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I hope that no one took from my last post that lessons cannot be learned through adversity. That is not at all what I meant. What I did mean was that if a moral agent of some sort is infused into the situation then the "lesson" becomes very subjective. I don't see that as a lesson in the traditional sense. I do see rising above circumstances in an effort to reconstruct not so much a lesson as a hard-wired "drive". We all react biologically to events. If someone throws something at you, you don't think about moving, you move. We overcome a lot in life because our survival (literally) depends upon doing so. But when a tornado or a hurricane destroy half of a state I don't believe there is a god of any sort imposing lessons for the purposes of edification. I do understand that when something powerful, something that cannot be stopped, visits us, there is, at times, a wish that allows people to reach for something even more powerful. But that is also where the problems start because to hold that line of thinking it would appear (at least along the TX coast) like Ike won. Just my thoughts. -Drew We should have never started nameing them. They are noting more than big winds. 'Ike' did not win anything. It merely followed its path as it clensed the air, shifted the tempetures and did its part to prepare the areas it visited for the next part of earths cycle. We ARE talking about a machine. The earth is simply a machine. Driven by physical realities and interactions between electromagnatic fields and gravitational forces. Are we but the dust of the ages caught within or are we as we believe in the image of something greater? If we are in the image of something greater one day we will look upon the history of the earth from a diferent perspective and ike will be but a footnote on the pages of glory. |
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Whats the reasoning behind the male names by the way? I like the lady's names honestly. Its much more appropriate.
  
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Cause women complained to the weather service about naming them all female.
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Edited by
Jeanniebean
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Sat 09/20/08 10:40 AM
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Cause women complained to the weather service about naming them all female.
This is absolutely true. People have some concept of the earth spirit as a female and all that "mother nature" stuff so the storms were always named with female names for years. I rather think a lot of men like the male names. They like to kick ass, take names and tear the hell out of stuff.
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I hope that no one took from my last post that lessons cannot be learned through adversity. That is not at all what I meant. What I did mean was that if a moral agent of some sort is infused into the situation then the "lesson" becomes very subjective. I don't see that as a lesson in the traditional sense. I do see rising above circumstances in an effort to reconstruct not so much a lesson as a hard-wired "drive". We all react biologically to events. If someone throws something at you, you don't think about moving, you move. We overcome a lot in life because our survival (literally) depends upon doing so. But when a tornado or a hurricane destroy half of a state I don't believe there is a god of any sort imposing lessons for the purposes of edification. I do understand that when something powerful, something that cannot be stopped, visits us, there is, at times, a wish that allows people to reach for something even more powerful. But that is also where the problems start because to hold that line of thinking it would appear (at least along the TX coast) like Ike won. Just my thoughts. -Drew We should have never started nameing them. They are noting more than big winds. 'Ike' did not win anything. It merely followed its path as it clensed the air, shifted the tempetures and did its part to prepare the areas it visited for the next part of earths cycle. We ARE talking about a machine. The earth is simply a machine. Driven by physical realities and interactions between electromagnatic fields and gravitational forces. Are we but the dust of the ages caught within or are we as we believe in the image of something greater? If we are in the image of something greater one day we will look upon the history of the earth from a diferent perspective and ike will be but a footnote on the pages of glory. Very well put!! |
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Cause women complained to the weather service about naming them all female.
This is absolutely true. People have some concept of the earth spirit as a female and all that "mother nature" stuff so the storms were always named with female names for years. I rather think a lot of men like the male names. They like to kick ass, take names and tear the hell out of stuff.
The NWS alternates male/female names every year. The bad ones get retired. |
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Sometimes God does things in strange ways!.We won't know why God allowed Katrina, or Ike, to happen. God also has a wrath, when he is angry. Remember a house is material"You can't take it with you when you go!". I do know God restores and pray for that in Jesus name!.
My trailer caught fire in 2003 on Christmas Day!. I lost my trailer,everything and my cat. I cried for the loss of my cat because it was alive animal. I told God I hope he didn't suffer, and to place him in his beautiful garden.I pray every day and thank God I wasn't in the trailer when the short in the wall took place that night because I could have died in my sleep. I was visiting family, and no tree was up!. I threw the loss of the trailer in Gods hands. Give the situation to God and he'll restore. God tests us all the time!. Look at what he did to Job!. Put your best Faith forward!. God Bless, From Linda |
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