Tribal living in a World gone Mad-er

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Tribal Living in a World Gone Mad-er The twenty-one 2k addendum
I think this will be a short fantasy post on a could be coming real situation the ultimate test of survival. And what better to survive than the various end’s of the world as we know it, that are coming our way. Not that there is one way to survive all dangers one of the main ways to increase your odds is to have numbers on your side.
This will be more an essay as I of course wrote on the subject in my book. First a little background , I’m currently in the time frame of Mid January 2011. As a bonafide doom and gloomer my opinions on world collapse are pretty set. Now if we are going with the Mayan we are under two years to go. Without that consideration couldn’t we think that the end could come any day?
That’s drastic yet even the blindest a sleepist’s can tell that something is wrong , a very serious, and at this point unexplainable yet possibly related events that point to major calamity or calamities in the near future which is fast becoming the present.
A quick list of symptoms, because to call them signs would be to underestimate the damage and harm that events have caused. In another way to give explanation lets start with the most bizarre to me being the massive bird and fish kills of the first week of the New Year started at 11:30 pm the day before.
The Beebe Arkansas Blackbird deaths, which were followed by a fish kill, then more bird and fish even crab kill’s happening all around the globe. Millions of deaths are not a sign, a sign would of been the birds acting funny. These are more of a consequence of ignoring the signs.
One good out of the death’s in Arkansas is that people became aware for at least a time to a couple of facts. The first one is that no, what is happening now is not normal and never was unless you think mass extinctions are a normal cycle.
Bird kills are not extinction events but they are far more than a sign that something is wrong. Even calling it a symptom is underestimating the impact. So maybe we can pile this all into a lump and call them consequences. At this point I wont go into the possible reasons why the birds and fish died, except for how it applies to we the Sheeple . The second perception that was at least temporarily given to the people , “I think the government and the media lies.” When they came out with the first explanation , that the birds were scared to death by the noise, of the fireworks at twelve, when they reportedly started dying at 11:30.
Most people immediately thought this was bogus. That the government and media business conglomerate that run the show, would actually lie to them is still news to some people, very few but even the most hardcore had to at least consider the possibility that somebody is not telling them the real story. How long the people remember that will depend on if there is any good to 4 to 8 thousand lives lost to start the year.
Or we could say to cap off a really bad year. It would take pages to list the catastrophes of 2010. An Incredibly devastating year by any standards. Millions of human’s were affected by weather. There were major floods on at least three continents. Hardest hit probably was Pakistan. Yet I’m sure if you were in So. America it seemed as bad enough. In Parts of Australia they are still being hit with storm upon storm in a record flood.
At this particular time my internet is shut off , but if it as usual there are earthquakes happening all over the planet. We could fill another page on this post with all the major earthquakes of 2010. Starting with Haiti , on to New Zealand , with some in Japan, Chile and Argentina. Big quakes that kept on shaking for months with powerful aftershocks.
Then there was more weather, reports said over 250,000 deaths from weather. I also followed the news that the Ice caps were near record lows again. I read where this year the methane bomb started going off. This is another issue well past the sign stage. To put it mildly the methane bomb has the potential to end life as we know it, or knew it, because we wont be around if it blows. While not a sign it could still be at a symptom stage , where if we the asleeple noted the dire consequences of a very real threat to existence. If the phrase methane bomb is unfamiliar to your vocabulary I would suggest doing an immediate search on it.
The point I would make is the methane gas releases reported in Siberia and the Arctic ocean, is way beyond a sign that something is wrong. One of my favorite subjects are signs. Using hindsight it is pretty easy to see the signs . Of course by the time you see the signs in hindsight it is usually the time for consequences. The issue becomes academic, which means not a total waste of time figuring out where we first started noticing something different. In driving this is figuring out why the tire fell off. It might help if its an issue that might repeat itself.
However signs are only of real value if you pay attention to them as they happen. If you saw the sign that your ride was kinda shaky and slowed down and stopped to check your tires it might not of fell off. At least that’s what my dad used to tell me.
A good friend told me this story that happened to him. He says he was driving down the highway when he looked in the next lane and saw a tire going down the road. He said he laughed and said “hey someone lost a tire” . Of course the next thing he knew he heard a lot of scraping as his axle hit the ground. The moral of the story is don’t laugh it could happen to you.
If we heeded all the signs we probably wouldn’t need a moral to the story . Like Mark Twain would of said , as a humorist he’d be out of business. A lot of humor would be lost in the world if we quit making mistakes. More than some of us out there reading this post or writing it wouldn’t be here if not for a mistake. A general rule is other people’s mistakes are going to seem more humorous than your own. Except of course your most embarrassing moment. If you can’t see the humor in that episode you really need to rediscover your funny bone.
And when I say you I mean me as well, is there anybody who couldn’t use a few more laughs in their world? Or even a few. A precious few to sooth the savage beast that is the future. Which is what really matters now. The past brought us here we can’t change the past , even our present seems beyond our or anyone’s control. What we do have a say in is the future.
I can accept most of the difficulties facing me personally in the present which is really the now mixed with the near. The now really only counts big at the end. The only time you really live in the now is your final breath. Then again right now is already in the past. So the now becomes this moment, this day , this week, this month and the on and on.
When you live only in the now you miss out on the future. We disconnect from the future as a way of avoiding fear. That’s probably why when the tire started shaking we waited to see if it got worse. Itso facto by avoiding and ignoring the future we become fated to it.



