my LIFE & a Movie Review

Arnold & the Beauty Queens 10-8-23

          The beginning, body of this dream is hard to understand.  I’m in a gathering of beautiful females, all of whom are feted for their beauty & sex appeal.  We’re all in this building, we all came with I guess parcels or suitcases, & there are many things to do, except for the life of me, I can’t recall exactly what we did.

          It’s like there are men around, lots of them, & we’re supposed to charm them, impress them, & we all do.  There are so many of us, beautiful in different ways.  I don’t see sex except one female sneaks off with a guy I thought was unattractive – for sex.  He’s middle aged with blonde frizzy hair.

          The event is winding down.  It’s time to pack up & leave.  I see me with just one purse, medium size but roundish, & I must put my outfits {scanty} in there & not sure how it will all fit.  Will I have to find another bag for the rest of my clothing?  {We had outfits to model, like we were entertainers.}

          Everyone was a success, we had press but like most everything going on, it’s vague.

          Then I see ARNOLD.  He’d been here the whole time, but this is the first time I pay attention. He’s leaving also as the event is done.  I see him changing clothes – light blue.  He’s big & tall, big shoulders.

          I follow him around as he goes about his business.  I’m wearing some lightweight cotton, loose, not the sexy outfits from before. Neither of us speaks.  But after a while, I do begin talking.

          I’m very cordial, complimentary, & express gratitude for his being there.  Because of him, it helped make the event a major success.  He says,

          “I’m not used to this.  I’m usually the center of it all the main star.”

          I knew what he meant, that the females got so much attention.  And I say,

          “Yes, but I’m grateful for your presence.  You are usually the main center of attention, but you were recognized.”

          I wanted to add,

          “Just the mention of your name brings magic,”

          but did not get a chance.

          When I started speaking to him in this way, his face softened & became clear & happy, & stayed that way as I spoke.  I sense that in the past, he wasn’t this way, he was darker.  The friendship & gratitude I offer brightens him greatly. 

          MOTHER GOD:  You hit the nail on the head.  Arnold/success was always there in your life, but you didn’t see it, as you didn’t see the entire thing played out & wrapped up.  You only see him/success clearly NOW that it’s OVER & you can look back.  In retrospect, you see yourself as one of the many great glamour queens of the world – all successes. All of you entertained & impressed men.

          Like Arnold’s face, it was dark as you endured the hardships. But now, things are lightened up, the hard part is over & you are grateful for all that went by.   

          MEANING:

                    ME:  Mother God, there are mysteries here.  Arnold always means SUCCESS.  So it isn’t about him personally, it is about the success of this event.  What is this event?  I’m in it but there are many women around, we’re all successful.

          Is this about my life, being one of the many glamorous women who came along on the world stage?  And in the past, my life was hard, even dark you might say, like the countenance of Arnold.  But IN THE END, as in my LIFE STORY, it all changes.  It wraps up a success.

          Is that it? 

          MOTHER GOD:  Indeed, the event is your LIFE STORY along with the lives of thousands of glamorous beauty queens who also succeeded.  It was HARD GOING while you lived, like the face of Arnold, who you don’t see until the end.  It is distance that makes us appreciate the toils & tribulations, & now you’re grateful, then you just suffered.

          So you are thanking God for it all.  Your outlook or face now is lightened up.  It’s over, the suffering is over, & you are a success, it’s all in your life story.  {end}

 

Movie Review by Rasa Von Werder -  the Wilderness Family & their Adventures

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpdkLNbgFNw

 

