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Do People STILL Think You’re Paranoid For Preparing?
by David Morris on May 24, 2012
Welcome to this week’s Urban Survival Newsletter, brought to you by
the SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course and the
FastestWayToPrepare.com ultra-fast preparedness course. This week,
we’re going to talk about whether or not you’re paranoid for being a
prepper. :) Also, I’ll tell you about a special promotion that we’re
doing with the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in honor of
Memorial Day.
On that note, if you’re currently deployed or ever served, thank you
for your service. I feel that way every day…so saying it on holidays
seems kind of redundant, but I don’t think that those who have served
are told how much they’re appreciated often enough.
Are you a Paranoid Prepper?
It’s amazing how many emails I get that start with either, “I might be
paranoid” or “My family thinks I’m paranoid.” The simple fact is, if
you think that it’s smart to prepare for likely disasters, some people
will call you prudent and others will call you paranoid.
In reality, the passage of time is all that will shed light on whether
someone is being paranoid or not. As an example, Joel Rosenberg wrote
about terrorists flying planes into a skyscraper before 9-11. (It was
after Al-Qaeda had started preparing, so he didn’t give them the
idea.)
Many thought that the idea was the creation of a fiction writer with
an overactive imagination. And those who thought it was possible were
merely paranoid—until it actually happened. Then he was seen as a
visonary and every alphabet soup government agency wanted him to come
consult with them.
That’s the way it is with many threats. Some in New Orleans thought
that preparing for a levee break was being paranoid—until it actually
happened. For awhile after Hurricane Katrina, there was only one
operational hospital in the entire city. It was Ochsner Hospital, and
they had been taking practical steps to prepare for a levee break
since the 50s. Most people thought they were paranoid too, until they
were the only working hospital in town. Then the city that hadn’t
prepared thought that they deserved $80 million of free medical care
from the hospital that HAD prepared.
Other threats never pan out…like Y2K. People who were myopic and
focused on Y2K ended up looking paranoid after the dust settled. BUT,
those who looked at Y2K as simply being one of many potential threats
on the horizon didn’t need to miss a beat when nothing happend. Those
Y2K preppers who kept their supplies and training up to speed look
pretty smart right about now. They may have been paranoid about Y2K,
but their understanding of the need to be prepared was practical and
timeless.
“Paranoia,” if you want to call it that, isn’t necessarily a bad
thing…unless it starts affecting your sleep, your relationships with
others, and your mood. Fortunately, there are some simple things that
you can do to look at the threats that we’re facing in a way that will
allow you to keep balance in your life.
So, here are some truisms about being paranoid/prepared:
1. There will always be a “new threat” to worry about. They’re kind of
like waves in the surf zone. If you focus all of your energy on one,
there’s always another one coming. Your best bet is to power through,
keep moving, and keep your eyes on the big picture. Greece might
collapse, the US will probably have another government shutdown this
year. The sun will keep having solar activity. Terrorists will
continue to increase and decrease their “chatter.”
2. General preparedness will help keep you from the emotional
rollercoaster of going from one probable disaster to the next. EMPs,
bio attacks, economic collapse, & infrastructure attacks all share
common elements…people who are prepared to take care of themselves and
are familiar with some hardships fare better than those who expect to
always be able to pay with plastic and to always have a plentiful
supply of food, water, fuel, and electricity at their fingertips.
Focusing on these common elements will give you a broad preparedness
base.
3. TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) may or may not
happen during your lifetime, so don’t waste all your time on Earth
focusing on it. Some day you’re going to look back on how you spent
your life. Spend your time today in a way that you’ll be happy about
tomorrow.
4. If things do collapse, life will get REAL stressful, so don’t
forget to stop and smell the roses while things are relatively
stable…and figure out the magic combination of factors that let you
manage personal stress. (I devote a big chunk of the
FastestWayToPrepare.com course to this very skill.)
5. If you’re losing sleep now because of what MIGHT happen, you should
learn how to get your mind under control for when things actually do
happen.
6. Spending time making forward progress on your preparations will
ALWAYS beat spending time reading about every possible disaster that
could happen.
7. Unless your plan is to live in a cave, completely isolated and
alone, make sure to spend time on relationships with family and
friends. They’ll make your life richer if disaster never happens, and
they’ll make life livable if disaster does happen.
8. Many of the things you worry about will never happen. Some might.
But, as Matthew 6:27 says, “Who by worrying can add a single hour to
his life?” Try to convert worry into action and/or prayer.
Efficiency = Vulnerability
We live in a time of incredible efficiencies. Our power, water,
electronic banking, just-in-time food supply, travel options,
communications and other infrastructure are simply amazing. All of
these systems are streamlined and relatively predictable. And we’ve
become dependent on them to the extent that they have become some of
our biggest vulnerabilities.
These systems are all vulnerable to natural disasters, solar events,
terrorists, foreign interests, and simple accidents.
Ironically, if we wouldn’t have any of these efficiencies in place,
preparedness wouldn’t be so unusual because everyone would have to
practice preparedness in order to survive. You can see this by looking
to undeveloped countries or by looking back 70-80 years.
But our society is advancing so quickly that we’re increasingly
vulnerable to more and more threats. In fact, it seems like a new
threat/vulnerability combination is announced every week. One week
it’s a possible solar storm. The next it’s overprinting money, foreign
economies tanking, and nuclear reactors half way around the globe
melting down. The week after that, it’s foreign countries’ ability to
launch EMPs off of our coasts.
The threats are not going to stop. Even if they do, journalists will
just recycle old threats & vulnerabilities to get viewers.
Eventually one of these big disasters is going to happen, but how do
you absorb all of these threats in the meantime without going a little
nuts?
I wrestled with this question a few years ago when I was getting my
family prepared…and it’s one of the reasons I took what we learned and
created the SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course. At one point
early on, I was so focused on all of the new threats I was learning
about that my mind was pinging around like a bunch of sugared up kids
in a bounce house.
I know from the letters I get that many of you and even more of your
relatives are in that very situation.
It causes some people to stick their head in the sand and ignore the
problems. It causes others to end up in a repeating loop of fixating
on the latest & worst threat facing us but not taking any action.
Fortunately, there’s a better option that I’ll cover in a minute.
There are just SO many big threats to prepare for…it’s hard to know
where to start and whether or not to simply throw in the towel, and
abandon life as you know it in preparation for an immediate breakdown
in society.
A few years ago, I didn’t think the country would last more than a few
months, let alone until 2012. And every week I have people telling me
that they think things will collapse within the next few weeks.
Fortunately, I was wrong a few years ago and many people have been
wrong since then, but at some point people worried about immediate
collapse WILL be right. It could be a day from now, a decade from now,
or a generation from now. We just don’t know.
So what do you do when you’re being barraged by threats, know you need
to act, but have limited time & money and don’t know what to do first?
Calm Down
The first thing you need to do is take a deep breath. In a survival
situation, panic can kill you quicker than a lack of oxygen. One of
the best ways to prepare for the stress of a survival situation is to
learn how to handle stressful situations in everyday life as
efficiently as possible. This isn’t a switch that you can flip…it’s a
skill that’s developed over time—and a skill you can start developing
today.
Practice calming down while driving, while talking with customer
support that doesn’t speak English, and with friends and relatives.
There are some situations where escalating conflict helps, but in most
cases it doesn’t.
If you’re frantically preparing, you might also want to calm down a
little. I believe preparedness is both urgent, and a way of life. It’s
a marathon, not a sprint. It’s easy to prepare at such a frantic pace
that you quickly burn out or make expensive mistakes. But when you
make it a part of your life, it becomes quite fun and enriches every
day in addition to preparing you for disasters.
Listen to your body. If your “fuse” is shorter than it should be,
figure out what you need to do to get calmed down. More sleep? More
exercise? Less caffeine? Everyone’s different, but everyone shares
similar bio-chemical needs.
