I saw this article today on an Australian news website and the actual building of the houses is pretty cool but the fact the people are buying these things up like hoitcakes because they legitamtely believe the end is nigh is mind boggling. http://www.news.com.au/money/proper...est-hot-property/story-e6frfmd0-1226323041791 There are mountains of books and movies using the doomsday scenario as their basis and in another era it was a legitamate threat. Has the world reached the point again where everyone has a "Red under the bed" or are people using the media to promote fear and superstition to make money? Focus:What are the craziest things you have heard in relation to the next doomsday? Alt Focus:What are your post apocalypse doomsday survival plans?
My cousin believes that the American government will be destabilized and the country will be thrown into chaos, who will cause this to happen? The International banking cartels, the Federal Reserve and the Rothschild family. He has property in the mountains and plans on going there when this happens, which should be in the next 15 years, so start planning now. Me? I am gonna loot my local liquor store and have a party. I am a sane person so to me all of this is bullshit. But hey, to each their own.
I've got lots of guns, land, food, a well and soon to be a back up generator in a spot far enough away from the city that we probably won't have anybody knocking on our door. I'm going to stay home, watch porn and wait until the shit storm blows over then go find myself a Lamborgini.
Think of information as we know it. Think of what is stored on the internet. Imagine how vast that is, and imagine how terrible that would be to mankind to lose it. My plan is to get as many backup devices as I can and start downloading all of that porn. When I'm old, weathered by this new world's environment and harried by the turmoil it brought, I'll be regaling my children, "We were a grand civilization. 10,000 years of communities, millenia of knowledge and wisdom and invention. But never mind that shit here's 2 girls pooping in a cup and eating it. Behold our legacy!" Start stock piling batteries. Learn to hook an old bicycle up to a generator. Whatever it takes. WHATEVER. IT. TAKES. We will survive. Focus:What are the craziest things you have heard in relation to the next doomsday? The next thing. Any of the doomsday cults involving aliens blow my mind. When they all buy Nikes and drink the poisoned punch, I guarantee we have lost not one valuable member of society. If anything, AudreyMonroe will be a little lonely on the subway.
Alt Focus:What are your post apocalypse doomsday survival plans? My decision tree is basically Are there still Computers? If yes, can I sell my skillz with computers for enough to live comfortably? If so, go with that. Otherwise I plan to do what good I can before taking a morphine overdose or a bullet to the head and going quietly. I have no interest in a world where surviving entails hard work and no internet porn.
Alt Focus: Keep track of people who have good post apocalyptic plans. Beat them up and steal their stuff if apocalypse happens.
Why would you, of all people, need internet porn? Isn't your life one huge porn fantasy come to life? FOCUS: One of my friends (well, not really a friend; he's my friends brother) has been preparing for the 2012 apocalypse for the last few years. And by preparing, I mean sitting on his fat ass, smoking pot, eating microwave burritos, and constantly speculating about what society's downfall will be.
Yup, i have always said "I have guns, i will come and take your shit, i dont need a plan." I get some weird looks when i say that.
FYI, most of these people also have firearms and will be on the lookout for thugs who are thinking the same thing you just wrote. Something to keep in mind... Alt Focus: I'd head to the library. I don't possess the necessary skills to truly survive long term in a doomsday scenario, so I figure the best thing to do would be to go where I can learn how to acquire the skills I need.
I've heard this one before, a few times. If you're rich and powerful, the last thing you want is chaos. Sure, you might gain more power, but you also risk losing it all. If you have a billion dollars in the stock market, the last thing you want is volatility. If you run the country, the last thing you want is a revolution. My own plan for when the shit hits the fan: Probably die.
Has your cousin been watching zeitgeist? Alt Focus: Since I have a 1% chance of surviving the apocalypse, and then a 95% chance of getting shot for hoarding resources in the post apocalypse, I choose to justify my laziness through science. It's science, people. I think a collapse of our global society will happen within the next 200 years, but I don't have money to throw away on preparations that probably wouldn't save my life anyway.
The craziest one I have heard is the whole polar shift theory. I haven't looked at the physics of if but it sounds fantastic! Somehow these people believe there will be a violent shift in the poles, causing rapid continental drift, tsunamis and mega-quakes. Not quite sure how solid rock (tectonic plates) detach and quickly shift over molten rock (mantle)? If I were to go crazy down the prepper hole, I would be more concerned with an asteroid strike or perhaps another Carrington event Those seem much more likely to happen as we have actual proof of these types of events occurring and also knowing the level of devastation they bring with them. I have done certain things in the last few years to become more self-sufficient. I have read a lot about 'ditch medicine', edible and holistic plants, basic animal husbandry, and butchery. I have taken up a garden to practice the ability to grow my own food if necessary. I have also looked into developing trades that may be useful if situations were different, the two simplest that I can think of is reloading ammunition and operating a portable saw mill. In terms of actual survival, I would say one of two things will happen: 1. You are killed in the event or in the 1 month aftermath by 'societal instability'. 2. You survive number 1 and now you need to figure out what the fuck to do next. The ideal would be to have a large plot of land in Idaho where your nearest neighbor is miles away and you can live with your small group as hunter/gatherers or small-time farmers/ranchers.
I've heard this one, but without the megaquakes and tectonic shift. What I'd heard was that it would screw up the Van Allen radiation belt and our magnetic field, which at least has some intuitive logic to it. That would then cause problems for our atmosphere, increase radiation, higher exposure to solar winds, etc.
You can buy a small Central American island for less than $100,000, solar/wind power and as long as your properly prepared self sustaining food wise you could live on it indefinitely provided the apocalypse isn't one involving massively rising sea levels. Some of the islands around Panama are ridiculously good fishing so as long as you know how to tie a knot you really shouldn't starve at all.
So, what's the next one coming up this year? The Mayan calendar comes to an end? The Mayans were a very "advanced" people who predicted that all things will end in 2012. They did not, however predict the arrival of Cortes or that keep corpses in your drinking water isn't such a bright idea. The Y2K new year was off-the-wall fucking ridiculous to sit through. Morons clamoring for the last cases of water, pork n' beans and batteries so they could survive until the end of february because a clock on a computer will reset and trigger The Rapture. Profiteers made a killing from these idiots, and all that happened was another big paycheque for Dick Clark. When the apocalypse does arrive, you can bet your balls I will be building the first official Thunderdome with these hands. Two hipters enter, but only one may leave. Then, we kill the other one when he thinks he's going to live as a hilarious bonus.
I've read this a few places but never in enough detail to confirm it exactly but there are people that say the Mayans calendar doesn't account for leap years. We could obviously go into detail about how the Mayans used three separate calendars or that they didn't develop the long-count calendar that has so many weak minded people up in arms, but we won't. In any case, the calendar isn't as accurate as the Julian calendar we use today. Had the Mayan accounted for leap year, we would be in September of 2013 or so right now. Congratulations everyone, you survived.
Never mind that the calendars don't "end". They represent cycles. The only thing that will happen in December 2012 is that a new cycle begins. I've been preparing for the apocalypse for the last several years by building up my fat reserves. I figure I can live several months without any caloric intake. On the down side, I won't be able to run very fast when the zombies arrive.