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Post by SA Hunter on Aug 26, 2021 11:05:58 GMT 10
"What's comin' will come, and I'll meet it when it does". - Anon.
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Post by drjenner on Aug 26, 2021 11:07:25 GMT 10
"Control the food supply and you control the people." ~ Henry Kissinger. That's a startling quote that should motivate any prepper to build a pantry worthy of withstanding control. Wow.
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Post by SA Hunter on Dec 15, 2021 22:01:36 GMT 10
If a man loses everything, he will realize he has nothing left to lose. Which makes him a very dangerous man.
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Post by SA Hunter on Dec 22, 2021 22:27:37 GMT 10
Be Prepared, Not Paranoid.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2022 15:00:16 GMT 10
"Man Cannot Live On Rice And Beans Alone (But Many Do)"
I read it a subtle dig at the difference between how academics and those far removed from a problem view it, compared to how the people who actually face the problem see it.
The academic after studying many obscure journals will proudly proclaim it is impossible to live on rice and beans alone. In their carefully constructed experiment, the test subject became sick from lack of vitamin C (or some such) after a few months. They viewed the statement as logic, absolute, unbending and without common sense. The subject ate nothing but rice and beans and got sick.
The poor and the peasants actually living on rice and beans though, do it in the real world without artificial limits or constraints. If they see the opportunity for some fruit, a few edible plants or a rat, they will grab those too. Somehow they can get by, buying and storing nothing but rice and beans. They don't get sick.
Who was technically correct? The academic. Who was practically correct? The peasant.
But, in the context of planning for hardship and whether you can live and rice and beans alone, which one actually matters?
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Post by frostbite on Jan 8, 2022 15:49:36 GMT 10
I'd hope any academic would have better things to explore in depth than a phrase not mean't to be taken literally, like maybe an in-depth study of Australia's most hard core militant survivalists.
As for me, I got more important things to explore, like how to keep my mrs and my girlfriend from getting drunk together and comparing notes.
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Post by Beno on Jan 8, 2022 16:39:32 GMT 10
They both matter. you need to know rice and beans alone will eventually kill you which is technically correct. You also need to be practically correct to remediate any limitations of eating rice and beans alone such as munging on a rat and eating some weeds, Having technical knowledge of austere diets is more important in my opinion and will lead you to identify what you can do practically to live a bit longer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2022 17:01:01 GMT 10
like maybe an in-depth study of Australia's most hard core militant survivalists. That'd be an easy study, since they would all work at the same building in Canberra
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Post by frostbite on Jan 8, 2022 18:19:49 GMT 10
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Post by bce1 on Jan 8, 2022 18:40:28 GMT 10
I’m still amazed he got a PhD for this and angry he caused John to take the board down as a consequence. I’m the crazy doctor embedded in the ideology. I still think he completely missed the point about why most of us prepare
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Post by frostbite on Jan 8, 2022 19:04:08 GMT 10
I’m still amazed he got a PhD for this and angry he caused John to take the board down as a consequence. I’m the crazy doctor embedded in the ideology. I still think he completely missed the point about why most of us prepare I wasn't impressed with some of his conclusions, but we got over that after a series of conversations and a couple of beers. To be fair, John was already done with the forum before I discovered the Phd. He'd left it in the hands of Flymaster, which IMO was it's death warrant.
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Post by tactile on Jan 8, 2022 20:08:53 GMT 10
If its based on the forum I'm thinking then I'm not surprised of the outcome/conclusions considering the nut-bags that were allowed to run riot there...especially when given admin rights...
I noticed all the authors supervisors are on LinkedIn but he is nowhere to be found...knew he was gonna get doxed.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2022 20:14:50 GMT 10
So far in reading this I am identifying a lot of zero to 300kmh an hour jumps without explanation. Will comment later when I have finished... but I do hope the author clarifies his leaps... because they do seem to be deliberate at present. Edit: Haha - so many misrepresentations throughout, but I think I got to the motivation. There is a _long_ section on anti-academia. That really twists the nipples of academics when they are not treated as Superior People. I can almost guarantee that example of that academic approaching the forum, and getting dismissed, was the author themselves.
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Post by tactile on Jan 9, 2022 8:18:09 GMT 10
I've actually never heard of aussurvivalist, I thought it was based on ozprepper. My bad...
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Post by bug on Jan 9, 2022 10:40:43 GMT 10
I've actually never heard of aussurvivalist, I thought it was based on ozprepper. My bad... There are quite a few from there who came here when it died. It was a slow but predictable death. - Spam was rampant and not getting deleted. - Admin/mods never responded to messages. - New members were often spoken to very rudely/abused by long term members for daring to suggest an improvement to the board. They didn't come back. Some saw poisoning the well as a way of making themselves feel good. - There ended up being very little active useful discussion. Certainly hope none of that happens here.
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Post by bug on Jan 9, 2022 10:46:33 GMT 10
and yeah, LinkedIn. It's a poisoned chalice. If you want every recruiter in your industry in the country (and some from overseas) to chase you and offer you interviews, go for it. But be very careful about what you put on there. Do not put a photo up. It's hard enough to keep any semblance at all of privacy. Having your photo there is just asking for trouble. This is especially true for government work. Our C neighbours C to P the north actively trawl through it for information on people to exploit.
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Post by frostbite on Jan 9, 2022 12:06:36 GMT 10
Aussurvivalist was very good until the owner either lost interest or got too busy in other endeavours, and then the Nazis, wannabes and women haters took over. Then the flame wars started. There were some really memorable meets over the years, held by several members, with great friendships forged.
This forum is moderated much better, so I can't see Ausprep suffering the same fate.
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Post by tactile on Jan 9, 2022 12:49:21 GMT 10
I'm assuming TwoDogs is the other member on here now?
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Post by frostbite on Jan 9, 2022 12:56:57 GMT 10
I'm assuming TwoDogs is the other member on here now? Yep, the moderators here tolerate him for the moment.
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Post by bce1 on Jan 9, 2022 14:42:22 GMT 10
It’s was struggling in the end, but despite that what I am sad about is the huge volume of awesome material that was lost…. Lots of shit, but some gold.
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