Surviving Survival

it has to be about surviving in the wild not like from cancer or whatever
thanks

There is a series of books called "The Hatchet", where a boy on a small plane has to survive by himself after a plane crashes, and the small hatchet/axe he was given helps him survive.

I'm not sure if it is on the web though, but it's sadly not a true story.

You'd be hard pressed to find real stories on the internet unless you typed in what you wanted on Google. eg "true survival stories".

2007-02-14 04:49:23 by I_am ingrid

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It was all cut out and doctors cannot feel anything at all in lymp nodes

The 40% survival rate you were apparently quoted means you have at some time point ( x years, you did not say if given that info) a 40% chance of being alive. Usually this is a 5 year estimate but does not have to be; so the doc should say, "You have a 40% chance of being alive at 5 years based on your stage."
This really means that based on prior patients outcomes, we would expect out of the next 100 patients with your stage of melanoma, only 40 would be alive at 5 years.
This is a statistic, by definition based on population data, and is not meant for an individual. You personally do not have a 40% risk- for you it is either 0 or 100%, we just can't know that.
Be optimistic; worry accomplishes nothing; believe you are in the 40%.

Blessings

2009-05-23 02:55:28 by Jennifer C

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the extinct one's didn't have?
Surviving ones include judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, buddhism, voodoo.

Extinct ones include nordic and viking religions (Odin, Thor, etc), roman religion (Jupiter, etc, also mithraism), greek religion (Zeus, Apollo, etc) egyptian religion (Ra, Horus etc).

Others like Zoroastrianism are virtually extinct.

They die out because they are unable to adapt to a growing, changing world.

If you look at history, the Bible used to be believed as the final word in everything,
and was taken quite literally.

Today, that has changed as Science has brought us new insights and FACTS that conflict with a literal interpretation of the Bible.

So, believers now place a more figurative interpretation on it.
It is now considered more a "book of metaphors" or moral lessons.

Once a religion can no longer keep up with the fast-paced changes in the world,
it is doomed.

Look at Hinduism; the oldest of the major religions today.
It has lasted so long because it is so adaptable..

2010-02-08 23:37:24 by synaptic's mommy's mommy

I am not crazy! I am just curious to find out any survival techniques to survive a nuclear war.

There are two major techniques that will help a lot. Neither is easy to do and the second is quite expensive.

1) Set up your life so you don't live in or near a major city or large military base. These are what are called "strategic targets". If a nuclear war went on long enough, even small cities and bases might get hit; after all, they're secondary targets. But for sure, cities like NYC or Atlanta and bases like Parris Island or Offutt AFB are going to get hit first.

2) Get access to a secure underground shelter protected by at least ten feet of concrete or natural rock. It needs to have a high quality air filtration system, a hatch designed to resist "overpressure" (ie, shock waves from nuclear explosions) , and sufficient supplies to say inside for at least a year.

If you can do both of these, you have a very good chance of surviving a nuclear holocaust. If you can only do one, well you have a good chance. If you do neither, then you still have a chance because some people will make it through on sheer dumb luck. Personally, I prefer to be in control of my destiny than to rely on luck....

2009-04-04 15:58:17 by Mordecai

Do you think religion is a survival trait, and should be approached as an aspect of humanity, or a memeplex (a collection of ideas and behaviors) that evolves and propagates in a way comparable to, say, a virus?
Plato-Girl, I would love to talk reason about God. Simple step 1 for belief in God is evidence - if you have any objective evidence, please present it. I would be delighted to listen.

Until I have evidence that God exists, I can only assume that religion is a natural phenomenon, and form hypotheses under that mindset.

More the latter.
It survives alongside what is normally a survival trait, that of group solidarity. (though that has its downside, in tribalism and nationalism)
Basically a "supernormal stimulus", evoking an exaggerated response to an exaggerated artificial father/authority figure in some cases, mother figure or family in others.

It works because we are generally well-adapted to work in groups. and it provides a notional "supergroup".
Trouble is, in an era of global travel and communication, different "supergroups" can clash much more easily.
And they were almost always harsh in their handling of "outsiders"
Right down to red-hot pokers in Puritan Massachusetts.

2009-04-28 09:21:00 by RimR [Atheati Grand Poobah]