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Originally Posted by frquixote
[...]I think most people would find preparing for TEOTWAWKI to be just overwhelming ...
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I've been trying to work out if I should be sitting on my hands with this one ... I have an awful feeling that carrying on this aspect of the thread probably belongs in the P&R subforum. To try and tackle this non-politically: Is there really a lot of point in preparing for TEOTWAWKI?
Almost by definition:
* We don't know how that end will come so we don't know what sorts of things (and knowledge) we'll need. What's the point of storing food and water when there are reasonable odds that there will be a surplus in any situation we're likely to survive (not to mention knives, guns and string).
* We don't know who will survive. The assumption is generally - as I read it - that for TEOTWAWKI to happen that survival will be less than 1 in a 100. Paying significant amounts of money betting that you're going to be in that group of survivors doesn't seem like great odds - especially when you consider my first point. (And bear in mind that this advice is coming from an Aussie.
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* A bit of bush knowledge (or practice at being an "outsdoorsman") is probably not a bad idea if you live near the bush/outdoors. Such skills are potentially useful even if the TEOTWAWKI doesn't happen! But, if you live in the city (which, let's face it, covers a pretty good percentage of people), then such skills are going to do you less good, come TEOTWAWKI, than say lock-picking and other burglary skills - to gain access to all those surplus items.