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Post by Jaguar on Mar 13, 2015 21:39:44 GMT -5
I know where there is some nice caves at, I use to hike a hell of a lot when I was younger, so I know where the best hiding places are.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 13, 2015 21:57:01 GMT -5
I would crawl under the bed with a gallon of Vodka and a fifth of orange juice, get shitfaced and really stoned. Hello, I'm gonna die shortly. I have no OH OH moments where I think - hell I wish I had done this or that Then again I still haven't made it to the Pro Football HOF - maybe I can get there by Magic Carpet
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Post by Jaguar on Mar 13, 2015 22:00:43 GMT -5
I would crawl under the bed with a gallon of Vodka and a fifth of orange juice, get shitfaced and really stoned. Hello, I'm gonna die shortly. I have no OH OH moments where I think - hell I wish I had done this or that Then again I still haven't made it to the Pro Football HOF - maybe I can get there by Magic Carpet I'll pick you up at 2, I gotta get some gas for the carpet. Oh geez Peace Of Mind, thanks for such a cheery thread, like shit.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Mar 13, 2015 22:47:52 GMT -5
Well, these dsystopian scenarios always throw me off, somewhat. The making love has been said, I suppose (still nice), the holding my children has been said...more than nice. Just coming to terms with myself, and my experiences and trying to make sense of them all...that would be a start you know what the old Greeks used to say about an unexamined life...if you don't, take the time to learn. Unless you are a sex freak who gets off on complete annihilation catastrophes, I'm thinking not too many guys are going to get it up and excited knowing they are going to die in a day or two. Most guys I know couldn't care less the world was ending. And if it was.... that's what they'd want to be doing.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Mar 14, 2015 7:42:59 GMT -5
As has been said, a large part of the equation is how imminent and how much advance warning we have. I think one thing less discussed has been how the news is broken. Assuming the scenario IS something we could have warning about, then that limits what it could be. It also stands to reason that there would be people who got advanced notice, and who could make plans. What would be REALLY interesting is if it was a meteor, what if it was only going to wipe out one section of the globe? Lets say that the Americas were going to be obliterated. So humans wouldn't be extinct, but there will be pretty much no way out for most people.
Now what is key is that announcement. Are we thinking the President gets on TV and basically says "if you are in North America and you don't get out in two days, you are history."
For the folks who want to rush to boats or planes, I'm thinking it comes down to how fast you can get there and how far away you can get. Are we thinking that if there was advance notice, that world governments wouldn't pull together to help save people? Would Europe and Asia muster as many planes as possible to help get people out? If it really was only 2 days, you can only get so far. How would you feel if you were planning to run to YOUR boat, and got there to find it had been stolen? Which circles back to that whole personal moral compass thing.
Think about how during Katrina, some people used those government debit cards not to buy shelter or food, but to indulge on an HDTV or jewelry. There will definitely be people who try to maximize their last few moments.
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Mar 14, 2015 7:46:25 GMT -5
Or we could go another way with this. What if the event wasn't an instantaneous death like a meteor strike, but something slower like a super virus. Like if Flu-bol-aids rose and was immune to medicine and spread wild and far. People wouldn't be out at first, they'd stay in.
Oh and for the really morbid... going back to the meteor strike or invasion... do you want to watch the end of the world?
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 14, 2015 12:23:38 GMT -5
This is hard and it depends on exactly how much time is left . If just a few days I would visit or talk to all friends & family members and thank them for everything they have done to help me have a great life. I would make sure the house & yard are neatened up so if anyone survived they wouldn't have to clean up after me. I would probably hire a hot air balloon person to take me up and down the river. I would finish whatever book I was reading and try not to start another. I would order & not cook all my favorite foods. I would buy a carton of smokes and smoke. I would buy a few joints and smoke. I would buy my favorite coffees and wines and beers and drink. I would let my cats go outside with me and DH, plop in a lawn chair with no sun screen, start a fire, play some music, watch the river and clouds go by, listen to the birds sing, and wait.
If my time was extremely limited, I wouldn't spend any of it cleaning. I guess I'd try to ransack the local stores and pharmacies, get lots of good food and drugs, and head out to the lake with my loved ones. A massive drug overdose just before the end. If just a few would survive, I wouldn't want to be one of them. A post-Apocalyptic world doesn't sound like fun at all. I've seen too many disaster movies. I'll pass.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Mar 14, 2015 13:52:55 GMT -5
I bet the ratio of citizens to hospitals plus drug stores in North America is 15,000:1.
Anybody who thinks they'd actually be the one to get their paws on the good drugs needs to head over to Dark's math thread and pick up a few pointers.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 14, 2015 13:58:20 GMT -5
Heck, I'm more afraid of the drugs than the end coming Just sticking with my plan
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Mar 14, 2015 14:36:40 GMT -5
I have opted out for the clean up already.
