ZetaTalk: Aftertime Living

medical profession and certainly not in the hands of the religious elite who assume they can control sex, birth and death, and independent thinking as part and

parcel of their power trip. Whose life is it, anyway? We, the Service-to-Other Zetas, do not believe in being dictatorial to one another, but rather in empowering each other with knowledge. Regardless of the obvious outcome, we struggle

endlessly to assist the individual who wants to live to survive. Likewise, if an individual has determined to end their existence, we do not thwart their efforts.

In times past, or in primitive countries where the miracle of modern medicine whereby a body can be sustained in

horrific pain long past the point where nature intended, death is not a mystery. Severe pain does not exist except after an injury, and where too great causes a mental blackout. Women suffer the pain of childbirth, which is as great a pain

as can be sustained without passing out, and this is not considered a dire problem by the establishment. Severe pain

from injury results in the body passing out, going into shock, and dying if not treated. This is nature's answer to the situation. An injury that is minor results in pain when the affected part is moved, nature's way of forcing the injured to rest until healed. Internal injuries or those resulting in infection likewise proceed, in nature, to loss of consciousness from internal bleeding or going septic, both resulting in death. Depression, in those who must live with being maimed

or who cannot accept their situation, naturally results in death as the depressed person simply stops eating and

drinking, a painless and quiet end of allowed to proceed.

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ZetaTalk: Starvation

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ZetaTalk: Starvation

Note: written Dec, 2002

In many parts of the world, diet is restricted to what the community can grow for themselves, or catch, or kill in the

forests or grasslands. There may be berries in the summer, but not in winter, fresh vegetables in the summer, in season, but only dried roots in the winter, essentially dehydrated for preservation. Meat may arrive only occasionally, after a successful hunt, and be cause for celebration. Where the community is close to fishing, rivers or lakes or perhaps the

seashore, a steady diet of fish can be expected in some manner. Modern man has grown accustomed to the super

market, where fresh produce from around the world is in abundance, available. If not fresh, he has come to expect

frozen foods of great variety, or dried, so that his diet is without seasons and can span the world. Bored with simply

doing away with the seasons, modern man experiments with recipes from different cultures - Mexican, Chinese,

Italian, Indian. What will this modern man find he has to EAT, after the shift, when the super markets are looted and

no new distributions on the way? We will address this by population type, as the results vary:

Those in the cities, who have lost of never had experience with gardening and herdskeeping, or fishing in the

wild which requires skill, will have the rudest shock. First, they will be isolated in their cities by the destruction

around them, such that they cannot easily travel to the country side. Second, food will run out in the cities, such that the starving survivors look about them, and even at each other, hungrily. Most will starve, getting weaker

and sicker until death overtakes them. Those who give in to the urge to cannibalize will soon die also, simply

because the food source will run out. Thus, growing food in the cities is not a valid subject, as such an activity

won't exist.

Those in the suburbs, who have land about them and are perhaps conjoining the countryside, will at first deplete

their personal stores, the local food markets, and then begin roaming into the countryside. The family pets will

get killed and roasted, and that fat so much desired to be shed will be used just to keep the body going for many

months. Eventually, suburban families will need to learn to forage, turning over logs in the woods to look for

grubs and worms, and attempting to fish in streams or rivers. Catching small mammals such as rats, which eat

just about anything, will also be a food source children may catch, in their desperation, and may even eat raw if

the parents are dulled by madness. Earthworms can eat sewage, and rotting material, but this is not a voluminous

production, so should not be expected to feed a community from their own sewage. Thus, survival in the

suburbs, or growing food, will become a foraging practice by those able.

Those in the country, who farm, or are familiar with gardening and hunting practices, will take a different tack

from the start. The farmer with cattle will soon find that his cattle are getting thin, staggering about from hunger,

and will eat the herd to thin it out. Thus, the farmers in the area will finally conclude that certain animals are more useful than others, in the Aftertime. Chickens eat bugs, forage for themselves, and come home to lay their

eggs if given a safe and private roost. Ducks likewise eat whatever grows in or around ponds, which will be

numerous in the drizzle, and don't require a dry spot to roost. Goats, which eat anything, and pigs which root in

the ground for whatever might be edible, can likewise be kept within limits if the surrounding country can

sustain them. Some vegetation will struggle along, weeds which are hardy, and plants that grow in the gloom or

dim light normally. If the group had not researched and anticipated this environment, but find themselves

without seed or seedlings for dim light gardens, then they will be chewing on weeds for an alternative to grubs

and whatever they can catch to roast over a small evening fire. Farmers are naturally resourceful, being at the

lower rungs of the ladder in all supposedly civilized cultures, and will adapt. If a particular weed grows well,

proves to be edible, the farmer will husband this, grow it, protect it from wildlife,