Am I weird for wanting a Situation X type event to happen?, page 11
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reply posted on 27-1-2008 @ 11:08 PM by theogen
I found this thread both a relief and terrifying at the same time. It seems I'm not the only one with this gut feeling that we're staring down the barrel of something quite dramatic.

Fascinating posts. I'm not hoping for disaster, but I can understand why some might be. There's a building pressure that needs to find a way out. If there isn't some natural phenomenon to take care of this soon, we may well end up bringing it about ourselves.

I was reminded of the lyrics to the song "Aenima" by Tool when I saw the original post. Quite on topic.



Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this bull# three ring circus sideshow of...

Freaks here in this hopeless #ing hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any #ing time. Any #ing day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip#s.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz I sure could use a vacation from this stupid #, silly #, stupid #...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my friend.




Of course, people have been predicting the end of the world as we know it throughout modern history, at least.

[edit on 27-1-2008 by theogen]


reply posted on 28-1-2008 @ 12:28 AM by LLoyd45
reply to post by slackerwire

I'm so glad you made this post slackerwire. Now I know that I'm not alone; and that there are others out there who share my thoughts and feelings. I don't think it has anything to do with being bored, immature or an adrenaline junkie as some have suggested, it's just about being human.

Civilization is an unnatural state, and in the end it will collapse in upon itself. Barbarism is man's true natural state. We were never intended to work 40 hour weeks, eat pre-processed frozen foods, and sit on our butts during our free time. Why do you think conditions like ulcers, obesity, osteoporosis, and depression are so rampant today?

Someone asked for a name for this type of thinking.. how about "The Level Playing Field Syndrome"? I know that I'm sick to my stomach of watching the rich get richer, the poor getting poorer, people dying simply because they can't afford healthcare, old people and children starving when food is abundant, innocent people being victimized by vicious predators in our society that thumb their nose at the law-abiding, etc. The world is a crappy place to live in anymore. Something has got to change and soon.

I don't know what the catalyst will be.. a major disaster, social upheaval, a World war, a devasting plague like the one that swept through Europe in the Middle Ages, an alien attack, etc.. but it's coming down the pike like a runaway truck straight for us!

I hate to see people suffer, but that's life. People live, people die, it's as simple as that. Sometimes it's necessary to just wipe the board clean and start all over from scratch. God realized this, and sent the great flood to cleanse the World of all it's wickedness. If something cataclysmic is to happen, it's his will, and there's nothing we can do about it.

The field will be levelled, and we can all start from scratch yet again. May the fittest and most deserving survive as nature intended. When I say "fittest", I'm not speaking only of the physical. I mean the most intelligent, the most resourceful, the hardest working, the most human.

Whether I'll live or die during these times, I don't really know, but I'll do my best to survive and defend those I love, but in the end that still might not be enough. C'est la vie..










[edit on 1/28/08 by LLoyd45]


reply posted on 28-1-2008 @ 09:15 AM by Cythraul
reply to post by LLoyd45

Wow that's crazy. Kudos for setting up cameras to monitor your spot. That's effort and preparation for you. I agree, everyone who sees what's coming will be looking to escape into the wilderness. It's basic logic, and probably plain old instinct. However, I dare say there will be a proportion of society who either do not, and will not see it coming, won't be prepared for it if it did, or would rather hedge their bets with their comfortable homes and TVs. Of those prepared, I'm certain the vast majority would scatter the hills and mountains.

Having said that, I'll still be trying. I haven't scouted for my haven yet, mainly because it will have to be quite far away from where I live (there's no real wilderness in Southern England). Furthermore, I have no idea how I'd get there without a car on 'the big day', because no doubt conspicuous methods of travel like that would be treacherous.


reply posted on 28-1-2008 @ 10:32 AM by LLoyd45
reply to post by Cythraul


Honestly Cythraul, I just hate being surprised. I got the idea for the cameras from a friend of mine that's a real hardcore hunter. I'm glad I checked the place out ahead of time. My only regret is that I didn't think of doing it before I spent the money. Hindsight is 20/20.

Nothing could be worse than to get there, and find it already occupied by God knows who. I doubt my property deed would matter much at that point.


reply posted on 28-1-2008 @ 11:14 AM by mortalengine
Alot of people feeling like this lately to be honest, add me to the list.

Cant remember where I read it but it read something like this:

"once every few thousand years, life reverts back to barbarism, otherwise humanity will die of over-civilisation."

