tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post2951431774142265892..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: in retrospectJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-38096474163930819022017-11-28T12:49:57.197-08:002017-11-28T12:49:57.197-08:00I couldn't even see belonging to a survival co...I couldn't even see belonging to a survival community, as much as I disagree with most "normal" conventional wisdom. The armed ones are too stupid with long term planning food wise and the food sufficient are stupid about being armed, anyway.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-67840479827038157732017-11-28T12:46:51.217-08:002017-11-28T12:46:51.217-08:00Roads. Everyone thinks they own MY roads!Roads. Everyone thinks they own MY roads!James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-74485933691591567872017-11-28T09:30:14.458-08:002017-11-28T09:30:14.458-08:00I have 2 neighbors in a 2 mile radius. I still hav...I have 2 neighbors in a 2 mile radius. I still have so much traffic on the road that I cant work for 4 hours on the land without at least 4 vehicles going past during harvest and fishing/hunting seasons at least. <br />3 miles to pavement and an additional 5 miles to town doesn't keep the bicyclists and atv's away either. <br />Fortunately I have lots of concealed nooks and crannies behind hills and such on my land, but everything in sight of the road has been noted and probably discussed in local town gossip. JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-66714518007244962732017-11-28T09:23:11.623-08:002017-11-28T09:23:11.623-08:00Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
As long as One is...Maslow's hierarchy of needs.<br />As long as One is CURRENTLY fed, clothed, sheltered, not threatened with physical violence, one WILL address needs of belongingness, love, esteem, (aka tribal status) and maybe eventually self-actualization. In our current society there is so little need for preps beyond the occasional hurricane or wildfire type bug out that we work on tribal 'belonging' well ahead of other survival preparations. AND we are so busy running the 'rat race treadmill' for tribal status (belonging) that we seldom have time for self-actualization that we could be using to improve our survivalist preps.<br /><br />Only with 'survivalist' type communities does one have any chance at actually working toward real long term preps. Such communities have to remain virtual for lots of reasons and frequently (IMHO) turn either political and stupid, or just cultish and stupid. JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-62816923793725689002017-11-28T06:06:07.289-08:002017-11-28T06:06:07.289-08:00Love the quote. Now I could read Churchill with n...Love the quote. Now I could read Churchill with new understanding!James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-35670617829871107332017-11-28T06:04:48.153-08:002017-11-28T06:04:48.153-08:00Everyone is a friggin comedian. A+ for phonics. ...Everyone is a friggin comedian. A+ for phonics. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-20090171113688059162017-11-27T22:55:38.436-08:002017-11-27T22:55:38.436-08:00Don't be too hard on yourself, Jim. I think yo...Don't be too hard on yourself, Jim. I think you've done well.<br /><br />George Orwell wrote, " A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats".Klausnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-37202772288194334462017-11-27T19:58:37.098-08:002017-11-27T19:58:37.098-08:00ah reely lik yur websit ewe hav reely gud eyedeas...ah reely lik yur websit ewe hav reely gud eyedeas<br />an sum reely smart peeple hear two. ahs lik to ahsk sum<br />udvice. Ah leeve inn partment un kan git lots un lots uv drier lint. thinks it wud bee gud barter ting to stuckpile?<br /><br />going tal all my frends bout thes plase!<br /><br />sune ewe hav miny more minyons, ahskin luts uv kwestshuns!<br /><br />Hokay?<br /><br />ew! ulmust firgit hare berry but-e-ful o grate wun!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-41192889892638234282017-11-27T18:39:39.154-08:002017-11-27T18:39:39.154-08:00The land I settled was six miles to work, which I ...The land I settled was six miles to work, which I biked for seven years, in the cold and dark. I traded the expense of a car for that. I think I made the right choice all things considered. Four extra miles a day, twenty minutes, no car. Instead I ended up with another chunk of land, one mile from the river. Which wasn't anywhere near that crowded-I started with about five or six neighbors within a mile radius. Many more later on-double perhaps ( now about triple-but I wonder if some will move as the town dies )? Not bad, for the area. Here, they didn't cluster near natural water but city water.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-34284994776825971042017-11-27T15:29:52.185-08:002017-11-27T15:29:52.185-08:00Rather than biking the 4 miles and then driving 10...Rather than biking the 4 miles and then driving 10, I’d of compromised and got a 4WD mini truck, or a Subaru, or the such. The biking 4 miles in the winter time when it’s dark, and in freezing weather, would have sucked rather badly. It’s retrospect I know, but it might help someone else pondering a similar decision. <br /><br />The $3k extra for land with a source of water and food does sound rather appealing. The one issue that I see is that land near water will tend to be more populated. And if it isn’t pre-collapse, it will be post collapse. I’d probably put the $3k towards a large capacity cistern on the remote parcel, that would provide a year round source of water. <br /><br /><br />“But few of us want the perfect retreat, with thirty years of food and ammo. We want to enjoy a reasonably normal life, which doesn’t mean complete seclusion.”