You can always find people ready to soak up some doom and gloom

May 27, 2015
7:38:42am

spinner

It takes a lot more courage to practice optimism, but it does yourself and the world a lot more good in the end. Being a doomsdayer contributes nothing.

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Cool thing about being married to a prepper.....

idacoug

5/26/15 11:15pm

Why next year? What's their reasons for guessing next year?

Zenoch

5/26/15 11:26pm

BYU football will go undefeated; which means hell will have frozen over.

Mathew

5/26/15 11:43pm

There's a bunch of supposed prophets and revelators giving firesides about

Non-donor troll

5/27/15 12:48pm

What is going to happen?

RebelScum

5/26/15 11:45pm

I think its...the gays.

JohnnyB

5/27/15 6:56am

Not a fun topic?

MrF

5/26/15 11:50pm

As long as there is plenty of Kool Aid.

Traveshamockery

5/27/15 12:10am

nut jobs have been pushing next year for awhile

cougarmanguy

5/27/15 12:24am

It's always next year

AxelDC

5/27/15 4:39am

Since like Joseph Smith days.

johnnycarson

5/27/15 5:21am

Since like 33 A.D.

spinner

5/27/15 7:30am

600 B.C.

BW84

5/27/15 12:40pm

So it is bad to have a year supply of food?

BYULAWGUY

5/27/15 7:24am

did i say that?

cougarmanguy

5/27/15 7:56am

Yes it is, because it will all go bad. 3 months is better.

JackStack

5/27/15 8:15am

Terrible advice. Most canned food will remain viable for at least a couple

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 10:44am

Let's get those jerks who published the Food Storage Pamphlet

JackStack

5/27/15 10:47am

If you had bothered to read past the first bullet point

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 10:57am

Yup -It is rational to have 3 months of the stuff you use on a daily basis, and

frontrowcougar

5/27/15 4:18pm

Even the Church has backed off pushing the year's supply timeline

P-townCoug

5/27/15 3:47pm

My grandpa predicted "next year" about 20 years in a row. RIP, grandpa.

ag4cougs

5/27/15 12:27am

See, it happened to him!

AxelDC

5/27/15 4:40am

I for one welcome the zombie apocalypse.

Metallicat

5/27/15 1:53am

Good way to waste a lot if money

johnnycarson

5/27/15 5:21am

There's a fairly good-sized group of LDS who think it's going to happen this

hedgiecoug

5/27/15 7:01am

Where are the "safer"places? Are they dumping their day jobs?

ALUF 1990

5/27/15 7:09am

is this in Idaho?

mosterlow

5/27/15 7:21am

Utah- All I know about it is that there a few people o know from my ward and

hedgiecoug

5/27/15 1:26pm

People are morons. I've heard of this in my ward as well.

StapleGun

5/27/15 3:31pm

You can always find people ready to soak up some doom and gloom

spinner

5/27/15 7:38am

I think my SIL secretly hopes everyone else will suffer miserably

JackStack

5/27/15 8:02am

This is my only beef with preppers. The concepts of preparedness, autonomy,

QBarrister

5/27/15 9:25am

I won't go so quietly into the long night.

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 11:41am

I find it much more difficult to get my mind around non-existence, than

QBarrister

5/27/15 1:16pm

I hope for a life after death, but understand any expectation of such may be...

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 2:14pm

Interesting. By "perpetual manure" I was referring to life after death, not

QBarrister

5/27/15 2:49pm

If there is no life after this then

Idahofallsblue

5/27/15 3:59pm

Cruel joke?

BearsandBulls

5/28/15 8:33am

Well I love life. I'm doing it right actually.

Idahofallsblue

5/28/15 8:54am

I agree with this - and I'm also a scientist.

Oceanographer

5/27/15 5:39pm

This is how I've always felt. If things get so bad, I have to live off nasty

P-townCoug

5/27/15 3:52pm

You guys are so different from the people I normally associate with.

BearsandBulls

5/28/15 9:34am

It is all situational. Certainly natural instincts are going to make me fight

QBarrister

5/28/15 10:13am

i love it. i hope they have plenty of antibiotics. cause they'll get sick

johnnycarson

5/27/15 8:12am

Most preppers have antibiotics stockpiled. You can get large amounts of human

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 12:12pm

interesting.

johnnycarson

5/27/15 12:16pm

Getting ready for tent camps? Visions of Glory, Julie Rowe

BYULAWGUY

5/27/15 7:20am

tent camps, cholera, all sounds great

johnnycarson

5/27/15 8:41am

Sounds like the series "Standing in Holy Places" by Chad Daybell

BYUBandfan

5/27/15 9:29am

Yep. That's the one.

StapleGun

5/27/15 3:38pm

RE: Cool thing about being married to a prepper.....

bluebloodedcoug

5/27/15 8:51am

I find that fascinating

justacougarwife

5/27/15 12:18pm

He clearly underestimated just how far you will go in your prepping

Japan Coug

5/27/15 1:18pm

You should see all the other things he said about you.

flavordave

5/27/15 1:24pm

FO ftw.

Born2Fish

5/27/15 3:15pm

Another one of those great CB moments ... Can't put a price tag on these.

byujacob

5/27/15 3:20pm

It sounds funny and looks funny , but unfortunately....

idacoug

5/27/15 8:52pm

I look forward to their new prediction next year

DapperDan

5/27/15 12:33pm

Hail Zorp

BYUCoug11

5/27/15 2:36pm

What will these people say when it doesn't happen next year, or the year after..

BengalCougar

5/27/15 12:39pm

What do you mean by "it"?

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 1:19pm

Just because you can name a lot of potential calamities doesn't make it a high

Non-donor troll

5/27/15 1:25pm

Actually it does. The number of possible calamities makes the

BearsandBulls

5/27/15 2:55pm

Has the number of possible disasters really gone up over time?

Tricky

5/27/15 4:00pm

No, they have not. Although their direct impacts on humanity have - due to

Oceanographer

5/27/15 5:46pm

Most types of natural disasters are no more likely to occur now...

BearsandBulls

5/28/15 8:58am

Please don't tell me you listen to some priestess like my crazy old neighbors

Brass Monkey

5/27/15 3:27pm

Looks like you've already got some nice guns

Extra Biscuits

5/27/15 3:38pm

I would say what many perceive to be laissez faire is actually just being

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