...well. maybe a little bit.
I'm sure you are wondering what this post is about with a title like that. Maybe C5 has finally snapped. Nope. Got you again.
A few weeks back, I was asked to tackle a more public prepper presentation. I was told, "I figured you would be a level headed person that could explain what we are about without all that crazy Doomsday stuff." I laughed because I am somewhat of a crazy doomsayer. I'm not a moderate prepper preparing for storms. That's just a bonus that comes with what I am really prepping for.
This is all a dramatic lead up. What I really want to do is introduce the "New to prepping" visitors to THE CRASH COUSE.
http://www.peakprosperity.com/crash-course-classic-version
I consider this, The most important video series you can watch in your life. Many people on this site have watched it. Its all of the facts...without all the crazy.
If you have spent any time in the prepper world, searching for the necessary skills, you will quickly realize you have walked into a world of crazy. Its a mine field of every sort of paranoid, bipolar, and often quite dangerous....nut jobs. Full on, Kooko for Choco Puffs. All of them wanting to recruit you. Many of them succeeding.
Often, these snaKe oil, salesmen can get their foot in the door by explaining to people what Money really is to a population that generally doesn't know. With this deep revelation exposed and trust built, The MARK is now ready to be sold any crazy position they hold. Thus we have the Glen Becks and the Michael Mores. Peter Josef's Zeitgeist and Alex Jones Endgame. Right Sector, The Arian Brotherhood, Christian Patriots and anyone else that can tell a good story.
One of the things I like about THE CRASH COURSE is that it can also act as an inoculation against all this crazy. Buy knowing the basic MATH of it all, You are just not going to be bamboozled by someone that reveals part of it.
THE CRASH COUSE. Its three and a half hours of your life. Its dry and academic. No dramatic music. No flashy editing and enticing conspiracies. Don't skip around to the parts you like or do the short version. Watch the whole darned thing. Treat it like doing a college course. If you need to watch a part two or three times to get it, do it. You are investing in your own life.
So, Back to the crazies. As you walk this prepper path, its easy to ask yourself if any of this is real or have you just deluded your self. Are you just one of the gullible crazies? Did you waist your life in a fantacy?
I've been doing this Prepper thing for a LONG time now. It has cost me ALOT. In Money, In Time, In Reputation, In Family, In Suffering. I have a confession to make. When I first watched the series end to end, I sat dazed for a wile. I was finally not alone. I broke down and cried in heart broken relief .
For the first time I knew and said to myself, "I'm Not Crazy".
I was just a little ahead of the curve.
(update- a new up to date version has just come out but it is not fully available for free just yet. A new one will come out each month. You can find it here http://www.peakprosperity.com/crashcourse
also a shorter accelerated version is , now, available for those that cant invest the time. Still, I recommend the full version)
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
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On a totally un Prepper related topic....Because of the title of this post...Ive had this classic song stuck in my head ALL FRIGGIN DAY. Hey. Whats the end of western civilisation without a little punk music to mix things up a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1IwU3yfys
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
I am crazy but for different reasons 🙂
OK...just got to the end of it...
Ummmmm....Errrrrrrr.....Uhhhhhhhhh....
This is going to take some time to process, so please excuse me while I go curl up in a ball and ponder the meaning of life.
OK...just got to the end of it...
Ummmmm....Errrrrrrr.....Uhhhhhhhhh....
This is going to take some time to process, so please excuse me while I go curl up in a ball and ponder the meaning of life.
Take you're time dude. Im not sitting out a winter on this farm land going Bug Nuts because I think its Romanic. Its harsh. I had a friend that watched it with their children and stopped each piece to discuss it with them. The kids got it faster than the adults. Another friend (A full on Lefty) sent it to a banker and his financial adviser. They got back to him and said they totally agreed and could find no fault in it. Its not made to scare the shit out of you. It should motivate you to get active. The producer once ran a Fortune 50 company and owned a 5 BATHROOM house. He cashed out and now lives in a small house with a garden in a "Resilient" community. His fortune is gone, producing this and making it available.
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
OK...let me say this...
If going through this course doesn't make you stop and go HMMM...then something is wrong.
I have spent the better part of the last week searching for answers to the questions that I had to ask myself after watching this.
The understanding I got from all of this is much too long to post here, as it took me several days to write it.
So, I made a post to the blog instead...even delaying my usual post day of Wednesday.
Here it is...
http://www.canadianpreppersnetwork.com/2014/03/economic-collapsewhat-does-that-mean.html
Thanks for the show of support. Its always good to get the thumbs up from the Big D. Glad you began to work it all through.
The next mega problem coming up in our area is the Demographic Bubble. That is going to sink any normalcy here. I expect a mega drop in land prices and a lot of abandoned roads since there wont be the tax base to maintain them
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
It wasn't so much the presentations in the crash course itself, but the questions it made me ask myself...
Every good article should inspire you to investigate further, as this one does!
Good article Denob, nice to see it posted from a Canadian standpoint. The Chris Martenson series (3 plus hour version), I first watched that the better part of 2 years ago after C5 put me onto it...
Cheers... Joe O'
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I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.
I found the most difficult thing about prepping is the difference in peoples knowledge about what's really going on in the world.I've been researching alternative subjects for over a decade and I found this fella named alan watt ,who is talking about current events and the related mind control that we're all exposed to everyday.If your interested in learning check out any of his vids but this is a great one to start with,enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVlhBS8VrbY
Sorry I cant help you there. Got about a minute in before going, "Asperger, Obsessive Compulsive". Alex Jones interest was a dead giveaway, whom I consider a Type 2 bipolar or functioning bipolar.
To help people get some perspective, Ill put this up to give some, end of the world prediction fails- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWVgtXVoTbQ
Thanks for bringing it up to the top of the page again, though.
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I too often dabble in either proving or debunking the biblical scriptures as some quote comes across my path defining that this scripture is inaccurate because another interprets it wrong, yet presents a viable interpretation that I fall for. When repeating this to a knowledgeable person, I soon find that considerations were not made for this and that and once again , the Bible remains non-contradictory.
It often appears that history is easy to write because all the events have already occurred and one just has to draw logical conclusions to those grey areas. Since no one is left to debunk the theory, the most followers of a given theory seem to win the debate. Trying to point out to people that over 300 religions use the Bible as their own means that the book is obviously open to misinterpretation. While most will agree that this point is true, they state their faith is the one that has it all correctly interpreted(and no room for error). It is at this point I often say some thing like "I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken" and really annoy them as there is no room for debate with most on the subject of religion.
I just confront them on the sin of pride or about how, "The lord hates an unjust scale", ...
And call them to REPENTANCE.
Its amazing how often that works. 🙄
I have a Tactical Harness and I have a Tool Belt. The Tool Belt is more Useful.