Is the EOW getting closer or further away?

[ChrisCross]

My simple take:

Stuff happens, I like to be ready for it. This comes from a healthy respect for history and seeing 1st hand how quickly the thin veneer of civility dissapears when the cards are down.

[M&P15T]

amac,

Drink booze on a daily basis and relax.

All good things come to an end - if you're buzzed at home when the apocalyptic event happens, it'll be easier to handle.

Excellent suggestion.

While being prepared for a small disturbance is prudent, spending tons of time, money, effort and mental & emotional energy trying to prepare for some EOTWAWKI situation is wasteful.

Life is to be enjoyed, not fretted over.

I do get that it's a pleasurable hobby for some though.

[M&P15T]

Another thing to consider nowadays, is WW3. Is that too far fetched???

I struggle to see it happening. There's no longer any element of surprise, short of small disturbance terrorist attacks. Large armies & navies can't move without detection the moment they start.

I guess the best possibility is some response to a terrorist attack leading to a series of events that get out of control....and I don't think that's too likely.

[Koshinn]

I struggle to see it happening. There's no longer any element of surprise, short of small disturbance terrorist attacks. Large armies & navies can't move without detection the moment they start.

I guess the best possibility is some response to a terrorist attack leading to a series of events that get out of control....and I don't think that's too likely.

I can see ww3 happening, but extremely unlikely. No one benefits from it in a world where nuclear weapons have proliferated enough that every country and/or it's allies has them.

[South]

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[Moose-Knuckle]

I feel that ww3 would likely be started by a series of miscalculations & accidents than being started on purpose. Like you said, no one benefits from this, which is mostly a good thing, it helps keep all of our asses alive.

I surmise that it would most likely be triggerd by a False Flag, and someone always benefits from war . . . it just may not be evidant to those who are not reaping them.

[Koshinn]

Are you suggesting aliens?

I can't think anyone human would benefit from nuclear weapon wiping out most of the world.

[South]

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[Moose-Knuckle]

If nukes are used it doesn't mean the end of the world. Just look at Bikini Atol and White Sands . . . I wouldn't want to be close or down wind but life would go on.

Besides we are not talking about Cold War Dr. Strangelove here, suit-case nukes/dirty bombs in large cities would do the trick.

[M&P15T]

I surmise that it would most likely be triggerd by a False Flag, and someone always benefits from war . . . it just may not be evidant to those who are not reaping them.

That's a conspiracy theory idea. Conspiracies can't exist anymore, because the world is full of whistle-blowers, and a media that is more than willing to pay them large amounts of money for their story.

If someone tried to start WWIII with false-flag operation, it would be exposed very quickly.

As far as TEOTWAWKI, it's getting further away. The world, as odd as it may sound, keeps getting more and more peaceful. Right now, if we removed the islamic extremists, the world would be very peaceful indeed. Other than the Russians screwing around in Ukraine, there's not much else happening that isn't about islam screwing things up.

However, we now have 24/7/365 "news" programing that exists to make money for itself. So every little bit of violence is blown-up over TV and computer screens world-wide, and covered in a sensationalistic manner. All in the name of advertising revenue.

So if you allow yourself to be a news junkie, you will get the impression that the world is one step from self-immolation. But that's not the truth.