[kam30en]

Ok, so I'm in the process of setting up my homestead. I've already secured the funds, and will be buying land in West Virginia within the year. I will have the complete peak oil setup with solar panels, batteries, stored food, guns/ammo, extra supplies, etc, everything I will need to live in a closed environment (just me). The only thing I am missing is a wife. My last girlfriend (not surprisingly) dumped me when I started up with the "crazy talk". Are there any sites anyone knows of to meet peak oil aware women? Are there even any peak oil aware women?

[Atlantean_Relic]

I'm not sure women seem more integrated(attached) into the culture on average. But since we have some female members here, all hope is not lost.

[Kylon]

This is going to sound awful,

But when TSHF, women will start figuring out compliments and reasons why your brilliant, and will be willing probably to marry you, in order to survive.

The capacity to provide, and prevent death is a strong aphrodisiac, in times of great crisis.

[pea-jay]

Yeah but before TSHTF, you're the kook who lives up the hill and rants and raves about the end of the world. If you want to be sure that your woman is into YOU as well as your PREPS, go to one of the alternative dating sites. I think there was one called green singles out there. I am sure there are others where you can find like-minded individuals.

[jaws]

Women will be very hard to come by post-crash. You should learn to be self-sufficient, and to grow your own women in your garden.

[clover]

I don't even know where to begin here...

[markam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou should learn to be self-sufficient, and to grow your own women in your garden.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('markam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou should learn to be self-sufficient, and to grow your own women in your garden.

[Kylon]

Why will women be hard to come by post peak?

All of the yuppies(who tend to get the hot girls, since they offer the most consumeristic, consumption oriented life), will be displaced and starving. Their women will have to find new mates.

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kam30en', 'O')k, so I'm in the process of setting up my homestead. I've already secured the funds, and will be buying land in West Virginia within the year. I will have the complete peak oil setup with solar panels, batteries, stored food, guns/ammo, extra supplies, etc, everything I will need to live in a closed environment (just me). The only thing I am missing is a wife. My last girlfriend (not surprisingly) dumped me when I started up with the "crazy talk". Are there any sites anyone knows of to meet peak oil aware women? Are there even any peak oil aware women?

[kam30en]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ll of the yuppies(who tend to get the hot girls, since they offer the most consumeristic, consumption oriented life), will be displaced and starving. Their women will have to find new mates.

[Kylon]

Nah, what you do, is get other MEN to do the work, meanwhile you and your hoes get down and funky.

You focus your work time on keeping power, controlling resources, and taking over territory that other people have.

Then you enslave the people you find there, install goons/thugs/cronies, to keep the order, and tax tribute from them.

You'd have to do this, because it's not the person who owns the land that gets it's benefits, its the person who controls the land.

You can have all the titles you want, all the titles in the world, but if there isn't any police force, and your up against a gang of stronger, more powerful people, and you can't defend what's yours, your screwed.

The best idea(I think at least), is to try and build a coalition of other like minded people, expand out, once you have enough territory among the lot of you, move out a little further, and scorch the land. Then if anyone wants to get to your land, they have to go over unusable land, without any resources.


Oops I'm rambling.

[Princess]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kam30en', 'A')re there any sites anyone knows of to meet peak oil aware women? Are there even any peak oil aware women?

[kam30en]

Kylon, what you have just described is government. So I still own the land, but your going to tax me? If your going to be sucessful, your going to have to offer some kind of services. If you don't, than me and the other people you are taxing will rebel against you. My only hope against this is that soo many people will have starved to death that there isn't anybody around to even know I'm alive.

[Kylon]

I would keep order, I would provide protection. After all, a king/high warlord who only taxes you 15%(which is better then the federal government), is much better than being frequently attacked by marauders who will take everything, including your life. Out of choas comes order. Oh also, there would be a possible conscription if ever needed, you'd be given(if your able bodied) a weapon, to fight off invaders from the territory, incase they invaded your land,

I plan on feeding everyone in the short-term with grass, digested with the aid of cellulose digesting bacteria.

I have an idea, on how to easily modify human intestinal bacteria, to be like cow intestinal bacteria, so that human intestinal bacteria can digest cellulose(which is the reason why we can't eat grass).

Now, I have one of two possible uses with this technology, I can either A), distribute the bacteria in large quantities, so that everyone can just eat grass(although it taste bad, and contains silica, so it's hard on teeth), or B) build a grass/cellulose/wood fermentation center, and produce food from that, thus keeping the food production centralized, and forcing people to be reliant on me.

I could use method A, in order to make sure if ever ousted, I would never run out of food, nor my family, or any of my top warlords, and use method B, to control the masses.

I could basically use the cellulose fermentor to produce large quantities of cheap food from anything from grass, to wood, to just about any non-toxic weed.

I would basically provide a staple that would take care of you whenever your own harvest of much more desirable crops failed(which due to unpredictability will occur at some point). You could eat 70% of your diet, eating the digested porridge, and the other 30% could be high quality food. You'd probably be keeping 85% as much of food that you harvested from your own crops, but now you'd have a staple that could always provide for you, and which you'd never run out of. You'd always be fed, and never have to worry about starving to death. If you ever ran out of food(sold your land or something), you could just go work at the fermentation center, or some other public works project(such as the construction of bat towers, to eliminate parasite carrying insects in a large radius), or if eligible, military service(protecting the homeland, keeping the order, or expanding the kingdom).

I have some ideas on medicine too, besides using herbs(which I have several books on), I have an idea for a extremely powerful healing device which can heal just about any wound(very fast, but not instantly, and if your body can't sustain itself, your screwed), but it would be a big medical breakthrough, even now days(although I'm working on another project, I had a horrible sickness which plagued me(since I was an infant), developed a cure for that(which there is no other known cure), applied it, 90% better now, still not functioning 100% as a normal person, but will get there(especially after I build the regeneration device), and I'm working on a project which will produce a huge amount of money, in alternative energy(can't make money off medicial breakthroughs without greasing the FDA, or knowing someone). I also have an idea post peak of extracting useful chemicals from cancerous tumors. Such as the production of thyroid hormone, by growing a cancerous thyroid tumor, and growing it(tumors outside the body grow easily, and are even hard to kill), then killing and extracting the chemicals you want from it. I have ideas on how to further increase production of this method, but that would require another post.

ACK I'm rambling again!

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('markam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou should learn to be self-sufficient, and to grow your own women in your garden.

[eastbay]

West Virginia, huh?? Man, I'd be more concerned that some coal company would drop by your compound and leave ya with a moonscape for a front and back yard.

Not too many women will be attracted to that. Maybe you would have better chances securing a babe if you scooted over a few states.

[JBinKC]

I am not sure what to say either. Too many variable factors to consider in a post peak scenario.


Your not a nutcase. Its all about freedom of choice. Women tend to suppress it. In an age of mindless consumerism it is hard to convice people to take steps where they have to concentrate on buying things that things that will aid in their being able to better survive an uncertain future.

[kam30en]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')est Virginia, huh?? Man, I'd be more concerned that some coal company would drop by your compound and leave ya with a moonscape for a front and back yard.

Not too many women will be attracted to that. Maybe you would have better chances securing a babe if you scooted over a few states.