Keyhole said:
Laura said:
Ya'll ought not to forget one of the top five threats: epidemic/pandemic. Sometimes when we have FOTCM members here, we play "let's pretend thus and so has happened/is happening, what do we do?" It's an interesting exercise and I think some of the other FOTCM groups do it too.
I presume that this may relate to the situation where there
is no one to actually kick you out, everyone is either ill or dead... Best to stock up on everything while it is still possible then. Make contingency plans for the worst possible scenarios and continue to gain as much knowledge as possible. If one is not part of the FOTCM private board, what possibilities are there community-wise?
Well, one of the reasons we created FOTCM was just to have this potential ability to help communities form with guidance and support. That means we want to KNOW the people as well as possible, and that we get feedback about them from other members so we can weed out whackos. We spend a lot of time dealing with this practically and administratively, trying to balance between making sure no sincere member gets hurt, AND steering with a light touch so that forming groups can learn together. So, I don't know what else we can do. I'm not willing to be responsible for bringing people together who have not be vetted as much as we are able. There is just too much potential for predators to take advantage of people that way. And, as a legally incorporated religion, we also have to comply with certain governing and tax regulations, but there are many advantages to the form and, so far, protections for the members. This may change, but for the moment, it gives us an aegis/umbrella to work under while helping the most people possible in direct and practical ways. And also, notice, because of the nature of it, we don't make a lot of that public so many people don't even know that we have been very busy in the background doing very practical things. We don't just publish sessions and think that everybody can figure it out on their own: we actually DO STUFF.