WOW, something new to think about

[werblessd1s]

A friend of mine was raised in a Mormon household, she said they always kept a years supply of food on hand.
Any Mormons here to shed light on that?

 

[JennsPeeps]

From what I just read online it's because they believe that when the Second Coming nears, there will be shortages and the faithful will endure through having built up stores.

 

[Their Other Mother]

A friend of mine who is a Los Angeles Police Officer told me about this last June but I dismissed it thinking " What are they gonna do, search my house?" Never thought about storms and Martial Law. I wish I would have paid more attention to that conversation now. I'll have to call him. HMMM.....

 

[JennsPeeps]

Meh... I'm not concerned. The government has bigger fish to fry than searching citizens' homes for food stores.

I mean, it's way more important to build 1,500 mile fences , avoid finding alternative energy, fund Georgia's roads with $1 billion, transfer American wealth \ to the Middle East, and put lipstick on pigs.

 

[werblessd1s]

I'm not going to run outside and start digging a cellar either but if things get much more worse than what they are your not gonna see nothin' but booties & elbows in my yard

 

[MissPrissy]

If you were to think reasonably and clearly you would know this is hog wash.

Honestly, food storage as an acceptable ruling for the government to declare martial law???

People have always gardened and canned entire years worth of food stocks, raised meat and froze it, cured it and other wise preserved it. 5 days supply?? Laughable. Check the cupboards of any American that grew up in the depression and you would be shocked to see the things they "hoard".

Hi, my name is Angie. Arrest me and clean out my cupboards because I had the nerve to can/freeze my summer garden excess and raise live stock for meat for the table.

 

[mistylady]

The Martial Law Act of 2007 (you can google it)

http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/04/09/martial-law-act-of-2006/

Times have changed. No one ever thought the Patriot Act 1 and 2 would exist. Or that you would be treated like a criminal and allow it when you go for a trip on an airplane. It may sound extreme but then so did people being executed for their religious beliefs in Rome. Silence and ignoring that things are changing is up to the individual but this poem always remains in my mind

In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.
-Martin Niemoller


There are forums full of people who are prepping or survialists if you want to call them that. It's nothing new. The Bible talks about preparing. Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. In Genesis 41 they stored food for famine.

 

[patandchickens]

Yes, the economy is kind of tanking at the moment. Yes, the government has behaved rather worryingly in recent years (although it is hard to name many years, in the past hundred or so, when it *hasn't* acted rather worryingly in *some* respects).

But please don't get all swept away in a largely media and internet-spawned "fad".

Think back to even just the past 10 years. At various times, people have been discussing/predicting/preparing for, with EXACTLY THE SAME SINCERITY AND FEAR:

-collapse of civilization as we know it due to Y2K computer problems
-everyone should stock up on super-fine particle dust masks and anthrax antibiotics with them
-terrorists about to do lots of horrible things in every small town everywhere
-SARS, the new global pandemic
etc etc etc etc

And that's just the past decade. Those who are past their 20's will have gone through a whole bunch other panics, each equally plausible and important sounding, each equally disappearing (altogether, or into the general background noise of life) after a coupla months or years.

Just because people are feeling inclined (one might cynically say 'being encouraged') to run about with their hands in the air about we're all going to run out of food, does not necessarily make it any more LIKELY to happen.

If you ask me, this culture has become so fat and lazy that we feel entitled to have nothing bad ever happen to us and thus like to overreact like the world is ending to anything that smacks of a threat or an adjustment of circumstances. Plus it in the media's best interests to take this and run with it as far and wide as people will let 'em.

Realistically, just because things get bad doesn't mean they get horrible. And even food availability during the worst of the Depression, or rationing in WWII Britain, would be considered pretty luxurious circumstances in a lot of parts of the world.

People survive. How? Not by worrying, not by creating doomsday scenarios, not by saying Oh I Could Never... they survive by simply surviving, by putting one foot ahead of the other, by DOING. And the most successful survive by making a lifelong habit of it, not something special you try to put on for dire circumstances.

JMHO,

Pat

 

[MagsC]

There are a lot of things people thought WOULDNT happen that did....that said, I am just going to do my best to be prepared. Better safe than sorry but neither am I going to overly dwell on it.

 

[JennsPeeps]

Someone's got to say it:

CHICKEN LITTLE!!!!!