This guy persuaded me 47 or so years ago that I'm not cut out for the SHTF apocolypse.
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Why I'm not a prepper
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Prep all you like we will all end up DEAD. I'm not wasting time, effort, or money on what's still coming. No stress here because death is a natural thing for all living things.
Even if you know how to hitch a team and pull a plow, the situation is still disheartening because you and you alone must now defend your new homestead and all the work you put into it, whilst still maintaining it. Hard to drive a team of Belgians or drive a tractor and not be an easy sniper target.
This is why it is so important to love thy neighbor. I know that's not always easy, especially in the city, but I know I can count on every single person on our little dirt road to work together for the common good. Two guys are farmers, one has a lumber mill, two have combat experience, most are hunters and fishermen, one guys wife is a nurse, plenty skills to go around. We all get along well, even with some of us having very different political opinions.
Living in a city often means you have so many neighbors of differing opinions that one loses interest in finding common ground with any of them. Being packed in nut to butt doesn't help matters. And not to get political, but places like Minneapolis make this worse by creating cultural hotspots. They don't want to spread out the incoming Somali and Hmong immigrants, they just keep putting them up in the same areas, so instead of acclimating to the American way of life, they act like they are still in their home country ~ and it shows in these neighborhoods.
Don't expect to roll up on a farm and take what they have because I guarantee you that farm is valuable to more than one family and it will be protected by many. If it appears to be a functional farm, I assure you it is not vacant and it won't be easy to occupy. Every treeline will have eyes and the first sign of threat or aggression, you're wolf food. It's best to arrive with respect and have something to offer (even a skill). The big cities have been reaching in hard-working rural pockets for long enough, so don't expect any handouts out here. You come out here with respect and understand that you will have to pull your own weight, we will probably welcome you. Just leave that liberal gangster shit in town and holster your weapon before you knock on my door.
This is a really bad time to be a 20 yr old videogame addict or hood gangster. Crack and Call of Duty will not prepare you for the hard times ahead. Society is forgetting what it takes to make this whole thing work without government, and when that falls, so will they.
Edit: I highly recommend all of you get involved in your local communities. Go to the town meetings, be good to your neighbors, become a part of something bigger than just yourself. That's the only thing that's going to save us.
This is why it is so important to love thy neighbor. I know that's not always easy, especially in the city, but I know I can count on every single person on our little dirt road to work together for the common good. Two guys are farmers, one has a lumber mill, two have combat experience, most are hunters and fishermen, one guys wife is a nurse, plenty skills to go around. We all get along well, even with some of us having very different political opinions.
Living in a city often means you have so many neighbors of differing opinions that one loses interest in finding common ground with any of them. Being packed in nut to butt doesn't help matters. And not to get political, but places like Minneapolis make this worse by creating cultural hotspots. They don't want to spread out the incoming Somali and Hmong immigrants, they just keep putting them up in the same areas, so instead of acclimating to the American way of life, they act like they are still in their home country ~ and it shows in these neighborhoods.
Don't expect to roll up on a farm and take what they have because I guarantee you that farm is valuable to more than one family and it will be protected by many. If it appears to be a functional farm, I assure you it is not vacant and it won't be easy to occupy. Every treeline will have eyes and the first sign of threat or aggression, you're wolf food. It's best to arrive with respect and have something to offer (even a skill). The big cities have been reaching in hard-working rural pockets for long enough, so don't expect any handouts out here. You come out here with respect and understand that you will have to pull your own weight, we will probably welcome you. Just leave that liberal gangster shit in town and holster your weapon before you knock on my door.
This is a really bad time to be a 20 yr old videogame addict or hood gangster. Crack and Call of Duty will not prepare you for the hard times ahead. Society is forgetting what it takes to make this whole thing work without government, and when that falls, so will they.
Edit: I highly recommend all of you get involved in your local communities. Go to the town meetings, be good to your neighbors, become a part of something bigger than just yourself. That's the only thing that's going to save us.
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In terms of survival, look at it along the lines of the way our Air Force trains our fighter pilots:
Speed is Life.
The more things you have to slow you down and/or the more you have to defend, the greater the chances you're gonna get got.
If it's just a matter of the power going out and staying out, yes - your neighbors and a tight-knit community will pull through together. Add many hostiles to that mix, all had better adopt a SERE approach to staying alive.
Speed is Life.
The more things you have to slow you down and/or the more you have to defend, the greater the chances you're gonna get got.
If it's just a matter of the power going out and staying out, yes - your neighbors and a tight-knit community will pull through together. Add many hostiles to that mix, all had better adopt a SERE approach to staying alive.
You said it well Sir!!!!! Here in the Bayou of TX its pretty nice. Its a tight nit group of folks. When someone has an issue we all go to help if we are at the local diner to hear about it, we have two little diners in this town of 1800. There is also a party store/beer store and a Family dollar. When frequenting these places you hear all the local news. These folks here range from the poor the rich. Its a sight to see the poor and the rich setting at the same booth eating lunch at the same time and having great conversations, its a breath of fresh air to say the least. I use the term poor loosely as these folks also have some great skills and put them to use when they need to get extra cash. Most of the folks out here choose the simple life of living of the Bayou, crop gardening, and doing labor trade to get cash for items they need from the Family Dollar and the most important party/beer store LOL. We all have lunch with the local Sheriff officers and the two local Game Wardens as well. Our town does not have any local Government but its taken care of by the county we are in. As stated, be a good neighbor!!!! Take your tractor, truck, trailer or tools to help when you can. Even if its just for a short time it will have great payback sometime in the future. I dont do a lot of prepping, I have enough food in the pantry to got 4-6 months and keep enough seeds to have for about 3-4 years of crops. I have a few shooting lanes on the property, the Bayou floodplain backs up to my land so fishing is close. I have one deep water well 298' and one shallow 50' well that normally has 28-35' of water in the 30" round tile hole, I have an old school hand pump if needed. Plus I have this whole community of folks with skills I dont have and I have skills they dont have. I have found a great place to live out my life with my wife. She is also an ER nurse so she has a great skill as well, the locals take advantage of that all the time, LOL. My wife is more popular then I am here, she gets lots of questions at the local diners when we go there. My advice is to get out of the city as far as you can. Do you really need this convenience of the city? If you think so then you need to learn more skills to help you survive if it all goes south. You will need to be able to trade something when it does. No one will give it to you for free for very long. If you cannot help then you are not worth anything and your marketing skills, internet skills, or spread sheet skills will be worthless. You need to have a good hands on skill to be able to trade for items or other skills that others have. Even if its just good stamina to do the grunt work, even that is a good skill, it does not have to be a technical skill. Just my opinion Folks!! Even if it does not go south in your life time it will still be good to learn simple hands one skills. Perhaps even your kids will adapt these new skills you learn. Even if its just simple veggies growing in a small pot or whatever. Its even a good time to have skills that involve some work with your hands and simple tools.
Toilet paper is a must ! I remember the days of the Sears & Roebuck catalogs and that is ruff on the Hemorrhoids and there is not enough corn cobs around ! LOL