Last minute tips for parents when the SHTF

Here's a concise article explaining to non-agricultural folks about the genetically modified wheat that you're eating. They suggest eating spelt instead.

[link to www.wakingtimes.com]
"Plant breeders changed wheat in dramatic ways. Once more than four feet tall, modern wheat–the type grown in 99 percent of wheat fields around the world–is now a stocky two-foot-tall plant with an unusually large seed head. Dr. Davis says accomplishing this involved crossing wheat with non-wheat grasses to introduce altogether new genes, using techniques like irradiation of wheat seeds and embryos with chemicals, gamma rays, and high-dose X-rays to induce mutations.

In July 2009, the most hated company in the world Monsanto, announced new research into GM wheat and industry groups kicked their promotion of GM wheat into high gear. “Widespread farmer and consumer resistance defeated GM wheat in 2004 and this global rejection remains strong, as demonstrated by today’s statement,” said Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network."

There is a host of illnesses and tumors which appear to be related to consumption of GMO wheat. Having spelt seed might be a way to cope for preppers. There are several heirloom species of spelt that companies sell. I will leave you to find them.

Realize this. A GMO wheat will release its pollen and pollute any wheat it finds. Some will cross with it. It will contaminate it. It will ruin it. It is evil and morally reprehensible.

Years ago, one of the horrific aspects of the film Omen II which dealt with the coming of the Antichrist was the manipulation of food by breeding plants and having exclusive control of the seeds from them. Now it's happening.

Those corporations that control food and water will end up controlling the world.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 09:47 PM

[link to www.livescience.com]

The foods we eat change our DNA expression. It's called epigenetics but is a very new science. The very foods that you ingest result in surpluses of nutrients but also the ingestion of phytochemicals. Like the sun's rays, those phytochemicals are sensed and the body alters what proteins are made as a result.

There also is a science called genomics which has applications in pharmaclogy (medicinal drugs).
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Ever take a drug and it doesn't work for you? Even though it works for others, small changes in your DNA result in changes in metabolism, and so that drug won't work you. However with genomics, one day a scientist could read your DNA and then tailor prescribe a drug that would be known to work with those like you.

The world is changing. Many of the foods we eat have been dramatically altered so they produce higher yields in the same space, but often with bizarre blending of the DNA. No one knows the effect of such an experiment. When I was younger, there was great concern about ever releasing such created species. No one knew how those foods would alter our DNA and protein expression with epigenetics. Even then we feared the consequences.

You go to the grocery store believing that your food is safe. That's not true. It's laced will all manner of fillers like wood cellulose, taste enhancers, additives to keep the food from spoiling, high fructose corn syrup is in your jelly (and a ton of your foods...read the labels closely), and slowly but surely higher and higher concentrations of it are replacing normal fruit.

Did you know that they even put corn syrup in infant formula? That should make every mother and father with a baby...to shudder. It is sometimes the 2nd ingredient listed. The higher up on the ingredient list, the higher the percentage of that ingredient.
[link to www.parenting.com]

The only safe way to cope is to grow your own food and gather wild edibles from the forests and meadows. If you're not gardening now, then how will you cope later? Don't just accept what I say. Do some independent research. Be a good critical thinker. Pray about it. Make plans.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/24/2013 05:28 AM

Making yogurt

Because there will be a dramatic rise in all dairy products, I have been writing about making those things at home. You can produce a superior product, and make a very nutritious yogurt at home.


You can use agave nectar and that results in a product with a low glycemic index, which would be a great kindness for a diabetic person and delicous. They will become your best friend! Try it.
[link to www.kalynskitchen.com]
It still has the calories but it slowwwwwly releases into their blood sugar and so far better for them.

I am a real believer in agave nectar.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]


Kefir is also very expensive and delicious, but can be made at home.

Kefir is made with bacteria and yeast. Yogurt is made only from bacteria. See:
[link to www.3fatchicks.com]

Trust me, if you can tolerate yeast, then TRY KEFIR. You will love it.


