Post by GeauxLSU on Apr 17, 2007 19:01:33 GMT -5
This is what started it. If it sounds like something you'd be interested in and you think you can make a positive contribution to our shared heritage, great! Find a sponsor (all new members must be recommended by an existing member) on these boards and feel free to join us. Or, post questions/inquiries here (you do not have to be a registered member to post in this forum).
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Ok, I think I’m going to start a new outdoors organization. I think I’m going to call it the “Dominion of Stewards” (Pick up your bible for further clarification) aka DoS, but I am open to suggestions.
1. We probably won’t have a cool website cuz I don’t know how to make one.
2. We probably won’t have any cool bumper stickers or clothing either since the dues just won’t cover their purchase.
3. We WILL have a cool logo as soon as a member comes up with one.
4. I will be SABD (Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator).
5. There will be no mandatory MONETARY membership fee, at all, ever.
6. It will be a fair chase based organization. Disputes about that definition will be defined the SABD.
7. It will be a politically active organization. Part of your fee will REQUIRE you writing your elected officials regarding laws or proposed legislation that effect either directly or indirectly outdoorsman. Everybody knows how to use email. If you can’t take 5 minutes once a month or so especially while the legislature is in session, you are too busy for this organization and a lot of things apparently.
8. There will be a zero tolerance policy for game law violators and even if we don’t agree with the law, we will adhere but will work to change the ones we see fit. Until that change is affected, they will be obeyed with the same vigor as the ones with which we are in complete agreement.
9. Every member will have a written and published action plan on what they are doing to bring ONE new person (child or adult) into the woods or onto the water or to the gun range, every year. It can be 2 sentences and it can be your own child, that’s fine. Or you can get as elaborate as you want. Memberships in other organizations like NGS can be used to fulfill this requirement but hopefully you’ll have more imagination than that. Those ideas and plans should be shared with others so that all may benefit.
10. We will have a few written stances on game issues we collectively (or me as SABD) decide important and you will either support the stance as a member of DoS and an individual outdoorsman, or you will oppose them as an individual only (and perhaps reconsider your membership).
11. If you are the type that is just constantly looking for a fight, you will be barred, tarred, feathered and hung from your underwear on a street light post in the town square.
12. It would help if you are a political conservative but if you’re not and you promise not to discuss your misguided personal political beliefs we MIGHT be able to look beyond it for the greater good (but no promises, I can’t control the masses).
13. It would help if you are God fearing but if you’re not…. (see above comment on politics) you should probably get on the right side of that first in the list of priorities before doing anything else, but again, we can probably look beyond it.
14. It would help if you realize we are a population going extinct and instead of trying to “get yours before it all goes away” you’d rather attempt to stem and possibly reverse the tide.
15. Experience required: It doesn’t matter if you’ve been hunting 70 years or looking forward to your first ever season. Doesn’t matter if you’ve got your walls covered with mounts and you're on every other page of every record book keeping organization, or if you are just looking forward to that first ever taste of prepared wild fish or game that YOU actually took on your own.
16. Personal Qualifications: It doesn’t matter if you make 7 figures a year or no figures. It doesn’t matter what you drive, what your last name is, what your skin color is or what the sign says on the building you (may or may not) walk into Sunday morning. Doesn’t matter where you were born or if you talk or type funny. Doesn’t matter if you are a man, woman or child. Children will get a special ½ rate membership fee. (Ooops, see number 5 above.) Big egos will be summarily ridiculed and chastised so save yourself the grief. We’ll forgo the lost entertainment at your expense in the name of harmony.
17. The ability to spin a good yarn around a campfire might elevate you to some special position in the organization but it is not required.
18. It will be a family organization and if you can’t act responsibly and respectfully around children and women then you may want to not bother.
19. We will be a QHE (Quality Hunting EXPERIENCE) organization. Quality will be defined by the experiences granted by ANY time afield with family and friends old and new, and not at all by the amount of spent gunpowder in the air.
20. Rembering and appreciating the way things “used to be” will not be viewed as a liability but rather as an asset and potential model to strive for.
21. At the end of any given year if we can’t put on paper what we’ve collectively accomplished but we have in our hearts and minds a good feeling about the way our time was spent it will be a rousing success.
Anybody interested?
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RULES:
I'll try and keep this simple.
1) No profanity
2) No nudity
3) No trolls
4) No threats
5) No personal attacks (race, religion, heritage etc...)
6) In short, if you don't think it appropriate for children (yours or your neighbor's), don't post it.
7) If you brag about or post photographic evidence of illegally taking fish or game, you will be immediately banned.
I intend to do my very best to be objective. However, this board is being run by someone who can generaly be described as a conservative, it will be moderated that way too. If you don't like it, you will be given a refund of your membership dues, wished well and bid farewell.
As SABD (Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator), I get to make the call. If your posts are not adding to the enjoyment or education of most of the members in a family appropriate tone (as decided by me and only me) you can go share your wisdom elsewhere, where it will surely be more valued.
