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Flora Food & Medicine / Re: Uses for Acorns
« on: April 11, 2012, 10:30:51 AM »
Planning to get a hand powered flour mill and would like to use it with acorns. Samuel Thayer says get steel burr, but it'd be better to test a model with acorns before buying, since they are more fatty than wheat. Anyone tried out a particular model, or know anything about it? Thanks!
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Communities of Rewilding / Re: rewilding in southern oregon
« on: March 27, 2012, 10:19:18 PM »
Group also in Southwest Oregon/Far-Northern California website:
http://selfsufficiencytribe.wordpress.com/
New, so we'll see. Definitely open to anyone on this site visiting and if interested, joining up!!!
Woodnettle's is also still quite active. About 2 1/2 hours drive, so if in area, consider checking out both!
http://selfsufficiencytribe.wordpress.com/
New, so we'll see. Definitely open to anyone on this site visiting and if interested, joining up!!!
Woodnettle's is also still quite active. About 2 1/2 hours drive, so if in area, consider checking out both!
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Health, Healing & Movement / Re: Wisdom Teeth
« on: January 02, 2012, 03:09:37 AM »
Yeah pain went down - no ibuprofen today. In the mirror it looks like the gum is growing over the wisdom tooth, but likely the tooth grew into the gum instead of out of it. Curious how this turns out.
As for appendecitis, you might be right, it might be a disease of the civilized diet. Wikipedia mentions recent studies show too little fiber in one's diet associated with it. Jeez, we're allergic to civilization all right :-/
As for appendecitis, you might be right, it might be a disease of the civilized diet. Wikipedia mentions recent studies show too little fiber in one's diet associated with it. Jeez, we're allergic to civilization all right :-/
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Seasonal & Bioregion Strategies / Re: what climate/bioregion is your body adapted to?
« on: January 02, 2012, 02:20:40 AM »
Cool question. Some adaptations like that Nordic anti-freeze over such a short period - assuming only since the ice age ended? - indicate bodies do have a design that works best in a certain climate/bioregion. Even if that adaptation came from people who lived close to ice sheets during the last Ice Age and moved north as ice receded north, it indicates Costa Rica, for example, might not work as well for you to rewild in without a solar powered personal air conditioner, lol.
This time of year, I hate cold weather but just put more layers on (like a thicker fur coat!) and have no problem. Hot summer weather, like in US South East, my body struggles with more if outdoors. I wish I had extra cash for a DNA ancestry profile - mostly Eastern Europe Jewish, but does that mean my body would most like living in Polish deciduous forest, Middle Eastern desert, or Middle Eastern cedar forests of the ice age?
At different latitudes, corresponding skin color also appears to have a strong evolutionary value - didn't seem to take a lot of generations for albinos to dominate Europe's gene pool, lol. Apparently vitamin D needs vs. skin cancer have a strong evolutionary force, and so I'd guess one's skin tanning rating indicates their optimal latitude if living outdoors. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_tanning%23Tanning_behaviour_of_different_skin_colors)
This time of year, I hate cold weather but just put more layers on (like a thicker fur coat!) and have no problem. Hot summer weather, like in US South East, my body struggles with more if outdoors. I wish I had extra cash for a DNA ancestry profile - mostly Eastern Europe Jewish, but does that mean my body would most like living in Polish deciduous forest, Middle Eastern desert, or Middle Eastern cedar forests of the ice age?
At different latitudes, corresponding skin color also appears to have a strong evolutionary value - didn't seem to take a lot of generations for albinos to dominate Europe's gene pool, lol. Apparently vitamin D needs vs. skin cancer have a strong evolutionary force, and so I'd guess one's skin tanning rating indicates their optimal latitude if living outdoors. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_tanning%23Tanning_behaviour_of_different_skin_colors)
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Flora Food & Medicine / Re: Tree Bark
« on: January 02, 2012, 01:30:21 AM »
I wonder about this as a food source. Seems like most evergreens have edible inner bark (except yew, cedar). Anyone harvested a significant amount? I tried inner bark of beech, and couldn't eat more than a small portion size before my body said "no way". White pine, apparently most popular, has more intense outer bark. Ponderosa has a nice butterscotch smell I'd love to taste. Adirondack means "bark eater". And apparently in North Korea, starving people eat bark.
