I see dead people.

misterno · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

I agree with OP %100. I have friends recently purchased large mansions 30 miles away from downtown Houston. 2 cars in the garage on being an SUV.

All purchased with credit. I have another friend yuppie calling me other day how to buy a $55K BMW with a credit card. All these people have two things in common. They all are PO unaware and they are all buried to neck with debt already in their young ages.

Used to work for a large utility company in downtown Houston. My manager bought a 8 cyl Toyota Seq driving to woodlands everyday. (30 miles one way) Can you believe this? She also had a mansion being built in Conroe (35 miles away)

I will feel sorry for all these people when TSHTF.

Fishman · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

You have to think positive! I see unemployed masses, sharecropping on a nice plantation. For a role model go to Jefferson's place in Virginia, Monticello or maybe Washington's. I disagree with you Mos on this one, knowledge is power.

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i see shorter lines at IHOP. Smile

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Zardoz · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

I don't see them dead, either. I see them destitute, close to homeless, and barely surviving, all the while trying to get through each day in a fog of depression and utter bewilderment.

I also harbor no illusions that I won't end up as one of them. It can, and probably will, happen to virtually all of us, eventually. Very few will escape the ill effects of the changes that are looming just over the horizon.

(BTW, this is an all-time classic:

Homesteader · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

I understand what you are feeling VMarchart and have felt the same many times. It seems as if it is one of the stages of dealing with the magnitude of the problem.

After thinking on it for months my current thought about that feeling is it may be an emotional expression of disengaging from the reality many of us were raised in and thought was normal and would go on forever.

After I had gotten through that period I was much more accepting of what was happening and didn't fight it so hard or so often. I still have a relapse every so often but the feeling isn't as strong and it doesn't last very long, just minutes.
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vision-master · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

Today I looked at the Yamaha Vino 125cc scooter. I'm to cheap to cough up the $3,000 right now. 80 mpg sure sounds good anyhoo. Should I or shouldn't I? This is a big ticket item for me in these times. Think I'll wait and but more food stuff. Razz

FoxV · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

VMarcHart · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

JPL · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

People are amazing sometimes. Right up to the moment when the ship crashes into 'Terra Nova' the passengers will still be arguing about who had the last coffee out of the vending machine.

Growl...

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JPL · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

sicophiliac · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.

I can relate to what you say, I drive home from work out on the weekends and when me and my girlfriend go out to dinner sometimes I kind of pity some of these restaurant/small business owners knowing what is coming. People investing tens of thousands of dollars into their businesses and countless hours of hard work only to have it all wiped away in a few years as the economy implodes. Many honest hard working people out there are going to get financially crushed soon and I don't think they have much of a clue (though with the economy the way it is many probably do by now)
The flip side of that is that I get frustrated by the shallowness and simple lack of intellectual curiosity demonstrated by 90% of the people I know. For example the Mega Disasters show on the History Channel on the peak oil issue came on once at a friends house and as it started my friends girlfriend came in and said "whats this?... uhhh a documentary on the History Channel... boring" Then she fell asleep. I thought to myself "you'll find out the hard way in a few years when your begging for food or living in a slum somewhere whoring yourself to survive" Granted most of my friends are at least somewhat peak oil aware and I have woken a few up to the issue a couple years back. But still most are clueless, more concerned with reality TV or football or basketball. What is at the root of it I often ask myself? Why are so many content with ignorance and occupying their minds with petty meaningless crap while others crave knowledge and understanding and at least try to grasp the big picture. Is it raw intelligence or is a personality trait or does it have to do with the environment people are raised in ? As I have said before I feel bad for a lot of people out there but at the same time I feel resentment towards them. After all its partially due to the ignorance of the masses that we are in this mess to begin with.

VMarcHart · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: I see dead people.