Thursday, December 20, 2018

selective panic 1 of 2


SELECTIVE PANIC
As survivalists, we like to panic.  Perhaps it is like an amusement park ride like a roller coaster, where we feel better afterwards because we didn’t die.  Not that I ever really went on any roller coasters.  My top speed/height is the Disneyland Magic Mountain. And even that one gets Unicorn Status use ( ie, once in a lifetime ).  Or, it could be like a horror movie, enjoying the adrenaline because we are shielded from pain.  Not that I watch horror movies much ( I actually take great pride in the fact I’m very boring ).
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But this panic we indulge in is usual counterproductive.  Or, if I’m in a less forgiving mood, it is retarded.  We either don’t panic enough, may Baby Jesus have mercy on your soul, or panic about the silliest things.  Not that I’m claiming to be any better.  We have all been there, throwing cash at a problem to Make The Bad Men Go Away.  When Cat Ladies get stressed they get another cat.  When we do, we go buy a box of ammo or another gun.  In that aspect, you can probably call that a positive motivation.  But that isn’t panic.
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Seeking Comfort is probably the point most survivalists stay at.  Buy something else to stop the ugly voices.  Do we truly ever panic?  I know those moments stand out for me, as the results usually were suboptimal.  Like being a civilian for a time, then panicking as the local economy crashed and I was running out of money so I re-joined the military ( remembering full well how much I hated it ).  Then, one time I panicked when the wife threatened me with the police ( it happened more than once- I never have to live alone as I always find another gal, but it was quantity over quality until now ).
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The first time, I told her, in effect, “I can’t believe you are pulling this crap just to get your way.  Fine.  I’ll do it. Then we are over, forever ( the Baby Momma, whom I’d had until then a continuous On Again, Off Again )”.  That was panic.  I knew she would lie to the cops to get me arrested.  But that worked out great.  Yet the second time, I panicked and just begged her ( a different wife ) not to call the cops.  Wow.  What a dumb ass.  Never the same relationship.
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I learn from my mistakes, usually.  And I try to structure my life to minimize making them ( a boring life, remember ).  It has been a good long while since I’ve truly panicked.  I might finally greenlight a scheme I’ve been working on, such as finally moving days after being laid off, leaving behind annual 10% rent increases.  But that isn’t panic.  I had plans and options and just moved in the same direction only quicker.  You can do stupid crap when you do that but it usually isn’t tragic or devastating like true panic brings.
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I still get in a rush and do bonehead things.  I’ve lately been having issues with energy drain.  I think I’m eating more than enough, and little of that bad food, but if I go too long between eating my energy flags.  I’m thinking low blood sugar, but what the hell do I know?  I won’t waste money going to Dr. Quack, so I must self-diagnose.  And I can’t eat just anything, like sugar.  It has to follow a schedule.  Four hours after waking if I don’t eat my whole wheat nuke bread I get in trouble.
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I always eat a whole grain before coffee.  Oatmeal, store bought wheat bread, whatever.  I need that sponge in my belly before the acid.  When the NOL isn’t working she will then, an hour or so later, cook me fried eggs and breakfast sausage.  But those eggs or not, just the one breakfast or two, eating the second fifteen minutes prior or two hours prior, right around that four to five hours from waking, I need that freshly ground whole wheat flour bread.  Nothing else works.  It is one of the weirdest things.
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Okay, now, knowing this, a new natural law for about a year or so now, having tried everything to work around it, I’ve finally accepted it as unstoppable.  I have everything ready and even schedule around it ( I don’t even think about the exercise bike until after the whole wheat meal ).  I think I ate so much of my diet in whole wheat for so long my body gets an X type of carbohydrate sugar that isn’t duplicated by another food ( that might sound strange, but like regular doctors I “Guinee Pig” solutions and Wild Ass Guess ).
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Or, I’m overthinking it and I’ll die shortly.  Anyway, even now, I’ll occasionally STILL try to ignore this problem.  I sometimes get a Planets Aligned day when everyone comes out with outstanding long articles and I can’t motivate myself to leave the computer screen in time.  I start getting weak, and in a near panic I’m shoving sweets and protein down my gullet as quick as possible.  Hey, whole wheat nuke bread really does taste like wet cardboard.  It tastes even worse if I pre-make it.  It does need to be fresh to taste Less Worse. 
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Shoving other items down NEVER works.  I know it won’t.  Yet I still do this every once in awhile.  It isn’t panic, but closer to that then just Bad Decisions In A Hurry.  It is like knowing eating ice cream before bed while watching TV will boomerang back on you but you sometimes do it anyway.  So, my point here is, I hope that is an interesting story, and also, most of us have learned from hard experience not to panic, or at least insulate ourselves so we rarely have to panic.  But that isn’t the conclusion to this article.  It is prelude. 
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I want to discuss how to constructively panic and how to hopefully avoid panic when a real ( as opposed to our imagined ) crisis occurs.  Most of our preps are Seeking Comfort.  Which insulates us from panic. But it can also block necessary panic.  Which then leads to real panic, but after it is too late to do anything about it.  Continued tomorrow.
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24 comments:

