Doomers Dodge Bullet

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One question:

How does a person feel about their life when they dodge a potential Bullet? (once the smoke has cleared)

Answer: euphoric!!!!!!!!

-- D........ (dciinc@aol.com), January 08, 2000

Answers

What if the bullet is made of air?

-- (dodge@that.dude), January 08, 2000.

What if the bullet turned out to have been imaginary? What if there wasn't even a gun?

-- weare (laughing@you.com), January 08, 2000.

What if the weapon was merely silenced?

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 08, 2000.

Don't worry D. The pollies still don't GI.

They won't GI either until it gets in their shorts and roots around.

But by then it will be TOOOOOOOO LLLLLATE!!!

-- not a pretty site (takin.it.in@the.shorts), January 08, 2000.


What if the bullet has delayed action?

-- - - - - ilander (ilander@minot.com), January 08, 2000.


And finally yong one...Just pray that it doesn't have your name on it..!!!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), January 08, 2000.


What are you guys talking about?? Remember Sen Bennett's report earlier in the year-- "I hope these statistics are not as bad as they appear?" Koskinen saying if the systems hadn't been fixed they would have failed? Do you think these men were lying? Was there a threat or not? If you think there was a potential threat, you should have made some personal level of prep. If you think there was never any threat at all, then you think our govt leaders and IT industry were lying. Which is worse? That there was a possible computer problem or a lying govt/industry? Take your pick. If you think there was never a threat then where did the 100 billion come from? Where did it go? Who will wind up paying that tab? Right, you and me. The Y2K problem is still here, only it's just revealing itself for what it really was all the time.

-- amnesia (foo@bar.com), January 08, 2000.

D, Yes, I feel pretty good about things right now, even if we have a slow economic decline due to Y2K glitches--which must be out there. The infrastructure held!!! God bless all. Amnesia, you're right. We had to prepare! Love all you guys.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 08, 2000.

D.......

Each day we dodge the bullet, always did. Each day a precious gift. We breathe without machines, we walk, we eat foods from all over the world. We are fantastically fortunate, and we never realize it until things change for the worse, because we take things for granted.

I've just spent the past 5 days with my mother where she lies in an intensive care ward. She's been on a respirator for 3 weeks since her emergency abdominal surgery. I bet you know how easy it is to just say what you want. She only now has summoned enough strength to get the occasional thin wisps of air past the trach tube that goes into her neck, and over and over tries to croak out words, most of which we can't easily understand. She is too weak to hold a pen. Her body is riddled with untraceable infection, she had a heart attack this week, and underneath this is the lymphoma she's been fighting for months. She has some short term memory problems, so we have to explain over and over why she is there and can't go home.

Her only concession to Y2k had been to get three jugs of spring water and a package of batteries. Anyone want to bat around what the term "survivalist" means? Ultimately what it means is that your life-force flows so strong that you do what you need to do to stay alive. When she goes it will be TEOTWAWKI, regardless of what the infrastructure is doing.

Hold on to that euphoria D......, hold onto it and make it spread like a chain reaction. You are alive, and you know it, and you are conscious of this precious network that sustains us so bountifully. So many people are disconnected from the world, so unconscious of what is around them. Use it. Enjoy it. Let it shine out from you, and transform everything you touch.

The stakes are entirely different now. You can't go back to your old life in the same way, you can only go forward.

I share that euphoria with you. What a blessing it is.

-- Firemouse (firemouse@fcmail.com), January 08, 2000.


Firemouse:

Little concilation I know, but my thoughts and prayers are with your mother and you.

FWIW: You said "So many people are disconnected from the world, so unconscious of what is around them."

The "sleepwalk dance" you referred to is why Y2K is/was a good thing. Even though, my desire to see a level of annoying disruptions that would rattle people awake hasn't been fulfilled yet and probably won't be, I believe myself and other GIs were rattled enough pre-Y2K that the rest of our lives will be better for it. I take nothing for granted.

Life Is Beautiful - No regrets

-- Lisa (lisadawn@yahoo.com), January 08, 2000.



The first bullet was a dud, but there are still five left in the chamber. The odds are not in our favor.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 08, 2000.

Well, After I'm sure I wasn't hit, I check around to make sure none of my family, friends, and innocent bystanders weren't either.So.... I'm happy to report that as for me, my family, and friends are concerned, the bullet missed and we're blessed. Now I just keep checkin' on the bystanders for awhile, and TB2000 is a great resource for checking on 'em. After all, what hits others can have a way of coming back 'round to biteya! Relieved, but observing................

......on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), January 08, 2000.


Just to finish up the thread, I guess-- dodgethatdude and wearelaughing never answered my questions. They probably never looked twice at the thread they posted on. Children on computers should go play at zoogdisney or lego.com. D & Mara & Lisa & FM, my thoughts are with you all.

-- amnesia (foo@bar.com), January 08, 2000.

Possibly the whole thing was an intervention by God so that we each can stop in our tracks, annalize our personal standing with ourselves and with each other individually, and collectivly. It has sure made me look at thins from a different perspective. It has had a much more profound effect on me than even the heart attact that near took me out. It makes one treasure life and each other more. Possibly God performed a mirical with the computer world.

-- Notforlong (Fsur439@aol.com), January 08, 2000.

So now we must attribute to God the hard work of thousands of dedicated IT workers and Y2K project managers?

Why not just simply saying "thank you" to them instead of "I told you so"?

-- (cause@nd.effects), January 08, 2000.



I'm too tired to be euphoric. What I feel is whatever the totally wiped out version of what would be called euphoria, if I were well rested (If you read it a couple of times, I'm sure that sentence will make sense).

It was one long, tiring year. If things had gotten bad, there's no way I or Mabes would have been in shape to deal with it. Looking back, the one important prep we neglected, was getting plenty of rest.

Besides, I describe myself as cautiously optimistic, at this point.

Yes, I'm happy that there were no serious disruptions, but ask me about euphoria, in a couple of weeks ;-)

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), January 08, 2000.


Lisa, Amnesia -- part of the systems we all became more aware of this year were the intangible support systems. Heart intelligence technicians, working to make sure that where there was pain there was solace, where there was fear there was courage. Sometimes a stranger's hand came out of a monitor to hold another's for a moment, to say they cared in a stressful time. That's one system that can still hold no matter what happens with the infrastructure, and I think we know more about it. Always enough pain going around that needs a helping hand, and some of us know more about how to heal than we used to.

As to whether this euphoria about Y2k can hold, we'll just have to see. New Year's Day my husband was out playing with the kids, and they played with the boomerang. METAPHOR, METAPHOR my guts screamed intuitively. But what will come back, and who it will knock on the side of the head, is as yet unknown.

-- Firemouse (firemouse@fcmail.com), January 08, 2000.


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