I recently watched a few episodes of Doomsday Preppers

In a situation which you describe I think it would be a new beginning where our standards and values would have to change so we could survive. It's my idea that soon, the world will be running out of food due to weather catastrophes and farmers being ripped off financially so they have no choice but to walk off the land. It's my idea that I will be needing to grow what ever I can to provide myself with food. I will need to grow enough to exchange for food for my animals. Meanwhile, I will also need to protect my crops somehow because those without the skills or motivation will be constantly attempting to steal the fruits of my labour. I also realise that those from the big cities who are trying to get away will be heading my way to find ways to survive. Hopefully it won't happen in my lifetime but I believe it will happen. We just do not have inexhaustible supplies of everything we need as a race to survive. I hope I never have to ask myself those hard questions.

You know, I do not worry about it too much. I guess I would be the type to try to develop a common goal with others and share resources.I am thinking there might not be any roads to drive on, but I might want the gasoline to run the generator that I do not actually have. I also think I would consider taking gasoline from people who did not survive whatever the catastrophe was, but not from people who were still around. It also would be dangerous, as someone might just shoot who ever was stealing.

Hey Lizard Lady, This subject interests me somewhat, for a couple of reasons... 1. I so envy the resources that are readily and economically available to you folk over there, like freeze-dried vittles and vaccuum packed survival rations, even stuff as basic as hand-cranked canning machines... Almost impossible to get this sort of thing in Australia (I know, you CAN get it, but it's a "luxury" niche - pay through the nose, and then some, for even the most basic of supplies). I COULD get a canning machine if I really really wanted to, but I'd have to import it from India or China for a few grand. Just ridiculous. BUT that all probably stems from the lack of a market for survival goodies here in Australia, which I suppose leads on to the second dimension of my interest, ie - 2. What exactly is it about the USA that has ingrained the population with a sense of impending doom? Surely it hasn't always been like that? Well, maybe it has - what with the fear of nukes raining down on you during the Cold War & etc. But seriously, what is it that is perpetuating this mindset? With the ending of the Cold War, other things being equal, the dark cloud of Armageddon should have lifted and people should be getting on with their lives, confident of their safety and well-being. Has the Military Industrial Complex so entrenched its interests that the US population will always dance to its tune and forever be cowering in fear from some manufactured enemy (eg, the "War on Terror"...)? Or is there some other clear and present danger that threatens to make the sky fall? Forgive me if I sound cynical, because I'm not trying to be. Here in Australia, things tend to be pretty casual overall, and even when things are looking gloomy, there's always light at the end of the tunnel. I really do get the impression that things are not heading in the right direction over there in the Land of the Free & Home of the Brave. On a tangential note, adversity generally either brings out the best or the worst in people, and that's when the true character of government agencies etc is bared for all to see. Hopeflly if things do go pear-shaped, the good will outweigh the bad. What was it some character said that's so often quoted (?) - all it takes for bad men to succeed is for good men to do nothing...

sorry to say but id do anything to save my family. but not nessisarily for myself. if it was just me, id probably just go ahead and die. ive thought many times, im just here for my kids now.

Sometimes I do. Like the dillema I'm in with the goings on in Afghanistan, our troops being killed for an accidental burning of the Quran by those they've trained and lived with for years. I believe the teachings of Christ, to love our enemies and to be kind to them that persecute us, are true and right. But it is hard to do what is true and right. That is what makes us human and in need of grace from God. If you did not feel it was a dillema and if you felt good about having to do such things to survive, then I would worry about your state of mind. Let's just hope we do not have to be tested in such a way. But just in case we do have to be, stay close to God in prayer and study so you will automatically do as He would have you do.