My advise would be to learn to grow potatoes. What is the single best advice you have to give? Choose only one thing. That's what makes it the most important.
What's your single best survival advice?
My advise would be to learn to grow potatoes. What is the single best advice you have to give? Choose only one thing. That's what makes it the most important.
Last edited by crashdive123; 07-06-2011 at 12:37 PM. Reason: Restored post
Assume NOTHING. By that I mean be fully alert as to 100% of your actions, no matter how simple. Example you are going step on a rock mid-stream to make crossing easier & safer. But examining the rock for assumed purchase. Maybe it is covered with a slippery algae. Look & think before you leap. Assume nothing.
There is a reason it is on the front of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"DON'T PANIC!"
Have Lights? Thank a Lineman!
"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." - Fred Choate
i've got to agree here. situational awareness and assessment.Originally Posted by Sourdough
if you subscribe to the cooper system, i basically hold that once you understand that there is even the potential for a threat, however small or large, there is no code white. it doesn't only hold to violent threats, but for any situation. i try not to be caught outside my home, if even then, without my mind open and my head on a swivel, as a threat could emerge from any source at any time.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice - Grey's Law.
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice - Grey's Law.
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I would say, "Don't look at things for what they are...look at them for what they could be"...don't confuse symbol for reality. Don't judge the situatation- accept it, then make the most of the surroundings. A Wal-mart or a Garbage Dump both hold the same potential if you can be objective and look at things in their purest sense and not get bogged down by preconceptions....every tool is a weapon if you hold it the right way
The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten- Sigurd Olson
Give me winter, give me dogs... you can keep the rest- Knud Rasmussen
All good advice! My piece for this would have to be "Never give up!".
When you admit defeat, you're a dead man.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller
My Plants
My skills
Eye Candy
Plant terminology reference!
Moving pictures
Don't leave your brain at home. It's handy. Use it.
Tracks Across the High Plains...Death on the Bombay Line...A Touch of Death and Mayhem...Dead Rock...The Griswald Mine Boys...All On Amazon Books.
Slow down and think. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Don't risk a mechanical injury or something worse because you think you are in a hurry. It's not worth the chance.
Mr. Murphy can show up at anytime
Semper Fi
I would paraphrase what several have said. First and foremost , stay calm
.45 ACP Because shooting twice is silly... The avatar says it all,.45 because there isn't a.46
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All great thoughts. Being limited to a single idea, I would add....practice. It does you no good to think you know how to do or use something, only to find out that in a time of need that you really do not. I guess it's sort of like - boots in the field.
Know your limits and your equipment , because being in an emergency is not the time to find out you can't do or use something.
I Wonder Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink what ever comes out?"
Self reliance.
The only thing you should assume is, no one's coming to help. Prepare accordingly.
Umm..Zombies only die from head shots.
The Pride
Keep yourself OUT of a REAL survival situation,,,
Pray, Proverbs, Prepare in at least two's, Low profile, Avoid confrontation if possible, when you cant leave your pencil at home
I'll remember that...thanks!Umm..Zombies only die from head shots.
The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten- Sigurd Olson
Give me winter, give me dogs... you can keep the rest- Knud Rasmussen
Get a ton of survival info microfiched, keep it in the BoB, along with a 24x magnifyer. Photography shops sell such magnifyers, for checking out negatives.
Survival of what?
So far I see advice that will keep you alive as you get from the door of the wallmart to your car (which is a necessary part of life), advice for combat in urban zones, advice for growing crops if you make it to the next growing season, three different philosophies of life and how to kill zombies.
My best advice would be old school; keep a one year food supply on hand and money to cover 6 months expenses.
There are several million people in our civilized, unzombie plauged, modern and technical society (that does not see itself in a survival mode yet), that already wish they had done that.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
I consider that like saying you should learn to read and write. So basic that it goes without saying.
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