Something's going on...

[Ghost Tracker]

I'm, personally, not suggesting that anything is anyone's imagination. Hunger & violence are real. I just believe where ever anyone EVER finds them self, in ANY circumstances, that THEY have made a series of small, seemingly unrelated decisions & actions that's put them EXACTLY where they are. It's a universal truth, always active & in play. I would like us to imagine, discuss & evaluate what we might individually & collectively do to make a series of DIFFERENT decisions & actions to change the eventual outcome. We can and, I would suggest that, we MUST.

 

[Paris]

Agreed!

 

[BADUNAME37]

Apparently, the magnetic polar shift is overdue by about 500,000 years. Add to that the possibility of an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) weapon used and it would wipe out the majority of anything that runs on electricity or uses electricity. Suddenly, no motor vehicles, everything dead in its tracks, no refrigeration, no computers, no communication. How long in big cities until people have no food at all? No McDonnnals, No Sudway, No Dunko-Donuts. People are getting hungrier by the minute. It would get to the point where people would eat anything. Suddenly, we would be in the stone-age, but with so many more people and all this junk around us that doesn't work.

 

[Rail Driver]

I also find it hilarious that you're implying that because I don't agree we're going to hell in a hand basket that is somehow a denial that bad things happen, happen every day and will continue to happen. I find that connotation to be intellectually dishonest, but perhaps I've just mistaken your intent.

First, assuming that I (or anyone you don't know) would want something like this to happen because I happen to be pointing my finger at things that are currently going on, that everyone can see for themselves is a faulty assumption. You're still not showing any studies, data or anything other than your own opinion (admittedly the only actual evidence I've shown are events around the world, but those are recorded in easy to find places) and you're attacking the person instead of the argument. Calling me dishonest in any fashion is something I take offense to for starters. It's rude, and I'm sorry that your parents didn't teach you how to speak respectfully. To clear that up for you, I never said the world is ending, going to hell in a handbasket, or even that it is in a downward spiral. I do agree that something is going on in the minds of the American people that has more of them preparing to, and defending themselves. I do agree that violent (and other) crimes are receiving more attention from the media than they have in the past (I also have an opinion on the reason for this, but that's for another thread). I don't agree that crime is declining. I don't believe that for a minute and public record will stand that. Go check out the docket for your local county circuit court and get an average number of cases per month, then go to the library and look for the average number of court cases through that circuit court for the same months 15 or 20 years ago and you'll see what I mean. While you're at it, go ahead and be thorough and get the monthly averages over those 15 or 20 years and make a chart. It's pretty likely that you'll see a marked INCREASE in cases. I did a research paper for one of my A.S. classes last year into crime rate trends, using Macomb County, Michigan as my example. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think it was close to a 16% increase in violent crime from 1980 to 2010. That's 30 years. There are dips and rises, but the overall trend is an increase. Sure, that's just one area for one period of time, but then look at san francisco, just in the past 3 days there have been too many crimes to plot on the map. http://www.crimemapping.com/map/ca/sanfrancisco

But hey, it's alright. That 5.5% decrease in violent crime overall in 2010 only masks the fact that instead of being measured in the dozens and hundreds like they were in the 40's and 50's, crimes are measured in the hundreds and thousands now.

 

[Ky Larry]

Remember, the "news" we see on the networks is being provided by people who have lied to us for years. It's the same old "If it bleeds, it leads." IIRC, it's called spin. The news media frightened us for years with mad cow disease in our food supply .When all was said and done, 2 people in the entire world died from it.

The story about the world ending next December is like the story about all the airplanes falling out of the sky on Y2K.

America has been thru tremendous social, political, and economic changes before and, no doubt, will go thru them again. What happened to our American "can do" attitude? If you're afraid of our future, then change it. Let's start by throwing every politician at every level out of office next year. We have the means to do that readily avaiable to us.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

This one went off the rails on the second page (last place I saw an on topic post).