Is it wrong to pray for zombie invasion or some other disaster?

xinel said:
Hey dude not fair, you always pick on the programmers. Me being one of them, nice swoop that all us programmers are useless at survival. Enjoy your forums and your Internet. Guess who made those :P
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You missed the point. Without the need to go to a job typing and changing code all day in a cubicle, who knows what the IT guy might become, giving the right circumstances. IE zombie attack and so on. I'm not saying you guys are useless. I'm saying it would be much cooler if there was no need for a job like that. If everyone just got back to the basic living. Wouldn't that be more fun? I worked in a cubicle for seemed like forever. I know that I personally wished for a catastrophy that would just eliminate my entire job title and make it disappear. That's the whole point. If we had some other goal than just perpetuating the technological advancement of material distraction from living, think of how much progress we could make in our own discovery of our own potential. Not to meantion killing zombies would be a gas like no other. lol
 
Dylside said:
Either that or some huge electromagnetic pulse that knocks out all of the power all over the world and puts us all back to the dark ages.
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Hey now! Wouldn't that also take out BladeForums.com? Where would we be then? How could life possibly be better without this forum?
 
I would agree that mankind as a whole isn't as hard (tough) as it once was. But those primitive skills dont land you on the moon, or result in any advancement that would benifit most of the modern world.

Thats why i try to harden the body, advance primitive skills, but also advance the minds capabitities to fit into modern times.
 
jackknife said:
That guy on the nail machine is most likey very much like the thousands of anonomus workers that kept the armys in the middle ages going. At the battle of Agincourt most of King Henry army was archers. With 5,000 archers shooting over 20 arrows that comes to 100,000 arrows. Think of all those peasents all over England who sat at workbenches fletching arrows, or turning arrow shafts. Or think of all the workers making the 30-06 rounds used by all the M-1 garands at the hight of WW2.

If it really bugs you that much, go take a cross country hike for a month or so carrying only what was available in 1350AD. Get away from it. But put a hold on your arrogance. Like it was said, if the SHTF big time, what makes you and yours are so holy that you think you won't die?

Man evolved from the cave on by banding together and specializing work. People became blacksmiths, farmers, healers, and early on bartered thier work. It's woked for several thousand years so far. The archer on the battle field got the glory, but where would he have been but for some peasent sitting someplace with some flax thread and hide glue putting goose feathers on arrow shafts? Maybe with a ax in his skull.

Your statement is whats wrong with most survival forums. it has too many imature wanabe's who think they are by some chance God's gift to mankind. By your own statement this guy is bright enough to have developed new softwhere, so he must be bright. Did you loose a bonus to him or something.? What do you think you have to offer the human race? Next time you or one of your family need an MRI, you can thank some squemish little guy who developed the programing.

As far as the dark ages you think so much of, without the modern inoculations infant morality used to be over 60%. That means you would have been lucky to ever reach adulthood yourself, let alone any kids you may have.

You need to grow up and stop reading those idiot Sterling novels. By the way, what do YOU do for a living?
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Wow. Obviously you got your nickers waaaay up in a bunch over this. Were you just sitting around waiting for something to be pissed at or what? This was simply to be a fun little discussion. Instead, you decide to blame a fun little discussion for every problem on "survival" forums. To be honest, I think the problem with any forums is that people allow themselves to get in a tizzy over nothing and go ballistic. All of this is your opinion and you're more than entitled to it. However, your delivery is less than necessary. I never said that I am the master survivor, my way is the way, anything of the sort. I posed a question to start a discussion out of boredom at work that was meant to be a fun little escape for 5 minutes. You and several others decided to make it a huge deal. God knows if I had known it was going to force the evil purple judgement out of everyone, I would have kept my mouth shut. Unfortunately I had the misconception that everyone here had a sense of humor and ability to daydream. I don't think that makes me a wannabe, sicko, godless weirdo, or anything else. I think it makes me a guy who has always enjoyed a good zombie movie and likes to have a light discussion without it turning into a judgefest. Sorry I caused everyone such high blood pressure. By all means, tear up and defend reality all you want. Do whatever you need to do in order to remind yourself that movies are just movies and the people who enjoy them and daydream are all wannabe, neo rambo, mall ninja, anti-religion, hellions who are responsible for all problems ever associated with freedom of speech and internet usage to communicate.
 
I don't like exwives. At least not mine. They just won't go away. There is the energizer bunny effect. Now, zombies on the otherhand are dead, so how do you kill them? I think we need to use clueless exwives as sticky bait. Yeah, coat them with that goo from mouse traps and send them into the dark places. Umm... maybe their lawyers too. You could make sticky bait sammiches. Of course there may be professional courtesy between lawyers and zombies like they have with sharks.

Codger :confused: :D
 
Codger_64 said:
I don't like exwives. At least not mine. They just won't go away. There is the energizer bunny effect. Now, zombies on the otherhand are dead, so how do you kill them? I think we need to use clueless exwives as sticky bait. Yeah, coat them with that goo from mouse traps and send them into the dark places. Umm... maybe their lawyers too. You could make sticky bait sammiches. Of course there may be professional courtesy between lawyers and zombies like they have with sharks.

Codger :confused: :D
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Now this is by far the funniest thing I've heard (read) all day.
 
You don't need sticky bait, just a quick marriage then divorce ceremony and they'll hound those zombies to a second death.
 
