Merry Christmas 2023

Christ Is Born!

Merry Christmas to all my readers. I will be praying for you all today. May Christ our Lord bless you in your endeavors this next year.

This year, instead of only sharing a Christmas video, I wanted to also share something a little different. A present, provided in digital format to all.

My Christmas present to you: knowledge. Given last week’s article on the upcoming “Great Taking”, these resources and knowledge will be essential in the future. It never hurts to have additional books/manuals on how to do things. You never know when you will need them.

I recommend you download them to personal devices in case something happens to the internet. It is safer that way.

There is a lot in these two links, so dive in deep and enjoy:

US Military Manual Collection
- United States Army Field Manuals are published by the United States Army’s Army Publishing Directorate. As of 27 July 2007, some 542 field manuals were in use. They contain detailed information and how-tos for…
Survivor Library Directory
- Library index from a wild guy who has been collecting resources for dozens of years. “How to survive when the technology doesn’t. It’s not a library about survival. It’s a library for survivors.”

There is something in either of these for every single one of you. You just have to find it.

Regarding the first one: Make sure to get them both before the archivers take them down. They already knocked them off of web.archive.org. Don’t know how much longer archive.ph will hold them.

But, I must also stick with tradition in sharing a Christmas video. This year, I wanted to share one of my all-time favorite symphonies, Handel’s Messiah. It was the first symphony I ever heard in person. This video is one of the best I’ve found: