Who feels better about the next 6 months?

1. Pollies who won't prepare and hope or believe everything will be Y2K-OK

2. Doomers, Moderate-to-Mild Doomers who have prepared and still hope everything will be Y2K-OK

-- MarktheFart (quke@ix.netcom.com), July 19, 1999

Answers

Depends on what transpires between now and January 1. If nothing happens the pollies are okay. If something happens the pollies are doomed. If nothing happens the doomers are okay, and if something happens the doomers will be better off than the pollies. I'll take my chances with the doomers thank you very much. Bardou

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), July 20, 1999.

Minor detail, six months from now puts us into mid January 2000.

-- MarktheFart (quke@ix.netcom.com), July 20, 1999.

A few days does not matter because a Pollie would not have a pot to pi** in if TSHTF. Bardou

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), July 20, 1999.

Hmm.

I'm prepping and I'd say that I still don't feel comfortable.

In fact I'm rather stressed about it.

I'm the only one in my immediate community that is prepping.

Yes I "hope" that this is all just nothing, but I doubt it with each passing moment.

Father

-- Thomas G. Hale (hale.tg@att.net), July 20, 1999.

Thomas: If your preparing, your far better off than the pollies. Dommers are better off to keep quiet about their plans. You can't convert people now, it's too late. I got reamed many times for saying this but it so true: "It's every man for himself!"

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), July 20, 1999.

Only the strong will survive...survival of the fittest...every man for himself...look out for number one. You get the point. We're half way through *JULY 1999*. If we were stuck in a city, we'd be thinking 'annonymous and armed'. Jungle style 'armed', right down to the bamboo snares! Tiger pits beneath the ol' welcome mat!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 20, 1999.

How refreshing, another fantasy of Will Continue Not Thinking - where she is killing human beings. Do all you Doomies think like this?

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

I have to go with Father Hale on this. I'm prepping heavily, I live in a rural environment (as of 5-28-99), but I'm still very concerned. I have no desire for anyone to be hurt or die. But, as I said on another thread on a similar subject, "Dammit, you can't make people think".

If people have, in their honest opinion, looked at the total situation and decided that there is not enough risk to justify any preparation, so be it for them. I hope they are right.

But I will turn my sister, brother-in-law, and their 3 bratty kids away from my door next winter. If they can find my door, they don't have the new address............

-- Jon Williamson (jwilliamson003@sprintmail.com), July 20, 1999.

If it turns bad at the end of this year, the pollies will feel better off in March 2000, because they will be dead.

scratchin'...

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), July 20, 1999.

Jon Williamson,

You are a hoot! I like reading your responses (and I bet you $1.00 that you *will* let the in-laws in...grin...just like me)

-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), July 20, 1999.

I certainly don't want to hurt anyone, but like a mother cub, I will protect the den and her cubs. I don't feel obligated to take care of others who buried their heads in the sand. Let the chips fall where they may.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), July 20, 1999.

LOL, Jon. I'll take in anybody that brings supplies with them. The rest can battle it out with tree branches for all I care. I have my own children to provide for and I'm all out of tears for the stupid. My nine year old could do a better job of picking a decent candidate for President than what has been displayed by adults since 1992! We're gonna protect our future, worthy individuals are tough to find anymore!

Like my 18 year old daughter said last night, "Mom, any society that is required to place instructions to remove the wrapper from a tampon, before using it...is in serious trouble." Amen.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 20, 1999.

Even if *nothing* happens (fat chance), the doomers will be far better off. Pantry stocked, inflation beaten, fewer shopping trips, prepared for next earthquake, flood, tornado, hurricane, etc, plus on way to self-sufficiency. Cheers to the doomer learning curve on the journey to self-reliance and out-of-box liberation!

PS A preparing Doomer is the active example of motivated HOPE and DEVOTION toward life continuation. Nobody is as thoroughly optimistic in reality as a prepping Doomer.

Think about it!

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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 20, 1999.

Oh, and Doomers are outfitted for far-out absolutely cool camping expeditions! Looking forward to the great outdoors in about a year, or whenever it's, ahem, safe.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 20, 1999.

By the way, WorldNetDaily has started a new page of Y2K News: Countdown to Y2K.
Some very interesting articles highlighted every day.

Countdown 2Y2K

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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), July 20, 1999.

i'm a middle of the roader and i'll feel better when i see a definitive reason to bolt on one side of the fence or the other

-- lurker (prepping@store.often), July 20, 1999.

lurker, you will hurt the worst because you will look back and know that you could have prepared, and did nothing. I guarantee you, if you are waiting for some Big Event beforehand to absolutely prove that Y2K is going to be a disaster, either: 1) the pre-Y2K Big Event will not occur; or 2) the Event will convince everyone else also and you will then have no chance because everything you need will suddenly become unavailable.

I don't know for sure what is going to happen. Nobody does. But I think that the evidence is such that it is worth preparing, without a doubt. In my own case, I re-located from the Washington D.C. area (where I had lived most of my life) to a rural farm on a mountaintop in Northwest Arkansas. You have to make these decisions based on many factors. But you do have to make them. It is way too late to fence sit. And it is a miracle that you still have a fence to sit on, given how little it would take for some small percentage of John Q. Public to Get It and dry up supply lines.

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.net), July 20, 1999.

Okay, I didn't want to have to bring this up, but you butt heads who continue to ignore what is happening on this planet (y2k plus) need to hear this.

You need RealAudio to listen, and it is well worth your time: Geri Guidetti on y2k and the food chain.

http://www.broadcast.com/shows/endoftheline/9907/end0712.ram

-- (mass@delusions.com), July 20, 1999.

Consider it my gift to the un-informed.

-- (mass@delusions.com), July 20, 1999.

Mass,

It's bizarre that the only people that will hear Geri are "the "choir". 90% of the rest wouldn't GI. It's not cool you know. Gotta go to the bar/game/party whatever.

Too many clueless and too little time.

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), July 21, 1999.