Chapter 2 . WARNING Consequence zone ahead. This is where I am at odds with my doom and gloom self, because I do see amazing possibilities that will occur because of the consequence period . And even though the wheel’s are coming off we still have option’s. My main hope in driving terms would be that if we are going to crash we at least try to hit something soft , instead of something hard. I learned that in defensive driving school. This will be very important as we drive our now, crashing into the consequence zone. that is now our future, but only briefly then like all things become the past. To get off the driving analogies Let me put it in words said by the great W.C. Fields . The scene is him and his daughter in a balloon and the girl says “were a thousand feet up and the balloon is leaking” and Fields say’s “ don’t worry the first 999 feet are nothing to worry about, it’s that last foot that will kill you”. These are things I consider or will use as factors to living for a future, while riding out the present. It is not going to be easy but we know that, but I think if we keep calm and plan ahead we can come through this period, for sure there will be some worse for the ware involved. It will hopefully also make us better from the experience.
So what we are going to do is two fold. One would be to as much as possible make changes now that will help us make it through the coming present , as well as ways to prevent being put in this position again.
As I said I can accept the coming consequences , because I helped make them, not only directly, as in my personal position , but indirectly by ignoring signs and enabling the powers that be to get to the point they have.
The position? Really there are so few of us left with any control at all left for a personal life. It gets harder and harder for people like us . People who want to make a decent living and be left alone. The modified American dream, being able to pay your bills this month and eat. Day in this becomes a more difficult task.
For some I would even suggest becoming one of they, get your position in the conglomerate engaged in world control and learn to take advantage of the situation. For those of you about to join or indenture yourself into the system just remember to never believe or totally trust in the system. Learn the system and how it works , this can be used to your advantage. Remember every stupid law and rule they will impart to you has a way around it. It’s part of the system , after all they make the rules for you to follow not them.
For the rest of us, those that would never be accepted into the power structure we will need to think of something else. That something else will be the main subject of this work, wether it comes out as a post, short story, book or it ends up as my opening show and theme , remains to be seen. Before we go further I should explain my qualifications for writing this book. The real
reason I might be qualified to write a book on this subject is that I also am in this position. My hope is that by helping you it helps me, and that what I do that helps me will help you.
By doing this we are also on our way to becoming a tribal society, where you care about your tribe as well as yourself , and you have a group of people that care about you as well as the existence of the tribe. As this text grows I hope to impart the benefits and in some cases necessities of being part of a group in tune with the needs of the present as well as an eye and a plan on the future. A better future.
I should warn you that this book has not been written yet, I’m not sitting in a paradise waiting for you to join me. This is not a book by a famous smart guy and I’ll never be a guru to you. I might even be wrong in many areas, because this is a learning as well as teaching situation.
To me these are advantages we can use , after all we can not count on the same giant brains that got us into this mess to get us out. I’ve heard it was Einstein who said something like insanity , and Stupidity is using the same thinking that got you into a mess to get you out of it. That is a definite part of this book as we attempt to remove ourselves from under the control of the powers that be and their giant brains.
To do this will not be simply doing or not doing the same things over and over expecting something different . While we will get into the aspect of survival , because at times it will be prevalent , the more important point will be living a life worth the struggle. This will require changes in all aspects of our lives , from mental to physical , even our perceived wants and needs. As we or I learn and grow I expect or at least hope that we will see these needs and wants in there true value. One last warning before we go on. I tend to find that most answers to the problems we face are actually very simple, simple but not easy. I think and I will attempt to make the case that we are way past any easy solutions to the tomorrow’s we now face.
CHAPTER 3. Never write about yourself .
I was warned when I started this book that you should never write about yourself , mostly because unless your famous or it impacts the reader nobody cares. Knowing that I’d like the reader to be aware that I am an important part of us. So are you , which makes us the we. We need each other. So in most terms I will use the singular term of I to mean me as the subject, or experiment. If I talk to much about myself remember I am only the lab rat or guinea pig.
I think it is important to have goals plans and dreams, in a world less mad I would say work to fit the three together to give you the present and future that you desire. We will need more of a motivator than mere survival, that while useful will only get us so far, lets consider survival as only a small thing, as it is.
Survival is a base instinct found in every living creature. In nature survival is seen as mostly living long enough to continue the gene pool. While we add a few extra’s to the definition this is also our main goal. As big brained animals we place preparing our offspring to survive as a part of the process.
In terms of surviving a cataclysmic event, to actually survive , we not only have to stay alive , we must try to insure that the next few generations have at least the chance to survive and continue the life cycle program.
In other circumstances we will strive to survive in a constantly changing mostly degrading planet on the edge. While life is job one there are good reasons to expand our plans beyond , eat sleep breath, all simple now activities , the corner stones of living, and attempt to find sustainable, enjoyable productive life styles .
After all isn’t that what we all want? To survive we must have lives worth living. Then if we get it right we can enjoy the now without having to avoid and ignore the future. What should be obvious is the importance of us making these changes. A very wise saying goes “those who forget the past are doomed to relive it. Now lets add those who forget the future , wont have one.
Is it that bad ? Is it crucial? Is it absolutely necessary? This is a judgement call you will have to make on your own. However as an author who would like you to keep reading I will spend a chapter or two on some of the possible future events that might have to be survived. As we read on I hope to categorize and quantify the fears and repercussions the events hold on our future. Also a guess at how long before these future events smack us in our now’s.
In keeping with the title of course we have to consider my friend and becoming constant companion December 21, 2012. As part of writing this book I have decided to E- publish Twenty-One 2K the Handymans guide to 2012 , first on my blog and then into e-book form.
