Maggie’s People with guns and ammo will determine the value of everything post apocalypse.

Silver does have a lot of SHTF uses. On the wagon trains, a silver coin was often kept in the water supply they carried with them. The agitation of the water over the silver killed bacteria and stopped it from growing.

“Born with a silver spoon” is a term used to describe rich people. It originated when modern medicine wasn’t what we have today. A silver silverware set was more resistant to spreading bacteria and thus those who used it were less likely to get sick. The same principle applied to silver serving trays. Food served by passing around is cleaner when served on a silver tray.

That‘s all low skill level stuff. Colloidal and molecular silver also have uses, though they can be used inappropriately.

This^^
Silver was a premier bacteriostat for millenia.
 
What is going to be funny is after an EMP when all the electronic safe combo pads get fried and no one can get to all their cool shit.
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My neighbor:
You should get you a lectrawnic like mine.
Me:
I like this kind.
N:
I can get in mine in 3 seconds
Me:
Yeah, until you can't.
N:
Huh?
 
Silver does have a lot of SHTF uses. On the wagon trains, a silver coin was often kept in the water supply they carried with them. The agitation of the water over the silver killed bacteria and stopped it from growing.

“Born with a silver spoon” is a term used to describe rich people. It originated when modern medicine wasn’t what we have today. A silver silverware set was more resistant to spreading bacteria and thus those who used it were less likely to get sick. The same principle applied to silver serving trays. Food served by passing around is cleaner when served on a silver tray.

That‘s all low skill level stuff. Colloidal and molecular silver also have uses, though they can be used inappropriately.
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I think thermal is a better solution than night vision. Night vision allows any hard surface to provide concealment. Thermal requires a thermal barrier to provide concealment.

Thermals and NV will make you king of the hill. For about a week.



In the pockyclips printed maps and printed pornography will be gold! :D
 
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these threads (as there most be 100's by now on the hide) are always funny to read

all joking aside if it really goes mad max (anything less and there will not be mass shooting and its just preppers eating their jarred beans)

look in your cabinet, if you have one of these bottles...your not going to make it because med mfgs shut down...whos going to work when your house needs to be secured?

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how many times have you taken a scrip in the last year?

bacterial infection: sub sahara Africa has 5X the number of deaths compared to first world countries, while undeveloped they have access to meds that we wont after a few months at most

when pharma shuts down; if you use or used meds in the last year:

diabetes - your now dead
blood pressure - your now dead
penicillin - your now dead
elective surgery - your now comprised and preyed upon
if youve taken cipro - your now dead
taken a z pak - prob 5% are now dead
IBS meds - your compromised and preyed upon
serious pain killer - your compromised and preyed upon
anyone in ICU - dead
any baby in NICU - dead

and thats the easy list

having canned beans and thinking you can defend your property with a few AR's wont mean much when your kid needs meds and you have to go into town

and thats if there is a town, and if that town has a functioning infrastructure that has inventory of a few pills or shots that havent expired yet

the same people who are cursing the government will then be sucking the govt tit because govt will have taken over and secured the mfg's for national security...youll be more dependent on the fed then you were before "the war"


as sirh said, best thing is to not let it get that far
 

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I feel for y’all who are trapped in large population centers. Hopefully you have a legit bugout plan, and sufficient time to execute the plan, should that fateful day come.

Just out of curiousity... where are all those 'urban types' with bugout plans going to go? Think country folks are lining up to welcome convoys of Minivans and SUV's in to share their resources? Think that 'bugout cottage' you think you own is going to accessible... or that the people who live in the area are going to A. Let you get to it. B. Let you have what's inside it? C. not just take everything you have?

There will be roadblocks at every small town ingress/egress road. There will be roadblocks, defended, at every single interstate exit. If you can even get to an Interstate exit. Because the Interstates will be loaded with broken-down, out-of-gas vehicles and thousands of pedestrians trying to find safety a few miles a day.

