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Offline Mark 79

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Re: Prepping for collapse
« Reply #30 on: December 09, 2025, 08:17:58 PM »
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  • Please don't post immodest pictures, even if they are also disgusting.
    Mea culpa. It just looked like a discolored porcine carcass to my eye, the diametric maximum opposite of libidinous.

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #31 on: December 09, 2025, 08:29:25 PM »
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  • Supliments like a good multivitamin and pro/pre biotics are a great addition as well

    Healthmasters.com

    Im pretty sure you can get antibiotics online now too
    It’s much more difficult to get antibiotics online these days.  Over the summer, I had to purchase some for my dog through a Canadian website as the government is cracking down on online pet shops selling them.  I paid about $100 for them, not cheap but cheaper than sedating my German Shepherd for a vet visit.
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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #32 on: December 09, 2025, 08:30:41 PM »
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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #33 on: December 09, 2025, 08:53:19 PM »
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  • Mea culpa. It just looked like a discolored porcine carcass to my eye, the diametric maximum opposite of libidinous.
    Fortunately one is more likely to lose his lunch than his soul looking at that behemoth :laugh1:
    John 15:19  If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

    Offline Mark 79

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #34 on: December 09, 2025, 09:19:11 PM »
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  • Fortunately one is more likely to lose his lunch than his soul looking at that behemoth :laugh1:
    Nailed it!   :laugh2:


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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #35 on: December 09, 2025, 11:31:43 PM »
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  • This bring to mind some culinary preps people don’t think about when the stock up on freeze dried food that are typically inorganic to begin with. The biggest complaints with the freeze dried food and mres is constipation and indigestion. Water is necessary not only to prepare that stuff but to push it through your digestive system. I got just as much rice and beans as I do freeze dried food to help a little with that. You can live off just rice and beans a long time but it all takes a lot of good clean water. Water is key! You have to have a way to boil and or filter it. I hope everybody has a burkey filter or equivalent.

    https://myberkey.com/?msclkid=38fee3e4bf3d127a8a8c8adc75ac8e3b&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=7.0+SKAC+071223&utm_term=berkey+water+filter&utm_content=Berkey+Water+Filter

    Gravity fed so there is no reliance on water pressure. That brings to mind coffee too. If you drink a lot of coffee try going without it for a couple days it sucks! The detox is as bad as heroine. Keep some coffee and or caffeine pills in your preps. Nicotine as well if you’re a smoker. I have a bunch of pipe tobacco and cigars stocked up! They are good for morale 😄 trade too. You want to practice fasting for sure. Don’t go in the fema camp you might not come out.
    We put in a hand pump for water.  We also have the ecoflow solar batteries which can be quickly recharged with our duel fuel generator to run the house well pump, refrigerator and freezers.  I purchased lots of tubing and taps for maple sugar, planted fruit trees, grape vines and learned to make wine. We planted perrenials for food production including Jerusalem artichoke,  asparagus, strawberries,  blueberries, and so on.  We are pretty prepared if it is the will of God that we survive this upcoming trials.  If not, I hope these preps and food stores help someone survive.

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #36 on: December 10, 2025, 05:24:19 AM »
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  • We put in a hand pump for water.  We also have the ecoflow solar batteries which can be quickly recharged with our duel fuel generator to run the house well pump, refrigerator and freezers.  I purchased lots of tubing and taps for maple sugar, planted fruit trees, grape vines and learned to make wine. We planted perrenials for food production including Jerusalem artichoke,  asparagus, strawberries,  blueberries, and so on.  We are pretty prepared if it is the will of God that we survive this upcoming trials.  If not, I hope these preps and food stores help someone survive.
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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #37 on: December 10, 2025, 10:09:15 AM »
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  • It’s much more difficult to get antibiotics online these days.  Over the summer, I had to purchase some for my dog through a Canadian website as the government is cracking down on online pet shops selling them.  I paid about $100 for them, not cheap but cheaper than sedating my German Shepherd for a vet visit.

    Sorry to hear that.  I've used ValleyVet.com to order my ivermectin with no issues whatsoever.  But it's on long term backorder now so I'm glad I bought several bottles in 2021.  My senior dog is out of luck if we can't refill his gabapentin.  

    I have almost everything imaginable for illness and accidents, including a military grade chest wound bandage and tourniquet.  Lots of iodine pills.  Plus I have print copies of Army field surgery and dental manuals.  I know how to properly give injections as I used to be a CNA back in the day.


