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Originally Posted by TimeIsShort
What is with all the fear mongering "doom and gloom" threads on this forum?
Does anyone realise that we may very well be under a massive disinformation attack designed especially to divert our attention from what is really going to happen in the near future?
Be very carefull of what you write, what you say and what you do. Each action that promotes fear tightens the shackles that have bound human kind for millenia.
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DING DING DING!
We have a winner!
Fear is rampant right now on the internet and in real life. For the young, this is our first real recession and since we are connected with the internet and TV much more than the BabyBoomers ever were, we are literally terrified because what is on TV is our reality. We go from site to site and read all the articles (that report the same ****) and get scared ****less. Then we start jumping to conclusions because that is what we are trained to think after having watched hundreds of movies growing up about the end of the world, and we just assume that the worst case scenario is going to happen.
Of course most of us are clueless about history at the same time, making it even worse.
For the older people, they are scared their retirement savings are disappearing at a time they need to retire. Few of them think this is a "collapse" because they have lived through this before.
The end result is fear and fear is its own beast that feeds on itself and destroys everything in its path.
The truth is that the world is not going to collapse. We are not going to be living like the people in Africa. We are not going to be killed in FEMA death camps. You are not all going to die.
Like it or not, there are some smart people in Government and they are going to work this thing out eventually. That doesn't mean that happy days and new cars and trucks and 12,000 SQ FT homes are around the corner, but it does mean that eventually, with time, we will come out of this, but there will be much pain in the mean time but the world will continue to move forward and eventually we will rise out of it.
What sort of pain? Lost jobs and all that goes with that.
However, realize that the biggest PAIN will come from Generation X and Y needing to readjust their lifestyle to one that is simpler. This isn't a bad thing. Do we really need to buy new cars every 7 years? No. Do we really need $300 Designer T-Shirts? No. Do we need to spend $60 a week on Xbox games? No.
Sigh.
Look, if the world is going to go to hell in a hand bag, we are all in it together. We are all in the same boat and we are all going to suffer, period. Nobody will be left unscathed, rich or poor, prepared or not. The so called survivalists will quickly find people battering down their homes and beating their smug heads in with bats and taking their food. Those who bought a few seeds and think they can survive growing pumpkins in the back yard are also in for a rude awakening.
If anybody wants fear, I can spread it by telling you that the simple fact is, if the world goes to hell, the chances of "surviving it" are about 1 in a million and it will all be based on luck, preparations are going to do little to make a difference in the long run.
If the end is coming, then I welcome it because it is obvious the world needs a good cleansing. Unfortunately, it isn't coming and anybody who disagrees can read this post in 5 years and see how I am right.