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Moonshoe
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Preparing for a possible global catastrophe
#22241415 - 09/15/15 01:27 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Honey bee populations, responsible for most of human food crops, are plummeting.
Mass die offs of fish, birds and animals are becoming increasingly common.
Enormous methane beds on the ocean floor are beginning to vent, which could cause a global extinction.
Ocean life is dying off at exponential rates, most commercial fish stocks are gone.
Deforestation has reached epic levels, compromising Earths oxygen cycle.
Climate change and global warming are reaching tipping point levels, perhaps triggering an out of control feedback loop.
Ocean levels are predicted to rise, and the majority of humanity lives on the coast, potentially triggering an unprecedented refugee crisis.
Impacts from asteroids threaten the Earth on a daily basis, as does super volcano eruption, which is due and could happen at any time (Yellowstone).
The ozone layer has been compromised, and earth is more vulnerable to a solar mass ejection or super flare that could knock out global power, including the cooling systems of nuclear power plants.
A global pandemic is inevitable.
Population explosion is unsustainable, inevitably threatening food crisis, water crisis etc.
Potable water is becoming more scarce. Water wars and chronic water scarcity looms on the horizon.
These are only a few of the indicators that should make us concerned that a potential global catastrophe, or set of catastrophes, is increasingly likely and fundamentally inevitable.
Therefore, preparation is warranted.
I have spent years preparing as best as I can, now I am beginning a new cycle of preperation.
What am I doing today?
Packing and organizing my various bug out bags full of concentrated essential survival supplies.
Filling hundreds of litres of reverse osmosis water in 18.9 litre jugs.
Stockpiling hundreds of meals of freeze dried food with a 20 year shelf life.
Stocking up on canned goods, medicines, drugs, weapons, ammunition, breathing masks and respirators, candles, firewood, matches, lighters, antibiotics topical and oral, knives, axes, latex gloves, work gloves, rain gear, camping gear, batteries, flash lights, radio, hygiene products, hand sanitizer, sunscreen, bug repellant...
Everything required to survive in as many potential scenarios as possible, from being stuck in a city while food and water and electricity systems break down, to surviving in the wilderness.
I have built redundant survival stockpiles, one in my home, one in my car, so that if I am out of the house in my car when shit hits the fan I am ready to survive anywhere, or if I am trapped at home I am likewise prepared.
Stockpiling non GMO heirloom vegetable seeds, cannabis seeds, building long term sustainability infrastructure-
Long term- solar panels, rainwater tanks, xeriscaped and permacultured food gardens, food trees, compost, green house and ultimately subteranean survival bunker.
If you can't afford to do much, just get the basics:












And a bonus tip: Get a glass of red wine and add a tsp of turmeric powder. Drink this daily.
Its a tonic for modern times.
What else can you do?
Prepare, and also travel and enjoy life, while we still can. So much beauty remains in the world, enjoy every second of it, but prepare for the changes that are already upon us.
When everyone else starts to prepare, its already too late.
The only chance to prepare is now, while most people are still oblivious to the urgency of this crisis.
Meditate. Find inner peace. Spend time with your family and friends.
Spend your life giving love, to yourself and those who are close to you. Love yourself, your life, your family, your friends, the earth, every second of your life, love every inhalation and every exhalation, every beat of your heart, every rising and setting of the sun and the moon.
Namaste.
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DiscoBiscuitsTrip


