One of the biggest things I believe goes understated in any survival plan is community. We need those of us with like minds and complimentary skills to coexist as it is, and it pays off in spades should we rely exclusively on each other. It goes last mentioned in any list I tend to see hitting mainstream when it comes to long term survival plans, though it is peaking its way through the clouds of gear and overpriced seeds or seminars.
Something I'd love to utilize this website for, perhaps even somewhat selfishly, is to help curate a community of people I'd trust if things went sideways. Being so close to Portland, I'm deep behind a majority groupthink and it doesn't agree with me, nor do I with it. Long gone and missed are the days when we could agree and disagree. Friends become an easy delineation from acquaintances. Given at least the circumstances I exist in, leaving isn't something I can achieve either in a hurry or wisely. So how do I ensure that I don't, or we don't find ourselves alone or alienated?
I have a lot I can offer for someone my age, being relatively young. I'm a maintenance worker and have done a lot (A LOT) in that field. I want to learn to hunt and hone my foraging skills. My fiancé and I are shooters and enjoy guns, though I think I do perhaps more than she does despite her acute aim. Politically I'm of a live and let live variety, but I'm ultimately a constitutionalist. Freedom is paramount, for all of us. Shall not be infringed leaves no room for error, but apparently we need "common sense" applied to it.
Common sense to me is reaching out here and putting myself both open and available. I can't have a community unless I'm willing to put in first. You get what you give, and the rest comes naturally in my experience.
We're about to enter an excellent foraging season and I'd love to meet others to learn with. There's a lot of skills I and my fiancé are interested in like homesteading and farming, or even learning how to more appropriately garden for our own food.
We're both keen on self defense and I believe that outside perspective is key to progressing yourself if you want to grow. I can do all the dry runs I want in my tiny apartment, and get down to a subsecond draw from concealment, but if I don't have another like minded person to work with I can't grow past a certain point.
I want to find myself a community. I find it is difficult in my general area given the topics at hand, but I think this could be a good spot for myself to try and hone some of that in for what I enjoy from here. Or hell, let this be a pivot for others.
It isn't about politics, it's about community. I fear it's something we're watching deteriorate before our eyes and I'm unsure how to get back into a healthy one nowadays.
Something I'd love to utilize this website for, perhaps even somewhat selfishly, is to help curate a community of people I'd trust if things went sideways. Being so close to Portland, I'm deep behind a majority groupthink and it doesn't agree with me, nor do I with it. Long gone and missed are the days when we could agree and disagree. Friends become an easy delineation from acquaintances. Given at least the circumstances I exist in, leaving isn't something I can achieve either in a hurry or wisely. So how do I ensure that I don't, or we don't find ourselves alone or alienated?
I have a lot I can offer for someone my age, being relatively young. I'm a maintenance worker and have done a lot (A LOT) in that field. I want to learn to hunt and hone my foraging skills. My fiancé and I are shooters and enjoy guns, though I think I do perhaps more than she does despite her acute aim. Politically I'm of a live and let live variety, but I'm ultimately a constitutionalist. Freedom is paramount, for all of us. Shall not be infringed leaves no room for error, but apparently we need "common sense" applied to it.
Common sense to me is reaching out here and putting myself both open and available. I can't have a community unless I'm willing to put in first. You get what you give, and the rest comes naturally in my experience.
We're about to enter an excellent foraging season and I'd love to meet others to learn with. There's a lot of skills I and my fiancé are interested in like homesteading and farming, or even learning how to more appropriately garden for our own food.
We're both keen on self defense and I believe that outside perspective is key to progressing yourself if you want to grow. I can do all the dry runs I want in my tiny apartment, and get down to a subsecond draw from concealment, but if I don't have another like minded person to work with I can't grow past a certain point.
I want to find myself a community. I find it is difficult in my general area given the topics at hand, but I think this could be a good spot for myself to try and hone some of that in for what I enjoy from here. Or hell, let this be a pivot for others.
It isn't about politics, it's about community. I fear it's something we're watching deteriorate before our eyes and I'm unsure how to get back into a healthy one nowadays.
so what are you trying to survive?
