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Old 11-02-2009, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Houston/Heights
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My Neighbors stock piles--If times get real bad, I'll just go take his stuff. He has better taste in food than me anyhow.
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:29 PM
 
Location: mancos
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better hope your neighbor aint me.you wont get buried
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Where there is too much snow!
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Question What the heck is wrong with people these days?

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We will all survive 2012 just like we survived Y2K. R-E-{LAX] Like California.
Man-O-Man! Whats with all the Doom and Gloom on this thread? People need to start thinking more positive, or your going to put yourself in an early grave .
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Old 11-02-2009, 06:46 PM
 
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Here is another good laugh for the non stockers Would like to find some that old razor wire to coil back a few hundred feet around the house . House is built out of those old heavy concert blocks and has a good view from upstairs .

Also need a few cameras .If i stock it no one is taking it easy . Another thing is set up posts with reflectors on the inside for range reference. I'm already trading things traded a few pounds of 357 lead for a bucket of 44 mags .

Pour you another glass of Kool Aid and sit back
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Old 11-02-2009, 07:22 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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Of course we will. All of us. Then we will all survive 2013 and 2014 and 2020 and 2050, and nothing bad will EVER happen to anyone. There will be no interruption of Utopia on your watch.
Wow, a complete miss on the point of the thread. Well done .

World coming to an end in 2012? Probably not. Nothing was said about not being prepared for a natural emergency or anything else. Everybody has taken a simple comment and stretched it WAAAAAY out of context.
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Old 11-02-2009, 07:27 PM
 
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I would be far more worried about Canada invading Greenland, thus sparking WWIII, than this 2012 prophecy.
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Old 11-02-2009, 07:42 PM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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Well done .
With best Elvis voice imitation: Thank ya... thank ya very much.
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Old 11-02-2009, 07:57 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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Hah do you guys have rooms in your house full of stocked up food? That's the DUMBEST idea i've ever heard.
That sort of preparing (normal back then) was what got my grandparents through the Depression.
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Old 11-02-2009, 08:13 PM
 
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Here is another good laugh for the non stockers Would like to find some that old razor wire to coil back a few hundred feet around the house . House is built out of those old heavy concert blocks and has a good view from upstairs .

Also need a few cameras .If i stock it no one is taking it easy . Another thing is set up posts with reflectors on the inside for range reference. I'm already trading things traded a few pounds of 357 lead for a bucket of 44 mags .

Pour you another glass of Kool Aid and sit back

Sure, being prepared is great, but some people go to the extreme. That is what the "non-stockers" are pointing out. Tone down the paranoia a little, and you might not suffer a stroke before you have a chance to murder the imaginary people who want your food.

Please-- enjoy your bunker and your cache of ammo. Other people have better things to worry about. I promise, when I eat all of my food that I have set back, I will not come looking for some nut caged in his house, waiting to shoot the first thing that moves.

Perhaps, I will feast on some dead humans first. If I live, great. If I don't, well, then I suppose it was my time to go. No hard feelings.
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Old 11-02-2009, 08:14 PM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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That sort of preparing (normal back then) was what got my grandparents through the Depression.
Same with my grandparents. If they hadn't been thinking ahead when times were decent in the mid twenties, they would have lost everything in the 30's (their land, home, etc). They were smart enough to prepare. My grandmother once showed me an (uncashed) check for the ENTIRE harvest of grain from their farm one year in the 30's. It was like 8 cents! For the whole season's worth of work. How much food would that buy you?
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