Month: August 2019
First-Line Kit: Signals & Navigation
Info Bleg/Open Thread
My “Go Bag” and myth buster!
note: first appeared in July 2015
I am a big believer in layers, redundancy, and modular “prepping.” I don’t get locked into the conventional way of thinking as most prepper “experts” do. I try to think in terms of, and focus on, “mission.” And the same applies to my “Go Bag” and how it integrates with my overall philosophy on my “prepper” way of life.
So, as always, I always designate a “mission” for everything I have. For my gear and equipment I want ensure that I am staying on task, staying focused and not just acquiring “stuff” for its own sake. So here is my “Go Bag” mission:
A bag that contains the absolute minimum to defend myself, my family and begin the trip to my survival cache. To minimally survive independent of any other source of resources while maintaining as low a profile as possible.
No! This is…
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There Isn’t A War Until Someone Fights Back
Everyone Used To Know The Aphorism
Idle Thoughts On Choreographed Dance
The Puritan question: prophets vs. priests
There is a debate on Orthosphere blogs about the Puritan Hypothesis, the claim that today’s social justice Left (as well as all earlier iterations of Leftism) is just a secularized version of Puritanism. JMSmith has given some support to this hypothesis, while Bruce Charlton has dissented. On the one hand, that the Puritan Roundheads during the English Civil War were the precursors of later Leftism seems to me a plain historical fact. And yet, one may still dispute the larger claim of an intrinsic spiritual affinity between the two. I myself have agreed with Bruce that it is wrong to call Leftism an outgrowth of Christianity, even a heretical one. There is simply nothing distinctively Christian about liberalism or Leftism.
The accusation that Protestants, and Puritans in particular, are precursors of later godless rebellions is an old Catholic polemic, long predating Moldbug. “Puritans” in this context does not mean overly…
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FOR GOD AND COUNTRY 