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Topic: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

While most around the planet rush to rescue and provide aid, apparently this horrible natural disaster goes without comment or notice on this forum.  Strange, but maybe not. Reuters and their
Alternet is a valid source for those who might care.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E4RA20100115

Maybe Pat Robertson followers just accept his statements about the   belief it was a curse from "god?"

There are those who will always choose a lie rather than face  the truth.

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

I totally disagree that it has gone un-noticed.
That's all I hear about on the news -- rightfully so -- it's a tragedy. The US is sending 10,000 troops over to Haiti, due to arrive by end of this weekend (in addition to those already on location).

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

hope09 wrote:

While most around the planet rush to rescue and provide aid, apparently this horrible natural disaster goes without comment or notice on this forum.  Strange, but maybe not. Reuters and their
Alternet is a valid source for those who might care.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E4RA20100115

Maybe Pat Robertson followers just accept his statements about the   belief it was a curse from "god?"

It's awful. No debate there. What can be said that isn't being said already?

Hell is a place where there is no reason.

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

hope09 wrote:

While most around the planet rush to rescue and provide aid, apparently this horrible natural disaster goes without comment or notice on this forum.  Strange, but maybe not. Reuters and their
Alternet is a valid source for those who might care.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E4RA20100115

Maybe Pat Robertson followers just accept his statements about the   belief it was a curse from "god?"

What should we talk about?  Aid?

I gave my $100.  Looks like the government will be giving around 100 million dollars (and probably spending a few hundred million more on the military response).  Charities are getting lots of donations, and volunteers are heading to the island, so things are going the way they should, I suppose.

Pat Robertson?  He is the crazy uncle that you invite to Thanksgiving just so you can see what he is going to say.  Entertainment.  Few take him seriously, and the ones that even listen to him cherry-pick and probably do not believe what he says about this being a curse from God.

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

One weird thing that came out of this, Clinton and Bush sitting together for an ad.

Hell is a place where there is no reason.

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

hope09 wrote:

While most around the planet rush to rescue and provide aid, apparently this horrible natural disaster goes without comment or notice on this forum.  Strange, but maybe not. Reuters and their
Alternet is a valid source for those who might care.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E4RA20100115

Maybe Pat Robertson followers just accept his statements about the   belief it was a curse from "god?"

Arrogant assumption that simply because you started an internet forum thread on the topic that you somehow care more than everyone else, or that everyone else is a pat robertson follower. Like many have pointed out: what's to debate? It's an earthquake. Perhaps you are just a follower of Chavez and figure this is the result of some secret weapon test by the US.

I support the right to arm bears.

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

Cryptomaniac wrote:

Pat Robertson?  He is the crazy uncle that you invite to Thanksgiving just so you can see what he is going to say.  Entertainment.  Few take him seriously, and the ones that even listen to him cherry-pick and probably do not believe what he says about this being a curse from God.

Having done my time in the South, been to churches and seen shows like Pat's with his followers, I can tell you his viewers take him quite seriously. The only choice Southern Baptists seem to make is whether they watch him or another preacher who DOESN'T say such things.

Having said that, entertainment is definitely the word here. For generations the church was the only regular form of entertainment that part of the country got, especially in rural areas where the tradition flourishes to this day. Snake oil salesmen, freak shows, dances, fairs, public execution -- all a part of a long tradition of popular entertainment which went hand-in-hand with commerce all over America and in many parts of the world. Church is no different, though few developed that form as well as Southern Baptists, with their bombastic preachers and their shake-the-rafters gospel singers. If it developed most highly there, it is because the culture is very emotional and dramatic, as opposed to places like the Mid-West, where such things are frowned upon. It is no wonder that God-as-entertainment lives on primarily in the South, having migrated to TV. It is hard to find a televangelist that isn't Southern.

Yes, it is entertainment, but don't be fooled, most people, whether they know it or not, take entertainment quite seriously.

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Re: Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, The Earthquake In Haiti Goes Unnoticed?

The greatest loss of life in the near future comes from one cause. Earthquakes. The greatest cause of the loss of this life is the way homes and buildings are created. They are for the most part made rigid and this causes them to shake themselves apart killing or maiming everyone inside. There is current technology available which would cause structures to slide back and forth and take up the energy of the quake without falling apart. Life would be spared and the earthquake would be nothing more than an act of nature. Unfortunately earthquakes that will ultimately tear California from this continent may have forces that are so great that nothing in California will survive. But such a calamity will not occur for millions of years from now.

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