Best Practice Prepping for Jesus, UFOs, and the Chaos to Come
Project: Pioneer #71, January 18, 2025 Saturday 2pm
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Don’t despair—prepare.
There are waves of storms coming in the next few days. Lots of different types of storms, none of them good. Let’s talk about ways to prepare, and best practices for each.
It’s going to be hella cold (up to -6F without wind chill) here in pioneer-land this week, with a big snowstorm coming tomorrow (Sunday). We’re going into extreme mode—wrapping our covered wagon RV windows and that problematic outside above ground well riser pipe/spigot with Reflectix. We’re bringing our small propane tanks inside (not the big ones outside that we rely on—we’ll wrap those). Battening down the hatches! If you read our last post, you’ve learned about our big decision. But, that is later. This is now. Have you ever noticed that once you make decision to move on from something, you only see its hardship and flaws? It’s a thing we battle these days, especially with everything in general getting harder. Stay tuned for how we weather this storm in the next few days!
Tonight at 8pm eastern, there’s allegedly going to (finally) be a full-disclosure event in the UAP/UFO/Alien world. On the NewsNation network, Ross Coulthard will host a former US Special Forces operator who participated in the long-discussed (see my former posts) NHI (non-human intelligence) alien spacecraft recovery unit—complete with video. If it’s undeniably believable enough, it will be a profound revelation. Aliens exist. They’re here. What will people do? Freak out? Disregard? Meh? Don’t Look Up? What about God and religion? How does this change all that? We’ve seen soft disclosure over the past few years (the release of the fighter pilot audio/video) and the recent UAP/drone hysteria). But, there was still enough vagueness for skeptics to put their heads in the sand and poo-poo the whole thing. Could tonight change all that? Are they here to help us avoid the insane dystopian chaos we’re running headlong into with intentional purpose? Or, will tonight be yet another nothingburger? We’ll see in a few hours!
Then, if we manage to make it past the weekend to Monday, the pièce de résistance, the crowning of our first-ever man-child dictator king here in the United States. Let’s not forget, he promised several times, “dictator for a day.” After all the bended-knee pomp and circumstance, blatant sycophancy and toadyism on Monday, you should immediately see some attempt at dystopian raids to pull hard-working law-abiding residents of this country out of their safe haven churches, schools, and hospitals. This will infuriate other marginalized people and people who otherwise follow the teachings of their religion and care about others. Anarchists will rise up, protest violently and non-violently, and disrupt life in every way possible.
Of course, this is just to make the magas feel better. It’s theater. Quietly, on the down-low, authorizations will be signed to bring a massive flood of Indian and African H1B and H2B workers to actually take American jobs and exacerbate corporate profits, CEO compensation, and stock buybacks. So, apologies, Bubba, there will be a lot more dark-skinned people speaking funny languages down at the QuickieMart while you’re buying your scratch-offs and PBR.
All this could lead to enraged Bubba mass violence, akin to Jan 6.
There should also be some immediate (or very soon) executive orders that will make the realization of “what we done” quite impactful to the maga crowd. These changes will not make their lives better, in fact quite the opposite. Too late, he’s already in, the damage is done, Lucifer is out of the bottle. They’re gonna be big mad. There could be violence. I’m quite sure the inauguration itself wasn’t moved indoors so much due to the cold (what a bunch of “masculine energy” woosies!), but Trump’s terror at the many credible intel reports on long-range sniper assassination attempts. When that happens, it will happen indoors, a small gathering, by someone familiar, and at close range.
We’ll be in a much more dangerous place, as a country, because as of Monday, we’ll be cut off from critical intelligence from our partners around the world. Intelligence that could keep us from death or great harm. There’s no way the rest of the Five Eyes is going to continue to share that stuff with our new crew of drunk, corrupt, criminal, unintelligent, anti-democracy, and dictator-loving folks. No way. They’ll significantly water it down, if they help at all. We’ll be very exposed. Remember last time—a few days after taking office, Trump had Russia’s key people into the White House and leaked all kinds of extremely sensitive intelligence to them, which very much upset our allies that it put in danger. And that was just the first time out of many. Fun fact: he did keep our most sensitive military and nuclear secrets in the potty at his spy and cockroach-infested golf club. Don’t believe me? Read this recent Eurasian report of the top five risks the world faces in 2025.
Let’s cut to the chase, the good part. What should you do to prepare and protect yourself from all the above? Here are some best practices, so to speak.
Cold Weather: Take a walk around your house. Make sure nothing is connected to your outdoor hose spigots. Temporarily insulate any exposed basement windows. Drip your faucets before going to bed. Wrap your indoor pipes, keep them warm. Wrap or insulate any you can’t. Have safe ways to heat your indoors if the power is out for an extended period. Test all your carbon monoxide and fire detectors - like now. If your car battery is due for replacement, do it now.
Violence: Stay away from crowds for a while. Be gray, bland, boring. That “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kamala” bumper sticker might feel good, but it could get you killed. Cook at home, order in, keep your eyes up (not on your phone!) at all times. Always position yourself near and be aware of emergency exits. Don’t engage in arguments, it’s not worth it, you won’t change anyone’s mind at this point, only their suffering will.
