Who is NOT making Survival Preparations...and WHY?

Originally posted by lnfideI
I am always 100% prepared for anything.

A bug out bag to me is something I use on adventures all throughout the year.

I am schooled very well in survival. Just as a normal part of life/activities/adventures.

I always buy in bulk anyhow, lots of everything. I have two converted bedrooms downstairs, one holds food stuffs, wine, supplies, etc. The other is a adventure room, where I store a lot of my hardware and gear.

My Mom, well I do not know you could call her a prepper, but she is an avid outdoors person, massive gardens, cans all the time. This is just normal living for a country type of person.

If in your life, you are prepped, do you need to prep? or are you just normally prepped?

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Why ruin a meal ticket that is obviously working well and complicate things by changing this current situation we are all in to one of internment/FEMA camps and forced into work brigades? Where would the wealth be created that TPTB needs to survive?

Originally posted by XxNightAngelusxX
reply to post by jude11

 

I've managed to do a little, being a teenaged girl who recently found herself stuck between having no money, school to finish, and nowhere to live.

Every time I got money, I bought a bit of food, and a bit of water. A few years ago, I had a bad habit of stealing from Wal-mart... and that got me quite a bit of my medical supplies.

Also, I got a great combat knife for Christmas. I have a bug-out bag, a gorgeous knife along with a file for sharpening it, and a vague plan for TSHTF.

But, right now, my main plan is to hope dearly that nothing happens until I'm ready.

I have about a month's worth of food sitting in storage, and my bug-out bag being one of the three bags of belongings I have here while I'm crashing at my mamaws, Apart from that, I'm relying on my redneck family's old custom of buying and storing extra food and their gun-happy nature to keep me safe for the moment.

Originally posted by Elderlight
I think the preppers are ridiculously ignorant, paranoid folk. We create what we fear. The future is no concern of mine. I live here and now in the present and all is just fine. Should there be disaster I will cope with it then.

I taught Earthquake/Disaster Emergency Preparedness for several years in homes, community centres, schools and various other forums. Eventually I realized that I was being ridiculous. I stopped teaching it, threw out all of the survival supplies and do not speak of it to anyone anymore. We were prepared for many years and decided to get out of the fear of the future to enjoy our life now fully.

Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by Terminal1

 

Why ruin a meal ticket that is obviously working well and complicate things by changing this current situation we are all in to one of internment/FEMA camps and forced into work brigades? Where would the wealth be created that TPTB needs to survive?

Exactly. Glad to see others questioning the logic behind such claims. Simply put, it wouldn't be in TPTB's best interests.

Originally posted by donkeystyle
reply to post by jude11

 

I'm not preparing because most of you guys are paranoid whack jobs.

Even the intelligent ones sometimes astound me with their ability to believe in nonsense.

Anyways, at this point, it is reasonable to think the US market and country itself may collapse, but from judging by the history books, there will not be 300 million starving or dead Americans like everyone here seems to perpetuate.


If i lived in the middle of new york , yeah i would have a bail out plan. but i live in the middle of canada and there is so much resources, food, supplies , farmers, all that stuff. I really believe me being a fit 26 year old male would be able to survive. If you are old , feeble, or unable to go anywhere, then maybe i could agree with having 3 months worth of food in stock, or 3 months worth of needed medications. But to plan for an Apocalypse is crazy.

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Finally, words of a person who is living in the world free of paranoia. Thank you so much. I agree with you hundred percent. I am 63 years of age and live in greater Vancouver. However, should some disaster occur here I know that we will be able to cope. There are many many ways of coping with emergency situations and being physically prepared is the least of it. If we are not mentally, emotionally and spiritually balanced and believe we live in a safe world no amount of physical preparedness is going to save us.

I suggest that the paranoia actually prevents a person from being able to survive in disasterous situations. They have already put themselves in a place of peril long before the situation ever comes along and the mind is akready stressed. In the way they are losers (lost to fear) because they don't understand the basics if true survival fir it is actually based in an inner state of safety. That sense of assured "safeness" allows one to be calm and sane during emergencies.

It is not about fighting to the bitter end or fighting to survive no matter what even to sacrificing your neighbours. This is the type of thinking that creates the bands of armed insane predators attacking. It shoud not be about being so afraid of death that we will do anything to survive. Death is a natural occurrence - it occurs around the world Every millisecond of every day so why be afraid?

If we should have a major earthquake here On the western coast, and we are able to, we will help as many people as possible. However we must care for ourselves first for we are no help to anyone including ourselves or anyone else if cannot function either. . No amount of emergency preparation will prepare us for the psychological shock, the dysfunction and the lack of amenities. Best to be a balanced person. I taught "disaster survival" and "earthquake preparedness" for many
years. I finally gave it up as a "disaster" within itself. We threw out all emergency but retained camping gear. I don't teach anymore because I felt that I was preparing myself for exactly that Type of dystopic future. It is a future I do not want so I will not imagine it and I will not fight to the death for anything.
My existence is not more important than someone's else's.
. What a bunch of crap. There is a time to die with dignity you guys (paranoid militant preppers) and it is not giving up!!!

Anyway thank you for what you have said in here. Your mind and outlook is refreshingly healthy.

Thank you and bye.
PS. I am on my iPhone and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of weird little things happening here but it's so hard to edit so just forgive the typos. Thanks.

edit on 25-4-2013 by Elderlight because: Editing- what else?

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Originally posted by jude11

Originally posted by Elderlight
I think the preppers are ridiculously ignorant, paranoid folk. We create what we fear. The future is no concern of mine. I live here and now in the present and all is just fine. Should there be disaster I will cope with it then.

I taught Earthquake/Disaster Emergency Preparedness for several years in homes, community centres, schools and various other forums. Eventually I realized that I was being ridiculous. I stopped teaching it, threw out all of the survival supplies and do not speak of it to anyone anymore. We were prepared for many years and decided to get out of the fear of the future to enjoy our life now fully.

Fear is one thing but preparation is another.

The biggest fear should be getting caught unprepared when it was so easily available. If you taught all that you say, you should know this.

Peace

Originally posted by Tykonos
I haven't and won't do.

If society collapses which it probably won't and there's no food or safe drinking water for everyone; what person would I become sitting on a pile of supplies, stuffing my face, knowing people outside my very front door who were slowly starving to death?

We all live detached from such a scenario happening to us so it's hard to contemplate or know how we'd react.

I just don't see the need just yet.

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Originally posted by Elderlight

Originally posted by Tykonos
I haven't and won't do.

If society collapses which it probably won't and there's no food or safe drinking water for everyone; what person would I become sitting on a pile of supplies, stuffing my face, knowing people outside my very front door who were slowly starving to death?

We all live detached from such a scenario happening to us so it's hard to contemplate or know how we'd react.

I just don't see the need just yet.

edit on 25-4-2013 by Tykonos because: (no reason given)

Kudus to you for refusing to be caught up in their paranoia. It is senseless to fear that which has not, and probably will not, occur.