Make a Plan
The next thing you need to do is make a plan. What threats are you
MOST concerned about? What preparations can you do that will help you
no matter what kind of disaster you face? What skills & supplies do
you currently have? Which skills do you need to develop & what
supplies do you need to start getting? What if you have to bug-out?
What if you can’t bug-out and you have to Survive In Place?
You will continually be modifying your plan based on opportunities and
your unique situation, so don’t feel like the plan you make today will
be set in stone.
Control Your Time, Control Your Mind
It’s easy to spend hours and hours reading, watching, or listening
about the next worst thing that’s going to happen. It’s also
intoxicating to read about other people’s survival plans and about
other people’s survival skills instead of actually doing stuff
yourself.
I encourage you to control what you watch, listen, and read. There’s
no shortage of information out there about all of the threats that we
face. And it’s not a bad thing to be aware of them, but think about
every potential disaster you hear about as encouraging your decision
to be prepared rather than as something new to worry about.
One of the best illustrations of this is helicopter pilots. Helicopter
pilots are a unique breed. Airplane pilots know that if their engines
go out, their plane will naturally glide some distance and they have a
good shot at being able to land safely.
Helicopter pilots, on the other hand, are basically flying a rock
attached to a few spinning tongue depressors through the air. If the
engine goes out, autorotation will buy some grace, but landing a dead
helicopter becomes more like landing a rock than landing an airplane.
As a result, helicopter pilots are very aware of all of the threats
they face and everything that could go wrong at any given moment and
cause a series of cascading disasters. The ability to accept and deal
with all of these potential threats, embrace them, and enjoy finding
solutions to them is what makes for great helicopter pilots. They
learn that at some point you have to stop over thinking what might
happen and just start flying.
Similarly, the more aware you are about the political, natural, and
terrorist threats that we face, the more you’ll want to develop the
mind of a helicopter pilot…always aware of what could happen, but
never dwelling on any one thing and letting it paralyze you.
Fortunately, there’s a balance.
What I encourage you to do is watch & read enough to spur you to
action and spend the rest of the time that you would have spent
reading/watching actually DOING things to get prepared. Once you’ve
read and or watched enough to make you want to take action, then you
don’t need to watch anymore.
That’s a big reason why I am so focused on not only writing about
vulnerabilities that we face and big picture preparedness, but also
simple, fundamental things that people can do on a daily basis to get
themselves prepared. I want every article that I write to have
actionable steps that you can take immediately so that you become more
prepared every day.
Take Action!
Once you’re aware of the threats that we’re facing…both in the US and
globally…the biggest thing you can do to get prepared and stay sane is
to take action.
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.” “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” “Slow
and steady wins the race.” These are all good sayings to remind you to
pace yourself. If you have to sprint, then look at your preparedness
as interval training and plan for time to catch your breath and
regroup.
Think you’re a tough-guy and can sprint the whole marathon?
Ironically, the marathon event immortalizes a Greek messenger who ran
as fast as he could for 26.2 miles to Marathon and fell over dead from
exhaustion as soon as he delivered his message. In other words, pace
yourself.
Do something on a daily basis to get more prepared. Don’t just read
about skills, practice them. Do things that will earn you the right to
sleep soundly because you’ve made forward progress.
Don’t kick yourself for waiting to get prepared. It’ll only waste
mental energy. Learn the lesson and get moving.
Don’t think you’re going to go from newbie to expert in every facet of
survival overnight. It’s a process—and any progress that you make will
give you that much more of an advantage over the general public.
Decide right away whether you want to become an expert at one area at
a time or throw yourself at everything at once and be content with a
low level of proficiency in several disciplines. (You’ll probably
want to take a hybrid approach)
Pray
For my wife and me, prayer is the biggest thing that gives us peace
and strength. We’re facing some pretty huge threats to our way of life
and talking with God is the biggest thing that helps keep our heads
from spinning around in frustration with what’s going on in the world.
We’re living in crazy times and we’re thankful to have a rock that we
can hold onto.