As for silver having value in challenging times... it indeed has physical properties that may be helpful. But mainly it is a small-denomination metal that has been recognized to have intrinsic value for thousands of years. It is also much lower value than gold or platinum. You aren't going to buy a chicken with a 1 oz gold coin. And most transactions will be barter economy... not thousands of dollars in a single coin or bar.

Silver on the other hand has value in a barter economy because it has intrinsic value. Not like mint copper-clad cpoins or paper dollars. Old 'scrap silver' as pre-64ish coins are often called... is 70 percent silver. Easy to calculate 'real' silver value. And small enough that if you don't have something small enough to barter for milk or a few round of ammo or an animal quarter... you can transact in Silver.

That said, it will probably take years after a bad event before even a barter economy arises. Or it will happen in small towns and areas where people create their own settlements or clans. Think Medieval villages. Or City states.

Last, for those thinking the Army will control the large cities? How? Their high-tech gear isn't going to run without the power stations. They're not getting fed without a supply chain. Maybe they can defend, say, a capitol for a while On cached/stored supplies. But how are they going to get there? How long will they have fancy jet fuel? Or even Diesel? Or power? Or Communications they depend on so much now... How many will simply desert and take their gear and weapons and head home to their rural community... or whatever is left of it. Army marches on its stomach... and these days the 'stomach' needs to feed hundreds of pounds (tons?) of high-tech equipment for each soldier in the field. No longer are we talking about colonial or civil war troops who were fed off the land. And could even cast their own bullets around a campfire (not that that happened a lot). But modern militaries are incredibly energy-dense entities. They need massive amounts to do anything. They're not going to control anything outside of a few dots in the countryside. For a while.

None of this stuff is going to end well if we have 'events.' Think 535 AD through 1500... Before things really started to get back on track at a technology and knowledge level. Can we bounce back quicker? In theory, yes, if knowledge is not lost. Then again, how much knowledge is lost daily as boomers and older generations die and noone in the younger generations knows how the 'Infrastructure' was built. Or how to maintain it. You think that some Las Vegas refugee surviving Glampers are going to move into Hoover Dam and be able to make it generate power? Much of our infrastructure will be useless and will die due to lack of any comprehension of how the 'system' once worked.

Sirhr
 
That's your real danger, even in less than full blown crazy. Once the urban predators (that are doing that now) have depleted everything where they are, they'll branch out to the suburbs (also like they're doing now lol) and loot and pillage. The world is your Walmart after a bad trial verdict. It'll be like Walking dead zombie hoards, only instead of zombies it'll the the Free shit army and other inner city Dems.

A "plan to get out of the city" is funny, when most of these places you can barely get out of on a regular friday afternoon.


My plan is to die. Heck I was going to do it anyway. This life is but a blip, over before you know it, apocalypse or not.
 
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the absolute hilarious part is if the "war" regional/ contained to the US/canada

if the rest of the world is almost functioning we will be purely import based for all essential needs

the federal govt will secure the ports and ration goods

security forces will be fed and armed

how long until they say

"turn in your rifle, precious metals, ammo if you want your daily bread"


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You think that some Las Vegas refugee surviving Glampers are going to move into Hoover Dam and be able to make it generate power? Much of our infrastructure will be useless and will die due to lack of any comprehension of how the 'system' once worked.

Sirhr
You mean they don't teach someone who got a liberal arts degree how to repair or rebuild a generator coil . That's just preposterous !
 
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That's actually a well known side effect and intelligent folks know to take other stuff to help it flush out and not build up.
That being said, I wonder if having your skin all dark from absorbing so much silver would be like a super sunscreen?
What people don’t know is that unless you buy certain spec silver there is a considerable amount of leechable lead content.
 
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I'm with Sirhr, none of this will be pretty.

I read the "Black Autumn" series of books and it changed my thinking about bugging out.

I'm bugging in. Unless and until I can find a place so remote no one will wander out there on foot, and by road will be easy to block. Maybe one full year before coming out to see who's left.

I live one tank of gas from Portland, Seattle, Boise and Spokane. I expect a bunch of Urban dwellers will saddle up and head for God's country, and the few who make it all the way here will have to be reckoned with.
 
