I Love Natural Disasters

Cheers thx for the insight bro but I never actually gave any indication of my age through the progression of these emotions. It's not like I woke up yesterday with new feelings.

 

No Offence Meant Irm......But Don't You Think After Nearly 16,000 Posts It Just May Be Time

To Pull Your Head Out Of Your Ass......And Accept The Fact That The World Does NOT In

Fact Revolve Around You......And Only You......



Cheers Glen.

 

Aww man I missed my 15k post thread!

 

nature only becomes disaster when people have built in the path of it, in ways not designed in accordance with it.
its usually not the victims who get the chance to decide this though.
and it is almost always greed, though the rest of time custom, though generally a combination of both,
that puts the wrong kinds of designs, in the wrong places.
making the land a commodity to buy and sell, almost guarantees this to happen too.

the universe wasn't created for us.
we're its after thought.
tolerated, but only just.

there is so much better sense we could use,
and always so many reasons for not doing so.

it is fascinating to see nature going about what it does,
and how, people parking themselves in the way of it,
does so very little to prevent it doing so.

its just as much fun to watch when people haven't parked themselves in the way of it too.

another dumb thing people do, is to blame a god or gods,
as if it or they, had anything to do, with themselves parking their own fat asses in the way of it.

 

Yes, The Tabloids will feed our worst instincts with vouyeristic trash. The internet is right behind.

Schadenfruede.

 

I was mulling over the subject yesterday and was picturing a time when I was standing next to the ocean as a hurricane was rolling in. The winds were picking up, the air was swollen and heavy with rain, the increasingly massive waves rolled in and struck the sea wall with such a powerful ferocity. I was standing a hundred feet overlooking the sea and the water was still beginning to splash up over the wall. I was seriously in awe of the whole scene. I swear I could feel the sheer power and energy of the storm buzzing in the air. It was amazing.

So, in that sense, I can understand what you mean about enjoying natural disasters. I can embrace humbling sense of smallness that comes from witnessing "bad weather" . Although I don't, at all, like the carnage and damage that natural disasters do to life, both human and otherwise. That hurricane did some serious harm to the coastline, as well as people's houses and lives. That was not fun.

 

The power of nature is humbling in a world of egotistical assholes, and lost souls. If there was another yeah, then maybe I wouldn’t like them, but for now, it seems like humanity needs such experiences.

Hey when was the last time people were nice and kind to one another for no apparent reason, it always take a disaster first for people to come together. And then, within a few months, we go right back to the fight or flight behavior as if nothing happened.

Actually I don’t, those are all just assumptions. I have been through every kind of terrain, I lived in places with blizzards, desert heat waves, earthquakes, floods, etc. I’ve been through a heat attack where I had to ask someone to go inside a store and buy me a gatorade, because I could barely move for a while. And yet, I still don’t think I’m better than the nature and cosmos.

Where do you get off telling me I’m childish? If anything, the understanding that death is inevitable is the most mature thing you can come to realize. And if you have to die, and we all will, then why not by the hand, or even blessing of the forces of wind, water, and natural melancholy. Oh but you want to die, hooked to a machine, semiconscious on morphine, with little to no funciton left in your mind. That sounds childish, no wait, actually it sounds like you’re just a zombie.

And for that matter most of the recent increased melancholy of natural disasters has been in part to climate change. So you as a human being, think that we can go around displacing resources and destroying the Earth, and think there is no repercussion?

Hey fat kid, if you keep eating that bag of cheese puffs, you will get fat and disgusting. Hey you sound like a child to me. There are consequences to your actions, and on a grand scale there are as well.

I guess you never watched A Perfect Storm either, such numb scull neanderthals I’m dealing with these days. I’ve been here since the beginning. I survived every Ice Age, you barely remember last year.

 

I know what you mean. While natural disasters are awful regarding all the property and lives they destroy, there is some sort of fascination about them I can relate to.

Seeing imagery of houses being buried up to the roof in Mt. St. Helens dust, homes torn up by tornadoes, cars floating away in tsunamis, mudslides taking out roadways, seeing acres of forest being burned, earthquakes splitting buildings in half. It's all really fascinating because you never expect to see this kind of phenominon.

When my town experienced a nasty tropical flood one winter, the main street turned into a river and washed everything away. Everyone gathered around because it was so fascinating. When the forest down the hill from my parent's house caught fire, I was on top of the hill taking photos. I guess this is why Discovery channel airs shows on natural disasters.

Nevertheless, to totally disregard and have no respect for the lives lost in such disasters is morbidly ill.

 

you're a child, you're not afraid of death because you know nothing about it. OHHH I got light headed and had to drink a gatorade.
What an idiot thinking the movie Perfect Storm is what really happens. Foolish hollywood shit sold to kids like you.
I get off tell you you are childish because you are. You don't understand death because you've never had to deal with it. I've heard my friend tell me goodbye and tell his wife and kids he loves them just before his boat went down in a storm less than 10 miles away.

 

Like that Dantes Peak stupid movie and just when it couldn't get any stupider they throw a dog in there to create drama and emotion lol. Typical Hollywood.

 

Well some get what I mean then I guess Im done here. Im not going to sit here and argue as you try to make me feel bad abour your friend dying. As if its my fault, you know what save your story for someone else.

 

It's all blah blah blah and we blah blah bck.

 

Like I said, spoiled children.

 

We understand you and we know you’re closely following what going on in Southern California this weekend,


[SIZE=18pt]"Strongest storm in 7 years could hit L.A. tonight; flooding, mudslides, 'crippling' snow feared" [/SIZE]

No doubt hoping for a high death toll

Hotwater

 

I was going to name my paper "Michael Jackson sitting on top of the world" but now I might as well name it "Michael Jackson can sit on top of the world, as long he doesn't go into the Beverly Palm hotel, cause there no niggers allowed in there!

 

Wait what? I don't know what you're talking about and the racist thing is uncalled for. There was a standup bit by George Carlin when he talked about natural disasters.

What would being spoiled have to do anything? I think you just like to be judgemental and I don't even have the context of what you're talking about. You made this into something overly personal.

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oRAJYVRSuMg

I think this is the one.

 

I understand you like the strength of mother nature. It is an amazing thing the force that can come.
But you said I don't feel like there is anything bad about that. I like reading news when people die by a storm, earthquake, flood, etc.
That where you lose your way, you "like" reading about someone's death. These are more than just enjoyment for you, these are people, someone's father, mother child, brother, or sister. These are people someone loves they are missed and that's where your youth comes in. You don't know the heartbreak of losing a special person. The shock as you sit in a funeral home the day your mother dies, with a overwhelming amount of questions they ask. The pain of talking to your aunt as she tells you she doesn't know what she's going to do without the person she's been with for over 50 years.
So yes this is personal for me. Someday it will be for you.

 

But don't you think that modern natural disasters in typhoons and violent storms are also manmade due to the impact of global warming !

 

I have been to a funeral, whats you think I haven't? Because you're older? This isn't a matter of experience or maturity, this is a matter of philosophical outlook. Such is the human condition that you could not possibly feel bad for every single person who passes away. That doesn't even make any sense. Do you feel bad about the people I lost? No, you don't, you couldn't possibly because you don't even know who they are. If you claim to, it would be to some imaginary idea of a person since you never knew them.

You are laying some claim that I lost my sense of compassion when in fact it makes no sense. I have a more enlightened view about reality. Also, I mentioned that natural disasters could be more intensified by humankind alterating the climate.

I don't feel bad or sorry when someone says I should for someone, I do when I deem it is appropriate, and that is based on my own reasoning. I trust that more than your desire to make offers feel miserable, just because you do.