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This is tradegy of a phenominal scale. I cannot even contemplate that many human lives ending at once, and on christmas. Its a sick thing.
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127,000 was the final count, although its feared it was somewhere closer to 150,000. All I want to add is not to those who died, but for the survivors, I hope things don't get to hard for you and I wish you the best of luck.
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127,000 was the final count, although its feared it was somewhere closer to 150,000. All I want to add is not to those who died, but for the survivors, I hope things don't get to hard for you and I wish you the best of luck.
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There is a God.
He's just racist.
He's just racist.
Heh - you live in a fantasy land too then.
Edgy wrote:
> How many dodos are in existence now?
I just read a post by one, so...
> How many dodos are in existence now?
I just read a post by one, so...
luscious_limey wrote:
> It's a fact of life that when the world gets overcrowded..natural
> disasters occur to decimate the population...like the world
> wars..etc
> It's the lemming syndrome...but of course that doesnt make it any
> easier terms of human misery..
Bull crap.
'Natural disasters' were going on long before humans came along. In a sense, the evolution of Homosapiens was a natural disaster in itself. How many dodos are in existence now?
One day there wont be humans in existence, just like there aren't many creatures from Prehistoric times left. It's just the way things go.
To blame an earthquake on overcrowding is rather rediculous though. I'm sure 30,000 out of 6,000,000,000 is going to make a huge difference. Earthquakes happen because of the continous movements of the tectonic plates. Huge masses of rock putting pressure on huge masses of rock. This happens all the time all over the world. Not on the scale that has turned into the tragedy effecting so many people right now, but tremors happen all the time.
Instead of trying to think up supernatural or higher reasons for such natural disasters, it would be better if people came back down to reality and considered the amount of lives affected by the tragedy. After all, this isn't some kind of fantasy 'what if' - this is real life.
> It's a fact of life that when the world gets overcrowded..natural
> disasters occur to decimate the population...like the world
> wars..etc
> It's the lemming syndrome...but of course that doesnt make it any
> easier terms of human misery..
Bull crap.
'Natural disasters' were going on long before humans came along. In a sense, the evolution of Homosapiens was a natural disaster in itself. How many dodos are in existence now?
One day there wont be humans in existence, just like there aren't many creatures from Prehistoric times left. It's just the way things go.
To blame an earthquake on overcrowding is rather rediculous though. I'm sure 30,000 out of 6,000,000,000 is going to make a huge difference. Earthquakes happen because of the continous movements of the tectonic plates. Huge masses of rock putting pressure on huge masses of rock. This happens all the time all over the world. Not on the scale that has turned into the tragedy effecting so many people right now, but tremors happen all the time.
Instead of trying to think up supernatural or higher reasons for such natural disasters, it would be better if people came back down to reality and considered the amount of lives affected by the tragedy. After all, this isn't some kind of fantasy 'what if' - this is real life.
Very_Metal wrote:
> it was a natural occurance, a damn shame of course, but it was a
> natural occurance.
> that's the same as saying "how can there be a god if it's
> raining slightly outside?"
>
> you can't hold deity's responsible for extreme weather if you're not
> gonna complain about the mild stuff too.
Why complain about 'mild stuff' when it's essential for plants to grow and keep us alive? Huge waves aren't really that necessary.
> it was a natural occurance, a damn shame of course, but it was a
> natural occurance.
> that's the same as saying "how can there be a god if it's
> raining slightly outside?"
>
> you can't hold deity's responsible for extreme weather if you're not
> gonna complain about the mild stuff too.
Why complain about 'mild stuff' when it's essential for plants to grow and keep us alive? Huge waves aren't really that necessary.
God has done a lot worse. From [URL] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4128509.stm [/URL]:
Bangladesh was even harder hit in 1970, when a cyclone killed up to 500,000 people. Winds of up to 230 km/h whipped up massive waves that took away entire villages.
China suffered similar losses when an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 almost obliterated the north-eastern city of Tangshan in 1976. The official number of people killed was put at around 250,000, although some said the figure was more like 750,000.
Shanxi and Henan provinces lost more than 800,000 people when they were hit, in 1556, by one of the worst earthquakes in history.
In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks in the worst-ever recorded flooding.
A volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa island in 1815 claimed the lives of more than 90,000 people as a blanket of lava and ash covered all around it, leading to agricultural devastation, famine and disease.
Bangladesh was even harder hit in 1970, when a cyclone killed up to 500,000 people. Winds of up to 230 km/h whipped up massive waves that took away entire villages.
China suffered similar losses when an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 almost obliterated the north-eastern city of Tangshan in 1976. The official number of people killed was put at around 250,000, although some said the figure was more like 750,000.
Shanxi and Henan provinces lost more than 800,000 people when they were hit, in 1556, by one of the worst earthquakes in history.
In 1887, about 900,000 people died when the country's Yellow River burst its banks in the worst-ever recorded flooding.
A volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa island in 1815 claimed the lives of more than 90,000 people as a blanket of lava and ash covered all around it, leading to agricultural devastation, famine and disease.
Last number I saw was 40,000 dead (Yahoo!.com), although I think the Americans killed 3 times that number of innocent people in Iraq with their airsupport.
It's a fact of life that when the world gets overcrowded..natural disasters occur to decimate the population...like the world wars..etc
It's the lemming syndrome...but of course that doesnt make it any easier terms of human misery..
It's the lemming syndrome...but of course that doesnt make it any easier terms of human misery..
it was a natural occurance, a damn shame of course, but it was a natural occurance.
that's the same as saying "how can there be a god if it's raining slightly outside?"
you can't hold deity's responsible for extreme weather if you're not gonna complain about the mild stuff too.
that's the same as saying "how can there be a god if it's raining slightly outside?"
you can't hold deity's responsible for extreme weather if you're not gonna complain about the mild stuff too.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Far too many people have died, far too many. Only war gives such
> great waste of life
Your totally right way too many.
Just a shame that we will have something like this happen and i bet within 10 years we will have another war if not sooner.
It's bad enought all these people have died in something we couldn't prevent but when we go to war that is someone deciding that many people will die
:'(
> Far too many people have died, far too many. Only war gives such
> great waste of life
Your totally right way too many.
Just a shame that we will have something like this happen and i bet within 10 years we will have another war if not sooner.
It's bad enought all these people have died in something we couldn't prevent but when we go to war that is someone deciding that many people will die
:'(
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