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In times like these you learn to live again
by anna at 11:21 AM on October 09, 2005
In the Christian faith there are two Gods. One is the fire 'n brimstone, vindictive, judgmental God of the Old Testament. The other is the more laid-back, forgiving New testament God who sacrificed his only Son for our sins. Which isn't to say He couldn't have snapped his fingers and produced a Catholic-sized brood of little Jesuses had He chosen to do so. He's God, after all.
I have got to think the former is in the house at the moment. And no this isn't some raving lunatic spouting about the apocalyptical (sp?) End Days or any of that crap. All I am saying is that these have been hellish days for a helluva lot of folk.
Entire villages were engulfed and wiped out by mudslides. The worst earthquake in a century decimated the disputed Kashmir area straddling the Indo-Pakistani border. And of course there is the endless misery in once-proud New Orleans.
Maybe it's just me but when it says 19,000 people were killed instaneously in one place I find it impossible to even fathom. But in the pictures survivors appear to be mostly standing or milling around aimlessly. You'd think they'd be diving in with both feet trying to rescue loved-ones. Perhaps they're in shock, but in times like those you need to pull yourself together immediately.
That is one of my myriad quirks. Whenever something awful happens, and readers of this site know that it has, I go utterly numb. Icewater courses through my veins. Therefore I am a very useful person to have around in times of trouble.
And who knows, maybe there's a bright side to the earthquake. Indians and Pakistanis have been at each other's throats for generations over that damned place. That is why they have nukes pointed at one another. Maybe now that it is decimated (on both contries' claimed territories,) they will stop. Or better yet, pitch in together to deal with the devastation.
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It would be nice if India and Pakistan made peace with each other. Let's hope it happens.
We're covering Marxism in class right now. I learned it when I was in college the first time, but I didn't understand then why some people like all the revolution and Communism parts so much. Especially young people. Now I think it comforts people that they think they know what is going to happen. It's like a prophecy.
by jean at October 10, 2005 10:07 PM
Marxism in theory good, in practice bad. There simply isn't enough benevolence for it to work. We wake up thinking about how to garner more for ourselves at the inevitable expense of others. It's indelible human nature. Hence the sugar cane in Cuba goes unharvested.
by anna at October 11, 2005 7:47 AM
Oh totally. You'd think after all the killing and embezzlement and corruption Communist countries have had, people would just admit that.
by jean at October 15, 2005 11:34 AM
I think that, democracy(Ive never seen it) survies on the belief that, The Majority Can't Be Wrong. This has proved somewhat effective, but look at the mess our country(mine) got into when it went and built cities, and now all the soft folk dont know what the hell they're talking about, and they're dragging us dow the tubes. Thats the problem with a republic. Too much power to too few people.
*Sigh* I was ment for another era, yet born in this immoral age. I like the first Old Testament God. We're humans. Lord, order us to kill, plunder, wage war, slaughter civilizations, it's what we're good at.
Communism(or marxism, and any of that junk) is almost hippie like, in its "We'll work together and live in a happy, peacful, classles society"(Classes, coincediently{though there are no coincedences} seem to have bee the downfall of most nations)
Sounds sort of nice. Too bad it wont work. Nothing will work. We're humans, for God's sake! EVERYTHING WE come up with is gonna fail, of work to our disadvantage. God warned us not to have a King, but did we listen, No! We NEVER do!
What is Monarchy but divinely chosen tyranny?
I am called back to the John Lennon(sp?) song, "Imagine no countries) We dont need borders to tell us where we can and cannot go! We dont even need rulers! If we alle LOVED eachother like we love ourselves, we woulndnt have to worry about stupid things like rape, stealing, crime. Everyone would look out for eachother and eachothers needs!
Stupid peices of meat, Why cant we surpass ourselves!!!
Always yours,
-1138
by Clonereject1138 at October 17, 2005 4:36 PM
If the people of New Orleans had any respect for anything, they would have done the dead an honour, and buried the sacred corps(they're sacred, ans no matter what, we were born in the image of God).
"Oh, woe on us, we have been without water for weeks!"
Whats the first thing theey tell you if you're going to stupidly stand out a hurricane?
Get plent of WATER!!!
"Woe on us, for our pitiful city is flooded"
You live in an effective bowl. Where is the water to go?!
If the citizens of NO really wanted to escape, the would have. God helps those who help themselves. Look at Mexico. That country has been ravaged by worse floods and earthquakes that all of the US! And do the people complaine? No. Do they sit around "helplessly" waiting for government assistance? No, 'cause they know none shall arive.
The problem of this world is softness. Weve grown soft. With out daily disaster, and two world wars a century, we soften up. Our callluses smoth, and we forget our past pains. South Kore wants to join up with North Korea. Those young fools werent around to see the autrocities of the Korean War, so they wouldnt know them. The people of NO waited for government help rather than using their brains. Democrats.
I weep for my children, should I have any, for damned is the world they inherit.
Over and out
-1138
by Clonereject1138 at October 17, 2005 4:45 PM