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Friday, December 23, 2022

Survival Life Is Hard: (Unedited): 01-23 Dec 2022:

 
Survival is hard. Survival is not of your choosing. Survival sucks. Survival is not a long term camping trip. Survival will be especially hard if your are not trained in the environment which you are sudden thrust into. It doesn't matter if it is homelessness, prison, the wilderness of any kind, war, societal unrest, economic downturns, extreme weather events or even when the SHTF.
So are the modes of life? I see three modes of life as related to a survival mentality. The survival mentality is the middle of the road. Where as the existence mentality is where you have given up and are just waiting for death. Then there s the preferred mentality and that is a thriving mentality. Most people who live in the western modern world live in the thriving mentality. But, of course there are those who are simply surviving and then are those who simply exist and do not care if they live or die. I've seen this in many other people and in my own self as I once had the simple existence mindset. 
---Existence Mind Set----
The existence mind set is where you just do not care anymore. This does mean they you also do not care to live anymore. But, this is just a step above suicidal. You need to know that a person who is suicidal can also have or had a thriving mindset and a survival mindset. I've seen suicidal people in all of life's categories. This is not about suicide but it can be. Many people think that a simple existence mind set means that a person is huddled in some dark corner just wasting away and that can be very true. But, there are other existence mind sets as well. Like when a person chooses to do things on purpose which can end up killing themselves. Especially, if there is a short term exhilarating thrill behind the action. This can be a sign of an existence mind set. A person who makes no plans, no goals and has no meaningful dreams or any hopes for any kind of accomplishment. A person with a simple existence mind set has no intention of bettering themselves in any way. This is to the absolute confusion of someone who is in the thriving mindset. A person who is also in the existence may be a heroic person who is excessively willing to risk their own life in order to save anyone and everyone at any opportunity. Oh? so, you say, Just wait a minute, They are heroes!?!? and I say, to you, yes, they are. But, even heroes suffer as well. Think about a cop? any cop? Especially, a cop with 5-10 years of experience. The human cops go out into the ugly and awful world every single day, on purpose and all these human cops know throughout there entire work day which can last 12 hours is the worst that humanity has to offer them. It is easy for a human cop to lose faith in humanity and to see that humanity is getting worse and worse. Prophetically and actuality this may be very true. In which that may or may not be the case. But, when all of your professional memories is only of the bad and sad. Think about it how easy it is so simply slide into a simple existing mindset even if your a heroic cop who must hold onto all of those daily accrued awful memories in which you may never forget them. That is until, you start going to the store in uniform and in your cop car to buy beer and then put that beer into the trunk of your cop car. Then when you as a cop have given up on your own family. That is a bad sign. Maybe, you the cop/soldier are protecting them from you and your memories in which you cannot even tell them about. Then when you as a cop wake up in a mental haze of any kind and you go off to work with all manner of apathy but you become a robot who will enforce the law without any mercy or compassion. You know something? This isn't just about the cops or Citizens Of Peace. This is also about soldiers and other heroes. Who have to do bad awful things or witness bad awful things everyday and keep all of those bad and awful memories from all civilians. Heroes do this for you every single day. Then you who are kept safe from the ugliness of evil people do not see it or experience any of it and guess what that is how it is supposed to be. So that you civilian can go on with your life free from the memories of what the genuine heroes hold onto. 
---Survival Mindset---
Having the survival mindset is one where you know that you and those whom you care about can die at any time or during the very next emergency event or even in the very next accident. What ever that may be. You may not be able to prevent the next emergency event but you can do everything possible to mitigate the next emergency events before anyone of them happen. The healthy survival mindset means that you make those necessary preparations during those good times and hope that the bad times do not happen. The healthy survival mindset does mean that you endeavor to achieve a thriving lifestyle and mindset. That you achieve those other functional purposeful and evolving mindsets as which is defined by you and your own natural skill sets. 
There is a draw back to the survival mindset. The survival mindset can become fear driven. The survival mindset can become a weapon of abuse. The survival mindset can be evidence of historical abuse to an individual person. The survival mindset should not be a permanent fixture in your mind and in your relationships. The survival mindset can be a thief to you obtaining real joy, peace, happiness and comfort.
---Thriving Mindset---
 The thriving mindset is where each person should reside in. This is where each person, family, church and community are living their own self defined lives with the lives that hopefully they each have right now. The thriving lifestyle is where you have the choices and freedoms to do whatever you want so as long as you do not on purpose or by accident cause anyone any kind of harm or suffering. You living your thriving lifestyle without and unnecessary fears and anxieties. 
Think about this. What are the odds of you becoming a victim every time you leave from the apparent comforts and safety of your home? If it is very minimal then you are existing in a thriving society. Yes, I do know that there are places in any thriving society in which you must have the survival mindset. Those people who live in those unfortunate places may be forced to live with either the survival mindset or the existence mindset. While the threat of being harmed in some way if they even dare to try to obtain any other positive mindset.
---Functional Mindset---
 The functional mindset is actually made up of many different functional categories. Such as agriculture, medicine, mechanics, animal care, carpentry, electricity, welding, plumbing, organization, logistics planning, strategic planning, civil engineering and etc. This list can go on forever. This list includes ancient skill sets as well as skill sets needed for today and into the evolving future of development. 
This functional mindset is where you have obtained one or more skill sets and you have achieved a level of professional skill. The more of these functional skill sets a person has in relation to survival. The greater their chances of survival. The more of these functional skill sets any church or community has in their accepted members. The greater the chances of that church and community of survival. The greater a person, church or community has in modern day functional skill sets the greater they each are likely to thrive in a thriving society.
---Purposeful Mindset---
The purposeful and meaningful mindset is also one which should be thought about. Because, without purpose and meaning in your life. The life you freely choose to have can become empty, unimportant, meaningless, aimless and many other negative words which can lead to a depressive state of being. 
So begin to freely choose to have the mindset of being able to do for others and purposely put yourself into a position of being in the right places where you can actually do for others. All without stoking your pride, ego, sense of supremacy and air self importance. Do for other people in secret. Do for people who are in genuine need all without gratitude, award, rewards, credit, acknowledgements or any other method that defines you as the original source. When you can achieve this level of actual beneficial giving of time and energies. You will be rewarding with a form of joy which cannot be achieved, gotten or had in any other way. The knowing that you have purpose is very crucial in a healthy created environment. The knowing that what you actually do has profound meaning for other people. Is crucially important for the maintenance of the whole community. Then when you quietly and humbly teach the things that you do in secret. You perpetuate a developing sense of purpose and meaning to other people who can go out and do without bringing any attention to themselves. 
---Evolving Mindset--- 
The evolving mindset is one which is always seeking out the better way. The evolving mindset is always trying to positively better themselves, their church and community in a variety of ways and methods. The evolving mindset does not forget about any other mindset and is just a forward thinking mindset. The positive evolution of all aspects of a life worth living. While at the same time positively evolving all aspects in how to prevent and mitigate all unfortunate surprises and emergency events which may or may not happen.
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So what other mindsets should a person, church or community have that leads to all of the good and positive words in life? 
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Added on 25 Dec 2022: For you genuine Christians. Who controls the world or the systems of the world?
Because, it is he who wants all of humanity to perish. he does not want any of his enemies to prepare for anything. he wants all of humanity to die and become extinct. So, any content which is directly against you preparing and surviving or leads you to decide that you/we do not need to prepare for anything. Is a deception for you. Because, if you do not prepare for any emergency event no matter how awful it may be. Then you will most likely die in any extreme emergency event. If you take personal responsibility for your own safety and well being then the real powerful evil doers of the world cannot use your victimization to further their design and perpetuation of chaos, hatred, violence, conflict, wars and everything else which is negative. 
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To Love one another.

