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Message 1845337 - Posted: 30 Jan 2017, 4:39:40 UTC

"Prepping".

This article is about the way to go about it if you have the money:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

But, do you really worry about the end of the world? More now?
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Message 1855856 - Posted: 17 Mar 2017, 0:16:07 UTC
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I don't, because when our sun exits main sequence and its outer layers cross Earth's orbit, blow away the atmosphere and boil the oceans, I and everyone who ever remembered my existence will have been gone for about five billion years... and strangely this doesn't bother me at all. I didn't notice the eternity that passed before I was born; I won't notice that one either.
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Message 1855862 - Posted: 17 Mar 2017, 0:56:44 UTC

Does it not depend on what End we prepare for?

If we prepare for an End based on religious prophesy, then the prepping becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.
One religious prophesy against another.

If the End is science based, ie Climate Change, then we can prepare collectively to minimize, or avoid the End.
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Message 1855869 - Posted: 17 Mar 2017, 1:57:48 UTC - in response to Message 1845337.  

"Prepping".

This article is about the way to go about it if you have the money:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

But, do you really worry about the end of the world? More now?

Great read, thanx
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Message 1856387 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 18:31:44 UTC - in response to Message 1845337.  

"Prepping".

This article is about the way to go about it if you have the money:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

But, do you really worry about the end of the world? More now?



Seriously if you belive that B/S crap , if you do see your GP sure they can prescribe you some " medication" to help you :-)
Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)
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Message 1856395 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 18:49:48 UTC - in response to Message 1856387.  

"Prepping".

This article is about the way to go about it if you have the money:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

But, do you really worry about the end of the world? More now?



Seriously if you belive that B/S crap , if you do see your GP sure they can prescribe you some " medication" to help you :-)

That's who is in the office of President of the USA now.
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Message 1856397 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 18:52:22 UTC

Easy enough to answer. One has 2 options:

A: Carry on living life until the end.

B: Bend over & kiss your ass goodbye.
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Message 1856404 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 19:02:31 UTC - in response to Message 1856397.  

Easy enough to answer. One has 2 options:

A: Carry on living life until the end.

B: Bend over & kiss your ass goodbye.

There is C. Put on armor and live a couple weeks longer in excruciating pain, wishing you had taken A or B.
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Message 1856406 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 19:04:12 UTC - in response to Message 1856404.  

LOL. But C only for a nuclear end. If the Sun dies, no need for armour :-)
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Message 1856461 - Posted: 19 Mar 2017, 1:15:53 UTC - in response to Message 1855852.  
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on April 28, 2011, Taylor received a prophecy about Donald Trump.

Taylor said he heard the Spirit of God say, "I have chosen this man, Donald Trump, for such a time as this. For as Benjamin Netanyahu is to Israel, so shall this man be to the United States of America! For I will use this man to bring honor, respect and restoration to America. America will be respected once again as the most powerful and prosperous nation on Earth, (other than Israel). The dollar will be the strongest it has ever been in the history of the United States, and will once again be the currency by which all others are judged."



Why would God contact someone to tell them the U.S dollar is going to be strong ! ..... Total B/S as Money is the root of all evil

As for the other link , well I live in Australia and we don't have many or Big Earth Quakes , as for the Churches umm (cults) well I guess as people get educated they will fall . The religious zealots on the other hand Like Benjamin Netanyahu ?

Well there is this story of a deal being done to allow the Church of Solomon to be Rebuilt for a 3rd time and how a new Savior
will walk once again through the Golden Gate , but alas this is how people who have listened will know that Lucifer walks among us and starts the final wars and End of Days and the release of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse as the Seven seals of God are opened

And for those that live on Planet Earth , bubble bubble bubble whooooose , big cloud of smoke .......arrrrrrr that's good skit man hehehehehehehe
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Message 1856465 - Posted: 19 Mar 2017, 1:24:32 UTC

The article said in part:
"Technology [can] lead to utopias and dystopias”. It can inspire radical optimism——or bleak scenarios. Tim Chang, the venture capitalist who keeps his bags packed, [said], “My current state of mind is oscillating between optimism and sheer terror.”
I think a lot of people can identify with those feelings at some level, and you don't have to be rich to be happy or poor to be scared.



The article also said:
"There are other ways to absorb the anxieties of our time. “If I had a billion dollars, I wouldn’t buy a bunker,” Elli Kaplan, the C.E.O. of the digital health startup Neurotrack, told me. “I would reinvest in civil society and civil innovation. My view is you figure out even smarter ways to make sure that something terrible doesn’t happen.”
I like that.
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Message 1856469 - Posted: 19 Mar 2017, 1:33:40 UTC - in response to Message 1856465.  


The article also said:

"There are other ways to absorb the anxieties of our time. “If I had a billion dollars, I wouldn’t buy a bunker,” Elli Kaplan, the C.E.O. of the digital health startup Neurotrack, told me. “I would reinvest in civil society and civil innovation. My view is you figure out even smarter ways to make sure that something terrible doesn’t happen.”
I like that.


Sorry Gordon the smart thing should have happened at the last election but alas it did not so put some seeds in the ground by the end of November they will be ready to smoke so at least if the skit does hit the fan you won't give a F-------------------- if your off your face....:) it's legal over your way now :)
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Message 1856471 - Posted: 19 Mar 2017, 1:40:29 UTC - in response to Message 1856469.  

Sorry Gordon the smart thing should have happened...


Maybe I'll work on my New Zealand visa app, and get a copy of The Stand while I'm waiting.
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