Reply #2: Yeah. It's surprising to me how often people

[SheilaT]

express the conviction that doom in some form is just around the corner. There are so many predictions of Things As We Know Them coming to an end that I've largely lost patience with such proclamations. Not only have I been around long enough to have gone through all sorts of doomsday predictions, but I also read a lot of science fiction. That will tend to cure one of the idea of imminent doom and catastrophe.