<b>Paranoid or Mad?</b><br><br>As the Mayan calendar has predicted the apocal...

Terrence Miao - 2012-12-02 10:33:11+1100 - Updated: 2012-12-02 10:33:11+1100

Paranoid or Mad?

As the Mayan calendar has predicted the apocalypse, the end of the world, on December 21, 2012, is less than a month away, National Geographic Channel has the documentary PREPPERS UK: SURVIVING ARMAGEDDON shows some Britons stockpiling arms, food, and even condoms. Some have secret hideaways away from towns and cities for when the apocalypse strikes. Between them they fear a new dark age, natural disasters, a solar flare, and a world without law and order. Some Britons have spent their entire lives and thousands of pounds preparing for a disaster.

Inside Britain's Armageddon houses: Meet the 'preppers' who are stockpiling food and weapons because they fear the world will end

James Gemmell - 2012-12-02 22:44:27+1100 - Updated: 2012-12-02 22:44:41+1100

It's good to be prepared... but for what? Those Brits are more likely to suffer from floods and electricity cuts this Winter - which will last well beyond the 21st December. That food should come in handy - as long as it's not under water.

Oleg Kiorsak - 2012-12-03 01:41:55+1100 - Updated: 2012-12-03 01:47:38+1100

+Terrence Miao +James Gemmell
folks, the Brits are doing it wrong! - here's what's most important:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/108100508440823014305/posts/ULWZQRCYmtu

;-)

James Gemmell - 2012-12-03 09:12:43+1100

I'm pleased that RT included a reasonable explanation of the Mayan long count calendar whose predictive capabilities are somewhat questionable given its failure to predict the arrival of the Conquistadors and the eventual demise of the Maya. What they have failed to mention though is that the calendar does, in fact, have a date for 22 December and the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that... (just how is a circle supposed to end?)

Kieran Simpson - 2012-12-03 11:24:17+1100

Re your first comment +James Gemmell those that have alternate isolated locations to retreat to (one assumes complete with supplies) are the real smart ones. If there are floods and electricity cuts and other scenarios that cause civil unrest having somewhere in the middle of nowhere to wait it out is a good idea. One thing with cities is that after ~1 week most of the supplies are gone. If you have a few months worth then you'll outlive the majority of the population.

Kieran Simpson - 2012-12-03 11:29:30+1100

Re the RT article - "Travel agencies are selling tours to either heaven or hell" - ROFLMFAO; how do you tour heaven or hell. In most religions it's a permanent destination.

Oleg Kiorsak - 2012-12-03 12:05:02+1100 - Updated: 2012-12-03 12:07:46+1100

+Kieran Simpson
I guess surviving a natural or man-made disaster or a turmoil (war, revolution, energy/water outages etc) is quite a different thing from an "end of the world"...

for the former - definitely does make sense to stock a week worth supply of food. water etc (I personally think dark chocolate has good shelf-life, easily stackable, and high nutritional value!
(also my wife is good at safely hiding it somewhere so that some hungry mysterious near-sighted clumsy nocturnal creature can't find and eat it all at once all "strategic quantities" supplies she buys in Coles when it's a bit discounted ;-)

so in case of disasters - yes you can prepare for them...
in case of genuine "End of the World" - just more prayer or more champagne, depenidng on your philosophies/beliefs/etc

btw, if you are after even some more more "esoterics" - see here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112842631531364722564/posts/fTGd61R9YjB

;-)

James Gemmell - 2012-12-03 12:28:41+1100

+Kieran Simpson Ah yes, those "bug out" locations they keep talking about. I guess it depends where they are. My money is on the guy with the "secret Welsh hideaway" so long as he can get through the traffic jams down the M4. There's no way man-in-canoe is going to survive outdoors through an English winter. He's zombie fodder.

I reckon they're all insane. Why else would they allow named photographs of themselves standing alongside their supplies to be published in a widely read newspaper? The neighbours will be kicking their doors down in no time at all.

When it comes to preppers, the Mormons are tops. 3 month's supplies for every household. Survive that!

Oleg Kiorsak - 2012-12-03 12:35:05+1100

crap! should't bragged about chocolate!
;-(

Mike Nguyen - 2012-12-03 13:50:10+1100

Best Korea is to launch their new rocket on Dec 21st. Alot of folks are hoping success or else they'll be facing the mortar range.