How much do you want a disaster to take place?

I know this may sound ominous and possibly bad wishful thinking, but are you actually wanting such an event to take place? Personally, if I know I have the materials and skills necessary then I definitely would not mind to see how such an event will play out. However, at the same time, I realize that a lot of people end up being causalities in such devastating events. Nonetheless, what are your thoughts on this?

 

I have absolutely NO desire to see a disaster happen. A lot of preppers/survivalists have a romanticised idea of themselves sitting pretty on their 10-acre homestead, with their own water source, power and tooled up to the max to ride out any eventuality. But I fear the reality would be much different IF a serious 'event' were to take place. I prep for the worst but would never, ever want it to take place. The thought horrifies me.

 

None at all, and I would put a lot of effort into preventing one, if there was way to foresee and forestall it (not applicable to natural disasters, stuff like earthquakes etc. of course). It's not a healthy approach to wish for your dreams at the cost of all the people who would fall victims, and besides, it's very naive to believe to just because you're better prepared than average Joe, you won't suffer or experience your quality of life declining.

 

I definitely don't want a disaster to happen! But, I prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Even though I'm prepared for a small disaster (a month at most), my family would be completely miserable during that time. We would have to ration food and water, plus we would also be insanely bored... but we would survive.

 

Haha If I ever yearn for a disaster to happen only because I desire to make use of my survival skills. Lock me up into an asylum because I went insane. Is really intimidating to ever think about it, given how much the odds can go against you and even a ghastly thought if you think about the possible casualties number.

 

I have no wish's either way!
I know it will happen, I know it will get worse before it happens and worse still during and after it happens
I also know it must happen to provide a reset point before it can get better!
So my opinion is the sooner the better though I would rather it was not needed!

 

No i definitely don't hope for a disaster to happen! That's just insane. No matter how prepared and equipped i think i am, i'm realistic enough to admit that the chance of survival might be slim to none. The real thing is no doubt different from what we've seen in tvs and movies, some might think it's interesting, fun even, to reenact our favorite characters' adventures in the apocalypse shows, but i highly doubt it will be as exciting and fun in the real world.

 

Personally , I most certainly don't want a disaster to happen. In a disaster scenario, I suspect that if you haven't already lost all your stashes of food and stuff to bomb/earthquake/flood damage or whatever, your marauding former neighbours or some do-gooder 'making sure everyone has equal shares' (and that might even be me!) will soon take it off you!
No, from my point of view, being able to take care of yourself and your dependants, family or otherwise, in a practical way, without being entirely dependant upon a modern infrastructure is no bad thing and keeps us just a little more in tune with nature.

 

Buy some games and a deck of cards to help while away the hours. I have a few board games and numerous packs of cards kicking around the house, just in case!

 

That's a great idea! We keep playing cards in the storm shelter but never end up playing them because we're always too busy keeping track of the storm. I live in Oklahoma so the shelter stays pretty busy this time of the year.

 

A part of me would like to see a disaster play out. I think that it would allow a lot of people to wake up out of their every day routine. At the same time I do not want a disaster to happen. I am deathly afraid of the super volcano that is under yellow stone park. I hear that it is overdo to erupt and when it does erupt the entire world is over with. What a scary thought!

 

I'm sure there aren't many people who want to be in survival situations. I've survived a terrorist attack. Would I want something like that on a larger scale? No. Am I prepared for something like that? Almost. But I keep learning and even if something were to happen I guess I'd better be off than many people who know absolutely nothing about survival.

 

I feel that being prepared for the worst is logical. Wanting the worst to happen is insane. I can test my skills and my readiness through drills and scenarios. I agree with so many others on this thread that survival prepping is about training and readiness to survive in the event of a disaster.

 

I don't want to a disaster to happen at all. The purpose of discussion on this forum for me is more for learning how to deal in the event of such a situation. I don't want the actual situation to happen though. I think even if a disaster were to happen, although you may enjoy it for a while, you'd eventually find it extremely difficult knowing that you wouldn't be able to return to your old life.

 

You know, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I'm slightly being pulled in both directions. I, for one, think civilization needs a kick in the butt. Not just one nation, one location, or one group of people. Humanity as a whole needs to wake up, and a disaster that encompasses the entire planet would be the ultimate solution. A "weeding," so to speak. Or a rude awakening.

But if I was true to the above, then I'd be one cold-hearted mother wishing death on everyone...and I certainly don't. The other half of me that is perfectly content living the life I am at the moment. I wouldn't want anything to harm my family or loved ones or strip from me what I've accomplished. People deserve to be happy, not eking out a life and suffering.

 

I don't want one to take place at all. Now in an imaginary scenario, I would love it, like an alternative virtual reality because it's like living in a movie. I know that there are a lot of people like me who watch movies and pretend that we are some of the characters in the movie as a fantasy. When I watched Captain America Civil War, I would've loved to be the Black Panther every time I saw him in action, and then wanted to be Iron Man when I saw him in action, as well as the Hulk in all of the other movies he was in, plus many others.

I wanted to be Nicholas Cage in NEXT, which was a really good movie, and I also wanted to be living on water like in Water World. There are many situations one would like to live in, but they don't actually want it to be reality. I don't want to live a life where I'm always having to protect my family every second of the day due to dangers like in the movie I Am Legend, I don't want that life. While you may find humor, and fun in living that life, I would never trade it for this life I live now.

 

I do not think about wanting it or not as that is beyond my control!
But it is coming like it or not!
Resistance is futile so I am quite prepared to go with the flow to maintain a semblance of control of things around me!

 

Personally , I most certainly don't want a disaster to happen. In a disaster scenario, I suspect that if you haven't already lost all your stashes of food and stuff to bomb/earthquake/flood damage or whatever, your marauding former neighbours or some do-gooder 'making sure everyone has equal shares' (and that might even be me!) will soon take it off you!
No, from my point of view, being able to take care of yourself and your dependants, family or otherwise, in a practical way, without being entirely dependant upon a modern infrastructure is no bad thing and keeps us just a little more in tune with nature.

 

I do not want to see no disaster take place in this Country however through tragedy people tend to come together, not saying disasters are a good thing but seeing unity and communities come together gives me a warm feeling on he inside.