What would you do if you knew the world would end in a week

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Probably just continue my routine. If at the end of the week the assumption turned out to be wrong, the garden still has to be tended to.

I would become obsessed with the end of world.
Assuming I knew the cause I could study it to know as much as I can. Then, when the end of world come I would watch it and compare it to what I learned.
Assuming I don't know the cause I would study all causes possible, trying to guess which of them is going to come true. Then watch if my guess was right.

And of course I would tell about the end of world everyone who wanted to listen to me. I can clearly imagine the excited me telling my mom:
- The end of world is coming in a week! An asteroid is going to hit the Earth! Everyone will die! We are going to see the apocalypse!
And my mom asking:
- Is it something to be happy about?
Of course I wouldn't be happy about the end of world. But I would act really hyper due to the obsession. And my "hyper" state looks like being extremely happy.

Establish whether there was a consensus. If nobody else shared this knowledge, I'd seek professional help.

I would live that last week exactly how I live every other day of my life. No change.

Steal a tank and go on a destructive rampage. It sounds fun to me.

I wonder how the premise could come to pass. I think it?d seem much more reasonable to distrust the source, or if this is some mystical phenomenon, to question my sanity. In any more or less realistic doomsday scenario, I?d be almost surely far from the first to know, let alone the only one. So I?d keep going about my daily life and feel like an idiot when the End came, because it?d be much worse to squander my chances of living past that date, only to find out it?s not the End after all.

Assuming I totally trusted my source...

Max the credit card and empty the savings, take the cat to the sanctuary (he's not chipped yet), fill up my tank with diesel and head to Calais with mr. guzzle and DD to get on the first Eurotunnel train heading for Dover.

And spend the last week with those we left behind when we came to Belgium.

I'd head for the restaurant at the end of the universe.

If everyone on Earth knew the world would stop to exist in 1 week, there will be chaos and blood will be spilled in the streets, so those saying they will max out their credit cards and have one hell of a good time can forget about it, the banking system will cease to exist and money will have no value.

But if I was the only one who knew the world would exist, I'll max out my credit cards, empty my accounts, spend it on drugs and escorts for the first 2 or 3 days, then I'll please my family with the best foods and wines, and take everyone I love to Bora Bora and wait for the end.

Give people pounds and pounds of pot for free, and then arrange a mini Burning Man festival.

I like that idea.

I would try and do as many illegal things as I could without being caught and pee in the local swimming pool just to see if the water changes colour.

I'll have to give this more thought.

Yeah, that's what bothers me too about the question. There's just no way I would know and no one else.
So I doubt I'd do anything differently, because I wouldn't be likely to believe it.


But assuming I did...

I'd spend the time with my loved ones, and I'd (try to) tell my mother how much I love her. (It's hard for me to say those words). I think I'd have to tell her about it, so she would take the days off from work (which she hates doing). She shouldn't waste her time there with seven days left!

I wouldn't tell anyone else, I don't wanna see panic erupt with all that would include.

If there was a way to avoid the end (like retreating into the woods, stock up on food and medication) we'd do that. Otherwise enjoy our time together as best we could, reminisce and try to have fun.

I wouldn't try to do something criminal. It would just suck too much to be busted and have to spend the last 6 days or so in a jail cell instead of with my loved ones. I don't have a credit card I can max out, but others in my family do, so we'd live the last days well.


I'm also worried about what kind of end we're talking about. If it's painful I'd want to find a good way to finish it before the end.

Bloody celebrate. No more human nastiness, no more violence, no more peer pressure, no more alternative comedy, no more unfair dying young. Physical life has always been full of horrors. We will all be so freer and more equal as a world of ghosts.

I'm not suicidal, early death while others stay alive carries the frustration and increased unfairness of becoming unable to do political fighting and writing against all the things I hate and leave my thoughts in the physical world's posterity. But to see the whole physical world go: good riddance.

Particularly uplifting to post this on Halloween.

think a lot

Use a massive credit card loan to buy the awesome F22C powered AE86 I always see for sale locally and then spend the last week hooning as much as possible.