Posted on 09/10/2005 9:23:00 PM PDT by Blogger
...and Lincolns secretary warned him not to go to the theatre. And Kennedys secratary Lincoln warned him not to go to Dallas. We need a Israel/US coinsidence coin!
http://www.whoi.edu/home/about/currents_v9no3_hurricanes.html
"In the Gulf of Mexico, where Liu has been working in back-barrier freshwater lakes, the geological evidence for hurricanes extends further back into history, though it is somewhat less precise in the storm-by-storm details. “Our records go back about 5,000 years, and we definitely see a long-term cycle,” he notes. From about 5,000 to 3,400 years ago, hurricane patterns in the Gulf Coast were relatively mild. From 3,400 to 1,000 years ago, the region endured a “hyperactive” period. The past 1,000 years have been relatively placid.
“The good news is that we are living in a quiet period,” Liu says. “The bad news is that if we think we have seen too many catastrophic hurricanes coming our way, we haven't seen anything yet.”
So were Indians being punished for not supporting a country they'd never even heard of in the period of hyperactive Gulf of Mexico hurricane activity from 3,400 to 1,000 years ago?
This is the primitivism of which George Will spoke.
This sort of jerk-off brainlessness sounds like...ding ding ding ISLAM. Smells and looks ilke it too. See, if you can't distinguish between A and B, you generally accept that they are the same.
I wonder how long it is until the mental defective who push this tripe figure out that they are worshipping Allah.
WITHIN HOURS??? The Northridge Quake struck January 17th, at 4:31 am, some two weeks later (I'll never forget it). This sounds like Louis Farrakhan math.
Wow ,everytime I ask a girl out on a date those very same things happen . What's God trying to tell ME?
I remember that day too. It was MLK day, didn't have school. What loonies.
I guess its a good thing I'm going to church tomorrow.
Ping.
"January 4, 1994: U.S. Clinton and Assad meet in Geneva, Switzerland calling for Israel to leave the Golan Heights. Within hours the 6.9 Northridge earthquake rocks Southern California, the second most expensive national disaster in history"
Dude plays fast and loose with dates on this one. Northridge quake was January 17. Within hours of Jan 4 I guess. But a whole lot of hours
Let's only worry what they think when it affects their ability and motivation to kill us, directly or indirectly. That goes for Jewish and Arab nations alike.
As it is, both groups deserve attention concerning our image.
Europeans, in contrast, are nutless blowhards, completely lacking in genuine intent to menace but for inconsequential words like my own.
Don't understand your question or comment. But thats probably what the girl is wondering as well.
Theodicy is the fancy theological/philosophical term for the attempt to justify the ways, acts, justice and goodness of God in the face of suffering, death and evil to an incredulous jury of humans. We Christians have floated some doozies.
Christian and Hebrew theologians, philosophers and kibitzers for thousands of years have struggled to come up with a plausible defense of God's goodness and power, given the daily reality of evil, because, well, God hasn't really produced an alibi for himself.
Once, at the end of the Old Testament wisdom book of Job, God could have explained it all, but He didn't. God makes a personal appearance out of the whirlwind just as the argument between Job and his so-called friends gets really interesting, meaning the finger finally gets pointed directly at God. God appears dramatically and essentially tells Job that it's none of Job's business why he's suffering and that Job wouldn't understand anyway.
The writer's elaborate, but single, point of the story of Job is that human speculation on such matters is folly at best, and idolatry and heretical at worse. But Job's message and warning don't seem to give us pause.
We Christians today, however well-intentioned, often fall off the horse on one side or the other by speculating with pious platitudes about why some terrible event has occurred. And indeed, all theodicies are pure speculation unless God has directly and specifically revealed His will and purpose to a credible prophet who comes to us with "Thus saith the Lord."
Once the speculation has begun, there's no way to judge it, evaluate it, or refute it because speculation by definition is completely subjective and unverifiable. Unchecked, the likelihood of theological mischief and stupidity is great amongst theodicy speculators.
Theodicies are theological and philosophical La Brea Tar Pits. Once we take the plunge, we're stuck forever, and all of our struggling only sinks us deeper and deeper into the pit. First, we're hit with the question: How can we offer a defense of God that's considered depraved when invoked by humans? Second, once we engage in the parlor game of second guessing God, anything goes.
Marty Lasley
What is funny is they only go back as far as Bush Sr. What about all the other natural disasters that happened before 1991, like the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake. Now I know why Mt.St.Hellens blew up, it was Carter's fault for screwing up Iran.
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