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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 2738532, member: 22331&quot;]By societal testing and norms, easily established in top 10% intelligence individuals, and as you&#039;ve dictated a &quot;prepper loon&quot; who, with a smile, respects others judgements/opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve for more than a half-century, initially being raised as a vagrant in numerous urban &quot;ghettos&quot;, observed the faults in established &quot;systems&quot;, and skirted same, to become relatively established without, while utilizing &quot;society&quot; for legal establishment.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve done all that you seemingly abhor, and much more, living in a ~400,000 sg. ft. rural 1st growth fenced forest, atop a cliff overlooking a white-water river. I&#039;ve indigenous perennial fruit, Maple trees and a deepest river location for food, an aquifer/cistern beneath my home and a deep well for water, continuous sheading woods for heat, wind from the cliff and an open Southerly exposure for electrical energy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collected Silver coins since before the precious metal was removed, sealed in $10-$50 lot plastic envelopes, housed in &quot;ammunition cans&quot;, stored at a relatively constant temperature/humidity. (your referenced &quot;poster&quot; hasn&#039;t stored long enough to realize long-term effects). I have bottled distilled water, dehydrated food, military rations, Maple syrup, Honey, ~30 cord sheltered wood, a constant temperature secure under-ground bunker, filtered ventilation system, adequate munitions, etc..</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate your deferent/different attitude, and was subject to same (as other designs before acquiring patents, awards, etc.) when starting my &quot;home&quot; project. As time/efforts advanced, others realized my possible sanity when government facilities were replaced with virtually inaccessible structures/entrances. Police, government employees &quot;resided&quot; in same, only responding at their will. All financial assets were/are mandated to be &quot;stored&quot; under the control of others, subject to their varying &quot;rules&quot;. I&#039;ve been interrogated on multiple occasions by bank employees and others for &quot;structuring&quot; activities, not leaving/using all assets in accordance with government and institutional dictates. Gates, fences, Community policing became necessitated when it was generally dictated that response wouldn&#039;t be necessitated by property loss. I&#039;ve been interrogated multiple</p><p><br /></p><p>My observations may not be realistic, but after 6 burglaries, death threats, the adjacent/contiguous property being occupied by unknown vagrants after the Federal IRS confiscated same, placing the occupants in prison, not allowing local impotent police force access, I suspect there may be a future societal attitude change, which I believe is being evidenced in other countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/world/asia/cyberattacks-online-security-.html?_r=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/world/asia/cyberattacks-online-security-.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/world/asia/cyberattacks-online-security-.html?_r=0</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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