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Friday, July 3, 2026
Learning to survive anything in your life
I think the best example of this was a course in surviving a plane crash taught by Air Force personnel at a wilderness convention I was at at two Ravens, Idaho years ago.
They were talking about how people survived a plane crash into a remote area away from civilization and people.
And they spoke of how there were two kinds of people (One type survived and the other didn't).
The people who didn't survive kept saying things like "How did this happen and What am I doing here over and over again until they die. In other words unless you adapt to the situation you die.
So, the people who tend to survive remote plane crashes are people who take an interest in surviving these plane crashes.
It's also true you have to be well enough to take the right attitude too for example, if you are bleeding out you soon are going to be dead from the crash so it's lights out!
However, then if your body is relatively intact you might be struggling to find a way forward.
But, the people who survive these things get interested in asking questions like:
How can I stay Warm or cool enough to survive this (depending upon the weather).
Where is there water I can drink?
For example, if you crash where there is snow you can either eat snow or melt it over a fire to drink water.
Staying warm enough or cool enough depending upon the weather is important.
But, if you don't have water you might survive only 4 to 9 days and even then you will be hallucinating from no water so this is. a problem too.
Whereas if you are under about 50 years old and in good physical shape you might survive 40 days without food if you only have water too.
So, staying warm enough or cool enough to survive and finding water means you can live longer than 4 to 9 days. Because by the 2nd day without water or food you will be hallucinating whether you want to be or not.
So, much like taking an interest in your survival in every moment is how you might survive almost anything in your life.
However, the key is being in each moment enough to see how you can survive whatever is happening in your life.
If you are not in the moment in a survival situation you are soon dead.
This is a given.
To survive well one must learn to formulate useful questions:
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formulate useful questions, start by picking a specific topic. Use
"how" or "why" instead of yes/no words. Keep them short and simple.
Avoid confusing or complex words. Good questions make people think and
help you learn new things.
Here are steps to make great questions:
- Know your goal: Decide what you want to learn before you speak.
- Avoid yes/no traps: "Did you like the book?" gets a quick "yes." Instead, ask, "What was your favorite part of the book?"
- Ask one thing at a time: Do not pack two or three ideas into a single sentence.
- Use the 3-Question Rule: Ask yourself: "Does this need to be said? Does this need to be said by me? Does it need to be said now?"
Think
of a question like a fishing hook. A broad question (like "tell me
about history") is a giant net that catches too much junk. A sharp,
specific question (like "what caused the American Civil War?") is a hook
that catches exactly what you want.
You can learn more methods to teach yourself or others how to ask better questions by reviewing the Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions guide from Harvard, or by exploring the Asking Effective Questions tips provided by the University of Chicago.
If you want, tell me:
- Who are you talking to?
- What is your main goal?
I can write some example questions for your specific situation!
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To Drink of Enlightenment's Nectar (or the life you save might be your own)
For me, in life, saving other people's lives has been something I have always been interested in. I think it started when I was 2 with whooping Cough and I was dying and the Angels came and saved my young life.
After this experience I didn't want anyone else to experience something as awful as I had so I became a much kinder person after I was 2 years old and started being more helpful even though the near Death of Whooping cough made me a lot more shy in my life too.
I became a very serious child and was seldom silly like many of the children I knew. My point of view was and is: "If you are that silly you could die like I almost did". So, silliness I tend to view as being potentially fatal to people after what I have seen during my life growing up.
So, I guess practicality and risk taking (paradoxically) was my path always.
Practicality (because I want to stay alive and not die like I almost did at age 2)
And
Risk Taking (Because unless I was taking physical risks I didn't feel alive after having whooping cough or the concussion at age 9 which caused me to have seizures at night from age 10 to 15 when my cranium grew enough to where I stopped having these seizures.
The experience of seizures for me was to be each time murdered over and over again. So, it was like being attacked in some ways and dying each time.
However, my belief in God and Angels kept me alive through all of this.
So, all my life I have been on a path towards enlightenment simply because it was the only way I knew to survive in a body here on earth.
And as long as I helped people physically and spiritually stay alive somehow God helped me survive here too.
But, becoming a minister of any religion didn't really work for me at all because religion (churches) just aren't for me at all.
The Wilderness is my Church where I visit God in the mountains and at the ocean and beautiful places around the world.
And the people that I have met along the way often are on a path to Enlightenment too.
And when you are on a path to enlightenment often you "Drink of Enlightenment's Nectar"
which is truly the Nectar of the Gods!
By God's Grace
At least 13,000 Americans have died from the heat since 2018!
I have Scottish or likely Scandinavian Hair Like my mother which is fine and thick so I still have a full head of hair at age 78 which I think is sort of unusual for a man these days. But, the problem with it has been it is always too hot and better in colder weather than in hot.
So, starting at age 10 I have gotten heat prostration. The first time I was playing on what was then Called G Hill in Glendale which was undeveloped then and we used to do things like Build Tree houses in Big Eucalyptus trees then with a view of the whole city of Glendale from on top of the mountain. One day i was playing there with friends and the whole world turned yellow and white and all other color was gone. I got scared and rode my bicycle home in that scared state and the riding likely cooled me down a little but I had a headache for 3 days after this. AT age 10 this would have been 1958 for me.
Then one time I was tree planting trees with a crew in Quincy, California and it got hot and I had to quit planting trees because I was so messed up from heat prostration I couldn't work anymore and my wife and I had to move back to San Marcos where we had lived before then (even though within a few months we sold my 66 VW Bug and moved to Hilo, Hawaii then in 1974 also with my baby son who was born a few months before this.
So, the heat is something I always have had to deal with but luckily so far I have survived the heat. Now at this point because of Air Conditioning everywhere it is less of a problem but smoke from Fires doesn't work for me now at age 78 especially at altitude in Mt. Shasta. My lungs aren't adapted to the Altitude usually enough to survive breathing smoke from forest fires anymore in that area.
Even moving to Hilo, Hawaii in 1974 in August I wondered if I could survive the very humid heat there even at age 26 then. But, we spent a lot of time swimming in the ocean and body surfing and riding waves a lot which is how we chose to cool down while living there especially in the afternoons and evenings whenever I wasn't working.
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Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the U.S. At least 13,000 Americans have died from the heat since 2018, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Click here for tips on how to stay safe.
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do they still build ships in Clydebank, Scotland?
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No, large-scale shipbuilding no longer takes place in Clydebank. The famous John Brown & Company shipyard, which built legendary vessels like the RMS Queen Mary and the QE2, closed its doors in 2001. The site has since been redeveloped into a mixed-use area known as Queens Quay.
However,
the legacy of Clyde shipbuilding continues nearby. While the specific
town of Clydebank no longer produces ships, the greater River Clyde
region remains an active hub for naval engineering and construction.
Key facts about shipbuilding on the River Clyde today:
- Active Shipyards: Advanced naval vessels, including Type 26 frigates for the Royal Navy, are actively constructed at the BAE Systems shipyards in nearby Govan and Scotstoun.
- New Facilities: A massive, multi-million-pound covered ship build hall was opened by BAE Systems in Glasgow, securing the future of the river's maritime construction industry.
- Heritage in Clydebank: Today, the site of the former John Brown & Company shipyard is occupied by West College Scotland and residential flats. The iconic 1905 Titan Crane remains on the site as a monument to the town's historic shipbuilding legacy.
Would you like to know more about the famous ships constructed in Clydebank, or are you interested in the modern Royal Navy vessels currently being built down the river in Glasgow?
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