You know the world ends next month and you can stop it, but...

[sanquin]

No way anyone would believe me. I would instead live my last month to the best of my capabilities. Tickets be damned, I'd drink a lot, drive fast, get totally wasted on drugs, and on the day itself I would go out with a bang. Probably something like riding myself off of a cliff on my motorcycle, while drugged up, blasting loud metal on some speakers, and holding a sign saying "Tomorrow you'll all be dead too, motherf**kers!"

As I said, might as well go out like that as no one would believe me anyway. Plus, a very large part of humanity has it coming...

Captcha: Remain Calm. Sorry Captcha, but in this scenario I wouldn't even want to do that.

 

[Fenra]

Quit my job, get drunk, sit on my roof with a stereo playing my favorite songs as I think "I've got front row seats to the end of the world"

 

[Headsprouter]

So, basically, I lack any evidence to prove myself in this case.

I'd tell people, as many as I can, but live my life as normal. I go to a restaurant, I go to a shop, I walk by a friend, I speak to a family member, at some point in the interaction they'll all get this:

"Hey, live it up, the world's ending at the end of the month."

It'll be my latest obsession, but the only one I've ever let everybody know about. Then it just might get around and at least when our destroyers come I'll be able to look at the person under the table with me and ask:

"Did you live it up like I told you to?"

That might be kind of fun, actually. I just hope I'd be able to be casual enough about it. It's creepier that way.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

I assume I am the insane one (since the sum evidence appears to be 1 anecdote) and resign myself to enjoying my life as best I can despite my nagging suspicion of the end of all things.

 

[rofltehcat]

There's really just two ways: Either enjoy the last month or prepare for it. Either way people will think you're out of your mind but who cares, they'll be dead soon anyways.

 

[TallanKhan]

As far as goverments go I would my government a nice letter telling them what I thought was going to happen and why. They can ignore it or not. Then I would concentrate on getting some stuff done.

I would find a safe place(as safe as possible depending on the nature of the impending apocolypse) with enough room to accomodate a small community and all neccesary facilities - probably large out of town retail unit or warehouse. I would stock it with tinned food and other long life products, over the counter medications, fuel (calor gas canistors or similar) and books (a box or two of the classics that need to be preserved for the future and a ton of practical books like survial guides, medical texts, and other literature that will give us a head start on rebuilding the world as we may not have the luxury of experts on hand. Finally i would gather equipment and other kit, bedrolls, tools and some weapons if i can get them (and preferably a locker to keep them in).

Once done, I invite everyone i know (everyone i wan't to survive the impending end of the world that is) to a big party at the site (yeah its a bit weird but I'm quirky like that and if i gave them a good reason most of them would show) that will coinside with the big kick off.

At that point everyone there WILL REALISE I HAVE GIVEN THEM SALVATION AND WILL WORSHIP ME AS THE GOD I AM! *cough* Er, I mean, we will establish a community with the initial goal of survival and preservation but the eventual aim of restablishing society. A community with democratic decision making and definatley not an authoritarian dictatorship under a meglomaniac with the only access to weapons, because, well that would be terrible right?

 

[Mcupobob]

I would get into some really freaky sex and drug scenes, and while I'm at the cocaine/bsmd orgy I'll loudly shout about what I know.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Is there anything at all verifiable, or any evidence at all for what I've been shown is gonna happen? Because I actually know some guys from NIST (NOAA too, so if it's the right kind of thing go to them) and if there was something real they could look at, and then present to their colleagues I'd actually have a shot at getting them to do so.

 

[RJ 17]

Now....
How would you go about doing so without appearing like those sandwich board "End is Nigh!' people on the streets?

I'd go find one of these guys and stand next to him with a sign that read:

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What He Said.

Then on the day before The End, I'd some to work (that is, go hold my sign) with pamphlets that proved without any shadow of a doubt that the world would end tomorrow and enjoy watching as chaos trickled through the masses.

 

[Remus]

I live in the midwest. I'd buy as much canned goods and Ensure (for protein) as I could afford and find a deep limestone cave somewhere to wait out what happens next. Screw everyone else. It'd be me, my dog Harvey, and maybe my cat.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I suppose I'd try to warn some people (using the internet on a high profile site seems like the best plan), and then do nothing else, just kick back and let it come. In any of the scenario highlighted by the OP, there's nothing to be done anyway.

 

[Foolery]

I wouldn't do anything to stop it. We're probably due for another extinction event anyway. Over 98% of documented species are now extinct. We are a living fossil record if you think about it. Just hasn't happened yet.

