Who's cried?

FossilFool · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 81

I'll admit it. I have cried today and a couple days ago about Peak Oil. I don't know if I am doing the right things in my life to be prepared and not knowing when it's coming and the effect causes me a lot of anguish.

Schneider · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

Me too !

One time (a "long" time ago) ,i did cried while listening "What a wonderfull World" from Amstrong Sad

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I was so sad for humandkind that day !

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Dukat_Reloaded · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 1009

Not me, I keep on my happy face Twisted Evil

venky · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 13, 2005 Posts: 839

Remember shivering while reading LATOC. Scared the hell outta me.

Now its off and on, despair and optimism. These frequent mood swings are getting rather tiring though. Smile

smiffy · Tar Sands Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 75 Location: Malta

I just looked at my 2 children, Jasmine 3 years and Enya 1 years old.

Did i cry? I'm crushed and numb with pain.

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TorrKing · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:30 am Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

Peak oil brings new opportunities. I have always been doing bushcraft and I feel that I finally will recieve respect and success for that. While the stuck up "future minded" people with fancy degrees will end up being little more than bums on the street. If they survive that is

Torjus Gaaren

Ludi · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

Nope. I've been scared, but not sad.
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Raxozanne · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

I've cried in frustration at my families constant blind reassurances that 'they will think of something'.
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bob_loblaw · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:28 am Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

I haven't cried for what I fear losing, (creature comforts)

but I have cried with sadness watching reports of recent events that have splashed across my television screen. The man in NO who had lost his wife, brought me to full on tears. The children in Pakistan, freezing to death filled me with such sadness and anger it made me cry.

Mostly though, I echo most of you in my sadness for mandkind in general. Considering the reactions of the few people I have tried to talk to, and no clue how I'll tell family w/o them thinking I'm completely off my rocker.

Lately I focus on what I can do. Although I don't have children of my own, my girlfreind has two little girls. It changes everything..
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FossilFool · Tar Sands Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 81

I cried because I don't know the effect it will have and I am at a crossroads in my life where I have to decide. I can hurry up and prepare for a big crash or I could get trained and come out in a soft landing scenario. It's perplexing. I could end up in bad shape either way. And the Iranian Oil Bourse got me frantic about March and about the Straits of Hormez and if they become unstable. I just wish I knew fr sure when TSWHTF, but I don't.

TorrKing · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

AmericanEmpire · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 14, 2005 Posts: 497

When I first read life after the oil crash I was just stunned. I couldn't believe that it was all gonna end this way. It was like something out of a horror sci-fi film. I guess facts are stranger than fiction sometimes.

Now I'm just mostly pissed off that I have to deal with a civilization collapse.

BO · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: Who's cried?

I almost never cry, my wife tells me I should, that its good stress relief. I have mostly convinced her that Petro-Collapse will be the real deal, but she still thinks of everything in terms of "Business as usual" in the future. We have a 7 week old daughter, (I am trying to convince her that we shouldn't have any more.) She talks about private versus public schools, I tell her we must home school, period.

I was an accountant by occupation, last July, when I found out about PO, I had suspicions something was wrong on the resources front before that though. After thourough investigation: LATOC, Kunstler, Lundberg, Simmons, Ruppert, etc., I subscribed to the doomer scenario and began preparing.

In September I sold my practice, and put the townhome we had just bought in June on the market. We moved near downtown Delray Beach, (walking, biking distance), near a working rail system, and several farmers markets, took a job on a produce and tree farm, doing private accounting.

I originally thought we would have several years to prepare, now I am not so sure. We are thinking about moving back to Northeast, near family. I think Florida will be an ugly place to be in a few years.

All of it makes me want to cry, even though I can't. I try to tell family and freinds about it, and they just get mad, "I don't want to talk about it!" they shout.

Every day seems a little bit more like the "Matrix", it reminds me of the movie line:

Laurasia · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 10, 2004 Posts: 534

Yes, I've cried on many occasions - thinking about my two sons and their wives and little children, my grandchildren, wondering what kind of lives they will have. And I think about my mother and sister and nephews in England, and how one day it will cost too much to go and see them ever again ( that is a brutal realisation!). And lastly, because I was inspired by the space programme, which I always thought would go on from height to soaring height towards a Star Trek future - well, it's not going to happen.

However, comfort comes from planning and turning one's dreams in another direction, followed by action, no matter how small.

Regards,

L.