Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

All -

I've been visiting here for a few months now.

I would like to make a suggestion;

Create a "beginners" thread on this forum.

Now, I grew up in the country, and lived in the country most of my life,

And had a natural attraction to this sort of living since the very early 60's

So a lot of what is

On this forum is second nature to me.

And I'm finally settled down, after 9 moves since 1998,

Due to the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"

Both good and bad.

Try moving your GIM gear 9 times in 10 years,

And kinda stay on the ball.

That was a hell of a challenge.

But put yourself in the other person's place.

They are scared ........ of everything.

What they see on this forum is a level of sophistication

And execution and planning

Which freezes their mental functions.

Generators and inverters and solar panels and wells and

Water purification systems and medical kits and

Multiyear food prep and storage and tools and equipment.......

They go on information overload.

They become deer in the headlights.

They are nowhere near the level of game this forum plays at.

So they run away.

Not good.

Their thoughts, because I have had a number of conversations,

Go like this:

"It's expensive, I don't know how to do it, I don't have time to do it,

It sounds like lunatic fringe, I see no benefit."

This coming from otherwise intelligent and caring people,

From all walks of life.

GIM can start with five twenty dollar bills

In an envelope in a desk, a Coleman lantern and stove,

A dozen cans of tuna, a few gallons of water,

Some salt and rice and flour, and beans.

You get my drift.

"Simplify, simplify, simplify."

- H.D. Thoreau

The statement

"Knowledge breeds competence breeds confidence"

Absolutely trumps the statement

"Knowledge is power"

In my book.

When I found this forum, it was like

Way cool, comin' home.

A person with few or no skills, looking for answers

Should be able to open a thread compatible

With their questions.

So. O.K.

Just my .02


scyth

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

I'll second this, being I am one of these.... 'Beginners' he is referencing.

I want to do whats right, but I read and read and do what little I can, but it does truly seem frustrating.

JMHO,
RK

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

this is the beginers forum

if the questions are specific chances are you will have someone
come back with some good help

sorry that sounds abrubt but if i want to learn something i hang
around with the best most patient experts i can not with other beginers
and as such this forum is a great beginers forum because you have a
lot of people who will take the time to answer your question.

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

Agreed. I myself love to help others, and have seen the same here. I usally search through previous threads, but although this a great server, one awsome tool is keyword search for post. Am still hesitant, due to past experiance ( use to frequent an overclockers forum(computers)and everyone knows, miss a couple months and your a dinasour, ask a question that has been answered, you get 10 lashings with cat o 9 tails) not really , but you get my drift.

Just trying to say, you people are great (well most ) and thanks:favorites8:

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

We already have such a forum. I started collecting posts I thought would be informative for beginners - a couple years ago?

It's even called the 'Beginner's Forum' which is a great place to LEARN.

If a beginner feels the urge to post, they can move over to the GENERAL forum and do it there.

Typically, the posts I find/found in the Beginner's Forum consist of the following nonsense and therefore of no redeeming social value.


Which just tells everyone here how little they've spent reading the posts in the PM forum or any where else on the board. Very rarely do I find much better. Those that remain 'qualify' as informative.

I even posted a message in the very first post that I stuck to the top of the forum instructing any and all who venture there that the Beginner's Forum is for them to read and learn. Post in the General area.

The reason, for those that need one, is because - over a few days - I waded through 5 pages of the above type posts deleting the nonsense ones. My goal is to keep that forum clean and easy for beginners to find stuff without suffering brain damage on their quest for knowledge.

If you have something that might interest a beginner, post away. I'll get an email and check it out. If it doesn't fit, I'll move it to General or ?.

Thanks for your cooperation. Now let's party duude!:signs1:

What I think we need is a primer for writing informative headlines that say something about what is in the post... sometimes brevity is over rated....

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

Goldhedge -

I take the liberty of posting the "Beginner's" piece here:

http://goldismoney.info/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=153

To me, this is putting the horse way before the cart.

To ask them to become masters of buying and selling gold futures,

For example, before figuring out their preps,

Is counterintuitive.

No wonder people don't check.

People are struggling to figure out what physical things to stash

For when the lights go out.

And that ain't gold.

That's preps.

And people are struggling to even figure out where to start with preps.

Now, I possibly miscommunicated.

No disagreement with the gold side.

But I suggest you should perhaps have a beginner's thread

For the preps side.


For what its worth.

scyth

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

PlEaSe

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pArAgRaPhs

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ThAt

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AlL.

Seriously, though, good idea.

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

Cassius -

Life is a poem

Thus the free verse

Plus, like Mr. Gold Duck,

I have a way of attempting to put

My poor splintered head into communication mode.

So you are stuck with it.

Additionally, I am perfectly able to write the King's English

In paragraphs ad nauseam,

But choose not to, because

The ultimate communication gets watered down

To just another skim.


scyth

Re: Back to Basics/With reference to: Arrggh My Husband
 

Appreciate the post, but I've been through the Beginner's stuff you posted above, but that is all basically about FRN's and PM's.

Nothing about preps. I was wishing, as I believe the OP was asking about, was a Beginners PREP thread.

Or did I miss it?

TIA,
RK