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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2008, 06:06:12 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 31, 2008, 04:06:47 PM

THE CELL PHONE ! !

Quote from: Timothy on December 31, 2008, 04:15:09 PM
Actually, I ignore my cell phone just as much as my home phone....If I want to talk to someone, I'll call THEM..otherwise, leave me alone....


Amen my brothers, Amen.

How did we ever evolve without cell phones and texting?
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2008, 06:22:23 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on December 31, 2008, 06:06:12 PM

Amen my brothers, Amen.

How did we ever evolve without cell phones and texting?
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Opposable thumbs!!! 8)
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2008, 06:39:35 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 31, 2008, 04:15:09 PM
Actually, I ignore my cell phone just as much as my home phone....If I want to talk to someone, I'll call THEM..otherwise, leave me alone....

You should have to have one of those Dingleberries Blackberries as a condition of employment.  You are in an envious position...I shut-off call waiting...the wife turns it back on...I get rid of the answering machine and danged if the phone company doesn't include it for her and sends me a monthly fee.
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2008, 06:51:37 PM »
Quote from: Rastus on December 31, 2008, 06:39:35 PM
You should have to have one of those Dingleberries Blackberries as a condition of employment.  You are in an envious position...I shut-off call waiting...the wife turns it back on...I get rid of the answering machine and danged if the phone company doesn't include it for for her and sends me a monthly fee.

I have a calibration device for the "Crackberries" the poor saps I work with carry, otherwise known as a framing hammer!

Oh, and I have one of those "wife" thingies myself, may be another use for the calibrator after all? ??? :D
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2008, 07:09:47 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on December 31, 2008, 06:51:37 PM
I have a calibration device for the "Crackberries" the poor saps I work with carry, otherwise known as a framing hammer!............

Guess I can do anything I want on my last day at work...   ;)

I ain't touchin that wife thingie statement....I've got to sleep between the Dingleberrie Blackberrie annoyances.
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2008, 08:27:28 PM »
To veer back to the original question;

SHTF is any disaster that effects you in a bad way. Mall shooting, get fired, hurricane, personal injury, blizzard, whatever. It is something that forces YOU to fall back on your own resources. Can't get to the store, no electricity, no money for food or what have you.

TEOTWAWKI is just that The End Of The World A We Know It. Civilization no longer functions, you are forced to handle your problems by yourself or with the people in your immediate area. No more food out of season, no more access to cheap mass-produced products, no more petroleum products, nothing but what you have or can make.

Katrina and the rest are SHTF but not TEOTWAWKI, the people there might not have had access to the fruits of civilization but only temporarily. A major nuclear war, asteroid impact, total economic collapse, major pandemic and other things that prevent to wheels of civilization from turning are what you are talking about there.

Civilization is not cities and technology, it's millions of people you don't know getting up every morning and doing jobs you have never heard of. When people cannot do their jobs and thereby prevent you from doing yours, that is TEOTWAWKI.
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2008, 10:38:38 PM »
TEOTWAWKI is just that The End Of The World A We Know It. Civilization no longer functions, you are forced to handle your problems by yourself or with the people in your immediate area. No more food out of season, no more access to cheap mass-produced products, no more petroleum products, nothing but what you have or can make.

I think that one way or the other we are headed for the above, and I am doing some preparation for such , while hoping that I am wrong.
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2008, 10:52:39 PM »
SHTF:  I'm gambling in Havana and get mixed up with a waitress who turns out to be a Russian operative.

TEOTWAWKI:  We are there right now.  The world as we know it ends moment by moment.  Roll with it.
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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #18 on: January 01, 2009, 02:59:41 AM »
Quote from: Mud Horse on December 31, 2008, 10:52:39 PM
SHTF:  I'm gambling in Havana and get mixed up with a waitress who turns out to be a Russian operative.

TEOTWAWKI:  We are there right now.  The world as we know it ends moment by moment.  Roll with it.

Not a bad outlook quoted above.

A good explanation on your part Warhawke.

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Re: What do SHTF & TEOTWAWKI mean to you?
« Reply #19 on: January 01, 2009, 03:15:32 AM »
A global disaster is TEOTWAWKI. A Mad Mad - Road Warrior type of scenario would be TEOTWAWKI. Globar thermonuclear war a la WWIII. An asteroid impact that kills 90% or more of the population and plunges us into an ice age would qualify too. That one may even happen in my lifetime. We're in a cosmc shooting gallery and know where less than 1% of the bullets are aimed.

The SHTF quite a lot more often than that type of event and isn't as bad. The S has HTF several times for me on a personal level.
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