Something to Really Think Hard About.....
 

Since I recently turned 76 I have to tell you that these unpleasant and frightening thoughts have been around a long time. During the 1940's when I was in grammar school when we hid under our desks during drills for Atomic Bombs landing, during the 50's when people were digging bomb shelters in their back yards, in late 60 and early 70's when some were heading to the hills in communes to grow their own food and survive on their own, and so on. I'm certianly not going to see that movie.

Don't think I would want to survive. Rather be in the first to go group.

i believe i would also not want to stick around. but that's probably just because of my stage of life. if i were in my 20's or 30's, i'd probably feel differently

I remember doing the under the desk thing at school and that was in the 50's for me.
i tend to keep jugs of distilled water in my home. I try to keep canned goods but don't do that well enough. life is scary enough without thinking about bad things daily. we can only hope man kind doesn't do more stupid things and lets the world go on.

Sorry, I never focus on these things but on my Source, my Father from Whom comes all good gifts, Who gives His angles charge over me, Who meets all my needs according to His riches in Glory. My life is not mine but His.The only "prep" I have on hand is a couple gallons of water so I can flush if/when the power goes out for a bit, LOL!It is as easy to be optimistic as it is pessimistic, maybe easier.Jan in VA

I agree with Jan.

How great He is! I'm with them...

I guess I am the "black sheep" here. I am prepared for an emergency, be it a blizzard, tornado, flood or whathave you. I will not have to rely on the gov/fema for anything, God willing. I have aways keep a full pantry. I am prepared to go for quite awhile without elec, heat and water. I spend the majority of the summer in my home in WI. I have a wood stove and know how to use it. Also, my main home is on wheels, so we just hitch up and hit the trail when we hear of bad weather ahead.

I remember in the 50s & 60s going under our desks for atomic bomb drills. I also remember my dad taking us to a bomb shelter where people could go if the Russians or Cubans attacked us. After all the fear from 9/11, and anthrax, I have no desire to see a doomsday movie.

during the 'cuban' missle crisis when the neighbors all gathered with plans ..... i said i am not washing the supper dishes , if they take over they can have my dirty dishes........worked for me........intend to not wash dishes again on Dec. 21 ---------- and fall asleep humming "Nearer My God To Thee" ------- and when i wake up on 12/22 it will be to say thank you and quilt!!!!!

AMEN, I also agree with Jan

This sort of thing is why I don't watch tv either!

Why would they have kids get under their desk? How much protection would that give if an A-bomb was dropped anywhere within their state!!!

Have not seen it, still stuck on the "Left Behind" series of the rapture. We live near a power plant and if that got blown up......?

I tend not to worry about what is going to happen because there is nothing I can do about it anyway. But that being said,I will be as prepared as possible. The younger generation seems to freak out at the slightest problem , at least the ones here. I am glad I grew up poor and in a area of the US that still had outhouses ,no central heat, wood stoves and no running water. Copper mining area of the late 50s and early 60s in AZ. I can grow my own food , kill my own animals ,(if need be,, yuck though) . Sew , cook on a wood stove, and all the other things that will need to be done. I figure if me and mine are going to survive what ever , if its surviveable, I don't have time to wail and worry, won't be on my knees either except to plant or clean. I will be working.
In my way of thinking watching these sci fi movies is a form of education, maybe if we listen we can stop it happening. How many things in old sci fi movies are around today?

wow Heavy thoughts here... I do have a stocked pantry and water in case of flood or an earthquake..

I haven't seen the movie but I do have some emergency stuff stashed. I have been laughed at about having extra water, etc. on hand. When the power grid went down a few years ago, I had light (oil lamp), I had iced tea (extra ice in freezer was put into smaller cooler for use in keeping milk fresh and iced drinks), I had coffee in the morning (gas stove and camping coffee pot). I could even flush my toilet with water from the rain barrels. I don't get laughed at as much since then.

I am with you!

You would have to guard your supplies 24/7 and even then looters or the Government would take what they wanted like in the movie War Horse. My main worry would be safe water to drink, where you not only boil it but have to filter it some how. Let hope we never experience it.

Oh yes I remember the desk thing...do you remember the song for it..."Duck and Cover". So in the event of a nuclear strike we were supposed to just hunker down and cover our heads. Did any one ever anywhere think that we would survive a hit with duck and cover? My when my DMIL was a child her class was taken out to view a nuclear bomb test from a hill which was supposed to be a safe distance away. Years later she died of thyroid cancer. So did many of her contemporaries in the area where she lived and grew up. Radioactive iodine anyone? Oh how our ignorance defines us.

I recently had a post on face book that went like this ...leap year was started long after the Mayan calendar. with the number of extra days, the end of the world should have happened 8 mos ago. LOL.. not an exact quote but you get the idea. I am not going to worry about the world ending...can't do anything about it anyway. Just continue to live my life in a good way, stock for smaller disasters enjoy life.

I'm with them too. God is greater, always present, a help in time of trouble! Not to mention, my life is in His hands.

It was probably meant to help them deal with scary things. If they had not shown the A-bomb videos in the first place the kids might not have been so scared.

I don't watch those kind of movies or war movies. can't do anything in case of the bomb even doing the duck and cover at school was just to do as we were told by the teachers but after seeing the films us kids figured out that wasn't going to protect us. as for the war movies i can't handle them. I have seem the after effects that war does to the average people. not just the physical but the emotional part of it that stays with them. my step mom would dive under the table screaming for everyone to get down when to would hear the old bi-planes go over head. she would also wake up screaming sometime especially after seeing something like dr. Zavigo(sp?) she lost 3 brothers 2 in russia and 1 in italy. she was also the only servivor from the group of girls before escaping to italy, then france. and the others that were effected by the same kind of cancer I believe was because of the bombs from her town. including her and sister amoung them. the list can go on and on , i'm sure we probally all know people in our families and friends that have had to deal with the ugly side of life in one way or another. they are the strong.

I am one of the Duck and Cover generation. We were told it would protect us from flying glass of the windows. We also had drills to go into the hallway and lean against wall, left arm for head to lean against wall, right arm to cover head to prevent head injury from flying objects. I don't think we would have been protected in either situation, but it certainly made us aware of potential danger. Just as the WWll blackouts that I remember as a preschooler.

It is past my realm of comprehension that anyone could believe they could actually survive anything like that. Keeping canned goods and all have expiration dates on them and maybe you would get sick and die from eating them.
A very good bet that all that would be destroyed also.
I don't waste my time thinking about that stuff and believe we are not in charge of our destiny.

It is past my realm of comprehension that anyone could believe they could actually survive anything like that. Keeping canned goods and all have expiration dates on them and maybe you would get sick and die from eating them.
A very good bet that all that would be destroyed also.
I don't waste my time thinking about that stuff and believe we are not in charge of our destiny.

I'm with you on that!

I have always prepared my home for emergencies. Hard to survive a direct hit by a tornado or a nuclear bomb, but other than that, I try to have a full pantry and know how to cook without the microwave. During a storm one year when we did not have power for over a week, I amazed my children (and myself) by cooking everything over a fireplace fire. We had fresh bread and biscuits, stew, pudding, chicken, as well as popcorn and other treats. My kids referred to that "adventure" as the "Little house on the prairie winter." We also made a sled out of a cardboard box and slid down the hill in our back pasture. Yee haw!

On the subject though, I would rather go in the first wave. I have done disaster drills with my local medical corps and I don't think I want to be there for the gore and chaos.

Too scary, i am not sure i want to see it either, to much bad in the world now.

Certainly is possible in this day of travel.