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People with guns and ammo won't do shit for the most part.

You spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours prepping, bought a generator and stockpiled food and ammo and guess what? Your asshole neighbors will be standing at your door demanding "their fair share" of your food, warmth and protection. Are you going to shoot them?

I live on acreage outside of town, my nosey neighbors know I have a generator because power does not go out at my house, they know I have a wood stove because they see the warm wisps of smoke on a winter day and they know I have fences and gates for a reason. I told them to fuck off years ago, no reason to stop and say Hi, no tools to borrow and no fucking free anything ever. I keep six rolls of barbed wire and a stack of steel T-posts for fence improvement when the time comes.

If the power goes out for seven days, the animals will become uncontrollable. Do you think all of the parasites who eat for free on the teat are going to work for their next meal? You are mistaken. After Katrina, the animals looted and robbed everything and everyone. People with generators could not run them because the noise attracted rappers and basketball players who wanted to rob them. If you survived the animals, the fucking cops came and disarmed you and stole your shit.

No one is coming to help you.
 
Fixed it for you.
Sunrise service is pagan.
You are correct !
And nowhere in your new testament do you see the apostles doing "Easter"

Easter / Ishtar /Ashtoreth

Judges 2:12-14
Judges 10:6
1 Kings 11:4-6
1 Kings11:33
2 Kings 23:13
1 Samuel 7:4
1 Samuel 12:10
1 Samuel 31:10

And the Easter bunny and the eggs were pagan symbols used in conjunction with the worship of Diane and the winter solstice .
You know Diane the bare breasted fertility goddess ........... she is on your Starbucks coffee cup !
 
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Since this is the topic at hand, I highly encourage a read through of or audible listen to this book. "The Book of Signs" by Dr. David Jeremiah. He holds a PHD in theology and has spent most of his pastoral time, focusing on and studying the coming of the ages. He approaches the topic from a biblical perspective and he doesn't paint a pretty picture. He believes that we are, in fact, at the beginning phases of it based on the fulfillment of biblical prophesies that have occured in the last 100+/- years. There's two more major prophecies that must come to bear before the rapture. We're all in it together, wether you choose to believe it or not. Hold fast, my brothers.
 
I've only read the title of this thread... But its wrong... People that own firearms, ammo, and can make liquor will determine value... That means hillbillies win in the end. People will trade their ammo for some corn liquor
Are you insinuating that Army Jerry is the founder of the First National Bank of B.B.B
bullets, band aids and beer .
 
Actually we may be part of the biblical prophesies. If the Bear is Russia, the Dragon, China, we could be the the Lion with Eagles Wings.
Not sure about the leopard, Israel?

Daniel 7:4-6​

King James Version​

4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Read full chapter


Revelation 13:2​

King James Version​

2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

stop, this is a ridiculous attempt to put biblical prophecy where it doesn't fit and I'm religious!
 
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I'm not religious. I just look for truth.

It was not an attempt to put anything, anywhere, just offering thought for consideration.
but it doesn't fit, it's like a square peg in round hole. start a thread and let's dissect it properly. We are not the lion with wings etc etc. Those passage don't mean what you think they do in THIS context is all

all good friend
 
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Since this is the topic at hand, I highly encourage a read through of or audible listen to this book. "The Book of Signs" by Dr. David Jeremiah. He holds a PHD in theology and has spent most of his pastoral time, focusing on and studying the coming of the ages. He approaches the topic from a biblical perspective and he doesn't paint a pretty picture. He believes that we are, in fact, at the beginning phases of it based on the fulfillment of biblical prophesies that have occured in the last 100+/- years. There's two more major prophecies that must come to bear before the rapture. We're all in it together, wether you choose to believe it or not. Hold fast, my brothers.

