Category Archives: My Prepper Precepts

Be balanced in your life.  You cannot be a superman 24-7-365. You have to take time to make connections with your family, to rest, to play. Sprinting is healthy in short duration, but prepping is a lifestyle not a race.

(Easier said than done, I have the most problem with this one.)

As I sat at the computer last night my boy came up and asked for me to play with him – This site is important to me, and so is my calling to help others, but having a son that knows he is loved is much more important – so I am typing this while he is sleeping late this morning.

If you can not be balanced in your life you may end up loosing what you find the most important.  This is important enough to try using humor to make it understandable.

You cannot just do one thing all the time, you must take breaks.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices.  A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress.  If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

Be rigid. There are moral absolutes. No matter how ugly life gets, what separates the human from the animal is our ability to distinguish right from wrong. Sometimes, the right thing is the one thing you don’t want to do, but not wanting to do what is hard is not justification for being evil.

I am not afraid to say no, and I am not afraid to be disliked.  Some of my beliefs are different than the majority of folks, and I have paid the price for that in the workplace.  However, just because an idea is unpopular does not mean it is wrong.

Much of the problem with our country is that politics has become a popularity contest.  People say what people want to hear and not the truth.

A man that tells people lies that are comforting is more popular than a man that tells the uncomfortable truth.

Heck a particularly hypocritical political even lied using the title inconvenient truth.

Doing what right is more important than being popular.  Be rigid on what is important.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices.  A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress.  If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

Today’s addition to the Prepper Precepts is that “Skills beat stuff”.

While I love gadgets and new toys as well as anyone.  This is tempered with the knowledge that stuff can be stolen, lost, or broken.  What you carry in your mind and heart are things that cannot be lost.

It is this precept that guides much of what we do here at the Shepherd School.  This site documents a personal journey to gain skills and is for the author as much as it is for the reader.

The more you know the less you carry is a very smart concept from the bush craft community.  This is true for any skill

Having Skills is Better Than Having Stuff

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices.  A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress.  If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

I hear from many sheep that violence is not an answer, and I partially agree.  My prepper precept for today is that violence is not ALWAYS the answer.

I won’t kill over “stuff” because I believe that material items like a TV is not worth a human life.

However, if a person tries to steal property that impacts on my life safety – food, weapons, etc – then I feel that I am justified in using force to protect what protects me.  If someone is trying to kill me or my innocent loved ones, then it I feel I have a moral imperative to stop them.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices.  A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress.  If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

Violence can be the answer to a problem, not always, but sometimes it is appropriate.  You don’t need my prepper precept to tell you that if someone is raping your wife, asking them to please stop is not as effective as a .45 caliber bullet traveling at his face at 1041 feet per second.

If you are unwilling or unable to fight for your beliefs and your liberty, you don’t have “rights” you have polite requests.

I am not a violent man, and I sure do not like to get physical with people in a violent manner.  However, there is only so far I am willing to go before I stand up and say “stop” and without the ability and willingness to commit violence then saying stop is worthless as it is just an act of begging rather than an ultimatum.

If you resort to violence and it did not solve the problem, you did not use enough of it.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices.  A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress.  If you don’t want to read these precepts one by one, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.