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negrito7

Katrina

Sep 06, 2005 17:07

I don't want to say too much here, because I don't know what I'm talking about. But, I think it's appropriate to share some of my thoughts ( Read more... )

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Fear and Sadness. anonymous September 6 2005, 21:11:53 UTC

Here's a link from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4215336.stm. I'm just pasting that in there for your info. I just wanted to say I feel you with the whole emotional response thing. Had you asked me two years ago about any situation my mind would have started crunching numbers. I was just reminded today of a story about some lady who (this is a "lie" but will serve as a tag of what the actual thought was), when she found her son was deathly ill, she asked a guru to bring him back to life. He advised her that if she would go and walk the land and find a household that had not experienced death, he would heal her son. She took her extended walk and finding no such household she returned home. I thought to myself, "IT's coming" and I had a mild anxiety attack right then, and the air seemed to implode into a space just below my lungs but out of their reach. [Somehow I don't buy that you of all people should feel like a " ( ... )

lacyrose81 September 7 2005, 00:38:14 UTC

A confession - I rarely cry for people I don't know personally. I need to move beyond the intellectual acknowledgment that these things are horrible to the emotional response that accompanies true identification with the victims. I'm a pretty hard bastard, when it comes down to it ( ... )

anonymous September 12 2005, 07:30:33 UTC

i hope and pray for your parents that the hurrican season is over soon! we do miss your mom greatly in the 4&5 year old classroom =D
i'm still not sure how to respond to katrina and the aftermath. after some time i refused to turn on the newsm i just didn't know anymore how to handle it. the good thing is, my mom keeps sending me newspaper articles from home ~ giving me some info from "the other side".
the austrian

anonymous September 13 2005, 10:06:26 UTC

Things are bad, but they are not as awful as the media wants you to think.

God is going to use this for good in peoples life. One of the possible good things could be hightlighting of a city whose murder rate is 16% higher per capita than Washington DC. Maybe something will happen to help those people down there in the long run and not just soup for everyone.

---Josh C.

methy413 September 13 2005, 11:38:34 UTC

Josh, you just hit on something my friend Stephanie told me last Friday. We were talking about New Orleans and it never occured to me to think of how sinful that city really was. She had thought of it though. Neither of us really want to believe that is why God wiped it out but it is a sobering thought.

anonymous September 13 2005, 15:15:16 UTC

Just to be clear. I dont think God was pulling full fleged smiting, rather that he works through natural things like this.

I just have to believe people in New Orleans ultimatly will be better off due to the effects of this storm.

negrito7 September 13 2005, 18:37:58 UTC

Things in New Orleans will certainly be highlighted in the aftermath of this tragedy. Leaving the murder rate aside, let's look at another stat provided by my socially conscious friend Greg ( ... )

Natural disasters and Theodicy negrito7 September 13 2005, 18:22:29 UTC

Questions about the existence of a god and whether the nature of this god is good or bad are usually raised in times of great tragedy like this. I think there are answers, but giving these answers in word instead of deed can be more destructive than the actual disaster itself ( ... )