SILVERTHORN

I want make sure its understood as needed, my view of this or any server in any game to include forums and all other aspects. This entire thing is a privilege I enjoy. It is made available to the public with conditions. Those conditions are established by the server owner, staff and clan. I as a use have two choices abide by the terms and policies of the server or don’t come here. That’s it. I have state before, I have great respect for the FA server in all of its aspects. I am and was confident that all persons involve have and are doing an excellent job. There is always room for improvement in anything humans create or do. My motives were benevolent to the server, its staff , the clan and its guests. Anything I said or have done or will do are intended in a positive way. I may have and probably did make mistakes, I am human, I make mistake often. I try to correct all when I find them. I listen carefully to those who offer criticism. I consider such criticism and use it to improve myself when ever and where ever I can. It appears to me the status quo is what many or most wish to maintain. That is fine. I saw some serious problems. I felt I may be able to help. If my perception was correct, and those problems do in fact exists, that does mean the server, its staff or anyone was doing something wrong. Sadly, and I have seen this in ever institution I have worked with, for or been associated with, the focus all to often is on placing blame. Pointing fingers. Things like that. I have always considered this behavior however typical, to be distracting and non-productive. All I have ever asked is are all the people on the team and part of the solution. As long as all are on the team, then we don’t have a personnel problem, the focus should be on the problem not bickering and finger pointing. Where FA was and is concerned there was never a doubt in my mind that all the people involved were on the team and were part of the solution. The problem was not and is not with FA with regard to the problems I perceived. Bottom line I wanted to help. Clearly as I have received a threat of disciplinary action regarding one of my posts. I am not helping. Further I have no interest in conflict. I will continue to spare no effort in complying with any and all clan rules and policies. If any were offended or made to feel uncomfortable by anything I wrote I am sorry that occurred. I can only assure I meant to harm no one. I meant to offend no one. I did want to exchange ideas. But not in a way that fostered conflict. SILVERTHORN

interesting, not the response i expected, i will take it for action immediately,

hmmmm, well I had no intention of reposting anything, i am not sure how this forum thing works. it is likely i am making a mistake or serveral. i have edited my post a few times. and i am replying to replies i have recieved as i am replying to yours now. perhaps i am doing this in an improper way and causeing the reposts you refer to. once is enough, if not too much. if you could tell me what it is i am doing wrong, that is causing the repost, i would greatly appreciate and would make the correction immediately

Hello thankyou for reading my post first of all. second, i was making a joke, when i was talking about clark kent and superman. I was speaking metaphoricly about our brains and our peckers, i left it up to the reader to decide which was which, was clark the brain or the pecker,lol, same with pecker. my point being, as the old saying goes, "a hard pecker has no concience" and i would argue when our pecker gets hard our brain does not work as well or at all, kind of like when superman(pecker aroused) is around, clark (brain) is not. lollllllagain thankyou so much for reading my post. i have made some other, and decidedly contraversial posts, please if i failed to explain myself well enough to be understood, bring it to my attention I will enjoy explaining in a better way what i was trying to say.

