POLL 2!

Good question Rem. I would go with storage prep mainly for us, sprinkling of others in there but majority storage. Working on getting the garden up and running properly so won't have to rely on stores as much.

I don't really fit in any of those categories very well.  If I were to think about how come I'm putting things aside, it would be for independence, that is to not 'have' to rely on others.  It's a perfectly agreeable extension to my other form of independence and my bigger plans for having an independent and 'as free' life as I can create. 


Yesterday I came across an idea that encapsulates this, that is that guns, tanks and nuclear weapons aren't the most dangerous things in this world, the quest for moral utopia is.  We have religious people claiming in one form or another, some violently, that 'their' utopian vision is best for all.  We have political parties and movements [commies are great at this] claiming 'their' moralistic view leads to utopia and we ought to disarm everyone else and fight for it with everything we have.  There's also the nationalism groups that say their country have it right and we have to have the same utopian ideas for everyone else.  Of course they're all evil, because they happily imitate force on others, typically with the excuse that they are some great 'magical' evil [Hypocracy], the weapons of mass destruction, the 'privileged white man'.  From this place of 'fear' of the supposed 'magical' evil, people are hoodwinked into being evil themselves by initiating force against others with the notion that they are somehow preventing the magical evil from doing something.   Of course the magical evil is never caught, because it was a figment of the imagination of those in power.  I would suggest that mostly utopia is unique to everyone and ought not be interfered with and of course we need to have some principles in which to live by that don't inflict evil and to keep in check our moralistic ambitions.  So we need to understand where evil lays.

Evil is easy to spot and also difficult for people to accept.  There's two easy ways to spot it, one I've highlighted above, that is, when someone imitates force.  Eg. It's wrong to hit someone with a stick who's not harmed you.  It's not wrong to hit someone with a stick if force has been initiated against you, that is in self defense of yourself or others.  Of course we run into problems with this very ethical notion when we look at how taxation is collected, that is at gunpoint.  This is where it's hard for people to accept, that taxation is collected under the threat of murder if you choose not to comply and defend yourself.    

The second notion that simplifies where evil lays is when there's differing standards/hypocrisy/double standards.  That is, if there is a law for one, then that law or rule is open to all universally.  Because my skin is green I should get paid more than the blue skinned worker despite our skills being similar.  Obviously wrong.   Another example might be, a thief is ok with stealing but is not ok with being stolen from.  It's alright for the leaders of our country to lie to the people with absolutely no repercussions but if you lie as a citizen to the people, you'll go to jail.  Obviously there's more extreme examples here, like if you were Jewish/Gypsy and other minorities in Nazi Germany not only were you stolen from [it's ok to steal from them but not ok if they steal from us] but the notion got much more horrific, that is more evil. 

So, moralistic quests that are hypocritical and/or initiate force are inherently evil and far worse than any other weapon on this planet because it infects people who then spread this idea, this evil to others. 

I voted for Survival prepper! Why??? I know it can all be a play on words but at the end of the day I prep to survive as best I can what ever the circumstances!

But " the best laid plans of mice and men!!!

(No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. The saying is adapted from a line in “To a Mouse,” by Robert Burns : “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.”)

Currently I'm a storage prepper (although I hope to get a more-than-decent veg garden going over the coming months). The dream is to be a homesteader, which will be more along survival lines, but I hope to produce enough to preserve and store.