How many bad things really happen?

[ironman]

The avian flu deal got me thinking ... how often do really bad things that people predict actually happen?

Since I've been on earth, the top three have been:

Ice age
Nuclear war
Another great depression

None have happened.

Overblown by the media? People wrong? Luck? Are we too smart for ourselves, meaning do we think about the most negative thing and then talk about it until it's in the ground.

Did they have things like this in the 1800s? Early 1900s? that weren't tied to religion?

Is man just fatalistic?

[4thand1]

QUOTE(pgrote @ Oct 30 2005, 09:52 PM) Quoted post

The avian flu deal got me thinking ... how often do really bad things that people predict actually happen?

Since I've been on earth, the top three have been:

Ice age
Nuclear war
Another great depression

None have happened.

Overblown by the media? People wrong? Luck? Are we too smart for ourselves, meaning do we think about the most negative thing and then talk about it until it's in the ground.

Did they have things like this in the 1800s? Early 1900s? that weren't tied to religion?

Is man just fatalistic?
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You may have answered your own question.

[Bleacher Creature]

I have more concern driving on I270 on a daily basis, than I do any cataclismic event.

[lazydaze]

yet

[ironman]

QUOTE(lazydaze @ Oct 30 2005, 09:56 PM) Quoted post

yet [/b][/quote]

Has it ever happened?

[triggercut1]

Thing is, all of those items you mention grote--they already happened once.

Our society tends to both learn from prior experience as well as fear it unduly.

Then something we haven't had happen before, like Katrina, say, happens, and it totally blindsides us.

The unknown always scares me more than the known.

[TTB]

it will only take one to greatly change the way we live

Eventually....there will be a cataclysmic type of event

In our lifetime?...no one knows

I don't lose any sleep over it

[lazydaze]

QUOTE(pgrote @ Oct 30 2005, 08:57 PM) Quoted post

QUOTE(lazydaze @ Oct 30 2005, 09:56 PM) Quoted post

yet [/b][/quote]

Has it ever happened?
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Ice age

Nuclear War

Great Depression

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[Turd Ferguson]

The Spice Girls were pretty bad.

[4thand1]

QUOTE(TTB @ Oct 30 2005, 10:04 PM) Quoted post

it will only take one to greatly change the way we live

Eventually....there will be a cataclysmic type of event

In our lifetime?...no one knows

I don't lose any sleep over it
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agreed. If it happens, it happens. Que sera sera....

[JWB]

I don't worry about things I can't control.

I'm too young and too handsome to get wrinkles on my pretty little face.

[Ohio Blues]

QUOTE(Turd Ferguson @ Oct 31 2005, 12:05 AM) Quoted post

The Spice Girls were pretty bad.
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You told me you still fondled Gonzo's balls to their CD the other night.

[ChiTownBluesFan]

QUOTE(triggercut1 @ Oct 30 2005, 11:04 PM) Quoted post

Thing is, all of those items you mention grote--they already happened once.

Our society tends to both learn from prior experience as well as fear it unduly.

Then something we haven't had happen before, like Katrina, say, happens, and it totally blindsides us.

The unknown always scares me more than the known.
[/b][/quote]

They did?

Was there a nuclear war, and I missed it?

[lazydaze]

QUOTE(ChiTownBluesFan @ Oct 30 2005, 09:10 PM) Quoted post

QUOTE(triggercut1 @ Oct 30 2005, 11:04 PM) Quoted post

Thing is, all of those items you mention grote--they already happened once.

Our society tends to both learn from prior experience as well as fear it unduly.

Then something we haven't had happen before, like Katrina, say, happens, and it totally blindsides us.

The unknown always scares me more than the known.
[/b][/quote]

They did?

Was there a nuclear war, and I missed it? [/b][/quote]



yes

Un-Official Sponsor of Randy Choate and Kevin Siegrist

[Turd Ferguson]

QUOTE(Ohio Blues @ Oct 30 2005, 10:10 PM) Quoted post

QUOTE(Turd Ferguson @ Oct 31 2005, 12:05 AM) Quoted post

The Spice Girls were pretty bad.
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You told me you still fondled Gonzo's balls to their CD the other night.
[/b][/quote]
And then I hopped in my ride to make a quick run.

If you believe in something sacrifice a hobo to it or don't bother.