Note: if making either for a LDS friend, don't put in any extract that has alcohol. They can't use it.

A long time ago, people would regularly make food items and give them to friends or people they wanted to make friends with. It is a time honored tradition. It is a wonderful way to minister to others. It is goodness itself to spend a little money and so be frugal, spend a small amount of time and care, and then lavish this upon others. Since they won't know people who do that, for it is rare, then in their estimate you will be a great friend. Friendship is golden. Even if they believe different things, how better to heal the world of brokenness by becoming friends with those who are different than us? Yes?

I have shown you many things you could make to offer as gifts that show tenderness, respect, and also help spread the word about prepping and a spiritual dimension to Life. A lot of people are worried, but they are quiet. If you begin to speak to others by using your heart(soul) and learn to perceive their heart(soul), then the Source will often give you a chance to share your faith.

If you don't believe, and you wish to learn about the Source and Jesus, how glad they will often be to talk about Him.

Stop being shy. You have gifts inside you. The Source put you here for reasons. Maybe one reason is simply to show kindness and offer friendship to that new person on the block who misses their old city. Maybe you make some yogurt and take it to the elderly lady who lost her husband and doesn't cook as much as she used to.

Maybe there's a lonely guy who's handsome and writes on GLP on prepping who wishes that a pretty Lady would come by with some fresh bread.


Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 09:50 PM

Fresh goat milk is excellent for babies and small children. The only thing it lacks is folic acid, and that can be added in the form of infant supplements.

Good to know, old guard, and thanks for participating.

Goats don't require much. It's common for goats to be stablemates in Kentucky. The horses get lonely, for they are very social creatures, but don't like another horse in the same pen. But they love goats being with them and make friends.
[link to articles.chicagotribune.com]
""The practice of keeping a goat in the stall with a nervous horse has been around for a long time, probably as long as there have been racehorses," said Arlington trainer Bette Gabriel, recalling that she has seen cases where a horse would become so attached that its goat would have to be brought along to the paddock every time the horse raced.

Although most of the track goats and horses develop a lifelong friendship, Gabriel's goat, Sally, has actually baby-sat three different horses in the four years she has had her."

At the end of the season, often there's a big goat barbecue. I know for some folks that seems cruel, but they're good eatin'. They buy a new goat for the horse.

I met several Sudanese men. They were very tall and lean and muscular. Their ancestors would have been warriors during the time of the medieval crusades. Anyway, they'd had all kinds of exotic meat that they had hunted with a spear. Sometimes a lion would leap to kill a goat, and they'd brace for impact with a long spear and impale the lion. They hunted rhino in large packs with their spears, and rhinos can run very fast. Despite all of that, they loved goat flesh more than any other meat, even exceeding Black Angus cattle.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/24/2013 08:15 AM

[link to scienceblogs.com]

Great article from a great lady.
Looking at what makes it possible for people to survive hardships.

Thanks, I didn't know about this book. I read Reviving Ophelia:Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls when it came out as it was pertinent to youth ministry.

Yes that book in the link The Middle of Everywhere:Helping Refugees Enter the American Community includes both Kosovo and Sudanese refugees. I've met both. They're tough people. Cubans too. They come to American with nothing and yet are able to thrive while other fail.

It's all very appropriate and inspiring. Most people haven't had any hardship in their lives, and these groups have seen not only rape, torture, sexual slavery, beatings, killings, but also genocide.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/24/2013 10:12 AM

[link to rt.com]
"US banks shaken by biggest deposit withdrawals since 9/11

US Federal Reserve is reporting a major deposit withdrawal from the nation’s bank accounts. The financial system hasn’t seen such a massive fund outflow since 9/11 attacks.

­The first week of January 2013 has seen $114 billion withdrawn from 25 of the US’ biggest banks, pushing deposits down to $5.37 trillion, according to the US Fed. Financial analysts suggest it could be down to the Transaction Account Guarantee insurance program coming to an end on December 31 last year and clients moving their money that is no longer insured by the government."

