IF YOU BELIEVE A CATACLYSM WILL OCCUR IN OUR NEAR FUTURE, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH IT

I know what you mean When I first heard about 2012 about 3 years ago my mind said "yeah right" but I couldn't shake this nagging feeling in my gut.I was here last spring before the big ban looking for answers and found myself addicted to Doom.Thankfully Trinity banned everyone and I got caught in an ip ban so I had no doom.After a week of withdrawal I started to feel better.Do not get me wrong I never shook that nagging feeling but I realized there is little to be gained from obsessing about it.So I try to get on with life and Prepare for the worse, Hope for the best and after that its pretty much out of my hands.I cannot really figure out if I am afraid or excited that is the weird part.

I guess all of us handle doom differently,i used to get fearful not for myself but for my children and grandchildren.hell whatever is coming and it may be nothing there aint nothing you can do to stop it so enjoy the ride love and be happy

I did not know they had a ban on subjects as this but I sure know I won't get any good karma points for posting this. Perhaps some feel its a little too early to be talking about this stuff. However, sometimes I feel I need to vent some or I will burst.
I don't want to dwell on it either but sometimes the pressure builds and I need a release valve. I also believe this all can be talked about in a respectful, compassionate, supportive manner for us who need it.

Stop worrying about the apocalypse.

You can't stop it even if it is going to occur.

So, I suggest existential awareness combined with absolute faith.

I don't think they will ban this.I think you are in the correct place to discuss your anxieties.I feel it to its like a quickening heartbeat or things are closing in or my favorite its like the toilet flushing and we are rotating faster and faster down the drain.I am just not convinced its something I need to fear.Every Change I have ever had in my life as terrifying as some of them may have been,That change has always led me down a new and exciting paths that I would not have know about otherwise.The worst part of fear is fear itself.

This is how I deal with it.

I realize what I think living and life is for, and I resolve myself to it.
I realize I have limits to what I can do.
I realize that doing something is better than nothing.
I realize that no one but God can possibly be completely sovereign.
I realize that the closest I can be to totally self-reliant is to reject the entire system.
I spend my time learning how to live without the system.
I hope that I have warning.
I proceed from the warning to take action and to do something to live on.

If it happens it happens. You can't change it so why worry about it. Death is a part of life so why worry. I dont understand :)

Prayer!

I think how you deal with it has alot to do with how you view the afterlife.

Personally, I went through spiritual processes years ago that helped me let go of any attachments I may have.

I think that this is just one of multiple lives that we live and when this is over we are on to the next adventure. This belief helps me deal with the possibility that something may end my life suddenly.

Yeah, the hardest thing of all was worry over my children. But I'm surprised at the amount of maturity they show regarding death as well. Maybe my beliefs have rubbed off on them. when I ask them if they are afraid to die, they say no and they feel sure they will go on to another life as well. I think it's more MY fear that anyone I love would suffer in pain and that I couldn't help them.

I think some religious people can fear death because they have a belief that there is a hell. And they always wonder if they are good enough to get into heaven so they don't go to the bad place.

That's my two cents.

make a bug-out bag

I hear what you are saying and I agree. Sometimes things we perceive as bad in the long run turn out to have been good for us. I too believe there is something more than our earthly existence.

It is just sometimes I get anxious cause I have a very strong feeling about it all. I truly do believe I am getting ready for something big and sometimes I am peaceful about it and sometimes I am not.

I have a number of options I have been working on.

A) die
B) run screaming and then die
C) ripped apart by gangs of insane people and die(this covers Zombie apocalypse as well)
D) survive in a tent with my provisions for a few months until a hungry pack of dogs rip me to shreds and die.

So far that is all I have.