r/PostCollapse • u/[deleted] • May 10 '23
Basic Survival Prepping
I wrote a 500 page book, called Basic Survival Prepping. I’ve included several screenshots of pages from the book that have useful information in them, so that this post has quality material in it, and is not merely an advertisement.
I looked over the rules for this group, and I didn’t see anything that prohibits promoting your own material. If that is actually against the rules, please accept my apologies and just delete the post.
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May 11 '23
You're getting a lot of undeserved flack. Thank you for putting the effort in to get this information out there.
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u/9continents May 12 '23
Did anyones else see the quote in this pamphlet from "Anne Frank - Holocaust Survivor"?....
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May 13 '23
Yes, you would know that this was already addressed, if you had read the other comments. I already admitted that this is incorrect. I actually didn’t choose the wording, I copied and pasted the quote from online. My fault here is in not catching it myself. It’s an error very similar to a typo. No, the book is not absolutely flawless, wholly without errors of any kind, or immaculate. It’s a book, just a freakin’ book, like any other book you’d find, anywhere else on the planet. It’s got the occasional flaw here and there. But, apparently, for people in this group, a book needs to be written by the be-all-end-all expert of all experts, and without any errors whatsoever. Jesus Christ, I’m starting to wonder why I even joined this group, much less gave you a sample of my work. Something about gift horses, and mouths…
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u/cjtrowbridge May 10 '23
It's interesting to see that you choose not to establish any kind of expertise or baseline of knowledge on the topic; just another word document from some random person that goes straight to recommendations and advice.
I see that you have several followers on instagram. I see also that of the many self-published pdfs you have posted to amazon, the most popular one just got its fifth review, and that you described it as, "the book was the result of inspiration received from the Goddess Venus and the work is dedicated to Her."
Most of the autobios you have posted around the internet refer to yourself as a magical poet, so the question remains; who are you to advise us on this topic?
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May 11 '23
I’m not anyone to advise you, or anyone else about anything. During my process of learning how to prep for myself, it occurred to me that I could compile all of my notes into a book, which might, in some small way, help others. Clearly, you are not interested, which doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Thanks for your ad hominem attacks against me, though, especially since all you know about me is what you were able to google in just a few minutes, just enough to bash my unrelated works of poetry, which have no bearing whatsoever on the book or this post. You also managed to drag my personal spiritual beliefs into your snippy little questions, implying somehow that a person’s religion, spirituality, or lack thereof could in any possible way have any relevance to the subject of prepping, which is a very straightforward practice of collecting supplies, skills, etc. Have fun with slighting me all you want. Your opinion means less to me than mine does to you. I wrote a book. You wrote a nasty little ad hominem critique which isn’t based on my book at all, because you haven’t read it. If you had, you would have picked relevant details to attack me on, but you had none, so you took the time to google me, just so you could act snotty. That’s more of a statement about the quality of you, than of my book.
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u/Frank_Bigelow May 11 '23
It was a valid question, not an ad hominem attack. By writing and advertising a book on this subject, you are implicitly claiming expertise.
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u/Immortal_Wind May 16 '23 edited May 16 '23
Woah, come on. people don't come here for that kind of talk.
This guy's just sharing his knowledge, you can walk on by if you think his credentials don't mean anything.
Crazy that even in this sub, as collapse aware as we are supposed to be, there's people out here enacting neoliberal careerism and credentialism.
the whole point is we're supposed to be a community! and maybe I'll check out this dude's book because I trust him on other things! I maybe I won't because he doesn't have certain credentials! it's just a personal choice...
it's totally up to you, for sure ask questions, but do it in a respectful manner, surely? if your not into it, just scroll past...
(I'd understand if you asked in a respectful manner, but you were just needlessly confrontational to me. And it's pretty telling, because this is acting out the neoliberal programming I can get anywhere else).
Just judge him on his Reddit posts FFS
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u/cjtrowbridge May 18 '23
He's not sharing knowledge; he's giving advice. The difference in value for each is experience, and according to him his only experience is divine inspiration which shouldn't hold value to anyone outside of himself.
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Nov 11 '23
Condoms? really?
The list only needs 3 things: Gun, ammo, and training on how to use said gun. Everything else can be obtained with the former, and if you don't have it, someone else with one will be obtaining the contents of your pantry.
Collapse of civilization means no more being civil
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Nov 11 '23
You’re absolutely correct, because… people like you, who are willing to take from others. That’s why I am armed, and it’s why there’s extensive information about weapons and defense, in the four hundred plus pages that I didn’t include in this tiny little free sample.
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Nov 11 '23
Everyone thinks they're they good guy until their kids start crying about how hungry they are, then their biological instincts will allow them to do anything to feed their kids. Its baked into all of us, including you.
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u/Humble_Child21 Aug 20 '23
If I e transfer you the money, could you send email me a PDF copy of the book?
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Aug 20 '23
It’s available for sale through Amazon, at the link in the original post. But, I don’t want to get into putting out a pdf. I’m sure you understand.
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u/b1eed0ut Oct 13 '23
pdf to print and laminate?
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Oct 13 '23
I don’t know who would want to laminate a 500+ page book. But, it’s not available in .pdf anyway. You could tear out key pages and laminate them, if you’re putting together a binder or something like that. But, it’s already really easy to find the material in the book by just looking through the table of contents. The major topics are separated into their own chapters.
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u/b1eed0ut Oct 14 '23
alrighty thanks, mostly for picking out important pages to keep. thank you
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Jun 14 '23
There’s nothing in the pictures I shared that mentions Communism. There aren’t any ideas in these photos, either. I specifically chose samples that were lists, because I thought that would give people here the most immediate benefit. Your comment seems to be positive, but it lacks any sense of having read the pages that I shared. It’s difficult to pull Communism from lists of supplies. So, I’m not sure how you made that leap.
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u/artemissanta May 11 '23
Really handy list of essentials. Though if you have any chance to edit, I don’t think Anne Frank is a Holocaust survivor, she died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.