RE: Government is Slavery
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Hello,
I have read everything you commented here and had it translated to better understand. Thank you.
Though I will not refer to everything.
Where I grew up and people have houses and properties that are paid off, some are switching to heating systems via solar panels on the roofs to generate heat. The deliveries of such technologies take months compared to before and the installation is difficult, but not impossible. Some owners have pumps to obtain groundwater. Two very important resources, then, besides food.
None of those I know have a 3D printer. Those who would want to print spare parts for defective materials would have to do so according to the requirements of the parts to be replaced, and for that, one would need a special computer programme. But I won't belabour the point that I think it's a bit more complicated than you said. But remain more open to the idea than before our conversation.
It takes people in the world who don't see disaster in plain sight and know what to expect. The thing is, if everyone predicted exactly what you predicted, we would already have such high levels of panic purchases and bank runs that supply shortages and other severe bottlenecks would be guaranteed. Those who prepare now and prepare for hard times benefit from the lack of knowledge or ignorance of those who do not. Some balance in the existence of all life can only ever be achieved by not all doing the same thing at the same time.
I will be unprepared in material terms, so times of hunger or frost set in. This is not exclusively my own decision. I can only act if those closest to me thought it as necessary as I would. The place of refuge would then indeed be my hometown with my blood relatives, which, however, if no petrol is available, is no longer 2 hours away by car, but several days' journey on foot.
It may seem strange to you that one lets what is coming come with one's eyes wide open. I also don't think that, when the time comes, I will be equipped with the same composure as I am talking to you now. I may nevertheless be better prepared mentally and spiritually than those who suspect nothing.
Thank you very much for your offer of help. If you did not live on another continent, I would very much like to visit you.
I take what you say very seriously. You do not lightly consider, and while not all your reasons may be reasons I myself share, they seem to me well chosen for you, well considered per your experiences, and I respect them.
I am sure some folks around there are quite prepared for power outages, food shortages, and crises of every kind, because I speak to people from Germany, and all around the world, on other forums, where even people from UA and RU can speak directly. It can be very enlightening to see people presently at war agreeing on various matters. Sometimes it feels like the apocryphal tale of WWI enemies having cease fire on Christmas and singing carols together. Other times it seems like that would have been impossible, and people could never be less than murderously hostile in such circumstances.
I hope that if matters become very difficult for you it is in the good company of your family, and you benefit from community and strong bonds of affection.
Maybe, by staving off panic buying, as you said. But those that are prepared will benefit from each the others' preparations, in having certainly prepared differently and having things to trade, or different skills to help each other with. That's the real magic of community in difficult times, having help and other eyeballs watching your back.
I would very much enjoy meeting you. Perhaps someday we will.
I feel the same respect towards you.
Yes, you are talking about a very peculiar situation. Probably the most bizarre thing of all, that the weapons are silenced for a fixed period of time. It's so strange because actually, when you're in a fight to the death, you would think that a pause would promote the moment of awareness where you say to yourself "let's not do this". I've seen something similar in Asian martial arts films. Fighters ready to die, ready to take their enemy's life. And yet no lust for killing. The question this raises, if there is no real thirst for murder, why kill each other at all?
The only reason for continuing then seems to be that the fighters do not consider their lives to be the most important thing and death seems far less terrible to them than it is commonly feared. So, as you noted earlier, death is not the worst of evils. Those who let themselves be overcome by murderousness will, if they survive, have a hard time with it.
I am a woman, I can give life and I have given birth to it. Thus I would wish that men could face their enemies eye to eye, than that we should all suffer the banality of evil from the bondage of having before us not warriors, but righteous men.
Right, in difficult times, it is the pooling of different skills and looking out for each other. I come from a family of expellees and grew up with such stories of hard times. I had wondered at times if I would experience the same as my parents and grandparents, but I preferred not to live with that fear.
Thank you for this conversation. It gives me both, hope in that magic and also sorrows.