here for my health

HERE FOR MY HEALTH


Before we start today I have to apologize profusely, fall to my knees and plead and whine for forgiveness. You know I won’t sleep tonight if you deny me. As you know, whenever someone tries to pressure me and wants a timeline for collapse, the only answer I have for them is that the first payday after my child support is finished the economy will collapse completely. The reason for this is surely quite evident. The Gods are not satisfied that I should ever fully enjoy the fruits of my labors. I’m not talking about taxation. Just keeping 80% would feel like a victory to me. But I understand. How am I expected to have the fully developed character necessary to slay the vast legions of marauding Californians if I spend my life wallowing in luxury, wealth and decadence? Anyway, I had given the wrong date for the event, I believe August. That was my bad and I apologize. My sons birthday is in August but he will graduate the first week of June, 2012. So expect the collapse right around mid June of that year. You have been warned.

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Generally when a loyal minion leaves an incredible comment, so utterly astounding that for a second my heart stops and I gaze at it with sightless eyes, the moisture drying due to lack of blinking, I feel a bit bad for them and while that doesn’t stop me from being all snide and hurtful I at least just paraphrase them and try to save them embarrassment from everyone else in the classroom. Well, it is Monday and I’m not feeling that nice, so here is the quote, “So what do you want us to do? Run screaming down the street crying. I’m for the idea that some smart person well come up with something to replace oil. Desperate times breed innovation. RW” Okay, I actually don’t intend any disrespect here. It isn’t exactly a stupid statement. Modern history does reinforce it. But it does provide today’s article, for which I am grateful. Okay, granted, the statement does seem a little odd on a survivalist blog. Aren’t we supposed to panic about everything, then take steps to limit our exposure to it? Isn’t that what survivalism/prepping is all about? So I think it is just saying, why worry about Peak Oil if some other energy comes along? Let’s worry about Yellowstone or Great Depression Two or whatever. I can understand that since we all have our favorite Doomsday scenario. My favorite is of course Peak Oil. But I could be wrong. I don’t mind being wrong. In fact I would welcome it. It doesn’t matter if I’m wrong because your preps won’t go to waste. If you plan for total grid down and nothing happens, you are still prepared for economic collapse or space alien invasion. If you have enough grain for civilization collapsing and all we get is an outbreak of UG99 wheat rust, you still come out ahead of the game. Look, I’m not here for my health. I’m writing because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that being prepared is an absolute necessity. The form of collapse or calamity is secondary. Granted, you need direction for your planning which can only be provided by affixing the proper lens to your outlook, but being right isn’t necessary as long as you are prepared for the unexpected.

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Let’s just say for a second that something like the mining of natural gas hydrates comes along to save us from Peak Oil. I don’t know enough about it to say one way or another. I do know it causes quite a bit of concern amongst the Gaia Huggers. Something about the process getting away from us and releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases which inject a nitro blast of fuel into the Gore Warming process. Of course, even if that is true which you can’t say for certain since the idiots have fouled their own nest by continuously over hyping dangers of everything from aerosol cans to cow crap, that won’t stop the powers that be from using the fuel. They have too much ridding on the status quo, namely their own comfort and bank account. If a few billion people die they will think nothing of it. Better for them, so they can go back to dinning on seafood without worrying about Somali pirates catching their fair share to avoid protein deficiencies. But lets assume the hydrates are successfully captured and we don’t all die in the process ( frankly, I can’t think of anything else that will replace oil and still stay close to providing our current level of comfort or riches ). Even then, there are still plenty of threats to us from overpopulation, asteroid impact, super volcanoes. Or, just assume the current economic collapse never stops. Surely we can agree that this is all reality and no apocalypse fantasy.

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There is every reason to think bad times are just ahead. It doesn’t have to be Peak Oil. But by assuming Peak Oil is a reality and preparing for no cars or electric power, you are prepared for other calamities such as being reduced to living in a crime ridden Third World country. Being right doesn’t matter as much as being prepared for…whatever.

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