SHTF Groups

[FastMan]

This IS something we could set up without too much problem. How would you propose we allow membership? Like the trading post?

Oh fuck! Not the trading post again. I really getting to hate that place!

[FastMan]

Sucks for me lol I just found out about these forums, but if you are starting a group like that you have every right to be picky and cautious.

Easy answer; start a separate sub forum for "noobs" to band together, into a second group. The lifers here already have their friends, their cliques. It leaves the true hearted noobs looking for camaraderie out in the cold. No need for that. Plenty of noobs here to group up and do their own thing, and not have to make the lifers fret about them.

Things are looking dismal out there, Obama may very well win a second term, and keep deficit spending us towards financial collapse. No time for posting a 1000 times and spending two years here waiting to wedge your way into the lifer's trust. Split off, everyone will be happy.

[FastMan]

Yes there is. My idea of land is much different then yours, negating a group land buy.

Jim, care to expand on that?

[FastMan]

There, done. Yikes, that was a long thread. Interesting though.

I'm currently prepping on the home front, as I have a family member I look out for who can't be dragged off on a bug out mission when the SHTF. Just going to stock up, ready up, and hold em off here, best I can. At some point down the road I'll be looking to relocate on a piece of property more cut out for living self sufficiently in total. Not a bug out location, but rather a year round home. Been thinking it would be nice to buy a big piece of land in a prime location that I could divide up and sell pieces to like minded souls, to form my own back to basics community. Thus why the post on page one caught my attention.

Side note; was glad to later in the thread see a couple of the old timers reach out their hand to the noobs. Thumbs up to ya.

[FastMan]

Gosh, you wimps go to bed early.

[Mick-Boy]

Easy answer; start a separate sub forum for "noobs" to band together, into a second group. The lifers here already have their friends, their cliques. It leaves the true hearted noobs looking for camaraderie out in the cold. No need for that. Plenty of noobs here to group up and do their own thing, and not have to make the lifers fret about them.

You could do that. Or you could take a little time and get to know people.

The funny thing about message boards is that all you really have to go on is a persons written word until you meet someone face to face. It takes a long time to build a feel for a person. Just like it takes a long time to build a real friendship.

Take some time and get to know some like minded folks. You might find out that you don't even want to be involved with some people. There's a lot more to group compatibility than a desire to prep or be self sufficient.

Or just form a group of complete strangers and hope it works out.

[HoneyBadger]

We don't all go to bed early... I won't be going to bed for another 6 hours...

Creating friction with the "old timers" certainly isn't going to help anything.

[FastMan]

You could do that. Or you could take a little time and get to know people.

The funny thing about message boards is that all you really have to go on is a persons written word until you meet someone face to face. It takes a long time to build a feel for a person. Just like it takes a long time to build a real friendship.

Take some time and get to know some like minded folks. You might find out that you don't even want to be involved with some people. There's a lot more to group compatibility than a desire to prep or be self sufficient.

Or just form a group of complete strangers and hope it works out.

I have quite a bit of experience with message boards, and the folks who post on them. Here's what I've found out; you can fuck around trying to figure people out by what they write on line for years and never actually get to know the real them, or you can meet them in person and know in a flash. How people come across on line can be so different from how they are in real life.

That's what makes real life gatherings so valuable. This cyber crap is just superficial make believe. People playing roles, trying to show off to the universe, trying to paint themselves larger than they are or actually feel about themselves. You want to hook up and make real friends? Don't waste your time with endless keyboard interactions under the microscope of the world, organize some real life socials, see who you actually like, and who you don't. Be done with it, and get on with it. The end.

[FastMan]

We don't all go to bed early... I won't be going to bed for another 6 hours...

Creating friction with the "old timers" certainly isn't going to help anything.

I've been told the locals enjoy reveling in gruffness and sarcasm here. Checking to see if it's true.

[Mick-Boy]

I have quite a bit of experience with message boards, and the folks who post on them. Here's what I've found out; you can fuck around trying to figure people out by what they write on line for years and never actually get to know the real them, or you can meet them in person and know in a flash. How people come across on line can be so different from how they are in real life.

That's what makes real life gatherings so valuable. This cyber crap is just superficial make believe. People playing roles, trying to show off to the universe, trying to paint themselves larger than they are or actually feel about themselves. You want to hook up and make real friends? Don't waste your time with endless keyboard interactions under the microscope of the world, organize some real life socials, see who you actually like, and who you don't. Be done with it, and get on with it. The end.

So.... the guy complaining about not being included in a non-existent, hypothetical, "may happen at some future date" sub-forum advocates not wasting time with endless keyboard interactions... Got it.


If you're that hot and bothered for some face to face meet and greets together then organize them. No one is stopping you.