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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #38 on: December 10, 2025, 10:12:03 AM »
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  • We put in a hand pump for water.  We also have the ecoflow solar batteries which can be quickly recharged with our duel fuel generator to run the house well pump, refrigerator and freezers.  I purchased lots of tubing and taps for maple sugar, planted fruit trees, grape vines and learned to make wine. We planted perrenials for food production including Jerusalem artichoke,  asparagus, strawberries,  blueberries, and so on.  We are pretty prepared if it is the will of God that we survive this upcoming trials.  If not, I hope these preps and food stores help someone survive.

    A hand pump is on my list of projects as we are on a well too.  Did you install it yourself or hire someone?  

    Power outages are brutal for us because of the lack of water.  But we are surrounded on 3 sides by cattle ranches so meat won't be hard to get.  

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #39 on: December 10, 2025, 10:52:43 AM »
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  • We put in a hand pump for water.  We also have the ecoflow solar batteries which can be quickly recharged with our duel fuel generator to run the house well pump, refrigerator and freezers.  I purchased lots of tubing and taps for maple sugar, planted fruit trees, grape vines and learned to make wine. We planted perrenials for food production including Jerusalem artichoke,  asparagus, strawberries,  blueberries, and so on.  We are pretty prepared if it is the will of God that we survive this upcoming trials.  If not, I hope these preps and food stores help someone survive.
    Sugar is another addiction most people don’t understand or admit they have! I should probably throw in some extra sugar preps myself 

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #40 on: December 10, 2025, 04:34:55 PM »
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  • A hand pump is on my list of projects as we are on a well too.  Did you install it yourself or hire someone? 

    Power outages are brutal for us because of the lack of water.  But we are surrounded on 3 sides by cattle ranches so meat won't be hard to get. 
    Our house sits high on a hill but the front portion is lower and my son and husband were able to dig by hand and hand drill about 10ft. down to hit the water.  We called a well driller to do it first off but he said that, in Michigan, it is illegal for him to install it.  
    If the economy goes in free fall the ranchers around you may not be able to feed their cattle.  You might think of a back up plan like keeping a breeding pair of meat rabbits? They eat pellets, grass, leaves and hay. They multiply like traditional Catholics, too.


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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #41 on: December 10, 2025, 06:22:44 PM »
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  • Our house sits high on a hill but the front portion is lower and my son and husband were able to dig by hand and hand drill about 10ft. down to hit the water.  We called a well driller to do it first off but he said that, in Michigan, it is illegal for him to install it. 
    If the economy goes in free fall the ranchers around you may not be able to feed their cattle.  You might think of a back up plan like keeping a breeding pair of meat rabbits? They eat pellets, grass, leaves and hay. They multiply like traditional Catholics, too.
    Rabbits are a good supplemental meat but I’m pretty sure I’ve read that over consumption can cause a lot of problems. They have super low fat content that over time makes you very sick. I think they call it trapper poisoning. Basically protein poisoning. So not a good primary meat but a good supplementary one.

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #42 on: December 10, 2025, 07:20:50 PM »
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  • Rabbits are a good supplemental meat but I’m pretty sure I’ve read that over consumption can cause a lot of problems. They have super low fat content that over time makes you very sick. I think they call it trapper poisoning. Basically protein poisoning. So not a good primary meat but a good supplementary one.
    I've read that those problem come more from wild rabbit.  Farm raised live a more senditary life in the cage, so less muscle mass.  We plan to only supplement with rabbit.  We have chickens, ducks, goats and lots of canned beef.

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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #43 on: January 06, 2026, 09:14:07 PM »
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  • I can't say I remember reading about any saint in a starvation situation, certainly not one who had prepped for such a time. Would such a saint turn everyone away for not having made their own preparations, even to the point of killing or disabling them so they don't steal his food? Wouldn't the Gospel equate that to turning away or hurting/killing Jesus (what you do to the least of brethren you do to Me)? Or does that only count for other Catholics? What if you gave all you had to feed the neighborhood for a day or week, then everyone starves? At least you'd have on your conscience having given all you had for others, thereby giving all to Jesus. So, if I prep, should I be a selfish murderer? I'd feel guilty sitting on a plentiful stash while others starve and beg, even if justly. Speaking of justice, God has given me far more than I deserve, by His infinite mercy and love. I'd at least be inclined to pray that He'd multiply my stores by a miracle so I could feed them.
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    Re: Prepping for collapse
    « Reply #44 on: January 06, 2026, 11:15:54 PM »
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  • "Non nobis, Domine, non nobis; sed nomini tuo da gloriam..." (Ps. 113:9)