In the town where I grew up, cops killed someone I knew for his kilo of coke, and then sold it out of the police station. Small towns aren't less corrupt and unstable than cities.
Freedom isn't dependent on the size of the community, but on the culture of the people in that community.
If possessing guns deranges city folk, then cities are the problem, not people. I don't think they do anything of the sort, but rather the reverse, like being a black belt enables one to not fear confrontation, and not be left with only violence to resort to. Anger is the child of fear. Security in your personal hands eliminates unnecessary fear, and enables one to rationally consider situations rather than lashing out.
An armed society is a polite society. Humanity is not a commune of peaceniks, and violence has marred civiliztion since before history began, but it is well defended people that best enjoy the peace they provide. That's the reason Colt named his .45 'the Peacemaker'.
I've heard of those who are good at cultivating life
Traveling on the road, they do not encounter rhinos or tigers
Entering into an army, they are not harmed by weapons
Rhinos have nowhere to thrust their horns
Tigers have nowhere to clasp their claws
Soldiers have nowhere to lodge their blades
Why? Because they have no place for death
That sounds like Kipling, but I am woefully unread.
However, I do encounter predators in the woods. They run. They run from me because I will kill them if they attack me, and that frightens them. I've never shot a cougar, bear, or wolf, despite being able to. I've no interest in eating any of them (although Bear Bacon is vastly superior to pork bacon in the fall when upland bears (not bears that eat carrion from the dairies or rivers hereabouts) are fattened on berries.
I've been stalked by cougar, faced bear at close range, and managed to keep wolves further away, not because I'm invincible but because I know damn well I'm not and prepare to not be killed. It's not magic. It's not providence, or faith in God.
Everyone is more skilled than I at things they do better, and you are as capable of reason as any. I am touched by your kind regard.
If you seek the skills that deter predators I mentioned above, they're easy enough to acquire. Just tremble in your terror at night, alone in the stygian dark woods where wild predators hunt, as I have. You will find the great desire to be secure from such predation will incline you to defend your person with the best available technology to do so, which isn't pepper spray or little bells on your pack.
Fear is your very best friend in the world, but you must listen carefully to understand what it has to say. That means you must give it occasion to speak to you, by being in harms' way from time to time. The alternative is the equivalent of a padded cell, and that's no place to live your life.
I too grew up around guns, and you would see them in the back of trucks at school as well. No one was shooting the schools up, and when there were fights the person who lost either accepted their ass whoopin or they went back for a second round with their fists.
There has been much change this last half century and not liking most of it.
The rate of change is accelerating, and has been of profound consequence. A couple days ago I had occasion to visit the ER. Upon my arrival I explained that I could not lay for long, but would have to get up and walk, due to the discomfort. The nurse hemmed and hawed, but generally disapproved.
After an hour or so, I yanked the IV and informed the nurse I'd be outside. She looked frightened, but didn't call for orderlies, so I left quickly. She did let me know that if I was leaving, to sign off at the desk.
After 15 minutes or so, I went back in, and the receptionist stopped me, bade me have a seat, and went to fetch the doctor. The doctor came right in and told me he wouldn't provide me further services. Apparently he wanted to subject captives to the appropriate protocols while they were chained to a slab, and would not treat patients who were actually living, breathing, suffering people. I refrained from recommending a career move to prison medicine, where all the subects are captives, because those poor bastards have it bad enough already.
At 1:30 in the morning I was given the boot with a 25 mile walk. I much enjoyed the 8 or 9 miles I quickmarched before a good Christian gave me a ride, it being a pleasant evening, and I not being strapped down and intubated by Dr. Mengele. The staff had been discussing a covid test the whole time I was there (fortunately for the test subject it was negative) and I realized that if I gave them opportunity by asking permission, I might well end up dead from their ministrations.
Allopathic medicine was always overly hierarchical, but it's really gotten overbearing and dictatorial of late. I don't know if I will ever again use emergency services, preferring to die free rather than a forced medical test subject.
Given the present trajectory towards forced DNA alteration by that ilk, I foresee things getting violent quickly should US military forces point guns at Americans to compel them to submit.
I will much prefer to be injected with hot lead than Bill Gates private formulation.
I dearly hope we take a stand and make clear to the Satanic baby rapers intent on so enslaving us that we will kill them all if they try. I don't think anything short of absolute certainty that we will do so will stop them. They've invested decades of careful plotting and $T's to achieve that goal. It may be necessary to convince the agencies and personnel they depend on to make that happen, like health service providers and the US military, not to support that effort, before they can be stopped.
But they will be stopped, or succeed over my dead body. I am sure I am not the only American that intends to die on this hill, and I hope there are enough of us intent on freedom and prosperity, rather than sentencing our posterity to slavery and penury, to deliver that legacy to our sons and daughters.
