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SamBee wrote:
Depends where you hide it, I suppose. But you would have to defend some of it, which is not an issue the church really addresses.Why doesn’t the church teach adults survival? We don’t have scouting in the church round here.
I suggest it’s because 12 months food storage is not about survival in a natural disaster. Just as tea/coffee is not about caffeine. They are both principles of obedience, which also happen to make us feel different, special, elevated if we allow it to. This is an effective tool for a minority religion. A lot of the practices of the house of Israel in the Old Testament can be linked to the need to make them feel superior and ‘chosen’ compared to their heathen neighbours. You could even consider polygamy to fall under that category. Whether they are by design of men or God I’m unsure… but they work.
We don’t have to worry about how well we will be able to defend our food because a) we almost certainly will never be in some mel gibson, mad max, apocalypse and b) even if we were, wouldn’t last more than a few days, even with all the training some bushcraft nut at church could provide us.
How much more cultish would we seem if there were photos of us all off on survival camps at the weekend preparing for the revolution
hawkgrrrl wrote:We were in a ward about 15 years ago where one of the guys in the bishopric was huge on stockpiling guns and ammo in anticipation of the zombie apocalypse or to kill off his less prepared neighbors I suppose and make jerky out of them or something. It seems like an absolutely unchristian and terrible idea to stockpile guns. If people want my stuff that bad, they can have it.
Yes – I have the same sentiment. Killing my neighbor because they are starving and want some of my food just doesn’t sound Christlike to me. I couldn’t do it. And if I could, everyone would find out about it and seek revenge and take my food (and life) anyways. Because of this, my food storage is in case of unemployment and to help me and my neighbors in the event of a natural disaster. I’m betting we eventually hear about some church member in New Jersey or New York who helped neighbors with some of his/her year supply in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.
Roadrunner wrote:
Because of this, my food storage is in case of unemployment and to help me and my neighbors in the event of a natural disaster. I’m betting we eventually hear about some church member in New Jersey or New York who helped neighbors with some of his/her year supply in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.THIS
:thumbup: My parents were amazing with their 1-year. We never had a natural disaster in sleepy UK, but there was a year where money was tight that they did almost no shopping for 9 months and we ate the food storage and garden veggies. On other occasions during times of ‘plenty’ I know my mum would box up a load of food for families who were struggling.
I’m still puzzling at the thought that a group of people who espouse doctrines like “when saw we thee an hungered” or “are we not all beggars” would also have a small armory ready to shoot hungry families!
mackay11 wrote:SamBee wrote:
Depends where you hide it, I suppose. But you would have to defend some of it, which is not an issue the church really addresses.Why doesn’t the church teach adults survival? We don’t have scouting in the church round here.
I suggest it’s because 12 months food storage is not about survival in a natural disaster. Just as tea/coffee is not about caffeine. They are both principles of obedience, which also happen to make us feel different, special, elevated if we allow it to. This is an effective tool for a minority religion. A lot of the practices of the house of Israel in the Old Testament can be linked to the need to make them feel superior and ‘chosen’ compared to their heathen neighbours. You could even consider polygamy to fall under that category. Whether they are by design of men or God I’m unsure… but they work.
We don’t have to worry about how well we will be able to defend our food because a) we almost certainly will never be in some mel gibson, mad max, apocalypse and b) even if we were, wouldn’t last more than a few days, even with all the training some bushcraft nut at church could provide us.
How much more cultish would we seem if there were photos of us all off on survival camps at the weekend preparing for the revolution
I remember reading earlier this year about a family who had survived in SE Asia somewhere in the jungle, thanks to tips that they had picked up on a TV show.
Your first sentence rings true to me, but I suggest that survival and caffeine are factors (although there are toxic substances in tea/coffee besides caffeine by the way, and I can vouch for giving them up).
I appreciate I sound like a survivalist nut with my mentions of guns and storage, but I think that it is always good to be prepared for disaster. We have just seen a massive one in the USA, and there will be others.
I think the collapse of civilsation in the near future is still not imporsible either, apologies for spelling, my broser’s just gone wreird!!!!
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