Spiritual Preparedness for Hard Times, by ZeBo

…to stand up for the truth and call a lie a lie, even if they have to deny 3 of the 4 Gospels (you could argue all 4 gospels, but John is less explicit than the synoptics so I’ll give them this one) and every Creed and teaching the Church Fathers ever gave us. If you want to be prepared for hard times, then you have to be rooted firmly to a solid foundation. Your emotions and thoughts are very likely to be frayed and easily moved under the pressure and stress that a total collapse will put you under. Only the Word of God can maintain its consistency and authority during such times. I will talk more later on about disciplined study of the Word, but for now I’ll keep my focus on accepting the truth about the Word. Make sure that bare minimum, you recognize that Scripture is…




Some Thoughts About Lying- Part 2, by ShepherdFarmerGeek

…why wouldn’t Thomas believe their testimony? He was less blessed because he didn’t believe. Yet Paul said the Bereans were more blessed because they verified what Paul said. A final note: There is a path from truth, to goodness, to beauty. Things are literally ugly, but that is how we know how serious the infection is, and it has even reached goodness and the truth itself. To the point they think nothing of bizarre pornography on the Internet including YouTube, but will ban videos that have no violence, ugly images, but simply speaks unpleasant truth. These two posts are very, very, important since Truth is foundational. Without it there is nothing else. The USA was founded on natural law, which is another way of saying “Truth“. Without the light of Truth we will enter another dark age. Greg Warfare is based on deception. Closer to home, when encountering a criminal…




Feminism, The Industrial Revolution and Natural Design: The Way Forward Requires Sacrifice, by The Recovering Feminist

…moral standard (a truth beyond our own subjective preferences) are disallowed from speaking about it in the public sphere. We are shunned, belittled, and accused. Why? The answer lies in the implicit cultural norm of prohibiting the objective and preferring the subjective. “Don’t Talk” In Absence Of Truth Remember that old saying, “Don’t talk politics, religion, or money?” Perhaps it was a tactic to keep the peace during extended family gatherings. However, that statement did not presuppose the absence of truth itself. That statement did not begrudge and dismiss the fact that truth (objective truth) actually exists. A lot has changed! For instance, you’ve most likely heard the rebuttal, “That’s true for you but not for me.” In fact, that has me thinking about a great book by Paul Copan with a similar title. Think about the not-so-subtle message in that statement for a moment. It is essentially declaring that…




Some Thoughts About Lying- Part 1, by ShepherdFarmerGeek

…have some freedom of movement. When the Nazis conducted a surprise raid, the “Dutch” maid, not realizing they were there, walked into the room. The Nazis asked Corrie’s sister is she was Jewish. The sister said “Yes,” because she believed that the obligation to tell the truth was absolute. The Nazis arrested her. It was this incident that made me decide that my understanding of telling the truth was too simple to fit reality, and I began to think, and study Scripture more closely. The virtues are hierarchical, not equal, or Jesus would not have said that there was a greatest commandment. Love is higher than truth. It was not loving to turn the “Dutch” Jewish woman over to the Nazis. (The other woman, hearing the betrayal, jumped out the window.) Furthermore, we are not obligated to tell the truth to someone who has no right to know. We are…




Letter: Crises of Faith

…short, all three of your questions can be answered by determining where to find “ultimate truth”, and that truth, by which everything else is compared, can only be God. We know His truth by his direct revelation of scripture (The Torah) and all other scripture, words, and deeds must be measured by that yardstick. You are right in questioning whether any “group” has “the only path”. Ultimate truth cannot be found in any denomination, any ethnic or socioeconomic group, or anything done or provided by man. Ultimate truth is only found by pursuing God, which is a life long journey. I’ll leave you with one final concept. You do not have to blindly believe. Websters Dictionary got the definition of ”faith” wrong when it stated that faith is belief when there is no reason to believe. For the Christian, faith is believing in God and the surety of His statements,…




Reaching Out to Others May Save Our Lives, by Ani

…power was restored I gently said that if she wanted to brainstorm about what measures they could take so the NEXT time this happened they’d be in better shape I’d be happy to do so. Crickets…….. Power is back on, all is good. For now. It’s hard. All we can do is try. Preppy boyscout One of the many issues facing the community is the stories we Tell ourselves. Most people think they are king prepper and will be able to live out the situations passing out charity while they or thier small group band together and not just survive but thrive. In short they are as sold on thier stories as the masses of unprepared are with thier story. The truth is somewhere in between. Yes people are going to try to “gank” your stuff. Yes people will try to help you. One underlying unabashed truth is it will…




The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

…are established by repetition. They may be true, they may be supported by evidence, a good portion are false, created to serve a political purpose, gain power, control people, etc. People choose to believe them. Objective truths are supported by evidence. They can be tested. Cause and effect can be measured. This is the realm of science and study. Belief in Noah’s Ark is a personal truth. It’s based on faith. No one has found reliable evidence that it happened. If you want to believe the Ark story as a personal truth, fine, the constitution protects that right, but please don’t try to pass it off as an objective truth or expect others who don’t accept it as a personal truth to consider it to be an objective truth because it is not. I’ve found that most people tend to think and speak as if there is only one truth….