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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241419 - 09/15/15 01:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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So negative bro.
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r.lutece
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241464 - 09/15/15 01:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think the idea of having a bug out bag is a good one. I think some people take disaster prep to the extreme, compromising their ability to enjoy life in the now. But if you're just stocking your car or your home with a bag or two, well, that's just plain sensible.
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OP, I've had similar ideas. However, my preparations never materialized. I felt that the effort was perhaps better spent on living a productive daily life while that is still possible. In other words, in my case serious preparations would take over my life in a way that I do not desire.
I did like the ending of you post very much. At least I stick to that part
Oh, and I think you forgot to mention some disasters, ... eehm, lethal galactic gamma-ray bursts? ... there's more. Anyone? What else?
In the end (pun not intended) I do respect your effort very much. Keep it up, keep us informed!
Love, Hanz.
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Moonshoe
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: r.lutece]
#22241475 - 09/15/15 01:46 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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A bug out bag in your home and a second in your car, plus jugs of drinking water and plenty of unperishable food and at least one firearm with ammunition as well as antibiotics, firewood, warm weather and rain clothes, water purification ,flashlight, batteries etc- this is a bare minimum for anyone.
If you have a family or wife or kids who depend on you, you owe it to them to at least prepare this much.





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akira_akuma
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe] 1
#22241530 - 09/15/15 02:00 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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none of this is going to happen even remotely in our young lives. i'll be three fourths down the line before anything becomes close to a reality.
and i'll be ready for death anyways by then. i'm not going to trudge through some human wasteland to say that i did. and to whom, some beggar, or some other effluvium of abandon?
what would be the point.
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Moonshoe
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#22241546 - 09/15/15 02:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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On what basis do you say this won't happen soon, even tomorrow, in a week or in a month or a year?
Two years? Five?
I, like you, hope that none of this will occur during my life, but unlike you I do not delude myself that it is not extremely possible it could happen very soon, and in many ways, is happening already.
Just finished compiling my home bug out bag. Now have a complete one in my car and my house.
I recommend you all do the same. It is far, far better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
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akira_akuma
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241550 - 09/15/15 02:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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the basis that slippery-slope-type thinking is hardly ever the reality.
if things aren't already shit, then what's your basis for thinking it'll be so bad in the future that you'll have to abandon society and "bug-out" in the woods somewhere?
don't care to struggle with anyone else? you think they'll rob you of your supplies?
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241561 - 09/15/15 02:08 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dude you totally left out the Fukushima Apocalypse.
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Moonshoe
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: akira_akuma]
#22241568 - 09/15/15 02:10 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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All I am saying is we do not know the future and a disaster could come without warning. This has happened countless times throughout history and it would be foolish to think it won't happen again. It will.
it is always better to be prepared then to be unprepared and stocking up on essential supplies is one of the most responsible ways to use any extra money.
Global events 2015
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akira_akuma
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241570 - 09/15/15 02:10 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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same if you stayed put, no? horrible shit, some, and then awesome shit as well. plus around people i could receive possibly their help. alone, there is no help. i think working together would best working solo, personally.
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Apostle
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241579 - 09/15/15 02:12 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Downloading all my favorite porn now.
Not gonna catch me unprepared!
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241631 - 09/15/15 02:27 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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With that incompetent goof still in the white house, disaster could come any day. Not in the form of rising seas or lack of food but in the form of idiot starting a war with Russia or china. He is now "warning" Russia against defying obumble's ban on shipments to Syria. Putin is warning him back to mind his own business.
Warming will take decades and centuries to come about same as sea level rising. It will happen, too many idiots have screwed things up. But nukes are fast destruction, that is the big worry.
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241644 - 09/15/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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im already prepared for zombie apocalypse. i have a truck like that to gather scrap metal. i would Pimp it like that
make holes to fire guns that i have to hunt. with my familly i would go from supermarket to supermarket getting food shootin zombies. I CANT WAIT
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Jean-guy Masta]
#22241646 - 09/15/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe] 4
#22241648 - 09/15/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pack a pistol and one bullet for the global catastrophe.
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arago
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Sun King]
#22241694 - 09/15/15 02:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Pacific Northwest is getting ready for the tsunami/Cascadia Event.
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Moonshoe]
#22241749 - 09/15/15 02:57 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Moonshoe said: Honey bee populations, responsible for most of human food crops, are plummeting.
Mass die offs of fish, birds and animals are becoming increasingly common.
Enormous methane beds on the ocean floor are beginning to vent, which could cause a global extinction.
Ocean life is dying off at exponential rates, most commercial fish stocks are gone.
Deforestation has reached epic levels, compromising Earths oxygen cycle.
Climate change and global warming are reaching tipping point levels, perhaps triggering an out of control feedback loop.
Ocean levels are predicted to rise, and the majority of humanity lives on the coast, potentially triggering an unprecedented refugee crisis.
Impacts from asteroids threaten the Earth on a daily basis, as does super volcano eruption, which is due and could happen at any time (Yellowstone).
The ozone layer has been compromised, and earth is more vulnerable to a solar mass ejection or super flare that could knock out global power, including the cooling systems of nuclear power plants.
A global pandemic is inevitable.
Population explosion is unsustainable, inevitably threatening food crisis, water crisis etc.
Potable water is becoming more scarce. Water wars and chronic water scarcity looms on the horizon.
These are only a few of the indicators that should make us concerned that a potential global catastrophe, or set of catastrophes, is increasingly likely and fundamentally inevitable.
Therefore, preparation is warranted.
I have spent years preparing as best as I can, now I am beginning a new cycle of preperation.
What am I doing today?
Packing and organizing my various bug out bags full of concentrated essential survival supplies.
Filling hundreds of litres of reverse osmosis water in 18.9 litre jugs.
Stockpiling hundreds of meals of freeze dried food with a 20 year shelf life.
Stocking up on canned goods, medicines, drugs, weapons, ammunition, breathing masks and respirators, candles, firewood, matches, lighters, antibiotics topical and oral, knives, axes, latex gloves, work gloves, rain gear, camping gear, batteries, flash lights, radio, hygiene products, hand sanitizer, sunscreen, bug repellant...
Everything required to survive in as many potential scenarios as possible, from being stuck in a city while food and water and electricity systems break down, to surviving in the wilderness.
I have built redundant survival stockpiles, one in my home, one in my car, so that if I am out of the house in my car when shit hits the fan I am ready to survive anywhere, or if I am trapped at home I am likewise prepared.
Stockpiling non GMO heirloom vegetable seeds, cannabis seeds, building long term sustainability infrastructure-
Long term- solar panels, rainwater tanks, xeriscaped and permacultured food gardens, food trees, compost, green house and ultimately subteranean survival bunker.
If you can't afford to do much, just get the basics:












