It's going to be a new National Geographic show about those people that prepare their homes super elaborately in preparation of possible doomsday scenarios (i.e. nuclear holocausts, biological/chemical warfare, societal anarchy/collapsed gov't scenarios, religious apocalypses, etc etc), and in the preview/promo clips for the upcoming show they show these families wearing gas masks doing like training drills running around with guns and equipment/etc lol, or this chick that's all fat and she proudly boasts about how if doomsdayy happens she'll be the chick with an extra 100 lbs to lose, like, so she wouldn't starve to death as fast as regular chicks or something lol, and then they showed the interiors of their survival shelters/bomb shelters etc and they have thousands upong thousands of canned goods and supplies stockpiled to the ceilings everywhere.

I remember when I was a little kid, I was obsessed with this type of shit when me and my best friends were going through our "fort stage". We would constantly build forts together in each other's back yards out of crates and planks of wood etc, and test them out to make sure they could withstand zombies or enemy forces etc lol, and then stockpile them with what we felt would be basic necessities (i.e. candy, video games, etc lol, since we were kids so we had ridic priorities obv).

I remember many a night when I was going through that phase where I dreamed about building the ultimate fort under our garage with years worth of survival gear and supplies, and a bunch of different types of guns and huge amounts of ammo, and how fun it was to imagine what it would be like if a doomsday scenario occurred and I was somehow prepared for it with my elaborate preparations, and just shooting zombies by the thousands with me and my buddies with our rifles and huge reserves of ammo, and just chilling in our safe haven that we prepared ahead of time. It was like the most fun thing to imagine for some reason.

Even to this day, I think I still have some innate tendency towards liking this general type of thing, in ways that might seem unrelated at first glance, but maybe aren't. For example, one of my favorite things in the world is when it's a rainy day, and I'm lying on the couch in my living room right next to the double-french doors, and I have them wide open and the rain is pouring hard just a few feet away, but I am in my safe haven of the roof of my house in my living room just chilling happily watching horror movies etc, enjoying the so-close-but-not-quite-ness of the rain of how it is almost fucking up my shit, but it just can't quite reach me cuz of the preparedness of my house or some shit lol. I dunno how to really explain it properly, it's this weird way less severe version of the emotion that I think the full-on doomsday preppers probably feel that makes them feel happy with their stuff.

Personally I am not really a doomsday prepper tho, since I don't have actual stores of canned goods stashed away and an underground bomb shelter or anything, but, I think I'm slowly going to end up becoming one, or at least, more of one than I currently am, lol, since I already have an ak-47, and several other rifles, with enormous amounts of ammunition stashed for them, which I guess is probably stage 1, so all I need is the canned goods and impenetrable fort and I'll be good to go lol.

I guess the difference is, a lot of the more psycho/fucked up doomsday preppers on that show are probably going to be people who actually think it's likely that the doomsday scenario they have prepped for will actually happen in their lifetime. Personally, I am aware that it's always a possibility, but I also realize there's a huge difference between something being possible and something being likely to happen. I think the various doomsday scenarios are very unlikely to happen in my lifetime (although theoretically possible), so, my joy in it is more the imagination/weird sense of ultra-security feeling that I get from just imagining the what-if scenarios and the if-then scenarios that would result from my elaborate preparedness. As in, I wouldn't actually be expecting any shit to actually happen, but, I would feel happier in life knowing in the tiny chance that it did, I would basically get to live the most baller life of just about anyone on the planet in the post-doomsday world, due to being prepared unlike the other 99.99% of the population, so, it's sort of a more fun/exciting version of buying a superlotto ticket or some shit kind of lol. I dunno, it just seems fun in general. Like play pretend-time with your friends as a kid, but for adults lol.

Anyone else looking forward to this show?

haters gon hate

(Obv I don'tthink it would be logical/optimal to actually basically ruin your life, just to be safe in case shit wen't down. So, I agree with you about those guys being fucked up and taking it way too far (if they didn't have kids I would still think it was dumb, but it'd be like a whatever floats their boat type thing, but, since they have kids then that's pretty fucked up lol. But, yea, for me if I became a doomsday prepper, I would just do it as a fun hobby thing to have that didn't actually negatively affect me living my life normally, it would just be an underground shelter in my back yard of my house, in the city, like, I wouldn't live all detached from society or any shit like that,it would just be a fun thing to have/fantasize about of like, in the 1 in a zillion scenario of doomsday happening, I'd be all prepared and get to have fun during it instead of get pwned. I wouldn't be one of those people who was actually expecting it to be likely to happen, I would just view it is a super unlikely scenario, but something fun to pretend/fantasize about and have a fun backyard hobby about basically)

I had a conversation about this the other day how people are gonna be freaking out about the Mayan doomsday shit as it gets closer to December.

