December 30th, 2004
might as well
since I'm great at procrastinating (packing for camp), I might as well put in my two cents about the tsunami (did I spell that right? meh...)
I sort of have to agree with some people on certain issues. As it stands, Humanity is a cancer to the Earth, and the Earth has every right to wipe us all out into oblivion. Now, listen to me and try to see where I'm coming from before tearing at me.
As a part of the Christian belief system, Humans are caretakers of the planet. If we look closely, you will agree that we've messed that up. I'm not naming whom, and I'm not naming how. That's not the point. We messed up. God (through Jesus) forgives our messing up and mistakes, but only spiritually. this allows us to become pure.
But it's different when you mess with nature. Mother Nature isn't so forgiving, because there's a delicate balance to be maintained. There are prices to be paid when things happen. I'm stealing the term equivilant trade, because it sums it up. Something of equal value must be given. [That was the idea of Jesus, after all, because we can not pay the price of our sins (stopping that thread there...)]
But in terms of nature, in a sense, Nature is a part of God/Ultimate Being as much as we are, and yet, apart like we are. So Nature is not God saying "You are bad people, DIE!" Nature is just reacting and taking what is needed to survive, which results, sadly, in this case, in the deaths of a lot of people. and so, a price is paid, whether or not it is the Earth reacting to something we have done. Some where it is, since we live on Earth, and therefore effect everything that happens, just like every thing that happens affects us. And so, people die.
All the hype disgusts me. It's like a drug, or the Stupid Gene or something, we as humans love suffering. And so, the plates shift, move so many feet/iches/whatever up under the ocean floor, resulting in earthquakes and a big tidal wave that takes out a nick in the human population. I'm not even bothering with the body count anymore, but it's only a major piece if it gets to the millions. I know it sounds cold, but I'm looking at this from an abstract manner. With the way that the media handles this, it makes me say "I don't care, they're dead!" Yes, it is really sad. I've known death, I've buried family before, so I know how it feels. But the media is handling this like a sports event, and that's disgusting me.
So maybe we're all in shock or something. Yeah, this is bigger than 9/11, but hell, there can't be a war coming out of this one, unless they start arguing about emergency response, which is pretty desperate, if you ask me. (Do we really want more wars? I don't) But a natural disaster! Ha!
Mother Nature kicks ass over Politics any day.
I sort of have to agree with some people on certain issues. As it stands, Humanity is a cancer to the Earth, and the Earth has every right to wipe us all out into oblivion. Now, listen to me and try to see where I'm coming from before tearing at me.
As a part of the Christian belief system, Humans are caretakers of the planet. If we look closely, you will agree that we've messed that up. I'm not naming whom, and I'm not naming how. That's not the point. We messed up. God (through Jesus) forgives our messing up and mistakes, but only spiritually. this allows us to become pure.
But it's different when you mess with nature. Mother Nature isn't so forgiving, because there's a delicate balance to be maintained. There are prices to be paid when things happen. I'm stealing the term equivilant trade, because it sums it up. Something of equal value must be given. [That was the idea of Jesus, after all, because we can not pay the price of our sins (stopping that thread there...)]
But in terms of nature, in a sense, Nature is a part of God/Ultimate Being as much as we are, and yet, apart like we are. So Nature is not God saying "You are bad people, DIE!" Nature is just reacting and taking what is needed to survive, which results, sadly, in this case, in the deaths of a lot of people. and so, a price is paid, whether or not it is the Earth reacting to something we have done. Some where it is, since we live on Earth, and therefore effect everything that happens, just like every thing that happens affects us. And so, people die.
All the hype disgusts me. It's like a drug, or the Stupid Gene or something, we as humans love suffering. And so, the plates shift, move so many feet/iches/whatever up under the ocean floor, resulting in earthquakes and a big tidal wave that takes out a nick in the human population. I'm not even bothering with the body count anymore, but it's only a major piece if it gets to the millions. I know it sounds cold, but I'm looking at this from an abstract manner. With the way that the media handles this, it makes me say "I don't care, they're dead!" Yes, it is really sad. I've known death, I've buried family before, so I know how it feels. But the media is handling this like a sports event, and that's disgusting me.
So maybe we're all in shock or something. Yeah, this is bigger than 9/11, but hell, there can't be a war coming out of this one, unless they start arguing about emergency response, which is pretty desperate, if you ask me. (Do we really want more wars? I don't) But a natural disaster! Ha!
Mother Nature kicks ass over Politics any day.
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