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    Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper?
    Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper?
    Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper?
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    Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper?

    By J.L. Murphey

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    There has been a lot of hype on the airways about how to survive this or that calamity. I've been a "prepper" long before there was such a word. Chapters include: the differences between a prepper and a survivalist, the basics, the cost, storage, putting up stores, bugging in, bugging out, bugged out living, self defense, the bug out bag, and the reality of it all.

    Enjoy but mostly be prepared.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.L. Murphey
    Release dateApr 27, 2012
    ISBN9781476356471
    Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper?
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    J.L. Murphey

    I live in Coastal Georgia. Married and have had my soul mate in my life for over twenty years.We have four beautiful daughters and six absolutely wonderful grandchildren. I've been a published writer for over thirty years. Genres under various pen names include, suspense/thrillers, science fiction, children, southern fiction, nonfiction, Christian nonfiction, and inspiration/motivation nonfiction, and humor. Articles published in various magazines.

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      Book preview

      Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper? - J.L. Murphey

      Are You a Survivalist or a Prepper?

      by J. L. Murphey

      Copyright 2012 by J.L. Murphey

      Cover art copyright 2012 J. L. Murphey

      All Rights Reserved

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-Book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-Book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Disclaimer- the author does not profess to imply to be a professional or expert in this field. This is written for informational use. Under all circumstances the reader should consult with experts in the fields for more in depth study. The views expressed are sole the author's.

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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I wish to acknowledge all the preppers and survivors who have spent their time, energy, and resources helping others understand and instruct as to what this is all about. YouTube is full of how-to videos and the internet articles, blogs, etc. made by you for this endeavor. I salute you.

      While I may not fully believe as you do as to what will come in the future, it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

      Browsing the internet and it's wealth of resources was used to compile data and fill in the blanks where my personal knowledge was lacking. It makes me thankful that I am able to utilize it.

      I can remember a time when Arthur C. Clarke was discussing computers and what we now know as the internet at a dinner party I attended in Sri Lanka many decades ago. Computers couldn't fit on your lap or hand they filled entire floors of buildings. Let alone actually conversing with another person and sharing information. We all thought this science fiction and now I see science fiction has turned into science fact.

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      Chapter 1

      Introduction

      In my head for over a month now has been the old Dr. Pepper jingle, except the words are changed to...I'm a Prepper. You're a Prepper. He's a Prepper. She's a Prepper. Wouldn't you like to be a Prepper too? Okay brain hush already I'm typing!

      First let me say, I'm not suffering from paranoid delusions. I'm a realist. I've experienced a lot of nasty things in my first half century on this planet including martial law, government overthrows, hard economic times, and many life and death type situations. From the title of this book you may think you have to be one or the other; a survivalist or a prepper. I'm both.

      I am not a professional or an expert in this area, but I am someone who has lived this lifestyle for quite a few decades. I've learned by trial and error, and researching possibilities.

      My mother survived the WWII's pre and post Nagasaki atomic bomb. She often said while my grandfather had money in sacks used for mattresses, you couldn't eat money. I guess you could, but who would want to? She told the story of how my grandfather bought up land with his cache of wealth during the war.

      It was all bombed out areas not good for anything during the war. Land was dirt cheap literally. Who wants to live in a bombed out airfield? Nobody in their right mind, right? It was confiscated by the USAF after the war. Many years later most of this property was donated back to Tokyo and a stadium now sits on what was bombed out useless land. But at the time it was all purchased, my grandfather had a plan.

      It is what my grandfather did with the land that is important. He gathered farmers to farm the land and grow food. This is where the wealth was. Everyone has to eat. He hired construction workers to build family shacks for the farmers and they were paid in food taking care of basic needs for everyone involved including my mother's family.

      I often say death is the absence of learning and it is true. I learn something new every day and not afraid to try anything...at least once. I'm a Jill of all trades and a master of none. After all, if you become a master you stop learning. To be a master you know it all and I don't. Even at my age, I'm still learning.

      Living overseas for a portion of my life, I was taught self-defense from a young age. My father being a U. S. Marine didn't hurt either. The fact that I was a girl, notwithstanding, I learned it all. By the time I was a teenager, I could hunt and dress wild game, fish, and garden, rebuild an engine in an automobile, weld, demolish and construct a simple shelter, and gather what I needed to survive.

      For this I thank my parents. We were not poor. We did not live in rural America although my father grew up there. We did not need this information to survive on a day-to-day basis. My parents taught us common sense and self sufficiency from their experiences from the Great Depression to wars, and everything else in between. And although I live in Georgia now, I am not a redneck.

      Considering I write dystopian fiction doesn't hurt either. I'm constantly researching how to do this or that with the minimum things possible. Matter of fact, there isn't much I can't figure out if I put my mind to it. Life is about adaptation. The importance is survival and my quest for knowledge is insatiable. But what good is knowledge if you do not teach it to others?

      When my children struggled with this or that task in school I abolished the words, I can't. If you haven't tried at least three different ways to do something whether it was mathematics, or tying your shoes...you didn't try hard enough. Before they could say the words, they had to ask for help from at least two people seeking out a solution. I made them work for it. It instilled some great work ethics in all of them. It also gave them a greater sense of pride when they accomplished their task.

      In a nutshell this is the reason for this book... teaching others. Whether you are attempting to survive an apocalyptic event or picking up the pieces after a natural disaster... Whether you are a die-hard prepper and/or survivalist and looking for a new angle or not... Whether you are just curious about what all this hula-ba-loo is about on television lately, or whether it all makes sense to you and you don't know where to start...I'm passing on the knowledge garnered from others or learned the hard way into one spot. This is a basic overview and not a survival bible. There are tons of books in the marketplace for that. A little common sense can go a long way in surviving whatever comes and I've met too many people over the years with none.

      Even though this is just one book with a few examples, this topic is so huge it will probably be a series of books. How to prepare meals, store food, and some recipes using long term stores are slated for another book. How to trap, kill, and dress alternate protein sources, raising your own protein sources are slated for another one and possibly a few more. There is just too much information to put into one book at a reasonable price.

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      Chapter 2

      Definitions

      According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary online--

      A survivalist is a person who advocates and practices survivalism or an attitude, policy, or practice based on the primacy of survival as a value.

      So what constitutes survival? The act or fact of living or continuing longer than another person or thing b: the continuation of life or existence.

      That's pretty basic. It just means you doing what you have to do to stay alive. But what else is there about a survivalist? There are a set of skill sets involved. A survivalist can take a pocket knife and play MacGyver with it. What is playing MacGyver? For those of you too young to remember the television show...MacGyver was a character who could create anything he needed with whatever he had. A pretty

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