Be concerned people, very concerned. If you have a fireproof safe at home (and hopefully afixed to the floor securely) then it would be wise to have cash just in case there's ever an issue. Then, as previously stated on numerous occasions, when others in a financial crisis are attempting to use credit/debit cards and you have cash, then you could quickly purchase last minute items while they may not be able to do so.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/26/2013 01:34 AM

Ice Storm Coming
[link to www.accuweather.com]

"Major cities that have the potential for a period of freezing this weekend include Omaha, Neb.; St. Louis, Mo.; Des Moines, Iowa; Madison, Wis.; Chicago, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Detroit, Mich.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and London, Ontario."
[link to vortex.accuweather.com]
If you live within the pink area on the map, you should be supplementing your supplies. With the two epidemics going on right now, this is no time to lose power due to frozen iced up lines and be short on some critical supplies. Check everything right away.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/26/2013 07:47 AM

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I had not seen this.

You are quite welcome. I'm glad to be a resource for anyone who is preparing or interested in the phenomena and the universal ancestral practice.
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There's much consternations about the dearth of ammunition in the USA. There's two reasons to have ammunition: hunting and killing.

Post-collapse, if many people die, then there's a potential to hunt animals. I'm inclined to believe that many people will die based upon a lack of preparing. However in history, much hunting resulted in a rapid decline in animal populations. Hunting requires a high amount of skills: tracking, silent movement, heightened senses, heighten perception, and luck.

Trapping provides far more meat on the table for many reasons: 24/7 gathering of critters, less energy required to collect them, being able to be many places simultaneously, etc.

Ammunition will result in perhaps as low as a tenth of your total animal protein and only for such time as competition doesn't scare them into more dense terrain.

Ammunition for killing is difficult to assess as a necessary supply. I hope we're talking self-defense, for that is what I'm discussing. The realistic ammount of ammunition required is so far beyond the average preppers capabilities that it would be wisdom to discuss with a military or law enforcement person what those realistic amounts would be.

Because most people are sheep, ill trained in survival, completely lacking in agrarian abilities (growing crops and raising livestock), lack enough common sense to hunt or trap (and believe me these are at the apex of survival skills), have no military training in small arms, ranged weapons, hand-to-hand combat, knife ability regarding both survival and combat, or general tactics of movement, evasion, defense and offense, then most sheep will die.


They will likely die from dehydration, starvation, illness, lack of supplies, and their own foolishness.

Your self-defense will largely be based upon repelling druggies, which will come in an early first wave and be probably ridiculously easy to repel for a moderately trained prepper. Then you will be resisting highly trained sociopaths who will resort at any technique even burning down buildings to get what they desire. They'll ram houses with trucks. They won't waste ammunition, for it will be scarce. They might even enslave you since they lack agrarian ability. Worse things like forced sexual slavery too which frequently happened like earlier posts about river pirates.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

That's why you need ammunition.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/27/2013 03:30 AM

Hi DBA

I noticed you posting about education...so thought I would add this. This is what I do!!..lol..and this is what I will be able to continue to do ,hopefully, whatever happens.

This is how education should be for all children..it is the best start you can give your child..and I truly believe this.
I teach the lower elementary class...yrs 1,2 and 3..so 5-8 yr olds all in one class.
I have picked a few vids..each offers something to help explain what a montessori education is about. There is so much to explain...but I hope these will give a good idea.

I'm happy to answer any questions.



This is the primary class , the age group I teach.





These show a mixture of 3-6 yr old classes and Primary.





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Last Edited by *PinkPixie* on 01/27/2013 11:47 AM

This is really good but wont let me embed for some reason..

[link to www.youtube.com]



and I added this one because it has such a great quote from M Montessori at the end!!



Last Edited by *PinkPixie* on 01/27/2013 11:33 AM

Pinkpixiexx, here's the one video that you couldn't embed.


