That would be an eruption more powerful than a 200,000 kiloton bomb causing world wide mega-tsunamis, earthquakes and turn the Earth's atmosphere to 99% methane.
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That would be an eruption more powerful than a 200,000 kiloton bomb causing world wide mega-tsunamis, earthquakes and turn the Earth's atmosphere to 99% methane.
I fear more economic trouble than war
Economic troubles traditionally lead to war more often than not - though we are in a bit of an emerging age in that respect so its a bit of an unknown how things will/would work out. We've been through a massive uptake in globalisation but now starting to see countries turn away from it as fast as its accelerating in other areas.
Can prepare or adapt to offset or avoid things you can't control though.
Now the issue here is that in a global world, the individual can't prepare and adapt.
Their future depends on everyone else around them being more than credit sponges to banks, which everyone atleast in the UK is happily shaking the money tree on all the things.
Sure you can mitigate a loss, but generally winning nowadays is up to the markets.
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Its a good point - but my post was more about disruption to the normal day to day and taking more personal responsibility - for instance so many people seem to exist with zero allowance for say a temporary disruption in food supplies for whatever reason.
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How about denying it based on a whole thread of people saying that they have never had any bad experience despite their countless use of the euro-tunnel
What about the others saying they'd also had problems? Most of those saying they hadn't had problems, had the luxury of going at funky times of the day / year and were quite vitriolic about those that didn't have this opportunity.
Or are you just reading selectively based on what suits your agenda, like discounting articles from particular newspapers because they go against your agenda, rather than intelligently assessing each article on its merit?
So you wouldn't worry if you were handcuffed in a cave and someone was about to cut your head off on TV, because hey: you can't control it?
Worrying in that situation isn't going to make much difference
but you could have taken more steps possibly to avoid it happening maybe.
I'd try not to. I get anxiety and worry a lot. But try hard not to if I can't influence it. Like once I'm on a plane I don't worry about what I might have forgotten. I don't worry about someone ploughing into me. With their car if I'm being vigilant. A nuclear war is completely out of my control. If I worried about everything like that I'd be a nervous wreck.
It's enough worry for me that catch the next train to naples
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Ahh you mean the people who are constantly crying wolf about migrants and are always pushing that agenda?
Yes i did discount them for the same reason as the newspapers, its not that they dont suit my agenda but rather they are always stretching the truth to suit their own agenda. You simply dont like it because it doesnt cater to your own fears but that is okay.
Hell, you couldnt even reply to 413x just now without mentioning a person being handcuffed in a cave about to have their head chopped off on TV, a reference to terrorist propaganda? Regardless, i think it sorta proves my original point, that you need to take a bit of a break from this media and stop worrying about hypothetical events you have no control over... much as 413x suggests.
You need to watch less TV, you're living in one of the most peaceful/stable times in history, you just don't see it because you're also living in a time where you know more about current world events than ever before.
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yup stay away from the tell a lie vision lolz
Pointless. Most intelligent enough people are either too busy or don't care what's on the news unless it's urgent. The problem is the lower-lower middle class and oldies (i guess, perhaps not as prevalent, but they don't help) are reading absolute ******* dribble and are numerous enough to change politics.
Not every one just absorbs TV and other news sources unfiltered
For me that fact we are living in relatively speaking one of the most peaceful and stable periods in history I find concerning as its getting to the point where it feels too good to be true and rarely if ever in the past has it gone on this long without some (immediate - not counting stuff like climate change) major global issue whether natural or man made.
Not every one just absorbs TV and other news sources unfiltered
I know but from his statement the OP obviously has.
Outside of the imaginary bubble the world tells a different story, there is no lasting peace and security, history clearly shows this, the future will be more of the past. Humans just don't have the power wisdom nor knowledge to bring about a better world.
No it really doesn't, it can seem all scary and doomy simply because we know more about what's going on around the world than ever before. But in reality the world is about the most safe/secure it's been for a good few centuries.
Not really. It all depends where you live. I certainly wouldn't want to live in the middle east right now or parts of South America, Africa and Mexico. The UK might be at peace for the moment, but that can all change in an instant. Ever since civilisation took hold, humans have been at war with each other somewhere.
Problem is people get too used to it - sub-consciously it begins to appear like that peace and security is self sustaining and they lose sight of the things that made it possible, maybe even find them objectionable if they are inconvenient to their day to day life, etc. :s