Haven't heard about the show, but I'll check it out.

Lol, I mean, personally I'm not one of the December 2012 people at all. I think pretty much all the doomsday scenarios are pretty retarded/illogical, especially that one, but, given how many different types of more realistic doomsday scenarios (war/revolution type stuff) there are, I realize the possibility is def greater than just 0.0% or whatever, there's always a small chance. And that's what makes it fun. If it was truly impossible for any doomsday scenario to ever occur, then it would be boring to do over the top elaborate preparations just-in-case. But, since there's always a tiny chance, it gives an excuse to justify the over-the-top elaborate preparations, and have fun going all overboard with it and fantasizing about how absurdly prepared you would be to deal with hardcore shit if it happened lol. I dunno, it's kinda fun I guess. I think I want to become a doomsday prepper, and just be like one of the non-retarded ones that realizes it's super unlikely to happen, but is basically just enjoying the fantasizing aspect of it of imaging all the possible scenarios and what I would need to have to be prepared for it better than anyone else. Sort of like how its fun to watch a good zombie movie, even though it's totally fiction, it's still fun, just to suspend belief for a few hours and just pretend, and enjoy watching them prepare for the zombies and whatever, it would just be like a way more elaborate/long lasting type of fun than watching a zombie movie at the movie theater sorta. lolz

I'd say I'm prepared other then mass stock pile of supplies. I've got plenty of guns ranging from pistols to high power hunting rifles to a coule assualt rifles. Dont have those for that reason, but good to have. Trained in hunting, field dressing etc. Also I'm a paramedic. Also, I live in a close knit community so my area would be able to handle such issues a lot better then say metropolitan areas

 

Originally Posted by bfactor

haters gon hate

(Obv I don'tthink it would be logical/optimal to actually basically ruin your life, just to be safe in case shit wen't down. So, I agree with you about those guys being fucked up and taking it way too far (if they didn't have kids I would still think it was dumb, but it'd be like a whatever floats their boat type thing, but, since they have kids then that's pretty fucked up lol. But, yea, for me if I became a doomsday prepper, I would just do it as a fun hobby thing to have that didn't actually negatively affect me living my life normally, it would just be an underground shelter in my back yard of my house, in the city, like, I wouldn't live all detached from society or any shit like that,it would just be a fun thing to have/fantasize about of like, in the 1 in a zillion scenario of doomsday happening, I'd be all prepared and get to have fun during it instead of get pwned. I wouldn't be one of those people who was actually expecting it to be likely to happen, I would just view it is a super unlikely scenario, but something fun to pretend/fantasize about and have a fun backyard hobby about basically)

Quoted for pure epicness of parenthetical to non-parenthetical ratio.

i know a kid whose parents stockpiled barrels of water and canned goods and locked themselves in their bunker on their mountain property for, wait for it,

Y2K.

Some people are so fucking retarded

Read this book BFactor:



Its pretty awesome, goes very in depth about preparing for a doomsday scenario (Not crazy ones, like real ones such as the gov't collapsing)

one of my cousins sold off all of his belongings and moved his wife and 2 kids to the boondogs before the millenium hit. He was convinced the world was going to go into technological chaos.

he stayed out there 2 or 3 years after the turn and eventually moved backed to civilization while finally admitting that his move to the boonies was not such a good decision. He looks back at it now and laughs.

 

Originally Posted by SCTrojans

why cant you just make this the op

Why do you hate OT?

I am super pumped for this show

 

Originally Posted by SCTrojans

why cant you just make this the op

and this.

 

Originally Posted by Unforseen

Read this book BFactor:



Its pretty awesome, goes very in depth about preparing for a doomsday scenario (Not crazy ones, like real ones such as the gov't collapsing)

I actually hadn't heard of that book, but I'll def read it as my very next book. The book I'm currently reading is: