Tag Archives: choices

What is a magnesium flint striker and how do you use it?

I was on couldyousurvivethis.com, a website based off of the Cartoon Network show “Survive This” part of CN Real. There was a game that tested your survival skills by placing you in a forest, lost away from your group and asks you questions about survival. One of the questions was about your stock of fire-making tools, and it gave you three choices of which tool to take, either matches, a lighter, or a magnesium flint striker. The magnesium flint striker was the correct choice. It even says you could use the magnesium shavings as tinder. So what exactly is it, and how does it work? Thank you.

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College Poll – Out of the choices provided, who would you choose to..?

This is a poll for my college class. Its very short, but I need 50+ people to answer. I know i won’t get that many here, but any amount helps because I’m working 2 shifts tomorrow AND have to study for my finals.. so I won’t have the time to go out.

If you don’t want to answer — please vote on an answer you would have chosen and I’ll just Tally em up.

Based on the information below, which person would you want help from?

Q: You are stranded in the Amazon. While walking thru the dense jungle, you come across a stranger. They offer you help, which you gladly accept. Out of the choices below, who would you accept help from?

A. A convicted murderer/bank robber.

Pro: They have a map, water and knowledge of the area. They offer to guide you back to the ranger station.
Con: You notice this person eying your valuables, you saw a WANTED poster back at the ranger station. The WANTED poster read: “Do not approach this subject. Armed and very dangerous”

B. A native

Pro: Knowledge of the area and survival skills.
Cons: You can not understand their language. You are unsure if this person is friendly or not. they are pointing a very large spear at your throat.

C. A person with a severe Bi-Polar disorder

Pro: Has supplies with them (water, food, first aid kit).
Con: This person is without their medicine. They have become very unstable and are becoming increasingly violent and suicidal. This person is carrying a knife.

Just put your answer, A, B, or C. If you’d like to include a reason, as to why you picked that person, that would be a big help. Plus, i’m a little curious. lol

Thanks

In boot camp, do they have many choices so far as food? You see, I can’t eat beef.?

Would they actually force me to eat beef or would I be allowed another meat option?

Does Eight Belles reflect a deeper problem with humanity?

Eight Belles was bred for entertainment – for human desires. Many of us were taught as children that animals were placed here for us, to do with what we please, for our pleasures and desires..for entertainment, for food, for clothing, for medical research. Therein lies the disconnect from the reality of our choices, and we rationalize this disconnect with our feelings of superiority and we soothe our conscience by pretending that the animals we kill and abuse by supporting these practices either don’t know what is happening or are treated “well.” Or we use excuses like: it is nature, it is tradition, it is the way our ancestors did it, it provides jobs, it preserves the species, we need animal products to live, it is just easier to follow the status quo..all these excuses are riddled with fault and personal agenda. Think about this carefully before defending such excuses.
Video suggestions. Earthlings (isawearthlings.com), Peaceable Kingdom and The Witness(tribeofheart.org)

How do I put my life (back) together?

So I’ve made some decisions during the course of my life that have, at the time, seemed like good survival choices, but in the long run have turned out to have negative effects on people I love–my husband, my children, my mother. I’ve never been a drug addict or anything that extreme. But I’ve made choices for my life that have led to things now that are affecting people I love negatively. I can’t undo the past–go back and suddenly be good at math so that I would be more confident about going to college, not let myself be bullied or manipulated into choosing not to go to school or be independent, and so forth. And now my family is suffering alot of financial problems that could be averted if I only had just gone to school years ago and just gotten a stupid degree in something that would support us all. I can’t always buy for my kids things they want or need. We have to do without alot of stuff other people take for granted. Small glitches in our life turn out to be huge, distatrous kinds of events (or at least people react that way to them), and we just can’t seem to get out of the hole. If only I’d just gotten a degree in something I could make it better and support my family through this hard time. Instead, all I have are house cleaning skills and the ability to bake good cookies. I can’t figure out how to get what we need to survive and to correct the mistakes I have made in life. I don’t know where to start or how to find my own special niche in life so that I can not just exist or survive, but thrive and help my husband kids to do the same. I don’t even know exactly what I’m asking here.