To live in peace with everyone.

To exist in harmony with all.

To Cherish all life.

To be obedient to the Laws of God.

To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.
All without any pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy and entitlements.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Survival Shelter, Air, Water, Food, Clothing: (Unedited): 16-30 Nov 2022:

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Survival is not fun and nor is it an adventure. You do not have the luxury or freedom of choosing where and when you are in an emergency survival situation, unless your name is Les Stroud. Guess what, No one is Less Stroud except for Less Stroud. So do not be like Less Stroud looking for places to survive and die in. If you ever noticed anything about Less Stroud the most important tool he ever brought was not a knife or any other man made piece of gear. He brought his well trained noggin. In other words Mr. Stroud has a well developed skill set. This is by far the most important survival tool that you must have and it is a variety of functional skill sets. While it is easy to see all of the successes of what Mr. Less Stroud has accomplished. I think he also suffered from a myriad of parasites and other medical ailments as associated from his filming in all of those different locations all over the world. He was able to go back to the modern world and get medical treatment. In a SHTF survival situation you may not have the luxury of ever getting medical treatment. So what ever parasites you get, you just get and yea... Remember the show "Monsters Inside Of Me"??? I don't and do not want to remember that show.
The best way to survive any emergency situation is to ensure that it does not happen. While at the same time making all necessary preparations for any predictable and non predictable survival situation when they do happen. Because in the Holy Bible it does say that it rains on the just and unjust(Mathew 5:45) https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-45.htm 
Survival is like prophecy. When you are in the knowing. You must understand and take action that it is you who is responsible to either mitigate or prevent the coming bad or sad, if possible. We have the stories of Joseph and Jonah in those fundamental teachings. It does not matter if you know when or not. It is like this, for those who live in the snow and ice. When do you prepare for your brutally cold winters? You move to Florida(humor intent, though serious in excessive thinking on your part.). When you know that any emergency survival situation is about to happen. Do not be there. It is like in Florida, when the hurricanes come. You do not be where the hurricane will be. In the summer or during every pleasant day that you experience is when you prepare for the winter season. But why? because it is wise not to freeze or starve to death in the coming months of that winter season. It is just like how people prepare for the floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, lightning strikes, alligators, giant constrictor snakes and any other predictable emergency. You must prepare before hand. When you prepare you are exercising your wisdom through necessary action. When you know and understand that dangers can and often times do happen and yet you do nothing to prepare for them. You are acting on your own level of foolishness. You will become a victim and you may be digested alive. Especially when you feed and pet Florida alligators and give loving hugs to giant Pythons(humor). This is just not about Florida. You need to know and understand that no place and no where in the world is a safe place to live in. Every place on this planet has it's own unique dangers and threats to humans.
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----SHELTER----
If the worse thing happens. You must have shelter in which you will safely reside in during the many days of hiding from radioactive fallout or any other extreme weather event. Your shelter must be engineered to your necessary specifications and built prior to any actual emergency event. You will call this shelter your home. Even if your home is for many generations like Noah's Ark was when it landed on dry land within the mountain ranges. The Earth was destroyed and the people had to remain within the open doors of the Ark for a time as plant life and animal life had to be repopulated. There would be safety within the ark as the 500 plus foot ship survived what it had to survive as the whole world was being flooded. The boat had to be built before hand. Supplies had to be placed in the boat before hand. The boat became their shelter. Just as your own home will become your own shelter when any emergency comes. The emergencies I'm talking about is not just from nuclear fallout or from humans becoming biological AI controlled zombie robots(That might be a movie idea). I'm talking about your typical emergencies as I've mentioned above and in other writings. So your shelter or home should do more than just survive any of your own typical local common emergencies. So yes your home should be your own safe house with every room being a safe room. If possible your basement should become a reinforced structure. If you can expand on your basement with underground root cellars, hidden water wells and actual fallout or bomb shelters and you think that is a wise idea. Then you should move your assets, sell your assets and build it. But, watch out because within the doomsday survival market place there are sharks, snakes and gators who all want to take all that you have. These evil people will even sleep well at night knowing that you and your children might die in their sleep and blow themselves up all at the same time. So when you see Christian themed art as associated with a business logo. You probably need to stay away from that one. When you see that the business with Christian themed logos offers up their own in house built nuclear bomb air cleaner in a black box. Stay away. When you have the option of adding gas heaters, water heaters, ovens, and stoves within a so called genuine bomb shelter or nuclear fallout shelter. You will know it is they who are the snakes, sharks and alligators that are just trying to get your money. Oh yea, even though they offer warranties they do not honor them. Look to the research words below.
Your home shelter should have the appearance inside and outside of a genuine home. The appearance of your home should look good in the environment it was built within. This is important as no one likes to live in some concrete structure with only gray paint on the walls and a forever echo chamber for a continuous and never ending test of your insanity. So all aspects of your home should be home like. 
Your home shelter should survive on its own all of the common natural disasters which do happen from time to time and is predictable. So if you live in a forest do not build your home out of wood. If you live in an Earthquake zone than build your home which is capable of keeping you safe in multiple Earthquakes of high magnitudes. 
Your home shelter should be a safe place for you and your family in case bad and evil two legged animals break in. So each room should be a safe room even with secret exits to a common safe and secure place/space. 
Your home shelter should be designed and engineered for the worse case thing that you think can happen in which your home becomes a home base. Your home shelter needs to have ample space for everything in accordance to your entire families functional skill sets. Your home should be located close by to those who are your friends, your church family and your community. 
Your home shelter should be thought out wisely with the idea on expandability. So a modular concept should be engineered into the home.
 ----AIR-----
