...on kindness & helping others...

[Arcticdude]

Now days I make it a policy to only help those that help themselves. It's a safe policy because anyone that truly trys, won't need my help.

 

[Arcticdude]

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[toexist]

humans might be social, I am not. I've never been what you might call gregarious, I much prefer to be alone or with animals than be with other people. permanent social isolation would be nirvana to me ..especially post SHTF, I don't want to know other peoples problems.
granted most people like you say NEED to be around others, but that will be their undoing.
many people will be left on their own post SHTF through no fault of there own, if they cannot survive alone even temporarily until they can link up with others, which on its own will be fraught with danger, then they wont be around for long.

In a hypothetical SHTF situation if a larger group of "bad" people want your stuff bad enough (as in theyre desperate enough) and you're alone...chances are not stacked in your favor.

Case in point...look at all the 3rd world countries to which we lost elite soldiers in. There are many examples/incidents were lesser trained & equipped poor people from 3rd world countries have taken out superior soldiers with superior experience due to power in numbers.

 

[Brent S]

humans might be social, I am not. I've never been what you might call gregarious, I much prefer to be alone or with animals than be with other people. permanent social isolation would be nirvana to me ..especially post SHTF, I don't want to know other peoples problems.
granted most people like you say NEED to be around others, but that will be their undoing.
many people will be left on their own post SHTF through no fault of there own, if they cannot survive alone even temporarily until they can link up with others, which on its own will be fraught with danger, then they wont be around for long.

And yet here you are, interacting socially. You might act like a cantankerous old buzzard, but there's hope for you yet!

 

[bigpaul]

And yet here you are, interacting socially. You might act like a cantankerous old buzzard, but there's hope for you yet!

i'm just putting my opinion, is all, based on a lifetimes experience, especially of other people, having been let down numerous times by other people i'm not in a mood to have anything to do with them especially post SHTF.
I live in an area which is lightly populated, North Devon has LESS than 10% of the population of Devon as a whole, and most people outside of this area would refer to it as remote if not isolated.

 

[Danil54grl]

I get enough face to face socializing with my hunny and family when they come for a visit. I talk with my four legged critters all day long. Best part is that they love me unconditionally & normally do what I need them to without any back talk . I do not invite strangers into my home. We have helped out some with the rent property and every time have gotten burned and made a lot of extra work for us & cost us a lot of money that we could have actually used. For a majority, they want a hand out not a helping hand!

 

[Brent S]

I get enough face to face socializing with my hunny and family when they come for a visit. I talk with my four legged critters all day long. Best part is that they love me unconditionally & normally do what I need them to without any back talk . I do not invite strangers into my home. We have helped out some with the rent property and every time have gotten burned and made a lot of extra work for us & cost us a lot of money that we could have actually used. For a majority, they want a hand out not a helping hand!

There are a lot of really shitty people in the world. But every once in a while you find a good one.

 

[DrHenley]

I can understand where bigpaul is coming from. The more remote you are, the more difficult it is to find people to talk to about shared interests. It is very likely that nobody near him is interested in discussing things that he is interested in. Here on this forum there are *somewhat* like minded people that actually care about his ideas about preparedness and value his experience.

I am not in a remote location, in fact I am in the dead center of a city. Yet I still have trouble finding like minded people to talk to locally. I can only imagine how difficult that is where bigpaul lives.

 

[bigpaul]

I can understand where bigpaul is coming from. The more remote you are, the more difficult it is to find people to talk to about shared interests. It is very likely that nobody near him is interested in discussing things that he is interested in. Here on this forum there are *somewhat* like minded people that actually care about his ideas about preparedness and value his experience.

I am not in a remote location, in fact I am in the dead center of a city. Yet I still have trouble finding like minded people to talk to locally. I can only imagine how difficult that is where bigpaul lives.

the people here are friendly enough and as we have been here for 8 years now we are "part of the furniture", but I really don't have anything in common with anyone.