[sparky]

On doom overload , it's the same for me with one small difference

It's not THE doom , just a bad Earthquake with a very bad tsunami the nuclear accident is gravy on top. none of those things will send the world into a spin , recovery will take years but it's a local story

the Arab uprising is a bout of geopolitical fever , now like the tide the revolutions are receding and the reaction is triumphant it prove once again that when the state has the guts to machine gun its own people consistently , order reign

2011 is starting to look interesting , I'm waiting for the northern harvest ,

[vision-master]

Revolt is cooking in the UK, the queen and christianty (master/ slave) relationship will change (power will be lost)........

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'R')evolt is cooking in the UK, the queen and christianty (master/ slave) relationship will change (power will be lost)........

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'R')evolt is cooking in the UK, the queen and christianty (master/ slave) relationship will change (power will be lost)........

[Ludi]

I'm talkin' about the Queen. You don't touch the Queen.

The rest of the royals, who cares, let them fend for themselves. Charles could become a sustainability consultant or something. He seems to be into that somewhat.

[efarmer]

Mrs. Obama touched the Queen, but they gave her an Ipod first.
Ludi is the Queen of all that cackles and grows in her part of Texas.
About as close as I ever got to that Queen was stealing virtual eggs
from her henhouse.

Toodles,
EF

[papa moose]

6 back to your OP,
Does it come back to an evolutionary thing?
I mean developmentally for most of our history humans needed to know where to get food, where to get water and which of the neighbours to beat up on when you couldnt find food/water in order to steal their food/water.
Planning for the future meant not eating everything in sight at once.
Certainly we aren't designed to worry about global scale catastrophy all day everyday and doing so can overload us.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('scas', 'T')he more depressive you are, the worse you will react to doom, and the more depressive you will become. Being hyper alert all the time takes energy.

[sparky]

.
The usual conundrum
Things are never as bad as one fear and nor as good as one hope

unless one is a doomer

then things are never as good as one fear nor as bad as one hope

The form of future events is usually a surprise

[Crazy_Dad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sparky', '.')
The usual conundrum
Things are never as bad as one fear and nor as good as one hope

unless one is a doomer

then things are never as good as one fear nor as bad as one hope

The form of future events is usually a surprise

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Crazy_Dad', '[')* all spelling errors due to intoxication.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'A')nybody else do this? I noticed it with the oil spill, then the mideast crisis, and now the Japanese crisis. Things get worse and worse but then it gets to the point where I shut down on it.

That's where I'm at now, I can't even read the articles anymore..