Who needs air? We all need clean fresh air. The more natural, the better. Inside of your home, basement, shelter and bunker system you must have a continuous and steady supply of clean fresh air. While exhausting bad, old and used up air. While at the same time maintaining a positive air pressure inside of your living space. A positive air pressure is important as this will not or should not allow contaminant's, biological's, radio-logical's from gaining entry into the living space. There is specific math behind all of this and it is for per person/animal.
A healthy and fit person can survive for up to three minutes without air. Sure, some people can last longer and some cannot last as long. In some situations a person who inhales and fills their lungs with a bad gas which is unseen and odorless can die nearly instantly. It doesn't matter how healthy or fit you are. You just pass out and die. This can happen to people who have walked through ancient caves both natural and man made. 
But, what is worse is breathing in a little bit of bad gas or radio-logical bad gas which will kill you in the months to come as you die in some very painful manner or worse your child suffers as all you can do is watch. All because, you did not plan well enough. So yes, when and if your planning for a man made emergency. You should have very quality air cleaning systems made in Israel and/or by the Swiss. They are the best in the world. 
----WATER-----
A healthy person can last for about three days without water. Clean drinking water from a well point should be a very critical decision when selecting a property site for the building of your home. No well water or well water options, then do not buy that property. A clean source of drinking water is essential and the hiding of the clean water source is necessary. Especially, in any extreme survival situation where the fate of humanity is at stake. Your clean water source should be a hidden well point directly under your home and shelter system. In many states and in many nations having your own well point may be illegal. I'm not suggesting that you break any laws. So do your own due diligence and make your own decisions out of your own free will. You should have a secret and well hidden well point for each of your outlying buildings. These well points should be both manual and powered.
Water filtration and conditioning must also be considered for each well site on your property. The hauling of multiple 50 pound bags of water softening salts is also a consideration for other efficiencies in the design phase. 
----FOOD-----
A healthy person can live for about 30 days. So the need for food preparation is essential. The story of Joseph in Egypt in the Holy Bible is my go to story on why you should continue to do as you do. Those persons and families who have already begun to prepare for a SHTF event must reconsider how much food they should save for each person. All food preparations should be kept secret and hidden is hidden places with hidden entrances. This is because there is a difference between preparing for any typical short term emergency event and a SHTF event. This must be reasonably addressed to prepare for a SHTF situation or not. What ever answer you come up with is OK for you. For the SHTF or even very long duration economic turmoil where the governments come out with PSA's that eating worms as a food source and is fun. You'll be happy. Yea, right! Growing, raising and storing your own foods will also prevent your family from going hungry during any food shortages. Especially if those foods shortages are multi year long like with Joseph in the Holy Bible. Which means you have to plan ahead, as which Joseph had to do. In order for everyone not to die. Including his own brothers who beat him, nearly killed him and then sold him into slavery. There are a lot of lessons in that story. 
There are many food categories and these are. These food sources do have a order to be eaten as well as for a functional purpose. all food products must be dated and ordered in FIFO. All products must be kept as cool as possible. Cool and cold temperatures must be continuous. Product temperature cannot ever reach any unsafe temperature at any time. If it does, then it should be used or consumed. This will lengthen shelf life. You should save for each category of food at least 1 year supply per person. Yes, you should extra food for family, friends, your church and your community. 1). Store bought non-perishable foods. Shelf life can be typically in the months. 2). Your own canned and jarred foods. 3). Typical emergency food sources. 4). American military MRE's. 5). Heirloom, antique, natural and wild seeds of every edible kind for your specific growing region. 6). The plants, bushes, trees which are already bearing fruits. 7). Animals which are raised as food and resources.
FIFO: First In First Out. Be warned Grocery stores do receive products with short dates. So you have to organize according to those dates on the packaging and not when you bought them dates. 
Canning and Jarring: Means your already growing and raising your own foods.
MRE Warning: The MRE's are used when soldiers must have very high caloric intake to match their very extreme physical exertions. A soldier or person eating these must already be hydrated and remain hydrated during the digestion process. Or that which comes out will be like concrete.
The Seeds: You should already be saving seeds and learning how to properly organize and store seeds. This is money here and trading value. Even save seeds which are outside of your growing region. This is because trade will become reestablished with outlying areas. Seeds will become money. I cannot over emphasize the need for the proper storage and organization of all seeds. Can you imagine trading seeds to a group of people and they invest years of effort only to discover that the seeds from fruits which were labeled as organic from a store were irradiated and the DNA was nearly destroyed. How do you think those starving and desperate people are going to deal with you when the idea of law and order is no more? Any plant life or seed which is GMO or hybrid must be destroyed.
Honey Bees: No bees means no food for you. Which means you all starve and it matters not what you have planned and saved. So how do you manage your bees? How do you keep them from dying out in the open? Do you or will you have a specific inside place for them to live and survive? Do you even have this skill set?
Plants, Bushes, Trees: You need to know it can take up to 5-7 years for any food bearing plant, bush or tree to go to first fruits. Then another 1-2 years for them to go to full fruits. The Avocado can take more than a decade before it goes to first fruit. Can you imagine investing ten years into a fruit tree only to discover that the seed was bad? Can you imagine the mentality of planting trees in a seemingly never ending environment of hunger or starvation only to discover all of your efforts was a waste of time and energy as the tree refuses to fruit? So you must plan accordingly. There are some short cuts like cloning. Even in cloning you can have some issues like if you clone a branch which has no history of fruit, low fruit or sour fruit. Then guess what you just cloned and worked hard to grow? So, this is what I'm saying about plants. If you have ornamental plants in your yard. Get rid of them and replant with only natural food bearing plants as soon as you seasonally can. The more people in your family, your friends, your church and your community who has planted food bearing plants, bushes and trees of every the less like declared food shortages will have a severe impact upon the whole of your community.
Animals: You need animals as a continual supply of food resources and you need animals as a food source. How do you raise them? How do you keep them healthy and fed? Especially when all feed stores are long gone. How do you protect them and keep them safe?
----CLOTHING-----
So you have been buying your clothes from those big box stores or from delivery services. Your clothes do not last very long with normal office related normal work loads. So what happens to those big box clothes when you have to start really hard manual labor from dawn to dusk? You get to do all of that work naked.
Asian clothing and shoes will mean you will have both a naked body and naked toes if and when the world systems end. So go forth and spend the big money on American made clothing and foot wear. Do not forget to also buy those smaller waist band sizes as well. This is because after the SHTF happens. Every surviving human is going to lose a lot of weight. So you have to plan ahead. 
Hardy. Work related. Farm related.
---- MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE----
This is sad. How any injury, dental issue and pregnancy can end in death. How preexisting medical conditions will most likely end in death much sooner than later. Which makes you the survivor responsible for the burial or cremation of all dead bodies. So get all of your medical and dental work done before any long duration emergency event. This is something that you have to plan ahead. So you must save your aged mother and insane sibling. This is the right thing to do. I cannot give you any answers. But, your going to have to deal with people who are sick in the most loving, compassionate and merciful way as possible. What happens when the medications runs out. People will die and you will have to contend with the burial of the bodies. Your sibling will revert back to her specifically normal crazy and insane self. How will you contend with her and her genuine insanity? When her medications runs out?
----RETIREMENT OVER AND OTHER FINANCIALS----
Have you even thought those words that your retirement is now over? Have you even considered that you should pull out all of or most of your retirement funds so that you can build an actual safe space for your entire family? Have you thought about selling your vacation, holiday and extra real estate investments so that you can build that safe house compound for your family? Have you thought about moving to that place which you consider to be the safest place? I'm not a financial expert you need to know that financially nothing has ever worked out for me. No matter how I've tried. You need to know I have no opportunity for retirement. I have no assets or own anything of value. I even write what I write knowing that I make nothing. I do understand what I'm telling you and it is for you to do your own due diligence. 
Here is the thing. If you think that the world systems will end in WWIII or if you actually believe in any aspect of Christian prophecies in which they reveal themselves allot. Then you should seriously consider doing what you should do for the physical survivability of your own family members. This is the greater good. Especially, how there no longer seems to be any real retirement solution for young people and that your elder generation of those who are already retired may in fact be the last ones who receive pensions and social security. How many times has the stock markets and economies fallen in the last two decades and how much have you lost and others have lost? So yea, You worked hard to earn what you have now. You deserve your retirement. Joseph in the Holy Bible teaches the lessons we all need to survive hardships in life and still be capable of loving one another. Read about how his brothers tried to kill him and then sold him into slavery. As a slave he was wrongly accused and convicted and then became the number two man in all of Egypt. He was even given an Egyptian name. Joseph then went on to make plans and to save everyone in the land. Even his own family who believed him to be gone forever or dead. Yet, Joseph still loved his family and did what was necessary to save them all. Are you a Joseph? Will you be a Joseph to your own family? Will you make a way for your own family to be capable of surviving even though you will most likely die in any extreme emergency event? Will you decide to sell everything to build a home shelter in those self determined safe places?  So that everyone else will have an opportunity to survive except for you and your spouse? This is really hard to grasp. To know than survival is basically for the young and strong. To know that your getting older and sickly is tough in a so called normal world. But, the bottom line is this. How will the younger souls in your own family survive and build the safe homes that they need to have that opportunity to survive without you and your finances? They probably cannot. So it is up to you to make those preparations for them. Yes, I know it isn't fair and you worked hard your entire life. You deserve your retirement. But, life was not fair for Joseph either and he made it into the Holy Bible as you and I were not written into the Holy Bible. So the unfairness of life in which we all learn from Joseph is for each of us to learn and still be able to do the greater good which is to love one another even though people have harmed us greatly or you may actually have a wonderful family and that is even better.So go forth and do the greater good for your family, your friends, your church community and for your own community.
----SKILL SETS----
Why is skill sets, last and not even listed in the Title? This is the most important aspect of any survival situation. Functional skill sets will be like money after any SHTF event('s). Your noggin cover is supposed to be full of functional skill sets and not be like an empty tool box. So go froth and visit all of your local museums. Try and figure out which skill sets were important to know prior to the industrial revolution. What skill sets were needed in the 1800's, 1700's, 1600's and etc. Learn and obtain actual functional skill sets in those areas of interest. Because, even if you do not have the wealth of today to buy lands and to build a hardy home with bomb shelter all fully stocked with everything you need or want. Your skill sets will be that which is of the most valued. Because, the community which has the most functional of those now considered ancient skill sets will be those communities who are most likely will have the greatest possibility of survival and to transition into a thriving society. Those communities who have the least amount of people with the fewest ancient skill set will most like become simple people who only exist as they wait for death to come to them. So, yes ancient skill sets is that important in the aftermath of any severe SHTF event('s). AND! NO! you cannot learn those things afterwards. You must learn them now and before the SHTF. 
Guess what? Even modern day skill sets will also be applicable afterwards. Because someone might be able to properly save a radio, antennas or other electronics. Some other modern day things, skill sets will also be of use. Which will be coupled together for the greater good of the whole. 
===RESEARCH TERMS====
Atlas Survival Shelters. You need to know I think this guy is worth a serious look. He is a bit of an oddball and that is OK, but he also seems like he cares and builds a good product line. I do not have any wealth, bank accounts, financial assets, 401K's or any other retirement funding. But, If I had a home or other real estate then I would buy from this guy. But, you need to know if !!YOU!! mess up the placement of a purchased bunker, that is not his fault that your bunker turned into a pool, oven, freezer or all of the above. 
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Bring coffee and a comfy chair time.
https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/34/065/34065171.pdf
https://www.standards.doe.gov/standards-documents/1100/1169-bhdbk-2003-ch6/@@images/file
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2017/502/20220101/en/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-cc-2017-502-20220101-en-pdf-a-3.pdf
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REPENT! REPENT! REPENT!
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Go and sin no more.
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To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.
To Love one another.