What to Do Next?
Still don’t know what to do next? That’s a big reason why I wrote the
SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course and the
FastestWayToPrepare.com Ultra-Fast Preparedness Course. They’re
step-by-step guides to get you and your family ready for breakdowns in
civil order after disasters. To read more about it and see if it’s
right for you, please go to SurviveInPlace.com or
FastestWayToPrepare.com.
Do you have any stories about how you went from being paralyzed or
panicked by what is going on in the world to feeling more at peace?
How about how you won over relatives who once thought you were
paranoid? And, if you’ve gone through the SurviveInPlace.com Urban
Survival Course or the FastestWayToPrepare.com Ultra-Fast Preparedness
Course, please share how it helped you feel more confident in your
preparations by commenting below.
This weekend, in honor of Memorial Day, we’re going to donate 10% of
all sales on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to the Special
Operations Warrior Foundation. The Warrior Foundation has a two part
mission…The first is to pay for college for the children of members of
the special operations community who die on a mission or training
accident. The second is to provide financial assistance to make sure
that family members can travel to and stay with operators who are
wounded in action or training.
Why the Warrior Foundation? Simple. Several of my close friends happen
to be in SF, SEAL, PJ, and MARSOC units. In addition, my brother is
SF, and the Warrior Foundation helps the kids of one of his teamates
who was killed a couple of years ago in Afghanistan. In other words,
it’s got personal meaning for me. We do this a couple of times a year
and the checks that I get to write to the SOWF make me happier than
almost any other check I write.
Until next week, God bless & stay safe!
David Morris
about.
WS
Do People STILL Think You’re Paranoid For Preparing?
by David Morris on May 24, 2012
Welcome to this week’s Urban Survival Newsletter, brought to you by
the SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course and the
FastestWayToPrepare.com ultra-fast preparedness course. This week,
we’re going to talk about whether or not you’re paranoid for being a
prepper. :) Also, I’ll tell you about a special promotion that we’re
doing with the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in honor of
Memorial Day.
On that note, if you’re currently deployed or ever served, thank you
for your service. I feel that way every day…so saying it on holidays
seems kind of redundant, but I don’t think that those who have served
are told how much they’re appreciated often enough.
Are you a Paranoid Prepper?
It’s amazing how many emails I get that start with either, “I might be
paranoid” or “My family thinks I’m paranoid.” The simple fact is, if
you think that it’s smart to prepare for likely disasters, some people
will call you prudent and others will call you paranoid.
In reality, the passage of time is all that will shed light on whether
someone is being paranoid or not. As an example, Joel Rosenberg wrote
about terrorists flying planes into a skyscraper before 9-11. (It was
after Al-Qaeda had started preparing, so he didn’t give them the
idea.)
Many thought that the idea was the creation of a fiction writer with
an overactive imagination. And those who thought it was possible were
merely paranoid—until it actually happened. Then he was seen as a
visonary and every alphabet soup government agency wanted him to come
consult with them.
That’s the way it is with many threats. Some in New Orleans thought
that preparing for a levee break was being paranoid—until it actually
happened. For awhile after Hurricane Katrina, there was only one
operational hospital in the entire city. It was Ochsner Hospital, and
they had been taking practical steps to prepare for a levee break
since the 50s. Most people thought they were paranoid too, until they
were the only working hospital in town. Then the city that hadn’t
prepared thought that they deserved $80 million of free medical care
from the hospital that HAD prepared.
Other threats never pan out…like Y2K. People who were myopic and
focused on Y2K ended up looking paranoid after the dust settled. BUT,
those who looked at Y2K as simply being one of many potential threats
on the horizon didn’t need to miss a beat when nothing happend. Those
Y2K preppers who kept their supplies and training up to speed look
pretty smart right about now. They may have been paranoid about Y2K,
but their understanding of the need to be prepared was practical and
timeless.
