Preppers: Who's Crazy Now?

google search-photobucket ^ | 10-31-2012

[tomkat]

Reading the underlying tone of 'nanny' in your several pontifications on this thread, some might reasonably wonder if you've not stumbled onto the wrong website.

IOW > what f'n business is it of yours that someone wants to pile up a bunch of Spam & beans out of their own resources ?

Does my two-week supply of survival essentials meet with your majesty's approval ?

Would you prefer it be listed on some register somewhere ?

Or that I pay a tax on it for all those silly enough to sit with thumb inserted, waiting on the nanny vans to come save their sorry asses ?

See, the problem with control freaks is they won't stop till they've bled you dry .. all for your own and everyone else's good of course .. and all by *their* whimsical standard of 'reasonable'.

             

[Godzilla]

food supplies that have a 20 year shelf life

And your problem with this is????? I've got some long term supplies in my mix and I'm not a wackjob.

1,000 doses of penicillin

Anyone you personally know or just expressing wackjob hyperbol.

50,000 rounds of ammo

Though I don't have that much - whats it to you? Doesn't make one a wackjob, perhaps got a good deal buying in bulk.

[Kartographer]

But then someone has to stand on the bridge waiting for FEMA to bring them a bottle of water, an MRE and a warm blanket so as to provide the Network Anchors their background ‘Money Shot’. I wonder how that will workout for them?

[PA Engineer]

I don’t have a problem with households having a few days worth of food and water on hand

Why would you have a problem with whatever people have on hand and particularly a deep larder?

[metmom]

As some unknown FReeper pointed out once a while back, this is the FIRST generation who considered preparing for whatever (like winter) out of the ordinary.

Our ancestors lives depended on them preparing for survival on a daily basis. THEY didn’t have the depend on someone else mentality that we have today. This culture is so spoiled rotten with its instant gratification mentality, that people presume that stores will ALWAYS have supplies and that supply lines with ALWAYS be open to replenish the shelves.

What myopic thinking.

[Kartographer]

I am betting he wouldn’t have a problem as long as their ‘shared’ with him.

[immadashell]

And when the gasoline runs out and my generator stops running, what will I have? Oh yeah, six solar panels, four deep cycle batteries, a charge controller and a 1500 watt inverter. Over the last two days I’ve decided to add two more batteries and get a 5,000 watt inverter. Keeps the freezer and the refrigerator running as long as the sun shows up occasionally.

[metmom]

I don’t have a problem with households having a few days worth of food and water on hand...particularly in anticipation of a big storm,for example.Same goes for a generator.It’s the 50,000 rounds of ammo,the nuclear-blast-proof basements and the weekly night-long drills that reveal some of them to be absolute whackjobs.

What a stinkin' control freak.

What (fill in the blank) business is it of yours if they do?

How does it affect you if they do? Are they hurting you? Imposing on YOUR First Amendment rights any? Trying to control YOU in any way?

Why is your business what other people want/like/choose to do with their own time, money, and resources?

What government agency do you work for?

And you know what, nobody really gives a flying rip what you have a problem with cause it's none of your business.

[ansel12]

I’m used to being questioned about the necessity of being prepared, and I am used to some friendly, good natured teasing, when one persons idea of being prepared is more or less than another persons, but I am surprised to run into someone who is actually against it, and takes the time on the internet to engage in mockery of such a basic part of human existence and family responsibility.

[rightly_dividing]

Yep, that would be me.

[PA Engineer]

I am betting he wouldn’t have a problem as long as their ‘shared’ with him.

I think the problem is far worse and involves a great deal of control and dependency. Those are not conservative values.

GSC may be referring to those that live to prepare versus those that prepare to live. Either way it is still a rather alarming position to take for a conservative.

[ansel12]

I should have reversed the names I posted to in post 49, since the post was really directed at Gay State Conservative and was to be read by Kartographer.

[JRandomFreeper]

It damages their worldview that nothing THAT bad could possibly happen that would require regular people to prepare to that extent. They react out of fear by striking out at those that damage their picture of the world.

Pretty simple. And simple-minded. The 20th century taught us a lot of lessons on just how frigging bad things can get.

/johnny

[metmom]

If the crap really does hit the oscillator, those on meds, dialysis and stuff are going to be some of the first to go

Me, too, likely.

That's why the best prep I've made is being right with my Maker.

I don't expect to live forever anyway, and after my brush with death during this MRSA infection, I'm ready to go anytime He wants.

[GeronL]

MRSA sounds horrible

I google it, the first pic was too much for me.

I hope you and yours are alright (otherwise).

[equaviator]

I was referring to people whose only way to get some power on for the short term is a gasoline-powered generator but it’s cool that you’re good to go for the long haul if it comes down to that.

[metmom]

It was hell. Very painful.

It appears that the infection has been beat, however, over a month later and I am still somewhat weak and tire easily.

I’ve had to give myself permission to baby myself and just lay around all day if I’m not feeling well. Relapses are NOT an option.

[Marcella]

Well, gee, Geron, I guess the storm wasn't just hype from the weather forecasters as you said it was. Maybe some people believed you and didn't prepare.

There are millions hurting right now and many lost everything they had, including their houses totally burned to the ground or totally destroyed by water. Millions are without power, but eventually that will come back. I hope they all had preps to get through this.

[GeronL]

I never said there was no storm.

I said the hyperbole was over the top.

It was.

I never said the storm was anything but a big, serious Category 1, barely, storm.

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm ready to go anytime He wants.

After that bad fall from the mountain during the blizzard in 2009, I was just a little disappointed to wake up in the hospital a few days later. I thought I was going Home. I'm with you. Number one prep is get right with the Lord.

Of course, my normal lifestyle is pretty much turn-key prepper. I buy in bulk anyway, and I put up stuff grown in the garden and feral pigs every fall. What you were talking about as the 'old ways', has been my lifestyle for years.

/johnny