To live in peace with everyone.

To exist in harmony with all.

To Cherish all life.

To be obedient to the Laws of God.

To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.
All without any pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy and entitlements.
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Musings of an American Truck Driver books
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0985310308
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1477629769
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Survival Homes And Fallout Shelters: (Unedited): 08-15 Nov 2022:

 
The first thing you must consider is this. This writing and my other survival related writings are not an all encompassing and complete work. What I write is only meant as a starting point for you. The learning curve is long and anything that you do not learn can cause you and your family to die in their sleep or exploded or both. 
What you have is what you have and if you cannot have, engineer, convert or add to then just do the best that you can with what you do have and what you can actually obtain. Take the modular approach and modify what you can one piece or one section at a time. So, yes I'm about to mention some very expensive things. Do not feel bad or consider the impossibility of doing any of the things I'm about to list. Just take what I write as concepts to be modified by you for your own specific situation. Just remember, no gas anything inside of any of your underground living space(s). 
One thing that you may glean from this writing is the addition of more space. Space should be a part of your infrastructure. When you build or expand. You will need to consider how to add at a later date. There is a lot to think about in regards to space.
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Before building a survival home. You must have direct access to clean well water via an underground manual and powered water well. Castles were often times built on top of water sources. You may also be required to add expensive filtration and water softening devices. Water storage may also be a consideration as well. You may also want to add other manual and powered water well points to other outlying buildings or structures. All of your water wells must be hidden and secret. Powered water wells make much noise and much vibration. So how will you mitigate the noise and vibration? In which when the powered pump cycles through. Everyone in the house and outside of the house will know it is on. This will be a serious security concern. 
Yes, you can have both city or county utility water and well pump water. Just like you can have both sewage piped to the city or county and have a hidden and secret septic system. The kind of septic system with drain fields which cannot be easily pointed out. Then all you need is your own easily accessible hand valves to shut the city and county utilities off and turn yours on. 
In some cases to do what I suggest may be a crime. I'm not telling you to break any laws here. You break any law by your own free will. 
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The location of your own growing and evolving survival complex or compound is also a crucial consideration. But, no matter how anyone defines what you build and what you have. You should always consider it your home and not some civilian defined military or militia engineered bullet proof pill box command and control structure so that you can make your plans to take over the world. Insert evil laugh here. This is your home that your building or already have right now. This should be a sign that you are taking full responsibility of taking care of your family, your friends, your church and your community very seriously. Your home must meet your own self defined and well researched criteria. Such as plant growing zones, nearby populations, locations of roads, flooding, fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, nuclear power plants and distance from any suspected nuclear detonation target site as well as every other defined threat and danger which may be posed to you. You also must consider being upwind from any and all nuclear bomb detonation. But, here is the point to survival. What is the actual probability of actually experiencing specific emergency situation? Do you know what those things are? In order of frequency, importance. This is very important. This is because everyone is not wealthy to go just dig into a side of a mountain like Mr. Bezos in order to build his own ultra modern survival home which will survive everything. So you have to prepare for what you can with what you have on hand. So what is the most prevalent threat to you and your family? Then ask yourself how do you mitigate and/or prevent the severity of those common and typical emergencies from negatively impacting your own family, friends, church and community? Then you make those very reasoned decisions and make those very logically engineered additions to your already existing home or you apply them to a new home build. How will you contend with forest fires when your home is made out of match sticks? So, there is a point in which you may just have to consider moving and starting new. So how is that a smart thing when nuclear bombs can fly at any time? How is that a smart thing when a newly created strain of Covid is already said to be able to kill about 80% of the people who get it? How is that smart when food shortages are right around the corner? How is that smart when fuel is about to run out in days and the truckers and trains will not be able to deliver their much needed and life sustaining goods. This very threatening list can go on and on or is all of it directly related to the election cycle of the USA and is all of it fear mongering? The Mississippi is going dry and the Euphrates river as well. Christian prophecy in the extreme here. Is time really that short? Will the fallen angels rise up very soon and begin to kill 1/3 of humanity?
Here is the reason why you need to do what you think is the best thing to do for the safety and well being of your family. There is and always have been threats in life. There is and always have been easy times. In other words there are always good times and bad times. It is how you deal with all of those situations is what makes a difference. As a man, as a husband, as a father, as a grandfather, as an uncle, as a brother. It is your duty to keep your family out of any survival situation and mindset. But, wait, I thought this was all about survival? It is but it is also about having and keeping a good home life where everyone is thriving and not surviving or worse simply existing. Yes, there will be times when you have to survive and the effective plans you make during those easy times will shorten those times when you are forced to survive. Just like Joseph in Egypt. Be like Joseph and take care of your family and it matters not if your brothers tried to kill you and then sold you into slavery. It matter not how unfair life has been to you. Just like Joseph the slave who was imprisoned under a falsehood. And yet, he loved his family, the Egyptians and his owner. Because he loved enough and cared enough that he made organized plans during those times of plenty in order to save everyone when the famines came. This is Biblical. This also dose not matter what you know about prophecy and the rapture. Doing nothing and waiting helplessly for the rapture is unwise and very well may be a false teaching. We do not really know for certain.  While I no longer debate those things and have come to the conclusion that God is gonna do what God is gonna do. God does not need for me to know, to understand or is waiting to give my permission for anything. This also includes the concept of the rapture and no I'm not a rapture denier. I have studied all of the variants and have come to the conclusion that we lowly humans just do not know and will not know until the rapture happens and I for one will be greatly thankful. 
