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reply posted on 15-10-2011 @ 05:50 PM by nineix
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Before money, there was barter and trade, and before barter and trade, people shared.

Wherever there's money, there's poverty.


reply posted on 15-10-2011 @ 06:04 PM by Bartibog
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I'd also like to add that we have also survived millions of years without vaccines.


reply posted on 15-10-2011 @ 10:33 PM by DavidsHope
Today...well I just shot and killed a pizza and put it in the oven..Wanna know what you really need?
Watch others and then become your own caveman.


My mom made her own bread. I make it to.
We had no macaroni when I was young. Mom made it, and it was very good, I make that to.
I could go on but if I did I would sound like an old man which of course I am.
But.....
There is only one way to truly respect what it is that you have today.
Take your wife and leave for the mountains for a few days. take with you one tent, no radio. flashlight, or anything. well you should take a phone and flashlight for safety. cause you will "Freak".
The best way to understand what you have is to live for a short time without any of those things.
My wife and I did just that a few weeks ago.. 4 days. We did have matches, we did take some primitive foods. We did take a flashlight, and some decks of cards/games. Stayed in a non-electric camp site, and it rained the entire time. We found ourselves fighting to start a fire, and cooking anything was very difficult. We had one single pan that we both ate out of, made chop sticks with tree limbs etc.........
If you really want to know what it is like with no electricity, cell phone, radio, computer. Get yourself out
and do it for real. it is the only way. when we got back I went straight to the fridge and poured myself a nice cold glass of homogenized milk. I now know I could survive, but it would not be fun at all.......
If things get as bad as many on ATS suspect including me, it would be wise to for all of you to do a dry run so you at least will know the difference between what you need, and what you want. We used a state park in Indiana that was considered primitive. I encourage everyone out there to take just a few days and go out with little or nothing. take you Cell phone and leave it shut off. etc.
If you are addicted to your texting, and cell, or to your TV. You will know real fast.


reply posted on 19-10-2011 @ 02:59 PM by FlyingSpaghettiMonster
Originally posted by Bartibog
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post by NoRegretsEver


I'd also like to add that we have also survived millions of years without vaccines.



Some people survived. Millions upon millions died of preventable diseases, and still do where the curse of vaccines is too expensive to be spread. But I guess you'd prefer to be the lucky one who didn't get infected. Lucky by chance, or lucky by dint of living in a rich, technologically advanced society.

PS, while we're on the subject of vaccines and modern medicine, I don't see anyone arguing that penicillin is a conspiracy to poison the masses. Y'all swallow the mould without a whisper.
edit on 19-10-2011 by FlyingSpaghettiMonster because: /lh



reply posted on 19-10-2011 @ 03:18 PM by NoRegretsEver
reply to post by FlyingSpaghettiMonster



IMHO there was something called survival of the fittest. I know that it is hard to understand in today's world, where in many areas people can live into their 80's. Our bodies were not dependent on drugs, and if needed there was trail and error in learning about herbal medicines.

Nowadays there is more of a chance of a mass pandemic due to us not having a "survival of the fittest" immunity. Our bodies can no longer take bacteria, or things that normally would have either made people more immune or killed people.

What would have made a generation stronger, is now open to undiscovered diseases that could kill most of the planet. Somethings as simple as antibiotics is now becoming unusable.

BTW, something that is not talked about, is that we have a tendency to forget that very long ago, people would die from something that their bodies could not handle, but now people can "live" with a disease that cannot be cured, by prolonging their demise with drugs that only make pharmaceutical companies richer.

Peace, NRE.



reply posted on 19-10-2011 @ 05:11 PM by FlyingSpaghettiMonster
Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
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post by FlyingSpaghettiMonster



IMHO there was something called survival of the fittest. I know that it is hard to understand in today's world, where in many areas people can live into their 80's. Our bodies were not dependent on drugs, and if needed there was trail and error in learning about herbal medicines.

Nowadays there is more of a chance of a mass pandemic due to us not having a "survival of the fittest" immunity. Our bodies can no longer take bacteria, or things that normally would have either made people more immune or killed people.

What would have made a generation stronger, is now open to undiscovered diseases that could kill most of the planet. Somethings as simple as antibiotics is now becoming unusable.

BTW, something that is not talked about, is that we have a tendency to forget that very long ago, people would die from something that their bodies could not handle, but now people can "live" with a disease that cannot be cured, by prolonging their demise with drugs that only make pharmaceutical companies richer.

Peace, NRE.



I think you misunderstand the process of natural selection. 'Survival of the fittest' doesn't just mean 'strongest', it means fitted to their environment, to the species they are part of. Take a cheetah and dump it in Antarctica and it's not going to survive long. Doesn't make it weak. Medical science actually works with nature in producing immunity via inoculations. But even if we survived without medicine, new diseases evolve or are transmitted across species barriers against which even the strongest immune system would be powerless, because it has never encountered the disease before.

Antibiotics are becoming ineffective because diseases evolve like all other life. But the process has been accelerated not by the existence of antiobitics per se, but human beings' inability or unwillingness to use them properly. For instance, the common mistake of not completing a dose only kills off the weaker bacteria, leaving the strongest to breed. Hence a new strain is generated with all the most successful characteristics of the disease and none of the weaknesses.
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