Personal Security
Last Friday evening I did a presentation on "Personal Security in the Real World; Or Survivalism for the rest of us" at the Pubelo campus of Colorado Technical University for a professor friend of mine.
I thought the class went alright. I suspect some of the students, all of whom are obtaining either "Homeland Security" type degrees or are involved in criminal justice degrees, probably got an earfull of my "survival banter".
Basically, I do this one-evening talk once per quarter for Dr. West when he is teaching this Homeland security class. The course covers terrorism, international and local, as well as other things. Dr. West is an intersting person all by himself, and I think some of his students come away with the idea that even folks with Phds can be a bit on the "kooky" side. Honestly though, he’s not paranoid, he’s very AWARE.
Essentially, the class I give is simply a way to get the word out to everyday people to pay more attention to their surroundings, to pay attention to things and to think through various survival scenarios. I think it is a very important aspect of life and probably has saved a lot of lives — not that I have saved anyone with my course information that I’m aware, but, I know that by myself thinking through "What would I do in this situation". I’m not into the "What would Jesus do" stuff, I’m more a believer in "God helps those who help themselves" and I’m not going to stand around in a situation and let some Higher Being assist me, when I can damned well do it myself most of the time and why the heck bother Him anyway?
Hopefully soon, I’ll cover pretty much that course in one of my Podcasts (Reality Check).
