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How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times
by James Wesley Rawles
by James Wesley Rawles
"But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever." - I Timothy 5:8
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not one who believes we're on the verge of a great 2012 calamity or "The End of the World as We Know It". But there are a lot of different events that can interfere with normal American life. The dollar is continuing to fall, another foot is going to fall in the economy, there are lots of people in the world that hate us, oil is at $100 a barrel right and we have an extremely out-of-touch and misguided person running everything from the Oval Office. As Rawles details in the book, it doesn't take much for something to set off a chain of events that would impact anything from the power grid to stocking the grocery stores. When things like that happen, people do crazy things. Boy Scout motto- Be Prepared. Or as a Christian, I should take at least some responsibility it making provisions to provide for my family, even in time of crisis. This book addresses your retreat, water, food storage, fuel, gardens and livestock, medical supplies, home security, and firearms among other topics. Even if nothing were to happen, the things you would learn and the skills you would develop would come in very handy even if you just lost power for a week. His investment ideas are good too, such as stocking up on pre-'65 coins, guns and ammo- things that will hold their value, if not increase, not matter what happens.
Most Americans live day by day. If you need something, you can just go to the grocery store and go get it. Most people don't have enough food for more than just a couple days. Personally, this book has taught me to make more preparations even if minor things happen, as well as major catastrophes. It's like life insurance, you hope your family never needs it, but it's good to have and be prepared. Or carrying a concealed weapon. You hope you never use it, chances are you won't, but boy if the time rolls around when you do- you're screwed. As Christians, we should take this seriously. After all, we don't want to be worse than the unbelievers.
For the Moscow residents, his survival book "dressed in fiction"-'Patriots', takes place in Bovill and Moscow, Idaho, making a very interesting read.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not one who believes we're on the verge of a great 2012 calamity or "The End of the World as We Know It". But there are a lot of different events that can interfere with normal American life. The dollar is continuing to fall, another foot is going to fall in the economy, there are lots of people in the world that hate us, oil is at $100 a barrel right and we have an extremely out-of-touch and misguided person running everything from the Oval Office. As Rawles details in the book, it doesn't take much for something to set off a chain of events that would impact anything from the power grid to stocking the grocery stores. When things like that happen, people do crazy things. Boy Scout motto- Be Prepared. Or as a Christian, I should take at least some responsibility it making provisions to provide for my family, even in time of crisis. This book addresses your retreat, water, food storage, fuel, gardens and livestock, medical supplies, home security, and firearms among other topics. Even if nothing were to happen, the things you would learn and the skills you would develop would come in very handy even if you just lost power for a week. His investment ideas are good too, such as stocking up on pre-'65 coins, guns and ammo- things that will hold their value, if not increase, not matter what happens.
Most Americans live day by day. If you need something, you can just go to the grocery store and go get it. Most people don't have enough food for more than just a couple days. Personally, this book has taught me to make more preparations even if minor things happen, as well as major catastrophes. It's like life insurance, you hope your family never needs it, but it's good to have and be prepared. Or carrying a concealed weapon. You hope you never use it, chances are you won't, but boy if the time rolls around when you do- you're screwed. As Christians, we should take this seriously. After all, we don't want to be worse than the unbelievers.
For the Moscow residents, his survival book "dressed in fiction"-'Patriots', takes place in Bovill and Moscow, Idaho, making a very interesting read.
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