Is there a non-calorie-intensive way to get at pine inner bark? Without use of a chainsaw???
Is there a non-calorie-intensive way to get at pine inner bark? Without use of a chainsaw???
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Health, Healing & Movement / Re: Parkour
« on: December 30, 2011, 07:40:11 PM »
Cool. Peter and someone else (Kyle?) did a little Parkour at Rewild Portland meetup. Well joking about it anyway, lol
Seems like the kind of thing you can safely handle more challenging situations as you practice. This summer I did this for 20 minutes or so at Badlands NP - very fun
Seems like the kind of thing you can safely handle more challenging situations as you practice. This summer I did this for 20 minutes or so at Badlands NP - very fun
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Health, Healing & Movement / Re: tooth decay, cavity? u too be
« on: December 30, 2011, 07:29:58 PM »
OMG I eat so much sugar I know I'll need paleo dentures. Want to switch to paleo diet but just not doing it. Meat costs a good deal and requires cooking (well farm meat probably) yet cheaper meat that doesn't need cooking usually has chemical additives let alone antibiotics.
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Health, Healing & Movement / Re: English Bare Fist
« on: December 30, 2011, 07:25:37 PM »
Fun! Lol. Once you have a little experience you might consider teaching some of this and sparring at a meetup.
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Health, Healing & Movement / Wisdom Teeth
« on: December 30, 2011, 07:18:59 PM »
Have one growing in straight but pushing up the gum above it. Hurt more last week and ibuprofen helped enormously but will this thing take care of itself, or will it need surgery? I wouldn't do it myself while dentists are readily available, but one day might want to know what is needed. Seems odd an animal body would require surgery, but appendicitis happens.
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance / Re: NPR - 'Unconquered' Explores An Isolated Amazon Tribe
« on: December 29, 2011, 10:13:00 PM »
Hm, they left gifts of metal tools to this uncontacted tribe? I hope they knew this tribe already has traded for some.
If this tribe shoots first and asks questions later, my "plan Y" of canoing up the Amazon until I find a tribe that will take me ("plan Z": give up and embrace Civ) might not work out well.
If this tribe shoots first and asks questions later, my "plan Y" of canoing up the Amazon until I find a tribe that will take me ("plan Z": give up and embrace Civ) might not work out well.
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance / Re: Fermi's Paradox and the End of Cheap Oil
« on: December 29, 2011, 09:42:26 PM »
Just watched the first third of this 2006 talk called The Energy Non-Crisis, in which he claims Alaska has significantly more oil than stated, the true amount was classified, Russia has discovered significantly more than they state and oil is primarily not a fossil fuel. As for his credibility, his predictions on some things like oil prices before and since this talk have been spot on. It doesn't seem like he made up his story.
While I don't think he grasps that at best such oil would only delay peak oil, and he doesn't know the numbers behind the conclusions to get a better sense of their true scale, I like to hear alternate perspectives for the sake of intellectual honesty. Is peak-oil not in the near future? Or is he solely telling 99.99% of people who think Civilization is the way people are supposed to live, what they want to hear to sell his book? What do you think?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147
While I don't think he grasps that at best such oil would only delay peak oil, and he doesn't know the numbers behind the conclusions to get a better sense of their true scale, I like to hear alternate perspectives for the sake of intellectual honesty. Is peak-oil not in the near future? Or is he solely telling 99.99% of people who think Civilization is the way people are supposed to live, what they want to hear to sell his book? What do you think?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance / Re: Challenges?
