Icu4dzs
Super Self-Sufficient
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My approach is this: "If you are not a SLAVE to the system, collapse of the system will not affect you."
There are enough "natural" disaster issues to be had that being "outside" the box" offers much more self-confidence and comfort. This is where I choose to be. Put you money into things that help you live "outside the box" and you will be much more comfortable than those who panic each time the "box" begins to wobble.
For everything you make, or do for yourself or produce there are '10000 things" that others do differently. All of us are descended from folks who actually did survive in times when they had significantly less than we have now. If all you ever do is LEARN about what they did to survive and adapt what you KNOW NOW to what they did then, you will feel so much more confident and comfortable. Let me give you an example:
My great, great Grandfather was a surgeon during the Civil War. They had soap in those days, but had no idea that the simple bar of soap would eliminate much of the infection problem they had. He was able to do an amputation in about 90 seconds. If they had known about bacteria (*not described until Louis Pasteur came along) the incidence of infection would have plummeted. So, with the knowledge of the bacterium we now possess, we are able to take simple steps to prevent disease that they could have used in that time but just didn't know. Another example is electricity. Look how much we know (and depend on) regarding electricity. We now KNOW how to generate it. We now use electricity for heating out homes, communicating with each other and a host of other things, all of which are now KNOWN. In addition, we KNOW how to generate electricity without using a consumable resource. The sun and the wind and the movement of water can all produce electricity without any contamination of the atmosphere or the environment. We don't have to revert to the 16th century to live if we don't want to.
Yes, the world as we know it, HAS changed. Even if it changes signficantly at any time in the near future, as long as we manage to retain the knowledge of the advances humans have been able to achieve, then we can continue to live in a more comfortable and civilized manner. We will feel safer and more at east. This is the difference we need to accept.
Being "Prepared" for a major disruption in the infrastructure of the society in which we live does NOT mean we have to revert to the Stone Age and be in fear of everything. We need to be able to withstand any problem for long enough to "rebuild" what we have that is USEFUL. That may take a year or two, maybe longer but think about all the stuff lying around. Even in the event of a MAJOR loss of human life, the stuff we have produced since the age of technology began, is still sitting around waiting to be "RE-purposed" or rebuilt.
We really don't have anything to fear except hard work. If we are NOT afraid of hard work, the rest of it is EASY.
Store food, water, and necessities. Have the ability to live for several years without the current supply system. Figure out what you would need to LIVE comfortably until you and all your neighbors can work together to help each other live in a DIFFERENT world, not a world that was irreversibly destroyed. Even thermo nuc le a r events will be survivable for many. Those are the many who will need to work together to make living good for each other once again. Yes, there will be those who will attempt to take advantage of others during those times, but they invariably can be "dealt with".
In the mean time, learn how to MAKE the things you like to have to live. Do you know how to make toothpaste? Do you know how to make concrete/cement? Learn the methods for making things and find out what materials are needed. Then go about storing THAT INFORMATION for those who come after us in the event that things are destroyed. Then we can sit back and ask "Mayan who?"
Not a sermon just a thought.
Happy NEW YEAR
Saepe Expertus, Semper Fidelis, Fratres Aeterni
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There are enough "natural" disaster issues to be had that being "outside" the box" offers much more self-confidence and comfort. This is where I choose to be. Put you money into things that help you live "outside the box" and you will be much more comfortable than those who panic each time the "box" begins to wobble.
For everything you make, or do for yourself or produce there are '10000 things" that others do differently. All of us are descended from folks who actually did survive in times when they had significantly less than we have now. If all you ever do is LEARN about what they did to survive and adapt what you KNOW NOW to what they did then, you will feel so much more confident and comfortable. Let me give you an example:
My great, great Grandfather was a surgeon during the Civil War. They had soap in those days, but had no idea that the simple bar of soap would eliminate much of the infection problem they had. He was able to do an amputation in about 90 seconds. If they had known about bacteria (*not described until Louis Pasteur came along) the incidence of infection would have plummeted. So, with the knowledge of the bacterium we now possess, we are able to take simple steps to prevent disease that they could have used in that time but just didn't know. Another example is electricity. Look how much we know (and depend on) regarding electricity. We now KNOW how to generate it. We now use electricity for heating out homes, communicating with each other and a host of other things, all of which are now KNOWN. In addition, we KNOW how to generate electricity without using a consumable resource. The sun and the wind and the movement of water can all produce electricity without any contamination of the atmosphere or the environment. We don't have to revert to the 16th century to live if we don't want to.
Yes, the world as we know it, HAS changed. Even if it changes signficantly at any time in the near future, as long as we manage to retain the knowledge of the advances humans have been able to achieve, then we can continue to live in a more comfortable and civilized manner. We will feel safer and more at east. This is the difference we need to accept.
Being "Prepared" for a major disruption in the infrastructure of the society in which we live does NOT mean we have to revert to the Stone Age and be in fear of everything. We need to be able to withstand any problem for long enough to "rebuild" what we have that is USEFUL. That may take a year or two, maybe longer but think about all the stuff lying around. Even in the event of a MAJOR loss of human life, the stuff we have produced since the age of technology began, is still sitting around waiting to be "RE-purposed" or rebuilt.
We really don't have anything to fear except hard work. If we are NOT afraid of hard work, the rest of it is EASY.
Store food, water, and necessities. Have the ability to live for several years without the current supply system. Figure out what you would need to LIVE comfortably until you and all your neighbors can work together to help each other live in a DIFFERENT world, not a world that was irreversibly destroyed. Even thermo nuc le a r events will be survivable for many. Those are the many who will need to work together to make living good for each other once again. Yes, there will be those who will attempt to take advantage of others during those times, but they invariably can be "dealt with".
In the mean time, learn how to MAKE the things you like to have to live. Do you know how to make toothpaste? Do you know how to make concrete/cement? Learn the methods for making things and find out what materials are needed. Then go about storing THAT INFORMATION for those who come after us in the event that things are destroyed. Then we can sit back and ask "Mayan who?"
Not a sermon just a thought.
Happy NEW YEAR
Saepe Expertus, Semper Fidelis, Fratres Aeterni
Trim sends
//BT//
