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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Nature says 'the strong', not necessarily 'the prepared' will 
survive............

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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld  -- feel free to ignore
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:48 PM
> Bob, be it TEOTWAWKI or WTSHTF, either is going to mean a
> lot of loss of lives and a complete change in how folks
> live.  The nanny state will die, as it should.  Those who
> are prepared and can adjust to the changing times will
> survive, those who aren't prepared and can't OR
> won't adjust to the changing times, will not survive. 
> The world has become one big pyramid scheme and pyramid
> schemes don't work for long.
> 
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford"
> <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> > Let us then leave alone the 'gold' discussion
> and go to your idea which I now believe is what makes, for
> you,  gold or any 'money' irrelevant. Correct me
> where I am mis-reading you.
> > 
> > By what you wrote below, and similar other of your
> writings, you seem to be in that group that really believes
> in the hard core version of TEOTWAWKI.  For most people in
> this country and most of the devoped world do 'earn
> their keep, 'shuffling' blips on a computer, or
> papers in an office, or otherwise "ass-sitter"
> professions and jobs; Or , they do simple service-industry
> jobs to service and provide for the shufflers and
> ass-sitters.  What are all of those people going to do?  Are
> we all going to kill each other?  Are we all going to start
> indivdual homesteads or communal 'communes' ?  Is
> the gov't going to just disappear?
> > 
> > I'll be honest, right now, the
> 'productive' of the ass-sitters still seem, to me,
> to be doing better than those who actually use theri
> physical labor to earn their keep.  I see, as you do, very
> bad things coming.  But, I'm not sure I see a total
> 'collapse'.
> > 
> > We came back after the North invaded our lands.  The
> Japanese came back after we made their living g-d bow to our
> bombs; the germans came back after we carpet-bombed them
> into nothingness.  And, we all became more
> 'ass-sittish' , not less.
> > 
> > I'm trying to follow your argument to its logical
> end.  The self-reliant homestead ideal is still the most
> promising, regardless of how everything really ends.  But, I
> still have a space of time with which to deal and with which
> to plan, for a true and for a back-up.....................