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Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism
nytimes.com — Faced with a confluence of diverse threats, people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes.
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- cashman57, on 04/06/2008, -0/+5Where Ilive we have natural disasters in our history so most people have a safe place to go in the event a tornado is coming.
In fact the room I am in now is one that was originally built as a storm cellar and we remodeled it.
We had to build a storm shelter at our last house and the buyers were impressed with the ease of access and the strength of construction. - bamafun, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1lol i missed this book ? did anyone else read it - just what I want to know how to dine on dogs and rats YUCK ! " Middle-class survivalists can also browse among a growing number of how-to books with titles like “Dare to Prepare!” a self-published work by Holly Drennan Deyo, or “When All Hell Breaks Loose” by Cody Lundin (Gibbs Smith, 2007), which instructs readers how to dispose of bodies and dine on rats and dogs in the event of disaster."
- AlwaysAwake, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2Seeing the truth of this now, should we be afraid; very afraid; lonely ? Or is this an opportunity to abandon attachment to trusting. depending upon those to whom we have surrendered the idea of authority, and awaken to the reality in which we can all share equally in cleaning up the mess we have allowed to happen, and co-operate in seeing to it that it need not happen again. We are the world. What is happening is a mirror reflecting ourselves. We have, and are creating this world by what we do, and do not do. Look at it without judgment; without trying to change it. Is this what we really wanted ?
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