[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.

[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.

[pro610]

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

[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.

[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.

[300magnum]

The preacher man says its the end of time
and the Mississippi River she's a going dry.
The interest is up and the stock markets down
and you only get mugged if you go downtown.
I live back in the woods you see,
my woman,and the kids and the dogs and me.
I got a shotgun and a rifle and a four wheel drive
and a countryboy can survive. Country folks can survive.

[Ol' Sox]

bookmark for later

[MarMema]

I hate to be a party crasher but I was walking my 1.5 miles last night and only smelled wonderful pine and the freshness after rain.

There are birds singing here and many squirrels running around in our woods, one ran across the road right in front of me.

Just a few days ago, my kids were all at the window admiring not one but 2 lovely rainbows from our picture window.

[stuartcr]

Even if it is chastisement, and if there were earlier ones also...it doesn't really mean anything, because things keep happening. I believe it's all just part of God's plan. Besides, none of the other chastisements, have really stopped anything, have they?

[Domestic Church]

Along with putting one's ear to the ground and watching the wildlife...

http://www.standeyo.com/Reports/041222.EQ.warning/051011.Deyo.EQs.html