Posted on 01/01/2005 2:02:22 PM PST by gortklattu
From an earlier posting:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310914/posts
Photo family's amazing survival From correspondents in Stockholm January 2, 2005
A SERIES of heart-rending photos showing a mother dashing into the tsunami off Thailand in a desperate bid to save her family were cabled out around the world this week.
But the family's fate remained unknown until today, when the Swedish mum came forward to say they had all survived.
"I was yelling at them to run, but they couldn't hear me," 37-year-old Karin Svaerd told the daily Expressen, describing her desperation as her three sons, brother and brother-in-law snorkelled in the water last Sunday, unaware of the pending danger.
The series of three pictures showed confused vacationers on the Ray Leh Beach in Krabi, Thailand, looking at the water receding before the tsunami hit the beach.
Another shot showed swimmers running in to shore once they saw the tower of water approaching.
But Mrs Svaerd, unlike everyone else in the picture, was running out toward the wave in a desperate bid to reach her family.
Her sons Anton, 14, Filip, 11 and Viktor, 10, could not see the wave. Witnesses heard her scream: "Oh my god, not my children!"
Today, Mrs Svaerd told Expressen: "I yelled 'run, run'." But her voice was drowned out by the roar of the water.
"I got 150 meters out before they started to run. By then they'd also seen the wave."
The family got caught in the tsunami and was tossed around underwater. But one by one they managed to get to their feet and make it to higher ground.
An hour after the first wave hit, the family members, including Mrs Svaerd's husband and sister, who were sunbathing on the beach, had managed to locate each other.
"We all survived. That feeling is hard to describe," she said.
Agence France-Presse
"Maybe Yaelle is Jewish."
Why would Yaelle omit the "o" in God?
Each time I saw God mispelled i thought that the person who wrote it didn't believe in God or that their God must be different than the God of the rest of us. Until someone told that some people spell it w/o the "o" because their religious books tells them not to spell the whole word. It doesn't make sense.
Do they do this with Yahweh, too?
not sure....not Jewish myself.
Yes, it IS great news!
Kinda restores your faith in miracles, donit?
Remember, if you are on a beach and there has been an earthquake (you may not have even heard about a quake if you've been away from the news for several hours) and if you see the water suddenly rush away from the shoreline, run the other way and get to higher ground. The water rushes out in a tsunami before a huge amount water then washes in.
The name can never be discarded then either...as in a torn paper or book.
I do not know the origins of the spelling issue. I assumed it was an oral tradition. It may not make sense to you, but a lot of very religious Jews don't spell the name of God. God isn't even the name of God *LOL*
In Judaism there is a rule not to put the name of G-d on something that could be thrown away. So when we write His name on something like a regular piece of paper or a cyber message, we leave out the o. It's actually a sign of respect for G-d's holiness.
"It is reverent to spell the Lord's name by omitting the "o?" Well, that is certainly my first new thing learned in 2005."
I learned this recently. I don't think it's reverent to mispell it or omit the 'o' - I think it's disrepectful to God. I first I thought those who omitted the 'o' were atheists, or some non mainstream religion like Yeovah's Witnesses. Later I learned that it is the Jews omit the 'o'.
I think it's disrepectful to God.
"Do they do this with Yahweh, too?"
I don't know. But I think they would too. It makes sense that if out of "revence" to God they mispell God, they will mispell Yahweh's name too.
I'm not of the Jewish religion, so I wouldn't know. I'm a Christian.
And you give to the synagogue anything with prayers in it that is no longer useable. I believe they have a burial place for these things.
I guess these are just customs. But they are meant to try and never forget the holiness that is our Creator and the holiness that sets us apart from living as animals do (sorry to the PETA members).
Oddly, I'll bet they'll return over the years. Once they get over it. They're connected to the place now.
Thanks so much for your post. I read the other thread and was sure they had died. Good news for the new year!
G-d bless all the things we have in common.
"God isn't even the name of God *LOL*"
What!?
That is only one name for God, and that is God. It certainly isn't Allak.
Or for killing thousands of people, you jerk.
Thanks.
I think I now understand the why.
This is the first I have ever heard this in my life. And I honestly was confused as to why you posted it the way you did because I noticed you took care to capitalize the Lord's Name.
I apologize for taking this thread on a tangent. But, I suppose my thinking is that with so many in our society eagerly looking to displace the Name of God, and remove His Name from everything, my logic is that shoot -- say "God" and simply refuse to call Him by societal "spirit above," a presence" etc.
Thanks for explaining all that. :)
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