Armageddon..."There is Still Time"

[bigshoe]

The only thing wrong with "on the Beach" and "The day after" series is that no would have lived long enough for a plot line to develop. There are worse things then dying, living in fear is not the least of these.
Tom

 

[Emer]

This is going to seem so out of place here, but I promise, it's going somewhere!

When "The Queens of Comedy" came out, one of them had a bit about her grandmother telling her as a child that they were living in their last days. She said it messed her up as a child! Every morning she woke up and said, "Grandma, is this it? Can I ride my bike one last time?" Now that she's an adult, she finally asked her grandmother, "Hey, why are we living in our last days? When you were young with gran-daddy we weren't living in our last days!" She then says, "If you knew something like that, why would you spoil someone else's last days? Buy them a pizza and let them be surprised!"

(I've edited that to cut out her string of profanity.) But truely, this is how I've always felt about the nay-sayers. If you want to spend days, months, and years being freaked out by the end, go ahead. I'll live my life in the meantime, thank you very much.

 

[Slim Portly]

Emer, I agree with you completely, but I still prepare. One can do both. Prepare for what you can, and then spend every day in joy whether it is your last or you have tens of thousands to go. As bigshoe said, there are worse things than dying, and one of them is having to live through a catastrophic time that you did not prepare for.

 

[KeyGrip]

On a lighter note, you are all invited to attend my 24th birthday party, which falls promptly on the agreed-upon Armageddon date 12/21/2012. I'm still planning the party, so any input would be appreciated.

 

[Dewhurst]

On a lighter note, you are all invited to attend my 24th birthday party, which falls promptly on the agreed-upon Armageddon date 12/21/2012. I'm still planning the party, so any input would be appreciated.

Hmm. For a birthday theme, I'm thinking "Humphrey Bogart Vs. The End of the World".

We all know who wins (Bogart, of course!!!). Your guests might not, though.

 

[Baggers]

I don't think anyone here is freaked out by it, Emer. To put it bluntly, we're all going to die eventually. For some of us it could happen tomorrow, for others it could be fifty years from now. It's all a matter of when and how. So in a sense we're all living in our last days. What I take from that is we should each live our lives in the moment, to the fullest, because we don't know when that life might end. The trick is finding some sort of balance in our lives that enables us to live it with gusto while accepting that it is finite.

But we shouldn't simply roll over at the first sign of what we think is "The End." The will to survive runs strong in humankind (well, some of us), so we must do whatever we can to enhance our ability to do so. Knowledge displaces fear, so to that end I gather as much knowledge about possible threats to my existence. I also acquire the tools and skills to mitigate these threats as best I can. As a result I go forward with my life with the satisfaction that I have a fighting chance of overcoming whatever calamity might befall me.

There have been a lot of doomsayers throughout history and we're still here. But sooner or later, somebody's gonna call it correctly!

Cheers!

 

[scotrace]

"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."

Attributed to Mark Twain

 

[Baggers]

Attributed to Mark Twain

Obviously he'd never been to Queen City Texas. lol

Cheers!

 

[HadleyH]

“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

- Charles M. Schulz

Ain't that the truth!

 

[Mike K.]

Originally Posted by Mike K.
“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
- Charles M. Schulz

Ain't that the truth! Ain't that the truth!

And with that in mind, how can anyone specify an exact date for the end of the world? As I write this it's Jan. 7th where I live, but a few times zones around the world it's an entirely different date. So will the end of the world only affect one time zone or will it happen gradually over a 24 hour period as the earth spins? Honestly, who came up with this crap of a specific date? Personally, I believe what is written in the Good Book that we won't know when it will happen.

 

[Eyemo]

I'll be fine with the end of the world, as long as Jerry Bruckheimer isn't involved..

 

[HadleyH]

......we won't know when it will happen.

Exactly,we won't know when it will happen and Lord knows we won't care either , we'll all be long gone by then .... lol
Armageddon as a huge war, you know what i mean, fireworks and all perhaps, Armageddon as end of the world i don't think so, not for at least several billion years! [huh]

What do I know, my 2 insignificant cents

 

[MissJeanavive]

Riots

This evening blocks away from my home people have taken to the streets of Downtown Oakland 'protesting' the shooting/killing of a young man at the Oakland Bart station on New Years; which was caught on video and has been released world wide on the web.

I noticed the ghetto birds / news choppers earlier this evening and didn't think much of it. Got home and still didn't know anything was going on till I talked to a friend. I usually avoid news but in this instance it makes me realize if the world was going down around me I probably wouldn't notice it right away.

Literally where I was planning to go hang out tonight is a full on 'riot' scenario, cars being lit on fire, store front windows shattered, police in riot gear marching through the streets, tear gas...literally 3-blocks away. I have me eye's and ears on my block; eventually these individuals need to make their way back home...I am ready to maintain the fort if need be; gun safe open, house alarmed...

Realizing that people in these scenarios make me more nervous than a natural catastrpohe such as an earth quake. People under stress are unpredictable; as seen by the Bart Cops actions and how the people increased from a protest to a 'riot'.

I read the book 'The Road'; which is a movie set to be released this year. The thought from the History channel 2012 show about "people having a choice, that there is two paths is depicted in this book even after a world catastrpohe happens. In the book there are people who try to survive as they did pre-catastrpohe, than others who gang up and become cannibals leaving any sense of humanity behind them.

I think it will truly be the choices of people that will define our future.

Sorry I got kind of lost in this post...

 

[MissJeanavive]

The Eath Dies Screaming

Can't get this end of the world movie on DVD or VHS.

Part I

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Part II

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Part III

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Go to You Tube to Watch the rest of the show...

 

[Diamondback]

Personally, I subscribe to the theory that "chance favors the prepared mind"--if nothing else, so long as one of "my own" survives being around to protect and provide for them is reason enough for me to lay in supply-caches for my own survival (and I'm specifically designing Rattler's Den, my planned retirement home, for use to "shelter in place"). And even if none of them make it, if it was caused by a person's hand there's always revenge to keep me going, at least until I complete the mission anyway ...

In the long run, though, like the song said, "In time your time will be no more."

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Now playing: Mark Collie - In Time
via FoxyTunes

 

[Baggers]

Found it!

The Earth Dies Screaming is available at Amazon. I also just placed it on my Netflix cue. I love British Sci-fi, especially stuff by Terence Fisher.

Sorry to read about events in Oakland. Civil disturbance is one reason why I moved away from the city center (just outside the reach of public transportation also). Back in the 90s I watched a parade honoring the local football team who'd just won the Superbowl turn into a riot right before my eyes. I was on the 17th floor of a downtown office building two blocks from the parade route and had brought my handheld scanner with me. Just before lunch, as people were starting to leave to go to the parade, I heard things starting to go south on the police channels and decided I'd better stay put and watch the action unfold from a distance. Our building was on lockdown the entire afternoon. I'm sure what happened in Oakland began as a legitimate peaceful demonstration, but all it takes are a few agents provocateur to nudge the crowd in a more violent direction.

You sound like a girl after my own heart re: the gun safe, I hope things worked out well for you last night. Stay safe.

Cheers!

 

[Nathan Flowers]

In keeping with the intention to keep the place more vintage oriented, let's take this one off to PMs.