Doomcasts—The Many Warnings

TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) is on the minds of a lot of survival-oriented folks. And every so often, the popular press gets ahold of something that seems designed to feed on our worst fears and even superstitions.

Y2k is a relatively recent example. A lot of people prepared. A lot didn’t. In the end, the ones who didn’t often felt like they got the last laugh. I was one of those, actually. And I’m not really proud to say it, so by way of confession, I’ve chuckled through Southern California’s earthquakes a few times as well. But not any longer.

The one area of preparation I never stopped believing in was self-defense. And when the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were attacked, I had a major awakening. Then a neighbor’s fire and a wildlands fire that ran through my community got me downright serious, because in those situations, it was in my face just how bad things can get. Then we had our floods, which were made worse by the big fire. It was a potentially life-threatening event, and frankly, you can’t karate kick it or shoot it in your defense.

Heheh, one of my neighbors seemed to try it though. We heard five shots from a location downstream from us an hour or two after the flash flood. Some in the neighborhood wondered if one of the neighbors had had it with their spouse! Ah, the fun of rural living...

What you’ll be hearing a lot of in the coming months and years is the Mayan prophecy, if we’ve deciphered it correctly, concerning the year 2012. Specifically, December 22 of that year. It seems that the Mayan calendar works on a roughly 25,000 year “long cycle,” and 21 December 2012 is the last day of it.

What will happen at that time, if anything, is unclear. Many have asserted that it’ll be TEOTWAWKI, and that the planet will be once again stone-age-only for the surviving humans. Others have different ideas, and you’ll see some articles about this here.

I’m interested in this one because I’m a society watcher, and I see a number of cycles coming together right around that time. There are also predictions about the demise of the U.S. currency, social security, medicare and so on. I’m also sensing a great deal of agitation around the world.

There are also the bird flu, global warming, and myriad other such forecasts, and some are shaping up into some really diabolical “U.N. manages everything and everyone” angles. Sheesh.

Whether any of these things has to do with Mayan predictions or not, I see some very challenging times ahead, even if we’re just looking at outcomes of current events over the next five years. This stuff, coupled with the things I’ve gone through, drives my fascination with personal sustainability, aka survival techniques and equipment coupled with a lifestyle that can be sustained if there really is a TEOTWAWKI event.

Also, for some of us, it seems we need to be scared out of our minds to make even the most rudimentary survival preparations. I’m not a fan of this, but hey, if it helps...

The articles in this section are for amusement and encouragement. I love to explore, so “doomcasts” is going to be a lot about that. Perhaps you’re curious about such things too?

There’s a place in the Live-Well-Survive-Well Survival forum where we can all discuss these ideas.

And at Live Well: Discipline Your Government, my blog, we can discuss the ongoing disaster—and threat to sustainability—known as government.

Actually, more than the predictions themselves, I’m fascinated (call it a morbid fascination) with how people and government will try to deal with these things. I think that’s among the scariest prospects of all.

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