I appreciate this, and I don’t listen to/have never listened to Glen(n?) Beck, nor do I plan to.

I’ve never taken the ‘tent cities’ many members of the church discuss being part of at some future time seriously for myself, except that they do exist now for many who are homeless around the country/world; I will not laugh at anyone who does, though–

I think it would be a very personal thing–

depends upon where a person lives and what state he/she is in spiritually, etc. I do not deny that such things might happen; I just don’t see it happening that way for me–

but then I am not in the “Mormon corridor”–

I think that those who mock these sorts of scenarios had better be prepared; often that sort of laughter comes from discomfort–

I have seen things happen recently in LDS wards that I never, ever thought possible; I have seen marriages I thought were almost infallible struggle and suffer.

I have seen economic upheaval I never thought possible–

Those of us who are on the front lines (wherever we are) of economic catastrophe are not laughing.

As I linked to in list item #10, there are some LDS folks who believe that there will be a future callout, and that that callout will likely entail a journey much like Lehi’s—in makeshift tent cities away from the civilization they’ve been commanded to flee from. For more information, I think that this summary explains this line of thinking.

If you’re referring to the scenario where the Lord calls his people out to gather to another location, then yes, I believe there is prophetic support for that circumstance.

Do what you can. I was there once. Now I and others are trying to be ready to help other that have not been able to get ready.

Have you read the Book of Mormon? There were a lot of times when people got puffed up in pride and their “progression”, saying, “there’s no way our city could be destroyed”… and then it did. Just saying, you know, whether you believe in God or not, we are actually not as great and powerful as we like to believe ourselves to be sometimes, and the inevitable will happen, disaster will strike, and we’ll be humbled and brought down to humility.

I suspect you’ll disagree with me, but as for me, I’d prefer to recognize that were not invulnerable, that we ought to recognize our dependence on our creator and his hand in our lives, and one of the things that God counsels us to do is to be prepared. It brings great peace of mind, actually, and is not as difficult as people make it out to be. Food storage is a better value store than gold, to a certain point.

I hope none of this happens, and I’m still living my life happily and not consumed with worry. But if it does… I feel secure to know I’ll be able to feed my family through it! Don’t care so much about myself starving and going without as I do my sweet little children!

I have a personal storage shed full of food(gonna have to move it soon cause of hot weather coming soon), i have spent about 3 grand on these food items.

I have also purchased 2 of those expensive lifesaver water filter bottles.

I also am going to purchase some Gas Masks next, I think these would be priceless in a biological attack type of situation .

I made this video I think you may find inspiring and hit that “Founding Father” freedom loving nerve, here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjH-OWbRJk

Take Care!

but it has been pretty smooth sailing since then.

I’m not familiar with enough of your posts to know you. So please tell me you’re being sarcastic.

Roth,

Huh??? Wah??? (just deleted a string of epithets and criticisms).

OK. I just took a moment to try putting myself in your shoes. I myself feel that way about the government (at just about all levels). But the difference is why I feel that way.

My main question is “What am I able to do about it?” Does that sound familiar?

In my case, though, it is about influencing other people. In your case, you only have to influence yourself. I can’t change other people. But I CAN choose to do things myself. You should remember your NEW Messiah’s message “Yes we can!” Don’t you believe you can? Or do you just need to depend on “The One?”

Hope the grandparents have time to prepare for terrorists and earthquakes.

To those who do not fully grasp the concept of God; It is better to believe their is a God and find you were right than it is to believe their is no God and find you were wrong. The eternal consequence of your choice is unfathomable.

Those that for their own gain try to get you to believe that despite our immense progression as humans in the last hundreds of years, that disaster is still possible, even likely.

Just curious what you think Connor is gaining by posting something like this?

I personally think that “progression” is making the chances of one of these occurring more likely. I mean c’mon. Some of them are already happening on small scales. Why is it so unthinkable that the crap could hit the fan sometime?

Oh, right, it’s all hype, so never mind :)

Glenn’s stuff is basically: “2012. Obama has made murder legal. Blood is running in the streets. A nuclear bomb goes off in Alabama.”

Yes, there are those that would wish you to believe otherwise. Those that for their own gain try to get you to believe that despite our immense progression as humans in the last hundreds of years, that disaster is still possible, even likely.

I for one don’t buy it.

Haha… That would require having a TV. :) I have, though, seen a few clips of his show online, and yeah, his “war room” stuff is along the lines of what I’m talking about here. But Mr. Beck gets zero credit; my influence in writing this is simply observing the world around us on my own.