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I Live In The City of the Future. Welcome To Pre Armageddon

 
Athena Awakened

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Hi Nin,

Sad state of affairs for you and your town.verysad

I realize that the neighborhood community leaves something to be desired , but do you belong to a Church community?

Perhaps you could mobilize there?


"Wherever 2 or more are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them."

May God Bless and direct you, my friendhf
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I am an ancient astronaut theorist.. no church for that
but i am a very spiritual person and hold faith that something for the better has to happen soon
hf
 Quoting: NiNzrez


+1

NiNzrez, you are one tough cookie - hang in there. If you can make it out of there, you probably should. I would.
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” Samuel Adams, 1776
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It's almost like the series 'Walking Dead' but instead of zombies, all the monsters are gang members with guns....it looks like you are a minority and need a way to get out before you end up on the casualty list. The streets look dead in the film, like a post apocolyptic earth, but at night the zombies come out to feed. It's the small places first....then it's the cities, then it's worldwide.

Zombies, Mad Max, Waterworld (sorry) and many more are actually predicting the state of what's to come.
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my city is waaay worst than that, trust me.
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Society is breaking down throughout the Western world. Once we abandoned the values that founded it the outcome was inevitable.
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Some towns, boroughs, neighbourhoods and other will have pockets of self-policed citizens.


If the Police take that long to respond, then form your own local law enforcement. Who is going to stop you?! The Police, lol.

Seriously, there are tens of thousands of citizens. I'm sure people can divide the city into blocks of enforcement.

If everyone had a form of unifying communication, then call upon your self-built neighbourhood defence force.
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I am somewhat of an idealist. I want to ask what the best thing to do in this situation would be. I want to say that there is an opportunity here somewhere because in everything there is a polarity. I would first ask all the cops that still live there if they would volunteer to help bring the city to a safer level. These people would be paid in points that they could exchange for food, clothing, supplies etc in stores that also volunteered to accept them. This would probably mostly be local stores and shops. I would try to have a town meeting where we got everyone together and decided what they needed. Most would want food, clothes, good school, and things to do in the town etc. I would then get all the volunteers I could to start growing food that would be rationed to the people that volunteered in the garden. I would ask each and every person what they were willing to do to contribute. Perhaps some would teach, some would build, some would farm, some would repair etc on and on. I would go to the thugs and ask them what they want. Why do they do this. What is their purpose in thugging? I would try to help them get their needs met and give them some suggestions of what to do to fill up their time. I know that they would still thug if they wanted drugs but I think if they helped people or started to farm or build, help some one, volunteer then they might begin to feel something good inside ..and that there is a way to live, contribute, build up a life that is fulfilling. I cannot go into great detail here. There are many details to fill in the spaces here but I know that humans are capable of anything. Being an idealist I see it as a perfect opportunity to bring everyone together to make their own unique town that could make history.
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I can see how this CAN work, however, one problem you would have to tackle is transportation. Most Americans are obligated to a car loan and insurance, our transportation system was built to accomodate companies who thrived during the industrial revolution (which is over). Eisenhower masterminded the Interstate system with Ford, Rockefeller, and oil tycoons. If your community came together and solved this problem as well, within, you may be making history.
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” Samuel Adams, 1776
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OP , if you can you should leave !


Like i said in another thread .
The police have no interest in stopping crime .
NO CRIME = NO POLICE = NO JOB .


Take carehf
 Quoting: GhostViking


i wish i did have the means to move me and my family out of here
right now we spend all we make on surviving
we have adapted and learned to survive here
we now know how to act, walk, talk when in public
where to avoid, where we can and can not go, how to secure our home. On GLP there is so much talk about how to prepare for survival post doom, but we are already partially living this way
 Quoting: NiNzrez


OP, can you post how one should "act, walk, and talk" in public?

thanks
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avoid eye contact, dress in clothing that blends in and does not stand out, walk a bit faster and just get where you need to go (no scenery viewing), look down some but be watching all around you at all times, be aware of the people around you and their movement, be ready to react at a moments notice if you see someone trying to come at you, don't stop to talk to anyone, walk down busy streets and never side streets, park close to the doors of stores your going into even if it means you have to drive around=d the parking lot for a few, never carry a purse, always separate the money your planning to spend from the rest you carry so that no one is tempted to mug you when you flip out your cash to pay, always wear practical shoes when going out because you never know when you will need to run from a situation, always carry a weapon and know how to use it WELL whatever that weapon may be, if confronted NEVER act weak or scared. thats just off the top of my head. I'm sure there is much more i will think about after hitting post on this. it's like the wild kingdom out here and the weak will be eaten before sunrise

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You can and should leave Nin. You seem intelligent and you are clearly hot....and not afraid of hard work (construction aint easy). You can go anywhere....dont believe otherwise. Did I say youre hot? You are.