I had higher hopes for it but I think the best course is to just put it out there and hope someone see’s it , maybe even read’s it. What matter’s is in writing the book, and I hope in the reading of the book, the conclusion would be that there are too many possible events and coincidences occurring in this time frame to just ignore it.
2012 aside, because I’m not going to try to convince you on that, I made my case in the book. We will have to look at survival in terms of surviving a great event , as well as surviving with out it, This would be a rapidly increasing series of events escalating into a degenerated probable extinction type of scenario.
Now we can only survive an extinction by avoiding it, very important to remember. I also think the stakes should be considered, while we contend with getting through the now . Don’t we have to consider future life and their goals of having a now. If we are barely making it now , as a society as a species, what will the next generations have to do in a worse environment with more competition for depleted resources. Once again I may be overstating my case but as usual the entire future is counting on us to ensure there will be one.
We owe it to life, all the genes and history in us that goes all the way back to mankind’s beginning. We owe it to the planet and all life on it.
Enough of that I know that most wont act out of duty. I think in this case the only motivator strong enough is fear. It’s sad of course that we wouldn’t do it for love, or for future generations, or because it is the right thing to do morally.
The trouble with using fear is that it is a shifting emotion , spread into most of our now lives. I can come up with a list of fears every morning just to get in my car and get to work. Then there is my list of fears for work. Then after work I come up with a new list of fears , that last until I am home and if I don’t find any new fears from the event of the day, I simply go to bed knowing I will tomorrow start a new and improved list.
CHAPTER 4 MORE FEAR ITSELF, Fear can be useful, like pain it can give alert that something is not right. But chronic fear like chronic pain overloads the system thereby negating any useful message. We as a society are already in chronic overload when it comes to fear , before fear can be effective we have to eliminate the excesses, clean our minds of unneeded fears that waste our time and energies, so we can get to the fear that counts.
Notice I didn’t say remove fear from our lives that would not only be impossible it would be impractible and foolhardy. Without fear you won’t survive for long at least. In a way the reason we have to be so attentive to babies and toddlers is that we haven’t taught them the fears they will need to be on their own. While we like to think our loving parental design including siblings would only pass on the good fears , such as if you touch fire you will get burned,. We have to remember the human side passing on hereditary fears, these are quite possibly what you will call bad fears. These include personal phobias , fear in it’s worse state as well as other than natural fears , like the fear of God/authority, which equals retribution.
Phobia’s mostly involve our avoidance mechanism’s, if we are afraid of heights, stay on the ground. The interesting thing about avoidance techniques is that it really helps the fear which is the problem to become more ingrained in the psyche. And if avoiding one thing helps it quickly becomes a major part of your coping tools.
I am totally unqualified to help you if you have a major phobia , yet I still can help. The first step which will help with all the fears and degrees is to classify them and rate them, in order of their chances of impacting your own life.
Just an example after 9/11 people were or some still are afraid of terrorist killing them in America. We spent trillions and gave up our last freedoms to guard ourselves from this possibility. Yet if you look at the statistics you are more at risk of dying from peanut butter than terrorist attack. More people die from peanut butter related incidents than terror.
Not to mention the fear and energy we put into making the air safe to travel while millions get killed on the roads. These generalities show that fear can be controlled transferred and most importantly manipulated. Surprisingly this is a good thing, because if it can be controlled then it would go back to being the survival tool it is meant to be.
A good or easy way to control fear is to examine it. First off is it a real fear do you fear something relevant to your life? Then examine even list your response’s to said fear. Then list how you would or could respond to the fear.
First lets look at phobias your own personal fears. Most are abnormal responses to normal occurrences. We all have them it’s the degree to which they impact our live’s that matters. A good way to judge the degree of your fear is to face it. A mild phobia can usually be overcome by purposely encountering the thing that scares us. The stronger the fear the more important it would be to break it up into stages, if it is heights don’t start with sky diving, start with standing on a book, if you have to close your eyes. Then when that becomes comfortable open your eyes and look around then up and down, relax your body knowing if you fall its only inches. Hey if you think that was easy try standing on one leg, if that’s too scary use a wall or something to get support. When you can handle that try a chair or step ladder stepping up and down, working your way up as you feel comfortable to achieve a level of security in your mind do to circumstances you might encounter in the future. Another good exercise is walking on a board, place a 2x4 on the ground and walk the length of it, try not to fall off, use your imagination as you look at the board picture the ground around it say a few feet below , then walk it, then work your way up to your desired height goals.
I may type like a writer but I am and have always been a working man , and have worked off the very top of 40 ft ladders , as well as from ropes off the tops of buildings. The main thing that will get you to those heights with the ability to function is the belief and trust in your body and mind that you can do it. Its not like I don’t have a fear of heights , they can be dangerous and hurt a lot. As I told one customer I don’t mind height’s but I’m not real crazy about falling. Falling could actually be the root fear to most fear of heights. Isn’t that what scares us most about heights ?
So if you fear falling which is of course another natural fear unnatural in that it controls your actions we now need to focus on controlling that specific fear. This should be quick and easy after all once you fall the important thing is landing well. We only fear falling because of the ensuing landing. So to help control our fear of falling you work on landing. My first suggestion would be to learn from the pros , any martial arts training will involve landings. The next step up would be floor gymnastics getting confidence in your body is a good way to overcome the fear of falling.
If your agoraphobic you can practice at home. All you really need is a soft secure place to land. If its major sit on the edge of a bed and slowly allow your back to fall onto the bed. Analyze the procedures you used in a controlled fall. How your arms back and neck all have to work together to protect your vital areas. The body knows how to land. Do to bad habits it can forget so as you practice falling backwards tell your body if its not doing it right and repeat the exercises until it does.
