Doomsday Preppers

[ILG]

Well, I was watching this show. These are some hard-core preppers! I can't believe that Bill guy wanting to build gallows in "The Colony"! More like a cult here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRGpRf759EE

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by ILG

Well, I was watching this show. These are some hard-core preppers! I can't believe that Bill guy wanting to build gallows in "The Colony"! More like a cult here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRGpRf759EE

Ya I saw that episode when it aired. I do not think I would getting anywhere near that particular compound during a societal collapse. Can one say "Lord of the Flies!"? LOL

[ILG]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Ya I saw that episode when it aired. I do not think I would getting anywhere near that particular compound during a societal collapse. Can one say "Lord of the Flies!"? LOL

Exactly! I would be more scared of the compound and what is IN it than what is outside. I was glad that one guy was mad at the other over that. He probably should have left.

[llambert]

This reminds me of the two trees in the garden:

1- The tree of life

2- The tree of knowledge

We can get so caught up in what we know and what we think we know about the world coming to an end and economic catastrophe because we've been eating from the knowledge tree and we want to know every single thing and be so perfectly prepared and have every contingency covered

BUT

While we are doing all of that kind of work, we're allowing the life as God has laid out for us in Christ to pass us by.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by llambert

This reminds me of the two trees in the garden:

1- The tree of life

2- The tree of knowledge

We can get so caught up in what we know and what we think we know about the world coming to an end and economic catastrophe because we've been eating from the knowledge tree and we want to know every single thing and be so perfectly prepared and have every contingency covered

BUT

While we are doing all of that kind of work, we're allowing the life as God has laid out for us in Christ to pass us by.

I dunno. I'm not quite how the concept of prepping relates to the tree of life and the tree of knowledge (which no longer exist on this planet as I understand it). I've been known to make some pretty big leaps as one subject reminds me of another seemingly completely different one, but I can't see how to make that one. LOL

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by ILG

Exactly! I would be more scared of the compound and what is IN it than what is outside. I was glad that one guy was mad at the other over that. He probably should have left.

The fact that the guy spent so much time worrying and then building and even testing some gallows reminds me of a guy years ago who wanted to open a computer store. He spent 90% of his time the first year worrying about what cash register to get instead of everything else that was more important (which WAS quite literally everything else). LOL

[ILG]

Originally Posted by llambert

This reminds me of the two trees in the garden:

1- The tree of life

2- The tree of knowledge

We can get so caught up in what we know and what we think we know about the world coming to an end and economic catastrophe because we've been eating from the knowledge tree and we want to know every single thing and be so perfectly prepared and have every contingency covered

BUT

While we are doing all of that kind of work, we're allowing the life as God has laid out for us in Christ to pass us by.

Very nice analogy!

[ILG]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

The fact that the guy spent so much time worrying and then building and even testing some gallows reminds me of a guy years ago who wanted to open a computer store. He spent 90% of his time the first year worrying about what cash register to get instead of everything else that was more important (which WAS quite literally everything else). LOL

I thought that guy was just plain scary!

[Praxeas]

Made For TV

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Made For TV

They rarely get normal preppers on the show for the simple reason that normal preppers won't advertise where they are and what they are doing.