Quote from: TDoS on Mar 14, 2024, 08:45 PMBut for those of us with age and experience, and paying attention to the history we've lived through, we can't ignore how often these results have been announced, seemed to be occurring, discussed at length.

Ah!  I knew that one would pull you out from lurkerville! ;D  Baiting you is so EZ!  Along with the corporate defaults, another thing I can count on as I observe collapse moving along its inexorable path, is that you will be sure to drop in and refresh us with your firm belief that since the defining SHTF Day moment has perpetually failed to arrive for all recorded history, since no collapse was really the Apocalypse because, hey, we're all still here, right?  LOL.  Every Kollapsnik who ever predicted collapse since Homo Sap first became self aware has been wrong, so it's a fair bet I'll be long dead before it comes to pass, as it of course must, because the Sun will run out of hydrogen eventually of course.

Now perhaps I am not as old or have as much experience as you, but then again I'm less likely to be suffering from the early symptoms of Alzheimer's either.  If you bothered to read the post for comprehension rather than the slick little misdirection of prior moments in the downward slide that just mark waypoints, you would grasp that what I am saying is that you can't really ever pin a collapse to a single event, day or even year.  A couple of fun ones I didn't mention were Dec 31, 1999 & 12/21/2012, my favorite Mayan prediction because Roland "Master of Disaster" Emmerich made one of his specialty City Destroying Cataclysm CGI spectacles for that one.  Collapse is a process, not a day or an event, and generally takes a few generations to play out.  Then in retrospect (if there are any historians around and any records survived) you may be able to point to events that were significant in the downfall, like the sacking of Rome by barbarians.

For me, it really is irrelevant when I buy my ticket to the great beyond, because I've already seen enough to know where it's going.  I don't need to see 4B people die in a year, because I know that in the absence of FFs the earth won't feed 8B meat packages.  the Die Off is as inevitable as the Sun running ut of hydrogen to fuse.

I shall count on your return many more times to remind everyone that predictions of the apocalypse never come true.  It's a feature of Alzheimers, to become fixated on something like that, even when it's not actually being predicted.  You might want to check on that.  I think there are some meds now that will slow the progress.

RE