posted August 21, 2014 08:31 PM            

Could this be Pluto/Scorpio's domain? How many of you with these two prominent feel like you would be alright in a situation you had to live off the land to survive, covering your tracks to escape detection?

posted August 21, 2014 09:26 PM            

I know I could live off the land to survive and escape detection...because I have (and I really was evading the law at the time as an underage runaway).

I also used to mix with preppers and survivalists (though I never saw this show you're talking about and have no real opinion on it--normally my view is that all reality shows, without exception, are scripted BS but seeing on wikipedia that this is done by NatGeo I'm willing to give it the benefit of a doubt). When some were prepping hard for Y2K my thought was, "There's no way we'd be that lucky." (The way I saw it if the grid completely collapsed then I no longer had to worry about the law catching me, and I knew how to forage and even detoxify plants as well as hunt, etc, and was already used to living outside the system.)

They insisted it wouldn't be good as they feared martial law but I figured that wasn't likely in rural areas (and they'd be especially vulnerable if they tried). There was some weird stuff said like street signs had bar codes or something that could be electronically scanned and read by the National Guard but that's hardly an efficient way to manage troops in the field (other than how to get from point A to point B, and they wouldn't even need GPS for that, freeways were originally built for the benefit of the military anyway).

One showed me a paper that had pix of "Soviet tanks" waiting on the Mexican side of the border to invade when Y2K hit and even as a teen I realized that was BS given Russia (as opposed to the "Soviet Union") would be having its own problems (even more than they already had, heck some weapons gained by survivalists were brought over by criminals from Vladivostok, and they'd stolen it from their military in Russia--in retrospect I'm surprised the survivalists didn't fear tracking devices in them) and Mexico simply wouldn't allow it. So I apparently lacked paranoia (but then I hadn't been raised in the Cold War paranoia so it didn't have such a power over my mind as it did the older generations) as well as "doomsday" thinking (though I do "prep" for emergencies and keep a BOB).