tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post7162884827972792133..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: safe place part 4James M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-76215092084994016002017-03-26T09:17:15.160-07:002017-03-26T09:17:15.160-07:00TV is just like alcohol or cigarettes or Twinkies....TV is just like alcohol or cigarettes or Twinkies. None are evil unless done to excess. Moderation is key.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-34631703396861249222017-03-26T08:57:20.931-07:002017-03-26T08:57:20.931-07:00Exactly, this is why unless people ditchtheir TV t...Exactly, this is why unless people ditchtheir TV they are not going to have an epiphany !<br /><br />TV just adds to the misery of the "midlife crisis" (which apparently is now a "whole life crisis" : http://positively-smitten.com/2013/08/07/the-truth-about-millennials-were-not-spoiled-and-narcissistic-just-broke-and-bitter/Avehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06508223217305671728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-4502693555367131422017-03-26T06:17:24.787-07:002017-03-26T06:17:24.787-07:00And where is the advertising dollars in fleeing ur...And where is the advertising dollars in fleeing urbanites under no debt?James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-99391201458084752017-03-26T06:16:13.121-07:002017-03-26T06:16:13.121-07:00This corner of dusty Nevada is so overly focused o...This corner of dusty Nevada is so overly focused on mining and being a dutiful yuppie scum consumer that the old cowboy trade is largely news neglected ( unless it is the annual gay cowboy poetry ). I know there are wild herds about, but not exactly where, and will be looking at them as our future nomadic raiding conveyance. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-65395046373643602582017-03-26T05:16:04.116-07:002017-03-26T05:16:04.116-07:00The scenarios pertaining to a Bug-Out scenario hav...The scenarios pertaining to a Bug-Out scenario have one point in common : they are so huge (or hollywoodesquie) that they can provide an EXCUSE to act like a survivalist.<br /><br />SHTF has to be spectacular, because if it isn't then it just looks ridiculous. (Even to oneself).<br /><br />It's always never SHTF (when it is, like on March11 2011 in Japan, there's nothing anybody can do, except pray for whetever the Evil Government took the time to do,n like refugee shelters etc.)<br /><br />Survivalism is either Hollywood stuff or Tinfoil hat stuff, except the latter is more and more real with time (such as, the Gov spying on all of us all the time).<br /><br />Also, the Hollywood Fantasy says that there will be ne police and thus we are going to be free to shoot gheto people (or anybody with more than a light tan as skin colour) with our super space weapon (in this same fantasy, the AR-15 also always hits and never jams...)<br /><br />With age comes the realization that our way of thinking is too heavily conditioned by TV/Internet. In reality it is already far above average if you can get out of the cities without any debt.Avehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06508223217305671728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-61758725312705475692017-03-25T22:09:43.515-07:002017-03-25T22:09:43.515-07:00"The suburbs, and many cities in the Great Am..."The suburbs, and many cities in the Great American Desert, can only survive through oil, and oil alone, and are soon to be abandoned relics of a never to be repeated era."<br /><br />I was wondering if you have wild horse herds in your area? I'm pretty sure they do in next-door Lander County. If I had them, I'd be looking at them as a big-game source, basically a hornless elk that can survive on worse forage. I heard the herds in Lander County were getting large enough the cattle ranchers were unlawfully "disappearing" some of the horses because of grazing competition with the cattle.<br />Peace outAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-55471556503857619552017-03-25T15:34:40.043-07:002017-03-25T15:34:40.043-07:00Oh, and pertinent to your comment, very well phras...Oh, and pertinent to your comment, very well phrased. If you aren't 100% convinced and motivated, taking so much energy...I hadn't looked at it from that viewpoint but very true.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-18547200545023975652017-03-25T15:32:55.517-07:002017-03-25T15:32:55.517-07:00Yah! Bladerunner. One of those I watched way too...Yah! Bladerunner. One of those I watched way too many times. One day I'll get around to reading the book. The other stuff of his I've read has been most excellent. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-38438565792849701642017-03-25T11:00:03.682-07:002017-03-25T11:00:03.682-07:00" The difference is that if you stay in the c..." The difference is that if you stay in the city eventually you will be wrong but if you move OUT of the city eventually you will be right."<br /><br />I love that sentence. The way I look at the problem is the difference between knowing and doing. You know you should leave but you don't do it.<br /><br />If you want to leave the city, you have to work towards it for real, with a set date, be it in six weeks or in twelve months. But people never do that, because there's always something more important right now.<br /><br />If survivalists really examined what it would take to change their lives, they would realize how little they really know. I speak from experience : at age 28 I made the big jump out of corporate life towards teaching, it took me one year to become a teacher (I worked hard) and two more years to relocate to a small town.<br /><br />This was possible because I was 100% convinced of the necessity of this and because I hated my former job. If I changed either proportion on the wrong side (not hating my job *that much* and not being *that* convinced of the end of the world) I might not have found the energy to do it. I had no girlfriend, debt or any other strings attached, I had set aside 6000 Euros for the transition and I could live rent-free for as long as I studied. The remainder of these funds went into preps as soon as I was done relocating.<br /><br />A "midlife crisis" (another word for being dumped once they sucked all the life juice out of you) is a good moment to leave the city. If city people looked around them, they would realize they don't need all that stuff from their previous life (except some pictures and some letters if you're so old that you still have received some - it was before the 90s).<br /><br />What you need to survive, you can buy at any store anywhere, and it doesn't cost much.<br /><br />A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies.Avehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06508223217305671728noreply@blogger.com