tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post4779024674934065377..comments2024-02-10T18:50:01.193+10:00Comments on Gully Grove: The end of the worldChris http://www.blogger.com/profile/13715819899708384147noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-40770662712573251182013-02-13T09:57:05.233+10:002013-02-13T09:57:05.233+10:00This is very true - storing food only for the wint...This is very true - storing food only for the winter, because without refrigeration or even a need to expand so much energy acquiring large stockpiles (which no-one could possibly eat before Spring anyway) many older civilisations lived for only one season ahead. The rest was given back to nature, to rot down or what have you. The people got to rest too. Makes sense!Chris https://www.blogger.com/profile/13715819899708384147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-63963234796754148132013-02-11T11:27:10.455+10:002013-02-11T11:27:10.455+10:00Well, even though I had things to survive with, I ...Well, even though I had things to survive with, I never agreed to reach a 1+ year supply ever for one reason....Someday we have to leave the bunker...food runs out, gets stolen, wiped out by natural disaster, spoil. I always wanted more skills than cans of food. I always like to refer to our ancestors who lived off the land....their survival was from harvest to harvest. What they stored was to last the winter. I think this kept them engaged in community and life come what may. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-77739250523183969172013-02-09T07:15:50.617+10:002013-02-09T07:15:50.617+10:00Thanks for sharing that story from your gran. It&#...Thanks for sharing that story from your gran. It's true. No matter where we set up life, if we're not engaging then we live in a prison, just passing time, waiting to die. We need to value what time we have, no matter how it ends. :)<br /><br />I bet everyone has a different way of viewing that story. <br /><br />I too think it's important to have a secure water supply and a small food stockpile. It's when the fear of running out determines every other choice in your life, that determines the "preparations" didn't really save you. I would feel like I'd already lost, if I couldn't find reasons to live outside "the end". Because in reality, no-one really knows when that will be. <br /><br />We might as well enjoy what time we have, by discovering what gifts we have. Life is an incredible gift. :)<br /><br />I will respond to your email in a few days. Thanks for writing. Chris https://www.blogger.com/profile/13715819899708384147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8284944855633609232.post-31424526032740749412013-02-08T04:10:10.564+10:002013-02-08T04:10:10.564+10:00This is a great post and I really have to agree wi...This is a great post and I really have to agree with your attitude regarding End Days type of scenarios. As you know I tend to prepare a lot but after I got sick (an ultimate and unforeseen disaster), I re-evaluated that lifestyle because I also believe that in the end, "you are what you think" is very true for all of us.<br /> I still say its important to have that extra water and all the rest-its just logical to me, but to go beyond that is a very sad way to live and its with the intent to "force" things into being- to live in opposition to the natural order of things and to defy fate. <br /><br />Even though I have struggled through these lessons and have more to learn from one single illness-I would rather be in this struggle than living in a bubble of self content because I was ready. <br />My grandmother used to tell me a story from our culture about "being ready". A kings infant son was predicted to die at a young age by a snake bite. The king so loved this boy that he built him an sealed underground shelter where the boy was to live for his entire natural life. A careless servant however left a door open and a snake got inside and bit the boy who was found dead. <br /><br />That story used to scare me to death as a child! Lol! <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com