered.

[garjog]

"We either grow the food we eat, or we kill it ourselves. ... It’s a way of life that bonds us together in a broken and twisted society that seeks to tear the family apart."

If we are one day banned from employment or commerce for being "bigoted" and refusing to "belong" to the government, maybe the only way to survive would be to hunt and grow our own food.

I was thinking that Sitka Alaska might be a good place to head after the Obama re-election. The climate is somewhat mild and people can fish and hunt for food.

It the location on the pan handle of Alaska would probably be away from the radioactive winds.

[Gene Eric]

Do you feel fine?

[SamAdams76]

Well for the most part, we've had a tremendous amount of "easy living" over the past few generations. For instance, I live in a cold climate and have never been frost-bitten. In fact, there are girls on my street who wear flip-flops year round because all they do is flit from the heated house to a warm car to another warm building. I know, I see them getting in the school bus in the mornings when I'm walking my dog in 20 degree weather, flip-flops a-flapping. There are women in our society who have never had to put on a pair of socks in their lives.

We really have gotten soft as a society. Even the heat doesn't affect us. I slept every hot night this past summer with a heavy blanket on because my wife had the central AC cranked.

I do wonder what would happen if everything was to come crashing down and we truly had a TEOTWAWKI experience. Many postulate that the vast majority of us would assume the fetal position and die a horrible death but I'm not so sure. I think that human beings are very adaptable and by and large, the majority of us will "toughen up" and survive - although without the luxuries we have come to take for granted.

Yes, no doubt millions of us will die, especially those of us who have been extending our lives on modern medicine, such as insulin and blood pressure pills. In addition to prepping, I would suggest that those who are on a steady diet of prescription drugs work with their doctor to get off the prescriptions - maybe adopt a natural diet and exercise more, etc.

[JDoutrider]

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[DNME]

We really have been living the soft life for a very long time here in America.

“Going to war” means getting on a boat and digging foxholes in somebody else’s back yard. “Stocking up on food” means dragging a second cart around the supermarket. (Hell, most folks I know wouldn’t have the least clue how to kill or prepare meat that didn’t come in a foam tray.)

We have safe water, reliable electricity, dependable communications and tons of entertainment options. This is as good as it gets, folks!

And all of it is a house of cards. Nothing is reliable. Things could change in a matter of minutes to make everything a nightmare.

Prepping for every possible problem that could arise is impossible, not to mention ridiculously expensive. But doesn’t it make sense to have a few days extra food on the shelf? Keep a change of clothes in the trunk of your car?

Well then, you’ve already started prepping! Keep it up!

[Eye of Unk]

All this late summer I was buying several cans of the one gallon sized Augason Farms dehydrated foods from Walmart.

I mean I would buy on average two cans every other day, I usually did this as I was in the store at 6am every morning to pick up my lunch and juice for the day, and after awhile some employees would start asking me how many I had, one person who rides the floor scrubbing machine I swear would go out of his way to zoom in on me every time just to chat.

And then it was the checkout people, and then people in the checkout line, all asking if the stuff tasted good.

But I could just not shake off the feeling every one never prepped and was trying to establish some sort of comradely just in case, so they knew where to go to mooch for food.

So my count is over 100 cans, but now I just grab on at a time on the most random schedule, call me paranoid, but don’t call me when you think I have to “Redistribute” my food stock.