PEOPLE, IT IS NOW TIME TO GET ON WITH OUR LIVES

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I am a doomer and will always be one, but it is now time to get on with our lives, our jobs, and our family's. We were wrong. Divine intervention? Who knows. Our utilities and businesses are still running, and so is the stock market. I have put off the last 2 years of my life for a non-event, and $18,000 into preps.

This will be my last post on this board. Jim Bob

-- Jim Bob (izzitover@yet.com), January 04, 2000

Answers

Okay.

Bye.

-- Cherokee (Cherokee@qtmail.com), January 04, 2000.


Jim, you've posted before? Hey, can you turn out the lights on your way out? Thanks.


-- I'm staying (till@I'm.sure), January 04, 2000.


...take care!

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), January 04, 2000.

Now, could you tell that to Hoffmeister? He promised to leave and get back to his SAP consulting, but he's addicted to TB2K.

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), January 04, 2000.

If you follow strict training produces, Ken Bob the Monster Roach will make a fine watchbug. Just don't forget to feed him.

8^)

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 04, 2000.



Hey Jim Bob, good luck to you. And you are right, it is time for alot of "us" to move on. So hold the door for those who feel the same. (maybe pollys, trolls and doomers who feel this way could split cab fare on the way out of here).

Of course you didn't read this, cause you removed the bookmark, right? ? Yea, that is what I thought.

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.


This forum is not part of our lives? Hmmmm, that's strange. Since I've been reading it just about everyday I thought it was! More interesting than what's going on anywhere else too.

Well, go ahead and "get on with your life" Jimbob, no one is stopping you. What ya gonna do, watch Ted Koppel, maybe mow your lawn, sell your preps and buy a new car? Whatever you want Jimbob, be my guest. As far as I can tell the gubmint ain't got no laws against "getting on with your life" yet, that is as long as you do everything exactly how they tell you to. :-) Enjoy!

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 04, 2000.


Hoffmeister called it dead on. Why attack him because YOU blew it, BD? Or is this your idea of "ethical"?

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), January 04, 2000.

If the country faced a disaster that required people to have 18,00o dollars worth of preps, well, no one would be able to survive or want to. You were a fool t spend that much money and effort. I prepped, like I had to go camping for a couple of weeks. It was fun and cost me very little. Good-Bye KnuckleHead.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 04, 2000.

Flint, hurry up now...the meter is running...:-)

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), January 04, 2000.


lenny, you didn't have much of a handle on the potential ramifications of Y2K did ya. You're going to stick around to watch a 'two week storm' unfold?????? HOOOHOhahahahaaaaa

What a knuckleHead.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), January 04, 2000.


Lenny you are all heart and last of the big spenders are you sure you still want to be here???????

-- Ramen (Ramen@1234.com), January 04, 2000.

$18,000!!! I can see why you would want to forget about it. Here Bob, here's a hot water bottle for your head and two Excedrin. I know some that spent twice that amount, but look at it this way, you'll always have the things that you bought. Your knowledge has been increased 10 fold and you have learned many valuable lessons. Some people go to bars every night and spend thousands of dollars on liquor just to have someone to vent to. TB2000 is free and you take some advice and run with it. TB2000 is not an exact science, but it's cheaper than being a drunk.

-- Rasty (Rasty@bulldoggg.xcom), January 04, 2000.

Sorry, I'm going to stay to hear the Fat Lady sing...She's just starting her voice exercises in the wings right now. But it won't be long now till her tune comes up.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), January 05, 2000.


Hey, maybe I LIKE it here!! All of us here have one very important thing in common, Jim...And do you know what that one very important thing is? WELL, DO YOU??? HUH??? FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, DO YOU!?!?!?

(er..well, I don't REALLY know any of you, but I had to go with what I had...)

And further more, don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out!

Now - how was THAT for a rant session? But, jeez, that $18,000 must smart a little...poor guy.

-- Ric (ice163@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000.



Can't anyone just hold an opinion or take an action without needing the affirmative company of a herd? My mother always said; "if Betty Sue jumped off the bridge, does that mean you have to jump too?"

If you want to leave, fine, but don't "should" on me.

-- don't (don't@should.on.me), January 05, 2000.


Seriously, though, I would be curious to know what folks spent on average for prep's.

I personally began months ago and bought stuff here & there. But the "good" stuff was gone in September/October around these parts. So, just a ball park for me would be (with a heater & some kerosene included) about $800. But, I could afford it - did anybody kind of "go off the deep end" (maybe with Betty Sue or something, I dunno) and spend WAAAAAY too much like ole' Jim?

