Did anybody read Piers Paul Read's book "Alive", or see the movie? In 1972 a small plane with 46 people crashed in the Andes Mountains between Chile and Argentina. The 16 who survived both the crash and a later avalance ate the bodies of the dead. Nando's sister died after 10 days in his arms. Eventually Nando and his friend Roberto Canessa hiked out 10 days through unbelievably treacherous terrain, and after 72 days the group was rescued. It is an incredible book, I've read it several times.
Nando finally wrote his own book, "Miracle in the Andes". It is not anywhere so complete as "Alive", but it is his own tale of the gripping emotional struggle he faced to survive and then to hike out in the face of certain death. ( and it is great to read the epilogue of how everybody is doing after 30+ years. Nando has a beautiful wife and two daughters).
Anyway, the ending is so moving, and I labeled this PREP because of what he said.
They did not survive because of leadership, innovation, creative problem solving, or teamwork, although of course all those things were an integral part of his experience. It was not cleverness or courage or competence or savvy that saved them.
It was love- for each other, for their familes left behind, for the lives they wanted to live. It was love that saved them.
I've been thinking a lot about this. I have two sisters, one who preps to the max on very limited money, and one who is rich and clueless. The one who preps loves people and loves her familyand neighbors. The rich one, well, sometimes you wonder if she loves anybody. Markus and I just visited a doomer-prepper who is a blessing for being on the same wavelength, but undergirding all his prepping he loves people and ministers God's love for us.
I've always thought of trying to get people to prep as related to warning of impending crisis, whether a nuclear jihad on CONUS, natural disaster, dollar and banking collapse, etc.
I've been wondering this week how much of the problem with DGIs is just plain lack of love. I wonder if talking about loving our children or friends is really the only way to talk about prepping, and if love really is the only thing, in the end, that will get us all through what is coming. Life with wheat and beans and no love won't be worth living.
Nando finally wrote his own book, "Miracle in the Andes". It is not anywhere so complete as "Alive", but it is his own tale of the gripping emotional struggle he faced to survive and then to hike out in the face of certain death. ( and it is great to read the epilogue of how everybody is doing after 30+ years. Nando has a beautiful wife and two daughters).
Anyway, the ending is so moving, and I labeled this PREP because of what he said.
They did not survive because of leadership, innovation, creative problem solving, or teamwork, although of course all those things were an integral part of his experience. It was not cleverness or courage or competence or savvy that saved them.
It was love- for each other, for their familes left behind, for the lives they wanted to live. It was love that saved them.
I've been thinking a lot about this. I have two sisters, one who preps to the max on very limited money, and one who is rich and clueless. The one who preps loves people and loves her familyand neighbors. The rich one, well, sometimes you wonder if she loves anybody. Markus and I just visited a doomer-prepper who is a blessing for being on the same wavelength, but undergirding all his prepping he loves people and ministers God's love for us.
I've always thought of trying to get people to prep as related to warning of impending crisis, whether a nuclear jihad on CONUS, natural disaster, dollar and banking collapse, etc.
I've been wondering this week how much of the problem with DGIs is just plain lack of love. I wonder if talking about loving our children or friends is really the only way to talk about prepping, and if love really is the only thing, in the end, that will get us all through what is coming. Life with wheat and beans and no love won't be worth living.
If so, woof woof to Tucker and you know you don't want to be eating that genetically engineered corn and soybeans. 
). But I only say that to say we might never agree on this subject of prepping.
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