“Paranoia,” if you want to call it that, isn’t necessarily a bad
thing…unless it starts affecting your sleep, your relationships with
others, and your mood. Fortunately, there are some simple things that
you can do to look at the threats that we’re facing in a way that will
allow you to keep balance in your life.
So, here are some truisms about being paranoid/prepared:
1. There will always be a “new threat” to worry about. They’re kind of
like waves in the surf zone. If you focus all of your energy on one,
there’s always another one coming. Your best bet is to power through,
keep moving, and keep your eyes on the big picture. Greece might
collapse, the US will probably have another government shutdown this
year. The sun will keep having solar activity. Terrorists will
continue to increase and decrease their “chatter.”
2. General preparedness will help keep you from the emotional
rollercoaster of going from one probable disaster to the next. EMPs,
bio attacks, economic collapse, & infrastructure attacks all share
common elements…people who are prepared to take care of themselves and
are familiar with some hardships fare better than those who expect to
always be able to pay with plastic and to always have a plentiful
supply of food, water, fuel, and electricity at their fingertips.
Focusing on these common elements will give you a broad preparedness
base.
3. TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) may or may not
happen during your lifetime, so don’t waste all your time on Earth
focusing on it. Some day you’re going to look back on how you spent
your life. Spend your time today in a way that you’ll be happy about
tomorrow.
4. If things do collapse, life will get REAL stressful, so don’t
forget to stop and smell the roses while things are relatively
stable…and figure out the magic combination of factors that let you
manage personal stress. (I devote a big chunk of the
FastestWayToPrepare.com course to this very skill.)
5. If you’re losing sleep now because of what MIGHT happen, you should
learn how to get your mind under control for when things actually do
happen.
6. Spending time making forward progress on your preparations will
ALWAYS beat spending time reading about every possible disaster that
could happen.
7. Unless your plan is to live in a cave, completely isolated and
alone, make sure to spend time on relationships with family and
friends. They’ll make your life richer if disaster never happens, and
they’ll make life livable if disaster does happen.
8. Many of the things you worry about will never happen. Some might.
But, as Matthew 6:27 says, “Who by worrying can add a single hour to
his life?” Try to convert worry into action and/or prayer.
Efficiency = Vulnerability
We live in a time of incredible efficiencies. Our power, water,
electronic banking, just-in-time food supply, travel options,
communications and other infrastructure are simply amazing. All of
these systems are streamlined and relatively predictable. And we’ve
become dependent on them to the extent that they have become some of
our biggest vulnerabilities.
These systems are all vulnerable to natural disasters, solar events,
terrorists, foreign interests, and simple accidents.
Ironically, if we wouldn’t have any of these efficiencies in place,
preparedness wouldn’t be so unusual because everyone would have to
practice preparedness in order to survive. You can see this by looking
to undeveloped countries or by looking back 70-80 years.
But our society is advancing so quickly that we’re increasingly
vulnerable to more and more threats. In fact, it seems like a new
threat/vulnerability combination is announced every week. One week
it’s a possible solar storm. The next it’s overprinting money, foreign
economies tanking, and nuclear reactors half way around the globe
melting down. The week after that, it’s foreign countries’ ability to
launch EMPs off of our coasts.
The threats are not going to stop. Even if they do, journalists will
just recycle old threats & vulnerabilities to get viewers.
Eventually one of these big disasters is going to happen, but how do
you absorb all of these threats in the meantime without going a little
nuts?
I wrestled with this question a few years ago when I was getting my
family prepared…and it’s one of the reasons I took what we learned and
created the SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course. At one point
early on, I was so focused on all of the new threats I was learning
about that my mind was pinging around like a bunch of sugared up kids
in a bounce house.
I know from the letters I get that many of you and even more of your
relatives are in that very situation.
It causes some people to stick their head in the sand and ignore the
problems. It causes others to end up in a repeating loop of fixating
on the latest & worst threat facing us but not taking any action.
Fortunately, there’s a better option that I’ll cover in a minute.
There are just SO many big threats to prepare for…it’s hard to know
where to start and whether or not to simply throw in the towel, and
abandon life as you know it in preparation for an immediate breakdown
in society.
