Grouping together

I've been watching a few things about what sort of people you would want to be a part of your group, PSHTF... And the common thread is - here are a list of skills you need to have someone able to do.

Yet...

...

A thought spring to mind....

It's not just the skills you need.

You really need certain types of person.


As much as certain skills are required, there is more needed.

- Are they the sort of person who likes to learn new things?

- Do they have psychological or physical additions? For example - a gambling addiction isn't obvious, but if someone could risk your safety, are they worth the risk?

- Do they have any hobbies or pastimes? Particularly ones that could be used or adapted PSHTF.

- Do they do any physical activities? In moderation - a weightlifter isn't as useful as someone into orienteering.

- Are they violent when drunk or angry?

- Who would they bring with them? Do they have troublemaking friends? What about husbands/wives/boyfriends/girlfriends? Do they have children?

- Are they reasonably healthy? What about their mental health? Can you look after them when they have bouts of bad health?

- How do they handle hardships, crises, set-backs?

- Do they indulge in healthy or unhealthy escapism?

- Do they lead or follow? If they lead, are they going to make things more difficult? If they follow, do they follow good ideas, or just the herd?

- Will they fit in? Are they trouble makers, or does trouble "find" them?

- Are they there already? What would happen if you kicked them out?

Need to reset

I woke this morning jaded with the world; on my drive to work, I remembered that I wanted to discuss why some people want an apocalypse.

We think only of the short-term. We are happy to pollute, particularly if we don't see what we've dumped. We poison our land, water, and air. We refuse to see ourselves as part of the environment; some of us even refuse to see ourselves as part of a community. We entertain ourselves with movies that centre around torture, and don't see what's wrong with that.

And then, a bus passed in front of me with an advertisement for "Medical Aesthetics Education", which after a bit of searching turns out to mean "You're not pretty enough/You've gotten old and aren't as pretty as you were - let us tell you all the ways you are ugly, and how we can fix it."

I don't know which offended me more, the three words used or the sentiment...

All I do know that there is something quite wrong with our attitudes.

We poison the air,
we poison the water,
we poison the soil.

We claim to master the world,
we forget we are part of it.

We serve money,
we serve avarice,
we fill our souls with emptiness.

We see nature to be conquered,
we forget it gives us life.