This is why you will NOT find me in Canada or any other far-out place. Too many heroes ready to wipe people out for no rational reason. If I am equally capable, equally armed, and neutral, then I am met with hostility?
Of course.
1) How do I know you aren't sick?
2) How do I know you aren't dangerous?
3) How do I know you aren't mentally unstable?
Trust is earned man, especially in the wild. To be met with anything but hostility would be me putting my own personal societal views above the safety and security of myself, my family, and my friends. Survival 101: Avoid People. Survival 201: If you can't avoid people, be pessimistically cautious.
Hostility doesn't mean shot on site, but it might mean that you would be told to walk 15 miles in another direction under guard and then let go (and then watched for another 10-15 miles). Why? Because fuck off there is more than enough land here, this is
our space.
If someone walked into your home and said "Hi, I'm Jack.. Can I uh.. have some of this food you got here?" I highly doubt you would not be alarmed and highly suspicious.
And before I get line-by-lined,
Too late. :chuckles:
it isn't against Gour, it just goes to show that my mentality is not fit for anywhere around people like him in a survival situation. I also have a 2 year old and a third trimester wife, so I am sort of fucked.
No, I think you'd be more in a dependent situation. I'm not saying "kill everyone," I'm saying that folks who have opposing views should sort themselves into their own groups so that leadership is not burdened with differing ideologies. It's best not to have people who want to challenge you in your group or question your ethics. Those people might begin to resent you, and then what you have, then then try to kill you in your sleep.
All the smiles in the world don't mean shit if they end up shooting you in the back. I need people I can trust so that I can hand them a loaded firearm and have them watch my back, not aim at it.
I know the people in my community and the skills/resources they have. I mean, this isn't a zombie scenario, it's an infectious disease. I am posting at home for a couple straight months, reading a lot, playing a lot of gin rummy, and shorting the market. Just a lot of phone calls to keep track of who is who and how everyone is, a lot of neighborhood politics and being a leader, and quite a bit of disciplined boredom.
I feel that bro.. And to me, that seems like a perfect typeof person to bring along... Doesn't seem like a threat to me at all.. Just chill and be easy with what happens. But when people start vocally dissenting, it's time to sort folks out.
No need to shoot border patrol officers or wipe out a room full of people.
If you can't take charge of a situation to protect your family then who is tasked with that responsibility?
That's not for me, and I don't have the virtual world experience of some role playing game to guide me:chuckles:
Or real world experience of:
a) Having my ass kicked by police, repeatedly, and almost getting my teeth knocked out.
b) Seeing how people
really act when they are put into wild situations (like spending just a bit of time at the Workhouse will do).
b) Having my friend's brains blown out right next to me in the backseat of a Cutlass.
c) Growing up poor as fuck and having no food to eat for days.
d) Having no lights, no water and watching
my mother go outside and turn that shit back on.
e) Having kids and no way to feed them
f) Dealing with stupid bitches who only care about the events of the day they find themselves in and not the next
g) Having a mother and uncles who lived through and served in Vietnam and show all the scars from it
h) Being left in a jail cell for days for no reason.
i) Learning first hand that being Black-Arab in America is akin to walking through a meat grinder and then tossed in boiling water.
j) Watching folks you knew your whole life get addicted to crack and literally just disappear from your conscious reality. "u remember so-and-so??"
k) Having not just the first bitch, but the next bitch drag your kids away from you and laugh in your face while doing it.
l) Having situations turn so ugly, so quickly, that you find yourself with truly no hope for your future.
So yeah... that kind of experience can shape you into being the kind of person who would shoot a border patrol agent if he felt he had to, or clear out a room full of people.
When I did play video games, I played them to escape... Not fuck around at my house in the 'burbs... But to escape poverty, destitution, institutional racism, unemployment; shit that would drive people to insanity. Try finishing school, getting a degree, keeping a job, with all that shit going on around you.
You got a 2-year old and a pregnant wife... Been there done that.. I got 3 fucking kids homeboy. I got a sick mother, a computer nerd stepfather, and a wife who would literally melt and most probably shutdown completely in such a situation. You're not the only one with a family...
I'm not saying I would invite an experience like that, I'm just being open and honest on an anonymous (I'd never say this shit in public) forum where we can see where/how different folks think.
p.s.
Not directed at you NateDagg, but just understand that because you've described your life as relatively easy you shouldn't assume the rest of ours has been. Me and my older brother can't even talk about our early lives without getting sick. So each of us has different experiences.. Mine led me to Hawaii where I truly felt reborn. My brother saw that and came out there and now has a new family, wife, and a great life.. But I never forget where I came from. Hard knock Cleveland...