All the signs are in Mathew 24.
If he is still teaching the rapture is a get out of jail free card for "believers" I'm not gonna waste my time.
I spent 40 plus years of my life studying all these things too, and a lot of things didn't add up.
Frankly, preaching the rapture like I've heard it my entire life, is bordering on heresy. This is the false doctrine for the "itching ears".
Darby and Schofield got this mess started over a hundred years ago.

When the screaming and killing start, and the global digital currency starts, the modern Christian will say, "But the Rapture hasn't happened yet, it can't be the Mark."
This is why I say its heresy.

We will see the false prophet and the AC.
I'll be glad to give you some links.
Read Matthew 24 again.
I've heard it preached that the disciples were looking for his return before their death. Thats not true either, nor biblical.
Not trying to argue.
You are all welcome to PM me and I will provide you with links that will show you these truths.
No I'm not a JW, Mormon, Seventh Day, or anything else.

Stop conflating USA into bible prophecy. This is how we ended up being way wrong about the rapture, what it is, and what it isnt.
 


Actually not a bad scenario-based 'documentary.' Considering its source.

We missed one by about 9 days a couple of years ago. If we were in a different place in orbit, we'd have taken it head on.

Don't need wokies, commies and banks to ruin life. We're overdue for large volcano's (Think Krakatoa). Pole Flip. Coronal mass ejection. Tanguska size meteor strike. Probably 'real' virus or plague... not made-up Covid. Major coastal earthquake and Tsunami.

We have had a 300 - 400 year 'Goldilocks Zone" on Earth and have taken massive advantage of it.

If we lose grid due to a solar flare... we are 100 years bringing it back... If we can. Because we have to have electricity to make the grid again. And people who know how to do it. CNC Machinists aren't going to make things with files... Anyhoo... we are one random chance away from extinction. So make the best of it.

Sirhr
 
Here's how I see it playing out; most likely before the 2024 election(When else would there be an opportune time with having such pitiful "leadership"?) :

I foresee/gut feeling/discernment telling me, that if China & Russia do "converge" and establish together as a single power to launch a 3rd world war, the U.S will probably be nuked on both coasts and possibly one in the center. If not multiple nukes on the ground, then by via air to knock out the entire electrical grid and ruin our nation entirely.

If you approach this potential 3rd world war from a biblical perspective, you'd know that the U.S is not a part of any of the biblical prophesies regarding the coming of Christ. The destroying Israel would be by Russia and China(with other allied nations mixed in).

The beautiful thing about not having to worry about this BS "post apocalyptic" world is that, yes, we will ALL suffer from it, but the rapture will happen before it gets to it's worse parts and I *hopefully* won't be part of it. Those who are left after the rapture: 1) I'm sorry for what you will endure and 2) you can have my ammo & supplies, if you can find them. :sneaky:
Get that pre-trib eschatology outta here!! :ROFLMAO:

I can’t say I know how it will go specifically, but end times will be a showcase of God’s absolute authority and judgement no matter what
 
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All the signs are in Mathew 24.
If he is still teaching the rapture is a get out of jail free card for "believers" I'm not gonna waste my time.
I spent 40 plus years of my life studying all these things too, and a lot of things didn't add up.
Frankly, preaching the rapture like I've heard it my entire life, is bordering on heresy. This is the false doctrine for the "itching ears".
Darby and got this mess started over a hundred years ago.


Stop conflating USA into bible prophecy. This is how we ended up being way wrong about the rapture, what it is, and what it isnt.
The churches bought into Schofield's theory because it requires absolutely NOTHING of a Christian other than to sit on their ass and wait.
They want the father to serve them and not the other way around .


Do you know what Is in scripture and was prophesied by every major and minor phrophet in the old testament , and prophesied in the new testament.............a (2nd)greater Exodus !

I'm sending you a pm shortly .
 
Anyhoo... we are one random chance away from extinction. So make the best of it.

Sirhr

I mean if Humans as a species could stop spending most of their effort and resources on killing each other and dominating each other, we could probably already have outposts on other planets and be well on the way to building stuff to live in space on the way to other star systems.

But human nature never changed, not even after a couple of very near complete extinction level events.

It's probably never going to change as long as humans are in control over humanity.
 