So, until the rapture happens or not happen. In which I really hope it does before rather than during or after. You are still responsible for your family, your friends, your church and your community. Sorry, but this is the cold hard truth. Especially, if your a manly man type of a man. So what do you do now? What can you do now? How do you do it all? Sometimes you have to have a community. Actually, you need to have a community of like minded people. You should not go it alone as that means you will most likely die alone. The law of the animal kingdom.
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The one piece and solid concrete monolithic Dome Home Structure. This is the best type of home structure that I have found which can survive most emergencies. This is something you should research and consider for yourself. This monolithic dome structure can also be buried underground. These monolithic domes are also ultra efficient. This can be something that you can build and either add it to your already built home or build as a new home. So here is the basic idea of a build. At the lowest level you should have space for a substantial root cellar which should be in close proximity to your kitchen via a dumb waiter. At this underground level you can have a manual and powered pump well system with all of the filtration needs and water softening needs. Bare in mind water issues fill the bottom first and rise up. So how will you remove water from your lowest levels? Bare in mind that water softening bags of salt weigh 50 pounds each and how far will you have to take those bags and how many stairs do you have to climb down? Think about the old coal shoots in the old days. But, exposed coal shoots are also finger pointers to something else unseen or unknown or typically known to have back in those ancient days. This is an easily observable security risk.
The next underground level can be a basement along with a tunneling system with the necessary 90 degree turns at every entry way. This tunnel can lead to an actual bunker which is a reasonable distance away from the actual home. You also need to plan for a variety of emergency exits as well. Not just one emergency exit. All emergency exits must be hidden and kept secret. The entry way access must also be hidden, secret and out of the way. You can also consider building your bunker system at the same level as your root cellar. Be sure to think about water table levels for each season. You do not want any manner of water intrusion to any degree.
So, why does an underground bunker system need to be a reasonable distance away from the primary and very visible home residence? This is because of wars, battles and any other conflicts. If the friendly soldiers must use your home as a base and their reasoning is very necessary. Then the enemy soldiers will bomb your home. If the enemy soldiers use your home as a base then the friendly soldiers will bomb your home. This is historical evidence throughout human history of warfare. No matter, it is the civilians who lose, who are abused, who are tortured and who are killed. It is the civilians who are displaced and must travel in some direction that they think leads to some kind of hopeful safe place. Many may make and many do not as the civilians will most likely starve and die or die in the heat or freeze to death. 
The roof of your underground structure must be well below the thermal lines of freezing and of heat. Because, if your roof is in the heat then your bunker turns into an oven. If your roof is in the frozen ice line. Then your bunker turns into a freezer. In other words a very expensive and unlivable environment. 
You must also contend with the water tables for every season and every year. This is because water tables rise and fall. If the floor of your underground bunker and basement systems floods how useful will it be especially when rust, mold and mildew begins to grow as well as damage to the structure? Then you cannot forget about the flood waters. In which you have to plan perfectly and mitigate every possibility that ground water cannot get into your basement and bunker? This will be total ruination of all of it.
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You need to be able to breathe clean fresh air. While at the same time exhausting old used air. While at the same time having a positive air pressure inside. That is a lot of air head thinking. But, you must consider those three points as a positive air pressure will help to keep the bad parts of NBC out of your living space. NBC is Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons. You should not use any breathing and air equipment that is not Swiss or Israeli made. If you cannot afford these things. Then be sure to engineer a space for them during the engineering phase of your building project. This is really a tough thing. Because a human cannot survive without breathable air for about three minutes. When you are physically active. Less than 3 minutes. In some case you may pass out within seconds. Clean fresh breathable air is that serious. You also need to know. That there is serious math with this. That if you exceed occupancy of your underground bunker by one person. Then all of you can suffocate and die. That might be a little extreme, but you need to be serious about the movement of air in all parts and around every corner and in every room of your underground bunker. Just because you have an incoming pipe over here and then an exhausting air pipe on top of the bathroom. The air pipe must be of sufficient diameter. Have you ever tried to breathe through a straw while running? This may seem funny until you realize that you cannot breathe with any sort of small tubes or pipes. Ask someone how well they can breathe when they cannot get any air into their lungs. This is very serious as I state it yet again. Some other rooms or spaces may not have fresh air and actually may fill up with carbon dioxide and other not healthy to humans gasses. You have to plan and pipe in clean air to every space, room and tunnel. Then you have to be mindful of air tight doors. Then you have to know what kind of air is on both sides of those air tight doors. Then you have to make sure your incoming air pipes and out gassing air pipes are not close together. There is a minimal distance for these two air pipes. That means more math to know. Because, if you open a door, will bad air or bad human gasses and NBC come flooding into your clean and healthy living space? Really, how do you know? How will you know? Instant death can happen to everyone or anyone. Please do not get all paranoid and fearful of this writing about air. You really need to take this serious. Research air quality meters for caves and other tight and sealed off spaces. You need to know the quality of air inside your underground bunker as well as the quality of air outside of your bunker. To some degree an out door weather station can be helpful. A remote operated radiation monitor is really expensive. How would you measure O2 levels inside and outside?
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You need clean drinking water from any good source. A healthy person may not survive longer than three days without clean drinking water. Your water sources should only be accessible from within your home. Your water source should be a secret and well hidden. You must mitigate and manage all noises and vibrations. You may need to include filtration systems as well as water softening. Then you need to stock up on new and sealed water filters. You will need to stock up on fifty pound bags of water softening salt. You have to make space for all of those things as well. 
You can also have a connection to a city or county water supply. Which can be easily turned off by you. When the need arises as you define it. 
You also can include city and county sewage lines. This is usually connected with the city or county water supply. But, you will also need your own septic system and this system must be engineered for more people than what you think you will need. Use the number of three-five times more capacity for your septic build and drain fields. 