It’s nice to have incentives if you desire to do something a fear prevents you from doing this will help motivate you. Another side effect of controlling your fear is more self-confidence, if you can take one little step you can do a bigger one next time.
In heights that would be to fall forward the scariest part of the whole falling fear. Again if its debilitating start on your knees in a very soft place. Again do a slow motion controlled fall this time frontwards. Allow your body to do it’s thing again correcting bad habits through practice until you have the confidence that should you fall you can land in the best possible mannor.
What we are doing here is called starving the fear , we are indirectly working on the fear of falling by gaining confidence in both our balance and our landings. Then once you gain control and confidence in your balance which comes from the mind with body , you actually will fall less , reducing the fear into a manageable and useful tool you can use in your life.
I picked heights because it is one of the most common and natural fears people have. Most phobias are best dealt with in the same techniques , examining the fear for its impact on you and finding out the real fear or root fear involved, then in stages personally facing and controlling the levels of fear until they lose the impact they have on your life. I think fear will play a huge part in the future so I will spend lots more of your time as we work through the different types and responses to the fears including fear itself in the next few chapters. I think it will help if we learn the difference between natural and unnatural fears and how we can recognize the differences, then of course find our best responses , especially to the Unnatural fears. I think it will help us in the long term to be able to respond to the fears imposed on us by society as well as the ones created in the inner mind.

CHAPTER 5, Sorry Mr. President. In one of my top five favorite speeches President Roosevelt , FDR, said “ We have nothing left to fear but fear itself.” We of course have plenty more to fear than just plain old fear. Nowadays most of the awake-ished crowd will all tell you that fear is just the distraction, to keep you from noticing what is really happening.
Redundant as it sounds, and is, most fears are designed as buffers to what really scares us. We get unnatural fears because they attach themselves to older fears usually going back to a perfectly natural fear.
Because of this and circumstances each individual must classify their own fears. Its easier to start with natural fears , do they involve survival , are they a tool passed on a human trait that we all have ? Fear as a survival tool is why humans have lasted as long as we have. We weren’t always top of the food circle , we developed these fears mostly as a response to being prey. Then we learned that by controlling these fears we could move onto a safer position that of predator.
This was like the puberty of mankinds rise., as well as a flaw that is responsible for the negative impact we have brung on the planet as a species. To compensate for our fear of being eaten , we kill to preempt being eaten. First we had to become the top predator , we did this by eliminating the competition , first to our own selves then our supply , until we began to domesticate animals and farm , where we developed a sense of ownership and we learned to protect what we considered ours. So the fear of being eaten led to the creation of possession , transferring the fear part of being eaten to the fear of loss. The fear of loss , disguised as a sense of protection is a main catalyst to war’s and even a driver for greed. as well as most killing.
We become possessive in order to mask our fear of loss. While there are a few times this fear may help for the most part it is a negative emotion thats spreads into all aspects of our life often becoming a controlling factor in our decision making.
I would classify the fear of loss as in itself an unnatural fear, connected to a real fear. Which makes it a fear almost uncontrollable. It can disguise itself even from the individual , mostly through entitlement , whats mine is mine. Often the more you care about possessions and the gathering of them , the more intense the fear of loss becomes,. A vicious cycle. Soon we acquire possessions to protect our possessions.
This emotion , which fear is , is far to ingrained in society to actually remove or even control it. However if an individual desires to gain control of this part of his psyche it can be done quite simply, Simply but again not easily.
The best way to control the fear of loss is through the reduction in our sense of possessions. Start by evaluating your things. Keeping in mind that a possession’s value is because of what it can do for you , and what someone will give you for it. This can start the process of reducing the fear of loss by prioritizing the need of a possession.
A simple example me, My neighbor thinks I’m crazy because I haven’t armed up to protect my stuff. My answer is always that nothing I own is worth risking my life for, or taking anyone elses life to protect. I like my stuff but it is all stuff, mostly replaceable, hardly any of it essential, none of it worth a life , mine or anyone elses.
Being poor maybe helps , realizing that nothing you have can not be taken away , realizing the futility of possession, after all possession implies a permanence that can never be fulfilled. Ownership in itself is only an illusion.
If possession is holding you down , you feel caught in the endless circla of aquiring and protecting pass the point of any real personal needs, something you have to evaluate for your self, then a simple cure and even a test of yourself would be to give away some of your things. Make sure they are useful and get to someone who will benefit from them. Start with the redundant things you have multiple’s of and learn the benefit’s of being a positive impact on society , while relieving your self of the burdens of possession, all working towards the main theme , getting yourself lean and mean and ready to take on the future.
Stripping away the extra fears as well as bad habits will be very influential in determining just what that future will become. I think it’s fair to say that we will need all the help we can get, and the best effort we can give. By reducing unnecessary and counter productive fear , and learning to control and use fear as a sense we begin the mental conditioning that we will need in a world gone mad-er.


A side note before we move into other areas we will need to work on ,,, if you have debilitating fear’s please get help. Professional is good (Sort of) if you can afford it , and you get lucky enough to find someone who just doesn’t load you up with a drug habit. If you need help don’t start with your family doctor unless its to ask for a reference to somebody trained in the field. Avoid any doctor that prescribes you blanket drugs to get you moving, they may help at first but will quickly become an even greater problem in the short term.