The churches bought into Schofield's theory because it requires absolutely NOTHING of a Christian other than to sit on their ass and wait.
They want the father to serve them and not the other way around .


Do you know what Is in scripture and was prophesied by every major and minor phrophet in the old testament , and prophesied in the new testament.............a (2nd)greater Exodus !

I'm sending you a pm shortly .

Wait......he isn't a big Santa Claus thats gonna make me rich and give me everything I want?
Now I gotta completely rethink everything!
(Sarcasm switch in upright position)
 
The churches bought into Schofield's theory because it requires absolutely NOTHING of a Christian other than to sit on their ass and wait.

Doesn't that kind of remind you just a bit of how that "Q" deception was so successful in getting a great many "good folks" to sit around and do nothing and wait while the forces of Evil won a critical battle with minimal opposition?

Human nature makes it easy to deceive folks into believing a lie, when the lie is the comfortable path.
 
I mean if Humans as a species could stop spending most of their effort and resources on killing each other and dominating each other, we could probably already have outposts on other planets and be well on the way to building stuff to live in space on the way to other star systems.

But human nature never changed, not even after a couple of very near complete extinction level events.

It's probably never going to change as long as humans are in control over humanity.
Well, war and domination have driven 'most' of Homo Sapien's evolution since Stanley Kubrick's monkeys discovered femurs.

What got us into space in the first place was... war. So it's that need to dominate that has gotten us this far. Not sitting around in leftist Nirvana staring at belly-button fuzz and just expecting everthing to drop in your lap. Dominators get things done.

Sirhr
 
Well, war and domination have driven 'most' of Homo Sapien's evolution since Stanley Kubrick's monkeys discovered femurs.

What got us into space in the first place was... war. So it's that need to dominate that has gotten us this far. Not sitting around in leftist Nirvana staring at belly-button fuzz and just expecting everthing to drop in your lap. Dominators get things done.

Sirhr

And that's again part of the problem with Humans and their nature.
If it's part of killing and dominating their fellow humans, they will get it done as good as they can.
If not, apparently it doesn't matter.
 
Well, war and domination have driven 'most' of Homo Sapien's evolution since Stanley Kubrick's monkeys discovered femurs.

What got us into space in the first place was... war. So it's that need to dominate that has gotten us this far. Not sitting around in leftist Nirvana staring at belly-button fuzz and just expecting everthing to drop in your lap. Dominators get things done.

Sirhr
Fallacy of the broken window
 
Springsteen tickets just went for 4.3K at Ticketmaster (pre-scalp price). Even worse.
https://nypost.com › 2022 › 07 › 23 › nj-rep-slams-ticketmaster-for-selling-4k-springsteen-seats
Quote:
Ticket prices for next year’s Springsteen and the E Street Band tour, which kicks off April 1 at Madison Square Garden, are running as high as $4,300 for many floor and lower-level seats identified as “official platinum” that are subject to prices that fluctuate with demand, according to NJ.com.
I wouldn’t walk across the street to see him for free 🖕🏼
 
3 things that will kill you in TEOTWAWKI

Medical problems that cannot be addressed.
Stockpile needed medicines any way you can.

People behaving badly. Violence
Form coalitions with likeminded people. Train with them. Plan with them.

Starvation
Right now food is cheap. Stack it to the rafters. Just remember when you break into your food stash and start using it, you are just one day closer to starvation. You have to produce your own food eventually or you will starve.



Bugout Bugin?

Number 1 plan should be to stay put. You should already be out of the built up areas. If your first plan is to bugout you are living in the wrong place. If you are living in a good spot where you can have a garden, have associates, you still need to have a place to go to if thing get fucked up. Radiation poison, whatever the reason. Backup plan.


You can't leave now because of work, Family, school? Fine then do the best you can but remember when you are trying to leave the Urban shithole and you can't because all the roads are blocked and you literally can't carry enough ammo to shoot your way out, revel in the choices you made. Look into the rearview mirror and smile. This is all your fault.