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

[rzwieg]

I don't like exwives. At least not mine. They just won't go away. There is the energizer bunny effect.

Ain't that the truth.....

You guys are taking this too seriously and yes a lttle fantasy never hurt anyone.

 

[Rick Marchand]

IMHO, the Human Race needs a good common enemy . I'm not talking viruses or plagues or global warming..... I'm talkin' ALIENS(not border-jumping illegal aliens but the green, slimy, outerspace, kind).... you know.... something that WE, as a planet, can refocus all the hatred and hostility (that we normally save for eachother) toward.

I've been thinking alot on this lately....... how does one go about pissing off an Alien race?

Rick

**Edit** Maybe even something like the Matrix or Terminator..... machines gone wild kinda stuff.... ya... that'd work too.


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[Guyon]

Well, biblical prophecy is one thing, but the national ID card with an embedded chip and the upcoming RFID chip is another (which Digital Solutions makes and that IBM is behind just like they were with the punch cards of Nazi Germany).

I'm about ready for my thumb chip implant. Carrying around keys and a wallet is such a drag, and hell, *they* are already tracking me every time I use a credit card. I'll be happy when I can just swipe my thumb at door locks and checkout stations. ID will never be an issue as long as my interrogators have thumb scanners. :thumbup:

The downside, of course, will be all the people who lose their thumbs to thieves because they are rich.

 

[foxyrick]

IMHO, the Human Race needs a good common enemy . I'm not talking viruses or plagues or global warming..... I'm talkin' ALIENS(not border-jumping illegal aliens but the green, slimy, outerspace, kind).... you know.... something that WE, as a planet, can refocus all the hatred and hostility (that we normally save for eachother) toward.

I've been thinking alot on this lately....... how does one go about pissing off an Alien race?

Rick

**Edit** Maybe even something like the Matrix or Terminator..... machines gone wild kinda stuff.... ya... that'd work too.


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We've been beaming stuff around our planet long enough that some of it must have reached life out there (if there is any). The endless re-runs of soaps and sitcoms must surely have peed them off by now. They have me. I think I would rather face a zombie/alien invasion than another repeat!

 

[foxyrick]

I've just remembered something that fits in this thread. Not sure I should be admitting this (except to a shrink) but...

I used to have frequent 'nightmares' about aliens (that is, the Sigourney Weaver 'Alien' aliens). I had them for many years, but haven't had one for about a year. Strangely enough, since I left teaching, I now realise.

Anyway, I hesitiate to call them nightmares because nightmares are supposed to be unpleasant. Mine, while quite serious and in keeping with the original 'Alien' scariness, were good fun. If I woke up in the middle, I would try to get back to sleep to see what happened next.

I was generally armed, or at least making my way to an 'arms locker', and sometimes in a fortified base somewhere in the desert that was being attacked by thousands of the ugly things.

Better than TV!

I once played a game on the PC; doom. Someone had written a complete 'Nostromo' shell over the top of doom. It was really scary, especially when played in the dark. They had the atmosphere, the sounds, everything just right. I almost fell of my chair one night when one of the little crawly things jumped from the ceiling at me. Terrifying! It got banned because of copyright issues; then a while later the 'official' games game out which were nowhere near as frightening.

Anyway, now you all know that I am completely barking!

Rick the Alien stalker.

 

[koyote]

I dunno if we need a common enemy so much as gates. easy cheap access to lots and lots of terrestrial worlds! Yah, fighting and dying is fun and all, but I'd rather we had endless frontiers