I watched the original movie last night. It's a FANTASY. It skipped all the hardships you would encounter living like this in the wild - there are hundreds of needs that would come up ESPECIALLY in winter. Winter would be IMPOSSIBLE to live off nothing but shooting wild animals. Even the BULLETS - where would you get them if your only contact is an airplane that MIGHT appear to see you once or twice a year. You would run out of EVERYTHING, your needs, your wants - food, spices, flour, yeast, sweets, materials needed to preserve food: vinegar, vodka, SALT. You would RUN OUT of all these things one needs to go to the store for every week. If you bought enough supplies for a year {how could you bring them in that tiny plane?} where would you put them? And the way this ONE MAN built this lovely real house - not a plain cabin - with a large rock chimney - in less than one summer - IMPOSSIBLE. Besides that, it all depends on two people. If ONE of them gets SICK it all falls apart. Just like when the child got sick he had to get some place for a doctor, was impossible, but by fantasy he did it. Animals get sick too, or injured. They have several animals IN THE HOUSE - two BEARS. How do they FEED them? A bear becomes 100 lbs within a year, which requires at least 5 lbs each of food, minimum. And they will find & eat everything in your house! This movie is so UNREALISTIC, it's the musings of a city clicker who knows next to nothing of hardship & plain necessity in a homestead. You need CHICKENS for eggs & meat. You need a COW for milk, yogurt, cream, & cheese. You have to know how to make these things, too, & you need rennet for cheese to start. You need a PEN for the chickens or else the wild animals will kill them all & if you pen them you need to supply FOOD for them, they cannot run outside & get their own if they are penned in. This movie is IMPOSSIBLE - pure FANTASY. The only good thing about it is all the animals - I loved all of that. But kept thinking how insane the assumptions of the lifestyle are - that they could survive that way. Believe me, they would all be dead. They would have to leave to survive. 

Living FREE? It ain't free. IF you make it you will have to have all the supplies, tools livestock, medicines, someone in your group has to be a nurse or doctor, knowledge of survival skills, etc. Seeds & plants for food, knowledge of agriculture, water to water all your plants that you'll have to CARRY - Water for yourself. These people are DRESSED in beautiful new clothes all the time - your clothes will turn to RAGS. And they must be washed & dried. What do you do in winter about the clothes & your bodies? And you'll have to work from morning 'till night to maintain your 'freedom' nature paradise. 

The good thing is the trained animals. Seeing so much of animals is the selling point, the rest is fantasy /imagination - DELUSIONS of what life would be, could be like, in the wilderness. Look up how pioneers lived, look of primitive HOMESTEADS, what it's really like. Even with the animals, it's unrealistic. Wild cougar cubs would not follow you, strangers, to your house. They'd be afraid. They would run back into their den. And no one can outrun a bear. They run much faster than humans. And ole' 3 toes would not attack a house like that - it's not bear behavior. They might break into your house when you're not home, for FOOD, but they are not PREDATORS on humans, nor do they seek any revenge on humans.  Bears become aggressive to humans on two occasions:  When you invade their territory & they have cubs which they feel might be in danger, they could attack.  Second, when you come upon the in the wild & they feel you might endanger them {like hunters} they might attack – especially grizzlies, much moreso than black bears.  Black bears will run at the slightest threat.  This movie showing a bear attacking a house with the family in it, plus  dog, is unrealistic,– only if the cabin is empty of people they break in to search for food. 

Another thing is the STUPIDITY of this man. If cougar cubs follow you to the house, you do NOT carry them back to face their Mom. You leave them outside, lock yourself in the house, & they will either go home by themselves or their Mom will come get them. But you do not invade her territory handling her cubs, that's asking for an attack. And then, the daughter has a fever & instead of letting the fever go away, he undertakes a live-threatening journey by rowboat over the rapids! Remember if HE perishes it's game over - or breaks a leg - he'll not be able to get back, he'll die in the woods. He was being totally rash & illogical to undertake getting a doctor just for a fever. And it is INEVITABLE that people will get sick. You have to have some kind of handbook or knowledge of what to do to get through it without a doctor. These people know NOTHING {but one tiny thing re aspirin from the bark of Aspen} about herbal medicines. If they did, they would have to create herbal remedies, tinctures & concoctions in preparation for whatever - health-giving dried seeds & leaves for tea & recipes. You cannot go out into a wilderness like this with such a small family. You need a community. Because if one adult perishes, it's all over, you cannot survive. This is 100% unrealistic & delusional; it's all in the fantasy mind of people who live in cities.

 

Also, you never permit small children including one who looks like he's six - roam around in the woods by themselves. Let them stay close to the house except with an adult present for walks. The adult should be armed if there are grizzlies, cougars, coyotes or wolves around. Wolves are indeed predators & they will attack the helpless, vulnerable, small & passive, unarmed persons. Even coyotes might. I heard of a case where a man was with his wife & infant & all he had was a large knife. The wolves surrounded them. He knew if he did NOTHING, if he was passive, they would attack. So he grabbed his knife & screaming, ran toward the lead wolf, & the wolf & his gang all ran away. They will run if you look formidable or will put up a good fight......... If you have small children you should have a good fenced-in yard that will deter a bear - strong, - at least 6' tall fence - & strong & tall enough to prevent wolves from knocking it down or leaping in. Cougars can leap into fences higher than 6' so the children have to be watched no matter what.

