i found out friday morning that 2 of my cousins took a trip to new orleans last week without telling my aunt....but they are adults so.... anyway, they're known to take off to have fun (usually to gamble) so i didn't think much about it last weekend but time went on and my aunt got really worried.
my older brother started calling around to mutual friends and found out that they went to new orleans last week.
so to make a long story short my aunt just called saying my cousins are in someplace called new roads.
That is great news!
El Camero probably = El Camino
A scene that really touched my heart was when tv showed a group of young folks, bartenders, waitresses, that worked together in the French Quarter, hiking out of the city down the interstate very early on. I hoped my kids would have done the same had they found themselves there.
some evacuees see religious message in katrina .
across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm
reuters
I wonder if they are imagining just how much worse than this their armageddon is going to be . Of course there will be no tv or internet so they won't be privy to all the carnage their "loving" god will wreak
I'm really curious to know if any have brought that thought up to active family members/friends for a response? The thought of it must just warm their heart. I know, if I was still in, I'd be tossing that around.
some evacuees see religious message in katrina .
across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm
reuters
Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina
Across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm
Reuters
Updated: 5:43 p.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005
HOUSTON - In the last week, Joseph Brant lost his apartment, walked by scores of dead in the streets, traversed pools of toxic water and endured an arduous journey to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown New Orleans.
On Sunday, he was praising the Lord, saying the ordeal was a test that ended up dispelling his lifelong distrust of white people and setting his life on a new course. He said he hitched a ride Friday in a van driven by a group of white folks.
“Before this whole thing I had a complex about white people; this thing changed me forever,” said Brant, 36, a truck driver who, like many of the refugees receiving public assistance in Houston, Texas, is black.
“It was a spiritual experience for me, man,” he said of the aftermath of a catastrophe al Qaida-linked Web sites called evidence of the “wrath of God” striking an arrogant America.
Brant was one of the evacuees across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi who gave thought to religion Sunday, almost a week after the floods changed their lives, perhaps forever.
For one, ‘the work of Satan’At the Astrodome in Houston, where 16,000 refugees received food and shelter, Rose McNeely took the floods as a sign from God to move away from New Orleans, where she said her two grown children had been killed in past years in gunfights.
“I lost everything I had in New Orleans,” she said as she shared a cigarette with a friend. “He brought me here because he knows.”
Gerald Greenwood, 55, collected a free Bible earlier in the morning, but sat watching a science fiction television program above the stands in an enclosed stadium once home to Houston’s baseball and football teams. “This is the work of Satan right here,” he said of the floods.
The Bible was one of the few books many of the refugees had among their possessions. On Friday, several Jehovah’s Witnesses walked the floor of the Astrodome, where thousands of cots were set up, to offer their services.
For another, the wages of sinOn Sunday, the Salvation Army conducted an outside religious service that included songs such as “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”
“Natural disaster is caused by the sin in the world,” said Maj. John Jones, area commander for the Salvation Army, who led the service. “The acts of God are what happens afterwards ... all the good that happens.”
“God made all this happen for a reason. This city has been going to hell in a handbasket spiritually,” Tim Washington, 42, said at New Orleans’ Superdome Saturday as he waited to be evacuated.
“If we can spend billions of dollars chasing after [Osama] bin Laden, can’t we get guns and drugs off the street?”, he asked. Washington said he stole a boat last Monday and he and a friend, using wooden fence posts as oars, delivered about 200 people to the shelter. “The sheriff’s department stood across the street and did nothing,” he added.
The Salvation Army’s Jones was one of many trying to comfort victims in Sunday services across several states.
What God demandsAt St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, several hundred local parishioners and storm survivors attended the Sunday service. “I wish we could take your broken hearts and give you ours,” Rev. Donald Blanchard told the gathering.
In addition to consoling storm victims, the church’s lead pastor, Jerald Burns, said Katrina’s tragedy needed to be a rallying cry for parishioners, church leaders and government leaders to help the needy.
“It’s not what God is asking of us,” Burns said. “It is what God is demanding of us.”
Some people walked out of the church in tears in mid-service.
Churches in many states have taken in evacuees and organized aid for people who in many cases lost everything they had in the storm. But at least some bristled at the role of religion in helping the afflicted.
