by Amazing1914 97 Replies latest jw friends
If the local officials were smart they would direct traffic so that people could use both the north and south bound lanes to go north.
Genius. Why are these career morons in charge of city planning and evacuation? You should be in charge. Also the cranky neighbor down the street who seems to know the best way for the power and phone company to restore service after a storm should be in charge of those utilities.
Best wishes to all those fleeing the storm I hope you make it home safe and sound
Peace
BM
I just think it's great to see Robdar, Gretchen and Amazing posting. :) And that prophecor dude is totally cool with me too.
Ah Cyggie, it's great to see you too.
Robs
My skeptical $.02……..
Is this really the “greatest storm in history”? I don’t discount it’s possibly true, just skeptical of apocalyptic statements like that. (I don’t mean to imply the OP is claiming this is a sign of Thee End.) I did a search and can’t find anything online claiming this is the largest storm in history. I’m not saying it isn’t, I’m just saying it’s possible it isn’t.
My other question is, if this is the largest storm in history, does that mean it’s the most destructive and deadly? Not necessarily. I bring this up because I’ve had many convos with JWs about weather events and their claims the most recent event du jour is “thee worst ever”. Worst is a relative term. What does it mean? The most deaths? The most monetary loss? The most people affected? The most animals/sea creatures affected?
Next, the little I’ve read about global warming indicates its cause (human behavior) is a theory, not proven fact. One example: http://www.akdart.com/warming.html
Re Qcmbr’s post…interesting points, but you realize they are just theories, right? A plausible explanation but it is unproven. I have a hard time accepting, though, that an omniscient god would have insufficient logic skills to distinguish between the importance of eliminating sidewalk cracks vs. eliminating deadly storms that hurt/kill millions of innocent people each year.
ever wonder if disasters such as this are stages of evolution? meteors, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes are great for dwindling the huge population numbers of spiecies.
Isn't it fascinating how people who doubt the exixtence of God still look to blame him anyway? It's soooooo good to have a scapegoat.
A scapegoat for what exactly? You didn't refute any of my points. If we are to be held accountable for being hit by natural disasters, regardless of whom or what created them, where do you propose we put everyone? I guess we could congregate in the African Savannah. Who needs those pecky elephants and rhinos. But wait, doesn't much of that flood every year? I think those mountain gorillas have it too good. Get rid of them and we'd have more space to live. Or we could tear down the rain forests of South America. Uh oh, that floods too. Eh, the heck with the Amazon river. We could dam that sucker and wipe everything out, or simply move to higher land and wipe everything out. Hey, at least we'd be safe from natural disasters.
All I'm saying is that if God made himself known to the world, he would have to be accountable for the world that he created. It is in no way ideal for human habitation.
Maybe, tsunami_rider. In that case I wish evolution would get a bit smarter and eliminate only criminals and mean/lazy people.
A scapegoat for what exactly? You didn't refute any of my points. If we are to be held accountable for being hit by natural disasters, regardless of whom or what created them, where do you propose we put everyone? I guess we could congregate in the African Savannah. Who needs those pecky elephants and rhinos. But wait, doesn't much of that flood every year? I think those mountain gorillas have it too good. Get rid of them and we'd have more space to live. Or we could tear down the rain forests of South America. Uh oh, that floods too. Eh, the heck with the Amazon river. We could dam that sucker and wipe everything out, or simply move to higher land and wipe everything out. Hey, at least we'd be safe from natural disasters.All I'm saying is that if God made himself known to the world, he would have to be accountable for the world that he created. It is in no way ideal for human habitation.
No, I didn't refute your points. There is no need to. Of course, the Earth is not ideal for human habitation and yet here we all are (or is it? Is ther life as we know it on any other planet?). My point is that I see no point in whining or blaming God. Especially since humans knowingly moved into a zone that is below sea level. And then on top of that, altered the river and marshes to move more people into those areas.
What I have a problem with is when people whine about conditions on the Earth and wait for their idea of a Big, Benevolent, Sky Daddy, to step in and save them. They do this even when they doubt his existence.
darwin's natural selection states only the strongest survive. hurricanes can't judge the morality in every human being, they only eliminate the weak and make others stronger. that meteor that killed off the dinosaurs may have given birth to the earliest form of humans, a race that would terrorize this planet for centuries to come.
Especially since humans knowingly moved into a zone that is below sea level. And then on top of that, altered the river and marshes to move more people into those areas.
In this case, you're probably right. When New Orleans was settled there were plenty of other places to go. But then you have to take into account political boundaries since it was the property of France, but I suppose humans in general were to blame.
What I have a problem with is when people blame humans for populating disastrous areas in general when most of the "habitable" areas of Earth are disastrous at one time or another. I don't expect some Sky Daddy to save us, because if he did exist I don't think he would have created natural disasters in the first place or expect us to lump together into small safe zones.
So, if there is a god, he didn't make very good preparations.