You see in normal days. Having city or county water and sewage is extremely very convenient. Then when for some reason the city or county stops working. You have a back up system already ready for use. 
-----FOOD-----------------
So a healthy and physical fit person can starve to death in about thirty days. The use of clean drinking water can stave off starvation by a few more weeks. But mental alertness and physical energy levels will be greatly reduced. So you must plan for a rather large root cellar which can maintain the coldest possible temperatures. The colder the temperature the long the shelf life. The more constant the cold temperature the more stable the shelf life.
You should also have a multifaceted or multi purpose green house. You must design the green house to be as energy efficient as possible. There are some interesting designs from around the world. There is even an old guy who grows citrus trees in Nebraska. Your green house must be able to store seeds and be able to germinate seeds. You have to be able to grow those seeds into adult hood. Then you need a method to recover all seeds and to safely store them. Then you must properly organize all seeds in a paper ledger. All of the plants, seeds and foods that you grow must be heirloom, antique, natural and wild. You cannot use any hybrid or GMO seeds or plants of any kind. As a matter of fact you must burn those down. 
The plants, bushes and shrubs that you have right now. Should all be food bearing in some way. All of your ornamental trees, bushes, plants and shrubs that you have should be removed in their proper season and replaced with food bearing or directly resource related wood products. Remember any tree which is used as any kind of resource. You must replant with ten resource trees. Which means you have to plan ahead and actually have replacement trees on hand to plant. 
So how much food will you need for an emergency? You may not be aware of this. But those people and families which get snowed in for many months at a time. How much food and other supplies do you think they have stored up? How much fire wood by cord do you think they already have on hand? So planning your life around the seasons is paramount to survival. Because, when Your snowed in. You cannot just go to the grocery store to buy groceries or to the restaurant and eat out. Being snowed in means you cannot leave your home. Then if you experience ice storms. You may go without any electricity for many months at a time. 
Just before you begin to plant food bearing plants, bushes and trees. You need to have a plan for harvesting as close to every month of the year as possible. You need to be able to properly and safely can your own foods for the long term. You will also need to keep all of your foods as continually cool or cold for as long as possible. Continuous temperature control is critical. Because, in a worse case situation. Food poisoning will kill a person.
------ELECTRICITY-----
This one part is hugely expensive and can be engineered to be expandable. Having multiple sources of electricity generation as well as a direct connection to the electrical grid should be preferred. In some states and in some nations you may be able to make a small income or at the very least diminish your electrical costs. It would be best to research off grid living. The amount of space required can be substantial. If you're trying to keep your physical location secret. The addition of solar panels, wind turbines, water stream generators and natural gas generators. Will point the way to your home and shelters with easy observation, sounds and vibrations. 
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Added on 25 Dec 2022: Rolling black outs in many places across America as this winter storm passes through. This is 2022 and there should not be any reason why any family has no electricity on Christmas day. It is your political leaders who have caused your discomfort and suffering. It is also your fault for not preparing for the safety and well being of your own family. It is your fault for trusting in something or someones who isn't worth trusting.
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-------MEDICAL AND DENTAL----
When the worse thing does happen. All aspects of modern day medical care and dental care will cease. All access to all forms of medications and vitamins will cease. So you will be required to have space to be able to do your own medical and dental procedures. You will also need to plan for space to properly hold the equipment and supplies.
-------CLOTHING-----
So do you want to be naked and have bare feet? You have to plan on having very hardy clothing and shoes/boots. Which means at the very first thing is to only buy quality goods. Which also means do not buy anything which is made in China(PRC). Think about clothing which is specifically made for the construction worker, farmer, cowboy types, or any other outside person. 
In a worse case scenario or a SHTF. You have to have clothing and footwear which will last a very long time under very harsh conditions. You have to plan for substantial weight loss as well as extra storage to hold extra clothing and footwear. 
In all aspects of survival and not just in clothing and footwear. You have to have the mindset of cradle to grave in everything that will be required. (humor)In regards to clothing, how will you raise cotton and grow wool? Do you know how to spin those raw materials into usable items? What about those necessary tools like human powered sewing machines and looms. How do you shear sheep with no electricity? You have to plan for space to work each machine and to store all of the necessary equipment for each machine. This leads to storing seeds and growing cotton. How much cotton can you grow for your family, friends, church and community. Because, when the worse thing happens, guess what dude or is that dude-et, you suddenly become responsible for everyone clothing and footwear. How do you even make your own clothing and footwear? Do you have the materials?  
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Storage and work shop space for hand powered tools and equipment. 
So how much storage space will you need to hold hay for all of your animals? Where will you position a work shop in association to your home, shelter and other outlying buildings? Will your work shop space have direct access to the outside. Will you be able to drive vehicles inside or build wooden carriages or build and repair bicycles? Your storage spaces should be individually and purposefully planned spaces.
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You will also need to build barns, green houses, electrical houses and maybe even other specific to you houses for your own specific needs. Some uses can be combined into one. Such as an electrical house and a water generator system because you have a free flowing year around stream. You just have to manage water issues and flooding. 
You will need property space for an evolving solar panel set up. Solar panels are very visible and will point to your home as a safe place with electricity. Your electrical room should be zero distance from your home. Ample space must be made for the electrical room as well as removing of heat generated within the electrical room. You must also add additional space for modifications, additions and air conditioning. Cool dry air is better than moist hot air. 
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Server and Computer rooms which will deliver the internet as it still functions throughout your home. These servers and computers very much like cool dry air and about 50 degrees F. When air is cool and dry. That means static electricity goes up and can become a more severe threat. Your servers must have substantial hard drive back ups and storage capabilities. This is necessary especially, if the worse thing happens and you will require everyone to remain underground for a year or more.  It is very advisable to run high capacity Ethernet cable instead of WiFi as WiFi in any kind of confined space or metallic space will or can cause RF radiation damage to your brains. This also includes Bluetooth devices. This also includes all radio transmitters as well. Yea, so do not use blue tooth devices and use only corded cables with your head phones. You must limit all RF radiation within the confines of your bunker and home. 
