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FirstLight

(13,360 posts) Wed May 9, 2018, 01:59 AM May 2018

Disaster Porn, why?

Because watching the world burn is better than this shitshow!

Currently on tap:
Volcanoes & Yosemite, Hawaii (of course)
now, for kicks...Comets!
hmmm... maybe Pole Shift?

I'll just be over here drinking my rum quietly...

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Disaster Porn, why? (Original Post) FirstLight May 2018 OP

Comet? vercetti2021 May 2018 #1

LOL...I don't KNOW! FirstLight May 2018 #3

Don't scare me like that! vercetti2021 May 2018 #10

Stopping by for the pun. Smash hit, that one. n/t Decoy of Fenris May 2018 #12

All the Hawaii volcano videos PatSeg May 2018 #2

not to mention... FirstLight May 2018 #4

You most certainly aren't alone! PatSeg May 2018 #5

wine, anything...helps FirstLight May 2018 #6

Anxiety seems to be very high PatSeg May 2018 #7

and... FirstLight May 2018 #8

Ah yes, hugs! PatSeg May 2018 #9

One can simply Sherman A1 May 2018 #11

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)

1. Comet?

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:02 AM

May 2018

What comet?

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)

3. LOL...I don't KNOW!

Reply to vercetti2021 (Reply #1)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:23 AM

May 2018

But it would make an impression

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)

10. Don't scare me like that!

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #3)

Wed May 9, 2018, 04:19 AM

May 2018

I have a fear of getting hit by something from space, ever since I was a kid. I got totally freaked out by movies that had asteroids.

Decoy of Fenris

(1,954 posts)

12. Stopping by for the pun. Smash hit, that one. n/t

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #3)

Wed May 9, 2018, 06:39 AM

May 2018

PatSeg

(47,427 posts)

2. All the Hawaii volcano videos

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:04 AM

May 2018

have been an effective distraction lately. They make all the human disasters we're witnessing seem rather small and temporary.

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)

4. not to mention...

Reply to PatSeg (Reply #2)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:25 AM

May 2018

the connections between the volcanoes in HI and the plates, then a nice little quake in So Cal today....
ohh boy!

see, I've been watching too many documentaries....and probably drinking too much...

Thanks Trump... *gag*

PatSeg

(47,427 posts)

5. You most certainly aren't alone!

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #4)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:35 AM

May 2018

I made it a point to tune out for as long as I could and I read a mystery novel in two days. It did help some, but of course that is only temporary. Turned the news back on and reality was far more bizarre and unbelievable than fiction. Now I'm trying Mozart and wine!

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)

6. wine, anything...helps

Reply to PatSeg (Reply #5)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:42 AM

May 2018

I am waiting for the sociologists to measure how many more ppl are drinking to numb this crapshow...

PatSeg

(47,427 posts)

7. Anxiety seems to be very high

Reply to FirstLight (Reply #6)

Wed May 9, 2018, 02:51 AM

May 2018

right now. People are emotionally exhausted, dealing with uncertainty and hopelessness. The whole world is out of whack and I think that people in Europe must have felt like this in the lead up to the 2nd World War. It surely must have felt like the End Times to them. Philosophically speaking, I suppose it is all a cleansing process, but the uncertainty is debilitating. At least we still have wine!