A few years ago, I didn’t think the country would last more than a few
months, let alone until 2012. And every week I have people telling me
that they think things will collapse within the next few weeks.
Fortunately, I was wrong a few years ago and many people have been
wrong since then, but at some point people worried about immediate
collapse WILL be right. It could be a day from now, a decade from now,
or a generation from now. We just don’t know.
So what do you do when you’re being barraged by threats, know you need
to act, but have limited time & money and don’t know what to do first?
Calm Down
The first thing you need to do is take a deep breath. In a survival
situation, panic can kill you quicker than a lack of oxygen. One of
the best ways to prepare for the stress of a survival situation is to
learn how to handle stressful situations in everyday life as
efficiently as possible. This isn’t a switch that you can flip…it’s a
skill that’s developed over time—and a skill you can start developing
today.
Practice calming down while driving, while talking with customer
support that doesn’t speak English, and with friends and relatives.
There are some situations where escalating conflict helps, but in most
cases it doesn’t.
If you’re frantically preparing, you might also want to calm down a
little. I believe preparedness is both urgent, and a way of life. It’s
a marathon, not a sprint. It’s easy to prepare at such a frantic pace
that you quickly burn out or make expensive mistakes. But when you
make it a part of your life, it becomes quite fun and enriches every
day in addition to preparing you for disasters.
Listen to your body. If your “fuse” is shorter than it should be,
figure out what you need to do to get calmed down. More sleep? More
exercise? Less caffeine? Everyone’s different, but everyone shares
similar bio-chemical needs.
Make a Plan
The next thing you need to do is make a plan. What threats are you
MOST concerned about? What preparations can you do that will help you
no matter what kind of disaster you face? What skills & supplies do
you currently have? Which skills do you need to develop & what
supplies do you need to start getting? What if you have to bug-out?
What if you can’t bug-out and you have to Survive In Place?
You will continually be modifying your plan based on opportunities and
your unique situation, so don’t feel like the plan you make today will
be set in stone.
Control Your Time, Control Your Mind
It’s easy to spend hours and hours reading, watching, or listening
about the next worst thing that’s going to happen. It’s also
intoxicating to read about other people’s survival plans and about
other people’s survival skills instead of actually doing stuff
yourself.
I encourage you to control what you watch, listen, and read. There’s
no shortage of information out there about all of the threats that we
face. And it’s not a bad thing to be aware of them, but think about
every potential disaster you hear about as encouraging your decision
to be prepared rather than as something new to worry about.
One of the best illustrations of this is helicopter pilots. Helicopter
pilots are a unique breed. Airplane pilots know that if their engines
go out, their plane will naturally glide some distance and they have a
good shot at being able to land safely.
Helicopter pilots, on the other hand, are basically flying a rock
attached to a few spinning tongue depressors through the air. If the
engine goes out, autorotation will buy some grace, but landing a dead
helicopter becomes more like landing a rock than landing an airplane.
As a result, helicopter pilots are very aware of all of the threats
they face and everything that could go wrong at any given moment and
cause a series of cascading disasters. The ability to accept and deal
with all of these potential threats, embrace them, and enjoy finding
solutions to them is what makes for great helicopter pilots. They
learn that at some point you have to stop over thinking what might
happen and just start flying.
Similarly, the more aware you are about the political, natural, and
terrorist threats that we face, the more you’ll want to develop the
mind of a helicopter pilot…always aware of what could happen, but
never dwelling on any one thing and letting it paralyze you.
Fortunately, there’s a balance.
What I encourage you to do is watch & read enough to spur you to
action and spend the rest of the time that you would have spent
reading/watching actually DOING things to get prepared. Once you’ve
read and or watched enough to make you want to take action, then you
don’t need to watch anymore.
That’s a big reason why I am so focused on not only writing about
vulnerabilities that we face and big picture preparedness, but also
simple, fundamental things that people can do on a daily basis to get
themselves prepared. I want every article that I write to have
actionable steps that you can take immediately so that you become more
prepared every day.