When I work with young people, I ask them, "What would a perfect group of young people look like? What qualities would that group have? What qualities are bad and not helpful?"

Then we talk about those things. Things like mutual respect, not slamming each other with insults, people all feeling welcome and honored. After building a community like that, they all really love it. When having a dance, there's no one who feels ostracized, but rather everyone dances with everyone, something that's unusual in a teen setting. No one feels bad because their body shape isn't perfect.

I've actually had several who cry as their parents pick them up, for they say, "Argh I hate going back to reality now."

Thank you for participating. The goal is to show people skills to cope if a collapse happens.

A school is vital to survival and also to thriving. If you go back many hundreds of posts, I discuss how that's one of the only ways to teach adults as well as children both ancestral skills, coping skills for community building, as well as the regular skills taught in schools. The only way we'll have doctors post-collapse is by learning from doctors, else the next generation is doomed.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/27/2013 01:08 PM

Thank you for that DBA....



I agree...education is important and will be vital!! But it needs to be the correct sort of education...as you say ..to learn practical skills along side academic skills!


Learning should be a joyous activity..and children should love school. A school should be able to meet the needs of all children and Montessori does that because children progress at their own pace..with each child working to their own schedule and at the correct level of difficulty.


Yes the children at my our school love coming to school...don't want to go home...choose to continue working when given other options during indoor play and cry when it is the holidays..lol

Primary school teachers who work with 1st-3rd grade are Saints. They teach all the basics, most are very compassionate and listen to children who are just hungry for attention, and make the rest of education so much simpler. God bless you.

Where do you live? The UK? YES you do! So pretty and with an English accent. How delicious!

Take care of yourself, or I'll worry about you. I saw this today about your economy.
[link to www.washingtonsblog.com]
British Economy Is WORSE than During the Great Depression
"Ministers today admitted Britain is facing “very, very grave difficulties” after figures showed the economy did not grow at all in 2012.
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Economists from the Royal Bank of Scotland said the last four years have produced the worst economic performance in a non post-war period since records started being collected in the 1830s.
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“It’s the worst economic performance since at least 1830, outside of post-war demobilisations,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “It’s worse than the 1920s, it’s worse than the Great Depression.”

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/28/2013 04:13 AM

MzTreeChick,
How's the flooding in Queensland? I hear you're getting pummeled.



Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/28/2013 04:39 AM

Eating to stay strong and heal yourself

When the collapse comes, it will shock a lot of people. They'll be in denial and suppose that help will come any day. They'll think that soon, next week or so, government troops will arrive with food supplies. Then a month passes, maybe two and food has run out, and lots of people will dying all along that period.

As people get weaker and weaker and lack clean water, their bodies get very susceptible to illness. It's not only that, for seeing so much death is not normal. Only preachers, physicians, and nurses see that much death ordinarily. It will shock the minds of many, and it will sap their strength.

Some will give up. Parents or spouses will pretend to eat in order for children to get nourishment. Older children are liable to skip meals or go outside and work so there's more for their brothers and sisters. People will get scrawny, their hair will break off, their ribs will show. Clothing will hang on them.

If you don't prepare, your body will begin breaking down your muscles, fat, and skeleton to help you stay alive. As that happens, your body will begin to suffer all kinds of infection and ravage the body. It's a cruel slow death of torture.

I don't like reminding folks of this. I also don't want to see you suffer. If I'm hard on you, it's only because I want you and your loved ones to make it.

Some people never recover when they bury a little one.

Buy supplies now and rotate them.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/28/2013 08:39 AM

Making Wattle and Daub

Have you thought how you're going to repair walls or create new walls in the absence of sawmills and fuel? While it's entire possible to fell trees, let them season and cut lumber and dry it, that's a lot of ifs. If you try it, you'll no doubt create a lot of warped lumber. It's why homes were often made largely as log cabins and chinked to fill in the gaps.

