[Homestead] was british- now Bev's realization
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Wed Feb 4 00:05:23 EST 2009
bobf wrote:
> Bev, what You wrote below is descriptive of sudden personal
> enlightenment.
I would not say it was sudden, though.
I grew up with a garden in a very frugal family. I was changing brakes
on a VW bus when I was ten, for example. While my family lived in
suburban Atlanta, I had relatives who farmed, and we visited them
several times a year. There were influences, in other words. At the
time, I just saw those influences not as a choice that someone made, but
as a statement of lifestyle...they lived on a farm just as I lived in a
neighborhood...it was all part of the variety of things. In a similar
way, I was always environmentally minded, but never thought about
'living green'. I just think there were a confluence of ideas that this
list put together for me, and suddenly, I had a solution to the dreams
that haunted me, but that solution also felt right.
>
> The game really is rigged. To teach a child, today, about honesty
> and good will; forgiveness and trust is to turn that child into an
> easy mark. Those lessons should certainly be taught but with the
> proviso that they only apply with family and the familie's immediate
> circle of friends. Outside that circle they should be taught the way
> the world really works.
I know you are not alone with that belief, but I am not that cynical
yet. It is a crazy, idiotic, mixed up world, but I still think you have
to teach a child to do the right thing by people, even if they are
outside the 'circle of trust'.<g>
>
> There are pitiful souls hoping that everything crashes, so that they
> will finally, for once in their mediocre life, be right. But that is
> a fool's dream. There will be no safety except in might, just as it
> has always been. Go visit Atlanta on a Friday night, walk the
> streets -- you are looking at the future.
My best friend wants to introduce me to Ikea in downtown Atlanta on
Thursday. I have no interest in going.
As to hoping that everything crashes, I do know that many 'survivalists'
seem to want that, but I never did. I was truly afraid that "whatever"
would happen before I was prepared. I certainly never wanted to be
right, because life wasn't a bowl of cherries in my dreams. It was more
like Hell, pain and suffering-not something you wish for.
>
> People say "well, I 'll stay here protected by this silly hill, or
> I'll buy tons of ammo and beans. These are the thoughts of foolish
> men
It is an illusion, really.
All the guns in the world won't stop a virus or a bacterial plague. All
the food is worthless once irradiated. All the preparations are
meaningless if the rest of your family is gone.
>
> Me; if things become that bad; I'll join up with the roughest group I
> can find, cheer right along with the leader as they pillage, and one
> night cut his g-dd-mn throat and take his place.
That's horrible, Bob. I wouldn't have thought that of you.
I don't know what to say.
lready.
>
> I've seen 'pure' animalistic barbarity; it isn't something taught in
> civics courses. I belive, at the rate I'm going , I'll be out of the
> city, next spring. Like you wrote 'my eyes were opened'. I will do
> what I must and what I choose. If a rule or law inconveniences me,
> well, I just don't care anymore; I'll do as I please.
Careful there, or you will see the people you fear in the mirror.
>
> I have been steadily working on my refuge. I figured out how to do
> it with absolutely no connection to me and where I will be; and I
> still have options as far as the destination. It isn't easy,
> actually, it's pretty complicated, and a bit pricey. But, I so long
> for absolute privacy, and now that I have developed a way to realize
> that mission, I'm working at it daily.
That sounds promising. Want to share any details?
B
--
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"
~ Calvin Coolidge
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