but what you're not getting is that kinda shit isn't real. Thats not how people really survive. Its a horrifying and terrible situation to be in and it tests you on every cellular level of your entire being! its not a friggin disney chanel experience where hell yeah you find conveniently insightful companionship and learn shit about yourself and in the end yadayaddayadda.
Its more like "the road" except when dad dies and that kid either gets torn apart by wolves or the rapist cannibles catch him right before daddy closes his eyes.
If the average unexperienced and unprepared person (we're not even talking dysfunctionally stupid, ignorant, selfish or physically at a disadvantage either) is put in that kind of situation they'd be incredibly lucky to survive physically intact let alone with a mind not pemenantly damaged by post traumatic stress.
There are many many different aspects to survival. Your environment, your physical wellbeing, your mental condition, whether you're alone or not which depending on where you are and who you're with could make the situation that much better or worse.
IE: if you're in a kind of environment naturally void of the resources necessary to survive, the more people you have with you the harder it is. While at the same time if you were in a kind of environment that was easy to manipulate to your advantage being with a fuckload of inexperienced, immature, and stupid people could kill you faster than anything else.
And then you have assholes like bear grylis who go cliff jumping and dumbshit and who use all kinds of complex skill sets that only a seasoned disciplined survivalist or army ranger commando would even be capable of ATTEMPTING to use let alone actually successfully survive off of.
Bear Grylis is probably killing more people than he is helping unless the people watching his tv show actually have enough common sense to not go fuckin grand canyon crevice shimmy climbing up a 150 ft dead drop. There is some useful stuff in there but its pretty far between superman sky diving into greenland or whateverthefuck.
I can make a topic exclusively about survivalism and survivalist techniques that I learned from school, reading, good tv, and people I worked with who actually had to use that shit or like doing it recreationally if anyone is remotely interested and don't wanna muddle it up with fantasy reality shows. I'm still pretty novice at it myself but I'm planning on starting to actually practice it and train for it in a nearby national reserve where I live and then actually traveling and practicing it if I like doing it. I've been through several catagory 3, 4 and whatever the highest hurricane levels are and had to actually do some stuff with my family when I was a kid growing up and we did some of the basic things you do when you lose power, water, and communication and we've had to do it for up to several weeks at a time. But I learned alot of the more complex forms of survivalism after the fact and with my work because water survival is pretty much the hardest form of survival there is next to being stuck in a friggin desert.
How do you feel about One Car Too Far?
Whats it about I can't remember if I've seen it by name. I've watched "I shouldn't be alive" a couple times and thats a really good one too.
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