Posted on 02/20/2015 4:56:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Some time ago I collected a few links about why some people survive a disaster and others don’t. Assuming the event is survivable (and sometimes it’s not), it seems to have a lot to do with attitude.
You might remember the horrific 1994 sinking of a cruise ferry on the Baltic Sea. “Six hours into the journey,” notes this article, “pushing through a force nine gale, the bow door broke open and the ferry started taking on water. Within an hour it had sunk, taking with it 852 of its passengers and crew.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It’s like EVERYBODY is paying the Clintons protection money.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. :)
[I am forever grateful that the Hand of God protected me.]
When in trouble - CALL ON JESUS! When we call HIM, HE answers! JESUS is my 911.
Bene G was good for some things, tho a bit matrixey in others.
Newsmax is disgusting.
My elderly mother was taken in by one of their “scare” ads, and ordered a subscription to get one of those hand-cranked radios. It was shoddy doorstop. Must have cost them $5/gross from Red China.
What made me mad more than anything was that they pitched their ad directly at the anxious elderly.
My FIL was meek and mild, definitely not a cowboy. He survived the Bataan Death March, years of starvation as a POW, being taken on a Hell ship to Japan and being forced to work in the mines.
He didn’t talk about it much but one day he seemed receptive so I asked how he survived, he said you had to have friends and you all looked after each other.
Years ago I read a story about a class of young Canadian students who were given an assignment by their teacher:
Come up with a way that all of the passengers could have been saved from the Titanic.
Frankly, I believe the method they thought up would have worked.
They had plenty of able seaman, miles of rope and mountains of materials that would float fairly well...doors, furnishings, bed mattresses, etc....in addition to quite a collection of lifeboats. Not enough to load all the passengers, but ...
Their idea was that the seamen should have embarked on the boats, with the rope. The boats should have been formed into a giant circle, and then lashed together. Then all the passengers should have started throwing everything on the ship that would float into the center of the circle, while the sailors worked to lash the whole thing together into a solid floating mass.
Then passengers should have been calmly and methodically disembarked onto what would be in fact a giant raft.
All they had to do was to keep bodies up out of the water til morning when rescue ships began to arrive.
Again, I think it would have worked.
During the Carter years there was an analogy that appealed to me as being Spot On:
"The Ship of State is adrift in a sea of fiat currency and the Captain is using the rudder for a paddle." That could apply to terrorists and the Imam-of-State as well.
That was Newsmax.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
Your experience reminds me of an auto accident I was involved in over 20 years ago. I was driving a very small car, a Geo Storm, on an interstate highway, when a tractor trailer drifted into my lane.
He hit my car on the driver’s side in the area of the rear door. The impact spun my car around and far out in front of the truck only to leave me sitting crosswise in the road with the truck now bearing down on me.
I was screaming and praying. My car was totaled, but I had nothing more than some tiny cuts on my arms from the broken glass. My Savior held me close that day.
Definitely a miraculous event. Praise the Lord.
Fear Knocked.
Faith answered.
There was nobody there...
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