Civil War Doomsday Clock

[StCapps]

Ha!

And then one day, Rome was gone.

The Romans simply cashed out and moved to Anatolia with the profits.

William Miller might have called it the end of the world, but he would have been wrong, again.

[Smitty-48]

Ha!

And then one day, Rome was gone.

The Romans simply cashed out and moved to Anatolia with the profits.

William Miller might have called it the end of the world, but he would have been wrong, again.

Indeed, Byzantium was arguably even more Roman than Rome itself, and they lived a better lifestyle too.

[Smitty-48]

It was Jesus Christ, Byzantium is the Rome of Christ, Rome was a pagan hellhole by comparison.

The Turks overran it in 1453, but that was almost a thousand years since the fall of the Western Empire.

You could have lived twenty lifetimes in Constantinople without concerning yourself with Rome nor the Turks.

Otherwise known as live in the now.

[nmoore63]

Ha!

Certainly live in the now.

My nigh was meant this century not this year.

... the anatolians were pillaged many times in that span.... course constinople was pillaged years earlier too... never mind the plague.

[StCapps]

Ha!

Certainly live in the now.

My nigh was meant this century not this year.

... the anatolians were pillaged many times in that span.... course constinople was pillaged years earlier too... never mind the plague.

None of those were the end of the world either. Making your prediction further out doesn't make it any more insightful, SIFCLF Doomsday Theory is still a SIFCLF Doomsday Theory, you and William Miller, not so different.

[Smitty-48]

Ha!

Certainly live in the now.

My nigh was meant this century not this year.

... the anatolians were pillaged many times in that span.... course constinople was pillaged years earlier too... never mind the plague.

400,000 Americans were killed in the Second World War, another 100,000 since.

Yet it's a big country, the vast vast majority of Americans never saw combat in World War Two, Korea, Vietnam nor the Middle East combined.

Americans have to seek the Elephant to find it, most live quiet lives of no consequence, then die of a myocardial infarction.

[Smitty-48]

It's like my grandfather fought in the Second Wold War, the greatest war in human history.

Yet by the time I knew him, he could barely remember it.

He said it was like a blur.

I asked if was he was afraid.

He said he couldn't remember, it was like a dream, thirty years later it was all a fog.

It was just moments in time, he couldn't really remember what he was thinking in the moment.

Scary? Sort of, but mostly he was just flying the plane, he said it was adrenaline more than existential dread.

He said they were so young that they feared letting people down more than they feared death.

[Smitty-48]

We think of the Second World War as being six years.

But my grandfather only flew in combat for a few months.

One year, out of seventy eight.

It was mostly good times, World War Two was just a moment for him, by the 1970's

[Smitty-48]

You know, when he was in his seventies, the last time I talked to him?

He couldn't remember it at all.

I was telling him stories about him in World War Two which he had told me.

He couldn't remember it, he was taking my word for it, but he couldn't even remember what he did.

He said he couldn't remember how to fly a plane and he was amazed that he ever could have.

Live in the now.

[StCapps]

One of Hanoi Dan's "war criminals". He sure doesn't sound like a war criminal to me Carlin.
/shrugs