[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', '[')url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/caprock_canyons/]Caprock Canyon[/url].

[vision-master]

Dogs are nicer than ppl.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'S')o where would you place me in that pantheon of Peak Oiler types, Mos? Higher than those I've put on Ignore. I have about 100 members on my ignore list including some frequent posters who would be likely to go to a get-together.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'T')his is a fantastic thread. I think just believing what we do about oil and energy automatically makes every one here a loner. At least the type of person that goes against the grain.
My "work" requires me to very social so in my downtime I prefer solitude. Now I really can work a social gathering or address a crowd of 200 plus. Yet on the flip side sometimes I really need to disconnect from the over load of social stimuli. My second obsession, backpacking, is done solo 90% of the time . I just prefer the company of myself. I like to spend at least 2-3 days a year out in Caprock Canyon. The canyon is so quite and peaceful.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') shut myself off years ago

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') shut myself off years ago

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'I')RL however, I am basically a pretty pleasant fellow..

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A')re you like that even with people you already know? You can write emails to them but in person you freeze up?

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'S')o where would you place me in that pantheon of Peak Oiler types, Mos? Higher than those I've put on Ignore. I have about 100 members on my ignore list including some frequent posters who would be likely to go to a get-together.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'I') think just believing what we do about oil and energy automatically makes every one here a loner. At least the type of person that goes against the grain.

My "work" requires me to very social so in my downtime I prefer solitude. Now I really can work a social gathering or address a crowd of 200 plus. Yet on the flip side sometimes I really need to disconnect from the over load of social stimuli. My second obsession, backpacking, is done solo 90% of the time . I just prefer the company of myself. I like to spend at least 2-3 days a year out in Caprock Canyon. The canyon is so quite and peaceful.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')If you were puting together a team, would you want winners or losers?

[Byron100]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')If you were puting together a team, would you want winners or losers?

[TheDude]

Great thread, Heineken. If a mod can't graft a poll onto it you should start a separate topic, with min. 4 options, so we can hear from the real loners.

Bumped your Welcome to the PO.com Convention! thread, too. I'd go if it weren't much of a drive. A series of local cons would be best.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'I')RL however, I am basically a pretty pleasant fellow..

[Byron100]

This is why I cringe at the term "Darwinism" when applied to humans, as we're supposed (in my humble opinion of course) to be above such crude methods of natural selection. We're human, a step above mere animals, and a big step at that, too.

We humans have what no other life form on Earth has: sentience and awareness of the world above and beyond our individual selves. If we can't make the best of what we've been given, well, I guess we're just an evolutionary dead end. Pity. At least the party was good while it lasted...hehe.

[drew]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', ' ')so we can hear from the real loners.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'h')owever, I am basically a pretty pleasant fellow, and I love to joke around with my friends and the children I teach.

[charliebrownout]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'W')ell? Are you, punk?

I am. All my life (since my earliest memories) I've been outside the crowd. Never quite fit in. Felt uncomfortable and awkward around strangers, and a sense of conflict and competition with them. Didn't have many friends, and didn't long keep the ones I had. Believed in nutty things like peak oil (although I didn't call it that then) and environmental collapse. Was attracted to the empty places, to forests, to animals. Disliked most of the mainstream stuff, like shopping, football, and McDonald's.

I'm prepared to be friendly with people, but I just don't know how to begin. It's as though those neuronal tracts are hopelessly stunted.

Share your thoughts about lonerdom, whether you are one or not.