So I'm usually one to scoff at end of world theories and what not but I do admit to being more than a little spooked. Why?

Well here's some interesting facts you might have missed (or not):

Ebola is outbreaking in Africa and is killing people who travel there or come into contact with international travelers.

Black plague outbroke in China recently, and while it's over there are hundreds of cases of plague worldwide because it is still in wildlife in several areas (New Mexico, California, etc).



A river in China turned blood red overnight (probably due to dumping). China is also pulling dead pigs and ducks out of water.

Animals are dying en masse all over the world. TONNES of birds, fish, bees, and other animals inc cattle, poultry, whales, sheep, dolphins, and crabs are dropping dead all over the world. In many cases no one knows why. This list only covers this year and spans 64+ countries!!

Fukushima is still dumping 300+ tonnes of radioactive waste into the ocean every day and is only just stepping up efforts to stop it. The tanks are storing some waste but those tanks are leaking!!




I know this is a bit of a throw together of information that doesn't really have much of a connection...but it's all making me wonder if I should start hoarding medicine and food ha ha.

hmmmm yeah that is a bit scary

If bees die we're all dead. We're not going to go around pollinating everything, and cattle need clover (bee pollinated - will die without bees) to produce milk so we can be pretty certain honey, beef (no baby cows will be born/fed without clover), dairy, etc are going to be the first things gone. Not to mention fruit and veg need bees. Everything needs bees and they're dying out everywhere.

Lets hope things turn around, if not then..... collect all the medicine

There's always the possibility of the world ending. However, I think the world has faced much worse while still living to tell the tale. Just thinking of back when hospitals were little more than shacks and the plaque broke out. I believe (could be wrong) that it killed rough half of the worlds population.

If we can survive the plaque back then we could sure as hell do it now. I don't think viruses and germs are as scary and threatening now as they were back in the good ol' days.

Yeah but think about it...our hospitals might as well be high tech shacks. Most can't handle the flow into them let alone an increased flow due to a plague. When I was in the stated I needed Penicillin and was sent to a GP because the hospital had none!!!! Seriously, the world is just as well prepared, the only difference is that we know how to treat it....but we don't have a stockpile. We will run out of that shit so fast it's not funny.

Not to get too philosophical, but as long as we're middling then the end is always nigh. Think of the spread of the bubonic plague around the same time (? I think...I might be remembering wrong...) as the Crusades (or was it the war of the roses? Some war, that coming at the same time as a widespread plague must have really been awful.)

Really terrible awful horrible stuff has always been happening. Civilizations are surprisingly delicate things. Human life can be snuffed out just like that... Yet, at the same time, we can be pretty resilient.

And I'm interested in ways to get more resilient, so whenever I've got some spare cash lately I've been looking into disaster preparation. People are so concerned about food, but it's usually lack of clean drinking water that's the major concern--even though it sucks to be hungry for a week, we can still survive that, but dehydration kills you in days. There's LifeStraws and water crates that can be purified with 6-8 drops of 5% sodium hypochlorite unscented bleach and have water preservers put in for 5 years. I've stocked a medical and  hygiene kits, planning to take first aid classes so I can get my stitches right...

I'd like to learn a few other skills that can make the fall of civilization not so bad; making a fire, building a shelter, telling a poisonous mushroom from an edible one, medicinal properties of herbs, drying herbs, tanning hides, cobbling shoes, hunting, butchering, self-defense...Even if civilization doesn't fall, I'll have fun knowing and doing. But I don't always have the time, energy, resources, whatever to learn and do everything that I want to--because I'm still a part of a civilization with demands. I just hope that I keep on having that option, that hope, that one day I'll pick up something useful. (Like a radiation-cleaning kit. Fallout bunker's out of my budget.)