I note that tackling the evil banksters fucking up everything good (to reduce our quality of life and convince us to accept their generous pittance of the productivity of our own hands sufficient to maintain us in desperate poverty and dependence on them) will also provide opportunity to settle the multigenerational fraudulent debt we've been saddled with, and get the teat of money out of the mouth of cravens and welfare babies. That will be utterly necessary if society is to flourish and attain to the promise nascent technology makes clear society can develop - but not while saddled with a class of worthless parasites and their zealous minions.
Just to be clear, it's banksters I refer to as worthless parasites. Welfare babies at least don't force us to become GMOs. The trust fund babies genuflecting at the feet of overlords are far worse IMHO.
I haven't trusted the medical community since I was a child. Sadly, my distrust has grown since becoming an adult.
Sorry you felt you had to leave, but your worries are accurate. Once under their jurisdiction any pretension of freedom one has is quickly stripped as the doctor is the authority figure while the rest of us are viewed as ignorant children who must comply, even if force is needed to make it so. They will strap you down and drug you, for your own good of course.
My first real alarm at the doctor was when he inquired about my medications. When I said I always took them as prescribed, he reiterated that I was 'compliant'. Not how I view receiving services.
Imma not comply with their orders, because they don't have either the right or my benefit in mind. I've discussed it with my GP, who, thank God, is an actual doctor treating whole people, and am also feeling much better.
I took a hit of pot yesterday, and suddenly was not in pain anymore. It was very weird, because I did not expect any such thing, no one had recommended I try it, and it completely resolved my symptoms within ~2 minutes.
Imma still have the cat scan tomorrow to see if there's a blockage or twist in my gut, but as far as I can tell, I was simply suffering from some lack of THC that was completely cured.
What do you think Dr. Mengele would say if I told him about the miracle cure? How much you wanna bet he'd call the cops - except it's legal in Oregon. At least I didnt get forcibly tested for covid, strapped to a slab, and intubated to death.
I was a bit sore after the quick hike of 8 miles or so. Imma have to get back up inna woods hiking like I used to do. I clearly have lost a lot of hard worn muscles in my legs.
Best of luck in regaining your walking legs, although 8 miles is a decent trek. I believe walking is one of the best health regimens we can do, and probably one of the larger contributing factors to the plunge in health we've seen in recent decades. I surely need to find time to do more myself.
Well, then explain your feeling that it couldn't work, because it did. Psychos didn't gun their fellow students down.
I already mentioned that community trust is easier to establish in smaller, stable communities.
I have no doubt that it works in certain places.
What I doubt is that it works everywhere.
In the town where I grew up, cops killed someone I knew for his kilo of coke, and then sold it out of the police station. Small towns aren't less corrupt and unstable than cities.
Freedom isn't dependent on the size of the community, but on the culture of the people in that community.
If possessing guns deranges city folk, then cities are the problem, not people. I don't think they do anything of the sort, but rather the reverse, like being a black belt enables one to not fear confrontation, and not be left with only violence to resort to. Anger is the child of fear. Security in your personal hands eliminates unnecessary fear, and enables one to rationally consider situations rather than lashing out.
An armed society is a polite society. Humanity is not a commune of peaceniks, and violence has marred civiliztion since before history began, but it is well defended people that best enjoy the peace they provide. That's the reason Colt named his .45 'the Peacemaker'.
I've heard of those who are good at cultivating life
Traveling on the road, they do not encounter rhinos or tigers
Entering into an army, they are not harmed by weapons
Rhinos have nowhere to thrust their horns
Tigers have nowhere to clasp their claws
Soldiers have nowhere to lodge their blades
Why? Because they have no place for death
That sounds like Kipling, but I am woefully unread.
However, I do encounter predators in the woods. They run. They run from me because I will kill them if they attack me, and that frightens them. I've never shot a cougar, bear, or wolf, despite being able to. I've no interest in eating any of them (although Bear Bacon is vastly superior to pork bacon in the fall when upland bears (not bears that eat carrion from the dairies or rivers hereabouts) are fattened on berries.
I've been stalked by cougar, faced bear at close range, and managed to keep wolves further away, not because I'm invincible but because I know damn well I'm not and prepare to not be killed. It's not magic. It's not providence, or faith in God.
It's firearms training and access.
I wish everyone was as reasonable and skilled as yourself.
Everyone is more skilled than I at things they do better, and you are as capable of reason as any. I am touched by your kind regard.
If you seek the skills that deter predators I mentioned above, they're easy enough to acquire. Just tremble in your terror at night, alone in the stygian dark woods where wild predators hunt, as I have. You will find the great desire to be secure from such predation will incline you to defend your person with the best available technology to do so, which isn't pepper spray or little bells on your pack.
Fear is your very best friend in the world, but you must listen carefully to understand what it has to say. That means you must give it occasion to speak to you, by being in harms' way from time to time. The alternative is the equivalent of a padded cell, and that's no place to live your life.
I too grew up around guns, and you would see them in the back of trucks at school as well. No one was shooting the schools up, and when there were fights the person who lost either accepted their ass whoopin or they went back for a second round with their fists.
There has been much change this last half century and not liking most of it.
The rate of change is accelerating, and has been of profound consequence. A couple days ago I had occasion to visit the ER. Upon my arrival I explained that I could not lay for long, but would have to get up and walk, due to the discomfort. The nurse hemmed and hawed, but generally disapproved.
After an hour or so, I yanked the IV and informed the nurse I'd be outside. She looked frightened, but didn't call for orderlies, so I left quickly. She did let me know that if I was leaving, to sign off at the desk.
After 15 minutes or so, I went back in, and the receptionist stopped me, bade me have a seat, and went to fetch the doctor. The doctor came right in and told me he wouldn't provide me further services. Apparently he wanted to subject captives to the appropriate protocols while they were chained to a slab, and would not treat patients who were actually living, breathing, suffering people. I refrained from recommending a career move to prison medicine, where all the subects are captives, because those poor bastards have it bad enough already.
At 1:30 in the morning I was given the boot with a 25 mile walk. I much enjoyed the 8 or 9 miles I quickmarched before a good Christian gave me a ride, it being a pleasant evening, and I not being strapped down and intubated by Dr. Mengele. The staff had been discussing a covid test the whole time I was there (fortunately for the test subject it was negative) and I realized that if I gave them opportunity by asking permission, I might well end up dead from their ministrations.
Allopathic medicine was always overly hierarchical, but it's really gotten overbearing and dictatorial of late. I don't know if I will ever again use emergency services, preferring to die free rather than a forced medical test subject.
Given the present trajectory towards forced DNA alteration by that ilk, I foresee things getting violent quickly should US military forces point guns at Americans to compel them to submit.
I will much prefer to be injected with hot lead than Bill Gates private formulation.
I dearly hope we take a stand and make clear to the Satanic baby rapers intent on so enslaving us that we will kill them all if they try. I don't think anything short of absolute certainty that we will do so will stop them. They've invested decades of careful plotting and $T's to achieve that goal. It may be necessary to convince the agencies and personnel they depend on to make that happen, like health service providers and the US military, not to support that effort, before they can be stopped.
But they will be stopped, or succeed over my dead body. I am sure I am not the only American that intends to die on this hill, and I hope there are enough of us intent on freedom and prosperity, rather than sentencing our posterity to slavery and penury, to deliver that legacy to our sons and daughters.
I note that tackling the evil banksters fucking up everything good (to reduce our quality of life and convince us to accept their generous pittance of the productivity of our own hands sufficient to maintain us in desperate poverty and dependence on them) will also provide opportunity to settle the multigenerational fraudulent debt we've been saddled with, and get the teat of money out of the mouth of cravens and welfare babies. That will be utterly necessary if society is to flourish and attain to the promise nascent technology makes clear society can develop - but not while saddled with a class of worthless parasites and their zealous minions.
Just to be clear, it's banksters I refer to as worthless parasites. Welfare babies at least don't force us to become GMOs. The trust fund babies genuflecting at the feet of overlords are far worse IMHO.
Thank you.
I haven't trusted the medical community since I was a child. Sadly, my distrust has grown since becoming an adult.
Sorry you felt you had to leave, but your worries are accurate. Once under their jurisdiction any pretension of freedom one has is quickly stripped as the doctor is the authority figure while the rest of us are viewed as ignorant children who must comply, even if force is needed to make it so. They will strap you down and drug you, for your own good of course.
My first real alarm at the doctor was when he inquired about my medications. When I said I always took them as prescribed, he reiterated that I was 'compliant'. Not how I view receiving services.
Imma not comply with their orders, because they don't have either the right or my benefit in mind. I've discussed it with my GP, who, thank God, is an actual doctor treating whole people, and am also feeling much better.
I took a hit of pot yesterday, and suddenly was not in pain anymore. It was very weird, because I did not expect any such thing, no one had recommended I try it, and it completely resolved my symptoms within ~2 minutes.
Imma still have the cat scan tomorrow to see if there's a blockage or twist in my gut, but as far as I can tell, I was simply suffering from some lack of THC that was completely cured.
What do you think Dr. Mengele would say if I told him about the miracle cure? How much you wanna bet he'd call the cops - except it's legal in Oregon. At least I didnt get forcibly tested for covid, strapped to a slab, and intubated to death.
I was a bit sore after the quick hike of 8 miles or so. Imma have to get back up inna woods hiking like I used to do. I clearly have lost a lot of hard worn muscles in my legs.
Thanks!
Best of luck in regaining your walking legs, although 8 miles is a decent trek. I believe walking is one of the best health regimens we can do, and probably one of the larger contributing factors to the plunge in health we've seen in recent decades. I surely need to find time to do more myself.