This is crazy but if you have internet , and your reading me , I would suggest looking for chat lines with people suffering the same problems as you. By talking to others it will help you evaluate the degree of your problem, as well as gaining the experience of the various treatments. Then decide what you think is your best course of action. Another plus is that it is virtually anonymous. This holds a benefit over talking it out with friends and family, because it often involves very personal matters, best not shared, sorry. Later you will probably find that you need to confront friends and family to solve the issues.
Another plus would be is you almost always come away from the encounter feeling that insane as you are there are a lot of people crazier than you. Then you can also realize that to some degree we are all crazy.
One thing for sure , and it counts toward all I have to say, is that ignoring and avoiding the problem only makes it a greater problem , we are past the point of hoping this will all just go away. Not only will avoiding problems not solve the problem it will add other problems and negatively infect our future decision /living process.





CHAPTER 6. Face to face with the future.
Why I started with fear is because emotional training takes long term training . Unfortunately we don’t have the luxury of time, not that we are running out of time, time I am sure will go on.
Before we move into the future it would be nice if we had time to analyze what that future most likely will challenge us with. Yes this is where controlling fear will become necessary. It isn’t the only tool we can use , or will need. Not mentally or physically or if you have one a soul.
Another useful tool that you will want to use is goals and dreams. Which means we almost have to foresee two future’s into one acceptable one. Which entails planning and will need faith, in your goals and in your abilities to accomplish them. Body mind and soul. So to give you the best possible future I’d like to consider us in training. Here’s the complicated part, what exactly are we training for. This will be a good time for documentation, some for the record now and then, before and after list.
Actually it will be two lists. One the list of what you want the future to be, the other the list of how you really see things as happening. Be honest in both, consider your dream future and list the attributes you have that can achieve your goals. List also the challenges and difficulties you would encounter achieving your goal. Actually look for the things that would or could prevent you from achieving said dream goal. If you find an obstacle that you can’t overcome alter your plans.
I mean your never going to be a pro-football player if your 5' 3" inches tall and a girl. There’s still millions of things she can do, she would be better set directing her energies elsewhere.
I think it’s always important no matter what stage of life or predicament your in to have and keep a dream goal. A large piece of your psyche goes dormant, which is a vast source of personal energy when we lose our dreams. Creativity strives on dreams.
Plus when we load our mental survival tools in the old box we will find that creativity will be one of our main tools. Creativity will not only be a necessary skill it is always a positive coping instrument.
Plus it’s fun and easy to use. Simply said many times creativity creates creativity. The more you do it the more you can do it. It’s like a muscle the more you work it the bigger it gets.
For now we’ll work on two forms of creative exercise. The first is very easy , look for something everyday that you have never seen before. ( old joke try the kitchen)This will cause your mind to look outside it’s repetitive habits. Instead of closing your mind in you consciously open it to the world around you. This is also training for the eyes as well as other senses. The more you have to look the more familiar you become to your surroundings as well as changes as they happen. Looking helps you be creative because your looking for something new.
If circumstances reduce the size of your world , I would suggest pictures as well as non required reading. Especially agorophobics, looking at beautiful sceneries can be used as incentives to make positive changes. Another practice is looking for things you’ve never seen in old pictures. This works good both in familiar art as well as old photos. If you look at a photo and it brings a feeling this is your mind creating an emotion. As for non-required reading as always go for the classics. I’ve said it way to much but theirs a reason the books are classics.
While there is no time to waste , we all have time that goes to waste, these wasted times are a great time for reading as well as practicing creativity. I’ve found no wait is as long if I have something to read. This not only helps us be creative by mental stimulation, it also in itself is being creative , learning how to use otherwise wasted time.
Of course to use time properly, because we cant actually save it we can create lists to help us maximize and focus our energies. Which brings us back to the two lists, and what to do about them. We will get back to creativity as well as fear controls in the more intermediate stages to follow.
At this point I am curious what your other list looks like. Of course it will be different than mine as well as different than your friends and family. It may be oversimplified but we all see the future on a sliding scale with good on one side and bad the other. Actually a better way of thinking would be two meters one that registers positive energy and the other negative. These two meters balance them selves out into a third meter that is our overall perspective of the future. If we take a creative mental step back we can visualize hundreds of dual meters giving signals to the brain that we used to react to external and personal stimuli.
From the conclusions to this process is where your future lies. Good and bad, or if you like positive and not so positive. In achieving dreams and goals it often helps to maximize the positive and minimize the negative. In combining our dream world with our real world we will at times , examine the negatives, and look for positive alternatives.
Well also work on utilizing and refining your list as circumstances develop. Well also add in lists of things we will need for the future , tools and skills to be learned. Well start by adding a list of the things that will be useful in the future which gets mad-er as we go.
CHAPTER 7 Defining Success.
As yet we have set no defining goals for this book or our future. The book in general has a rather wide focus on getting us in shape mentally and physically for a very interesting time span rapidly approaching.
Most writers would of started with why you need this book , I am still young and dumb in the writing business so I tend to put it down as it comes, but hopefully not as I make it up. The self help tips are almost all things I have picked up in reading. Personalized to work for me of course. I’ve found as a usual rule if I get one or two really good ideas out of a book it is worth reading.
In fact when we get to lists of things you’ll want to have books will be a large part of your tool kit. For now I would suggest collecting books , on sale or through thrift stores on self help and do-it yourself topics. Any medicinal books from first aid to healthy living might provide valuable information if you have it when you need it. These books in a future gone mad-er will be as valuable as food supplies and hand tools. This is because they will be stores of information that you can learn from and put into practice when we get to the future.