“We’re getting reports of how some religion-based ’aid’ groups are trying to fly evangelists into the stricken areas and how U.S. Army chaplains are carrying bibles -- not food or water -- to ’comfort’ people,” Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheist, said in a statement.
“People need material aid, medical care and economic support -- not prayers and preaching,” she said. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
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Don't the witnesses have such an encouraging message to share with the folks in the midst of this calamity? "Just wait, SOON the whole world will be in this condition and how we look forward to that day! Are we not anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of the promise??"
i took a chance on a raffle in a variety store, and won a "mothers day cake"!!!
ha, ha !!
it was so freakin' dry, too !!
Most have been won from radio stations, and their various contests for being "caller number 10" or answering a question correctly.
I've won:
- cash in amounts of $1000, $500, and $100
-front row seats to big name concert artist's performances
- 4 tickets to Disneyland to include 2 nights lodging and $250 cash to spend in the hotel's restaurants
-tons of tickets to major league baseball games (many of which were on meeting nights!)
- t-shirts, free tanks of gas, deep sea fishing trips, boat rentals, books, weekend trips w/lodging, movie premier tickets, cd's
As a matter of fact, I'm calling in today, every hour to try for the hundred bucks giveaway and concert tickets. I've even won things I haven't bothered to go pick up as it's a three quarter hour drive in traffic to get to the station's offices. I usually try to convince the station to mail the stuff to me, but they don't always go for it. When you win cash, you have to sign for it and fill out a W-2. I'm still hoping for the trip to Hawaii and the doubling of my paycheck.
guy pierce samuel herd gerrit losch david splane.
"no more additions!".
"no, no more additions!
oohhh.....not my cup of tea!
guy pierce samuel herd gerrit losch david splane.
"no more additions!".
"no, no more additions!
HA tetrapod, sexy apostababe I was in my dreams......
Any more recent pics of these dudes? Barber doesn't look bad for 100 years old!
i'm totally stressing out.
it's been over a year since i faded out and my mom and me are not getting along too well.
she is the only dub in the family now that i'm out of the borg.
You love your mother. Do not disrespect her.
In reference to that comment, I fail to see how talking to your mother would be disrespecting her.
You could explain to her that she will be much happier in her own existence if she accepts the fact that you are a human being with your own thinking ability and separated from her at the time of birth, fully prepared to go through life using your own brain. Does she believe we are to judge one another for doing so?
Loving a person, is allowing them to be who they are.
Enjoy the time together
my sister wrote me a letter telling me how she's going to all her meetings.
she has two personal bible studies a week, goes to two book studies a week plus all the other meetings.
first of all my sister was a drug addict.
swiftbreeze,
The first book I read at my time of exiting from lifetime dubdumb was, "WHEN GOD BECOMES A DRUG, (breaking the chains of religious addiction and abuse) ", by Father Leo Booth.
I'm sure you'd really relate to it's thoughts.
Yes indeed, your sis is certainly still getting her FIX!
When my dad was suicidal, the elders sat there," shooting him up", all under the guise of "encouragement".
He checked out a few months later while in the trance-like state of JW life.
me...shirley temple black...
I actually stood in line for 4 hours to get Shirley Temple's autograph. I read somewhere she doesn't sign anymore because of all the autograph sellers on the Internet.
TresHappy,
A repressed memory springs up......
When I was a young girl in the 60's, I was in a Shirley Temple fan club, and I would receive autographed 8 x10, black & white glossy photos of her, in the mail, shots from her different movies and had quite a collection. Although it was "idolizing" someone..... my mom had allowed me to have them, (she liked her too), but....at a point in time, the axe came down, and they were tossed in the garbage.
me...shirley temple black...
I loved getting to the games early enough to watch batting practice.
FlyingHigh,
I agree... we would always get there two hours early. It was so exciting, wasn't it? I tell my sons now, that all the balls we collected and had autographed, CASH them in one day when I die, and you may be set for life.
One time, I was leaning so far over the rail to catch a foul ball during batting practice, that I fell down about 8 feet- face first into the ground, and had to be taken away on a stretcher to the hospital in an ambulance. Talk about embarrassed......all the players came over to see if I was alright, Florida Marlins on the field at the time. I ended up not getting back to the ball park until the 7th inning stretch! I was able to work a deal though for several free tickets to future games - and, I did get the ball I was going for at the time.
