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| Thread ID: 123721 | 2012-03-13 03:25:00 | American 'Preppers' - Who Are They? What Are They? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1264639 | 2012-03-13 03:25:00 | Frankly they are all doomsday prophets who believe they can outlive and out survive everyone else who isn't prepared for the carnage that is about to happen . According to them, the person with the most food, biggest caliber guns and most secure hidey-holes will be alive when the dust settles . LINK:: . preparedsociety . com/forum/f2/bullet-point-list-new-preppers-1617/" target="_blank">www . preparedsociety . com LINK::: http://www . suburbanprepper . com/ LINK::: . thedailybeast . com/newsweek/2009/12/27/survivalism-lite . html" target="_blank">www . thedailybeast . com In the past, survivalists and conspiracy theorists might go out into the woods, live out of a bunker, waiting (or sometimes hoping) for the apocalypse to hit . It was men, mostly; many of them anti-government, often portrayed by the media as radicals of the likes of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh . In the late 1990s, Y2K fears brought survivalism to the mainstream, only to usher it back out again when disaster didn't strike . (Suddenly, unused survival gear began showing up in classifieds and on eBay . ) A decade later, "preppers" are what you might call survivalism's Third Wave: regular people with jobs and homes whose are increasingly fearful about the future—their paranoia compounded by 24-hour cable news . "Between the media and the Internet, many people have built up a sense that there's this calamity out there that needs to be avoided," says Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Texas who studies the way people think . And while they may not envision themselves as Kevin Costner in Waterworld—in fact, many preppers go out of their way to avoid the stereotypes that come along with the "survivalist" label—they've made a clear-eyed calculation about the risks at hand and aren't waiting around for anybody else to fix them . "I consider it more of a reaction than a movement," says Tom Martin, a 32-year-old Idaho truck driver who is the founder of the American Preppers Network, which receives some 5,000 visitors to its Web site each day . "There are so many variables and potential disasters out there, being a prepper is just a reaction to that potential . " Lots of people up here with B . A . R . s - 50 Caliber --- with sniper scopes . |
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| 1264640 | 2012-03-13 03:37:00 | This wouldn't have anything to do with your signature would it.:D:D | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1264641 | 2012-03-13 03:39:00 | Nah - that was a 22. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1264642 | 2012-03-13 06:07:00 | If the time comes I will just find a prepper and shoot him and take all his stuff. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1264643 | 2012-03-13 06:37:00 | If the time comes I will just find a prepper and shoot him and take all his stuff. Such a lovely guy you are.;) |
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| 1264644 | 2012-03-13 06:48:00 | I dont think there are any in NZ. We did have a famous prepper Flight Lieutenant B. Hildreth who used to carry a briefcase with survival gear around with him. Nuttier than a fruit cake. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1264645 | 2012-03-13 07:15:00 | I dont think there are any in NZ. We did have a famous prepper Flight Lieutenant B. Hildreth who used to carry a briefcase with survival gear around with him. Nuttier than a fruit cake. Officer, what do you expect? |
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