Reply #9: I survived all those. Not everyone was as fortunate. [View All]

[Cerridwen]

I guess it depends on whether you're waiting for a planetary explosion or whether the small world-ending occurrences are as devastating to those involved as an "end of the world" crisis.

Yeah, I guess my world view is a bit skewed.

I was 5 - 1. Oct 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK didn't live through it. But, hey, I survived. - 2. Nov 1963 - JFK Assassination (I read somewhere once that we were planned to go nuclear against whatever country that might had been behind it)

MLK and RFK died, but hey, I survived. - 3. 1968 - The whole year

Number of dead at "war's" end? Still being debated. I lived. - 4. 1975 - Vietnam unites (The was that SE Asia was going to fall like dominoes to the Communists. Never happened)

My cousin went in one of the first rounds of the "gay plague." I lived. - 5. 1981-1989 Two Reagan terms (You have no idea how many scares we had)

Number of deaths due to war? Number of lives ruined through health problems caused by war? Number of families destroyed? But, I survived. - 6. 1991 - First Gulf War (Had Iraq put chemicals in those SCUDs they dropped on Israel, Israel would have responded with nukes)

I was hoping this would bring the systems to their knees. Eh. But, I lived. - 7. 1 Jan 2000 - (Y2K Bug Armageddon)

You answered this. - 8. 9/11 (Well, that was kind of the end off the rule of law. Which is almost like the end of the world)

A lot of people are suffering and we won't know the tally of how many lives were and will be lost due to lack of access to the basics of life because of economic circumstances. For now, I'm alive. - 9. 2008 Financial Meltdown (Imagine if Bush had followed his "Free Market" instincts and sat on his fat ass and done nothing)

Yeah. Exactly. - 10. 2012 - ???????