Posted on 05/04/2012 8:54:12 PM PDT by Kartographer
If you’d really like to depress yourself some evening, watch “Doomsday Preppers” on the National Geographic Channel. The show details the plans of normal, well adjusted people to cope with the aftermath of fiscal collapse, nuclear holocaust, the eruption of Yellowstone, solar flares, and so on.
The New York Times noted with outrage that many of these people were accumulating guns and ammunition in order to defend their 1,500 pounds of MREs and dried brown rice, but stockpiling guns is fine with me. My concern is that most of them seem pretty inexpert with guns. One prepper was counting on a Ruger Number One single-shot which, despite its many splendid qualities, is not what you’d pick to blast the mob at your door. Another managed to shoot off several fingers during a practice session. Yet a third, a resident of the Oligarchy of Bloomberg, took lessons in knife fighting because he was unable to get a gun, ignoring the fact that everyone in the Oligarchy of Bloomberg who wants a gun has one, or several, and when the pistol-waving mob comes to this fellow’s apartment I don’t think that he and his knife will last long.
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He's the only one I believe. I think he was basically trying to tell people ... at least know your local flora; local foraging.
All my prepping stuff got lost in that boating accident along with all my guns and all my ammo.
We Freepers are very poor boatmen.
Its simple.
Do think a SMART Prepper would allow National Geographic to tell the world he has a stash, and what he has to defend it with?
Matthew 24:45
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food at the right time/in due season?
Considering the context of the chapter... Watch, watch, watch; know the time and season; comparing to days of Noah (who built an ark of safety)... I'd say it is scripturally appropriate to do as Jesus warned us to do (plainly in v 25: I have told you beforehand (some versions say I have warned you)).
Absolutely correct.
It's important to make a policy early on regarding how you will handle the situation when the emaciated family shows up on your doorstep. Make everyone agree on the policy and enforce it.
Very much like a lifeboat situation; pulling one too many people out of the water and into the boat dooms everyone aboard.
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