I'm already surrounded by the living dead every day.....only they are not searching for any brains!
Living off the Grid
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I'm already surrounded by the living dead every day.....only they are not searching for any brains!
panta dokimazete
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I'm from very rural MS, so all I will say is...
Country Boys can surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
{but my Ft. Lauderdale wife would HATE it!}
Country Boys can surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
{but my Ft. Lauderdale wife would HATE it!}
jd.morrison
Puritan Board Sophomore
I need to correct a myth about zombies...
Let me correct this common misunderstanding... Zombies eat the flesh of the living, they do not just go after brains. There is the whole matter of the protective bone casing surrounding the good old gray matter. If a persons brain suffers any real damage due to trauma, it becomes more and more unlikely that the body will reanimate. Soft tissue is where it is at, it is easily accessible, soft, and is separated from the main body rather easily.
Trust me, if there is anyone qualified to be a zombie expert on Puritanboard it is going to be me...
I live in the zombie capital of the entire world...
Let me correct this common misunderstanding... Zombies eat the flesh of the living, they do not just go after brains. There is the whole matter of the protective bone casing surrounding the good old gray matter. If a persons brain suffers any real damage due to trauma, it becomes more and more unlikely that the body will reanimate. Soft tissue is where it is at, it is easily accessible, soft, and is separated from the main body rather easily.
Trust me, if there is anyone qualified to be a zombie expert on Puritanboard it is going to be me...
I live in the zombie capital of the entire world...
WHAT! Zombies don't go for the brains? You are defying all 3 or 4 decades of Zombie lore!
P.s. I would like to know the origins of zombie tales.... where did this fascination come from? Anything pre-20th century and not related to Hatian zoodoo?
jd.morrison
Puritan Board Sophomore
Well, brain eating zombies did not appear until the movie "Return of the Living Dead" back around the mid-80's. The thing that perplexes me is that that movie is a parody of the original movie, Night of the Living Dead.
While I believe that in the 50's there we one or two movies that were made about the "modern" zombies, the man who popularized the Walking Flesh Eating Dead was George Romero, in 1968, with the film "Night of the Living Dead". Romero is a Pittsburgh man
, so he made most of his films here in Western Pa.I have actually walked through and spent the night in the original cemetery that the film's opening scene and start of that survival horror was shot. It was pretty cool.
I can only think of Vlad the Impaler, (i.e. Dracula), as the only pre-20th century undead flesh eater.
If anyone has any other zombie questions, by all means ask
VirginiaHuguenot
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bconway52
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Well, brain eating zombies did not appear until the movie "Return of the Living Dead" back around the mid-80's. The thing that perplexes me is that that movie is a parody of the original movie, Night of the Living Dead.
While I believe that in the 50's there we one or two movies that were made about the "modern" zombies, the man who popularized the Walking Flesh Eating Dead was George Romero, in 1968, with the film "Night of the Living Dead". Romero is a Pittsburgh man
I have actually walked through and spent the night in the original cemetery that the film's opening scene and start of that survival horror was shot. It was pretty cool.
I can only think of Vlad the Impaler, (i.e. Dracula), as the only pre-20th century undead flesh eater.
If anyone has any other zombie questions, by all means ask
Are zombies....real????
bconway52
Puritan Board Freshman
biggandyy
Puritan Board Freshman
No. THIS is living off the grid.
My two cents, "Living Off The Grid" and "Self Sustaining Lifestyle" are oxymoronic in today's nomenclature. The "Self-Sustaining Lifestyle" crowd are just liberal fad-hawks looking to be hip and now. They think switching from plastic to hemp for their grocery bags is "self-sustaining".
I have lived off the grid both by choice and by force and it is ok when one is a bachelor. But now that I have a family the only way we will be off the grid is when the SHTF or it's TEOTWAWKI. (Financially the SHTF already). I am stocking up on strike steels, MREs, squirrel wire, tarps, chlorine tablets, warm clothes, knives, etc.
My two cents, "Living Off The Grid" and "Self Sustaining Lifestyle" are oxymoronic in today's nomenclature. The "Self-Sustaining Lifestyle" crowd are just liberal fad-hawks looking to be hip and now. They think switching from plastic to hemp for their grocery bags is "self-sustaining".
I have lived off the grid both by choice and by force and it is ok when one is a bachelor. But now that I have a family the only way we will be off the grid is when the SHTF or it's TEOTWAWKI. (Financially the SHTF already). I am stocking up on strike steels, MREs, squirrel wire, tarps, chlorine tablets, warm clothes, knives, etc.
JBaldwin
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
What do you mean by living off the grid?
1) You completely separate yourself from the rest of the world (including internet and phones) and provide all your own food, electricity and heat?
2) You provide your own heat, electricity and food, but you have ways to communicate with the outside world?
I understand from reading about folks who live "off the grid" that there are a number of levels. Some I've read about even live quite close to town and have regular jobs, but don't get their water, heat, and electricity from public sources.
We live about five miles from town on a large chunk of land and hope some day to "get off the grid" at least with the power and heat. I don't think that either me or my husband would want to give up our internet.
1) You completely separate yourself from the rest of the world (including internet and phones) and provide all your own food, electricity and heat?
2) You provide your own heat, electricity and food, but you have ways to communicate with the outside world?
I understand from reading about folks who live "off the grid" that there are a number of levels. Some I've read about even live quite close to town and have regular jobs, but don't get their water, heat, and electricity from public sources.
We live about five miles from town on a large chunk of land and hope some day to "get off the grid" at least with the power and heat. I don't think that either me or my husband would want to give up our internet.
jd.morrison
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Are zombies....real????
I have one word for you buddy...
YES
LOL! Obviously you have not seen the historic movie records of real events with real people...
I am a Zombie
, and do lots of 
on the subject, as well as 
of the movie records...I don't see completely separating from the world to be a viable option for the Christain. I would like to be able to provide my own heat and electricity (or at least a portion of it), while also minimizing the dependence on grocery stores for our food (raising animals, farming, etc...). Of course, I currently live in a condo, in the middle of a huge population center, so it is all a dream.
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