  1. Yes. I think compartmentalizing or category folder file concerns or worries into priorities of importance helps. Attend to emergency breakdown type issues, or must act now duties first as necessary. Things that can wait a bit, or put off to think it over a while may not be of any panic importance to stress over. I take days and weeks to make purchase decisions or start on manual projects simply because I am part lazy, but to use a time gap lag to be right about it or do things correctly. Side note on the sapping of energy issues. There may be relevance to the wifi signals, smart meters transmissions, cellular towers, microwave towers, soon to come 5G broadband. If a Minion could see or visualize all of the transmissions through the airwaves and spaces around their personal space it would be enough to set off scientific metering devices for sure. Anonymous Conservative (blog, I found on western rifle shooters rolls) references 'Directed Energy Weapons, "dew" used to harass and disrupt opposition targets. Causing illness and problems. (Embassy sonic attacks?) The California fires were weird by burn patterns, isolated islands of burned structures in middle of town, etc. (Field trials, or rogue playing with devices) with the Lord Bison's eminence the deep state may be screwing with you for sport, or practice.

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  2. Panic is a mindset you get when you feel like you lost control of the situation. As long as you have resources you are less likely to panic.

    I did a few years in the Navy as a Rescue and Assistance team member and can tell you it is not what you brung,but what you find that you can run. Training and confidence will bring you out in the end .

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  3. Somewhat related, and I thought that you might find this interesting. I was listening to a conservative talk show host the other evening, by the name of Michael Savage. I should add that I disagree with probably half of everything he says, but he’s worth listening to for the occasional gem he spews forth (In true, modern, neo-conservative fashion, Savage mindlessly defends anything the police do, thinks that sex dolls and porn should be outlawed, and that Marijuana is the “new heroin”, while the left wants to outlaw everything else. So as you can see, your freedoms are only slightly less endangered under the modern right).

    In either event, and to my surprise, he mentioned something to the effect of a possibility of a 50% collapse. Apparently, Ron Paul mentioned something to this effect just the other day, and he was quoting him. Savage was actually being rather open minded about the whole thing, and even mentioned a rifle that he has for such occasions. This is quite a change from the typical modern right, neo-conservative crowd, that generally deny any possibility that any such event could ever happen. Of course, Savage lives in San Francisco, so he’s double dog humped, in the event of any such disaster (Though he does have a boat). But I thought that it was worth mentioning, as this is probably the first time that I’ve ever heard someone from the modern right admit to such a possibility. Ol’ redneck, “sister screwing sounding” financial advisor, Ramsey, was in denial about this possibility just the other day, so that’s quite a contrast :D

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    1. No, I share your surprise. Most Righties are all, "dude, elect our corporate sponsored globalist and all will be well". Ramsey is a hack, using Gods name in vain. Of course, Obammy probably did the same ( "I swear on this here bible I'll uphold the Constitution of Kenya" )

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    2. It may be a ghost writer, or troll type of "personalty" who picks middle road paths as pay me advertiser routes.(yes listened to him, like free t.v. bible thumbers, their story, never yours.) Don't be naive. Is this some one you press flesh with, barbecue on saturday with, nope. If they are not within your sphere, close enough to say "hey, w.t.f.?" They are not influencers. Be wary. Jim had an article about some such. (?)

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  4. A certain somebody around here is fixating WAY to much on food. It's JUST food. Get a hobby, something substantial enough to occupy ALL of your mind and some of your aging body. Get several hobbies. If you don't have a dozen things going on you're delinquent and delinquency allows that mind to wander into areas it shouldn't be. Keep that mid fully occupied and you'll be better off all the way around.

    Out here in the hinters, fairly well prepped and no debts, panics are not common. Other than my everyday one. Yes, every. day. all. day. long. Back in the 70's I had heard that something like 60% of all politicians we're financially incompetent and couldn't even balance their own checkbooks. 90% of all politicians had bounced a check in the past year, etc. But these same politicians are in charge of the largest financial ploy in world history, a ploy that dictates things that can drastically effect all of us. THAT is my daily all day panic.

    I don't believe tarriss's are going to set a nuke or take out the grid. I don't believe horrible diseases are going to wash over the country nor do I think the yellow midgets are going to attack. All of those things, and much more, are possible but not probable in my mind.

    I believe those 455 incompetent assholes are going to sink the floundering, and listing heavily to starboard, USS america. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.

    In this shitty democracy it requires a majority of people to get anything done and nobody can align with anyone else and just about everybody has their head in their rancid asses. So there will be no righting of, and sailing on, of the USS america. It will continue as is and getting worse each day until it doesn't. That's just the fucking way it is. And I don't like it. I have felt this coming all of my life though in the early days I din't know what was causing it. Now I know.

    Out here in the sticks is the best place to be, I guess, so I bide my time, try to stay busy (I don't like being a hunger slave neither) and thats about the best I can do. If it wasn't so nasty out I'd grab a weapon of some sort and go outside and raise some hell. Onward.