Hopefully you wont need to bring this book because you will have gotten the message that the best chances of surviving , living in and maybe even succeeding to your desired level all depend on the actions you have already or are about to take. As it says on my book resume “ I’m just looking for a job I can do in my underwear, and not be a total prostitute”.
In truth my goals are even more self-centered, I actually would like to save lives. In dreams I could see millions of people waking up and demanding change , and making the sacrifices and hard choices , necessary to right our crumbling world as we know it. Yet if I could even help two people . You and me, this book or your time would not be wasted.
Which leads me to another precondition I self imposed, that this book is not about waking people up. I’m sorry but as the saying goes no more singing lessons for the pig. As in of course teaching a pig to sing not only wastes your time but it also annoys the pig.
Time is too valuable to be wasted , even in a normal life cycle the thing you learn at the end is that life was just too short. So time spent out waking up the masses is time not spent in preparing yourself to walk the walk.
Plus you may be doing them a disservice. Maybe they are better off asleep? Unless you can offer them a positive alternative, what good is it to them to know that they are virtual slaves to a crumbling corrupt system in place to give abundance to the few at the cost to the many?
Or better yet try getting them to acknowledge that something is very wrong with the environment , and the coming changes to weather patterns are going to change and effect our lives are already affecting millions of people all around the globe. Then tell them it is going to get worse? Nobody will listen , trust me? I’m glad you didn’t, people will listen just ignore you. Or egads laugh at you, and yes avoid you.
I’ve beat my head against that wall all my life , you feel like it is your duty, you absolutely would like to help your friends and family. Especially when you see how simple it would be to make the changes in our lifestyles that would ease the burdens on the future. At least way back when we first had our awakenings.
I will hammer awakening in the next chapter , what is more important is to try a different tactic. Lead by example. If you make positive changes in your life people will notice. It may take more time for them to see it, but that is their wasted time not yours.
As you become a healthier more rounded person . People will notice, not only that they will want some of it themselves. This could even work as incentive, imagine the jealousy from your family alone, should you be a healthy happy person. When they ask you why you are healthy and happy then you are in the position to impart your views to a receptive audience.
Just don’t be arrogant, a favorite of mine and soon to be yours is when someone asks you how you stay or got so thin , tell them how you gave up fast food and started eating fresh foods as local as possible. Tell them how much better you feel without gmo’s in your diet. They may even ask what gmo’s are. If they look at you and see how much healthier you are , your words will carry a lot more weight in their thought process. Especially if they think that you have a secret way of getting healthy, and of course feeling better.
If you like them suggest an exercise plan tailored to their condition and goals. Something similar to what I will suggest for you , starting at the basics, later to get into more intermediate physical training and exercise regiments.
CHAPTER 8. Self Physicals.
This should be added to your future list as a guide to notice improvement. Your grade on your perception of your health. Starting with your limitations, I always ask a few basic questions to determine people’s level of health. First can you touch your toes, can you see your toes? This is one of the most basic exercises, and very beneficial to pursuing more advanced health training.
Before you discount the importance consider that Jack Lalane said that if you only do one exercise make it touching your toes. It not only increases heart rate and blood flow it stretches muscles and improves flexibility which decreases pain.
This is my favorite method. Stand with you feet separated a few inches, yet parallel. Bending the knees as you bend over reach as far down as you can comfortably go with your hands toward the floor. Hold this position for a few seconds, then extend your reach until you can feel the stress , hold that for another few seconds and then slowly bring your body back to its upright position. Then put your feet together and this time locking your knees bend over until you can feel the stretch discomfort, hold it then come back to your standing position. Don’t push this one but as you do it continually you’ll find your self getting closer to the floor naturally. Then separate your feet and repeat the first bent knees toe touch , this time taking a little longer in both stretch positions. Then as you return to your upright position reach for the ceiling with your fingers extended, hold this for seconds and then relax, shake it off and your done.
Those twinges you felt are areas you will want to work on for increasing flexibility and strength. As this is just the beginning I would suggest starting with a moderate long term plan , that keeps in mind the personal goals you have for your body.
One good thing about doing this way is that you can do it very low budget. If we get it right you will naturally add and increase your workouts because you see and feel the positive results. To each their own but a good starting point is three 15 minute workouts a week followed by one good physical exertion. Coupled with your daily stretching this is not a high impact life change. I think one good way of keeping up the regiment is to make your big physical activity of the week enjoyable. Look for something along the line of physical entertainment.
Since survival might play a part I would suggest riding your bike. The bike that is of course part of your survival equipment. This can be used for a lot of healthy enjoyment and give you the benefit of getting used to alternative transportation. Adding a sport can be a good way to enjoy your workout. This has the benefit of being a planned activity, much harder for the mind to blow off, than say jogging in the rain. Look for one in your comfort zone , even bowling is exercise, especially if you maximize the effort you can get benefits from that.
And never underestimate the positive reactions to plain old walking. This can be turned into hiking which is really just walking in a lot more fun places. Walking is very good as a fifteen minute workout as well. The important thing in the short workouts is to use as much of your body as you can, along with increasing your heart rate and requires more strenuous breathing.
I like to walk in circles because as you get in shape you can slowly increase the size of the circle which increases the impact of the workout. As your overall health improves you can start targeting the specific areas you feel the need to work on. While you will set your own goals a general plan should include better breathing, and more body control , which entails strength and flexibility. While I maybe should of started with breathing exercises we will get more into that in the intermediate stages . When we start learning to maximize our workouts to get the most benefit from them.
