Comments on Minnesota Preppers Network: On Preppers and Sheeple

Anonymous 9.52... I'm sure you keep insurance ...

2009-12-29T10:23:19.824-08:00

Anonymous 9.52...
I'm sure you keep insurance on your vehicle hoping to use it, too. Since you won't ever need it, you'd may as well save some money and drop those policies.
I'd rather have a BOB as insurance than not have one.
Shy III

Not with a bang, but a whimper. BOB's are gre...

2009-12-29T09:52:39.756-08:00

Not with a bang, but a whimper. BOB's are great if civilization in your area fails with a bang, but when it goes out with a whimper...slowly degrading over a long period of time with no identifiable crisis point, what will your BOB do for you then?

Shy, glad you are back! I did go deer hunting, by ...

2009-11-26T20:19:31.348-08:00

Shy, glad you are back!
I did go deer hunting, by the way... My brother let me use his scoped .308, so I didn't have to sight in my Russian. But I tested the Russian, and she works flawlessly... more on that in private.

I look forward to your new posts. I do have one comment, as I digest the T-day meal my mom cooked up here on the Canadian border: I am prepping as best I can, and will be my BOB together. But by and large, I've determined that it is far safer to stay where we are if/when the bad stuff goes down. I've gotten advice from a survival writer I like, and he writes that you NEVER want to be a refugee. I am working on hardening our place in the city, and being very ready to defend it. The biggest hurdle is the mental one, of course. Am I ready to use force to defend my family and home? My recent decision to get back into hunting was part of that, because if I'm not mentally able to take an animal's life, what chance have I?
I am very concerned about the fact that the large majority of people will NOT be prepared, as you point out. It will cause major trouble in city and country. In the city there will be more of the unprepared. In the country, they will have more cover to cause trouble. Just today, my brother and I were outraged to discover that the neighboring hunters had obviously trespassed on our land after we left during deer season. My brother's expensive game camera was gone. What happened, as near as we determined, was that they were trespassing while hunting, then realized they'd be caught on film. So they stole hundreds of dollars of my brother's equipment.
And this is pre-collapse!
I felt sad about this, because I suddenly realized that our fellow citizens, those who are sheeple, will be very dishonest and likely treacherous when they feel the pangs of hunger growing in their bellies.
So let her rip, Shy.

Amen, Tom- and a topic well worth a bunch of posts...

2009-11-25T13:38:03.312-08:00

Amen, Tom- and a topic well worth a bunch of posts, for sure. Might have to get more busy with those thoughts in Wolf Trax.
Bless God, God bless-
Shy III

Other thing I get from many of my fellow Christian...

2009-11-25T12:43:02.272-08:00

Other thing I get from many of my fellow Christians is when I tell them of the NWO, Obama possibly being the precursor to the Anti-Christ, or the actual Beast himself, when I tell them about surveillance technology, micro chipping, the growing epidemic of police brutality and more...their response is: "Well, when things get bad Jesus will come and rapture us to heaven". I laugh at that response in disgust every time I hear it. I say: "Sure, I believe in the Rapture, and sure I Believe Jesus is coming." But I ask them: "How do you get off with such arrogance to think that Christians in this country will escape severe persecution as we near the end times? What about the hundreds of thousands of Christians in other parts of the world who have to worship in secrecy for fear of having their heads chopped off or Christians in China who are far more faithful than many of us, who each take one page of the bible with them because it's easier to hide in their socks for fear of going to prison for having a Bible." Most Christians in this country do not understand persecution and I think they are about to get a big wake up call, but then again, maybe they need it to separate the wheat from the chaff and to test people who are truly faithful to the word and not just "Playing" Christian.

Man, I totally agree, except what I'm getting ...

2009-11-25T12:27:34.236-08:00

Man, I totally agree, except what I'm getting especially in a lot of christian circles, is not that they don't believe, it's that they don't want to do anything about it. (maybe it's too overwhelming and they'd rather think about other things and just burry their head in the sand). My mom always tells me, "don't worry, let God deal with it." I respond to her, "That's not what God said, and I'm not worrying I'm getting prepared" I tell her "God commanded Noah to build an Ark and to get as many to come aboard who would listen" This is no different, teaching preparedness and teaching about preparedness is our "Ark" and we need to tell all who will listen. And those who don't listen, will find themselves swimming the day the door to the Ark closes.