Sometimes you'd like a wall or fencing though and the easiest way is to make a wattle and daub wall by interweaving branches and then covering that with mud. It'll dry well and look fairly smooth and will be very strong. Even if you chose not to finish it, but leave it exposed, then it looks beautiful as long as you take care to weave it uniformly.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

It's a very old school method that's be done by people all over the world throughout history. Even young people can easily be put to work making or patching these sorts of walls.

By making them in sections, they will be stronger and won't sag. For fencing, you'll put in your posts with a posthole digger by pouring in a little water to losen the soil. The you'll undersize the hole versus the pole you're driving in and probably using a sledgehammer. Then build your sections and attach them to the poles.

This technique can be used to channel breeze or as a windbreak as well.

Watch the first video. Were you surprised by the daub ingredients? Hopefully you'll have access to some cows or horses as they eat grasses and that combination of water, manure, mud, and straw creates a great natural cement. It doesn't smell once it dries.

The last video shows a very uniform wattle if you have bamboo. You can grow bamboo easily, but the problem is controlling it. Like sumac, it will grow underground and pop up a few feet away and can take over a field. You sure wouldn't want to plant bamboo anywhere near your cropfields.

Using clay is possible, but using up a ton of clay. That's fine if you'd got river banks, and using that makes a very uniform interior wall, and like a natural plaster wall used to be made. Remember though that this clay is your means of making pots, so you've got to manage that post-collapse. It's quite an undertaking to haul clay.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]







Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/28/2013 08:38 AM

Kissinger Predicts Nuclear War with Iran
[link to thecomingdepression.blogspot.com]
"Globalist kingpin, renowned war criminal and Rockefeller co-conspirator Henry Kissinger is talking up a nuclear conflagration.

Speaking at the one-worlder confab held in Davos, Switzerland, Kissinger said a crisis involving a nuclear Iran in the “foreseeable future” will lead to a nuclear war and “a turning point in human history,” the BBC reports.
“There has emerged in the region, the current and most urgent issue of nuclear proliferation. For 15 years, the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have declared that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable, but it has been approaching,” Kissinger said."

The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse to Register; “Largest Act of Civil Disobedience in State History”
[link to thecomingdepression.blogspot.com]

"With emotions running high in the aftermath of the Newtown Sandy Hook shooting, politicians on the State and Federal level have begun introducing legislative actions to curtail access to firearms protected by the Second Amendment. In Missouri, parents may soon be forced to register firearms with their child’s school under threat of criminal penalties. In Massachusetts, another proposal would require storage of semi-automatic rifles at government approved storage depots. And, in the State of New York, congressional representatives have already passed legislation that requires registration of every semi-automatic rifle and reduces maximum magazine capacity to 7 rounds of ammunition, and Governor Cuomo has floated the idea of gun confiscation.

Now, in what is sure to be a growing trend across the entire country, New York gun owners are organizing a resistance against what many believe to be the most, “brazen infringement on the right to keep and bear arms anywhere in the nation,” according to The New American:Preparations are already being made for mass resistance."

"15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[a] That number is 666." Revelation 13:15-18

If you are ever told you must do this, or think you will be forced to do this, then you must flee as fast as you can and as far as you can, unless you can fight. To allow it to happen will imperil your very soul.

I know some of you don't believe. That's up to you, for there is Free Will. If this happens and you do not believe, then you know what will happen to you.

Because the vast majority of you have zero practical skills to grow or raise food, you are each week buying food. What happens when that stops? What happens when you're told you must take a "mark" like an RFID chip in order to do transactions? Will you do it, because you'll justify it as necessary to feed your family?

I think most people will do it, and I shudder at the consequences.

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If you were managing a low amount of food, how could you carefully manage it to keep from starving?

In a severe collapse, 95% of people will starve to death. I cannot magically put food in your cupboards. I can teach you how to fool your body into burning the metabolism at a lower rate. This will buy you some time to deal with a loss of calories.

