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Step by step walk the thousand mile road
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To show how NOT to raise children.

I’d also include:

Go Rin No Sho
The Art of War
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The collected works of Sir Winston Churchill
The Blaster’s Handbook
The Machinists’ Handbook





Nice is overrated

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The Godfather and Tai-Pan.
It's all there.


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Odd that this question, asked in February this year, becomes increasingly relevant with each passing mostly peaceful protest.




The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC

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Some good items on the list here. Adding to my reading list.

Not serious (just kinda joking): I think the Calvin and Hobbes collection should be here.




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Some good items on the list here. Adding to my reading list.

Not serious (just kinda joking): I think the Calvin and Hobbes collection should be here.


I didn't put that on my list but I DO have the Complete Calvin and Hobbes.
Into the box it goes Smile

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This thread began on February 13, 2020, 187 days ago.

We are on page four and no one, myself included, has thus thought to add that quintessential document so central to the effective operation of a free, just community...

... so I say we need to include...

... The Waiver.





Nice is overrated

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Or the works of Plato, Socrates, Aquinas, Kant, Hume, Locke, or Voltaire.
 
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For an EMP? I put a laptop with a DVD reader in my Faraday Cage with 180 .pdfs such as "Raising Chickens", "log Cabin building", "Build a windmill to get electricity". Added a second full charged battery and a second stand alone DVD reader, put all of the .pdfs on a thumb drive and on DVD.


It came with a 1 GB hard drive which I added craploads of songs and movies, etc etc. then I added a digital drive to be the primary as it zips fast.

These kinds of things: http://seasonedcitizenprepper....paredness-downloads/

and

https://www.survivaldan101.com...n-download-for-free/
 
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Mustn’t forget A Canticle for Liebowitz.


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For an EMP? I put a laptop with a DVD reader in my Faraday Cage with 180 .pdfs such as "Raising Chickens", "log Cabin building", "Build a windmill to get electricity". Added a second full charged battery and a second stand alone DVD reader, put all of the .pdfs on a thumb drive and on DVD.


It came with a 1 GB hard drive which I added craploads of songs and movies, etc etc. then I added a digital drive to be the primary as it zips fast.

These kinds of things: http://seasonedcitizenprepper....paredness-downloads/

and

https://www.survivaldan101.com...n-download-for-free/

So following an EMP, you'll have working computer with cool docs. But how are you going to keep it charged? Do you also have solar panels or something in Faraday cages?

That's great. But if this is a nation state EMP attack, there is a good chance there will be encore EMP attacks designed to wipe out any remaining electronics that have been taken out of their Faraday protections.

So your choices will be keep your computer and charging systems protected but unusable or risk losing them to a secondary or tertiary attack.

My point is that nothing beats the printed page when it comes to surviving EMP or similar grid-down scenarios. If you think you may need it, print it.

Oh, and use a LaserJet or photocopy. Ink jet is water soluble and if your docs get wet they will become unreadable.




The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC

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Mustn’t forget A Canticle for Liebowitz.

Great book




The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC

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The foxfire series has been mentioned a couple of times. These are along those same lines but older.

I have a set of encyclopedias that I haven't been able to get rid of. Maybe I should hang on to them for the surviving generation.


The Book Of Camping And Woodcraft (Library of American Outdoors Classics) by Horace Kephart


Woodcraft (The Library of American Outdoors Classics) by Nessmuk (George W. Sears)
 
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Several hard copies of The Merck Manual; still hanging on to my 14th edition.
 
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Farnham's Freehold-Robert Heinlein


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