For me it was easy. We were together during the L.A. riots and Northridge Earthquake. Civil unrest. Looting. Half the city on fire. No utilities for days. All businesses closed. Nothing opens your eyes like reality.
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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger http://www.ar-15.co/forums/images/buttons/viewpost.gif
For you married fellers out there, are your wives totally onboard with your prepping or bug out plans? If so, how did you do it?
On board locked n loaded. That's where she's at.
my wife thinks i'm a little nutty but she knows i always hope for the best and prepare for the worst so she is "onboard" even though she sometimes rolls her eyes at me lol
Heh yeah I'm wondering if our wives are related lol
Wife is on board after reading One Second After. But she still hasn't been helping much with anything. Doesn't complain either though as I buy extra items at the store.
Actually my wife is the one that started me thinking more about it. I have always been naturally a preparer, i own and jeep and escape to the back country and always went with the philosophy; "A prepared man gets home, maybe not on time but gets home."
We talk about ideas and plans once in awhile but she then gets all depressed........ Go figure.......
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.
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.
Gosh, you wimps go to bed early.
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.
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 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.
What you think you need as will everyone else may not be what i an looking for. The "Lets BO to the mountains" "Plains" out east 2 miles etc is great, however get the members of this board [pick 5] and see if you all agree what the best land scenario would be. I don't mind helping out or being helped out. If i am not the sole owner of the land ideas and goals will vary.
Is this kanecutter posting under a different name? Sounds like the same shit.
Organize a shoot [meet & greet] if given enough notice people will see what they can do with their schedule.
I'd say shoot this sunday, pawnee, but you are too far to drive for a few hrs of shooting. Likewise to travel down south, given 4 days to prep.
FWIW: EVERY NEWBIE that has this attitude regarding us old guys, either doesn't last long, joins the .mil or punks out when a put up or shut up thread is started.
The last sentence i highlighted is why (in response to another thread) i would not be in a land group by. Some of old timers might show you a thing or too, firearm and prep wise.
Old Age and Treachery, Will Always overcome Youth and Skill
WOW I and others respond to FastMan and a serious silence has swept over this post.
Bueller, Bueller, anyone??
Well we know who wouldn't be at another PU/SU shoot:)
Didn't dodge, Jim, just didn't see the activity. Lots going on at this forum to get waylaid to. No, I'm not kanecutter, must be a good dude though.
I'm personally not driven to immediately buddy up on the bug out thing, I've got a different plan I'm working on right now, but I can envision a time down the road when I created a community somewhere on a piece of land that's ideal for private self sufficiency. If you dictate the parameters, you control the situation. Better than the whole meeting of the minds, decide where to go scenario, in my mind. Just make it available, structure it, and then screen those who step forward wanting to be a part of it. But that's for a time a bit down the road. For now I'm staying put and riding out the wave of insanity and mayhem where I am. I have to.
Anyway, as for my suggestions here, I saw in this thread a band of the cool and mighty crassly discussing how to weed out the uncool, and a group of the noob (read uncool) getting left out in the cold. As I said, I'm not in the market right now for banding up, but I felt bad for the others here that were expressing interest in it. Time and post counts doesn't make one a better person, more skilled, more valuable. Those here with time under their belts and associations made don't necessarily represent the cream of the crop in said attributes. There are better ways to screen, less time consuming, more open door. Bar that system being in place, another option for those left out is what I suggested. Hell, it's a big site, does it have to be one group anyway? Simple answer, no. It could end up being several. Nothing to get all girly sensitive about.