Dooms Day preppers

Lets talk about doomsday preppers, like the show on the history channel. WOW!

I am way behind the curve on this. Apparently if zombies where to take over the country, China were to call in our debt, or the polar ice caps flipped; then I would be screwed. 

I could see why some people would look at these people as total nut cases but it would also be very niave to just assume that nothing would ever happen like that. Preppers are smart and crazy and in a horrible situation I would want to be near a prepper than be one of the ones telling them they are nuts. 

Okay some of them are totally freaking nuts. There is no questioning that but there is some truth to their insanity. 

Let me explain what a doomsday prepper is. They are people who have prepped their homes, shelters, families, and friends for huge catastrophic events such as armagedon, zombies, or a total economic break down. They have food stocked up, shelters built, weapon stock piles, and plenty of meds to protect against a variety of viral attacks. 

Good idea but some people go nuts with it. In truth I do need to be at least a bit more prepared for some kind of catastrophic event that will most likely happen. 

Although, I read something today that makes me breathe much easier about this year. There have been about 514 leap years since Caesar created it back in 45b.c. Without the extra day every four years, todays date would actually be July 28, 2013.

Also, the mayan calender did not account for leap year....so technically the world should haven ended 7 months ago. 

Was your mind blown? Mine was when I read that. 

To think about a doomsday event happening it kind of makes every other problem seem tiny. Its overwhelming and liberating. Why worry about the little stuff when you have a doomsday to prepare for? I can understand that logic but I can also blow holes in it. 

If I dooms day was to happen then shouldnt we take advantage of the beautiful and amazing things we have now? Shouldnt we spend more time with our family and less time stressing over something that might happen? And, if we really want to get technical; there was a asteroid discovered not to long ago that will apparently collide with the earth in 2040. Its such a big deal that they are already or have already began planning a way to deflect it. What really blows my mind about this is that I didnt hear or read about it on any news site I saw it on G4 and then researched it and sure enough its true. 

Hell, when I was in sixth grade my science teacher showed us an article that was literally the size of an obituary about how we were almost hit by an asteroid the size of texas. Why wouldnt that be a huge article? Why? Because we are crazy and that would have caused a huge crisis even though it missed us.