Dunno about that. My ex is collecting ex's. We were married more than 25 years and she has had a new one each five years since I deevorced her..

Hey! You know you can start a fire by rubbing two ex's together? Unfortunately, YOU are ususlly the one to get burned. :p
 
Dylside said:
Now this is by far the funniest thing I've hear (read) all day.
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Yup, no doubt about it. Codger64 is one of the coolest and funniest silverbacks in the forum. Totally agree.:thumbup:

I just came here to watch you get ripped to shreds, and I wasn't disappointed. You asked for it, and you got your answer.

Let me start by saying that a small part of me kind of sympathizes with the sediment:rolleyes: of your remark. But life is never tidy or fair, so the parameters you put on your zombie/disaster scenario always seem to go right out the window when Murphy's Law kicks in big time.

You asked, "Is it wrong to pray for zombie invasion or some other disaster?"

No offense intended to your first amendment rights, but YES a lot of people think it's "wrong" to "pray" for a disaster, myself included. And I admit I used to wish for a scenario of some sort for basically the same reasons you cited. Disaster scenarios never seem to kill off the bastards. They always seem to catch the innocent people off guard. They wipe out the nice retired couple visiting their grandkids, the young mom walking her baby in the stroller, and the guy mowing his Iraq-deployed neighbor's lawn for him. That type of thing kills the casual, pleasantly clueless, thoroughly unparanoid nice folks way out of proportion to their actual percentages in society. The rotten bastards usually survive just fine thank you, and the nice, plain folks get massively wiped out. Grrrr.

We've all seen Sumatra, Katrina, Northridge, etc., and from what I can see they have one thing in common, i.e. they well and truly suck for everyone. Because while you and I might be strong enough and well-prepared enough to save our own skin, I can guaran-darn-tee you that most rugrats, oldsters, and females can't. And for me, thinking about that hurts more than watching Rambo reruns sober. :)

We ALL have gentle people we care about who wouldn't fare too well in a disaster scenario, so for their sake you better not "pray" for a teotwawki event unless you're prepared to bury a few of your favorite friends, family, and/or loved-ones. Civilization, such as it is, wasn't created for our sake. It was created by people like us for the sake of protecting those who can't take care of themselves very well out in the bush, and we suck it up as well as we can, for their sake. If you're not happy, well that's the point. You're not supposed to be happy, and neither am I.

That's why there is the old proverb, "Be careful what you wish for. You might get your wish."
 
Dylside said:
You missed the point. Without the need to go to a job typing and changing code all day in a cubicle, who knows what the IT guy might become, giving the right circumstances. IE zombie attack and so on. I'm not saying you guys are useless. I'm saying it would be much cooler if there was no need for a job like that.
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No matter the societies technological level there are always at least some tedious, monotonous but necessary jobs that have to be done. Even after a Zombie-apocalypse chances are your fictional programmer guy would end up doing those crappy jobs as well.
For historical crappy jobs look here
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/

I like stability, boring as it is.
:D

Theres nothing wrong with daydreaming but maybe you should go camping more and/or get a souped up pc or a PS3/Xbox360.
Videogames are your friend! There are one or two good Zombie killing games out there. And a bazillion good first person shooters.
:)
 
I wouldn't miss algebra or statistics. Sometimes I wish the zombies would come.

But then again, I have been to the third world and that is enough of anti-tech lifestyle for me. It inpsires me to open up those damn text books and bow at the feet of the IT gods.

I have been wanting to post something along thses lines for a while but couldn't word it right. Great Job!
 
The other night, our lights went out. My first thought was if they stay out I will never have to do algebra again. My second thought was my true skills would be of value.
 
I think most of us have non-serious fantasies about society and our role in it being different. Most are harmless "gaming". Like reading a Serling novel. "If I were there, I would do it this way". Or even reading American or world history. It is entertaining to dream about how we would fare in a less technological world. Well, I was born "B.C.", before computers. Telephones were land lines and most of those were party lines with four or more families sharing the use of the line on their rotary dial phones. I remember the days before we actually put a man in space, before transistor radios, calculators. My first tractor didn't have a starter. It had a big flywheel and a crank lever that could break your arm when the tractor backfired. We didn't have MRI's and laproscopy. People died of things that are nowdays easily diagnosed and fixed with outpatient surgery. Believe it or not, these are the good old days. Regardless of the pace life demands of us. And the exponential rate of the increase in technology. My Mother, born in 1927, just underwent surgery to remove cancerous tumors. She was home the next day. No, it is not over with by any means. But her mother died painfully in 1964 with the same problem. These are the good old days.

Codger
 
Hey Codger 64, me thinks you and I grew up around the same time, or close anyways. Technology was a break action .22, a schwinn bicycle and wooden swing seats. :D
 
Someone mentioned Dawn of the Dead. I just bought the new version on DVD a couple months ago. Good movie.

I felt real bad for the guy across the street in the gun shop, Andy's Gun Works.

Anyone notice Scott Reitz and Brett Mc Queen teaching how to kill zombies? (only if you have the DVD with extra scenes)
 
Zombies are code for cannon fodder. Everyone loves a good zombie attack because they are such easy targets, slow, shoot'em in the head, stay on the move. No.

If there was a real shtf, let it be revolutionary in nature where the baddies are paid by the government to do things like take away your rights and unfairly tax you.

Now that would be interesting.
 
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