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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/29/apocalypse-survival-guide-tanya-gold

In light of all the survival stuff lately, this one is rather funny..


Excerpts:
> The apocalyptic norm - see 28 Days Later and Survivors - is for 
> survivors to sit in desirable country mansions, eat tinned tomatoes, 
> develop post-traumatic psychosis and shoot each other. Never in any 
> apocalyptic scenario in any movie I have seen - and I have seen them 
> all - does anyone try to live off the land. They prefer to feed on 
> the crumbs of the lost civilisation. It never works. How can you 
> rebuild civilisation with tinned tomatoes? You need to grow your own 
> food.
<snip>
> How to shoot a deer with a bow and arrow
>
> Deer are sensitive to human noise and smell. If you stomp through the
>  wood with a bow and arrow you will never find one. Find out where
> the deer are going to be - they often walk the same way to the same 
> place.


By the way, I read y'alls comments about survivalists...it was enough to
make me want to unsub since I came to this list as a survivalist.  You
guys aren't very tolerant of us survivor types and you forget that
people can change.  My motivation to be far and away, to learn new
skills, to live differently, was originally a survivalist's motivation,
but along the way, I fell in love...people do change, you know.  Just
like some find this lifestyle out of economic necessity, but later, when
times are better, they press on even though they could afford to live
differently.  People change.

Bev

--
"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