Re: Frightening scenario - the end of the world
Originally Posted by
bridget
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The point is...Why would you want to survive? Your friends are dead, your family is dead..the place stinks dawn to midnight work just to keep alive..What is the point of it all..what is it for?
You could say the same now. Why are you here? In a world in which you are kept in debt or relatively poor (compared to the elite), in a world where you have to work continually to earn their fiscal currency in order to survive? What is the point of that? Yet people are still here! Go figure!
Originally Posted by
bridget
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Survivalists like to assume that those that choose not to bother's choice .. " is based on fear and the sense of hopelessness."
Could it simply be based on practicality and not having an ego as big as a house? Or a fatalist philosophy?
Nope I doubt that. People are in the main living in a dream world of diversions purposefully given them by the people who are engaged in preparations for massive unrest. Creation of FEMA camps everywhere, body tubs, incinerators, underground complexes, tunnel systems and so on.
There is nothing, at least for me, by way of "I told you so" attitude. I simply see the need to wake as many people as possible from the dream world and encourage them to be more prepared for any national or global disaster or disruption.
Originally Posted by
bridget
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Remember..there's actually no one there to admire your efforts..no one to write a blog or put your story in the paper...you'll not be remembered in history.
I don't really understand why you say such things. In a disaster or period of sustained unrest people will need to group together and help each other out so having some skills will be extremely useful. Being useless, sitting their just taking instead of contributing would make me feel pretty low and inadequate.
Originally Posted by
bridget
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I think survivalists have this Walter Mitty dream that they will be the leader of a small band of adoring women..(that can bake a loaf) with a few younger men around to look to them for leadership...In their dreams.
Again just don't understand the mentality here.
Survivalists simply understand that we need to learn to be able to do things for ourselves instead of being saps who are dependent on the State. Survivalists don't believe the State will look after them so don't want to be left out in the cold.
The naysayers and those who deride survivalists and preppers, will be the first to go reaching for others when TSHTF and when their food and water have run out in a few days. I really don't understand why anyone would disparage those who are thinking ahead and making basic sensible precautions.