As it was, a storm passed by my area a couple of weeks ago and I was still so unprepared that I had to run out in the middle of it to get candles. The fire of which I had to cook over, because electricity and gasoline had run out. It's times like those, with my arms getting tired from holding the saucepan over the candle flame boiling water for instant noodles, that I wonder if I'm not in the running for a Darwin Award. I could have been squashed by a telephone pole. I've just been really, really lucky my whole life; and then that I only had to go out to get something to cook food that I already had, and not that a power failure meant that a machine I was hooked up to that was keeping me alive or something wasn't functioning--like a dialysis machine or a respirator or something.

But if a giant meteor crashed into earth tomorrow, squashing people, burying others, and leaving the survivors in a sunless famine-stricken world until we're all extinct well then there's only so much a person can do.

Civilizations have fallen and we've forgotten them. I can't quite articulate the significance of that at the moment, but I'm sure there is one. And, the planets will probably keep on turning without all of us--and if they don't, we wouldn't be around to say that it matters.

EllyMarks (05:00pm Tue, Jul 29, 2014)

Not to get too philosophical, but as long as we're middling then the end is always nigh. Think of the spread of the bubonic plague around the same time (? I think...I might be remembering wrong...) as the Crusades (or was it the war of the roses? Some war, that coming at the same time as a widespread plague must have really been awful.)

I LOVE plague but I can't recall. I think possibly the crusades. Or neither.

EllyMarks (05:00pm Tue, Jul 29, 2014)

And I'm interested in ways to get more resilient, so whenever I've got some spare cash lately I've been looking into disaster preparation.

I'm more worried about the raiding. I can be prepared to the hilt but that won't stop people eating me or stealing my shit. I've considered keeping poisoned food around for them to easily grab so I don't have to worry about it again but I couldn't live with the guilt. So yeah. I dunno.

Would love to see some articles on this, I will be doing some info on it soon.

EllyMarks (05:00pm Tue, Jul 29, 2014)

I'd like to learn a few other skills that can make the fall of civilization not so bad; making a fire

Hold a coke bottle with some water over some paper...works fast.



http://youtu.be/QwQJ-3pZfwc?t=32s

EllyMarks (05:00pm Tue, Jul 29, 2014)

As it was, a storm passed by my area a couple of weeks ago and I was still so unprepared that I had to run out in the middle of it to get candles. The fire of which I had to cook over, because electricity and gasoline had run out. It's times like those, with my arms getting tired from holding the saucepan over the candle flame boiling water for instant noodles, that I wonder if I'm not in the running for a Darwin Award. I could have been squashed by a telephone pole. I've just been really, really lucky my whole life; and then that I only had to go out to get something to cook food that I already had, and not that a power failure meant that a machine I was hooked up to that was keeping me alive or something wasn't functioning--like a dialysis machine or a respirator or something.

What?! You can eat two minute noodles raw ha ha.

Seriously look at this shit. I honestly think we're all going to die if everyone focus' on the wrong thing!!

Bunny (02:59am Wed, Jul 30, 2014)

I'm more worried about the raiding. I can be prepared to the hilt but that won't stop people eating me or stealing my shit.

If you're prepared with a blade attached to that hilt, though...might seem old-fashioned, but swords don't run out of bullets.

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EllyMarks (05:00pm Tue, Jul 29, 2014)

I'd like to learn a few other skills that can make the fall of civilization not so bad; making a fire

Hold a coke bottle with some water over some paper...works fast.

Wicked awesome. Will keep that in mind for sure, thanks!

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What?! You can eat two minute noodles raw ha ha.

True, but I'd just gotten rained on and wanted soup.

EllyMarks (10:30am Sun, Aug  3, 2014)

If you're prepared with a blade attached to that hilt, though...might seem old-fashioned, but swords don't run out of bullets.

Yes but people with guns generally start out with bullets ha ha.

EllyMarks (10:30am Sun, Aug  3, 2014)

Wicked awesome. Will keep that in mind for sure, thanks!

The BEST part is that we're all pigs who drop that shit everywhere so you'll be fine as long as you're okay to travel near where people have been ha ha.

EllyMarks (10:30am Sun, Aug  3, 2014)

True, but I'd just gotten rained on and wanted soup.

LOL You waited an awful long time for that soup .

