Preppers Not Crazy

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With respect to recent threads concerning preppers who feel "something is coming." No, you're not crazy. At the end of Y2K, our company had over 150,000 pounds of raw materials left over. I could have given a large part of it away for the tax write-off. I'm not. We're going to preserve that product and sure it's put to good use... and the strange thing is.... for something I can't fully describe. If anything, my own feelings concur with those on this board, and can any of us say that we've seen anything that would dissuade us from the most basic of Biblical concepts? That you reap what you sow? You don't have to be a great spiritual leader to see what direction our society is heading in. I mean... we don't even have the moral courage, as a people, to denounce something as horrific as late term abortions. (And here I am, a person who normally doesn't even get involved in that debate - yet even I can see how evil it is.)

When I think about the aftermath of Y2K, I remind myself of an Amy Dickenson poem from the 1900's I heard in high school:

Presentiment's that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down A notice to the startled grass That something is about to pass.

Greg Caton President / Founder Lumen Foods (soybean.com) Lake Charles, LA 70601 Email: caton@soybean.com

-- Greg Caton (caton@soybean.com), February 26, 2000

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Please send 4 truckloads of pinto beans ASAP

-- (hungrydude@my. bunker), February 26, 2000.

Preppers- you are right. I knew five years ago that our world was going to undergo many changes and stresses. I moved off the Gulf Coast to the Ozarks, got 40 acres, built a monolithic dome house, and started preparing. Not for myself, but for others- young people and children who may be helpless when the time comes.Had not even heard of Y2 then. Had read predictions of Gordon Michael Scallion and Edgar Cayce. The predictions resonated with what was going on. When I became aware of Y2 I realized that it was the alarm bell to wake people up to foresee what is coming and now is already visible. It isn't about saving ourselves personally, its how we will handle the tests ahead for all of God's children.

-- romain morgan (watchr@hotmail.com), February 26, 2000.

Thank you for the post. I will be e-mailing. It's too bad you "set off" our spammer, but I am sure your intentions were for the good of those of us who think something hard lies ahead and may want more long term foods.

Can't use real addresses anymore with LL around, so will stay anon for now.

-- anon (for@now...), February 26, 2000.


Greg,

I'm a crazy prepper. I'm still waiting for my new shipments of Mylar bags and storage buckets from two different suppliers. Maybe by next week I'll have them. I must be crazy because I'm the only one in my area who is still prepping. The few GIs I know have stopped. But not crazy me!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), February 26, 2000.


Oh, I forgot to add this:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), February 26, 2000.



"At the end of Y2K, our company had over 150,000 pounds of raw materials left over. I could have given a large part..." AT THE END OF Y2K, OUR... WHAT do you think y2k means? It means Year 2000 and it is not at the end...it is about two months down of the year 2000, or on the y2k time clock it is about 4am 2000... for some absurb reason people have swallowed the governmental definition of y2k to be the first day of the year... sad...to let government fool you in to such kaotic mentality.

-- SB Ryan G III (sbrg3@juno.com), February 26, 2000.

Well, well Greg. Looks like you scammed up a customer here with ole' SB. How many pounds of them thar beans you want Ryan?

-- Ra (tion@l.1), February 26, 2000.

[Greg Caton]When I think about the aftermath of Y2K, I remind myself of an Amy Dickenson poem from the 1900's I heard in high school:

Presentiment's that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down A notice to the startled grass That something is about to pass.

Verse 2:

That "something" which was soon to pass... which put the "start" in the startled grass... 'twas harmless fumes from out his ass... 'twas nothing more than Caton's gas.

Aw c'mon sysops. No need to delete this. Just expressing my opinion with a little poetry.

-- cdjustdroppedby (not@here.com), February 27, 2000.


Greg, wow, you actually remembered a poem from high school! For the sake of accuracy for any readers, however, the poem is by Emily Dickinson, not "Amy".

From Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson:

Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn

Indicative that suns go down;

The notice to the startled grass

That darkness is about to pass.

-- Bonnie Camp (bonniec@odyssey.net), February 27, 2000.


Too bad, I, along with others, gave up the hoarded foods to Charity. I was guilty. I went through the ordeal, based on human advice. I hoarded, drove a well, went through hell into trying to envision myself as Noah. Then I am humbled, to see ducks drinking the most mosquito filled, filthy water, and yet, they survive. I gave them a choice. No matter, which cup they drink, they are protected, since they don't reconize a key board. Ever have a baby Gossling "kiss your face?", chew at your shoe laces? I have, Most Beautiful Amazement you will ever see, once one opens their eyes. I am humbled. I wish Good Luck to you, in seeing beyond, and entering the Veil.

-- My Story (andI@sticking.com), May 23, 2001.


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