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    1. Keeping your mind busy is dangerous, in a way. You stay distracted. I'm of the mind the mind needs to wander, to connect unrelated facts. I dwell on many unproductive subjects that surprise me by linking together later. But, I understand that is how MY brain is wired. Not everybody's is.

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    2. It's 535. It is a "republic". Food, let history's recorders tell you about how it is all about FOOD. did you eat yesterday or the day before? Did you poop something out yesterday or today, yet? Yes it is about food. Being insulated by location or circumstances, for now, thy lucky brethren, is not a hall pass for the apocalypse. Bite thy tongue, the sharpness and boastfulness will surely bring wolves into the campsite.

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    3. Generally speaking, I think it is all about food.

      Of course, assuming you have water that won't kill you with dysentery...

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    4. 5:06-it only takes a population of two, and you are in danger. It is assumed boastfulness is on a sliding scale of danger, not an absolute.
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      7:05-anyone who doesn't boil water, or at least pasteurize ( the soy wax gauge ), deserved whatever Sir Darwin hands him on a silver platter.

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  5. "I'm overthinking it and I'll die shortly". ROFLMAO! No diamond ever shined so bright, no sun ever burned as hot.
    Thanks Lord Bison...my worries pale in comparison.

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    1. WiPeePo have been engineered to "overthink", so our infants have the best chance of enjoying another spring. There's nothing like having 2 YEARS of food and firewood stacked up in the shed and a heavy pouch of gold buried in the corner in case you have to run.

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    2. Oh. Well, good. I was worried overthinking was a bad thing. Now I can wallow in my excessive analysis. As can you all.

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  6. re:
    diet, grains, stims

    Bison, thank you for sharing your history. Times like these give me an opportunity to reflect.

    2011, I was at my heaviest, 215# with a 40# face. Not a pretty sight. Because I didn't know better, everything in our home was the Standard American Diet aka 'SAD'.

    SAD:
    Grains, corn chips, rancid oils, dairy, legumes such as peanut butter. All that and worse, all of it inflammatory.

    2011, my body was a wreck. Arthritis, allergies, asthma, brain fog, tooth decay. Glasses to read. Headphones to hear a telephone conversation. "Huh? Say again? Quit mumbling!"


    One day, I quit grains and dairy. I dropped 30# in thirty days. It was all water, edema from inflammation.

    With this success, I experimented with eliminating other, less obvious, problems in my diet. Omega 6 oils such as sunflower safflower soy corn. Corn syrup and sugars such as grains and alcohol.

    Another 20# vanished.

    I discovered a name for the goal I wanted == Paleo Primal.

    Using this template, I maxed my veggies with small amounts of animal protein.

    Since about 2012, my plate is two-thirds veggies with a palm-size amount of meat / fish... breakfast included.

    I aim for fifteen servings of veggies daily. To achieve this, my day starts with veggies.

    My favorite breakfast:
    Simmer a skillet of bone broth, add leftover veggies to warm. Crack in three duck eggs to poach. Sprinkle with a pinch of pink rock salt.

    I also switched from white 'table salt' to Himalayan pink salt and Keltic sea salt. These include supportive minerals with the real salt. As I understand it, table salt is manufactured with harsh chemicals (cyanide?, corn flour?), causing extreme contraction of blood vessels so they can quickly eliminate the poisons. This spikes blood pressure. Instead of eliminating the cause, your friendly neighborhood allopath prescribes additional poisons to counter the original poisons. This system is whack.

    I eliminated stims. No caffeine! The veggies seem to bypass the need for artificial stimulants. Friends and family say I am focused yet mellow.

    After I heard the problems with blue light from LEDs, I reduced my screen time on the computer. My mom had macular degeneration, and was as good as blind for her final decade. Since she was the adult, she refused to believe diet influences health.

    Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. I'm willing to give it a try. All the money in the world isn't worth poor health, blindness, and an early death.

    Since 2016, I only eat:
    Fresh local seasonal organic.

    My oils:
    Coconut, olive, avocado, and lots of them.

    By substituting veggies for empty fillers such as grains, I have no cravings for sweets or stims.

    I sound like I'm preaching. I can only say... this works for me and mine.

    Our dogs are Paleo, too.

    Some say organic is expensive.
    I cannot afford to consume the tons of petroleum-based pesticides and fertilizers we dump on crops.

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    1. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work for others. A uniform gov recognized diet is bullcrap. Whole grain worked for me, but I've seen too many people defy conventional wisdom to think it is universal. If you can eat the rabbit food, more power to you. Less I have to eat :)

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    2. Bit of a snarky retort James.

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    3. I thought I was being supportive. Just because I hate veggies doesn't mean she has to.

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    4. Be advised, due to genetics, AND, environmental upbringing there is a lot of personal diet regimens required for "happy health". Ignore all outside experts or advice. "go with your gut" is not just a phrase. When you push your overladden cart down the stupermarket aisles, just ask yourself, "really"?

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