I saw a scene in a movie that portrayed absolute, complete pure love between a couple that the audience shared. I would like to live in that love with ample yummy foods followed by deep deep sleep while the end takes us.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 14:41:25 GMT -5
This is hard and it depends on exactly how much time is left . If just a few days I would visit or talk to all friends & family members and thank them for everything they have done to help me have a great life. I would make sure the house & yard are neatened up so if anyone survived they wouldn't have to clean up after me. I would probably hire a hot air balloon person to take me up and down the river. I would finish whatever book I was reading and try not to start another. I would order & not cook all my favorite foods. I would buy a carton of smokes and smoke. I would buy a few joints and smoke. I would buy my favorite coffees and wines and beers and drink. I would let my cats go outside with me and DH, plop in a lawn chair with no sun screen, start a fire, play some music, watch the river and clouds go by, listen to the birds sing, and wait.
If my time was extremely limited, I wouldn't spend any of it cleaning. I guess I'd try to ransack the local stores and pharmacies, get lots of good food and drugs, and head out to the lake with my loved ones. A massive drug overdose just before the end. If just a few would survive, I wouldn't want to be one of them. A post-Apocalyptic world doesn't sound like fun at all. I've seen too many disaster movies. I'll pass.
I wouldn't want to survive either. I wouldn't do major cleaning. I would just make sure the bed is made, dishes done, lawn mowed. I really don't know why. Just to leave things finished I guess. I wouldn't want to waste time cooking but I would want my favorite foods so if nothing is open to buy food from I guess I would have to cook or else die hungry. My plan would only work in the warm months. If it was winter I would have to think of something else .
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 14, 2015 14:45:44 GMT -5
If my time was extremely limited, I wouldn't spend any of it cleaning. I guess I'd try to ransack the local stores and pharmacies, get lots of good food and drugs, and head out to the lake with my loved ones. A massive drug overdose just before the end. If just a few would survive, I wouldn't want to be one of them. A post-Apocalyptic world doesn't sound like fun at all. I've seen too many disaster movies. I'll pass.
I wouldn't want to survive either. I wouldn't do major cleaning. I would just make sure the bed is made, dishes done, lawn mowed. I really don't know why. Just to leave things finished I guess. I wouldn't want to waste time cooking but I would want my favorite foods so if nothing is open to buy food from I guess I would have to cook or else die hungry. My plan would only work in the warm months. If it was winter I would have to think of something else .
I find that really funny, not to mention completely pointless. After all, you wouldn't want to have aliens or looters thinking you're a slob. Whatever floats your boat, hon.
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Post by Apple on Mar 14, 2015 15:23:20 GMT -5
Have you been to Pompeii or is that a stock photo? I'll bet it's an interesting - if sad - place to visit now. I've been, and it is a little eerie seeing some of the bodies. There was a pregnant woman who looked like she was sleeping, a dog, and a man (I have some pictures I took of the man, all the details are still visible, like teeth and fingernails. Oh, and there are phallic symbols EVERYWHERE!!
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Post by Apple on Mar 14, 2015 15:32:59 GMT -5
If it was the whole world, all at once, I'd try to get to my property. I have enough alcohol in the house to take with me and keep me drunk, then swallow a bunch of pills, or a bullet, before the end. Or, just let it happen--if the end was thought to be fast.
If it were just the end of MY life, and I had a few months, I'd quit my job and take my son and travel everywhere I could think of, visiting new people and old friends, and just enjoy the time I have left. After I'm dead, he can sell the house to cover any bills I had accrued while traveling, and my life insurance would get him through school, or buy a house, or whatever he wanted to do (within reason, since he wouldn't get unlimited control of the money until he's 25).
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 14, 2015 15:37:32 GMT -5
I'm reminded of the ending of the movie "The Mist".
Ooops!
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 14, 2015 16:14:55 GMT -5
For those unfamiliar with "The Mist"... A plethora of alien invaders has been accidently unleashed from another dimension and it's the end of the world. There's no escape. Our hero realizes that it's futile, wants to spare his friends and family the horrible fate of being eaten alive by monsters, and agrees to shoot them to spare them the indignity of being Monster Chow. He doesn't have enough bullets, and right after he shoots his son in the head, he's stumbling around in the mist, screaming "Do your worst! He hears a rumbling in the distance and prepares to meet his doom. It's the US Army, and they have a handle on things. He sees a school bus full of kids being evacuated, and a soldier reassures him they figured out how to kill the aliens. "It's all going to be OK now."
Great movie.
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Post by Robert not Bobby on Mar 14, 2015 16:18:13 GMT -5
Thinking about the next beginning...Oh, alright I'm a red blooded guy...
