People look at me funny when I say, "well, if there were nuclear war, and martial law was declared, and everything fell apart, I can poach my neighbors livestock, manage my own, hunt food, and pack my belongings".
I remember you saying that to a client recently and delighting in the blank stare that they gave you.
I grew up with about the same beliefs. But growing up in the DC area, I also knew that whenever it all went to shit, I'd have about five minutes to prepare before I became so much glowing vapor. I still tired to learn shit that would get me out of a jam. I would have owned the Worst Case Scenario handbook if it had been out back then. But in terms of the big one, I always figured I was too doomed to even bother.
You know.. there's a part of that in what we do here at our place. It's one of the reasons that I'm doing such a large garden expansion this year.. and working on seed storage. The only thing I still really need to do is get a manual alternative system for the well.
I apologize in advance for this, but frankly... it appears to me as if you are diverted, and wasting resources - your own, and everyone else's. If the nuclear shit ever does hit the metaphorical fan, we are ALL screwed! NO ONE will survive. (Ever read Shute's "On The Beach"? Yeah, it'll be like that.) What I've read of you on LJ seemed to be a quaint atavism or affectation at first. Do everyone - but most of all, yourself - a favor, and get out of your rut. Please put your obvious talents and skills toward something which would be useful in an industrialized, modern society. As Wayne [Wayne's World] - or Ram Dass - would say, "Live in the NOW" - not in the "could possibly be, in an extremely unlikely future".
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I remember you saying that to a client recently and delighting in the blank stare that they gave you.
I grew up with about the same beliefs. But growing up in the DC area, I also knew that whenever it all went to shit, I'd have about five minutes to prepare before I became so much glowing vapor. I still tired to learn shit that would get me out of a jam. I would have owned the Worst Case Scenario handbook if it had been out back then. But in terms of the big one, I always figured I was too doomed to even bother.
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If the nuclear shit ever does hit the metaphorical fan, we are ALL screwed! NO ONE will survive. (Ever read Shute's "On The Beach"? Yeah, it'll be like that.) What I've read of you on LJ seemed to be a quaint atavism or affectation at first. Do everyone - but most of all, yourself - a favor, and get out of your rut. Please put your obvious talents and skills toward something which would be useful in an industrialized, modern society.
As Wayne [Wayne's World] - or Ram Dass - would say, "Live in the NOW" - not in the "could possibly be, in an extremely unlikely future".
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