EMP/Power Strike/Outage: Regardless if it happens through extreme climate weather, a solar coronal mass ejection, an enemy starting their first strike with an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) bomb, or other, you should always visualize one thing:
The power suddenly goes out, and stays out. No heat, no internet, perhaps no cell coverage, no gas stations, no ATMs, no refrigerator, no cooking, no air conditioning. Are you ready for that? Do you have food? Do you have alternate ways to communicate with anyone in your immediate circle that you might be away from, at work or school? To get the latest important community news, weather, police, traffic, weather updates?
The best practices there are to mitigate all those exposures, using the ways I’ve discussed over and over in this pioneer journal. They are too many to list here, I’ve spent a year and a half documenting them and providing links.
Here’s a sample of our thinking on a deeper level. We worry that the incoming administration is already crapping on and insulting our world-wide allies and about to do a whole lot more. They’re pissed, and talking about retribution. Canada has mentioned cutting off the critical food and energy supplies to all of the northern US. What if the rest of the world decides to disavow the dollar standard, as they’ve threatened to? As well, the tariffs and other draconian and stupid things this administration is talking about crash the dollar? Your cash is trash, at that point.
We’ve already moved to cash and bonds, and out of the stock market. If the dollar crashes, we’re still screwed on that front. That’s why we started moving into crypto and (mostly) silver and gold coins. There are risks with those things, too. Crypto is imaginary money that could vaporize easily. It requires electricity and a network. When it’s viable, it’s a good means of doing business with folks who may have important (and illegal) resources. In the immediate aftermath of a stuff-hits-the-fan (SHTF) scenario, nobody will want gold or silver coins to barter/trade. They’ll want more important stuff like medical supplies, food, water, ammo, and information.
Even putting yourself out there to barter for things will be dangerous. You could get easily robbed/killed, negotiation over. It all boils down to making sure you have a good strong supply of all those things, that you are self-sufficient. If you can get past the initial phases of disaster or societal upheaval, you may then get to the stage where there’s enough rebuilt society or infrastructure to do bartering with initial, basic currencies such as gold or silver coins. Our hybrid move in the spring to fixed shelter plus RV will allow us to store up a ton more stuff and hunker down for longer, if possible.
Death: What if we don’t make it? What’s the best practice for that? I’ve documented my spiritual journey here before. I was a devout kid, then (mostly) an unbeliever in my very hard Farawayer days. I was always thinking it through, though. Analyzing. Re-reading. What makes sense? What checks off and explains the questions and concerns most accurately, as in Occam’s Razor? A profound reading was After, by Dr. Bruce Greyson, among other similar works, both pro and con that point of view.
You don’t have to join a club or cult to have faith. Think of what that word means—faith. What’s the down-side, compared to the upside? I’ve covered it all ad nauseum. My best practice here is to be good. To be intentional. That’s the key. We’re not perfect. We make mistakes. But if our heart is in the right place, if we’re trying hard, and course correcting, we may get a pass. If it’s not true, what’s the down side? You were a good person, and fondly remembered as an example of such to the people you leave behind? Be generous, help others with less, even in the little ways, each day. A few bucks to a local organization that supports homeless people, people (especially kids) with horrible health issues, abused animals, orphaned kids, whatever it is. C’mon now.
Example: At this point in writing this journal entry, I’m realizing that my references above to “Bubba” and “maga” are not something God/Buddha/Allah/Jesus would approve of or say. It sounds hateful. I should understand that those fellow spirits are the way they are for many reasons, some outside their control. Upbringing, their environment, their struggles in life, their minds being poisoned. They deserve love, pity, and help—even Trump. I won’t go back and change it, because it’s more evidence—I’m not perfect. I need to do better. We all do.
I’ve done a lot of work in the financial area. I can say unequivocally that the more money people have, the less they’re inclined to give. It’s an addictive sickness just like porn, gambling, drugs. You get too much, it feels too good, you only want more. It goes back to that concept that this short, blink-of-an-eye life here is just us swimming around in this placenta miasma womb as a proving ground, an “improving ground” to polish and hone our spirit, our goodness, to pass into another existence where there is nothing but that. We’ve been told this over and over in every form of religious text. This is an environment of temptation. Are you strong enough to resist and do the right thing?
Perhaps our visitors are coming here to tell us (not eat us). What if the ancient religious texts are an accounting of when they were last among us? Those Egyptians certainly didn’t have tools to precision cut and lift-fit massive pieces of granite, one of the hardest substances on Earth. Perhaps this sudden and massive influx of evil in our society is a leadup to a great battle, a great reset, as documented in the past (the flood, the plagues, the droughts, Sodom and Gomorrah). What we’re seeing does check all those boxes, it explains a lot. The Rapture and Second Coming are described as the final battle of God’s army versus the evil “Kings of the world.” Check. The sorting of the good and the evil souls. Which criteria do you fit? Are you loving, even when it’s difficult? Are you intentional? Helping those with less? Not hating those who are different?
Do you want to hear or see something beautiful and thought-provoking? Give fourteen minutes of your time to the below. You can even just listen to it while driving, walking, shopping, doing household stuff. It may change how you think, because it’s beautiful. The people with these stories, like this ER nurse, are everyday people with no history of trying to grift or lie to folks (I haven’t vetted this one yet, personally). They come from all around the world, identical stories, even those from indigenous places with no technology. If you like this, read or listen to After, as mentioned above.
Greed: “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”—Matthew 16:26
So, this is where Giavana, Pia, and I are currently in our pioneer journey. Stay tuned! This pioneer journey continues…
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