Strange signs in nature, including 'miasma' in the air

Spirit Daily ^ | October 10, 2005 | Michael Brown

[NYer]

At times, we lose perspective. Let us regain some of it by realizing that however bad Hurricane Katrina seemed, it was not the worst natural disaster during the past 12 months, nor even during the summer.

In fact, it may not even be the deadliest hurricane: in Central America a mudslide caused by Hurricane Stan may have cost 1,400 lives in Guatemala just last week (figures vary), as opposed to Katrina's awful but smaller toll of 1,200.

We are in a steep curve of chastisement.

And then there is the Pakistani-Indian quake: more than 40,000 dead from the weekend tremors. These are signs of the times and we do well to heed them.

The year started with the aftermath of the great Asian tsunami, which cost nearly a quarter of a million lives.

It is important at this juncture of purification to recall that a major component of what was known as the Great Medieval Chastisement involved earthquakes in Asia, just as we now see quakes and other disturbances in that part of the world. There were  many parallels to our own time, with even scandal back then in the Church.

It was the time of the great bubonic plague, and just before both Asia and Europe were hit with it, there were strange, historic rumblings in Asia.

Noted an historian named Philip Ziegler, "An earthquake in the mountains of Ki-Ming-Chan formed a lake more than 100,000 leagues in circumference. In Tyche the dead were believed to number more than five million. Earthquakes and floods continued from 1337 to 1345; locusts had never been so destructive; there was 'subterranean thunder' in Canton."

The world was in a cycle of climate shifts, intense storms, quakes in places that didn't usually get quakes, melting of glaciers, meteorite activity, unusual lights in the sky, and strange clouds.

This was in the 14th century, during which many peculiar effects in nature were noted.

Most curiously, fish seemed to be dying in the seas (we will get to that later in the week), and as it says in The Last Secret, "there was a sense of miasma and malady, of a corrupted atmosphere."

Much of it centered on India.

It was claimed that there was a strange "stinking smoke" on the subcontinent, along with other "omens." This was just before the Black Death.

In the 14th century, it was mainly earthquakes and floods that seemed like harbingers. The earth shook in places where it usually did not shake (for example, Germany), and in fact one tremor in Venice set the bells of St. Mark's Basilica ringing just before arrival of plague there. In our own time, we find floods that have caused the evacuation of 500,000 in China, again just last week.

Coincidence? There are many coincidences -- and parallels. Scientists believe that during the Middle Ages, mega-hurricanes were hitting the Gulf Coast of the United States with a frequency that we have not witnessed up to now.

Then there is the miasma. As in medieval times, news accounts include reports of a stench. It would not be unusual but that it made the news simultaneously in several cities. In Southern California, residents from the Valley to the coast have complained of a rotting garbage-like odor ("like a stew of sulfur, sewage, and bad omen," remarked one observer), and as officials have sought to explain it they have speculated on everything from the effect of heavy rains on garbage to high bacteria levels in coastal waters. The odors are detected in some areas and not others.

In Washington, D.C., "unexplained" odors have been reported across the district  -- seeming to come and go for no discernible reason (sulfur-like again). Firefighters received dozens of calls and responded to reports of the odor at 11 schools. What it was seemed a mystery, said The Washington Post.

At the same time residents have called authorities along Lake Erie about a similar rotten-egg-like odor.

Decaying plants and fish? A strange smell has made the news in numerous Ohio communities, according to one report (lasting up to two months), while an outbreak of red tide on Florida's west coast has caused respiratory problems -- noses that have started burning and ceaseless coughing. It is like nature rebelling.

Some of it seems related to decaying fish (in Lake Erie, the higher the waves, the more of an odor seems to be released). But it seems eerily symbolic.

Most noteworthy has been the stress observed in our seas. This we will tackle next: a great untold and perhaps prophetic story. As we enter a cycle of purification, nature seems to be making a statement.

[resources: The Last Secret, and Sent To Earth]

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[NYer]

See Also

Pakistan earthquake - Death toll may cross 200,000

Blocked roads, hailstones hamper Pakistan relief effort

[NYer]

In the back of our heads, we're all thinking about this. Even the agnostics in my office have take note.

Not sure the source of Mike Brown's Middle Ages info but here's an opportunity to post your own impressions.