We know from numerous war examples what happens to civilian populations. The utilities of water, sewage, electricity, natural gas get slower and less reliable. More is allocated to critical infrastructure areas: hospitals, security, utility operations, transportation and these areas cannot stop or else the whole system will undergo collapse. Because of that, supplies are diverted to maintain these areas, and naturally food and fuel for vehicles will be the first to be rationed.

The natural response is to eat what you have in your home, as you always do. If you eat three meals a day in the ordinary fashion, then your family will die sooner than smart families who manage their food supplies.

Probably 10% of people will gorge on supplies as they panic. They'll be the first ones to starve to death.

Think about dieting. You severely cut back on food, and as you did, you initially lost “weight” but it wasn't fat, was it? Most of what you lost in the first two weeks was water. You felt disappointed, didn't you? Only by exercising quite a bit and curtailing calories more did you begin to see a slow loss of weight. It began with glycogen loss from your muscles under the new strain of exercising. Then you began to tear down muscle tissue, and only then did your body notice and say, “Hmmm I need to adjust catalysis and digestion and repair muscle and stop burning muscle tissue. I'll start pulling from fat reserves in the abdomen and hips instead.”

You can use this principle to maintain weight in an emergency, can't you?

When the body sees a daily amount of calories within a normal range, then the body maintains metabolism in a normal range. If you alter the ingestion of calories by eating 5 small meals, then the body begins to adjust a higher burn rate of metabolism versus 3 regular meals. If a person ate one large meal a day to make mealtimes easier and using less cooking fuel and managing time better, then your body would lower the metabolic rate even more, wouldn't it?

When dieting, when the body sees an overall average of calories over many days, then the body maintains metabolism. If one were to eat 800 calories for three days, 1400 calories for three days, then 2000 calories for three days then your body would see a steady increasing amount of food, and so wouldn't slow down metabolism, so that person would lose weight.

If one were to eat 2000 calories for three days, then 1400 calories for three days, then 800 calories for three days then the body sees less and less calories per day and SLOWS DOWN METABOLISM. This method extends the period of starvation.

If one ate one meal per day of 2000 calories for three days, the one meal of 1400 calories for three days, then one meal of 800 calories, then the body would slow down metabolism even more.

It's not how many calories you eat, it's how you eat those calories.

In famines, people fill up their bellies with water. They're very hungry, and think that the water will stretch the belly and so stop hunger pangs. It seldom works. However for metabolism to work, your body's biochemistry needs water. If you drink only what is adequate and not under a lot of work, then your body will have less water to do metabolism. Therefore less catalysis (breakdown) will occur. Don't drink water more than 8 glasses of water per day while starving. The only time you need more water is when in a fully fed state and under a lot of work like being a soldier.

You will not have water or heat. That means at certain times you'll be busy gathering fuel for fires. You will daily be gathering water unless you have a cistern at home and a collection system for rain and/or a well. If you have to walk three miles one direction over uneven terrain carrying 10 gallons of water which weighs 83 lbs, then your body is doing a lot of calorie burning, isn't it?

While in a well-fed state, then if you have an abundance of wood as fuel, then you won't have to collect as much. That means less calories are lost from doing work while you have large amounts of fat on your body to maintain weight. If you gather wood while starving, the body will ramp up metabolism since it sees, "Oh nuts! My muscles need more glycogen made. Divert as much as possible to build it up!" and so you will accelerate starvation. DON'T DO THIS.

Food spoils in the early days of a collapse. When there is no utilities, you preserve food as best as you can, and then have a block party banquet for the rest in your freezer and refrigerator. By eating it that way, you put it into bellies where the food will not spoil, but be used.

Then you eat food based upon spoilage rates, not following your normal patterns.

