[Ludi]

Why keep posting about how doomed we are and how hopeless it all is? Is it that much fun for you?

[roccman]

1) I have two kids..

2) eating the food I grow is fun

3) knowing the "secrets" of man (thanks Golem) is fun

4) I am not ready to die.

5) posting doom is sport

[wisconsin_cur]

I am not doomed. Neither is any other individual foreordained to premature destruction.

I am a good test taker and the test of my life is coming up. I am preparing for the kind of real life essay questions that are coming my way. I read, I posit, I post, I reflect, I respond.

The time is coming when I will need to observe, posit, work, reflect, test, observe and work. I see this as a study group. We are not working on a team project but will each take the test in our own times and places and in our own communities. Here we quiz one another, attempt to anticipate the problems the professor (real world depletion) will throw our way.

There are no guarentees, but those who study hard stack the odds in their favor.

[Ludi]

Thanks everyone, I just get pulled down by the doom sometimes.

[Ludi]

Yes, I went into working on horror movies early in my career, because they had always scared me so much as a kid. So I know what you're saying.

[MacG]

Give up? Well, that's not the way things are done in my neck of the woods. Why give up? Death will come one day, that's for sure, but why give up in advance? Sounds rather stupid if you ask me. Nah, let's do like the terminally ill cancer patients and cling on to life to the bitter end.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')hy keep posting about how doomed we are and how hopeless it all is? Is it that much fun for you?

[SpringCreekFarm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MacG', 'G')ive up? Well, that's not the way things are done in my neck of the woods. Why give up? Death will come one day, that's for sure, but why give up in advance? Sounds rather stupid if you ask me. Nah, let's do like the terminally ill cancer patients and cling on to life to the bitter end.

[Kristen]

have you ever thought that maybe some people on here are sick and tired of the society we live in? Peak Oil gives hope that the culture we live in will end.

Also life is so routine, why not stir the pot up a bit. People are so use to comfort and instant everything and it is sickening to some. I am like a hill myself sometimes up and sometimes down. Just wanted to offer a different persepctive.

[halcyon]

Because there is a region of the brain that is responsible for unrealistic optimism.

In a healthy individual that part of the brain works, if the person wants or not, regardless of education.

The situation may be dire to some, according to some statistics, but the only reasonable response from the point of view of life (today) is to stay optimistic.

Optimism is not a rational choice, but an evolutionary biological emotional response.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kristen', 'h')ave you ever thought that maybe some people on here are sick and tired of the society we live in? Peak Oil gives hope that the culture we live in will end.

Also life is so routine, why not stir the pot up a bit. People are so use to comfort and instant everything and it is sickening to some. I am like a hill myself sometimes up and sometimes down. Just wanted to offer a different persepctive.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('halcyon', '
')Optimism is not a rational choice, but an evolutionary biological emotional response.

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')hy keep posting about how doomed we are and how hopeless it all is? Is it that much fun for you?

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')hy keep posting about how doomed we are and how hopeless it all is? Is it that much fun for you?

[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

If you actually look, theres' hardly anyone on here who believes they will be one who will cop it.

We're all hard wired to compete, and when it comes to it, do anything to survive.

Thats' why war is guarenteed

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Battle_Scarred_Galactico', 'I')f you actually look, theres' hardly anyone on here who believes they will be one who will cop it.

[POAlex]

You know why people have no hope? You know why this website is filled with people who are cheering on the doom of planet earth as we know it?

They've been told God is a myth.

They've been told that death is the end.

They've been told Jesus Christ is not real.

They've been told the Bible is not important.

They've been told to eat and be merry for tomorrow they die.

They've been told mother earth is more important than their eternal soul.

They've been told they are evolved monkeys so they should go ahead and behave like one.

You wonder why people have no hope and are giving up.

Its heartbreaking.

[Johnvancouver]

I don’t really feel doomed or hopeless. People who mistaken our wasteful and ignorant way of life as the only way to live are more likely to feel doomed and hopeless. To some of us, PO is also an opportunity to bring back the simpler way of life and reestablish a balance between man and nature. I think we can manage the transition if we learn to live on less and not trying to grab what we can at other people's expense.

[FreakOil]

... because the good things in life - love, friendship, fishing, beer, wine, fresh apples, fishing, etc. - don't depend on oil supply. It's going to get ugly, but those things give me reason to carry on.