OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Not much for fishing. Been a few times. If I had to fish to eat I would starve. I rely on people giving me fish and if they try to teach me how to fish I kill them.

I don't mind learning - as long as it's on my terms! The days of learning are over as once again I turn to the teachers and tell them to get off my back. I am not a survivalist by any means. I might even offer up small sections of my body as food to stay alive. A lot of the survivalist stuff has to do with knowing how to use the right tools. When I drove cab I used to pick up a guy around here who carried a large backpack and always talked about impending social breakdown. He said he was ready. Of course he had help, relatives living far out in the country, etc. But one night he showed me the medicine bag he carried in his backpack. He had needles and thread for sewing up his wounds. When I was a kid we ate fish every Friday. The Catholic thing. Even the Arab side was Syrian Orthodox which is catholic, except their pope is an Arab, not some high hat in Rome. Eating fish on Friday was almost something to look forward to. Later the Catholics changed the ruling. I guess enough people were breaking the rules, so they removed it. It's interesting how far the Catholics will go to maintain a sternness necessary to religious survival. Like abortion. They are against it and will stay against it for a long time. But offshoots of the religion will take hold for those who are pro abortion, opening the door not only for pro abortion worshippers, but for new religious leaders as well. "Well, we're the same as your regular Catholics, but we allow women priests", or whatever. I am not religious but tend to respect the stringent ones, the ones that resist change and stay as true as possible to their original doctrines, etc. As for fish, gotta admit, I broke plenty of fish backs on the rocks in my day. What a nice sound, even better in some ways that smashing a window with a thrown rock.

someone close to you is going to hurt you.

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OllieN...@aol.com wrote:

> Not much for fishing. Been a few times. If I had to fish to eat I would
> starve. I rely on people giving me fish and if they try to teach me how to
> fish I kill them.

I don't mind learning - as long as it's on my terms! The days of learning
are over as once again I turn to the teachers and tell them to get off my
back. I am not a survivalist by any means. I might even offer up small
sections of my body as food to stay alive. A lot of the survivalist stuff
has to do with knowing how to use the right tools. When I drove cab I used
to pick up a guy around here who carried a large backpack and always talked
about impending social breakdown. He said he was ready. Of course he had
help, relatives living far out in the country, etc. But one night he showed
me the medicine bag he carried in his backpack. He had needles and thread
for sewing up his wounds. When I was a kid we ate fish every Friday. The
Catholic thing. Even the Arab side was Syrian Orthodox which is catholic,
except their pope is an Arab, not some high hat in Rome. Eating fish on
Friday was almost something to look forward to. Later the Catholics changed
the ruling. I guess enough people were breaking the rules, so they removed
it. It's interesting how far the Catholics will go to maintain a sternness
necessary to religious survival. Like abortion. They are against it and will
stay against it for a long time. But offshoots of the religion will take
hold for those who are pro abortion, opening the door not only for pro
abortion worshippers, but for new religious leaders as well. "Well, we're
the same as your regular Catholics, but we allow women priests", or
whatever. I am not religious but tend to respect the stringent ones, the
ones that resist change and stay as true as possible to their original
doctrines, etc. As for fish, gotta admit, I broke plenty of fish backs on
the rocks in my day. What a nice sound, even better in some ways that
smashing a window with a thrown rock.