 

What I saw in a trailer for part 2 or 3 presents a garden with rickety posts all around & the only thing that would stop animals is a scarecrow.  The wild animals would see this as a free-for all & I doubt if much would be left when they got through with it.  I had a garden in the wild once & they even ate the melons before they got ripe.  Raccoons will eat your corn the very day they are ripe enough.  Only some sort of metal mesh or SOLID wood, reinforced at the bottom so they can’t get under, will prevent them.  Animals will dig under fences, as foxes will to get at your chickens.  I did not buy or rent Parts 1 & 2 because I will not pay for this fantasy / delusion.  I will look at it if it’s free but as far as animals I can sit on my porch & watch a dozen kinds of animals through the night, including black bears, eating at my ‘Beast-aurant.’  I have 20 raccoons, possums, fox, coyote, skunks, & bears at night.  Daytime all the usual suspects, squirrels, chipmunks, bees, birds.  They get 4 lbs of sugar a day, 5-10 boxes cookies, 14 lbs dry dog food, rice or noodles cooked in chicken broth {5 lbs daily} which totals about 25-30 lbs of food a day.  I used to have many bears when I provided sunflower seeds but I cut that out as there were too many & they did mischief.  I was once surrounded by six black bears as I put out food; none attacked me except one very tame one knocked some food out of my hands.  I stayed calm.  When I stopped the sunflower seeds only a couple bears now come by, both friendly.  They go up to the food while I sit calmly on the porch.  If I stand up they hide behind a tree until I disappear, if I walk toward them to put more food they run or walk away & come back after I sit down.  I know their behavior.  There was one poor guy with a broken wrist I fed sandwiches by hand.  The raccoons, I can feed many by hand—cookies.  It took time & effort to tame them.  So I will not buy or rent this movie as there are many other animal  presentations for free, movies & documentaries. 

How can one REALLY survive in an off-grid situation in the wild? First off, it should never be one family. There should be at least 3 - or better yet 5 families who go out there together, a COMMUNITY. - Because if one situation goes wrong, another family can help. Groups of adults with children can always feed off one another with ideas, solutions to problems, physical work like building a house, barn, tool shed, out houses, places to store food {meats & such should be in a large box that can be hoisted way up a tree where a bear cannot get it, the way Dick Proenekke taught} Together you protect one another, together you can do much more than alone. You share resources, tools, skills, you comfort one another during trials. You can share horses, donkeys or mules, you can do hard work together like pulling logs, felling trees. The women can rear the children better together, with their parenting skills, washing clothes, preparing food. Sharing is important. There are hundreds of reasons to have a community rather than one little family in the wilderness. One thing, if there are grizzlies, wolves & cougars you could build a huge fence around the entire community LIKE A FORT.

          There’s so much more.  You have a young lady here, 12 years old.  In one or two years she will LONG for company, especially young men, with the object of finding love, affection, later marriage.  It’s an instinct.  You think being out here, the husband & wife, you have the love & affection you need.  Children are kids until they reach puberty, then they need the opposite sex.  The same will happen with the boy.  They can no longer be satisfied with Mom & Dad, they will want to leave you, unless they want to be solitary hermits who live for God – which is one in a million.  If you ever take them to a town or city, they will look around & want to be there.  It’s an instinct to want other people.  Guys want to share with guys, females with females.  You act in this movie like the kids will be kids forever.  This adventure is for a few short years, then it’s over. The kids grow up fast & need other people.  I’ve seen this demonstrated again & again. Boys cling to their Mom like they’re in love.  Age 14 or less, Mom is irrelevant, even an annoyance, parents become IMPEDIMENTS to their freedom, mostly to be with their own age & chasing the opposite sex {a natural God-given instinct, not something to be squashed & criminalized.} And Dads?  They’re impossible when it comes to daughters.  They act like daughters are their wives & will do anything to thwart their relationship with males.  No man is good enough {when the females are young}, they will find something wrong with everyone, they want to control their daughters so they never have sex – it’s a ridiculous fact.  {end}