Preparing is getting an education and learning how to make a difference, as well as gaining knowledge about the world around you. Not into hoarding food and believing hollywood scenarios.

As far as that mom I feel pity for the teenage boys… they are subjected to that paranoid crap.

You can catch more of these Doomsday preppers on that TV show… most of them are nuts and just woefully ignorant.

What has history told us re: surviving societal collapses?

It is not. It's just a comet, the interesting part for me is is it going to burn up in the sun, or make it past the sun, that's the only unknown. It fascinates me in so many ways, how a comet comes from so far away, which is not even a footstep in the scale of the universe.

I do not even think 'Wormwood' was a comet, and even if it was, it was one that could be viewed from the sky, made no contact with the Earth, and just happened to arrive at the same time as a lot of social upheaval, such as wars, famines etc, and was believed to have been sent from 'god', and that the comet caused those things, which it did not, people cause those things.

Whoever wrote about wormwood was writing about, in my opinion, a destructive human force, probably the Roman Empire or the Egyptian Pharaoh, and leaders such as Julius Caesar at the time. The fact it was called Wormwood suggests to me a very bitter, like the herb, human conflict and turmoil with the invading Romans. The clue is in the name, bitter like the Roman empire was towards the occupants of lands they wanted as their own, shining like a star represented the glory and might of the empire, I could go on and on but I won't bother.

TROLL ALERT TROLL ALERT

This time you are right.

There is always the option to not post you know…