What if we really do only have one year left? (water, wild)

[Be Free]

Heh! Your doctor would have to have that much on hand because all the pharmacists, like everyone else, would have already quit their jobs.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by TracySam

Let's just say, for the sake of this discussion, that you found out for certain, or even 99% certain, than the world as we know it will somehow end one year from today, on December 21, 2012. What would you do over the next year to prepare?

You would do whatever governments at various levels permitted you to do.

You don't think the government wouldn't step in at some point?

Originally Posted by TracySam

I'm thinking more along the lines of:

• Make an effort to be thankful every day for what I have
• Try to do at least one good deed every day
• Get into the habit of telling people I love that I love them
• Keep up my food and supplies storage, and encourage others to do it
• Get out that list of things I want to do before I die, and see if I can do some of them in the next year.
• Buy more guns and ammunition, just in case

You won't survive long. Maybe a week or two.

[Tracysherm]

Well, I wasn't going for just survival per se. If a huge meteor smashes into Earth, right into Pennsylvania, I'm pretty sure I won't survive, no matter how much stuff I've stored up. So even though I'm into prepping physically, I was also thinking of prepping in a deeper sense. If I'm gonna be in the crosshairs of the big meteor, I want to make sure I've spent the past year doing something worthy, since I do believe in an afterlife. Call it doing what God would like, or putting out positive karma, whatever.

But in case it's some kind of cataclysm that some CAN survive, I'm preparing to be one of those people, or to make sure those I care about benefit from my preparation if I don't.

I guess I was just trying to get at--if you knew exactly when you would die, how would you spend te rest of your life? Sure, I see the benefits of trying to enjoy oneself: travel the world, experience luxuries I usually don't experience. But I also believe in the benefits of doing good during that time.

[Escort Rider]

Originally Posted by LivingDeadGirl

I would go hunting for all the bad criminals and shoot them dead. You know, the child killers, animal abusers, those kind. Do something good for society.

And, as a practical matter, how would you find those admittedly despicable people? Aren't most of the child killers in prison? It would hardly work to stop everyone you see on the street and ask if that person is a child killer or animal abuser. You might end up in the nuthouse. Do I detect lots of free-floating hostility that you would choose to go on a killing spree? Of course I, too, have strong negative feelings against murderers and the like. But I find your choice bizarre. I guess that's what the thread was asking for - all different kinds of answers. The bizarre answers are more interesting and sometimes provoke more discussion than the conventional ones.

[SCGranny]

I wouldn't do things much differently than I am doing them now.

For one thing, I am a cynic, and I don't believe that anyone knows when their own death will happen, much less the world's.

Secondly, I am happy where I am and with what I'm doing - I don't give a dam what anyone else does, says, thinks, or feels about it. To live thru "World's End" or to die from it wouldn't matter to me. Whatever happens, I won't panic and I will deal with it,for as long as I am alive.

Meteor landing in my backyard? Yellowstone Caldera blowing? Hurricanes, floods, volcanoes suddenly erupting as the whole crust of the earth heaves? I'll either survive it or I won't; panicking and worrying about it won't change a thing. Economic collapse, societal collapse, anything 'man-made' - I'll sit right here and smile and putter along. Go ahead, knock yourselves out, fight amongst yourselves, make your whole city and front lawn drenched in blood, protest, scream, shake your fists, rabble-rouse, or become rabble out there - no shockwave gets this far. Like the old folks around here say - "We'd been living on our own for so long out here that by the time we knew there was a Depression, it was over."

Panic causes mistakes, worry causes ulcers and heart attacks. Why waste time and energy?

[zthatzmanz28]

Assuming this awareness hasn't gone public, we would gather the family (kids and grandchildren and just tour the country with our 5th wheel. Try the things we would never have wanted to like foods, activities (bungee jumping and zip lines) and spend time with as many different people as we could just to talk about life...

[skel1977]

I buy a lot of weed and smoke more than ever, have sex with my girflriends sister, rob a bank just because i always wondered if i could get away with it, get
involved in a high speed persuit, get revenge on a few people i hate, stuff like that.

[Severs]

If the disaster that is supposed to happen in 2012 is actually as bad as everyone thinks it will be, the only thing one could do is make peace with themselves and their maker. Other than that, sit back and enjoy what is left.

[Tracysherm]

Originally Posted by SCGranny

I wouldn't do things much differently than I am doing them now.

For one thing, I am a cynic, and I don't believe that anyone knows when their own death will happen, much less the world's.

Secondly, I am happy where I am and with what I'm doing - I don't give a dam what anyone else does, says, thinks, or feels about it. To live thru "World's End" or to die from it wouldn't matter to me. Whatever happens, I won't panic and I will deal with it,for as long as I am alive.

Meteor landing in my backyard? Yellowstone Caldera blowing? Hurricanes, floods, volcanoes suddenly erupting as the whole crust of the earth heaves? I'll either survive it or I won't; panicking and worrying about it won't change a thing. Economic collapse, societal collapse, anything 'man-made' - I'll sit right here and smile and putter along. Go ahead, knock yourselves out, fight amongst yourselves, make your whole city and front lawn drenched in blood, protest, scream, shake your fists, rabble-rouse, or become rabble out there - no shockwave gets this far. Like the old folks around here say - "We'd been living on our own for so long out here that by the time we knew there was a Depression, it was over."

Panic causes mistakes, worry causes ulcers and heart attacks. Why waste time and energy?

I don't think I said or even implied anything about panicking. My posting this was not an indication that I'm in a panic; nothing of the sort. This is a "thought experiment" about what you would do if you knew the world might end in a year. My first goal would be to try to do God's will for the time I have left. I would just keep up prepping "just in case" I survive a little longer and surviving becomes hard.

[Tracysherm]

I also think posts 17 and 18 provide a good contrast representing the opposite directions I think a lot of people would take.

I know we're not totally serious here, and I'm not taking it that way. But what does it say about a person who would use what time they have left to commit crimes and other actions of self-indulgence? Are those people the majority? Or are there more people like Severs and me who would try to "make peace with our maker?"

This is why I retain my "prepping" as my backup plan, mostly to deal with the people who would run amok, raping, looting, etc. At least when the big meteor/explosion/pole shift/crust displacement/earth annihilation happens, people like me won't have to deal with those people any more, as we'll go on to something else.