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I am relieved no none or at least few were injured. This may sound droll. I work with several disaster management agencies. Disasters of all types have some things in common. Among these are what I refer to as the four. Water, food, shelter, and security. Social contact is very helpful but not essential. If you have all of these in good supply then you don’t really have an emergency, a situation perhaps. If one of these is missing then you have an emergency and you are in danger. I am a member of the following organizations, FEMA, IEMA (Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Wild Land Firefighter Service Region Seven, Volunteer Firefighter Williamson County, ITEC. Region Seven was the group that was called in to respond to 9-11. Our groups responded to Katrina and many other large scale disasters. I am presenting my credentials in an effort to validate the usefulness of my recommendations. The best time to leave a sinking ship, is before its time to leave a sinking ship. What I am saying here is, during or after a major disaster, earth quake, hurricane, drought, economic collapse, what ever, this is a bad time to prepare for such an emergency. Its sort of like the fire in the theater thing. Its hard to escape the fire when everyone is trying to get through one or two small doors at the same time. It is unpleasant to consider such things. I can not change that. I wish I could, I wish I could somehow prevent such disasters, I can't. I have seen the suffering these things cause first hand and often. It is something one never gets used too. Its ugly the first time and each time after. Someone far wiser than I once said, “luck is opportunity meeting the prepared man“. I have said, “success in life and survival are more a matter of maximizing your odds than anything else“. Obviously preparation is key. We live in a time and within a society where our most basic needs as well as desirables are delivered to us through complex, centrally controlled systems. We are often hundreds, even thousands of miles away from the sources of the things we need and want. When a disaster hits, man made or natural, these systems are among the first casualties. Hence you invariably hear about shortages of food, water, power, medical supplies, and etc. People by the thousands are dying for lack of these things even as I write this missive to all of you. The average grocery store has on its shelves enough food, to supply its normal clientele for four days, with strict rationing. In a serious emergency such rationing processes will only occur if a significant armed presence is at that location. Other wise it will be ravaged in manner of hours. 5.9, or something like that was the intensity of the quake in the eastern US. I don't track unless I am called to respond. Forgive me I grow weary of such things. It could have just as easily been a 9.5 quake. We don’t understand quakes, we can't predict them. It is in my view it is unwise and arrogant to assume anything, least of all, what mother nature might do next. So what do I recommend; I recommend the following. Purchase a minimum of one years supply of freeze dried survival food. This type of food can be quite tasty and can last up to 50 years in reasonably good storage. There are numerous sites on the web where such things can be purchased. Have a complete set of high quality camping gear, have two of everything and more of high use or easily damage items. Have an extensive medical kit. pampers and large sanitary napkins make excellent battle dressings, wounds must be cleaned and redressed often. Buy large amounts of these, base on number of people in your group. learn basic and advanced first aid, one among being a paramedic would be a good idea. Have a substantial supply of over the counter pain medication. Party quality pain meds would be great too if you can get your hands on some. Vitamins, full organic, and in as large a quantity as you can stand. Various grains, rice, barely, millet, and such, have long shelf lives, easy to store and often very cheap and nutritious. Weapons, shotguns are excellent, with bird and buck shot, in large quantities. large caliber pistols as well as a 22 pistol and rifle for hunting small game, ammo is cheap for the .22. and as most know and very accurate. Have a number of water purification devices and chemicals. Bleach will work and is good to have around for a variety of things. tools, very important, saws, hammers, nails, screws, bailing wire, as much hardware as you can accumulate coffee, liquor, cigarettes, sugar and spices good to have, and are excellent barter items. In some disasters, money becomes useless Good to gave a high powered rifle or two around, I prefer a seven millimeter magnum. It will kill anything on the north American continent with one shot. fishing equipotent, books with pictures displaying edible and poisonous plants, insects, and reptiles. If things get really bad, keep in mind, anything that does not eat you first is on the menu. redundancy and backup, two wonderful and all to often overlooked philosophies. Have several escape routes preplanned to move to local and distant locations in the event your current location becomes to dangerous. Have a means of taking all of your goodies with you, if you have to haul ass and leave goodies behind, your screwed. Have back up shelters or locations for portable shelters, tents and such, preplanned as well as the means to get there. Have a last resort haul ass now pack in standby in a place close to the door. Small tent, food, water, basic survival gear, as much as you can carry in one trip. Good for anything, including residential fires. These are a few ideas. I would argue, one is wise to carefully consider such things, how ever unpleasant or improbable such things may seem. A few notes on residential fires. Much sorrow to found with these as well, more than once I have fought fires with tears in my eyes. Firefighters are a strange lot, they are the ones running into burning buildings when everyone else is running out of em, Any way I could go on for ever explaining what to do and what to look out for. It is better that you simply go to your local fire department and ask for information. Believe me they would much rather help you prevent a fire in your home than respond to one. I have not worked with a fire fighter yet that did not have a heart of gold. They will help you. Do your homework work on this one. I will say this, find everyone of those cheap white, brown, or black extension cords in your home, cut them up into little pieces and throw them in the trash. Use only high quality extension cords and only use them if you must. Don’t go to Wallmart. Go to an electrical supply store. The ones contractors go to. They sell the cheap shit too, sometimes. Tell the person behind the counter you want good extension cords. Men never plan to fail, they fail to plan My best wishes to you all for fair winds and following seas. SILVERTHORN