why are you here

**trax** · 10-09-2007, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by LadyTrapper

as in this world today most people are wrapped up in things and cannot hear the call of the wild.

Too right!

**trax** · 10-09-2007, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by FVR

We are a minority, who hear the yell of the Warrior Spirit. We are the few that don't bend to the pussification of the role of MAN.

We are Warriors, we are survivors and will do as needed.

We like eating foods over an open flame, even if it's not quite done. The feel of rocks, dirt, twigs, and such on our backs while sleeping, although uncomfortable, enables us to realize that this is what life is about.

When the mist comes in, we dream and sometimes follow our need to venture into the woods to be..............Alive.

We may live in the country, suburbs, or even the down town city, but our souls are wondering through the back country in search of exitement and challenge.

We are what we are, a dying breed.

...wish I'd said that.

**Recurve Bowyer** · 10-09-2007, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by trax

...wish I'd said that.

Thats what I thought when I first read it.

Well said, FVR!

**hello15944** · 10-10-2007, 08:17 PM

I have always been interested in camping, hunting and fishing would like to learn more about how to do it with less if i had to also like to learn new things and find that primitive stuff interesting to me

**sam30248** · 10-13-2007, 01:30 AM

im here so that i might ,learn some new ways to do things . and to hear from a group with the same intrest.

**lumpy** · 10-15-2007, 10:03 AM

Because here I'm not ridiculed for believing that teotwawki is not far away.

**ATough** · 10-15-2007, 09:30 PM

To learn skills and share what I know about survival. plus you guys are all my freinds.

especially sarge.

**zaebra** · 10-18-2007, 08:28 PM

I'm here to learn where I can, and teach those (few!) that know less than myself.

"Be Prepared", right? I look forward to getting to know you guys, since there are very few people in my area that I know of who share similar survival interests.

**RobertRogers** · 10-19-2007, 05:27 AM

I am here because my parents decided to have some fun several decades ago.

Actually, I pick up alot of great info here and enjoy conversing with like minded people.

**GrayWolf** · 10-19-2007, 07:56 AM

There's only so much you can get from books. I think this is a place to learn some things that have been experienced: tried and true methods for survival situations. Plus its a good mental release from the daily grind when you cant just run out to the woods and practice.

**NorthWindTrails** · 10-19-2007, 02:00 PM

Hey ... Thanks for asking! I joined for the shared knowledge of Woodscraft. I agree with several of the comments already made. These skills are not being passed on to future generations as well as they could be, and I (we) have a unique opportunity to capture, live and pass along as much as we can. I have always been fascinated with the outdoors experience, and was intrigued by "My Side of the Mountain" as a young boy. I don't plan to merely "survive", though ... as one has already said; "I plan to thrive!" Being in the wilderness isn't just about staying alive. Hearing a pack of coyotes in the woods or the yapping of a group of red foxes in the dark ... how many city folks would just freak? They don't know what they're missing. Nature as close as your skin is awesome. Thanks for the Forum! NorthWind

**Tony uk** · 10-19-2007, 09:49 PM

Im here to learn from realy people, Granted the books and vids are really good and made by experts but i find this better

**Merlin** · 10-19-2007, 10:54 PM

This is the only forum of people that are closer to like minded people like myself that I have found , and one of 2 on line forums I belong too.. The other wilderness forums I have found are filled with the doom and gloom of the end is near ..Or the para military types who have never served their time but talk like they won the last one and do not need any help on the next one.. My skills are adequate but as I know there is always more to learn,, where I lack skills and as for the rest there is always a different way maybe better maybe not.. A book is only as good as your interpretation of it ... and only meant to be for that time period and Geographical location not to say that the teachings can not be applied in other areas . Like for example A soldiers hand book verses a survival in the alps guide both can be right but not all the info pertains to your needs, and last but not any less important I do not want to find myself needing me to come find them like the ones I help

**HOP** · 10-23-2007, 03:53 PM

I am here to discuss in a friendly and interesting manner survival in the wilderness in an open group.
I am not here to listen to a bunch of Psyhcobable ego thumping 9 yard long post that say nothing about survival and very little if anything about life I have heard some exelent infomation here but also people complaining about new people starting trouble(this seems a little closed minded) We have have a modirator let him do his job even demand that he do his job. Cyber space seems to make a few very brave and insulting beyond what they would do in person, I beleive that you should say what you mean if you say you are going away and leaving then do that and not return to amaze people with your lack of respect for the rest of the world.

**HOP** · 10-23-2007, 05:19 PM

Volwest actualy I was not talking at all , I was refering to a real situation and not to a cyber fantasy person can be e'tranges in many places . When you see my lips move it means I am talking. when you see the text on my post it means I am typing. Talking or typing I am surviving quite well concidering the milage and adventures . I have spent a lot of time overseas and have noticed that children are quite good at picking up laungues, perhaps that is why you have such a give and insist on shareing it with everyone(childiss delight ?) I regret not reading of Robinson Crusoes adventure in New York I wonder if it was up state where it might apply to this forum I have had my own adventure in NYC and as you can read am no the worse for it.

**Sarge47** · 10-23-2007, 06:41 PM

Well, speaking for myself, I really enjoyed the Mark Twain stuff as I grew up in Burlington, Iowa, right on the Mississippi River. For awhile I really wanted to build a great big raft and do what Tom & Huck did, without the racial slurs. I got interested in Survival when I read "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon", by Stephen King. It was in English and didn't have any pictures. (Darn!) BTW, anybody else ever read that book? It;s one of the few that I've read twice, but then Steve rocks!

**FVR** · 10-23-2007, 07:18 PM

That's funny, I'm here to read a variety of posts ranging from psychological writing to those that want to post about banging two rocks together in hopes of getting a spark, to maybe learning that cotton balls and vaseline works great for char cloth.

I'm here to teach others the primitive side of this way of thinking and that many of the store bought high tech things are really not needed.

As far as some of the crap that gets posted, I just get a good laugh.

**HOP** · 10-23-2007, 08:19 PM

VW it was a novel fantasy maybe based on a myth as I recall he was wrought with bad luck and depended heavely on his friends and was only sucessful at disaster and even he relied on his man friday much of the time I wonder if this was the first survival group .