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Old 09-05-2011, 09:02 AM
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Was Wandering around the Internet. Found this article.

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-40-pct-...230827577.html

My first reaction was WTF????

Next Reaction was WTF!!!!

So, IF this is to be believed....

4 out of 10 Europeans are nuts.....

Imagine what the number would be after five years of war as postulated by T2K!!!

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Old 09-05-2011, 09:16 AM
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Many of those included are probably only affected in minor ways.
Those with serious mental illness are unlikely to survive the early stages of the war, and most of those that do are almost certain to be either nuked, or die within weeks of the first strategic strikes.
Imagine a depressed person in a post nuclear world without the meds and an abundance of military weapons just laying about next to the corpses of the soldiers who were carrying them...
Imagine a schizophrenic with access to those same automatic weapons - end result is the same, they just take more people with them before somebody else puts a hole in them.

Personally I think the "primitive" encounter is under utilised by GMs. Those who do survive, somehow, are going to be extremely unhinged and it's possible some of the apparently sane might take to hunting them down to "put them out of their misery". Of course that latter group could well be composed of some of the more homicidal types...
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Old 09-05-2011, 09:51 AM
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All part of the trend within psychriatric circles to class every form of anxiety as a psychriatric problem, and therefore needing treatment- and providing jobs for psychriatrists! Sometimes anxiety, or even fear, is a logical response to a threat...
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Old 09-05-2011, 11:11 AM
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I have a few mental problems including Aspergers Syndrome, and I find the PC is very helpful in keeping me "sane", however, back in 1997 when I started high school (I was born in 86, and in England), I was very much a quiet person, so I think it would have affected me, but probably not too seriously.

Other side of that coin, I live near Leeds, which is a T2K target on the lists, so I would more than likely be dead in a few days from radiation poisoning.
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