[Pops]

Is this psychology or your just fantasy?

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I')s this psychology or your just fantasy?

[Pops]

I guess we see people around us differently;

I think they will adapt, and compete one against the other.


If you think they will just die, I believe you are fooling yourself.

That's just my take from reading history tho....

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I') guess we see people around us differently;

I think they will adapt, and compete one against the other.


If you think they will just die, I believe you are fooling yourself.

That's just my take from reading history tho....

[mgibbons19]

Human life is full of misery. They'll get theirs and you'll get yours. It may or may not be from PO. Let 'em enjoy themselves while they can.

That said, I recall when I first became PO aware, and started to deeply analyze how much oil was a part of our lives. I walked around in exactly the kind of disconnect you mention. I walked out of a building at a college where I worked, and a kid was driving down the street playing some loud music, feeling cool, and the ride was a nice blue mustang.

I remember thinking every aspect of that youngster's peacock feathers was oil driven. The mustang (it better have had the good engine, otherwise why bother), the flowmaster pipes, even the music is an expression of energy. Hard to judge in a moment, but he looked to be a skinny kid. Don't know if he could have held his own in a fight, if he could have carried a pack 10 miles, if he could have saved a damsel in distress (ie things that might express your own power and energy). But he doesn't need to in today's world, in today's world it is all how we harness fossil fuels. And he was doing that pretty well.

Then I realized it wasn't all gong to happen tomorrow (this was 2004 already), so I bought a used Durango. Might as well enjoy the 5.9l v8 while we can. There certainly aren't going to be tons of those in the future.

Finally, one never knows what those mall families know or don't know. They could b e preparing for the Aztec 2012, the mormon end times, or they could have grandma living with them teaching them old time living. Ours isn't the only board in the world full of worry warts and thinking we have the TRUTH. Let em place their bets and go with their best guess.

[btu2012]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GeneralGreen', 'I') expect cities to be war zones of gangs "esp in multicultural cities" post peak

[Ludi]

I live near a city which embraces its multiculturalism. I don't see gang warfare being likely (except between gangs, who tend to be of the same subculture).

[manu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', 'F')or the last few weeks I've been working nex to a cute suburban mall. You know, the standard AMC theaters, marry-go-around, food court, JC Penny's, etc, type of mall.

I go there for lunch. I had a smoothie today.

I see dead people. 20-something year old couples, with 1-2 small children, 1-2 toddlers, driving SUVs or Mini Vans, buying toys, eating pizza at Sbarro's, all while crude oil and gasoline just hit another record high, mortgage crisis, credit card crisis, inflation, unemployment, war, food shortage, the works. There is no way these folks will live or survive long.

I see dead people. Do you?

[btu2012]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('manu', 'A')s far as the military pictures above, lets see them operate without oil.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('btu2012', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GeneralGreen', 'I') expect cities to be war zones of gangs "esp in multicultural cities" post peak

[btu2012]

You mean like this one ? All those lemmings and dead people of prophetic fantasies and so on. How special it must make you feel.

[doomlover666]

Sorry guys,

I subcribe with the notion that people are complete lemmings. Hurricane Katrina is a perfect example of how a majority people will handle extreme circumstances. If the government didn't intervene the death would have been way higher. So yes your superficial yuppie couple we most likely break down mental and die.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Concerned', 'H')ow many American Indians died?
etc...

[skeptik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '
')I see dead people. Do you?

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('doomlover666', 'H')urricane Katrina is a perfect example of how a majority people will handle extreme circumstances. If the government didn't intervene the death would have been way higher.

[manu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('btu2012', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('manu', 'A')s far as the military pictures above, lets see them operate without oil.

[btu2012]

You don't know anything about war manu. It shows.

[mystiek]

I think Ludi made a good point about the type of reactions people, some people will embrace their differences and use that in a way to work as a community to adapt, others will be like the Katrina mess where people were screaming "where's FEMA, the government, etc". It was interesting to see the midwestern community on the news that included prisoners, local folks and the amish all working together on sandbags. None of the people filling the sandbags stopped and asked why FEMA wasn't there filling the bags. Communities with the mentality that they have to take care of themselves will adapt.

[madison]

Yes, I see dead people. Dead man walking.

I watch people at the park, at work, at church and wonder who will be alive in 20 years. I see children and I wonder if they'll be alive in 20, or what kind of people they will grow up to be. I watch my son play and wonder what he'll live through in his lifetime. I wonder how we will die.

Yes, I see dead people. But we all die regardless of when we live or for how long. We all die (and return, imho).

[lper100km]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('madison', '
')Yes, I see dead people. But we all die regardless of when we live or for how long. We all die (and return, imho).