So that means...
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 14, 2015 21:53:14 GMT -5
Thought of this song for some reason
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 18:33:22 GMT -5
Been there; seen that at Pompei. Not really grim, just gave us a lot of talking points about our priorities.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Mar 16, 2015 15:10:34 GMT -5
LOL! It's all Phoenix's fault and I'm enjoying the idea of having a Lobster food orgy. You must be doing it wrong. But according to Kittensaver I should also have mentioned a hot young boyfriend. I'm totally missing out on that in life!
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Post by weltschmerz on Mar 16, 2015 15:23:16 GMT -5
Some of the cynicism probably relates to what you have experienced in life. If you've not experienced much crime or dealt with many mentally ill or just plain evil people, it would probably be hard to picture what would happen and why. It probably also has to do with your beliefs on who commits crime and why they do it and maybe even more importantly, why people currently refrain from committing crimes.
I guess I've seen and dealt with enough that I suspect without the controls we have now - not just police, but people watching out for each other, fear of exposure and shaming in our social structures - there are a reasonably large subset of the population that would feel free to indulge in behavior that they refrain from now. Theft, assault, rape in most cases, some even darker things in others. After all, there would be zero fear of being caught and punished so only our own personal moral compass would stop us from acting on things. I suspect there's enough of a population that is curious about certain things but currently not curious enough to risk large jail time or social shame to indulge their curiosity... that would not feel the need to restrain themselves in the end of the world scenario. Heck, look at the recent riots and looting in Ferguson and other areas; much of that wasn't a protest, it was people taking advantage of chaos to steal, act out and hurt other people because they felt there would be no consequence.
As for why they'd want to come to your house - they'd be taking a peek in any house they came upon or felt the urge to check out. Until they check it out, how do they know you don't have good drugs, premium booze or vulnerable children?
I have some experience with mentally ill people but probably not truly evil and definitely not much crime. I really can't envision the horrific scenario you guys can. At least not here. I admit I could be just naïve .
Oh, I can. I've worked with the criminally insane and sociopaths. They're everywhere.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Mar 16, 2015 15:30:20 GMT -5
POM's description of what she would do clearly implies that Earth's imminent doom wouldn't be common knowledge.It would be all but impossible to convince me that a 100% fatal global cataclysm was approaching. Notwithstanding that, my actions immediately preceding the cataclysm would depend heavily on how I'd been convinced. I figure while everybody is freaking out trying to find their kids and/or immediate family DH and I'd be at the grocery store stocking up. His family is close by and most of mine is already gone. The 2 brothers left would see a "MOVED" sign on our door.
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Post by Jaguar on Mar 16, 2015 15:31:30 GMT -5
LOL! It's all Phoenix's fault and I'm enjoying the idea of having a Lobster food orgy. You must be doing it wrong. But according to Kittensaver I should also have mentioned a hot young boyfriend. I'm totally missing out on that in life! You hussy.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 16, 2015 16:54:35 GMT -5
POM's description of what she would do clearly implies that Earth's imminent doom wouldn't be common knowledge.It would be all but impossible to convince me that a 100% fatal global cataclysm was approaching. Notwithstanding that, my actions immediately preceding the cataclysm would depend heavily on how I'd been convinced. I figure while everybody is freaking out trying to find their kids and/or immediate family DH and I'd be at the grocery store stocking up. His family is close by and most of mine is already gone. The 2 brothers left would see a " MOVED" sign on our door. Be sure to take your mailbox with you when you move
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Post by wyouser on Mar 16, 2015 17:55:08 GMT -5
How much time would we have? I just added up....of 10000 brands of German Bier.....I've 9, 901 still to sample! Quick, I need Plane tickets!!
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Post by ZaireinHD on Mar 27, 2015 1:34:27 GMT -5
how much time we talk'n bout we have left? weeks, days, hours? well of course I started thinking of the usual: Cars! I would like to get into an exotic speedy car and go for an insanely fast drive!! but 1) I live in the city and most likely the streets will be flooded with crazy people and traffic and 2) doubtful I could get the the car to steal it before others have stolen them all and most likely crashed it four blocks away!!! girls! bang a celebrity actress or singer! which she will be doing her own thing and good luck on trying to find her. bang an insanely gorgeous, good looking, tight body, hot chick! and again good luck on finding her! and that's rape! which I am not into that! Food! not so sure what restaurants will be cooking good food? Electronics! steal the big screen TV. if I could get one from other looters. but then come to find out there ain't shit to watch on TV other then news of looters!!! - oh my that is too funny!! so I guess what I would do is: go to the mattress store and sleep in a very comfortable bed! NO ONE will be there I am pretty sure of that.
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