CHAPTER 8. Take a Deep Breath and Hold it.
Because of its importance I will throw in what I think is a most basic breathing exercise. As I cannot possibly know your health now or your goals I think this exercise can be done by anyone anywhere.
As I write this I am aware that we all have our limitations and our liabilities. It will be important as we get more inter-moderate in our plan to be able to distinguish between them. For now a handicap would be a limitation , though to them it would be a challenge. It is something to be dealt with and overcome. A liability is more temporary and usually involves mental attitude and learned behavior. They are also something to be dealt with and overcame.
I heard in a movie a character who said someone once said “ Good things happen in litle stages, and take a long time to come, while great things happen all at once in an instant.” Very true but I think you can more control the good things, If you do the work. And since I’m quoting movies that quote others “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step”.
I cant think of a better first step than a breathing exercise. This one is basically a TM breathing technique. If you are lying down lay on your back with your arms straight at your sides. If you are sitting sit straight up aligning the spine with the neck. If you are standing assume the position , feet parallel and inches apart back straight, arms at side.
First step release all the air in your lungs that you can. Breath out . Then breath in through the nose as hard as you can for a four second count. (One thousand one , one thousand two) . At four hold that breath for another four second count. Next exhale through the mouth force the air out for another 4 count. Then hold the exhale for four more. Then repeat the exercise one or two more times . On the last exhale don’t hold for four just simply begin breathing normally. Of course shake it off and your done. If you want to maximize your time this is a good exercise to use after or before the stretching exercise.
One of the main things we can work on is our lung power. I exercise to breath better , and the better I breath the easier the exercise is. While all the things we have to change will matter , I put breathing as right up there with eating as to importance. Maybe more. Before you can climb your mountains you will need to build your wind power.
I hope I’m not going to slow for you , there is a lot that needs to be done , and a lot of items for we to consider putting on our list of future needs and wants. Really we are making multiple list entries that will hopefully get us to where we want to be , some happy place ?
I remind myself of an ad “ The future of Tomorrow, Today”. When I think of what our future will be I always start at what the experts said it would be like now. The two just don’t go together , I mean where is my hovercar? Ok that’s ranting but Arthur C. Clark said we’d have them by now. Not to pick on him but his vision of the future has been totally wrong. Not just him , I read “The book of Predictions” from the book of lists series, where they asked all these famous smart people what they thought the future would be like by the millinieum. This was in 1986 . Not one of the smartest minds in the world saw this. Crazy as it seems its like there are parelel universes with one being bizzaro land, only this is bizzaro-ville central. My point was supposed to be that if these smart people were so wrong , what chance would I have of picking the coming future ? Still I think I will be accurate and say the best thing to prepare for would be anything. Except this wastes a lot of energy and time that could be spent working on our own futures list. My theory is that we have to work on both lists and can even at times cover two birds with one list. An easy example will be diet.
Everyone knows by now that this will be one of our most immediate concerns , no matter which future you see or want. My personal goal would be to move the one I see into the one I want , or as close as I can get.
In part two we will start getting into our survival list , things that we need to make our lives livable as well as give us self sufficiency. I live on a fault so disaster preparedness is not that shocking , but there are basic lists that everyone should have , altered to their surroundings ,. Then there are things you will want just in case .
One of the things on everybodies list is food supply. I applaud anyone with stored food , but if their was one thing I would say save up on its SEEDS. This year again I will attempt to become a farmer. One more time I will give a shot at growing my own. I think this will be done in video performance piece style.
As I finish this chapter there is snow covering the yard and it’s a cold January day. In farming terms of timing this is planning season. As a farmer I am as green Acres as you can get, I have the heart, but I can see I’m doing something not quite right.
As we progress I’ll try to get some better ideas and pass them on. We don’t have time to watch the plants grow now. Keep in mind that you can have no self dependance without controlling your food source.
Just to create a starting point, be conscious of where your food comes from. Theres lots to consider but the easiest way to put it is to localize your diet. Get your food from as close a source to where you are as possible. Starting at home. It is better for you , the planet, and your local economy.
Not that we could ever be truly self sufficient or would even want to be. I see a lot of potential for co-opt farming, which would be a great place to add tribal instincts. Which gets me to the title of the book,. To me it’s simple that as a person you don’t survive you exist until you don’t. As with all nature we think of survival in the terms of passing on our dna to a new generation. This all requires help. Yes even cloning , takes outside interaction, dependancy on others.
So another important part of our list will be finding and connecting with people with hopefully the same general purpose as you. This is a two edged policy here. Your looking for people that can help and support you , and so are they.
My beginners advice is that to have a friend be a friend. Imagine what you think a good person to have as a friend would be , then be that person.
I can’t wait to get into some of the more intermediate things but these are the essentials I will cover and add to as I write and you hopefully read on.

I read Urban Survival , I think of him as a partner to cliff over at half past human. I've mentiond these guys before Cliff High Is the driver of webbot But the other guy Thinks what I have been Thinking on the US bird kills, the New Madrid.

I' am of course on it, So I'm biased . A lot of area's have a claim as to being a dangerous fault , but at Least in North America new Madrid has the potential and the history of totally deranging the area. The reason it is feared is that unlike other faults it sits in the middle of a continent. Both sides of the fault are extremely heavy so when it shakes , historically every 2 to 3 hundred years it can pretty much shake the entire continent. The last time which was the only time for us as Americans they said the second of three set off church bells in Philadelphia. I go down to the area we call the boot heel and you can see clear evidence of liquefaction. In many places rocks and soil turned to jelly. It actually shakes the rocks apart. I'm not going to go in to all the humans that are involved but between Memphis and Saint Louis alone there are two million people.