[wolfcreek]

Anyone thought that maybe that smell or odor, might be coming from the belly of a world ready to explode.

[redgolum]

It was the time of the great bubonic plague, and just before both Asia and Europe were hit with it, there were strange, historic rumblings in Asia.

With the possibility of the avian flu, and the resultant dislocations from the recent events.. Well maybe a chastisement is coming.

[silverleaf]

I have posted on another thread about the virtual disappearce of birds from my area (Maryland/Chesapeake Bay). Birds of all types are just...gone. The silence and lack of bird song is noticeable and unusual. The usual riotous squirrel population has also gone missing.

[pro610]

We also have had massive solar flare,s from the sun recently.
Do you have anything on that.

I watch the all this stuff also,thanks for the article

[redgolum]

My Dad mentioned that at their house in Nebraska, all the sparrows are gone.

Not sure why, but it is kind of freaky. There used to be thousands of the things making a mess all over the farm!

But then again, they do have a number of really fat cats :)

[Salvation]

**maybe that smell or odor, might be coming from the belly of a world ready to explode.**

I thought it was coming from the dimocrat left all these years! </sarcasm off

[x5452]

I think it comes from liberals.

[pro610]

Here is the solar flare story
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2499.htm

It says katrina communications could have been interrupted from it

[Lokibob]

In 1993, I came home from work the memorial day weekend Friday to face major flooding. Large amount of snowfall during winter, along with a cool spring has caused the spring runoff to be late and violent. During that weekend a 3 foot wall of sandbags was all that saved my house from major damage.

The same summer, 1993, Fourth of July weekend, my house faced a range wild fire that turned around 300 yards from my back door.

Again, 1993, all of my trees were denuded of leaves, because the large amount of moisture in the ground had caused the grasshopper population to grow to biblical proportions.

I went to my insurance agent and asked if he could give me famine insurance, because I had already experienced 3 of the 4 plagues. fire, water, and pestilence.

[Salvation]

Ping!

[Pyro7480]

I went to my insurance agent and asked if he could give me famine insurance, because I had already experienced 3 of the 4 plagues. fire, water, and pestilence.

LOL! Did you see a surplus of frogs because of the floods? ;-) How about the other plagues?

[NYer]

I have posted on another thread about the virtual disappearce of birds from my area (Maryland/Chesapeake Bay). Birds of all types are just...gone. The silence and lack of bird song is noticeable and unusual. The usual riotous squirrel population has also gone missing.

Has there been any local media reporting on this?

[pro610]

Amazon River Running Low on Water
Article
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20051010-103117-6705r.htm

[NYer]

We also have had massive solar flare,s from the sun recently. Do you have anything on that.

QUIET SUN: Solar activity is very low. Solar flares and auroras are unlikely this week.
SPACE WEATHER

[Dominick]

I tend to discount these type of stories. If we are doing what we should do, then what good does this do. If God wills it, I am not one to argue. This isn't prophecy, it is hand wringing.

A Priest told me live like you are going to die in five minutes. Live like a truck is barreling down the road and will hit you in the next fifteen minutes. This Priest died on his feet in his rectory kitchen and was dead before he hit the ground from a massive heart attack. Boom, like that.

You are just as dead as if the plague hits you in the middle of a hurricane and a big meteor strikes North America, turning it into the next moon of Earth. That would be just as much the will of God, as a Toyota driven by a old man running you down in front of 7-11.

[silverleaf]

I may contact them. I keep hoping it is just a natural reaction to our drought (which was finally broken this week). Maybe most people don't pay attention to birds like I do. But surely if this is a real unnatural phenomenon it will show up over on the Maryland Eastern Shore among the wild duck and goose population. If we ever get bird flu here I worry about the Eastern shore and the huge chicken farm industry there.

[Rutles4Ever]

It's certainly in the back of all our heads. Christianity has become so convoluted, that outside of the Catholic Church, Christianity as a faith is in steep decline. The fruition of homosexual clergy and sanctioned homosexual marriage in various denominations cannot be overlooked, wherein the Church teaches that sodomy is one of four sins that cries out for the justice of God. Societal approval of this abomination will not go unchecked by the Father.

I think it's reasonable to begin assessing these events as being part of a chastisement. The deaths of Sr. Lucia and Pope John Paul II are not without relevace to this discussion.