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Is God Trying To Say Something?
The Market Ticker ^ | 08-25-2011 | Karl Denninger

Posted on 08/25/2011 12:58:54 PM PDT by Gritty

There are times you just have to wonder.

A hurricane that appears to be taking dead aim at both Washington DC and Wall Street?

Gee, I wonder if there's an embedded message in there somewhere? After all, insurance companies do call these sorts of events "acts of God", right?

So..... as we all prepare if we're in the to-be-impacted area, let's remember a few things:

•Small changes in path matter. They're also unpredictable. I was ready to "bug out" for Ivan, and decided to stay literally at 5:00 PM the night it came in. Why? Because had the path been about 40 miles east of where it was, I would have been a good 5' underwater at my home. As it was the right decision was to stay; we had to battle rising water and succeeded in keeping it out of the house. Barely. But I live in a relatively-lightly-populated area. If you're in a big city and it looks like Irene might get you, get out. There's only one thing worse than getting stuck in a hurricane with your house disintegrating around you, and that's being in a 2-million-car-long traffic jam with the water rising rapidly. In a hurricane it is not that the wind blows, it is what the wind blows, and sometimes the "what" includes objects like trees and Volvos.

•If you're not prepared by now, you got trouble. You've either got 48 or 72 hours before it's on top of you, and 12 hours less before the weather starts to seriously deteriorate. Oh yeah, all the plywood and other essentials will be sold out within 200 miles by now. If you're not prepared now stop reading this Ticker and get off your ass or suffer the consequences. Time's up.

•If you want to be a hero (or do something stupid) at a time like this, please make sure your next-of-kin's phone number and name is written on your chest in permanent Sharpie marker first. It will make it possible to notify the person who has to come pick up your body. Seriously. There's always someone who tries to do something "heroic" - or just plain stupid - during these storms and a good percentage of the time they die. Save the ME time in analyzing dental records and use the Sharpie...

*snip*



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To: Osage Orange

He still has to ask God for everything he wants to do. He gets turned down quite often.


21 posted on 08/25/2011 1:37:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Sure he is speaking to us all of the time, we are just not smart enough to know what he is saying. We would solve all of our National and World Problems if we would just do what the Bible says. Now before all of you get your shorts knotted up, it is a fact all we have to do is become a
God fearing Nation life our Founders, place out trust in God and we would be out of the woods.
22 posted on 08/25/2011 1:45:44 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 ("IF YOU DON'T HOLD IT, YOU DON'T OWN IT" ( Wise old Gold Bug))
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To: Daffynition
Of course he is .. David has no arms !


23 posted on 08/25/2011 1:49:30 PM PDT by tomkat (1775)
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To: Osage Orange

“...Who is the god of this world?...”

Well, it sure as he!! isn’t Obama, contrary to popular lsm belief.


24 posted on 08/25/2011 2:06:35 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: Osage Orange

Why, exactly, do you want to know?


25 posted on 08/25/2011 3:52:05 PM PDT by moonhawk (The only problem I have with burying Bin Laden at sea is that he was already dead.)
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To: Gritty
Is God Trying To Say Something?

I ain't sayin' nothin, son!

26 posted on 08/25/2011 3:54:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: moonhawk

I already know..FRiend.


27 posted on 08/25/2011 4:27:25 PM PDT by Osage Orange ("Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
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To: RegulatorCountry
Bill Reilly is closest...he'll volunteer to go. Patriot or pinhead?

Hannity too, I almost forgot. Let them *both* go. No loss.


28 posted on 08/25/2011 4:31:59 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: blue-duncan
Ego?

Who is that?

29 posted on 08/25/2011 4:32:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange ("Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
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To: tomkat
Goofball...of course he does! Were you thinking of Venus de Milo?


30 posted on 08/25/2011 4:35:07 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: Secret Agent Man
Not sure that's correct, FRiend.

Are we saying....God allows His own...to be killed, maimed, and set up to suffer?

31 posted on 08/25/2011 4:35:56 PM PDT by Osage Orange ("Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
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To: Daffynition

32 posted on 08/26/2011 9:08:02 AM PDT by tomkat (1775)
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To: tomkat

33 posted on 08/26/2011 10:01:06 AM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: Daffynition
Stop it ! I need to concentrate !

(lmao)

34 posted on 08/26/2011 10:27:50 AM PDT by tomkat (1775)
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To: Osage Orange

If it serves His perfect will, yes. We do not know all of His complex plans and how everything interrelates to everything else like He does.

Every believer has died, or will die if they live long enough, one way or another. Either after living a short life, or a long life. After living a relatively peaceful life, a hard life, or something in between. After trials, tribulation, sicknesses, accidents, loss, heartbreak, sorrow. Some being taken one way, some another. Some lingering a long time and not surprisingly, some instantly and totally unexpected.

Just because God permits it doesn’t mean He is in cahoots with Satan’s goals. Or that He has no choice but to allow Satan to do something that brings suffering and pain on people. Remember Satan had to ask God about testing Job, and God put limits on Satan as to how far Satan could go in his attack on Job. He repeatedly had to go back to God to ask permission to increase his intensity of attack of Job, and each time God put a line down to Satan and said “You will go no further than this”.

As Job said after he lost everything of value to him: “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

God’s already decided what He’s going to do anyway, and how things will happen and who He allows to bring about things is part of His plans that we do not fully understand at our finite vantage point.


35 posted on 08/26/2011 12:55:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: tomkat
One more...I promise ... *De Milo air guitar*.


36 posted on 08/26/2011 2:43:58 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: Daffynition
That gif is lacking some movement in its quest for realism  

But .. it has a nice beat, and you can dance to it

37 posted on 08/26/2011 4:29:48 PM PDT by tomkat (1775)
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To: Gritty
"God Trying"

That phrase makes no sense. God is sovereign.

38 posted on 08/26/2011 4:32:38 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Now we be president again !)
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To: Secret Agent Man
So you are saying...God allows kids to lose limbs, get cancer and die? And are you saying God allows kids to be tortured and molested?

Not the God I know, FRiend.

39 posted on 08/26/2011 4:35:44 PM PDT by Osage Orange ("Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
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To: tomkat
Quitchercomplainin'.

Venus de Milo Williams


40 posted on 08/26/2011 5:19:38 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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