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Lindsay · 10-16-2008, 12:44 PM

I appologise if my last post appears to have a sarcastic undertone.
Although I do believe that sentiment would be justifiable to some, it was not my intention. I do believe that we need to be careful about what we think "survival" means if infact serious earth changes do occur ( and there is good reason to believe they could) We all need to be careful not to get swept up in the fantasy world of "change" that will bring about a new and wonderful world. It wont be Robinson Cruso. Realisticaly if it is sudden and dramatic it will be panic and pandamonium. If the earth starts to tremble and shake, if communications are brought down etc etc, you will be lucky to assemble your own family before you have to respond. Phsycological barrier number 1. Inital survival might just be staying ahead of the chaos until things calm down, how long is that? a day, a week, a month? who knows, if you look carefully at the turmoil that has accompanied these events in the past we are talking serious weather, serious landscape changes, I can only imagine that would mean minute by minute survival. Even basic shelter might be hard to come by. Imagine your phsycological state after a few days only. By now you are getting hungry, you didn't have time to grab your tomatoe seeds and they will take weeks to mature anyway, cockroaches are starting to look pretty good, but they are hard to catch and not very filling. See where i'm going here? I could write a book on this and still not cover the posabilities. My point is: I believe we have to think very very basic here, Bushtucker is a great idea, familiarise yourself with photo's of edible plants etc,take notice of how the Aboriginal people of this country lived successfully for all those years, prepare yourself to eat grubs and insects, because without a great deal of skill and experience you will NOT catch a Kangaroo, you will not survive while waiting for your vegie patch to mature, can you even light a fire without matches? can you get water when there is no tap? how do you keep warm without shelter? Can you overcome the prospect of being alone? basic basic skills, but not easy to execute if you are not experienced. I would suggest really looking into these skills, and actually finding and eating the bush tucker, there may be no way of learning these things if Sh*t hits fan without warning. I do agree with the collecting of seeds etc , great ideas, it's just that we should be prepared for the situation where it just dosen't happen that way, you are on your own, every man for themself, sounds gloomy I know, but I have seen how people respond when they panic, most revert to survival mode and that means they react only in the interest of self preservation. Self first, Family second, Communities last. Sorry about the rant, I like to expect and prepare for the worst, then hope for the best, hedge my bets. Follow some traditional Aboriginals around for a few days, do it their way, see how hard it really is, they have had 40,000 years to perfect a true nomadic lifestyle that most of us couldn't survive in, we are seriously gonna need their help. Unfortunately they can't plug their laptops into mulga trees and post a few tips on this thread.

10-16-2008, 12:44 PM	#8
Lindsay Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: South Australia Posts: 12	Re: Bush Tucker I appologise if my last post appears to have a sarcastic undertone. Although I do believe that sentiment would be justifiable to some, it was not my intention. I do believe that we need to be careful about what we think "survival" means if infact serious earth changes do occur ( and there is good reason to believe they could) We all need to be careful not to get swept up in the fantasy world of "change" that will bring about a new and wonderful world. It wont be Robinson Cruso. Realisticaly if it is sudden and dramatic it will be panic and pandamonium. If the earth starts to tremble and shake, if communications are brought down etc etc, you will be lucky to assemble your own family before you have to respond. Phsycological barrier number 1. Inital survival might just be staying ahead of the chaos until things calm down, how long is that? a day, a week, a month? who knows, if you look carefully at the turmoil that has accompanied these events in the past we are talking serious weather, serious landscape changes, I can only imagine that would mean minute by minute survival. Even basic shelter might be hard to come by. Imagine your phsycological state after a few days only. By now you are getting hungry, you didn't have time to grab your tomatoe seeds and they will take weeks to mature anyway, cockroaches are starting to look pretty good, but they are hard to catch and not very filling. See where i'm going here? I could write a book on this and still not cover the posabilities. My point is: I believe we have to think very very basic here, Bushtucker is a great idea, familiarise yourself with photo's of edible plants etc,take notice of how the Aboriginal people of this country lived successfully for all those years, prepare yourself to eat grubs and insects, because without a great deal of skill and experience you will NOT catch a Kangaroo, you will not survive while waiting for your vegie patch to mature, can you even light a fire without matches? can you get water when there is no tap? how do you keep warm without shelter? Can you overcome the prospect of being alone? basic basic skills, but not easy to execute if you are not experienced. I would suggest really looking into these skills, and actually finding and eating the bush tucker, there may be no way of learning these things if Sh*t hits fan without warning. I do agree with the collecting of seeds etc , great ideas, it's just that we should be prepared for the situation where it just dosen't happen that way, you are on your own, every man for themself, sounds gloomy I know, but I have seen how people respond when they panic, most revert to survival mode and that means they react only in the interest of self preservation. Self first, Family second, Communities last. Sorry about the rant, I like to expect and prepare for the worst, then hope for the best, hedge my bets. Follow some traditional Aboriginals around for a few days, do it their way, see how hard it really is, they have had 40,000 years to perfect a true nomadic lifestyle that most of us couldn't survive in, we are seriously gonna need their help. Unfortunately they can't plug their laptops into mulga trees and post a few tips on this thread.