[Byron100]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Vogelzang', 'W')hen I found this forum, I thought I found some broadminded people. I guess I wasn't too surprised to find another forum that was hijacked by far left people, because that's been happening to a lot of forums. The people here make me want to see billions of people die off to provide more resources for me.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')e love you too, Vogelzang!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '
')
What a hippy thing to say!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '
')
What a hippy thing to say!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')eah, well you don't have a Castro avatar.

[PrairieMule]

Well I think this place has been nothing less than the salvation of my sanity. I have met only three other people in the real world I can discuss the things we do here. Despite the tangible anxiety I witness here, I have faith all of you because you so far ahead the curve.

You are all Pathfinders and Trailblazers, I watch and stand in awe.

[SpringCreekFarm]

I happened along here by chance one night while searching for alternative energy sources. I've always been one of those people aware of limits so it came as little surprise what this site was saying. I was a natural and needed no convincing. This site gave me an affirmation of my natural instincts on the limits in a finite world. Positive feedback.

I changed from being a pessimistic person to being an optimist by reading into this site. Strange? When you find yourself in a good spot in context with what some others are facing, who wouldn't be?

I learned lots from the planning forum, needless to say and discovered certain twists to my methods. I stand in awe of some of the homesteaders here and they know who they are.

By the way...this is the ultimate homesteader site in my opinion. If there is a better one PM me. Please.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')eah, well you don't have a Castro avatar.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '
')How about you circle around to the left and I circle around to the right and we meet where political ideology is absurd on the other side?

[Heineken]

I've found an unusually high "responsiveness ratio" among people here; that is, you ask a question or pose a problem, and people frequently react, often very helpfully and knowledgeably. This often isn't the case in other avenues of interpersonal life.

Maybe the same is true for other online communities, but this is the one I happened to connect with.

[Arsenal]

Here are the changes that I have felt.

1. Preparing make me feel sane/insane at the same time.

2. Most people think you're completely insane for prepping. Even though most of their grandparents had a cellar full of food.

3. Listening to peoples explanations about why gas prices are so high makes me laugh and pull my hair out at the same time.

4. Readily able to tell anyone the current price/barrel of light sweet crude and watching the blank stares on what that actually means.

5. Walking down the street and seeing EVERYTHING that is dependent on cheap FF. Lights, cars, plastics, etc...

6. Started to notice how much as an individual I waste energy/food/time.

7. Gardening!!!

Arsenal

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Byron100', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Vogelzang', 'W')hen I found this forum, I thought I found some broadminded people. I guess I wasn't too surprised to find another forum that was hijacked by far left people, because that's been happening to a lot of forums. The people here make me want to see billions of people die off to provide more resources for me.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'I')'ve found an unusually high "responsiveness ratio" among people here; that is, you ask a question or pose a problem, and people frequently react, often very helpfully and knowledgeably. This often isn't the case in other avenues of interpersonal life.

Maybe the same is true for other online communities, but this is the one I happened to connect with.

[oowolf]

The society I live in considers me a paranoid nutjob.
My personal social milieu considers me a "downwardly mobile maverick intellect" (letter from R. Crumb, Feb. 1993).
PO.com considers me an "expert" (having or showing knowledge or skill and aptitude).

Without becoming too Phenomenological, there's a different paradigm of "being-for-others"coming for those of us who can no longer live within the confines of what is presumed to be "sane society" (which WE know is demonstrably NOT).
We intuitively know what's missing is "planetary consciousness" without a Fromm, Mumford, Jensen, or Kogi Mama to lecture us.

If we, as a species, cannot overcome depraved indifference to the destruction of our own biosphere, we're doomed.

[Madpaddy]

oowolf wrote,
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he society I live in considers me a paranoid nutjob.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'o')owolf wrote,
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he society I live in considers me a paranoid nutjob.

[Laurasia]

When I first encountered the Peak Oil concept, I was a fluffy-bunny, starry-eyed cornucopian, in love with the future - even had a home-made Star Trek uniform in my closet. Along came Peak Oil and side-swiped me like an express train, leaving me wounded & bleeding at the side of the track. A couple of weeks later, still in a daze, I might add, I discovered PO.com and thank goodness I did. To happen upon a group (not very big at that time!) of people who had been through a similar paradigm-changing event was a great comfort, and actually gave me a little hope.

There are some very knowledgeable people here, as well as people like me, who just want to make it through. PO.com has helped change my life, and there is hardly a day goes by that I am not lurking about on the various threads, either here or at work.

But it would be nice for us all to meet up one day....(she says wistfully).

Regards,

L.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laurasia', ' ')I was a fluffy-bunny

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut it would be nice for us all to meet up one day....(she says wistfully).

[Cloud9]

I sleep less.