Confessions of a prepper losing his faith in DOOM.

Doom will come maybe not when you think it will but its coming.

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couldn't agree with you more, as prices keep getting higher and higher each week, I'm feeling better about what we have. I really don't understand people not doing anything, even if you have money. Just because you have money doesn't mean you can buy food from empty shelves. The ones that are in denial are the frogs.

As far as I am concerned I certainly don't believe the world will come to an end in December 2012, but nonetheless there has been this worldwide financial crisis which has now been followed by serious economical crises affecting at least Greece, Spain, and Italy in the European Union with a looming threat of the collapse of the Euro and the European Union (although not everyone thinks this will happen, obviously).

I don't know if it is just a need for gloomy apocalyptic scenarios of the unkempt masses but let's not forget there was a Great Depression which started in 1929 and lasted for several years, and had very severe consequences in the US. Many thousands had to line up in soup kitchens which was unheard of and many othes committed suicide when stocks plunged and they lost their whole savings.

take a break from doom/prepping. go have some fun.

Here it is 26 days after I initially posted this thread and still nothing. Sure the financial crisis could be bad...but we have been through bad times before...we can get through. What is the REAL doom?

Agreed.
As long as we can (maybe changing in unison "yes we can" will make it last longer ?).

Believe me I do. I don't spend my days and night thinking about DOOM and 2012. I have slowly prepped over years. I good to go.

I'll be playing cards tonight and watching football tomorrow...good times.

wasting your life on doom that never comes or doom that you could never prepare for anyway. and then you miss out on the best years of your life. focus on good things.

They are waiting for the fall harvest to run out then WHAM! The hit the button.

now that's what i am talking about! have fun! always count your blessings and many more will come to you.

It sounds like you have it all together...so if/when it comes you're ready. That's what prepping is all about: simply being ready...it's not about doom or waiting for doom, but being ready when it comes.

Keep your shit rotated and fresh, and go live life (like it seems you're doing).

YOU are a marketing genius! How you got all those people to buy your survival supplies - to spend their last $$ thinking society will unravel and they will head for the hills and survive all on account they bought your supplies - and this in a recession, to get so many to part with their hard earned $$ - pure genius.

The best part is how since it hasn't come "the doom" - they have to keep restocking the supplies which means more $$.

Fear it's like porn. Everybody believes they can prepare. hahaha

It's true - a fool and their money are easily parted.

Doom is sneaky.

I always said .. those that want to see will see.

50% unemployed youth ?
60% unemployed women ?

Dude .. it is just a few hours car drive away and if somebody told the masses in 2005 that just 7 years later the great economy of spain will blow into pieces ... NOBODY would have believed it.

But as i said .. doom is sneaky and who thought that it will be like the movie "2012" is greatly off.
No tsunamis, no 9+ earthquakes, no aliens, no monsters, no super-flu, ..

Just a crumbling economy living on (literally) borrowed time.


Doom is you .. unable to pay your bills.
Unable to pay a doctor.
Unable to feed your kids.

Doom is ... fighting with a dozen of man, with fists for the "great honor" (and a few bucks) to shovel snow in winter for the community (my grandfather did)

Just so he could put a few more meals on the table to feed his kids.

Doom is sitting in your freezing flat .. and yes even in one of the richest countries on the planet 1/8 of the people already have serious problems keeping their homes warm ... which is an official statistic .. which means: very likely the numbers are worse.

I am a .. not really a prepper .. but looking for independence of the spiderweb which is todays society.

I am kinda wealthy because even knowing that doom is coming i still have to maintain a live and pay my bills.

I know your prepping exhaustion from personal experience ... it goes away.

WHo's selling what now?

Thanks Austria.

It's certaonly a good question.
Good answers however might be hard to come by...

Why do you want "real" doom ?
Wasn't the Great Depression impressive enough ?
Or WW II which I think qualifies as "real" doom even if the world eventually came out of it ?

We have seen the effects of the 2005 hurricane Katrina at New Orleans... we have seen the effects of the 2004 tsunami. How many casualities did that one make ? Not to mention the recent tsunami in Japan.

Remember volcano Krakatoa when it exploded at some point in the 19th century ? It caused a huge tsunami which dwarfs both tsunamis I mentioned. Its sound wave raced 3 times around the globe... ashes blotted out the sunlight for how long ?

So we know things like these do happen, although we don't know if there was ever an actual "doom" scenario. But what if the Yellowstone supervulcano explodes one fine day (channces aren't that high, admittedly, but people do win the lottery although chances as you know are closer to zero than to "not high")... people in the US will be affected much harder than those living in Asia or in Europe, so it would make sense for Americans to be more concerned about it, I suppose.

Well , the problem is that most people believe that by december 2012 everything would be finished or that exactly on 21 st december 2012 something major will happen.
The truth is that that date is the beginning of the end.From that date you will start seeing things happen, major natural disasters, earthquakes , not to mention different comets which will bring misery to earth etc. This will be increasing for just over two years and by April 2015 is when the real pole resversal/ huge whole earth earthquake will arrive.
Watch and see.
But anyway , let me tell you that all your survival food and gear won´t be of any use if your heart is not ready for what is about to come.

Absolutely brilliant post. But let's hope nothing happens when we all stop stressing over the potential.

Power outage? No doom there.

Dear Malaysia:

You are brilliant and I agree wholeheartedly. I am also laughing my arse off at the irony of your post. so true so true!

No real doom.
But what if it happens on a whole continent ?
The results would be catastrophic. Think about the internet and all that depends on Information technology. Hospitals, factories, whatnot. I am sure governments, particularly the US government, have provided for this kind of eventuality. Although how effective is hard to tell. Remember Katrina.

This is exactly it.
Nobody believes... except for a few.
But social unrest certainly can take treatening proportions, and who's to say a crumbling economy is the only possible cause ? Now and again those social wildfires are cropping up here or there. London comes to mind, earlier this year, or Greece. Think of what happened in Egypt, Libya, or Syria.

COuld Hurricane Sandy be the begining of a domino effect of DOOM?

Oh really? Since when does prepping involve buying new autos, stereo systems, big-screen TVs, cell phones, etc.

I'd say that buying extra food, water, batteries, etc. isn't exactly stimulating the economy all that much.

Two schools of thought,I would rather carry a condom and never need it than have a chance to fuck a woman but can't because I don't have a condom.

The best way to sell crap to people that don't need it is to create a scenario where they believe they need it.

Well look, now you have an epic storm of historic proportions,coming, doom on baby!!

Wait for it...wait for it...

it is happening, it's just that so much disinfo is out there and we've become so 'used to' the expectation...we cannot see the forest for the trees...

I am sure of one thing- As a mother I love my three children more than anything. I am only just waking up to the state this world is really in.
If I had known what I know now, I would never have had my children.... I love them so much it pains me to realise that they are going to suffer...without a doubt this world is going to get worse and worse.
Maybe not in one instant like the doom some are waiting for....but it is happening like a slow and deadly cancer.
Ten years ago when my Grandfather said my daughter was beautiful but he would not have had children in todays day and age....I thought he was a little over the top to say the least. But now, I see what he meant.