reply to post by MamaJ
I don't understand what you are saying, could you explain please? Trying to set some things aside = hoarding?
My grandparents had names for the places you put food you will need beyond the next few days - a pantry and a root cellar; not a hoard.
Keeping non-perishables, buying what you use, rotating and using what you buy = being selfish & depriving children of food??? What?
Live for tomorrow, don't worry, and if anything bad happens we can't do anything about it and we all die someday anyway? Be fatalistic, but also
alert? Why? Does being alert help make fatalism more enjoyable? Besides, not everyone subscribes to the predestined and fatalistic viewpoint in
life.
And you wonder what are people who prepare really preparing for? Well, pardon me, but I don't think it is irrational to have some food and water
stored that you could use if
for whatever reason you couldn't get them via the usual means. That is what most people who "prepare" are
preparing for. Even our own beloved government advises its citizens to set aside enough food and water for a minimum of 3 days in case of
an
emergency not a bunch of things for a list of
specific emergencies.
As far as this Doomsday Preppers (disinfo show, IMO), do you think they'd put a reasonable and representative sample of "prepping" people on a TV
show?
Are they supposed to bore people to death with prudence?
Or do you infer from a TV show that anyone who "preps" is as loony as the sensational cases they air for ratings on TV?
What you write makes no sense to me. Your logic seems to be that if you don't know exactly what emergency is going to arise, then you should just not
prepare at all, even with measures that would be useful in a range of different emergencies. Just because you can't prepare for them all it does not
follow that you should not prepare for any.
Also: "Im not downing anyone for prepping.... all I am saying is for ME... I wont worry about things I have no control over."
Not downing anyone for prepping? That's exactly what you are doing -- writing that they are selfish and abusive to those in need (for not feeding
children with that abundance food that they store).
What, by the way, do you do to help feed all of those children in need, besides feel guilty when you throw away leftovers, hmm? Something about
casting stones...