His wife probably gave him a new eyebrow or something when she found out what he did...besides, I can use my stuff hunting, camping, whatever.

-- Ric (ice163@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000.


Thought this would be appropriate here.

(God, I hope this works.)



-- Steve (sron123@aol.com), January 05, 2000.


I'm still here because the action is just getting started. We all know that the TPTB will be doing everything they can to block Y2K news and they have been doing a great job of it. The DGI's in the media will continue to mock those who prepped and those who "fear mongered" but the politicaly correct liberal, global warming, invironmentalists have been having their way with all their doom and gloom despite the fact that there is zero scientific evidence for global warming or ozone depletion and so many of their other cockamamee theories. The global warming doomers have been costing us tons of money, having their socialist political way. How come nobody is calling them on their doomer-chicken little theories?

I'm still here at TB2000 because there is more news and info here in one day than there is in a whole year of nightly 6 O'clock news or my daily paper. We have apparently 7 nuclear power plants having some kind of problems, serious? We don't know, there's not much being reported.

But let me tell you the stories that took up the most time yesterday on the mainstream news: 1) Twins born right at the rollover. One in '99 and the other in 2000. 2) Charlie Shultze, creator of Peanuts is retiring. We've been hearing that everyday for the last 3 weeks but I guess they needed to talk about it some more to fill time. 3) The video store charging some guy $92,250 late charge for his video since the computer thought he checked it out in 1900. In the mean time, all around the world, everything is Y2K OK I guess.

Glad I prepped. There are problems ahead. Don't be fooled. Don't let the news casters roll ya with their snow jobs.

sdb

-- S. David Bays (SDBAYS@prodigy.net), January 05, 2000.


The Y2K bug was unleashed on the world just 5 days ago, and he's starting to do his dirty work. With each month that passes, our systems will be weakened, like the supporting timbers of a house infested with termites, until it all comes crashing down.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 05, 2000.

Ok. I had to say this.

Some of you people need some serious psychological help. THE WORLD IS NOT COMING TO AN END. Y2K IS NOT GOING TO BE WHAT WE ALL EXPECTED.

You give the excuse of waiting till March. Next its gonna be June, then next January. When will you realize that YOU WERE WRONG. I have, how about you.

This forum is like an addiction, someone has to tell you that you have a problem.

Later, Jim Bob

-- Jim Bob (izzitover@yet.com), January 05, 2000.


oh, darn. Now you've done it. I gotta stay on this here forum for months just to piss ya off real bad.

-- shucky darn (gotta@stay.now), January 05, 2000.

I'm staying here too Jimbob, there are much worse things to be addicted to. And I'll bet ol' Jimbob is going to be addicted to coming back here and trying to get us to leave! Why is it that so many people are incapable of living their own lives, so they go around trying to tell everyone else how to live theirs? Talk about needing psychological help! Sheeesh.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 05, 2000.

Shakey, don't, S. David and Hawk: I am new here(how long do I have to say that before I don't have to say that) and agree with you. JimBob said it was his last post. Yet, it wasn't. Hmmm....When I read the original post I wondered if there might be hope the pollies would also leave. Wishful thinking, I think. I know it is hard, but if we held our heads up and didn't respond to them, I think maybe they might get tired of being ignored and leave.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), January 05, 2000.

Gee, some of us never stopped.

Shoo. Shoo.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 05, 2000.


Well, thanks to those posters on this forum that have something to say/information to share that is actually USEFUL, I have found (and still find) this forum to be a valuable resource in observing a phenomenon that may (or may not) be one of the most important problems our modern techologically-based society has ever faced. I, for one, am staying to watch all of the potential fallout over the next few months. You, however, are free to go or stay as you wish...just don't think that goading the rest of us into abandoning the forum will have any effect whatsoever.

See ya!

John Ludi

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), January 05, 2000.


It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Jim you were a doomer. The world was going to come to a stop if things wern't fixed. You might have failed to recognise that with so many of us(here and in other places) saying that there is a problem, Action was taken! We(I joined in after the beginning) started to say that there was a problem, then roughly $100 billion was poared in to fix the problem. Fortunately, it was a sucess. No, one really wanted a 9 out of 10 disruption. Those who did want this level did not really understand what that would be like. We received a Bump In The Road which was our best outcome. We need to give praise to the people who told about the problem, repaired the problem, prepared for potential disruptions(not a burden on FEMA/US gov, and those who hung in as the last second counted down to change over.

We, in the US, fixed the problem that reconstructionists said could not be fixed. This is a good thing and we are a part of the good outcome.

-- Ned P Zimmer (ned@nednet.com), January 05, 2000.


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