The Bug Out Bag.

[Ducimus]

I have to wonder if any of these doomsday preppers have looked at the larger picture.

So lets say you stock up provisions to last X amount of time. Ok, then what are you gonna do when those run out? Bug out...ok, where to? And for how long? Is it sustainable?

Sustainability is i think the operative word here with the bigger picture. You can do all the preperations you want, but long term, if your not in a sustainable situation, your only putting off the inevitable.

[Betonov]

The best advice when it comes to nuclear war:

DON'T SURVIVE !!!

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Sustainability is i think the operative word here with the bigger picture. You can do all the preperations you want, but long term, if your not in a sustainable situation, your only putting off the inevitable.

That's true. Maybe people want to have that little bit of hope that maybe if they
survive long enough everything will be ok again.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Dowly

That's true. Maybe people want to have that little bit of hope that maybe if they
survive long enough everything will be ok again.

Sure, in a natural disaster, where everything turns crappy for a 1 to 3 months. However most of this doomsday prepping seems to be on the mindset that it's the end of everything as we know it, forever, or at the least for several years.

Insert Red dawn, mad max, references here.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Sure, in a natural disaster, where everything turns crappy for a 1 to 3 months. However most of this doomsday prepping seems to be on the mindset that it's the end of everything as we know it, forever, or at the least for several years.

Insert Red dawn, mad max, references here.

Just take into consideration the physiological effect that a complete "end" would have as well all (or most) of your friends and family would be dead for starters and now you are stuck in a world where after your stash runs out you are going to have to survive from living off of the land if that is even possible and that you actually really know how to.

You are stuck in a world were most other humans may be very willing to kill or rape or even eat you sure you have guns but could you handle the physiological effect of dealing with this every day the fact that you might die at any moment could you actually even kill someone and if you did how would you handle the physiological effect after words?Will you be pushed to be as ruthless?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Just take into consideration the physiological effect that a complete "end" would have as well all (or most) of your friends and family would be dead for starters and now you are stuck in a world where after your stash runs out you are going to have to survive from living off of the land if that is even possible and that you actually really know how to.

You are stuck in a world were most other humans may be very willing to kill or rape or even eat you sure you have guns but could you handle the physiological effect of dealing with this every day the fact that you might die at any moment could you actually even kill someone and if you did how would you handle the physiological effect after words?Will you be pushed to be as ruthless?

Knowing myself, physiologically, id be doing two things.
- unplugging
- compartmentalizing

I know this, cause i've already done it in the past. I honestly think once you've done that, your capable of anything. It took me a few years to undo that mental conditioning (more like defense mechanism). Now here's the thing that i don't know. Would i give up? I know i'm capable of accepting the situation , dealing with it, and pressing on. However, in a situation where pressing on is my decision to make and not one made for me, (where quiting was never an option) would i say to myself, "Well, this is it, it ain't getting any better. It's a world of excrement, and it just aint worth the struggle to continue.". Would i say that to myself (and i can see myself thinking it) put my pistol to my head and put myself out of my misery? Or would i fight on? THAT, i don't know.



As an aside, along with us on the doomsday train is National Geographic. If you have an hour and a half to kill, they have this interesting ehh.. documentary? Someone posted on youtube.

"In the year 2210, scientists uncover the ruins of a great civilization - so powerful one could argue it dwarfed anything that came before it. Sifting through the wreckage of cities overtaken by the desert and swallowed up by the sea, they piece together a remarkable story of collapse - the story of what on Earth happened to us."


Yeah, lets see someone doomsday prep for THAT.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Knowing myself, physiologically, id be doing two things.
- unplugging
- compartmentalizing

I know this, cause i've already done it in the past. I honestly think once you've done that, your capable of anything. It took me a few years to undo that mental conditioning (more like defense mechanism). Now here's the thing that i don't know. Would i give up? I know i'm capable of accepting the situation , dealing with it, and pressing on. However, in a situation where pressing on is my decision to make and not one made for me, (where quiting was never an option) would i say to myself, "Well, this is it, it ain't getting any better. It's a world of excrement, and it just aint worth the struggle to continue.". Would i say that to myself (and i can see myself thinking it) put my pistol to my head and put myself out of my misery? Or would i fight on? THAT, i don't know.



As an aside, along with us on the doomsday train is National Geographic. If you have an hour and a half to kill, they have this interesting ehh.. documentary? Someone posted on youtube.

"In the year 2210, scientists uncover the ruins of a great civilization - so powerful one could argue it dwarfed anything that came before it. Sifting through the wreckage of cities overtaken by the desert and swallowed up by the sea, they piece together a remarkable story of collapse - the story of what on Earth happened to us."


Yeah, lets see someone doomsday prep for THAT.

Hard to say on the suicide thing in such a situation surely the feeling would come to mind it is a true unknown until one is in that moment having experienced what they have in such a world gone to hell.

I recall that NatGeo show for such a thing no matter if you prepped or not you would sooner or latter be truly fighting to survive to say the least.

[yubba]

Suicide is for quitters, I can't wait too see, investers jumpin from the roof tops, I bet it will look like leaves falling from the trees on a nice autumn day.