Comments are once again open to anyone. But I'm going to keep it from getting too stupid. The rough rule- say anything you want about me and my ideas. Keep it civil about other people, though. And no racist crap, you friggin idiots. Let the games begin.
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I'm a new follower. Have enjoyed your blogs and learned some things already, even bought one of your ebooks the other day. Don't worry about me. I am old school and always respect you and others whether I agree with you or not. Keep writing, I will keep reading :-)
cool, i can start posting again. i couldn't do the account thing because it just seemed like tptb could track me so much more easily. although i still think dakin is working for the man and secretly reporting all of us. just kidding. maybe.
-dutch
The system here is a motherfucker to post on. Can we say motherfucker?
As I keep repeating, the Internet is dying. Use it all you can to sell your ebooks and so on, but eventually this modern shit is gonna be GONE and by "eventually" I mean maybe only a couple of years.
quite interesting article. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did you guys learn that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.
I think you need an iPhone or something to use twitter and I don't have one. Fuck 'em.
Finally I can post. Couldn't get it to work before.
After the SHTF, one of the best come-on lines will be "would you like to take a hot shower".
Remember that guys when getting your preps together.
Idaho Girl
Oldsubotai, the Boss wrote, "Keep it civil about other people, though"...so I shall proceed to CIVILLY tear strips from you.
I accuse you, Sir, of: rudeness, unfairness and intellectual dishonesty!
You make a good point of survivalists getting their itty bitty feelings hurt but Mister - you go way over the line.
You completely ignore/misunderstand the value of Jim's blog. I love reading these blogs but oh - goodness gracious - how SERIOUSLY some people take themselves. Jim is the exception. Please tell me one blog Sir, where the authour will admit to having screwed up enormously? Jim even admits that, in a decline (as opposed to a collapse) Elko may not be the place to live.
With Jim, we get: subversive humour, outlandish opinions and - most importantly - an idea of what it's LIKE to live frugally. Did you ever read, as a kid, George Orwell's, "Down and Out in Paris and London" - it's good! To me, Jim's blog is a version for our times.
If Jim's decision to cut back is, in any way, due to your criticism...well, then your point is correct, he's too sensitive. I say though, that this is one gentle desert flower that we readers should nurture and I, for one, can do without your bitterness!
We have had a very harsh winter reminding me that shelter is a big deal. A lot of us cling to our suburban home because we need a substantial house just to stand up to the extremes of weather. There are "McMansions", but a lot of homes are defensible and made of good materials and can be retrofitted to be without natural gas and without electricity. Also, for an extended family, we need a lot of room.
I think survival involves a lot more than a simplistic going out into the middle of nowhere, buying guns, and storing food and band-aids. We need other people to survive. We need a community of skills. I can see prepping food for a year or so and even guns and bandaids to tie us over in a catastrophic emergency. However, for a long emergency, we need each other.
Jim Dakin is "close" to living the life, but he still is at the edge of town and works at a job. His supposed independence is illusory (and he knows this and has written about this). How long can he really last closer to the river and with fewer contacts with people?
I greatly agree that one of Dakin's best qualities is his honesty and openess. That he has intelligence and imagination and the willingness to try out his ideas in actual life makes reading his blog a great and valuable use of time.
Jim, my mother taught me if you don't have anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything, so.....
YAHOO! Open comments! Let the good times roll!
Klaus the Grand Accuser.
Oldsubotai the sensitive vet.
cj428 the donkey molester.
How's the weather in Africa Jim.Everybody knows that you are really in Africa.
Bison African Trailer Park.
Thanks for the anonymous comment enabled - I've been keeping up as a loyal Bison Minion member for years. Gets sometimes frustrating to not be able to chime in when I have something that I can contribute.
Trolls are pita though, I totally understand why you'd want to not have to moderate their comments out. Life's just too damn short.
Did I delete any of the above? No. And OldS is correct. If I can't take his crap, I shouldn't give him any. I guess by civil I mean don't go totally out of control. I'm reserving the option of censorship in case it goes there again, like before I put in the need to sign in. My choice is to limit comments to just a few, or to reserve the right to censor. I only need to do that if it gets stupid. Several regular readers, who I call loyal minions out of a sense of fun not from its literal translation, complained of the difficulty logging in to comments. I changed things for them, not the occassional troll. I started allowing comments hating any censorship, and I still do. But keeping a lot of comments out might be a form of that also. I'm picking the lessor of evils. Not perfect, like most everything. Well, except my hair.
Alright!! instead of having to re reg for the umpteeth time I can slide in as annyoneofus.
