The New and Improved Questions List-The official thread

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When beginning your journal, or if you already have one, to make it interesting, SS forum members have formulated some questions to get you started and keep our conversations interesting. This is the list, below. Your answers can be just added to your own thread, or you can answer them here. Include a link to your journal if you wish.

If you do answer the questions here on this thread, please, no commentary, this thread is for JUST the answers to your questions. If you have a comment for the person posting their list, please make that comment in their personal journal, not here.


These questions are meant to be a conversation starter, and to help everyone here know more about you and what mutual interests you may have with some of the members. Feel free to use this list, use a part of this list, or none at all, this is entirely optional. Please keep in mind that our journals are not diaries and private names, addresses, and personal details are not necessary to be relevant in answering these questions or, for that matter, in journal entries. If you do not understand a question, it is because it does not apply to you. Feel free to cut and paste from this list the questions you wish to answer. This isn't a "test".......................... this is so we can all have fun and learn how to be Sufficient Selves together!

1. What state/province/country are you in and what is your climate like?
2. How many people are in your family? Marital status?
3. How would you define self sufficiency?
4. What would you do with your spare time if you had any resources you needed?
5. Have you ever built a house , or other types of building? Do you want to?
6. Can you weld? Steel, aluminum, MiG, TiG, stick, Oxy-Acet?
7. Who or what inspired you to become more self sufficient?
8 Cloth or paper?
9. In what ways are you self sufficient now and in what ways would you like to learn more?
10. In what way(s) will you never choose to become self sufficient?
11. Are you interested in stocking up for future needs?
12. Where do you end up when you sink into yourself, away from the outside world?
13. Can you drive a farm tractor or a semi?
14. Do you make crafts or useful items? Would you want to teach others how to do these?
15. Can you have legally livestock where you are at? Do you have any? What kinds?
16. Can you operate a lathe? Metal, wood?
17. Do you like to garden? If so, what do you enjoy growing?
18. Do you fish? Bait or explosives?
19. How much space/land do you have or rent? City? Country?
20. Are you a Novice, Technician, General, Advanced? ARRL?
21. What is your self sufficient specialty? Or what one would you like to learn?
22. If you could create a degree and curriculum, what would you major in and what classes would you take?
23. Do you do wood work? framing, finish, cabinet?
24. Are you interested in herbal medicine?
25. If you could live any place you chose, where would it be?
26. Do you use a wood stove for heating or cooking?
27. What would your ideal super hero/villain be?
28. Are your family or friends also interested in self sufficiency?
29. Do you like to cook? Are you interested in whole foods and natural foods? raw milk? farm fresh eggs?
30. What was your MOS?
31. Do you forage or hunt for part of your food needs?
32. What skills do you have that help you be more self sufficient?
33. In which fictional universe would you most like to live?
34. Do you have solar panels? Plans to use solar energy?
35 What is the mass/weight ratio of a European swallow carrying a coconut from the tropics to England?
36. Have you ever lived completely off grid? Would you like to?
37. In what do you trust?
38. Do you make things yourself to save money?
39. Has trying to be more self-sufficient changed your attitude or habits about money/spending?
 

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Can we use the old list if we choose for our own journels?
Please don't disappear down the black hole of a journal. A lot of the members here post to their journals and I refuse to read 2 thousand posts, or filter through pages trying to find that one relevant post that had some information I remember. Then they whine about no one making new posts. I refuse to start a journal for that reason. If my opinion makes anybody mad or hurts feelings, too bad. It's the truth. Crawl out of your journals and start a new thread.

CJ1, you have been a breath of fresh air to this site and I hate to see you fall into the journal trap. I am enjoying the new threads you and @MoonShadows have posted and the revival of old threads. This site has been stagnant for a long time and I am delighted to have new members here that are activating it again.
 
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I can assure you that even if I were to start a journal that I would not stop posting elsewhere. But thank you very much.
 

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I don’t know how to copy this.

i'm not sure what you normally use as a device, but for me i go to the first post of the thread and select the text i want to use by pressing down the mouse button and then moving it down to select the rest of the text and then i use the Copy option. then when i open up a new post i use the Paste option and there it is.

there is also the quote button when hovering over an article which then makes it available when you reply, but i think you could also go right to the first post and just reply to that and edit out the stuff that you don't want to reply to.

so that's at least three ways. :) i hope one of them works for you. :)
 

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I hate the list. It's so overwhelming and I forget everything I've read about someone new!

oh, my, there's very little chance i have of remembering all of that even for my own self! to me, it's a way to start a conversation about a lot of different topics. pick and choose what you'd like to reply to and don't take it too seriously in the memory category. at least that is what i do for things like this.

for me a friend is someone i remember things about. the wider world, nope, i might remember odd bits, but often i'll struggle enough just with remembering a name and a face together. i can know that if i see someone if i've met them before, but probably will not remember their name until i know them and have met them several times.

one of the fun things about the small-time-librarian job was that it did help me get more "face-time" exposure to a lot of different sorts of people.
 
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