Im not as creepy as I sound....hot adds value and opportunity. Fact of life. I know....im hot too.
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Look into Earthship style housing, and aquaponics, sounds random and obscure, I know, but I think the combination of the two would save even the most rundown communities.
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Ps it breaks my heart that you are in this situation because your mind is soooo valuable because of what you think and, perhaps more importantly, what you think about. Much love.
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On another note, you seem to know what's up, just the fact that you're into "alternative topics" means that you know things that most in your community do not. Running to the hills isn't going to fix any of the problems there. It sounds to me like Flint needs you.
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OP , if you can you should leave !


Like i said in another thread .
The police have no interest in stopping crime .
NO CRIME = NO POLICE = NO JOB .


Take carehf
 Quoting: GhostViking


i wish i did have the means to move me and my family out of here
right now we spend all we make on surviving
we have adapted and learned to survive here
we now know how to act, walk, talk when in public
where to avoid, where we can and can not go, how to secure our home. On GLP there is so much talk about how to prepare for survival post doom, but we are already partially living this way
 Quoting: NiNzrez


OP, can you post how one should "act, walk, and talk" in public?

thanks
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1232806


avoid eye contact, dress in clothing that blends in and does not stand out, walk a bit faster and just get where you need to go (no scenery viewing), look down some but be watching all around you at all times, be aware of the people around you and their movement, be ready to react at a moments notice if you see someone trying to come at you, don't stop to talk to anyone, walk down busy streets and never side streets, park close to the doors of stores your going into even if it means you have to drive around=d the parking lot for a few, never carry a purse, always separate the money your planning to spend from the rest you carry so that no one is tempted to mug you when you flip out your cash to pay, always wear practical shoes when going out because you never know when you will need to run from a situation, always carry a weapon and know how to use it WELL whatever that weapon may be, if confronted NEVER act weak or scared. thats just off the top of my head. I'm sure there is much more i will think about after hitting post on this. it's like the wild kingdom out here and the weak will be eaten before sunrise
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Damn that's just sad NiN...
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On another note, you seem to know what's up, just the fact that you're into "alternative topics" means that you know things that most in your community do not. Running to the hills isn't going to fix any of the problems there. It sounds to me like Flint needs you.
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Flint is not Ninz cross to bare.
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I was born and raised in Flint, graduating from FSWA and leaving shortly after for the Military.
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Wow that's a really sad situation up there in Flint! South of Detroit here in Toledo we're headed in the same direction.
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Welcome to my backyard...

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i would move if i could people
but moving anywhere costs money
and its not just me
i have kids and family that have always been there for me, so i would never leave them to try to survive here my themselves
my family an i were in a house explosion a few years ago and that took us all back down to square one
since then we have worked as one unit to survive
one does one thing while another does another
we bust our asses working what jobs we can get
and spend everything we make on bills and food
we work hard to survive and a savings account is a thing of the past
i think of this each time i read someone on a volcano thread say something like "why don't those people just move?"
it sounds way easier than it is to actually do

so we have accepted that this is where we live and learned to survive here the best we can and we constantly try to learn new survival methods. We do joke around with one another and say that at least when TSHTF we will be 5 steps ahead of everyone and will not miss the luxuries of modern life as much as most. In fact, a SHTF scenario would be welcomed at times, because then i would be able to go cut down that tree down the road and burn it in the fire place to keep warn, and not be stuck paying whatever the electric company decides to say we owe or loose heat.
Thank you everyone for the sweet offers to move where you live. it is a very nice gesture to see :)

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On another note, you seem to know what's up, just the fact that you're into "alternative topics" means that you know things that most in your community do not. Running to the hills isn't going to fix any of the problems there. It sounds to me like Flint needs you.
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Flint is not Ninz cross to bare.
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No, Flint is all its citizens cross to bare. If you're going to lift up something big and heavy with a group of people, someone has to lift a tip so others can get a grip on it.
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This kind of crap only happens in cities with a substantial "ghetto" population.

This crap would never happen in a predominantly white small town.

Just saying.
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Welcome to my backyard...


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Fuck yeah! I can't wait for the darkages, VIKINGS ALL OVER AGAIN!
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Racism...economic inequality, insecurity...I wish you could love your own citizens, your problems would be over.

Throw your fat cats in jail, stop your wars on the world, and balance your budget, greedy Amerikan. and vote for universal health care.

whiner!
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You are so naive Canada if you think your own fat cats aren't preparing to do the same to you. Globalization will hit you too.
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i live in detroit and its pretty trashed. the roads can be horrible. i bought a car recently and the seller was from florida and told me to take good care of it. i thought to myself ya right this things about to get its shit kicked in no time. everywheres hood. its harder to make a left turn than buy crack. i do home moving and theres like bed bugs and shit in the nasty ass homes around here. you can see through houses pretty often cause they just got holes and shit. BUT you can go like 90 miles and hour down one of our many awesome freeways with almost no chance of being pulled over. and theres casinos legal weed and they start reselling alchahol at 6am sunday morning. ALSO everyones pretty fucking weird so its easy to not stand out if you yourself happen to be weird. ALSO we get some killer electronic music talent here. but mostly its a cold cold cold corner of an abandoned ghetto in hell. i mean our trees dont have leaves yet. fuck.
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I agree with you. People seem to forget a few things too, when pointing to the USA's more prosperous times, such as the 1950s - that back then we operated in a *closed* economy.

There was NO industrial competition because all the countries that were producing anything such as Germany, Japan, UK - all of these *had the shit bombed out of them and could NOT produce*. There were all kinds of trade restrictions in place as well. So *of course* the US was raking in the $.
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The people that were raking it in then in the US,...have expanded and gone world-wide and corporate now. They have been raking it in since Bush lied the country into false war. A war that now pays top dollar to depressed citizens like the ones living in NiN's town,... buying up souls and what/whomever it takes to get the job done. And the job is taking as many tax-dollars from tax-payers as possible. This nets these bastards and the talking heads in the "media" millions/billions/illusions.

They bought themselves a black guy to "lead" this time around.

People who do not understand this are useless fodder for the sheeple at this late point in the game.

For Christ's sake,...

Grab a clue.


Z
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Have a laugh.
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This kind of city should not exist in the most rich country of the world.
Something is very wrong when you spend billions in arms and do not help this people.

You have to healing yourself
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Right you are. Government services like law enforcement cost money, but Americans don't like to pay taxes, then they blame the government. They should be blaming the Bush Administration, of course, but they have a problem: Most of the most vocal anti-government voices belong to Republicans.
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Two years AFTER Bush and you supporters of the Kenyan born man-child still can't take responsibility for the mess we're in. That's rich...really rich.
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OP , if you can you should leave !


Like i said in another thread .
The police have no interest in stopping crime .
NO CRIME = NO POLICE = NO JOB .


Take carehf
 Quoting: GhostViking


i wish i did have the means to move me and my family out of here
right now we spend all we make on surviving
we have adapted and learned to survive here
we now know how to act, walk, talk when in public
where to avoid, where we can and can not go, how to secure our home. On GLP there is so much talk about how to prepare for survival post doom, but we are already partially living this way
 Quoting: NiNzrez


OP, can you post how one should "act, walk, and talk" in public?