Your server and computer rooms must also have their own back up equipment and all of these must be shielded from all EMP's static electricity and RF DEW energies. The how to protect from RF DEW is a best guess situation. The only thing I can think of is the use of static bags, old microwave ovens and Faraday cages all combined to be used for one piece of equipment and all equipment. So yes, your server or technology room should be a shielded Faraday Cage. Your server or technology room should be large enough to store all high tech gear, test equipment and have a work space. 
The heat generated within the server or technology room can be moved to other areas for more comfortable uses.
-----FARADAY CAGES-------
That is until EMPs and RF DEW(Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapons) are in use in your area. Even though you may have paid for EMP protection. There is no telling how many EMP's that protection system will protect you from. Then there is the RF DEW's which is brand new. There is no telling how these will affect any piece of equipment or even human flesh, especially brain matter. You will just have to plan the best that you can. 
Inside of your home base you must engineer EMP safe rooms and have on hand EMP boxes called Faraday Cages. Yes, You can build your entire home into a Faraday cage. But, think about the layers of Faraday Cages, Faraday rooms and Faraday homes. This is assuming you have tons of money. Think about also having on hand a variety of anti static bags in various of sizes. Think about also having on hand old microwave ovens. Also, have much aluminum tape to cover up any holes and to further seal Faraday Boxes and old not working large microwave ovens. You need to know that anytime any piece of electrical equipment which is exposed during any EMP or RF DEW event. That piece of equipment becomes irreparable. It does not matter if the batteries were installed or not. It does not matter if the unit is turned on or not. There will not be any reset switches. It does not matter if the unit is new and still in its own original packaging or sealed box. You need to know that there will not just be one EMP event or one use of RF DEW. There will be many and at many times in what appears to be random events. But, EMP and RF DEW uses should be considered a prelude to actual attacks. Unless, They also happen after the attack. In which the enemy hopes that someone left an important door or window open to allow the energies to gain entry and destroy any and all exposed technology. 
-----EXERCISE ROOM-----
So if you are one of the meek as identified in the Holy Bible. You may be required to remain secretly hidden underground for a year or longer. Which mean dependent on the season when the modern day world ends. You will need to stay hidden until the beginning of spring. Knowing this, how will you remain physically fit? How will you remain physically healthy? A part of your daily routine will be exercising on a daily basis. This will be very important and will be a part of remaining sane. Because once you open the doors to the outside for the first time. You will most likely be required to work from dawn to dusk.
-----LIBRARY ROOM------
In order to keep your mind active. The reading of books from within your own library space will be necessary part of keeping sane. If your one of the chosen meek as identified in the Holy Bible. You need to have all of the necessary books which will directly aid you in keeping your connection with God.
-----ENTERTAINMENT ROOM----
Fun time is also necessary time in order to remain sane. So do create a space for entertainment value as well as the creation of good memories.
-----WEAPONS ROOM----
Guns, Guns and more guns. Not necessary so. Bow and arrows will most likely become preferred distance weapons. Knives and swords will most likely become preferred close quarters combat weapons. The most important thing to consider is not just the gun or bow or any bladed weapon. The important things to consider is how to reload the guns? resupply the arrows? and make your own blades? How do you make gun powder? How do you make arrows? Do you even know what kinds of trees will make the best arrows or bows? Where do you get copper and lead for bullets and how do you form them into properly sized bullets? Do you or will you also make the tools and necessary equipment to create from nothing into something? Will you even have the necessary functional skill sets? If your one of the meek how will you even be able to have any kind of weapons room? Then who properly defines the necessity of a weapons rooms if your one of the chosen meek?
--------Animal Management----
You will also need space in order to clean and render all of your animals. You will also need to have the ability to clean that space when completed. How will you manage certain wild animals and not allow those wild animals go to waste. Because, there is an indication in the holy Bible that you will account for all of the blood that you spill. Even if it is a small animal. 
------SUMMaRY------
You probably have figured it out. You need a lot of space. You need space that has been properly planned out and engineered. This is an indication of the need for community as one person or one family cannot do it all. But, you can have an important roll within any established community by having functional skill sets which will not only benefit you and your family, but also your church and your community. Everyone must work together. Everyone who works together survives together. Especially, when the meek emerges last. 
Individually some things can be done for the benefit of the whole. Like the planting of food bearing trees, plants, bushes and shrubs. You plant them everywhere you can. While knowing it can take years for these to bear their own fruits within your specific growing region.
The planting of wild and self sustaining vegetables. You plant these things everywhere you can and let them grow on their own. For instance garlic's and onion's and many other's. 
The most important part of growing food bearing plants is that you can hasten the fruiting through processes like cloning and grafting. Then you give these new already fruit bearing plants to everyone within your family, friends, church and community. Then when food shortages do happen. They will be minimized. 
The idea of generating your own energy is now important as the politicians and media point their own dirty and corrupted dirty fingers to blame Putin about all of their energy woes. When it was they who made all of these energy shortages happen. 
In summary, You have figured out that it is you and it has always been you who is responsible for yourself and your family. You have figured out that it is not wise to entrust any political organization or any other group to save you and your family. You, your family, your friends, your church and your community are the only ones who you can trust. Anyone else who is on the outside cannot be trusted and your only faith shall only be given to God alone.  
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REPENT! REPENT! REPENT!
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Go and sin no more.
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To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.
To Love one another.

To live in peace with everyone.

To exist in harmony with all.

To Cherish all life.

To be obedient to the Laws of God.

To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.
All without any pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy and entitlements.
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