And a bonus tip: Get a glass of red wine and add a tsp of turmeric powder. Drink this daily.
Its a tonic for modern times.
What else can you do?
Prepare, and also travel and enjoy life, while we still can. So much beauty remains in the world, enjoy every second of it, but prepare for the changes that are already upon us.
When everyone else starts to prepare, its already too late.
The only chance to prepare is now, while most people are still oblivious to the urgency of this crisis.
Meditate. Find inner peace. Spend time with your family and friends.
Spend your life giving love, to yourself and those who are close to you. Love yourself, your life, your family, your friends, the earth, every second of your life, love every inhalation and every exhalation, every beat of your heart, every rising and setting of the sun and the moon.
Namaste.

I still have all the ppe from the fukushima apocalypse... What happen there bruh? I feel cheated.
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Kinko]
#22241789 - 09/15/15 03:11 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gonna need a bigger bag.

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Moonshoe
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Re: Preparing for a possible global catastrophe [Re: Kinko]
#22241844 - 09/15/15 03:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Part of the ongoing saga.
Survival and preparation work is good for the soul. When you start getting back to basics, reconnecting with the fundamentals, taking stock of the worst the world can throw at you and doing your best to rise to the challenge, you feel like you are waking up from a dream. You feel like you are being a man.
When we live in denial we feel weak and depressed. When we face reality and snap out of the fugue of modern malaise, apathy, cynicism and defeatist helplessness, we feel invigorated. Our ancestors knew how hard life was and how hard they had to struggle to survive.
One way or another, we are going to remember that.
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