Ross Raven wrote:we could very easily be sent back to the stone age by a Coronal Mass Ejection. This is not a minor concern. Food don't move without computers nowdays. Its a when, not if. 16 thousand in solar panels suddenly becomes a sad write off
Dan Boone wrote:
Charley McDowell wrote:In this scenario you're 30 acre farm in the middle of a national Forest will eventually be overrun by hordes of people. And in less you have enough firepower to keep those hordes at bay for a very long period of time you're not going to survive being stationary. Remember it only takes one intruder to come into your camp or your ranch and take one of your kids or your wife hostage and it's an game. The land is going to be filled with roaming starving humans , very dangerous creatures.
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Ross Raven wrote: But for many, it was a decent into homelessness. For many that could just not adapt mentally to that everything had changed over the last decade, Suicide has spiked.e.
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Zach Muller wrote:
This thought touches on what i was thinking about: a persons mental flexibility and resiliency.
The perfect homestead in a shtf situation is one that at least has sane people on it. Before getting too carried away into scenarios, plans or details i think it is good to examine your own mentality and emotional investments. I do not mean one night of calm reflection and insight. I mean deeply examine yourself and take the search to the extreme, find out the things you have spent so much energy trying to hide from your conscious awareness. After you have faced the disgusting part of yourself and accepted it, you will be resilient on a deep level. Watching a reality bubble and break right before you will destroy you if you unknowingly are invested in it.
My own process was very intense for 2 years and involved writing down everything that happened to me in daily life, recapitulating every sexual encounter i could remember, and posting those things for scrutiny by others doing the same. I say this just to emphasize that i am not meaning something simple and easy.
Examining emotional investments goes directly to the content of shtf and conspiracy scenarios anyway. If the shtf on some level it would be a relief and that is the draw.
I personally have known many people who became obsessed with these topics and i was one of them. It was through examining why i felt an attraction to it that i realized how the content of end of days scenarios captivated a certain type of individual or a certain part of people.
I used to work at a deli counter with a young man who was very much entrenched in militant veganism. Despite his getting pissed and cursing someone every 15 minutes I liked the kid and saw potential in his energy and brain capacity. Usually i would just poke fun at his knife skills, but occasionally we would get in long intricate discussions where he wanted me to become an angry militant vegan and i wanted him to see how silly he acted when losing his head cursing people for being murderers. Neither of us budged no surprise, but i came to see that i was angry at the mistreatment of animals just like he was, but he could not stop from focusing on the emotional aspects of death and wrongness. So when he saw someone eating a turkey sandwich all he saw ws a dupe who supports murder and nothing else, so he felt personally wronged and angry.
I bring up this story because its important to be able to see past your nose if you want to observe. That goes for natural systems, societal systems, and systems of the self.
If i cannot handle common disruptions without acting a fool And losing my mind than why even plan for shtf?
Jennifer Richardson wrote:
Another valuable but overlooked wilderness skill is learning to find and recognize salt deposits/salt licks. They can sometimes be located by observing animals and their trails. If you end up with a diarrheal disease in the wilderness and your electrolytes are out of balance, having or being able to find salt can make the difference between recovering and going into shock and dying (I have been in shock due to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance before, and ended up hospitalized for a week before my blood pressure and other vitals had stabilized enough to be released--I don't recommend it). Also knowing which wild foods are good sources of potassium is helpful, since potassium depletion often goes hand-in-hand with dehydration and electrolyte imbalance.
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Steve Farmer wrote:
Ross Raven wrote:we could very easily be sent back to the stone age by a Coronal Mass Ejection. This is not a minor concern. Food don't move without computers nowdays. Its a when, not if. 16 thousand in solar panels suddenly becomes a sad write off
How does a coronal mass ejection write off solar panels?
Ross Raven wrote:
Steve Farmer wrote:
Ross Raven wrote:we could very easily be sent back to the stone age by a Coronal Mass Ejection. This is not a minor concern. Food don't move without computers nowdays. Its a when, not if. 16 thousand in solar panels suddenly becomes a sad write off
How does a coronal mass ejection write off solar panels?
I thought I would send a quick note to say Im not avoiding the question. Im just waiting to hear back from someone more knowledgeable on the subject, electronics not being by strong suit. I'll try to get you better info than my own faulty memory.
Glenn Herbert wrote:
You said it all, my very intelligent friend. When talking about this subject with others, I point out, the USSR collapsed...but Russia still remains. Argentina collapsed but the storefronts are still open. Greece reached collapse point. 25%unemployment is no joke...but elections are still taking place.
I mentioned Ran Priers, The Slow Crash, above but I know when people just put up a postit like that, its often ignored. I really do have to recommend it again. http://www.ranprieur.com/essays/slowcrash.html
It starts with the lines "Imagine the end of the world in moderation. It's hard. We tend to imagine that either the "economy" will recover and we'll go on like 1999 forever, plus flying cars, or else one day "the apocalypse happens" and every component of the industrial system is utterly gone."
He wrote it in 2005. You know. The year of Peak Conventional Oil. Precursor to the 2008 financial crash. This version has edited subnotes as he looks back on it just short of 2013, with the lines, " I can see now that my timeline was still much too fast, my vision of the changes was too catastrophic, and I was too optimistic about popular adaptations"
"If that's all we get, the crash will be slower and more complex than the kind of people who predict crashes like to predict. It won't be like falling off a cliff, more like rolling down a rocky hill. There won't be any clear before, during, or after"
I wrestled with reality for 36 years, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
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