« on: December 29, 2011, 07:11:03 PM »
Ok, made a couple cordages:
At Rewild Portland Rewild Camp, about 4 feet of nettle fiber:
Reeds by road. Will show picture of eight-ply cordage I made later:
Knots I learned from Knot Alan at Rabbitstick will come on later (after I remember them
)
At Rewild Portland Rewild Camp, about 4 feet of nettle fiber:
Reeds by road. Will show picture of eight-ply cordage I made later:
Knots I learned from Knot Alan at Rabbitstick will come on later (after I remember them
)
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Grief & Praise / Re: What can we do, if elites trigger a civilization-wide war in collapse?
« on: December 21, 2011, 02:26:59 AM »
With the defense authorization act that legalizes "disappearing" citizens someone in the government feels terror over, continuing anti-Iran propaganda and buildup of forces near Iran ands its ally Syria, one version or another of an elite attempt to control collapse looks to me higher than 50%. Of course, my feelings say physically get out of civilization now, before I get sucked in. But as a global civ now, that would pretty much imply space travel, lol.
I've asked myself and can't see going to Brazil, New Guinea, or Indonesia. But when they start coordinating propaganda to justify a draft, or to round up "independent thinkers" to reduce the threat to the elites, that really hits a point I want a plan for. Collapse, if it will come with this probably peak-oil induced downturn, could play out that way. I may not need to worry about it, but sometimes, like today, it feels likely.
WW1 started because an inbred "nobleman" was killed. Only the Elites were offended, not the Austrian people. With all these alliances, it struck me it could take something ridiculous like that if they wanted one.
So in that case it makes any difference to plan ahead, and elites manage a population collapse, their style, what can we do?
Leave civ?
Join the SS?
Join the idiots dying for their propaganda?
Go feral and hope they don't see us until dust settles?
Dig a bunker?
Pray?
Hope collapse progresses faster than the elites can manage?
I guess as it gets closer and more likely (though possibly never certain), time to take it seriously approaches. Though everything could turn out honky dory for civ, for decades to come and I'll feel embarassed I posted this. I want to keep it light, but don't feel light.
I've asked myself and can't see going to Brazil, New Guinea, or Indonesia. But when they start coordinating propaganda to justify a draft, or to round up "independent thinkers" to reduce the threat to the elites, that really hits a point I want a plan for. Collapse, if it will come with this probably peak-oil induced downturn, could play out that way. I may not need to worry about it, but sometimes, like today, it feels likely.
WW1 started because an inbred "nobleman" was killed. Only the Elites were offended, not the Austrian people. With all these alliances, it struck me it could take something ridiculous like that if they wanted one.
So in that case it makes any difference to plan ahead, and elites manage a population collapse, their style, what can we do?
Leave civ?
Join the SS?
Join the idiots dying for their propaganda?
Go feral and hope they don't see us until dust settles?
Dig a bunker?
Pray?
Hope collapse progresses faster than the elites can manage?
I guess as it gets closer and more likely (though possibly never certain), time to take it seriously approaches. Though everything could turn out honky dory for civ, for decades to come and I'll feel embarassed I posted this. I want to keep it light, but don't feel light.
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Grief & Praise / Re: collapse news
« on: December 16, 2011, 12:05:35 AM »
1. Green Cars Fail to Deliver
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/12/10/news/green-cars-fail-to-deliver.html
Can't read it online, but saw it on front page of Albuquerque Journal. Basically every company keeps running into problems: venture capital firms won't fund them, demand has been lower than expected, etc. People who put their faith in Civ continuing forever because of technology will have to ignore this news, and most of them will.
2. US Troops surround Syria on the eve of invasion?
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-nato-syria-edmonds-709/
"A former official from within the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reporting that US and NATO forces have landed outside of Syria and are training militants to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
"Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, formerly a translator with the FBI, wrote over the weekend that American soldiers are among the NATO troops that have mysteriously and suddenly landed on the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to her, several sources internationally have confirmed the news, although the US media has been instructed to temporarily censor itself from reporting the news.
"Additionally, Edmonds says that American and NATO forces are training Turkish troops as well, to possibly launch a strike from the north of Syria."
My comment: with all the alliances drawn up - Syria and Iran, Syria and Russia, Iran and China and Russia, China and Pakistan - interfering in a Syrian civil war looks a lot like pre WW1. And with drone-hacking capabilities, there is now a pretext to use waves of drafted footsoldiers who might otherwise react to collapse with resisting their elite.