Then you will eat dried and canned food based upon the method I listed above. By doing this method, you will extend your food supply in the proper way. That's the best method for untrained people. Trained preppers have adequate supplies and even what they have in the freezer can be canned or dried (sometimes) by alternative methods.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/29/2013 12:25 AM

Much of this post was written in a way to help parents as well as single parents to understand some history of dating:
Thread: dating&romance advice - see Don´tBeAfraid´s tips/explanations - edited to have only the useful information for ya! (Page 12)

If you fit into that category, or there's a potential of becoming a parent, then you should read it too.

It details what happened in 1920 and why we need to open our eyes to human behavior regarding dating.

Post-collapse survivors will likely include young people and there's no doubt that a radical shift will occur regarding the ending of "dating" and a return to something akin to those mature young people aged 15-17 marrying again as they did in history.

As such, a parent will need to teach them very important skills for they won't be around to protect them as we do today. They'll run off... if afraid of your wrath at them falling in love with a local person amidst the collapse. Instead, you're going to have to do a mind-shift and help them instead, most likely as your ancestors did by allowing them to "marry" through a local ceremony and living with you.

Because a preacher or pastor may not be around, YOU may be the one marrying them before God.

This is typical tribal behavior. Think of them trying to live alone some how by themselves with no tools, no supplies in a very scary world.

In the absence of birth control in a post-collapse world, in the absence of obstetricians and gynecologists and the rarity of physicians, YOU will be delivering babies, and most likely helping your children.

Moms, that likely will be YOU teaching them the natural birth control I previously discussed using the mucus, basal temperature, and rhythm method. You have to know it completely, for a young Lady having a child at 16 or younger is a scary delivery in the absence of medicines, equipment, and trained personnel.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/29/2013 12:19 AM

Thread: Should You Buy a Standby Generator?

I made a post here on a form of oil heater that one could construct for pennies and by salvaging parts from the trash bin. Likewise, one could collect waste oil from grease from restaurants and use that to burn in the oil heater, and filter it to burn in simple oil lamps too.

Any sturdy container filled with waste oil and using a bit of fiberglass from your attic insulation will serve as wick that won't burn up.

You don't need to buy it, you MacGuyver it. Some stiff wire serves to hold the fiberglass wick in place.


Please read about that oil heater at the link above. You will likely use it, for a baby food jar of waste oil will heat all day a small room but needs to vent out a window, which you an easily do on the cheap.

...and unfortunately it will make your room smell like french fries which will make your hunger more intense, but it's free heat.

If you place a series of pots which are linked with metal spacers like so, then the clay will become thermal mass and will radiate the heat better from an oil lamp.
[link to www.tacticalintelligence.net]

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 02/02/2013 08:59 PM

Hi DBA & all,

soaking wet & stinking hot here.

We personally didn't get flooded put the area did, but there was still a mess to clean up. One greenhouse got destroyed due to the wind and the weight of the water but it was tied down so didn't fly away.

Didn't lose power but internet sporatic, water supply has been compromized so using my 15ltr jugs in preps to be safe for the next couple of days... this has been recommended anyway.

Its been a good reminder of what needs to be added or adjusted, pleased to note not that much but you can never have too much knowledge and for that I thank you for this thread DBA.


Whilst we have lost a few people, nothing like 2011, I hope that everyone has seen the good ol' Aussie spirit shining through the devastation.

Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear a greenhouse got damaged. They are so expensive. Yes Citizenperth also was prepped. I'm glad you were too. I heard three days minimum on not using water, so I got concerned. Local bottled water usually gets bought out in the first hour of a crisis like that. I'm glad you're safe.

There are many evil people on GLP who pervert the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and who claim to speak for Jesus as well as claim to be Christ themselves.

Brothers and Sisters, if we believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, then we must challenge false prophets. I urge you to read the exchange of IAMIAM in this topic. He's all over the place and is the spawn of Satan. He is surely doing the work of Lucifer and warping the word of Yeshua.

Thread: Sin is the reason the world is messed up (Page 9)

Please one star his threads, give him red karma, and shut him down for good, rather than let him cause a little one to burn in the lake of fire.

