merefaith: discipleship in the ruins of empire

I wish I could live on a farm. Read a good quote the other day,

"How can we understand the Bread of Life if we do not understand the life of bread?"

I think it’s in part based on the Christian literature I’ve been reading, part based on the logical conclusion of my minarchist/panarchist politics and part my family farm upbringing, but I’m starting to think that it is very important for me to go back to the farm, something I swore I would never do at one point.

As a Christian and as a paranoid Vance-style paleolibertarian, I am increasingly uneasy about my dependence on the empire, their cultural entertainment and the need to live on their grid. I’m not really sure how to disengage from a lot of the system, but I’m pretty sure that it likely means homeschooling my children, getting rid of some of the vestiges of the empire’s sin industries (including taking getting rid of television to its logical conclusion and throwing out some DVDs) and gardening.

Of course, the feds are trying to make it harder to home-raise livestock, but I’m not going to fight that battle until it comes time.

Vershal speaks truth. When the dollar crashes, and when George Soros orders B. Hussein Obama to begin instituting the New World Order, and the govt begins withholding food to supermarkets, you *will* be standing in a soup line for hours. If yuo can provide alternative supply of food, you can minimize the control empire has on you.

I just like that your goal is to "beef" up your garden...such clever wording, especially in light of your concurrent aspiration to consume more garden-grown foods and less beef :-).