8) Like a lot of hunting clubs, you must be sponsored by an existing member to have your account activated here. (Or if you don't know anyone, feel free to post here until somebody sponsors you.)
9) Have fun. If you're not, what's the point?
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Ok, I think I’m going to start a new outdoors organization. I think I’m going to call it the “Dominion of Stewards” (Pick up your bible for further clarification) aka DoS, but I am open to suggestions.
1. We probably won’t have a cool website cuz I don’t know how to make one.
2. We probably won’t have any cool bumper stickers or clothing either since the dues just won’t cover their purchase.
3. We WILL have a cool logo as soon as a member comes up with one.
4. I will be SABD (Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator).
5. There will be no mandatory MONETARY membership fee, at all, ever.
6. It will be a fair chase based organization. Disputes about that definition will be defined the SABD.
7. It will be a politically active organization. Part of your fee will REQUIRE you writing your elected officials regarding laws or proposed legislation that effect either directly or indirectly outdoorsman. Everybody knows how to use email. If you can’t take 5 minutes once a month or so especially while the legislature is in session, you are too busy for this organization and a lot of things apparently.
8. There will be a zero tolerance policy for game law violators and even if we don’t agree with the law, we will adhere but will work to change the ones we see fit. Until that change is affected, they will be obeyed with the same vigor as the ones with which we are in complete agreement.
9. Every member will have a written and published action plan on what they are doing to bring ONE new person (child or adult) into the woods or onto the water or to the gun range, every year. It can be 2 sentences and it can be your own child, that’s fine. Or you can get as elaborate as you want. Memberships in other organizations like NGS can be used to fulfill this requirement but hopefully you’ll have more imagination than that. Those ideas and plans should be shared with others so that all may benefit.
10. We will have a few written stances on game issues we collectively (or me as SABD) decide important and you will either support the stance as a member of DoS and an individual outdoorsman, or you will oppose them as an individual only (and perhaps reconsider your membership).
11. If you are the type that is just constantly looking for a fight, you will be barred, tarred, feathered and hung from your underwear on a street light post in the town square.
12. It would help if you are a political conservative but if you’re not and you promise not to discuss your misguided personal political beliefs we MIGHT be able to look beyond it for the greater good (but no promises, I can’t control the masses).
13. It would help if you are God fearing but if you’re not…. (see above comment on politics) you should probably get on the right side of that first in the list of priorities before doing anything else, but again, we can probably look beyond it.
14. It would help if you realize we are a population going extinct and instead of trying to “get yours before it all goes away” you’d rather attempt to stem and possibly reverse the tide.
15. Experience required: It doesn’t matter if you’ve been hunting 70 years or looking forward to your first ever season. Doesn’t matter if you’ve got your walls covered with mounts and you're on every other page of every record book keeping organization, or if you are just looking forward to that first ever taste of prepared wild fish or game that YOU actually took on your own.
16. Personal Qualifications: It doesn’t matter if you make 7 figures a year or no figures. It doesn’t matter what you drive, what your last name is, what your skin color is or what the sign says on the building you (may or may not) walk into Sunday morning. Doesn’t matter where you were born or if you talk or type funny. Doesn’t matter if you are a man, woman or child. Children will get a special ½ rate membership fee. (Ooops, see number 5 above.) Big egos will be summarily ridiculed and chastised so save yourself the grief. We’ll forgo the lost entertainment at your expense in the name of harmony.
17. The ability to spin a good yarn around a campfire might elevate you to some special position in the organization but it is not required.
18. It will be a family organization and if you can’t act responsibly and respectfully around children and women then you may want to not bother.
19. We will be a QHE (Quality Hunting EXPERIENCE) organization. Quality will be defined by the experiences granted by ANY time afield with family and friends old and new, and not at all by the amount of spent gunpowder in the air.
20. Rembering and appreciating the way things “used to be” will not be viewed as a liability but rather as an asset and potential model to strive for.
21. At the end of any given year if we can’t put on paper what we’ve collectively accomplished but we have in our hearts and minds a good feeling about the way our time was spent it will be a rousing success.
Anybody interested?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RULES:
I'll try and keep this simple.
1) No profanity
2) No nudity
3) No trolls
4) No threats
5) No personal attacks (race, religion, heritage etc...)
6) In short, if you don't think it appropriate for children (yours or your neighbor's), don't post it.
7) If you brag about or post photographic evidence of illegally taking fish or game, you will be immediately banned.
I intend to do my very best to be objective. However, this board is being run by someone who can generaly be described as a conservative, it will be moderated that way too. If you don't like it, you will be given a refund of your membership dues, wished well and bid farewell.
As SABD (Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator), I get to make the call. If your posts are not adding to the enjoyment or education of most of the members in a family appropriate tone (as decided by me and only me) you can go share your wisdom elsewhere, where it will surely be more valued.
8) Like a lot of hunting clubs, you must be sponsored by an existing member to have your account activated here. (Or if you don't know anyone, feel free to post here until somebody sponsors you.)
9) Have fun. If you're not, what's the point?