Although I recently chimed in with somebody about how taking a shower with a low $ and tech methodology was not fit for consideration by "his worthyness". I recant that statement.
Recently I ran into the brick wall that some folks need ALL the help they can get.
I will now do the "Jim was right" dance. Forgive me O great one, for questioning your ways and guidence..
My boss seems to have some kind of interdimensional mind sheild that allows her to tolerate and actually assist my survprepper deviance from the norm. But information that should induce screaming panic seems to get sucked into a black hole somewhere. It doesn't translate into much action on her part unless you count getting new carpet for the living room, and repapering, and painting and buying hallway throw rugs and new curtain rods, [get my drift here] as preps of some sort.
I wanted to use shotguns for curtain rods in the upstairs hallway and got vetoed... could have at least used 3/4" iron waterpipes with crushed ramen noodles encapsulated within.[or somethin]. Stacks of silver dimes, if we'd get some maybe.
C57
Old Subotai,
How is "Old Subotai" any more telling, any less anonymous, than . . . well, "Anonymous?" It's the interwebs. 95% of the people are average Joes, for good or for ill. Then there are some absolute nutters out there.
Why do you think you're not one of the "anonymous cowards?" Because you reveal that you're 58, an Aries, you like booze, food and smokes, were born in the year of the Rabbit, and that your income comes from people forced to pay at gunpoint?
Really?
You shouldn't be so quick to create more enfield groupies. Otherwise that .303 may be harder to find and cost a few more shillings.
This should be interesting. I tried having them open for awhile and it just didn't work well. Good luck to you.
Here is where I am confused:
If you do not like what the man has to say, why would you waste your time coming to read his blog?
I find some of the phrases he chooses unusual, and I oftentimes wonder if he might get different results with a different approach at times, but then I think "No, I hope he doesn't change it" because I'm tired of reading the same thing over and over. I enjoy a different 'voice'.
Nobody here is forced to read the blog. If you don't like it, then read a blog that you do like!
Bret
Jim, thanks for restoring the open comments, most appreciated.
There's a little disconnect between a no-frills survival blog, and the high tech you-have-to-have-a-cellphone-to-receive-your-Google-Account-Identity-Activation-Code. This is much better.
Bummer that you have to "censor", but there's a lesson in that -- there is no shortage of predators, including people who want to subvert your space for their own nefarious purposes. I hope you can take joy in sweeping out the shit comments.
Mousse
Oldsubotai,
Please answer the question. It is the second time I've asked it, and the second time you've ignored and/or skirted around it.
Now, in response to your questions.
Your occupation says "military." I didn't say anything about your disabled status when it comes to your income. Nobody, disabled or not, has a right to an income that was taken, at gunpoint, or the threat of gunpoint, from innocent people.
I'd be more than happy, once the State stops robbing me, to donate to the support of any disabled people. I say this in all humility, only because I don't want you to think "once the State stops" means I don't already: I already do donate a decent sum to worthy causes, despite the State's robbery.
You think you know all you need to about me because you made a rash judgment?
I'm going to explain something, so listen well:
I don't want to "give" (surrender at gunpoint) the State any money because they use it to do atrocious things to innocent people. It funds unnecessary wars. It carpet bombs cities like Tokyo, Dresden and Hamburg. Its "welfare" system creates more poverty. More broken families. Its "War on Drugs" (just like the war on alcohol) creates more violence than it prevents. It funds abortions. It shoots innocent people in the head over 1/2'' of metal tube. It arrests them for malum prohibitum nonsense, including peacably carrying a firearm without a permission slip. It burns down buildings that house 80 men, women and children in a game-show atmosphere, because they allegedly had State-unapproved weapons. (They didn't.)
It takes over corporations, and bails out already filthy-rich, corrupt, mis-managing CEOs. It destroys the value of your money through inflation. It confiscates your real money. It tells you how much water your crapper may have in it. It tells you what YOU may build on YOUR property, upon which it makes you pay the rent of "property tax." It mismanages and destroys every enterprise it gets its tentacles upon.
You want an entity that treats people like garbage? Enslaves them in drafts, literally calls them "property," re-ups their enlistment, failing to hold up their side of the contract? Tells them to kill people who never posed a threat to them, in order to line the pockets of manufacturers? (Read 2-time Medal of Honor recipient USMC General Smedley Butler's "War Is Hell" speech if you don't take my word for it.) Lets their limbs get blown up, give a healthy number of them horrible socialist-style care in the VA? That entity is called the State.
THAT, SIR, is why I don't want to "give" money to the State.
But I'd be more than happy to donate to a cause which helps any victims of the State, whether they were unjustly injured overseas, or unnecessarily injured in its service.
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