Refugee thread!

[Pat Mustard]

That would be my question.  As I see it, people who had survival skills would bargain with those.  They wouldn't have any use for silver.

If you read first hand accounts of countries that have suffered an economic collapse, which is the more common reason for hoarding gold, what happens is that gold gets traded as if it is junk gold. This is because people have no way of telling what quality the gold is. So people that thought that they were keeping all the wealth ended up losing it anyway.

I was always planning on hoarding silver anyway because it has far more industrial uses from which the silver cannot be reclaimed. But I'd be hoarding that only after building up a stock pile, buying useful equipment, paying debts and building a library of useful books.

Don't forget a store of bibles.


When the world goes to shit & gets taken over by Super Mutants and Deathclaws, they'll be your only source of toilet paper.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And guns! Lots and lots of gun. Unless you're NOT in the US...

[Pat Mustard]

I'll stop now.  

JFC, I was gonna ask you if you were interested in Emerson, but now I feel like a total douche for having had a conversation about Thoreau in the first place.

It's not like we're diving into Hegelian metaphysics here. A lot of you guys probably read Walden in high school and could even chime in with an insight or two. WTF.

Get a room, ye two!

[I_am_not_mafia]

When the world goes to shit & gets taken over by Super Mutants and Deathclaws, they'll be your only source of toilet paper.

I tried using them as kindling when I lived in a house in deepest darkest rural Germany.

[Fireball]

When the world goes to shit & gets taken over by Super Mutants and Deathclaws, they'll be your only source of toilet paper.

I tried using them as kindling when I lived in a house in deepest darkest rural Germany.

"Tried"? I'd think that they would nearly spontaneously combust in the hands of an infidel!

[I_am_not_mafia]

OK, we did use them as kindling. But it took time ripping the pages out and scrunching up each one before placing in the fire. You couldn't just place an entire book on the fire.

[Minimalist]

The bible makes good kindling.... bullshit burns nicely.

[Dr H]

Bible literalist AND into homeopathy?

You know Biblical verses become astonishingly powerful, once you take a few words from one, and randomly scatter them over 400,000 blank sheets of paper.


Well, and properly shake them, of course.

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My problem with Thoreau on this score is that, according to his transcendental metaphysics, he considered himself a law unto himself.  Yes, there were indeed plenty of obvious injustices in his time, but he went to the contrarian extreme in denouncing them.  Perhaps this was just the rhetorical tradition to which he was trained in Harvard, but he apparently found it very difficult to see the many gray areas in life, where pluses and minuses are mixed together in different proportions.  That made him dismissive and superior as well as insightful about the shortcomings of those around him.

That is the way with some flavors of anarchist.

Whatever will we do with all these unruly individuals?

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Halp! This thread has been hijacked by philosophers!

Shhh.

If a philosopher discourses in the woods and there is no one there to understand him, does he make sense?

[onlinebiker]

The bible makes good kindling.... bullshit burns nicely.

It also makes good rolling papers.

[I_am_not_mafia]

The bible makes good kindling.... bullshit burns nicely.

It also makes good rolling papers.

I was thinking a substitute for rice paper when baking macaroons.