I had [-]religious nut friends[/-]
acquaintances that were doomsdayers! Weird with a capital W!!! They were stockpiling dehydrated food and all that stuff. Seems that a [-]wacked out religious nut huckster[/-] caring 'evangelist' came through town, and explained how God was going to [-]blow up and destroy most all of mankind[/-] purge civilization of the naughty people within only a couple of short years. So, therefore, it was imperative that they [-]repent or die like scumbags[/-] live right and buy HUMONGOUS amounts of survival food and supplies....from his [-]huckster business[/-] ministry. A lot of people bought into his theory and purchased a LOT of his products. Almost all of the folks that I knew that bought in back in the mid-70's are now dead, so it did them absolutely no good anyway!
Only a few technical or logistical problems with all that from my viewpoint. First, they needed an equally humongous amount of space to store all of their newly acquired survival goodies....you know, enough stuff to last ALL members of their family for something like 3 years. The main problem with that is that most of those people owned the clothes on their backs, and
rented a small house or apartment. So where ya gonna put all that, brother? And what happens when the landlord throws your butt out because you can't go to work....because your "surviving" a holocaust. Umm, these folks never even considered a bunker of any sort!
Next problem I saw was that most of their survival meals were dehydrated! Ummmm, where ya gonna get, or store ALL the uncontaminated water needed to prepare you're meals? Ooops....guess they overlooked that one also!
There are several other glitches with their plans too, but these two were the most blatantly obvious to me.
I was flipping through he channel the other evening, and came across the "Doomsday Preppers" show. Too freaking weird for me!!! Only watched for a brief time, the flipped over to the FOOD Network! Hey, each to their own....but they can have all that doomsday hoopla to themselves. I'll pass!!!
My own opinion is that if the world is going to end, well, the world is going to end! There ain't a dang thing that I can do to stop it, so why waste even one split second of my life worrying about it! When it comes my time to go, i'm gonna go. Until then, I'm gonna enjoy my life and party on!!!