The Walking Dead

I watch the Walking dead just to escape the realities of life.

Never seen it.
But i remember similar apolcalypitc armageddonish type fictions. I worked in a public library. It was popular genre

Eg margaret atwoods 'the year of the flood'
Y the last man graphic novel series...all the men die, only women a re left and one man and his monkey
Tommorow when the war began..its YA fiction, only teenagers are left
Left behind series

My favourite ...Gone with the Wind. Book and movie. In that novel ashley called it Gotterdamerung. Margaret Mitchell, when asked what the book was all about, did not say 'the civil war' she said simply 'survival'.

1984 by George Orwell
brave new world by aldous huxley
And..current popular with teens...Hunger Games.

The worst I read I remember was..Lord of the Flies by william golding.
As there were no girls on the island, so of course it descended into horrible savagery. I think he wanted to write an opposite scenario to the Coral Island by Ballantyne...or the Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.

Goodbook said:

The worst I read I remember was..Lord of the Flies by william golding.
As there were no girls on the island, so of course it descended into horrible savagery. I think he wanted to write an opposite scenario to the Coral Island by Ballantyne...or the Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.

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We read LORF in HS. Amazing study on human nature. I can see that happen.

Non preppers, and zombies will act the same way in time of desperation. If you have ever seen how a crowd of desperate, irrational, hatred filled people act you will see the immediate connection to zombies.

Put yourself in the zombies shoes (a zombie is a non prepper). You haven't had running water, or food for 3 days. Your children are starving and crying, you have no personal relationship with God and you are run completely by the lizard portion of your brain. You know that your neighbor down the street said something about storage food a few years ago. Do you think that zombie won't be at your door? Yes he will and he might bring his fellow zombies.

Zombies are fantasy but humans who act like them aren't.

4thWatch said:

Non preppers, and zombies will act the same way in time of desperation. If you have ever seen how a crowd of desperate, irrational, hatred filled people act you will see the immediate connection to zombies.

Put yourself in the zombies shoes (a zombie is a non prepper). You haven't had running water, or food for 3 days. Your children are starving and crying, you have no personal relationship with God and you are run completely by the lizard portion of your brain. You know that your neighbor down the street said something about storage food a few years ago. Do you think that zombie won't be at your door? Yes he will and he might bring his fellow zombies.

Zombies are fantasy but humans who act like them aren't.

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Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode entitled "the shelter".

I once went without electricity for 3 days, i think it was 3 days, maybe more. The food in the freezer spoiled , couldn't take a hot shower either. It was miserable.

Hmm. Ive been camping for three days. But then when you go camping you are prepared. Brownouts tend to happen randomly. But they havent lasted that long that I can remember, at least, not where I was.

Im sure people with their wits about them can survive for three days without power. But they may start to smell.

Martha: 'Lord, by this time, he stinketh....'

Im sure they were shocked when they all saw Lazarus walking round and thought he was like a zombie.

Goodbook said:

Hmm. Ive been camping for three days. But then when you go camping you are prepared. Brownouts tend to happen randomly. But they havent lasted that long that I can remember, at least, not where I was.

Im sure people with their wits about them can survive for three days without power. But they may start to smell.

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My experience came about due to a storm that damaged many transformers, the electric company was working overtime trying to fix all the damage. You mentioned using wits to survive, and that is what prepping is all about.

I thought prepping was like prepping for dinner like what chefs do. Cutting everything up and having everything on hand so they can cook it when it gets ordered.

Id never heard of it as like a christian thing until recently.

Is there something happening or like a preacher who started this as a movement? I mean ppl like bear grylls and shows like survivor have been around for a while.

Goodbook said:

I thought prepping was like prepping for dinner like what chefs do. Cutting everything up and having everything on hand so they can cook it when it gets ordered.

Id never heard of it as like a christian thing until recently.

Is there something happening or like a preacher who started this as a movement? I mean ppl like bear grylls and shows like survivor have been around for a while.

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So you don't remember reading anything in the bible about God telling his people to prepare for 7 years of famine? You have never read about how past generations canned extra food and put it in root cellars? You have stumbled along in your life believing that each day someone will bring you your food and water and that nothing will ever interrupt that flow?

Your either trying to be funny, your trolling, or you are a naive millennial. I do hope your trying to be funny.

Of the 6000 years since Adam mankind has prepped for 5800. Only since about 1880 has certain parts of the world not worried about prepping. We are currently living in an artificial bubble of easy energy, easy money (because it has nothing behind it) and technological advancement. This current bubble is very fragile and any number of things could pop that bubble. Take away something as simple as electricity and suddenly you are back in the 19th century wondering where your next meal is coming from and is there any clean water.
People, especially in the US are, excuse me, but a little spoiled. Especially the last couple generations since the great depression and the post-WWII economic boom. They have always had things just appear in front of them without having to prepare ahead of time or hunt for it. They have this false notion that this is reality and is going to last forever. Hence they suffer from the delusion that there is something wrong with prepping when in reality, prepping is the norm. Two hundred years ago they called it living your life. Everyone did it all the time. If you did not you and your family would die during the next winter or drought.
The folks who laugh and criticize preppers are like those who are standing on thin ice laughing at those whose feet are on solid ground. The bubble will one day pop, the ice will give way, and who is going to be left standing?

Goodbook said:

Hmm. Ive been camping for three days. But then when you go camping you are prepared. Brownouts tend to happen randomly. But they havent lasted that long that I can remember, at least, not where I was.

Im sure people with their wits about them can survive for three days without power. But they may start to smell.

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Last time my neighborhood lost power (downed trees on power lines all over the neighborhood), it was out for three days, then the line to my house was loose, so that was another day. It was the middle of winter, so no food spoiled and I didn't get too ripe either (pro-tip: baking soda as body powder). My workplace had power, so my days were normal, but my nights were by candlelight. I was very grateful my brother had sent me a battery-operated book-light. Darkness is boring.

Post Sandy, my neighborhood had power, but I had no gasoline for my car, not enough to drive to look (stations would get some trucked in, then run out within an hour or two, so it was pot-luck). My husband came in from upstate with a full tank and found one for me, then the crisis abated.

DaisyDay said:

Last time my neighborhood lost power (downed trees on power lines all over the neighborhood), it was out for three days, then the line to my house was loose, so that was another day. It was the middle of winter, so no food spoiled and I didn't get too ripe either (pro-tip: baking soda as body powder). My workplace had power, so my days were normal, but my nights were by candlelight. I was very grateful my brother had sent me a battery-operated book-light. Darkness is boring.

Post Sandy, my neighborhood had power, but I had no gasoline for my car, not enough to drive to look (stations would get some trucked in, then run out within an hour or two, so it was pot-luck). My husband came in from upstate with a full tank and found one for me, then the crisis abated.

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Thanks for the testimony. I think it shows just how easy and how quickly you can find yourself in an emergency.
Good stuff.

Well excuse me for being born in the 1980s.
Sheesh.
My parents arent christians and we live in the suburbs.

Id rather prepare for a wedding. Read the new testament.

jesus said do not worry about what you will eat and what you will wear, the gentiles worry about such things.

All I see is people who think they being christian WORRYING about such things that God has already provided abundantly. They just dont know it.

Go live in in a third world country if you not thankful for what you already have.