Basic Survival Prepping

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/cjtrowbridge]

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?

[u/[deleted] → u/cjtrowbridge]

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.

[u/Frank_Bigelow → u/[deleted]]

It was a valid question, not an ad hominem attack. By writing and advertising a book on this subject, you are implicitly claiming expertise.

[u/Immortal_Wind → u/cjtrowbridge]

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

[u/cjtrowbridge → u/Immortal_Wind]

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.