3. Obama administration backs bill authorizing indefinite military detention of US citizens
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28219
"The Obama administration declared Wednesday afternoon that it was abandoning its nominal threat to veto a military authorization bill that explicitly authorizes the indefinite military detention of anyone the federal government declares to be a terrorist or supporter, including US citizens.
"The final passage of the bill is now virtually assured by the end of the week. It marks a new stage in the collapse of the most basic democratic rights in the United States and the erection of the framework of a military-police state."
"The bill would allow for the open-ended detention of anyone caught up in the “war on terror,” without trial or charges, including US citizens. This is the first explicit legislation to effectively abolish habeas corpus (the right to challenge unlawful detentions) and the constitutional rights to a fair trial (the Sixth Amendment) and due process (the Fifth Amendment).
"Another provision requires that such individuals be taken into military custody, with an exception for US citizens. The military seizure of US citizens is left to the discretion of the executive branch. This means the effective abolition of the Posse Comitatus Act, which has restricted use of the military for domestic policing for more than a century."
"The entire “debate” within the political establishment over the NDAA testifies to the collapse of any commitment to democratic rights within the American ruling class."
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/12/10/news/green-cars-fail-to-deliver.html
Can't read it online, but saw it on front page of Albuquerque Journal. Basically every company keeps running into problems: venture capital firms won't fund them, demand has been lower than expected, etc. People who put their faith in Civ continuing forever because of technology will have to ignore this news, and most of them will.
2. US Troops surround Syria on the eve of invasion?
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-nato-syria-edmonds-709/
"A former official from within the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reporting that US and NATO forces have landed outside of Syria and are training militants to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
"Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, formerly a translator with the FBI, wrote over the weekend that American soldiers are among the NATO troops that have mysteriously and suddenly landed on the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to her, several sources internationally have confirmed the news, although the US media has been instructed to temporarily censor itself from reporting the news.
"Additionally, Edmonds says that American and NATO forces are training Turkish troops as well, to possibly launch a strike from the north of Syria."
My comment: with all the alliances drawn up - Syria and Iran, Syria and Russia, Iran and China and Russia, China and Pakistan - interfering in a Syrian civil war looks a lot like pre WW1. And with drone-hacking capabilities, there is now a pretext to use waves of drafted footsoldiers who might otherwise react to collapse with resisting their elite.
3. Obama administration backs bill authorizing indefinite military detention of US citizens
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28219
"The Obama administration declared Wednesday afternoon that it was abandoning its nominal threat to veto a military authorization bill that explicitly authorizes the indefinite military detention of anyone the federal government declares to be a terrorist or supporter, including US citizens.
"The final passage of the bill is now virtually assured by the end of the week. It marks a new stage in the collapse of the most basic democratic rights in the United States and the erection of the framework of a military-police state."
"The bill would allow for the open-ended detention of anyone caught up in the “war on terror,” without trial or charges, including US citizens. This is the first explicit legislation to effectively abolish habeas corpus (the right to challenge unlawful detentions) and the constitutional rights to a fair trial (the Sixth Amendment) and due process (the Fifth Amendment).
"Another provision requires that such individuals be taken into military custody, with an exception for US citizens. The military seizure of US citizens is left to the discretion of the executive branch. This means the effective abolition of the Posse Comitatus Act, which has restricted use of the military for domestic policing for more than a century."
"The entire “debate” within the political establishment over the NDAA testifies to the collapse of any commitment to democratic rights within the American ruling class."
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Visions of the Rewilding Renaissance / Re: Challenges?
« on: December 14, 2011, 02:34:53 AM »
No progress so far. Running out of time in this year! In Mesa, AZ, might need to pilfer a little yucca to do this right.
As for knots, I plan to do five learned at Rabbitstick, and a lashing one (clove hitch?) a website called the most important knot.
As for knots, I plan to do five learned at Rabbitstick, and a lashing one (clove hitch?) a website called the most important knot.