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

May 27, 2015
4:00:57pm

Tricky

Yes, with the advent of nuclear technology we can now blow each other up much more easily and efficiently than our great grandparents could have done. But disasters of the natural type seem about as likely to happen now as they were generations ago.

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Tricky

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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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