Only if one believes that natural events are punishment for our sins. I don't...
Asking if someone deserves having a natural disaster run over them is a chick question. That is an ideal based purely on emotion, not on rational, logical thought.
Of course, that describes the Left and the extreme right. It's all about how someone feels. Phouc that. I left the hormonal teenage years long, long ago.
or, is just hurricanes a fact of nature? we know tsunami's happen upon occasion.
the news media acts like we're being attacked, or something. maybe we are. but why?
in parts of the world tornadoes happen. ice-storms can occur knocking down trees & outing power.
i've come to the point that the news media is assigning meaning to everything that occurs here on the earth?
Gus, mankind is just a pimple on old Earth's butt. Mother Earth is hardly aware of our existence (if an inanimate object had awareness) except for a very minor local irritation once in a while. It stings a bit for a moment, but you know that in no time at all, it will be gone.
So it is with man, we have only been here for an instant of geological time, and in another instant we will all be gone, with little to no evidence we were ever here. Earth is like the honey badger, she just don't care.
or, is just hurricanes a fact of nature? we know tsunami's happen upon occasion.
the news media acts like we're being attacked, or something. maybe we are. but why?
in parts of the world tornadoes happen. ice-storms can occur knocking down trees & outing power.
i've come to the point that the news media is assigning meaning to everything that occurs here on the earth?
Gus, mankind is just a pimple on old Earth's butt. Mother Earth is hardly aware of our existence (if an inanimate object had awareness) except for a very minor local irritation once in a while. It stings a bit for a moment, but you know that in no time at all, it will be gone.
So it is with man, we have only been here for an instant of geological time, and in another instant we will all be gone, with little to no evidence we were ever here. Earth is like the honey badger, she just don't care.
Now put that into the context of the Universe.
Just the portion visible to us is over 26 billion light years across, hundreds of billions of galaxies each with hundreds of billions of starts, and somehow we thing it cares enough about this one primate species on this one spec of dust to send storms and earth quakes to specific locations to punish selected sinners.
If this is the case, why did Katrina miss the Gayest portion of New Orleans.
APDDSNO864; Good afternoon to you my cyber friend, I trust all is going at least moderately acceptable in your world.
When Gus initially posed the question, this exchange sprung immediately to my mind. We go to 1:34 by the way for the beginning of the specifics.
I read in some book somewhere one time "It is appointed unto man once to die".... there was more of course, but I've come to the conclusion nobody gets outa here alive, you know?
When I'm teaching the Survival/First Aid night in the BC Hunter Safety course, I tell the class two things - first - the mountain doesn't care if you die on it. Second - luck favors the prepared.
That said, even the prepared aren't making out alive are they?
Perhaps like the philosopher William Money said, "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it", eh?
All the best to you in the upcoming week sir and good luck on your hunts this fall.
Mt 5:45 ....that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Since Rock Chuck brought up some Scripture I will bring up one that fits also.
Amos 3:6-7 "'If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble? If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it? Surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets.'"
These hurricanes are certainly bringing calamity to some cities.
...That said, even the prepared aren't making out alive are they? Perhaps like the philosopher William Money said, "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it", eh? Dwayne
Good evening, Dwayne! Good to see you posting!
You and William Money have it right, although there are a lot of people who make like they are going to get out of it alive because they deserve it. They do a lot of "preparing", when all we have to do is live our lives as we should and everything will go according to how it is supposed to be.
As a wise man once told me "We are where we are supposed to be."
I hope your endeavors this fall will meet or exceed your hopes and dreams. My best to you and your family.
"The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet."
I think people that live next to piss warm water ,at sea level and near a major ocean current pattern do deserve a natural event. I also believe that the same people that are always posting pictures of how great Florida is on Facebook , when it is cold and snowy here are the first ones to cry help when it turns on them . Otherwise weather will do as it wants with little regard for the human loss or property damage. I have a friend that winters in Florida and here in summer. He will probably lose his house in Florida tonight and he is not too worried about the long term effects of the whole thing.
You lads sure get cranked up over a tropical breeze. Geesh.
I lost track of the tropical storms I've danced with mebbe 15 years ago. The funniest was a Cat 2 in Nam that I rode out in a 3 man hex tent parked in a dry lake bed between Chu Lai Main and East runways. Good times... Being young has benefits.
or, is just hurricanes a fact of nature? we know tsunami's happen upon occasion.
the news media acts like we're being attacked, or something. maybe we are. but why?
in parts of the world tornadoes happen. ice-storms can occur knocking down trees & outing power.
i've come to the point that the news media is assigning meaning to everything that occurs here on the earth?
The media is simply responding to the wishes of their communist handlers to push the idea that man made global warming is causing nasty weather so they can go into the carbon credit business and sell thin air to the entire world as they get rich and destroy capitalism.
That's the crux and it's source is the pit of hell, as is everything patently lieberal.
I don't blame people who live in wild fire zones, or mud slide prone areas for environmental problems when they have them. Like a coon-ass bass player friend used to say, "Everybody gotta be someplace!" - so I have little regard for these who blame me for my property loss during storms. I also don't cry baby about it a lot.
Well Gus, nature is a cruel witch, it has nothing to do with deserving or not.
With that said, you might want to keep an eye on Jose next week. The European model has Jose making landfall in Halifax on Wednesday next week, the GFS model has it making landfall in Virginia Beach. Is there someplace in between those two places that is more deserving? Stay tuned...