I think we want a disaster to shake this world up a bit, change something, let us be real again where we need to cultivate crops to survive, where we can have time to enjoy all our works and gaze at the stars. Face it, we're bored to death, bored bored bored! We spend hours on the internet reading and researching, basically to appease our minds which are, in all honesty, bored to the bone with the way the world is at the moment. All this knowledge in our minds, nowhere to actually put it to the test. We want real life back, since we can somehow sense that we have been spun a web of lies in which to live, we wait anxiously for something to come and wake us up.

It boils down to the fact that, the world our parents grew up in and tailored to their needs, simply isnt good enough for us, we aren't challenged in the way we want to be. Things move to slow, everything is too bureaucratic, it takes years for anything to change and get a move on. We are the children of the internet, we want fast information, fast results, fast replies etc... This is why we are the children of change, coincidentally it correlates with what the Age of Aquarius is all about... funny isnt it ?

At least that is my take.


reply posted on 29-1-2008 @ 01:41 PM by cvand
reply to post by slackerwire


i feel the same way too, because i know the disaster is comming to this world in just a few months. its going to be horrific. natural and man made. 6 billion people are going to die. want to know more. read the book: 2008 gods finial wittnes. look it up on the internet. may the truth set you free.



reply posted on 29-1-2008 @ 03:20 PM by tacticaljay
reply to post by slackerwire


I feel the same way....about wanting something to happen..just to insecure to admit it!

[edit on 29-1-2008 by tacticaljay]


reply posted on 29-1-2008 @ 03:27 PM by tacticaljay
reply to post by cvand



Not another....."The world's coming to an end on this date." thing!!!! Haven't you learned anything from history? NO ONE has ever predicted the end of the world corretly. (obviously) Have doomsday seakers gotten away from individual dates and now are predicing years? I have a feeling this year will end without any real big deals......I predict I will be alive at the end of the year. Anyway, those are just my thoughts.


reply posted on 29-1-2008 @ 07:52 PM by teleonaut
Like many previous posters, I found this thread both frightening and relieving. I also find it amusing that the Sci-Fi channel is running The Day After (1983) as I compose this.

I posed this question to a like-minded coworker recently. We both had similar feelings on this issue as well. Part of me has definitely romanticized and is intrigued by survival in an epic disaster scenario. I think I find it interesting for three major reasons: it would be a completely novel experience for me, I prefer challenge and adversity, and it would pretty much reset the system allowing for something greater to spring up after it.

The following parameters must be met in my fantasy situation X for it to seem acceptable to me: (1) I must not die in the initial event -- living in the aftermath is the whole point; (2)

One interesting thing, when I play out various scenarios in my head, is that I do not give myself a projected life span of more than five years. In any major event that would wipe out, say, 90% of the population, normal things and events would become vastly more dangerous. Step lighter -- broken bones as easy as a trip to the doctor and a cast. Food, fresh water, antiseptics, basic medicines, and ammunition become scarce. In other words, it would be more foolish to think that I will survive for many decades to come than it is now.

Each time I imagine the logical outcomes of a large scale disaster (when I say large-scale, think superflu in The Stand, not 1906 San Francisco Earthquake), I find myself facing the same question: would I ever actually opt for this scenario over my current reality?

And so ends the fantasy. My brain runs all the possible scenarios and concludes yet again, that as far as personal survival is concerned, the continued existence of society and human life as we know it now remains in my favor.


reply posted on 29-1-2008 @ 08:37 PM by resistor
reply to post by dr_strangecraft


Excellent and insightful post as usual, dr_s. There may be those who believe that their lot would somehow be improved after a cataclysm, but I assure you that I am not among that foolish group. I fully understand that a falling tide lowers all boats. It’s just that I know the tide to be necessary and inevitable, and I, like many others, sense the time is here. Might as well dig some clams anyway.


reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 01:44 AM by Question
reply to post by LLoyd45


I do not know about living in a barbaric state. But I would agree that we would probably be better suited for a nomadic way of living the way many native american tribes did.

On that note of civilization being an "unnatural" state. I'd like to bring the law of thermo dynamics into effect and see what people think.

the first law of thermo dynamics we all know, electricity cannot be created nor destroyed

the second law states that electricity will often choose to be chaotic and disorganized (the easy way out) over order, simply because... it's easier. (If I remember correctly, if not, then please correct me, it's been a while since I took science class)

if the second law is to be believed, then we as human beings, being nothing more than big containers to a big energy source we call conscience/soul/whatever Then I can maybe see how it would probably be more suitable to live a nomadic lifestyle over an organized civilization. What do you think?
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