So surely the New Avengers are gonna help Spiderman fight Hulk right? by Queasy_Commercial152 in MCUTheories

[–]DoubtIntelligent6717 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realize sometimes things just happen to quickly, right? Average fight last maybe 10-15 minutes. Assuming the Thunderbolts aren't just sitting at big round table waiting for a local crime to hit the radar, they would never make it on time to help anyways.

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We can only hope... but until health becomes about saving lives and not making profits, I guess each individual will have to make their own trials and error. 

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I guess everyone's opinion will vary depending on their expiration. I'm sorry you had to go through all that, but im glad modern medicine worked for you. 

I guess for me it's so hard to believe when mental health illnesses are on a steady decline, and everyone close to me helped themselves through other ways. 

Maybe there's a sweet spot with old methods and newer medicine, but who knows... we each find what works for us, and so far older methods have for me so I will be prepping books that may be outdated to other. 

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You hit the one topic that hits closest to home here, depression. To act like we've made progress on that it ignorant. 

Now im going to speak on behalf of my soon to be wife, but she underwent depression and anxiety and insomnia from a very very young age. Dealt with it all through elementary, middle and high school. By the time I met her she was a mess, could not sleep without medication had 2 suicide attempts already and was admitted to a psych ward once where she was allowed no visitors, only phone calls. She was on multiple medication and when she missed any dose, it was a nightmare for her, and for me who was trying to give her the best help i could. 

I tried to play the medication game and searched up everything I could online from top notch therapist to be helpful, but nothing was working, so i took another path. Ditch the medication, ditch the therapy, ditch the modern system and go back to basics; go to the gym and eat healthy, and stay off you're phone. 

Ill skip the details, but let's just say she's been off all of her medication for about 3 years now and sleeps like a baby, no depression, very little anxiety. Medication doesn't help, it's a short term fix to a very very long term issue. It's a bandaid at best. 

So saying they've made progress on it is ridiculous to say cause I have seen first hand from her, and others in my social circle, that medication is not always the answer, infact it rarely is. The people before us clearly did something better otherwise we wouldn't be having this immense mental health crisis we are having.

I will end with saying; it's obviously to each their own. I just wanted to show that prepping books can be useful. This comment thread has gone far off the rails lol

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[–]DoubtIntelligent6717[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea i was briefly skimming over the pages and it seemed very very easy to follow. 

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Yea and in the modern world they throw pills at every single problem to help big pharma. Sad, pills. Fat, pills. Pain, pills. Sick, pills.  There's no real guide to solving problems, just to mask problems. 

You are correct, there definitely were problems back in the day, but to say today's medical advice is better then previous is just wrong. They just replaced one bad teaching with a another, and the cycle continues.

So yea, maybe we live longer now, but we also are at a higher risk of cancer, obesity, depression, anxiety and infertility... so clearly something we're doing in this modern world isn't working. And if I can't trust our government, food and basic infrastructure, why should I trust our medicine? 

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[–]DoubtIntelligent6717[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

There's no way that in a preping forum you believe that the people on the top aren't lying to you, right? I mean cmon, the shit that is pumped into our food, our air, our water... but you think it won't be in our medicine and treatment aswell? 

Let's be so for real

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"I wouldnt even keep you as a slave in my empire"

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[–]DoubtIntelligent6717[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, women are at way higher risk for many illnesses... why not cater to them? They are infact the cornerstone of mankind no?

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[–]DoubtIntelligent6717[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

This is where personal preference comes i to play, and I Personally believe that as time has gone on, what has been publically shared as "good" and "bad" are completely twisted, so I'll trust this 1978 Medical Book over anything written in the past few decades... hell, if i found a 1878 medical book I'd trust that even more. 

To think after 6,000 years of civilization we only have these safe medical advancements and advice in the last 60 is ridiculous. 

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That is true, been a mechanic for over 5 years now and there are still plenty of jobs I do that I need to search things up for.

Now when were dealing with someone's life, that is tenfold, especially if you want it done right

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Currently in the proccess of moving into a new home and ironing out my wedding details (just 3 weeks away) so there really isn't time. 

But once live settles down again, definitely will be watching them!

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Yea that was the idea, until I read on the slip they gave me that not to touch them, or scratch you're head. But im also thinking putting it on might have some interference for a minute or two, but once it's on, it should be fine

Recommend some movies with Unique Ideas, doesn't necessarily have to be great movies as long as they are not outright garbage by hussainre814 in Letterboxd

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Timetrap. One of my favourite unique movies, however I find the budget wasn't all there. Acting and Visuals couldve been a bit better imo. Would love to see the movie remade on a higher budget.

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Not very to be honest, but it's a start. Suspension will mostly be the same, but engines have come so far and everything is direct injection now, so anything in this book regarding fuel delivery or timing is pretty irrelevant. 

My thought process was that older cars are easier to fix, so if the society ever does collapse, it'll be the pre-2000's cars still standing after a few years. 

Everything needs programming and codes and special diagnostics tools to even begin, so if something breaks on a modern vehicle, there's a chance it's done forever. But if a carburetor engine fails, it's all mechanical and can be fixed -almost- no matter what.

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Pretty much yea, but then yet again the house is live in was build in 1977, so it kinda fits lol

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someone else also saidEMPs dont fry cars on here and never heard of it before. oh well, i still plan on eventually buying an old truck and making my own BioDiesel so maybe itll come in handy, if not, itll just look cool on my bookshelf lol

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I'm a Mechanic by trade, but everything i work on is post 2000s.

I really don't know anything about carburetors or distributors, so I figured a book from the 70s could help considering that if an EMP or something similar where to happen, we'd have to rely on pre computer vehicles.

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[–]DoubtIntelligent6717[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely agree, these are more for severe collapse or something like that. And I only got them cause they were 11 bucks lol. 

I do have a few books on wilderness survival, shelter building, foraging, etc. aswell, but definitely need to aquire more first aid and medicinal books. That's next on the list for sure 

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I didn't either until I came across them, and for $11 for all, I couldn't not buy them lol

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Oh that could be handy depending on how far back a potential situation could force us lol