> As for TEOTWAWKI, my philosophy is that I
>shouldn't worry about things that I can't
>control, because it just doesn't do any good. I
>don't know if that's the best policy or not, it's
>just the one that's always worked for me.

There is a limit inherent in this thinking. A fatalist doesn't worry about *anything*, because everything is pre-determinted. A free-will'er, of which I assume you are one (being Christian) worries about things "in his control" because he has the ability to change or influence those things. But where do you draw the line? I can't directly go over and change the firmware on all those decrepit ex-Soviet missiles. But I *can* write or call my Congressman and implore him to bring it up for discussion in the US Congress, which might in turn vote to send money to the former Soviet states in order to make this change. So when do I stop worrying? I suppose it's a personal decision. I, for one, am not losing any sleep over this not because I think that all the missiles will be made Y2k compliant, but because I can't think of any mechanism that would actually cause the missiles to launch just because the date was messed up. I was mostly just being funny.