thanks
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1232806


avoid eye contact, dress in clothing that blends in and does not stand out, walk a bit faster and just get where you need to go (no scenery viewing), look down some but be watching all around you at all times, be aware of the people around you and their movement, be ready to react at a moments notice if you see someone trying to come at you, don't stop to talk to anyone, walk down busy streets and never side streets, park close to the doors of stores your going into even if it means you have to drive around=d the parking lot for a few, never carry a purse, always separate the money your planning to spend from the rest you carry so that no one is tempted to mug you when you flip out your cash to pay, always wear practical shoes when going out because you never know when you will need to run from a situation, always carry a weapon and know how to use it WELL whatever that weapon may be, if confronted NEVER act weak or scared. thats just off the top of my head. I'm sure there is much more i will think about after hitting post on this. it's like the wild kingdom out here and the weak will be eaten before sunrise
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haha these are pretty good. i always put most my money in my sock or some shit and keep a couple bucks in my pocket to give up if robbed. how about dont tip the homeless unless you got at leas a couple quarters. ive had bums start screaming at me cause i had like a nickel and a dime and gave it to them LOL wtf. bridge is accepted everywhere! you can buy fucking redbull and shit on it. soooo funny to go buy a 70 dollar bottle of yeiger with cash and a a bunch of cases of red bull with FOOD STAMP welfare haha and dont ferget the bankers get a buck every time you use that damn bridge card and everyone just walks into one of he million corner stores and buys a candy bar or pack of gum with it and the goverment tosses there banker homeboys a dolla. 65% of the restruants here sell coney dogs. when i first moved here it blew my mind to see a hundred thousand hot dog restruants. wtf. then i lived off chilli cheese fries for a year or two and realized why coney was king. you can rent HUGE places in detroit cheep. your only a couple hundred dollars away from being able to have like a 3 story warehouse for the night. theres over 40 strip clubs in wayne county. its insane i know like a hundred strippers. i be willing to bet detroiters know more stippers than the normal GLP goer. one of our old mayors is doing time in wayne county... LOL. also we just raised 40k to build a robocop in a park somewhere downtown. thats whats up. Michigan has alot of its own fresh food and farms you can even go live one and work. michigan has a couple local currencys so you can opt out of the reserve note to an extent. also not to many huricanes twisters earthquakes fires or floods. at least in the citys. so from a survivalist point of view its kinda legit. ok thats it from me. summer is finaly here in michigan its time to get bat shit hammered drunk and rave the fuck out untill fall
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i would move if i could people
but moving anywhere costs money
and its not just me
i have kids and family that have always been there for me, so i would never leave them to try to survive here my themselves
my family an i were in a house explosion a few years ago and that took us all back down to square one
since then we have worked as one unit to survive
one does one thing while another does another
we bust our asses working what jobs we can get
and spend everything we make on bills and food
we work hard to survive and a savings account is a thing of the past
i think of this each time i read someone on a volcano thread say something like "why don't those people just move?"
it sounds way easier than it is to actually do

so we have accepted that this is where we live and learned to survive here the best we can and we constantly try to learn new survival methods. We do joke around with one another and say that at least when TSHTF we will be 5 steps ahead of everyone and will not miss the luxuries of modern life as much as most. In fact, a SHTF scenario would be welcomed at times, because then i would be able to go cut down that tree down the road and burn it in the fire place to keep warn, and not be stuck paying whatever the electric company decides to say we owe or loose heat.
Thank you everyone for the sweet offers to move where you live. it is a very nice gesture to see :)
 Quoting: NiNzrez


Sooner,...or later, you will be leading people to safety. It is a sign of the times unavoidable to those will will look with open eyes, and who fight against the "media" mind-control. Some do not see it. YOU do.

You are clearly a natural born leader.

If you begin any long, arduous, journey in life with baby step,...you will soon find yourself running with the wind at your back.

This is rapidly becoming a time for free-flight.

:)
Z

Last Edited by zacksavage on 04/26/2011 05:36 PM
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NINI why dont you move if it's that bad??? doesnt sound like much fun living there... give it to the predators wow just read you're post above ... sorry to hear that. i hope you stay safe!!!
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Flint might be bad, but us in Michigan have all we need for the coming years. Lots of fresh water, wildlife, wild food, and tons of people with good aim and lots of guns.

I love Michigan, it's a great place.
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Michigan might be the most armed state in the Union. everyone I know has a gun (hunting)
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Hey NiN,...think about something like this??

A group of Italians are building a bunker village in Yucatan to wait for the END of The World.
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from first page on one of the most important newspaper in Mexico

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The constructions were initiated several months ago and every day have more progress. Now is already installed electrical networks and construction of tunnels for unspecified purposes. These works are carried out in the village of Xul by the fifth essence Association and include a housing unit reinforced to withstand fires, floods and natural phenomena such as hurricanes, which is why the natives of the region, located 100 kilometers to the South-East of Méridathey see it as an "apocalyptic city".
He also assured that they were installed bulletproof doors in the houses whose walls are 60 centimeters wide and mostly with wheels and other embedded materials. "I don't know why do as well... the architect tells us how to build and we do not leave us or ask", explained."

Thread: A group of Italians are building a bunker village in Yucatan to wait for the END of The World.
I bet you would enjoy the people you would meet and the projects to take part in.

Being a woo with many years at my back,...I have all-ways though border fence was to control flow in the other direction.

Imagine that?

Z

Last Edited by zacksavage on 04/26/2011 05:50 PM
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