When the collapse comes, the People will be very afraid. They will look for easy answers in their despair. They will listen to evil ones, for evil is often persuasive and beguiling. Those evil ones will organize those with weapons and hunt other survivors and horrors will happen. Things so awful like that happen in collapses and war.

You must arm yourselves and not think that, “Everything will be alright, I need not worry”. Satan wants to disarm you so his minions can then harm your family. Evil will not stop at theft, but rape, enslavement, murder, these are the tools of Lucifer.

Accept Jesus into your heart so you may use the best tool to fight evil. Evil flinches at the sound of the Name. When we command by using the Name of Jesus, and rebuke in the Name of Jesus, then evil is exposed and often stunned.

Use that, read the Bible and come to know it, as well as the back of your hand.

Then being full of the love of YHWH, the love of Yeshua, being baptized by water and the Holy Spirit, using the Name Above All Names of Yeshua, and having arms and supplies and skills, then we may oppose Satan and his minions.

The most dangerous foe is not druggies or wannabee gang members. The most dangerous foe is a warped false prophet who leads the People with evil and serves Lucifer.

A leader's guide to work crews

You will find new tribe members to enlarge your community, however the problem won't be finding them, but refusing to allow them to join. You're going to have to be judicious about who can stay and who cannot. It would be great to help everyone, but that's impossible. There will be too many untrained people with zero skills of value. While you can train people quickly, in the interim they're going through supplies rapidly, and it will be a long time before harvest and preserving the harvest.

You need ramrods, dependable people who both know how to do things, can teach how to do things, can communicate well, and motivate people. The last thing a leader needs is to micro-manage an entire operation.

Water: This is your first and most vital need. You must have rainwater operations into cisterns and wells. I've discussed both. It's hard heavy labor at the beginning, for you need carts made, then strong people to haul the carts and containers there, and then safely back. They need to be trained on how to communicate with strangers, and those wanting to join up, and negotiating with property owners in case they have to cross it. They'll be armed of course.

Crops: Some will be master gardeners. They will run it, track harvests and seed savings. They report on supplies they need. Many children can help here after-school.

Salvage: Post-collapse, you need crews to go into abandoned places to harvest materials and haul them back. You need clever people who can rapidly assess the value of what's laying around, but also street-wise about defending it and safely returning. They strip everything from only certain homes, or else incur the wrath of the construction folks.

Construction: Highly trained clever MacGuyvers. They make it work. They find a way. Carpenters, mechanics, electricians, electronics, pipefitters, etc.

Traders: these people understand the value of salvaged goods plus are great salespeople for selling excess goods. They know people who are contacts in other tribes. They are persuasive and cunning.

Gunsmiths: These folks know how to repair, alter, rebuild, reload, etc.

Livestock: These people love animals, are very insightful, don't waste feed or materials, good at birthing, likely a vet is needed here.

Security: Law enforcement and soldiers

Crafts: These people know skills very well. They can harvest things that others don't know about: healing herbs, wild edibles, times of harvest, identify trees for lumber, notice changes in animal movement. A lot of artisans here too. Pottery makers. Ink makers. Book binders and paper makers.

Docs and midwives: most of the time, few are sick but they're healing them and doing PREVENTATIVE CARE and managing dwindling medicines, the rest of the time they're teaching adults and teens so everyone is cross trained in first aid

Hunters/Trappers: a handful who bring in meat and fish. Too many means wasted effort and time. You need the good ones to stalk and not scare off animals.

Child/Elder care: Educators, but also babysitters. All adults will rotate through the school to both teach what they know as well as learn new skills.

Cooking crew: run by a master chef, who manages the most calories to maintain a decent blood sugar so the work crews stay healthy. They know how to preserve food and to combine it so it's nutritious and tasty. Nothing is wasted. What few scraps are used for feed and for compost. That won't be much.

It's highly likely that the ramrod from each crew is reporting back at a council, for all are crucial. A change on one effects all.

Last Edited by Don'tBeAfraid on 01/30/2013 07:06 AM