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When you are afraid you are the only person left on the planet.
As a kid if I spend a large amount of time away in the middle of nowhere and didn't see anyone for hours or any signs of life (this was entirely possible as I grew up in rural Northumberland) I used to start to think what if.... and you would get that rising sense of fear. I never got into any kind of panic or proper fear but it was something that certainly used to come to my mind and make me a little anxious.
I reckon if I were to spend a large amount of time alone in the middle of nowhere I would have similar thoughts... although being 25 i'm a little more rational now and realise that it isn't possible everyone else in the world would just drop dead while I was out for my Sunday ride.
Just curious to know if there was a name for it or if anyone else was the same?
MattDamonophobia?
Eremophobia
snobodiia
Im really not being sarcastic here. Have to say that as its STW after all.
In my 40's now, what you describe (excluding loved ones) genuinely sounds appealing. Not in a death and destruction kind of way. I don't wish such stuff on anyone.
The solitude I would find it appealing.
Often wondered how I would have coped in a Tom Hanks "Castaway" type scenario. lol
Back to your point though.
Having lived through the Cold War (ever get the chance, see a made for TV movie called "Threads"**... really brings home just how bad those days were) I can honestly say the world is probably closer to an "is there only me left?" type scenario than my limited life span can remember.
We truly live in a century where we learn to get along or it goes South extremely fast.
So.... dont think of it as a phobia.
More of pre-planning.
(I also give life affirming Life Coach lectures every Thursday at my village hall. Buy the book) 😉
** Scene with the young couple, just setting out, decorating their new flat whilst listening to the horrendous global situation on the radio has never left me.
EDIT: Oh, and dont even get me going on the amount of Russian Airforce incursions into EU and UK airspace over the last few years. Nuke capable Russian bombers spotted off the Cornish coast? Sounds like science fiction but it happened and EU/UK airspace is regularly flouted by Russian military planes now. That is RIGHT back to the Cold Era days, right there. Used to be used to test the response times etc of our air defences.... now the Russians do it as pure sabre rattling. Probably more dangerous over all.
May have gone a little off topic there.... sorry. 😀
So... phobia name?
Wilsonamobia?
Monophobia is the fear of being alone, loosely fits
I reckon isolophobia is nearer.
Onmiownophobia?
(Poop - do you think that NATO isn't doing something similar on Russia's borders? The bombers you refer to are 50-year old lumbering prop-driven, and could have been intercepted 500 miles away if we'd wanted to)
Watch 'The last man on earth'.
I find it hilarious.
John Paul Sartre may have had a point. But then he was french and probably never had any decent mates anyway.In my 40's now, what you describe (excluding loved ones) genuinely sounds appealing.
unknownaphobia?
The bombers you refer to are 50-year old lumbering prop-driven, and could have been intercepted 500 miles away if we'd wanted to
Just as well none of their air launched cruise missiles can reach 500 miles then....
Watch 'The last man on earth'.
I find it hilarious.
I'm really glad that someone does.
Sounds bloody brilliant to me..............
[i]Watch 'The last man on earth'.
I find it hilarious.[/i]
It was good when he was. But now he's definitely not.
Egomania.
I know quite a few people who think they are the only person on the planet, metaphorically. But dreaming about it must surely be a symptom ?
D0NK - MemberJohn Paul Sartre may have had a point.
"Hell is other frenchmen"
Omegamanlomania.
Having lived through the Cold War (ever get the chance, see a made for TV movie called "Threads"**... really brings home just how bad those days were) I can honestly say the world is probably closer to an "is there only me left?"
To be fair a nuclear war would only wipe out Europe, large chunks of Russia and North America would be largely unaffected (as very few people live there now). Peter Hennessy's book on the cold war covers various projections. Southern Hemisphere wouldn't suffer much eg no one is targeting Nukes at Africa, Australia, South America, etc.
(Poop - do you think that NATO isn't doing something similar on Russia's borders? The bombers you refer to are 50-year old lumbering prop-driven, and could have been intercepted 500 miles away if we'd wanted to)
Yeah, that's the [i]Bear[/i], there's also the [i]Blackjack[/i]:
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[/img][b]Tupolev Tu-160[/b]
Tu-160Role Supersonic strategic bomber and missile carrier
National origin Soviet Union
Design group Tupolev
Built by Kazan Aircraft Production Association
First flight 19 December 1981
Introduction 30 December 2005 (IOC in 1987)
Status In service
Primary user Russian Air Force
Produced 1984–1992, 2000, 2008
Number built 35
The Tupolev Tu-160 Beliy Lebed (or White Swan[1], Russian: ??????? ??-160, NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Although several civil and military transport aircraft are larger in overall dimensions, the Tu-160 is the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep aircraft built. Only the North American XB-70 Valkyrie had higher empty weight and maximum speed. The Tu-160 has the heaviest take off weight of any military aircraft besides transports.Entering service in 1987, the Tu-160 was the last strategic bomber designed for the Soviet Union. The Long Range Aviation branch of the Russian Air Force has 16 aircraft with fewer in active use. The Tu-160 active fleet has been undergoing upgrades to electronics systems since the early 2000s. The Tu-160M modernisation programme has begun with the first new updated aircraft delivered in December 2014.
Those have been detected practicing the initial stages of nuclear weapon arming, and I would say they might be a slightly different proposition to the [i]Bear[/i].
Sounds bloody brilliant to me.........
Yep, does sound good.