Take Action!
Once you’re aware of the threats that we’re facing…both in the US and
globally…the biggest thing you can do to get prepared and stay sane is
to take action.
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint.” “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” “Slow
and steady wins the race.” These are all good sayings to remind you to
pace yourself. If you have to sprint, then look at your preparedness
as interval training and plan for time to catch your breath and
regroup.
Think you’re a tough-guy and can sprint the whole marathon?
Ironically, the marathon event immortalizes a Greek messenger who ran
as fast as he could for 26.2 miles to Marathon and fell over dead from
exhaustion as soon as he delivered his message. In other words, pace
yourself.
Do something on a daily basis to get more prepared. Don’t just read
about skills, practice them. Do things that will earn you the right to
sleep soundly because you’ve made forward progress.
Don’t kick yourself for waiting to get prepared. It’ll only waste
mental energy. Learn the lesson and get moving.
Don’t think you’re going to go from newbie to expert in every facet of
survival overnight. It’s a process—and any progress that you make will
give you that much more of an advantage over the general public.
Decide right away whether you want to become an expert at one area at
a time or throw yourself at everything at once and be content with a
low level of proficiency in several disciplines. (You’ll probably
want to take a hybrid approach)
Pray
For my wife and me, prayer is the biggest thing that gives us peace
and strength. We’re facing some pretty huge threats to our way of life
and talking with God is the biggest thing that helps keep our heads
from spinning around in frustration with what’s going on in the world.
We’re living in crazy times and we’re thankful to have a rock that we
can hold onto.
What to Do Next?
Still don’t know what to do next? That’s a big reason why I wrote the
SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course and the
FastestWayToPrepare.com Ultra-Fast Preparedness Course. They’re
step-by-step guides to get you and your family ready for breakdowns in
civil order after disasters. To read more about it and see if it’s
right for you, please go to SurviveInPlace.com or
FastestWayToPrepare.com.
Do you have any stories about how you went from being paralyzed or
panicked by what is going on in the world to feeling more at peace?
How about how you won over relatives who once thought you were
paranoid? And, if you’ve gone through the SurviveInPlace.com Urban
Survival Course or the FastestWayToPrepare.com Ultra-Fast Preparedness
Course, please share how it helped you feel more confident in your
preparations by commenting below.
This weekend, in honor of Memorial Day, we’re going to donate 10% of
all sales on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday to the Special
Operations Warrior Foundation. The Warrior Foundation has a two part
mission…The first is to pay for college for the children of members of
the special operations community who die on a mission or training
accident. The second is to provide financial assistance to make sure
that family members can travel to and stay with operators who are
wounded in action or training.
Why the Warrior Foundation? Simple. Several of my close friends happen
to be in SF, SEAL, PJ, and MARSOC units. In addition, my brother is
SF, and the Warrior Foundation helps the kids of one of his teamates
who was killed a couple of years ago in Afghanistan. In other words,
it’s got personal meaning for me. We do this a couple of times a year
and the checks that I get to write to the SOWF make me happier than
almost any other check I write.
Until next week, God bless & stay safe!
David Morris
Winston_Smith
May 27, 2012, 7:23:15 PM5/27/12
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>Do People STILL Think You’re Paranoid For Preparing?
http://www.secretsofurbansurvival.com/1436/do-people-still-think-youre-paranoid-for-preparing/
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Hisler
May 29, 2012, 12:26:53 AM5/29/12
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On 5/27/2012 4:30 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:
> Yeah, he's selling a plan but this is still worth reading and thinking
> about.
> WS
>
>
"Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale." -- A line from the movie
> Yeah, he's selling a plan but this is still worth reading and thinking
> about.
> WS
>
>
"Strange Days."
Debbie
May 29, 2012, 8:29:38 AM5/29/12
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Joseph Heller, Catch22
Hisler
May 29, 2012, 11:37:11 PM5/29/12
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