I keep absinthe for situations of the worst kind of pain in an emergency. Without mentioning specific kinds of accidents that could happen, the absinthe faerie could be very helpful in place of a proper anesthetist during surgeries.

I was thinking along the same lines.

There's a certain segment of the population, I think, who's first thought in Sit x would be 'Whoo! Party!'

Of course, they wouldn't last that long...

Originally posted by Pellevoisin

I keep absinthe for situations of the worst kind of pain in an emergency. Without mentioning specific kinds of accidents that could happen, the absinthe faerie could be very helpful in place of a proper anesthetist during surgeries.

I've read a bunch of your posts and know you know a lot about a lot of things. When I read what I quoted here from you I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I hadn't thought about what would happen without doctors and surgeries and so on. I suddenly felt really helpless and tearful.

I haven't really prepared for any of this. Is there any point? With all you know do you think we can survive sit-x?

I haven't really prepared for any of this. Is there any point? With all you know do you think we can survive sit-x?

I'll be blunt, and say that a lot of people won't survive... but then, that's why we call it Sit. X in the first place.

But cheer up. Most of those deaths will be people who wouldn't or coudln't survive. (You're worried, so you probably aren't one of them.)

Some people will be killed in or as a result of the initial "event." That's just chance, their own bad/good luck, depending how you look at it.

Others who survive that will probably lose their will to live, or turn to suicide, simple because they don't have the strength to face such change. Like the banker in "Alas, Babylon" who shot himself because his life didn't have meaning when he coudln't imagine life without they currency system that made him important.

Still others will make it to the "wild" but die becaue of some injury or illness that is simply to strong to be cured.

But ultimately, "We" will survive. That being we as a species, but perhaps not me and you personally. Man has lived on the earth without technology now; the only thing preventing a return to that is that we don't feel that we have to.

Really though, living in fear of dying is no way to go about it. It takes a lot of spiritual discipline, for some, but the best way to prepare for anything is to accept your mortality--that way, NO ONE has any power over you.

Not an Herb, but I think one of the best things we all could do to help each other survive:

Save information.
even stuff you don't understand.

put it on your hardrives and flashdrives and jumpdrives and store them safely.

I've seen those 'One Laptop Per Child' laptops, they can run on solar or hand cranked energy.

no hand crank jokes please.

so if we keep alot of stuff on our external drives, we can resurrect the computers as information sources, until we get enough of an civilization built up to have some kind of internet.


even if we never wire the world back up or turn the satellites back on, we'd have technology and information.

like how to grow food, irrigate, medical treatments and surgeries, industrial knowledge, spiritual knowledge.

with a 360 GB hardrive, think of how many 50-1000k documents you could store.

even PDFs, videos, all of it.

store that stuff. that's the stuff that's hard to get back.

because books will be burned for fires and religious extremism.

I thought of this because a few years ago I started storing rare and controversial documents, things that the Bush Regime has no respect for, that most citizens have no respect for.

I even started cataloging PDFs and Docs about the cultivation of illegal plants.

why? no, I'm not a druggie, but if you eliminate the information, we won't have it if we ever need it.

same for firearms, explosives info.

if the Golden Shield goes up like it has in china, we won't be able to access this stuff.

I guess I've too much of a hacker mentality about information. it should be freely available in one form or another, no matter what it is, because you never know what may save your life.

one more POV: if the soldiers all die or are too far apart to help us, then we need to know how to defend our towns and villages when Sit X goes down.