Survival

So I've done ranted much on the topic of getting rid of the federal reserve and going back to the gold standard.
And i will admit it, I've nay-sayed.
But I found this dude, and watched about two hours worth of his videos.
Now I'm totally about it. I was wrong.
This dude, a self proclaimed survivalist, has like 7 thousand dollars in nickels. The reason he has all these nickels is that if the dollar collapses and money suddenly becomes no good, at that point nickels will still be made from 25 percent nickel and 75 percent copper, which will make them worth at the very least five cents. This confuses me a whole bunch and yet still makes sense.
Why?
Well, i trust this guy because I've never seen a man more hell bent on continuing to exist through possible great tragedy. He is prepared for 2012. He is so committed to surviving incredible, hypothetical calamity, that he's willing to do whatever it takes, even if that means spending all of his last few precious years living in a relatively peaceful society, preparing for the end of the world, dog eat dog sort of scenario, where anyone who approaches must be postal worked with one of his many weapons.
He has tons of badass, expensive looking guns. Shotguns, fully automatic weapons, he carries multiple handguns everyday to work, he carries a fake wallet, in case he gets mugged.
He will not show his face, and rightly so. Looking at this man in the eyes would be like looking at the face of a war God. His house, his wife, his family, they are impenetrable, and short of dying from any sort of natural type disaster, like a flood, or tornado, or earthquake or sudden super volcano, or meteor, or car crash, or cancer, or old age, or an allergic reaction or drowning, they will live on most likely forever.
To me it seems depressing to spend all of one's free time preparing for something one doesn't want to happen. Unless of course he kind of does want it to happen. I can totally relate to that. I often picture myself crawling out of my bunker amidst the economic apocalypse, dawning a tactical vest, hunting looters and protecting my love in an every man for himself type world. Then i get depressed thinking about death. Then i remember that life is way cool now. Why not just live life to fullest while it's still nice, here in the belly of the beast? I worry that he must get depressed, spending all of his time planning out Americas funeral.
However I have to say, this survival dude actually seems pretty happy, and he must be. I mean one must really like life to want to survive disaster so much.
Plus, "when the shit hits the fan," and my bunker is discovered by post apocalyptic biker gangs, and they try to take my stuff, I will be forced to say, "please don't." And then they will take it anyway, and then they will beat me up, and then maybe rape me and cannibalize me while raping me. Where as on the other hand, this guy will shoot to kill and exchange his nickels for something like the last candy bar or something, because everyone will want nickels and he will move on through the woods and forests and be like, "I'm glad i spent so much time preparing for this shit. It's like a playground out here. I'm a little boy and recess has finally arrived."
I do think that this fellow is truly motivated out of love for his family. Like so many fathers, he simply wants to prepare so as to always be able to take care of and protect his wife and kids. His expensive door locks and guns are kind of adorable. I wish him all the luck in the world. The only thing i worry about is the possibility of the economy recovering and this man living out a boring future. For his sake, I hope the end comes soon.
There are commercials for his many videos. Someone is paying him to survive.

Another sociopath, Another scapegoat

Everyone knows what happened in Arizona a couple days ago. It's quite sad, and reminded me of my feelings. It's strange how a horrific act of violence, committed by someone without feelings, tends to make the rest of us feel lots and lots of empathy. It's as if we all feel the very feelings those poor confused gun wielding sociopaths lack. I read about the incident on the internet, and the first article i found suggested that the 22 year old gunman was obsessed with conspiracy theories. This was the reason they gave for him going on a handgun rampage. Someone was printed saying that such conspiracy, controversial, anti government speech, was "free speech but has consequences."

I read on and the article said that the half retarded gunman was obsessed with debt and our currency system. They barely touched on his beliefs from that, but they quoted him as saying something about refusing to pay debt with a currency that's not backed by gold.
Lots of truthers, especially the more redneck ones, claim that most of the world's problems would be solved if we returned to a currency system backed entirely by the element, gold. They think of this as a more stable form of economic slavery, I suppose. I don't personally see how paying off debts based on a meaningless element is any more desirable than paying off debt based on a meaningless intangible digital money system.
More to the point, I don't see how killing little girls is going to make people think that they should maybe lobby to have congress remove the fed and return to a national currency based only on the national reserve of gold (atomic number 79). No matter how many kids you murder, I'm still going to think that giving mythical value to the popular jewelry is just as silly as the worship of paper money, and digital currency.
But anyway, I thought I'd go a little deeper and see if maybe the 22 yearold gunman was into some truth guru out there preaching to sociopaths that they should murder people. However, when I googled "Arizona Shooter" I couldn't find any information on the kid's political preferences. All I found was this website.

Now, I ain't gonna go all michel Moore on anyone, because frankly the fatso annoys me and i don't have liberal beliefs or otherwise. You can't tie down this unicorn with your pitiful leanings of right and left. My only point is that there is plenty of motivation in this unhealthy world and unhealthy system for sociopaths to go out and hurt people for no reason. They don't kill people to make a point, because they rarely have any sort of reasonable point to make. Sociopaths kill people because they don't know right from wrong. It doesn't matter if they are obsessed with the government, or The View. And it doesn't matter if they use a gun or a car, or the US Air Force, or a remote controlled drone. Hate and murder is not truth. Truth is truth.