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A tornado is a weather phenomenon. Period. That said, it is not a mysterious phenomenon. Meteorlogical science knows how tornadoes are formed and has for decades. Whether you believe in Global Warming or Global Cooling only a fool does not believe that there is Climate Change underway. So, going forward, does the most technologically advanced nation ever watch helplessly as more and more of these weather phenomenon wreack havoc on population centers? That's what would be sad. If the DOD condidered tornadoes or F5 hurricanes the way they considered the Ruskies we would have developed the ability to reduce or eliminate the threat from weather fronts by 1975. The Army Corps of engineers might actually be able to build levees that hold... imagine. For most of our lives the big disasters have always been somewhere else. That time is coming to an end.
God didn't do anything, its the natural ebb and flow of the weather cycle. Tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanos, etc have always been there.
But we used to not live in an area that is 3/4's a mile wide by 7 miles long, all packed into tight little cubicles.
I feel terrible for the people in the area, but its as random as "why did that tree fall on his car when he got in" category. **** happens, no meaning behind it. Death isn't something to be afraid of. Those that have died have it a whole lot easier then those left behind to rebuild.
Death isn't something to be afraid of. Those that have died have it a whole lot easier then those left behind to rebuild.
What do you know about it? The afterlife might be the tailgate party that never ends or it might be the root canal that never ends or it might be nothing at all. If only because this corporeal existence is all we know, life is cherished, even if it sometimes isn't much of a life by middle class standards. I do not look forward to having a wall fall on me during a wild tornado and bleeding slowly to death from grave injuries under tons of rubble. Easy? Easier? Some choice.
What do you know about it? The afterlife might be the tailgate party that never ends or it might be the root canal that never ends or it might be nothing at all. If only because this corporeal existence is all we know, life is cherished, even if it sometimes isn't much of a life by middle class standards. I do not look forward to having a wall fall on me during a wild tornado and bleeding slowly to death from grave injuries under tons of rubble. Easy? Easier? Some choice.
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We are all going to die. I said it, scary. Honestly, its nothing to be afraid of because its like trying to stop the inevitable. We are all going to die, no ones getting out of here alive this time. (thanks ff)
If its good, bad, nothing, something we couldn't possibly imagine that defys the concepts of good and bad to the human mind. Still going to get there one way or the other. Its like trying to be scared of the morning. Its going to get there one way or the other. Whether you see it is another question entirely.
The Joplin tragedy was a random event that occurred independently of any other event. The tornado left a 6 mile by half mile swath of damage. Three square miles of ground were effected by this storm. If you toss a dart at a map of any 3 square mile patch of ground in the midwest, odds are great that you will hit a rural, sparsely populated patch and not a densely populated urban patch. Most tornadoes that touchdown, and many do not, do little damage because they touchdown in a field somewhere in the sticks. This tornado hit a densely populated urban area... not because God is unmerciful, not because of global warming, not because Joplin was due for one.
Well that has always been and not just from fundalmentalist either.Look at those who rave on global wrmings ;creat comspiracies by e-mail and say they know. The earth as always had cycles in weather and disasters. In fact the PNW is 150 uyears over due scientist say for a earthqauke as bad as japans but closer to shore that will surpass it in deaths and damage because of that.Then they say many other spots are long over due. Frankly give me the hurricanes any day.But then you actually have people who take LSD to expand their minds;crack for some reaosn and get on other drugs to the point of suicide often. Real thionkers in this world as seen everyday.Personally reading the bible I don't see this as anything god like from even what it tells of god's rath.A simple reading will tell you of that.
God must have been pissed at my car. It just got hit with golf ball size hail and we have rotation to the north and south.
stay safe
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