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TexasTowelie

(116,769 posts)
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:11 PM Sep 2018

Doomsday Preppers Will Descend on Denver for Self-Reliance Expo

If you're ready to get your doomsday prep on (or maybe you're just interested in vertical gardening and beekeeping?), the National Self-Reliance Project is bringing the Self-Reliance & Simple Life Experience to the National Western Complex September 22 and 23.

Eighty exhibitors focused on self-reliance, survival and sustainability will attend, as will twenty speakers from organizations like the Denver Office of Emergency Management, the Red Cross and Fortitude Ranch, a survival community with a location in Colorado Springs that is "equipped to survive any type of disaster and long-term loss of law and order," according to its website.

Much of "doomsday prep" these days is focused on sustainability and basic disaster awareness. The prepping community has become a more mainstream movement since the sensational Doomsday Preppers made its debut on the National Geographic channel in 2011, says Kiki Bandilla, a Coloradan and the CEO of the National Self-Reliance Project.

"This is about just being smart," Bandilla says. "It's a return to what our natural instincts are. That's really what we're trying to do, teach [people] what the term 'self-reliance' means. It doesn't mean you're nuts or negative or crazy people doing crazy things."

Read more: https://www.westword.com/news/doomsday-preppers-coming-to-denver-for-simple-life-and-self-reliance-expo-10789618

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Doomsday Preppers Will Descend on Denver for Self-Reliance Expo (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
They'll want recipes Turbineguy Sep 2018 #1
Soylent Green keithbvadu2 Sep 2018 #5
I mean no offense. Aren't doomsday preppers mainly Alex Jones/Info wars types. I mean the ones dewsgirl Sep 2018 #2
You are correct and no offense is taken. TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #3
Thank you. dewsgirl Sep 2018 #4
Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food' (It did not get rave reviews) keithbvadu2 Sep 2018 #6

dewsgirl

(14,964 posts)
2. I mean no offense. Aren't doomsday preppers mainly Alex Jones/Info wars types. I mean the ones
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:18 PM
Sep 2018

That are really into this type of stuff. I realize I may be wrong. Most people I have met that are into being preppers, have been religious rw nuts.

TexasTowelie

(116,769 posts)
3. You are correct and no offense is taken.
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:22 PM
Sep 2018

Most of the doomsday preppers fit the Alex Jones/Infowars mentality. Their survivalist instincts are so dominant that it suppresses most other social interactions.

keithbvadu2

(40,108 posts)
6. Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food' (It did not get rave reviews)
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 11:12 PM
Sep 2018

Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food'

(It did not get rave reviews)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/456677535/apocalypse-chow-we-tried-televangelist-jim-bakkers-survival-food

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