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specialpeopleclub said: People think humanity is increadably fragile
It is in the grand scheme of things. We only survive on a very delicate balance. The only thing that's really on our side is that global catastrophes just don't happen "all the time" in relation to our life spans, or even our species' entire existence on this planet. We haven't survived this long because of how invulnerable we are. We've survived through pure chance, luck and probability.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22056063 - 08/06/15 11:08 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It may be. We may have suck a vast system that someone somewhere will survive most anything. Maybe a huge agreculteral crisis could do it. No, we survived because we are adaptable. Humans sure hate humanity. Saying it is all chance is wrong.
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Anyone else preparing for a global catastrophe?
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22056094 - 08/06/15 11:24 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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What's the point.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22056125 - 08/06/15 11:36 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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What do you mean?
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22056129 - 08/06/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Anyone else preparing for a global catastrophe?
nope... the pope declaring himself emperor of he world and abolishing all physical currency in exchange for Virtual PopeBux® sounds like the start of a better world, how can one possibly prepare for this to be a disaster
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22056132 - 08/06/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Anyone else preparing for a global catastrophe?
I hate to think it's going to come to that and all my daily efforts are for nothing
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22056191 - 08/07/15 12:04 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: What do you mean?
Well global catastrophe is generally something so bad, that no amount of prepping is really going to matter (on the small scale anyways. If you build a bunker a mile into a mountain and stock it with years of necessities, then it might be different). Those who have the luck, skill or influence to survive it, will.
How can you really prep for something before you even know it is. You can stock pile the necessities, but there are a number of scenarios where all that stock piling won't really mean shit. You'll need to get out and won't be able to take much anyways. In fact I'm willing to bet whatever someone did to prep before hand, would most likely be made moot after the catastrophe happened.
That's all assuming the catastrophe is even anything you'd survive after the event happened.
I have a couple of guns and a few thousand rounds of ammo, but that shit is heavy as hell. There is no way I'd be able take it all with me if I needed to get out fast. Water is pretty much the same. Couldn't really take much. If the world is in anarchy and all supply lines are cut and everyone has to fend for themselves, what you have in your bug out bag won't matter much. You need a way to defend yourself and you definitely need water to go for more than a few days. So unless you have the skill or luck to obtain it in the first place, you're just screwed.
tl;dr if you can't get what you need after the catastrophe, you're just fucked to begin with. No point in trying to prepare.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22056200 - 08/07/15 12:07 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Makes you wish you had a gun to shoot yourself to prevent this from all happening.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22056208 - 08/07/15 12:10 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Knowing survival skills will benifit you much more than a bug out bag, alghough thst can help. I have some stuff that would be great to grab. A bow, a basic water fliter(it will filter out any bacteria or parasites) and a backoack with some food. Also a lighter would be great.
I know quite a variety of survival skills including foraging and hunting. Preparing is only the first step. If you want to survive a long period of time, you need to know how to survive.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Achillita]
#22056467 - 08/07/15 02:17 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Konyap] 1
#22056471 - 08/07/15 02:20 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I always thought that cannibalism is a good survival strategy once the trucks stop driving. Just don't eat the brain, or you'll get the shakes.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Turtletotem]
#22056493 - 08/07/15 02:30 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Human probably tastes terrible, or there'd be more cannibalism. Pigs love bacon as much as the rest of us. Because bacon tastes good.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22057504 - 08/07/15 09:41 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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So every once an a while there is legal cannibalism, and quite a few people have said that human tastes very similar to Veal.
But I'd never want to eat a human.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Achillita]
#22057517 - 08/07/15 09:46 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It will probably happen eventually. But I don't think the pope has much to do with it and it will take more like 350000 days.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: GoldenEye]
#22057528 - 08/07/15 09:50 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Honestly if we met hostile alien life, a global government would be inevitable to be able to protect our planet.
When people always bring up a global government as something evil, I honestly don't understand why they see it as that. It's probably work similar to the EU, with the majority of power being in smaller governments.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Achillita]
#22057529 - 08/07/15 09:50 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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"In September of 2015, the Pope will announce the orderly transition of the surrender of the national sovereignty of all nations which will culminate in world government."
When October 2015 rolls around and this hasn't happened yet, I wonder if they're going to a) change the time frame or b)ignore it ala the 2012 End-Times Lovers/Consciousness Shift lovers by pretending they never said anything at all.
A "global" government is, in a way already in effect and it's mostly based on corporate and financial interests. Money makes the world go 'round is a massive understatement. But in my mind, this "government" has no interest in dealing with the social aspects of governance, so I don't foresee a body like the U.N. becoming the de facto law-givers of the world. We're already witnessing the fragility of such an endeavor, on a smaller scale, within the EU. Currency, no matter how glorious, can rarely trump a population's national identity and desire for sovereignty.
It's too messy, too risky, and the costs do not provide enough benefit when you can simply create trade agreements and business structures that can "commodify" an individual's very existence without their pesky individualism/tribalism getting in the way.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: dionysiandame]
#22057573 - 08/07/15 10:04 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I agree, the distinguishing factor that one group is "better" or the best is going to stop any real large scale goverment unless it were to happen over a long period of time.
UNLESS we met aliens, it'd really no longer matter what skin color you are, or where you are from. You'd be human, and that would pull us together exponentially.
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Achillita]
#22057645 - 08/07/15 10:11 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Almost any catastrophe will require the same things. If you don't die in an initial blast of some kind, and survive the first "boom" or whatever it is, you will require
1. Lots of non perishable food 2. Lots of potable pure water 3. A powerful water filtration/purification system 4. Guns and ammo 5. Drugs and medicines 6. First aid 7. Various survival and camping gears such as batteries, flashlights, tents, warm weather and rainproof clothes, knives, hatchets, firewood, matches, lighters etc.
And more.
Doesn't really matter if its a nuclear bomb, a natural disaster, a pandemic, a war, an economic collapse, etc etc
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Re: Global govt coming? Is this real? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22059031 - 08/07/15 02:49 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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If you eat a dead guy who was high, do you get high too?
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