<br /><br /><br />I thought that complete seclusion was the only way that you could live a reasonably normal life anymore? :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-60965274060027159532017-11-27T14:47:27.869-08:002017-11-27T14:47:27.869-08:00Hmmm, perhaps that isn't the best way to put i...Hmmm, perhaps that isn't the best way to put it. Even those who adamantly believe they will need it in this lifetime STILL minimize the cost ( at least compared to other things such as rent, vehicle, entertainment, spouse/girlfriend, etc. ). I might have minimized living expenses and maximized stockpiling, but I never minimized to the point I could have. We are still ruled in our budget by White People Problems. Even now, at two or three hundred a month income, I could find a way to go to a better place and have better storage. I choose not to, minimizing the insurance cost. I'm sure none of us can claim to be truly paying the real cost of better insurance.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-342768512543380762017-11-27T14:00:38.261-08:002017-11-27T14:00:38.261-08:00>>As I’ve said, prepping isn’t an investment...>>As I’ve said, prepping isn’t an investment, it is a cost.<<<br />All insurance is a cost - until you need it. <br />How much you are willing to pay toward a cost that you can completely control but may never need is the only real issue. JJGreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708302086326564665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-64723149379289958742017-11-27T12:26:23.890-08:002017-11-27T12:26:23.890-08:00I wonder how much the TV show SWAT influenced the ...I wonder how much the TV show SWAT influenced the AR Porn People? Here is the theme song:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFijg_Tnn7MJames M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-80406685585438827072017-11-27T12:08:28.213-08:002017-11-27T12:08:28.213-08:00>>As I’ve said, prepping isn’t an investment...>>As I’ve said, prepping isn’t an investment, it is a cost.<br /><br />Why haven't I realized this before ? It's both brilliant and evident. All you're saving is your life, which evidently you can't resell to anybody, hence it's not an investment.<br /><br />It's money spent living, in all acceptances of the word. Prepping is a rewarding hobby, I get more out of it than wasting ten times the money to go to crowded dancefloors (it shows my age, I've heard those places basically all shut down since everything happens on screens nowadays). Not to piss on anyone's parade, some people live for their annual Burning Man festival etc., that their business and thank God we don't have to live like your company-sponsored TV , sorry, I wanted to say, social media tell you to. The Sixties were a long time ago. (Back when the AR-15 was a novelty and we didn't invent wheels on suitcases yet, it was a primitive and brutish time to be alive).Avehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06508223217305671728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-56963080235785810922017-11-27T09:34:10.112-08:002017-11-27T09:34:10.112-08:00The Yuppie Scum strategy is kind of like basing st...The Yuppie Scum strategy is kind of like basing strategy on tactics rather than the other way around. "Since I need credit and a high wage to finance preps, only a complete overnight collapse is possible". I see my preps as impossible to accomidate what most likely will happen. Rwanda and Serbia, plus trade embargo, plus grid down, but surrounded by federal forces. The worst of all worlds. How long I'll last as a geriatric guerrilla fighter is anyone's guess. That is IF I get the chance to survive the initial collapse. James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-81405903629595260242017-11-27T09:10:22.916-08:002017-11-27T09:10:22.916-08:00WOW, a lot of brutal honesty in this blog. Its ha...WOW, a lot of brutal honesty in this blog. Its hard to look back at 40 years of being an adult( that's me NOT you) and not sugar coat it. That's just our nature as humans. After the first wife passed away, I considered a lot of options but settled on a Fl. panhandle city of medium size to be close to kids and since I still needed to work I had the option of working self employed with a firm I had worked with before. I meet my NOL and I'm grateful to have her in my life. I'm in a area that is full of military people that after a collapse will have not problem blowing me away if I have something they need. I live in a indefensible home, but at 60 how long will I survive after TEOTWAWKI. My preps are really only to survive a waterfall event that does not end in complete collapse (at that moment). I do not think that the Idaho (yuppie scum)survivalist concept of a instant complete collapse is logical. We have been on a long path downward and it might take a plunge off the cliff in 2018 but it might just be bop along for for 3- 10 years. I'd be 70 then. How much wood do you think I can chop and split at 70 lol. The NOL is type 1 diabetic. How long will she last with no insulin? 5 months...12 months? My point is like you, I have made my decisions and it is what is. I have at least indoctrinated 3 of my 4 kids to have a concept of prepping and NOT believe the media or the State. solarmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06003692871460203126noreply@blogger.com