Halfway through 2014, whats keeping you going?
29 Jul 2014, 3:39 pm
Sweetleaf wrote:
pezar wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
Waiting for the system collapse, too watch it all burn(figuratively I guess it would suck if everything burnt), no telling if that will happen this year though....I'll give it maybe 5 years otherwise my prediction is off and I am just a pessimist, or something.
One of the motivations behind my desire to have a homestead is the certainty of a societal collapse in a few years. While all the stupid people are starving because they didn't prepare, I can offer them an egg or something.
I doubt I will make it to any kind of sustainable homestead before that happens, but if need be and it is more anarchy than anything...I am sure I can find a way to survive at least for a while, I know where a few gun shops are so I could arm myself for self defense purposes(though lots of stoners in the state and so not like everyone would be out to kill each other just might be good to have a weapon should something arise) and hunting If I get into the wilderness, could prove nessisary depending how bad it gets already know I can aim and hit targets though I'd have to group up with people I am sure....and grocery stores have lots of packaged food that lasts a while.
Don't really think I would survive that long, but at least than I'd have an actual reason to feel on edge and go into survival mode...rather than just randomly feeling like that.
You could study up on edible plants and such. It's really not possible to survive in the wilderness for any length of time, one ends up consuming more calories than one can replenish, and one soon finds that his BMI is incompatible with life, at which point he dies. Grocery stores would be mobbed if anything really awful happened. Look at the times when water supplies get temporarily contaminated in a city, within an hour the stores are stripped of bottled water and canned food. There are no guarantees with land one "owns" (well, sort of owns, but that's off subject) but having a sustainable homestead is much better than trying to survive in the wild. I used to be really afraid of a collapse, now I am sort of looking forward to it, I grew up around conspicuous consumption and materialism, and it would be cool to watch all those idiots who just "had to" have the latest wardrobe or car or boat or whatever frantically trying to sell their junk to eat, and finding no takers. We saw a little of it in 2008, but the next one will be much worse.
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29 Jul 2014, 4:51 pm
pezar wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
pezar wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
Waiting for the system collapse, too watch it all burn(figuratively I guess it would suck if everything burnt), no telling if that will happen this year though....I'll give it maybe 5 years otherwise my prediction is off and I am just a pessimist, or something.
One of the motivations behind my desire to have a homestead is the certainty of a societal collapse in a few years. While all the stupid people are starving because they didn't prepare, I can offer them an egg or something.
I doubt I will make it to any kind of sustainable homestead before that happens, but if need be and it is more anarchy than anything...I am sure I can find a way to survive at least for a while, I know where a few gun shops are so I could arm myself for self defense purposes(though lots of stoners in the state and so not like everyone would be out to kill each other just might be good to have a weapon should something arise) and hunting If I get into the wilderness, could prove nessisary depending how bad it gets already know I can aim and hit targets though I'd have to group up with people I am sure....and grocery stores have lots of packaged food that lasts a while.
Don't really think I would survive that long, but at least than I'd have an actual reason to feel on edge and go into survival mode...rather than just randomly feeling like that.
You could study up on edible plants and such. It's really not possible to survive in the wilderness for any length of time, one ends up consuming more calories than one can replenish, and one soon finds that his BMI is incompatible with life, at which point he dies. Grocery stores would be mobbed if anything really awful happened. Look at the times when water supplies get temporarily contaminated in a city, within an hour the stores are stripped of bottled water and canned food. There are no guarantees with land one "owns" (well, sort of owns, but that's off subject) but having a sustainable homestead is much better than trying to survive in the wild. I used to be really afraid of a collapse, now I am sort of looking forward to it, I grew up around conspicuous consumption and materialism, and it would be cool to watch all those idiots who just "had to" have the latest wardrobe or car or boat or whatever frantically trying to sell their junk to eat, and finding no takers. We saw a little of it in 2008, but the next one will be much worse.
I do know some about edible plants and such, just saying don't have access to a sustainable homestead and likely won't within the next few years....sure that would be better just don't think it will be available to me. I don't plan to just live in the wilderness but there are animals one can eat as well as plants so it might be useful to be able to hunt, fish and identify edible plants....good to be armed for going into what was former civilized area and I doubt the mobs could hit every single store and take all food/supplies in a city before they disintegrate amoung themselves....so there'd likely be left overs. But what is to say I will be out in the mountains if electricity got f***d up and chaos ensued including around my area? Might just have to fight to survive to even get out of the vicinity.
Ah well either way it would change things in life up a bit...even if it was for the worse.
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