Bunny (07:50am Sun, Aug  3, 2014)

Seriously look at this shit. I honestly think we're all going to die if everyone focus' on the wrong thing!!

oh man

I am not going to say that it is the end of the world, but I do think that we are in some bad times, and that even worse ones are coming very soon. We all have limitations on what we are able to do; but any kind of preparation is better than none.   For  example, Elly would have been better off if she already at least had the candle, and didn't have to go and buy one. Even better would have been some kind of a camp stove, but just having the candle would be better than not.

So, I am doing what  I can to be prepared, little though it is. Yes, there is certainly the chance that someone will come along and kill me to steal my supplies; but the risk is better than NOT having the supplies, at least in my estimation.
My husband and I are far to old to go and live in the woods somewhere and become self-sufficient at our age.  I am almost 70 and have a bad heart, so staying right where we are at, for better or for worse, is our only option.
I have a little garden (which did terrible this year) and each month I try to buy a few extra items that we put in the back bedroom for storage.  If the whole economy crashes, or the have an EMP that destroys power everywhere, we can at least last for a while; and if it is a short term disaster,, like the bad tornadoes we had a couple years back, then we are fairly well prepared for that.

I have slowly been collecting solar lights, which now light up the front yard, but in time of need can come in at nite and light up the house. I have a small solar panel that will charge my battery base which connects to USB port, and will keep my phone and iPad running for a long, long  time if the electricity dies.
Bunny, I think being aware of what is going on, and reading everything you can find about what is actually happening everywhere is very smart, and something we should all be doing right now.

Yeah there is a risk that it could get far worse very quickly, but hopefully not! People have been laughing at me and I am like laugh all you like bitches. Don't come to me for shit if it escalates.

We're all gonna die.

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/climatologist-arctic-carbon-release-could-mean-%E2%80%9Cwere-fucked%E2%80%9D

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Climatologists have spent decades politely warning that we are cooking our planet, but now one has decided to stop sugar coating it. Professor Jason Box of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland tweeted “If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere, we're fucked.”

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Simultaneously, evidence is building that methane release is the cause of the craters that have suddenly started appearing in other parts of Siberia. When interviewed by Vice Box said if he knew the tweet was going to attract so much attention he would have included the methane in permafrost, since this could be equally dangerous, but says he doesn't know enough about the holes to comment on their relation to climate change.

well now...... lets make the most of the time we have left

Simply put, YES!

I think that there has been life on this earth for thousands of years, and older civilizations that have come and gone. The Bible history only goes back about 6,000 years; but we have proof of people living on the earth for thousands of years previously. Reading history shows the rise and fall of civilizations, and I think that it is totally possible that ours will end, too, leaving only a small amount of people to continue on.
With no way to make any of the things that we take for granted, it is going to be seriously hard for anyone to survive. We can stock up, but eventually all the shovels  will break, and there will not be technology to replace it.
I have read that many of the very wealthy have made underground survival places, and that will help out some; but most of those people have never had to get by with next to nothing, so it will not be as easy as they think either.
   

Well, if this video is right, then , at least for a good many of us; the end IS nigh ! This interesting video tells about our sun being a biinary star, which means that there is another sun in our solar system. The other sun is what is called a dark star, which is why we can't see it shining like we see our sun.
The planets in our solar system all revolve around our sun; however, according to this report, there is also another planet (a very large one, at that !) and it revolves around both of our suns. Since it has to go so far in its revolutions, it only comes near the earth about every 3500 years; but when it does, it causes cataclysmic changes, and shifts much of the earth when the magnetic force of the larger planet pulls on our magnetism, or pushes against it.

Possibly, we are already beginning to feel some of these changes, as our weather patterns are changing more and more lately. As we are having the polar wobble, it affects the Gulf Stream, and changes the weather patterns, which would account for the polar storms that we had last winter, and apparently going to be even worse this winter.
As the planet gets closer, we should be able to see it along side of the sun. Right now, it is so close to the sun that we are blinded from seeing it.