Anyone that can crack jokes that can get me snorting with laughter, while I choke on some swine of a illness is more than welcome. I want to die laughing, not live in fear.
Ah bless, who's "living in fear" I'm certainly not, I'm having a great time, have a couple of great hobbies and a lot of good friends, no need to "live in fear"
I hope you have the chance to die laughing, not drowning in your own bodily fluids as many who dies of the Spanish flu did.
A very interesting
I read the following a while back and it sounds pretty good to me.
A very interesting discussion at lunch time on radio two today, about 13:30 try
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/jeremy-vine/
SURVIVALISTS
He who fails to prepare for the night, fails to prepare for the dawn.
I am a survivalist and by nature a survivalist is an OPTIMIST. I do
not have one pessimistic bone in my body. If what I just said sounds
odd to you then you are not yet a survivalist and you do not understand the modern survivalist at all. It has been very difficult to
communicate to the public and the mass communications media, the concept of an optimistic, hopeful survivalist.
A fireman is a fireman, not because he believes everything will burn,
but because he believes much can be saved. Doctors don't believe in
death, they believe in life, and a survivalist is not a survivalist
because he believes everything must be destroyed and everyone must
die, he believes that life can be saved, if people of good
will are prepared. A fireman does not start fires, a doctor does not make
disease and a survivalist does not make disaster. Crime, disease,
war, revolution, fire, flood, periodic financial collapse and famine are
the results of nature and the nature of man and unfortunately are not
within the power of anyone on this earth to prevent.
We all know that the sun will set each day, leaving us in darkness
and we all know that warm summers give way to cold winters and that we
can do nothing to keep the sun from setting or the cold winds from
coming, does this make us pessimistic? I think not! So then, why is the
survivalist called a pessimist when he makes ready to face events
that are just as much a part of history and nature as the sunset and the
changing of the seasons.
Another misconception is that survivalists
are predicting world disaster. On the contrary, we seem to be THE
OPTIMISTIC MINORITY that is predicting world survival. We are hard
pressed to find any well recommended historians, economists,
political scientists, sociologists or military strategists that can come up
with a scenario that gives even a fifty-fifty chance of avoiding a large
scale catastrophe, yet we survivalists dare to be OPTIMISTIC about the
future.
We survivalists do not need to predict the probability of disaster
anymore than we need to predict the sun setting.
Those who criticize survivalists, are like men who refuse to look at
a calendar, in the hope that through self-imposed ignorance they can
keep from aging another year. "You survivalists will be disappointed if
we don't have a world cataclysm." Here is another accusation that is
pure B.S. and I could not think of a milder phrase to describe it. We
survivalists have loved ones we don't want to see hurt or killed, we
have homes we don't want to see destroyed, we are not fools to think
that just because we are survivalists a world cataclysm would be fun
for us or that we would not experience danger, loss, hunger, injury,
cold oreven despair and death. We have spent time and money to improve our chances for survival and recovery from disaster, but we would have a great celebration if some day we could be assured that we had wasted our time. No, we will not be disappointed if there is no disaster to survive, anymore than the Red Cross is disappointed when there are no floods and storms or the man who buys an insurance policy is disappointed when his house faiIs to burn down. It may be said
that the survivalist would much prefer the pleasant (but unlikely)
surprise of being wrong to the (probable) deadly rude awakening that the
nonsurvivalist will face if he is wrong.
So, you see the survivalist can not lose because his survival
preparations will be of value regardless of what the future has in
store. In time of crisis, those who have not prepared to turn to
each other, will turn on each other.
It is most regrettable indeed, that many people consider
survivalists as a threat and regard them with suspicion and even hostility. This attitude is logically indefensible and is rooted in the
nonsurvivalists own sense of fear and guilt. Subconsciously, the nonsurvivalist may hate the survivalist for reminding him of how fragile his lifestyle is.
Now, let's get the facts turned around right.
THE MOST DANGEROUS
PEOPLE IN SOCIETY TODAY ARE THE NONSURVIVALISTS. Every person who has not made provisions for surviving without food, water, fuel and other essential needs from the outside, is a mortal danger to his neighbors. What will a man do when he and his family are freezing, hungry, thirsty, sick and starving? He may ask or beg his neighbors for help, but when they have no extra fuel, food, water or medicine to give, will he just go back home to die with his wife and kids? What do you think? We survivalists who stock up on food and other supplies, now do a favor to society because what we now buy is replaced on the shelves, so there will be that much more available in an emergency. We survivalists
won't be looting and killing for food. We won't be a burden on the medical
facilities or a danger to the police. Since we will be able to turn
to each other, we will not need to turn on anyone and we may be able to
help at least some. Survival preparation should be regarded as a social obligation, one that every individual owes to his family and community and his nation. The nonsurvivalist is simply a poor and irresponsible citizen.
So the reality is, that survivalists are optimistic, self-reliant
individuals, who cannot help but see the imperative of preparing for
the worst possible events, while hoping sincerely, that they won't
happen.
Today's survivalist is an asset, to his community and to the world
and should be proud to be called SURVIVALIST.