Just a short concept, or call it a Reality Check, whatever floats your boat

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I was watching HBO last night and during the reruns of a popular series called "OZ" someone made a very good comment that wasn't related to Y2K but I thought it was relevant. Okay, maybe I'm wasting a thread here, so sue me.

I noticed that alot of people have been stressed by the conflicting news reports, and not sure what to believe. Planning contengencies rely almost completly on having reliable information. So what do you do when you just can't see the trees through the forest anymore?

Simplify!

We all know that y2k "might" affect our lives in a large way. Beyond that, what more do you need to know? A thousand happy reports isn't going to change your mind and a thousand gloomy reports isn't going to make you sell your hosue and run for the hills. So, back to the comment I was refering to:

In the immortal of words of John Madden (spelling?)...

"Don't believe the hype" (That works for both pollys and doomers)

In just 195 days 10 hours everything will be made crytal clear. Until then don't worry about trying to predict the future. Concentrate on the here and now.

Okay, I'm done.

-- (anon lurker @ who wants to know. anyway?), June 19, 1999

Answers

"In just 195 days 10 hours everything will be made crytal clear." I doubt that very much. I expect at least a few months to go by after that before things will be less muddy. If my lights aren't working and New Year's day I'm hardly going to panic; and if they are working I'm still not going relax fully.

-- Gus (y2kk@usa.net), June 19, 1999.

Hey, I don't know about the rest of you, but 195 days BEFORE is turning up to be pretty chrystal clear to me! I figure by New Year's Evil....we'll be backstrokin' in muck! The testing has just begun (or not).

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 19, 1999.

Same old same old here. If the future is going to be the same as today, party on. If it turns out to be substantially different, some sort of contingency plan might be appropriate. Those plans can only be made ahead of time.

Grasshoppers and butterflies live in the here and now. Ants, bears, and marmots think ahead. People -- who knows?

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), June 19, 1999.


Tom,

Good comment, I liked that. Now, if you could expand it just a bit, do you know if Meerkats and Prarie Dogs plan ahead?

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), June 19, 1999.


Good one LOL!!!

"In just 195 days 10 hours everything will be made crytal clear."

Wrong dude, if the lights are out and there is nothing on the teevee or radio, if you can't get any moola out of the banks because of said power or other problems - you will literally be left in the dark.

ITSHTF, and it is an 8+, it may be months, years, before you get an even miniscule version of what REALLY happened worldwide.

Lets hope for all our sakes it's a 1 or 2 or 3...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), June 20, 1999.



Tom:

Marmots don't excel at thinking ahead because many get squashed by cars on the country roads. Or are they in a state of velocity denial?

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), June 20, 1999.


I don't personally know any meerkats or praire dogs, but I do know some ferrets. They may try to think ahead but they aren't too good at it. If you give them a big piece of food they will take it and hide it, but then they immediately forget where they hid it. Also they climb up on things and can't get down.

-- (y2kbiker@worldnet.att.net), June 21, 1999.

I don't personally know any meerkats or praire dogs, but I do know some ferrets. They may try to think ahead but they aren't too good at it. If you give them a big piece of food they will take it and hide it, but then they immediately forget where they hid it. Also they climb up on things and can't get down.

Sounds suspiciously like Flint :)

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), June 21, 1999.


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