SHTF BOOT CAMP and What to do when you run out of your Food Stocks (1)

Books are a good thing; however, a discussion board is a place to exchange ideas and help each other. This whole Internet thing is a damn shame. You have a total of around 9,000 books (audio and e books.) My library consists of about 3000 or so books (real books.) I have read about 1700 of those so far and that has taken decades. So, how can you say with any certainty whether any given book is any good or not? If you haven't read and studied it, how do you know how relevant it is to our lives and / or out particular situation?

Now you know where a book review belongs, but don't expect people to jump on it. Almost to a man, and it may include you, people cannot find time to respond to a discussion board with ten or twelve paragraphs - it becomes an insurmountable task. Oh, they have time to write and write about how little time they have to respond to stuff on the Internet, but they have time to do that and people always refer you to books that they may not have even read themselves. When I cite the book The Two Seeds of Genesis 3 : 15 (which I do a lot), I quote from it a lot. I've read the book so many times, it's like the Bible; I can cite you chapter and verse of either. But, I also tell people what it's about and how that cite applies to the topic under discussion.

Books, in and of themselves, have their limitations. With three books you could teach yourself enough about a topic to have some degree of competency in that field; six books and you would know a subject (even a skill set) and if you read and understood a dozen books on a subject, you would know most of it so that practice would be the only difference between being competent at it and just knowing it. Think about that the next time you want to become competent in a field that will get you a better job.

I did a thread on this topic you brought up just so people would have the right kind of content. It might give you some idea of what information looks like versus what books look like. I wonder how many books Stewart Rhodes read before he struck out on his own to start the Oath Keepers. Somehow books did not prevent him from making every security mistake known to God or man. Today, he's offering to sell his brethren out for pennies just to have the media give him a platform... cold day in Hell when that happens. His ex wife has destroyed everything the man worked for by giving up his entire battle plan... hidden tunnels on his property, unregistered cars, and delusions of grandeur all thrown in for free.

This is a serious undertaking. I hope that you will begin to take it seriously.