ggreg, You believe the Jєωιѕн Control Mass Media that plays down
the seriousness of the times we live in.
It is not I but rather you that believes them.
You are the person who is constantly finding these stories in the "Jєωιѕн Controlled Media", be they Yellowstone Erupting, Ebola about to kill 1/2 of the world or the Y2K bug which is going to take us back to the stone age.
You are the type of person who told the forum 7 years ago that the economy was kaput and the dollar about to imminently collapse. But 7 years have passed and the vast majority of people still have their jobs and homes and there is food on the supermarket shelves. Which, I must admit, surprises even me.
The "Jєωιѕн Controlled Media" does not play down these stories. Everytime an asteroid passes by it mentions how close it is passing and what would happen if it slammed into the earth, because that attracts eyeballs and eyeballs attract advertisers and advertisers pay the bills. It makes disaster porn films, such as 2012, Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Day After Tomorrow.
Alex Jones and the other disaster pornographers then feed off the fears that the "Jєωιѕн Controlled Media" have unlocked and suggest that the "Jєωιѕн Controlled Media" are not really telling us the whole story and they hype it still further. Planet X might smash into us, the poles might flip all of a sudden, they really did find alien life in Nevada, Ebola is being weaponised to kill us all, the dollar is about to crash and we should all buy gold.
One American Doctor is flown back to the USA for treatment in a controlled environment and the "Jєωιѕн Controlled Media" helps whip up a frenzy of over-reaction which the loony media then turns into the more extreme disaster porn scenario.
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Now here is my intelligent view on the matter. You are a peon. There is absolutely nothing an old man like you can do IF and WHEN Yellowstone blows up or Ebola kills half of the planet. No amount of rice you can store or beans you can stack is going to help you if terrorists launch a nuclear attack on your town. I am a peon too, just a somewhat smarter and richer peon than you, but I don't have a private army or the resources of a government or a yacht to escape on or a private jet so I'm in the same hot water as you if TEOTWAWKI happens.
So my defence against all these potential disasters that might befall us is to do my living today and let God take care of tomorrow. If I am buried under a layer of ash, so be it. If Muslims take over and I have to live as their slave, so be it. You are just as screwed under most disaster scenarios as I will be, because you are a powerless, poor peon, just like me.
The difference is that this morning I went to the park with 4 children who went for a cycle and a 6km run while I sat in the Sun and had a coffee. Then I came back did 90 mins of work, washed the kids clothes and now I am about to sit down and have lunch with my family. This afternoon I will do another 90mins of work and this evening I'll take 4 of the 7 children to an athletics competition and hopefully see my daughter win.
So far my way has worked well for 30 years. Since 1984 which is arguably when the western world began to get addicted to disaster porn. So I've had 10,000 days of not worrying about this stuff.
If TEOTWAWKI happens tomorrow, will you have 30 years ahead of you to enjoy and pat yourself on the back? Since you're called Roman Catholic 1953 I would assume you are 60-61 years old. So the answer is probably no. Life ain't going to be much fun after TEOTWAWKI so why not stop worrying about it and enjoy life now?
Stop worrying and start living today. Let tomorrow look after itself and admit to yourself that YOU don't know what the heck is going to happen and that you have been completely wrong numerous times before. Instead of spending time worrying about it and troubling the rest of us with your error prone ideas (because so far none of your threats have actually happened), why not simply make sure you're enjoying your days with as much optimism as you can muster.
In the end we are all dead anyway. I don't see the upside of your gloomy outlook. Meanwhile I have had 10,000 days of upside by not worrying about it because since 1984 the world did not end.