You asked.........
There is simply too much to learn, or you die. The bottom line is if you "ain't" living a post SHTF lifestyle now. you're going to die. It is the transition that will kill you.
If you spent every other year, from now forward living a post SHTF lifestyle you might have a 50/50 chance of surviving the "transition". Might.
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The ugly truth is it is already too late. The best would be to train your children from birth to live a post SHTF lifestyle.
...Your, not going to survive the "transition" faze into a cruel new reality...
I've seen you post this sentiment multiple times, while I agree there is some truth to it I also believe that people are capable of living more than just 1 lifestyle at any given time, especially as it pertains to "post-shtf" or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, the transition is what kills you...
if you've never done it before. that being said, you
dont have to live in survival mode at all times to ensure your own survival or at least give you as good of a chance at living as anything else. That's not to say that risks aren't inherent to any and all lifestyles, but those risks don't really change until you start throwing the real problem at them which is by and large
people..
I say this because personally, I find living in the woods seperate from other people to be MUCH easier than living within society with everyone else. I almost died
TWICE on the road last week alone driving to do mundane "safe" errands... the risks of society are more frequent and in my opinion far more dangerous than the risks nature provides- I'd WAY rather contend with nature than people and i would if i wasnt called to do otherwise. With the time I've spent honing skills and learning the alternatives I find the safest I ever am is when I'm ALONE and far away from all the other bumbling fools that inhabit this planet. My chances of dying within society are exponentially higher than my chances of dying in the wilderness. The wilderness is where I literally go for a
vacation. Thats not to say that living at in a modern house and taking advantage of plumbing is inherently dangerous- its just all the other crap (people) that goes along with that! so yeah, if I want to take advantage of grocery stores and air conditioning in the meantime that's fine, the cost of that is that I have to content with all the other fools that never learned the alternative and can't even be bothered to stop at an intersection. Some of us legitimately look at SHTF as an upgrade once all the hyper-interdependent people kill eachother off. Those hyper dependent types ain't running to the big scary woods, their tender little feet won't take them even if they wanted to. And also- most of the Internet survivalists are mostly fluff too, so trust me even those "badasses" ain't going to be trekking 20+ miles a day on foot for a week just to come tango with fellas like me- So take that fwiw. Frankly, i think its more likely if i actually did find someone out there that wed be happy to see eachother as the terrain itself acts as quite the mediator of intent... even then, the uglier truth is that for most, SHTF
won't even occur. They'll just conform to whatever regime holds power and cling to their percieved luxuries and hedonistic lifestyles.
Point being, I think the whole "SHTF lifestyle" is mostly a made up and completely undefined quantification as most people don't even define exactly how/why the SHTF. I think the current state of prepping is all a bunch of people who talk alot and do very little- that's why everyone pretends like it's so damn hard to survive- the truth is, it's so much easier to live like a caveman than it is to content with all the modern garbage that we're inundated with in our daily lives- all the distractions in the world direct us furthur away from God and his creation.
I have much respect for you and your posts, but there's more than one way to skin this cat.