Propaganda and My Prepping – Part 3, by St. Funogas

…By being aware of that, and realizing we’re only rarely told the exact truth, we can be better consumers of all information that comes our way. By always asking the question “Cui bono?” we can often figure out who might be benefitting from us believing things a certain way or not. Their agenda may or may not be in our best interest, usually not. Fear is the single biggest emotion which propagandists use when altering our thinking. Keep that in mind as we move into new territory with the coronavirus, move toward a cashless society, our ever-growing police state, encroachments on our basic civil liberties, the collapsing economy, and the probable financial “Big Reset” of some sort which can’t be too many years into the future. The more we can learn to think out of the box, and to face the ugly truth no matter where it may take us,…




Editors’ Prepping Progress

…the forefront. If I allow these “what ifs” to terrify me into a panic attack (which it threatens to as I type) and paralysis, well, giving in to fear without a fight is sin, isn’t it? So just for right now I will forget about the what ifs, I will not focus on the scheming of the enemy, and I will blast the praise music as I work. I will teach my children TRUTH and we will pray. I will focus on God and His salvation. Last night I was listening to one of Lecrae’s albums as I kneaded dough, and one of the best lyrics (among many) was: “Somebody told me ain’t no such thing as Truth I said, if that’s the case, why should I believe you?” Check and mate. Truth is not relative (and I like Lecrae because he shouts that from the rooftops and the mic)….




Clarity of Mind and Survival- Part 1, by The Recovering Feminist

…Many Radical Feminists End Up Alone Blaming Others In my research I discovered that many radical feminists end up alone, isolated, and discontented, especially in their latter years. I can only assume that this particular end-state is due to a life of self-righteous, subjective claims that the world has not been fair to them and others are to blame for their predicament. Yet, placing the blame on others only delays the hardship of reality and seeking justice to right the wrongs in this world by sourcing a subjective standard of truth leads one into a state of disillusionment. How can one even consider justice or forgiveness without a standard of reality in objective truth? Thus, it is only reasonable to start with the truth that we all fall short! No one is innocent, and we have all hurt one another. Some crimes are, of course, more deserving of harsh penalty…




Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire, But Watch Out For Arsonists, by G.L.

…true? Those liars never, ever mentioned what the other side was saying. When people tell the truth, they do say what the other side is saying. They’re not afraid of people examining the issue because they know, or hope, that the truth will win out. The one who’s not lying is not afraid of the truth; he’s trying to PROVE the truth, which involves refuting a lie. The liar is trying to HIDE the truth, which involves not bringing it up if nobody else does. See how it works? Liars fear the truth, so much so that they avoid even mentioning it, if possible. Imagine, for a minute, what would happen to a conspiracy blog that published all the mainstream news critiques of the “theory of the day”. Most of the conspiracy theories would collapse. Imagine, for a minute, that those reptilian video posters wrote a critique explaining away the…




Should I Bug Out or Survive in Place?- Part 3, by Jonathan Hollerman

…existing prepping group that already has a full survival retreat. In truth, this is very hard to do. Most people who have survival retreats don’t discuss them in public. If they are discussing it around the water cooler at work, I would immediately rule out their group because their OPSEC is already blown. You can search for existing groups on certain prepper forums, but you need to be careful. While every client I have worked with has been completely sane, there are also a whole lot of crazies out there. Just watch a few episodes of Doomsday Preppers, if you want examples. I cannot stress enough the precautions you need to take when looking to join a group. You need to thoroughly vet the group you are joining and make sure they are a good fit for you and your family. You need to make sure they have an effective…




An Important Truth, by Kevin S.

…think what I think? You are what you consume. What are you consuming? You are what you eat is a literal Truth. But the greater Truth is we are what we consume. What we put in our eyes, in our ears, in our minds shapes who we are. What are you putting in your mind? If you are a regular consumer of media then you are putting in propaganda designed to manipulate and control you. Man, some of you are really resisting this reality. Maybe you are invulnerable to manipulation? “You’ll find for example that the experienced hypnotist will tell one that the number of people, the percentage of people who can be hypnotized with the utmost facility (snaps), just like that. is about 20%, and about a corresponding number at the other end of the scale are very, very difficult or almost impossible to hypnotize. But in between lies…




The Hard Truth About Starting Your Survival Homestead, by Mitch M.

…well. Losing the offspring was heartbreaking after caring for them. It is also expensive in lost revenue. Locally, the piglets run from $50 to $200. That means potentially $1,000 lost from my profits already this year. Today that is lamentable. Tomorrow it may be deadly. What if this litter was one from my Yorkshire sows that was going to supply meat for my kids? There is a learning curve involved here. Now is the time to be making mistakes not in TEOTWAWKI. The Garden of Eden in a Bucket group would have you believe that these skills can be learned and preparations made after the fact. In truth this is too late. The time to make mistakes is now while you can still purchase food from a farmer’s market to replace your failures, not when your children are praying for their next meal. We must start today building our knowledge…




Truth-Based Preparedness – Part 2, by R.M.

…your needs) knowledge. You need to get a fuller picture by obtaining information from all sides of an issue. This may also help you understand what people you normally disagree with are thinking. It may help you with decisions on who to trust once SHTF. It may be hard to read some sites you don’t trust, but it is good to know what others are ingesting. When I read something on a topic I know about, such as environmental engineering, I find it almost always has horrible inaccuracies. When reading or watching information on a specific subject of interest, ask yourself: Does this make sense? Does it match my personal experience and knowledge? Can I corroborate the information? Look for the real truth. There is an old saying, “Once you have seen the truth you can’t unsee it.” You may be miserable once you see your beliefs successfully challenged. Be…