Heres some info I found on the Fault.

The New Madrid Seismic Zone is an indistinctly circumscribed region in the central United States distinguished from adjacent parts by its geologic instability manifested by earthquakes. This curious zone is also called the New Madrid Fault Zone, the New Madrid Fault Line, the New Madrid Rift Zone, the New Madrid Rift Complex, the Reelfoot Rift, and the Reelfoot Complex, among other appellations. The New Madrid Seismic Zone is an intraplate seismic zone--smack dab in the center of the North American Plate—as opposed to the more familiar interplate seismic zones, such as California’s San Andreas Fault Zone, which mark transform boundaries between tectonic plates.

The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) during a five-month period in late 1811 and early 1812 produced an earthquake sequence of thousands of earthquakes of all different sizes that constitutes the “greatest release of seismic energy in so short a time ever witnessed and recorded by human beings.” (1) The magnitude of these crustal movements—three of them are believed to have registered well above 8 on the Richter scale—in 1811-1812 was exceptional even for the NMSZ, which we now know generates almost continually smaller earthquakes that we cannot sense, including at earthquake hotspots” such as Enola, Arkansas, and New Madrid, Missouri. (2) That's part of the story I learned , stuff I should of already knew the reelfoot rift , that really sounds way cooler than New Madrid seismic zone. The nmsz is only an arm of the reelfoot. Another thing they say the fault line is 750 million years old, and is actually like a large canyon or crack filled in with sediment. And covered with land as well as a river in various areas. that's basically what intraplate seismic zone means. Of course I think Inne or an oute works as well.
Various reasons including reading the fearbots have got me thinking on a quake along the New Madrid from here on out called the reelfoot in honor of the Chickasaw chief of legend. If you get a little time you should read it To Cliff note it every body in his tribe is drowned in a lake created by the river during an earthquake after he disobeys the great spirit (Its a Woman of course).
I can't blame them because I was already thinking about it for various and somewhat similar reasons. First is a major quake on the reelfoot is a certainty sometime. I read a few government quotes on earthquake probabilities and they made the area seem kind of tame.
as a side link there was an article titled is the new Madrid dying? I noticed that the article said that over half the homes even around the bootheel area didn't carry earthquake insurance. I'm sure this is two fold, in the economic times people have better ways to spend the dough for rising insurance costs. Plus the years tend to fade old fears.
I personally have known it was there since grade school. It being this super big earthquake. Or it being a tornado , or it being a nuclear bomb, back then it was simple though, all the plans were pretty simple for all of it , put your head under your desk. They really made desks tough back then.
For now I'm going under my desk over earth quaking. Many times I have used information that I learned in "The Gift of Fear" so I think a key thing is controlling fear. Like now it is almost embarrassing and forget almost the way I'm worked up over this.
Maybe long ago I should of stated things that due to recent events, I am tense about the faultline. My mind has put together strands of information, some highly influenced. My Spidey sense has been tingling since I read about the January 4th eclipse and how webbot was picking a major earthquake five days either side of that. Due to the full moon eclipse which they called . I believe this was back in November , and I think it was Japan who knows because in the last year I had seen on my disaster map http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php hundreds of earth quakes over 5 . A for instance is the seismometer map http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ gives out a list of quakes over 4m .but by the time you could finish the list a couple more have happened.
If you have never seen those sites you'll be amazed at how many earth quakes are going on. Not that their aren't enough other problems to worry about as you can tell on the rsoe map. Because of all the activity worldwide I have tried to look for patterns or even causes. Patterns would help maybe to figure out a cause.
It boggles the mind so I Put it to google and through my search I found articles from the experts saying that there is no method and if somebody say's they have one they are lying . In fact that was the title to the article. I even looked up the name sake of the next article "Why no expert would predict earthquakes". it said see Eben Browning.
I don't think we would be talking New Madrid now if it wasn't for Eben then. I know the story but this is how it plays out in history. Browning a very strange person . in his bio on wiki it says he was like a climatologist from some community college. Well the story says he was a huckster (thats how they talked back in the 90's) who predicted a major quake was going to happen in early December 1990. Since it didn't happen it was assumed by a very angry press , because they had to go to Missouri and in December, that Browning had conned us yocal's of Missouri, and somehow got rich off it.
First off I went to work that day just like usual, and we laughed as the day got over. But never before or after have so many people around here made so many preparations just in case. Even today many building codes in the city are supposedly designed with him in mind.
I think most people said just because it didn't happen then , don't mean it couldn't happen anytime. I'm sure it will be chaos but I think overall we could survive it. We may have been stupid enough to prepare our homes for earthquakes and stock some water , a little food for three days , but we didn't drive all the way to New Madrid in case it did happen. it was a fifty fifty chance and either way I think it would be kind of stupid to go there. I wonder how many of the news people realized how lucky they were he was wrong. A lot of people might survive a quake here because of Eben Browning.
But you know that was pretty much the end of quake predicting until The tipping Points memo , which anybody who read it would have to say that the time frame he predicted has been bizarre to say the least. In semi fact one of the reasons I looked up Browning was to see what theory he used to come up with his prediction,
Despite Browning's statistical barrage to back up his claim, based on influence of celestial bodies, planetary alignments and gravitational pulls, scientists in droves sought to debunk Browning's theory of eminent disaster. I got that from his obituary, it also says he did predict a quake in California. He died the next year. But his technique sounds a lot like webbots , hmmm.