 

[Bluestorm83]

Honestly, I was pondering something similar just this morning. I was wondering if there would have been anything I could do to prevent the September 11th attacks, even if I'd had foreknowledge for a year.

What I concluded is that people are too stupid to listen to me when I tell them how to stop problems that are happening right now, right in front of them. So I wouldn't be able to do anything, no matter how hard I tried.

If I had a single month to prevent some sort of extinction event, or near extinction event... honestly, I don't think there would be anything I could do. I'd tell the Government, the Press, the Internet, everyone I could. I'd be mocked and derided and locked away. And then, when it happened, I'd lean up against the bars and/or padded door and say to the jailer on duty "See what I was saying? I'm always right, and the more important it is that someone listen, the less likely it gets that they actually will."

Why bother, even though I know it's futile? "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand." Ezekiel, 33:6. I'm not warning them because I believe they'll listen. I'm warning them because I'm the Watchman, and it's my duty. They'd be dying not because of whatever calamity befell them, but because I didn't blow the trumpet.

 

[Drummodino]

If I had no evidence there's no way I would be able to convince anybody. I lose arguments when my opponent knows that I am 100% right. Therefore I'd quit university, withdraw all my money and have a month of doing whatever the fuck I want.

Which would probably involve buying all the different novels I haven't read , movies I haven't watched and games I haven't played yet. I'd stock up on supplies and hole up somewhere remote (with a good view and electricity preferably) and getting through as many as I could. Basically my ideal getaway dream.

Then when the end comes I'd probably jump off a cliff. Just to know what it feels like. If I'm going to die anyway might as well learn something before I do.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'd make a thread like this, hoping someone would get the hint.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Either find a paranoia nutter who can believe me since I know jack when it come to compile fact and evidence to my claim. Once that is sorted, we then have to find some informative guy who can spread the info on a gobal scale.

I'm pretty sure that won't work so I will spend my remaining day playing Pokemon X as much as possbile.

 

[Auron225]

I'd find the most able people who could prove that I'm right (NASA in the case of it being a meteorite for instance) and do whatever I have to to make them look into it asap. Even if it involves signing some crazy contract in exchange that involves me giving them 90% of my income for the rest of my life (it's not like that will matter soon anyway) IF they spend two whole months (to be sure they don't stop early) investigating.

Then, hope they actually can prove me right.

If they can't, then probably do what lots of people here are suggesting; sit on a deck chair on top of a mountain, with a beer & a cigar, and watch.

 

[Lieju]

Assuming this didn't come from a prophetic vision or is otherwise not verifiable... Don't say a goddamn word to the press, they'll just misinterpret everything and spin it how they like.

More likely they'll just ignore you.
Do you have any idea how many people call daily to journalists telling them about their fever-dreams and inventions for curing all of world's diseases, or about the mind-control devices companies put in burgers?

If you have no solid proof, you should contact people who already believe the world is going to end any day now; evangelicals waiting for the rapture; alien-worshippers looking to be lifted to space, etc.

The downside is, of course that those people might not be able to help, or want to help. (If they WANT the end of the world to come, for example)

 

[Rariow]

Do I know what's causing it? If so, I'd throw all my resources into getting someone smarter and more knowledgeable in that field than me to decisively prove it's happening, and then have them come out to the general public with the information, which might make it possible to save everyone/let people know so they can save themselves. If I have no idea of how it's coming... just keep quiet. If it's an "Earth explodes, everyone dies" scenario, might as well let the world live out their last days in peace. If it's a "the fittest/best prepared survive" scenario, all I can do that will have any impact is prepare myself and people close enough to me that they'll trust me. As for the rest, I can't help them, and, once again, they might as well get another month of not worrying about the apocalypse.

 

[Heronblade]

Assuming this didn't come from a prophetic vision or is otherwise not verifiable... Don't say a goddamn word to the press, they'll just misinterpret everything and spin it how they like.

More likely they'll just ignore you.
Do you have any idea how many people call daily to journalists telling them about their fever-dreams and inventions for curing all of world's diseases, or about the mind-control devices companies put in burgers?

If you have no solid proof, you should contact people who already believe the world is going to end any day now; evangelicals waiting for the rapture; alien-worshippers looking to be lifted to space, etc.

The downside is, of course that those people might not be able to help, or want to help. (If they WANT the end of the world to come, for example)

Yuck, that kind of help is worse than no help at all. Being associated with the crowd that believes in space aliens controlling our thoughts through the fluoride in tap water isn't exactly going to garner support from either officials or the general public. And if worst comes to worst, I want the gene pool and collective knowledge base for colony attempts to have as little insanity contamination as can be managed.