OK. It's a post-apocalyptic earth. Where is your hideout / base?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Clearly, someone with your abilities has what it takes to lead a group of hardy survivors ready to rebuild the earth after the apocalypse, but where is your base?

1. Iceland.

2. New Zealand. It's far enough away to go unnoticed, and Hey! we could make Neil Finn our King!

3. You've sealed off all the Rocky Mountain passes to Omega Man-esque mutants and are firmly esconced in the Republic of Cascadia.

4. The Highlands and Islands of Scotland, in a hippy-back-to-the-planet kind of agrarian society, but it's all starting to go a little too 'Wicker Man'.

5. You live on a fleet of cobbled-together boats in the Pacific, and have never seen dry land, just like in that truly disastrous Kevin Costner movie, what was it, Tin Cup'?

6. You live a secret existence in the former subway tunnels beneath London, with your fearless leader David Essex, planning for the day you return to to the surface to give those damn Martians a taste of their own medicine. Richard Burton remains unconvinced. Jeff Wayne is composing a prog-rock musical about your predicament.

7. You are the mutants from The Omega Man.

8. You're already serving Earth's new masters, the apes.

9. You are the only survivor of total nuclear meltdown. You are Keith Richards.

10. Other.

[Snow]

1. Where's Sweetheart when we need her?

She's already there, isn't she? Anyway, my wife owns a mountain in south Korea, in the middle of a large 12-county district inhabited largely by her grandfather's multitudinous descendants. That looks like the place. Those guys are darn good farmers, too. I don't like Korean summer weather much, though.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. That might work. Bit too close to North Korea and China, though.

I'm guessing they would figure in this imaginary apocalypse.

[MrSlayer]

3. Iceland works for me.

Beautiful country and the women are spectacular.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. But, wouldn't Bjork want to be your evil, terrible queen?

That might prove problematic.

[TankLV]

5. I choose "other". I don't like any of the scenerios.

I want a different "nightmare".

I like to be optomistic, however unlikely that appears now.

Hopefully, I can make it back to Hawaii, or if that's gone, a similar place, where I can live among people dedicated to helping each other for no rewards and safe from scavengers and thugs.

I would choose to search out and help the less fortunate till my last breath - especially all the children.

I would give up my last scrap of food to help another less fortunate individual.

I would seek to comfort as many as I can.

Then and only then will I die happily.

[Wells]

9. A way to some 'other' options

Armageddon, as suggested by Terminator-type movies, is NOT going to happen. This can be transliterated scripturally.

The Final Horseman of the Apocalypse has already or nearly passed. That Horseman was to destroy more than 1/3 the living inhabitants of the planet; fish, foul, vegetation and human, signalling the appointment into power the Anti-Christ. If we look at planetary habitat on the geological timeline, more than 1/3 the animal and vegetative inhabitants have already become that reduced in numbers or extinct.

Religion and Christianity are the subjects that provide opportunity to upset the rotten apple carts of Right Wing demagoguery 'lying' to believers.

George W Bush is not a Christian. If only those who uphold a respectable Faith could overturn the white-washed toombs of their heirarchy making conceited fools of themselves.

At Sunday church meetings I've seen a disturbing religious zealoutry in sermons to an oblivious audience of laypersons and family absorbing its poison.

Armageddon, nuclear holocaust, whatever, is NOT going to happen.

And, here's another clue: The person spoken of as Anti-Christ is not referred to by that name, biblically, but only referred to as a 'man'. The word Anti-Christ refers to any non-christian. I suspect that this 'man' will NOT be a 'Leader' in the political stage sense.

No one will know whom this 'man' is. Scripturally, he was 'appointed' to halt further planetary degradation. There are two schools of thought on this: Pre-Millenialism and Post-Millenialism. 99.9% Christians have swallowd Pre-Millenialism whole. Post-Millenialists expect Christ's return and rapture in about a thousand years. In that time, professing Christianity will be considered silly.

[Eye and Monkey]

6. I'm already a reclusive mutant living "upcountry".

It'd be a little soggy to go much further underground.

[DulceDecorum]

7. In A.D. 2101

War was beginning

Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha ….
Captain: Take off every "zig."
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move "zig".
Captain: For great justice.

You have been warned. ®

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. LOL!

[khashka]

10. London Underground

Definitely. I've always loved that album. (But still they come! It's been ages since I've listened to it. Now I'm gonna have to go dig it up and play it. Thanks.)

But I'd rather mix things up a bit. Make it London Below so I could hang with Door and Carabosse - let the Martians keep London Above.

Khash.

[amandae]

11. Butte, MT

To paraphrase a quote from a Butte resident (from about 10 years ago), "If the world was coming to an end, I'd go to Butte, MT because there it wouldn't happen for another 10 years."

:hi:

[fortyfeetunder]

12. The Kevin Costner movie - Waterworld

It was weird but slightly entertaining...

[MrBenchley]

13. A story that may or may not be true

There was a merchant banker in Boston in 1935 who did business on the Continent and was very disturbed by the rise of fascism. He saw that great dark forces were moving in Europe and that most people around him did not take them seriously. He felt that war was coming very soon and he felt that America would soon be part of it.

And at home he saw Republican isolationism and the growth of the Bund and Father Coughlin, and he felt unsure that we would be able to win if we got swept into the war...in fact, he felt unsure even about which side of the war we might join.

And so he sold his holdings, gathered his family and retreated to the most peaceful and distant place he could find, a place that he felt sure war could never reach, a place no one he knew had ever even heard of, a tiny flyspeck in the middle of nowhere that did not appear on most maps.

It was a little tropical paradise island...called Iwo Jima.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Good god. Could that possibly be true?

I have my doubts.

[MrBenchley]

16. I heard it was true

but I've never been able to confirm it.

Great punchline, though, eh?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. God, yeah.

[m-jean03]

14. Great question! I have thought a lot about this.

I would actually like to live in a shipyard somewhere, the leader of a back-to-nature community of solar powered sailing ship builders. Any joiners? It's egalitarian and I'm a great cook.:hi:

[Darranar]

18. Antarctica...

a tad bit cool, perhaps, but no one cares about it except for the penguins.