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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / January 2005Please Explain This To Me, Alis?
Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: PATONG BEACH, Thailand (Reuters) - People held candles and white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe. Now can you explain this to me, Alis, yaknow what with these folks being Buddhists and believing in re-incarnation, what are they grieving about? Don't they know that these dead folks will be re-incarnated as Cholera germs and will surely thrive during their next incarnation. Can you explain this cunundrum to me, Alis? After all, you are so good at these questions of faith. >Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Can you explain this cunundrum to me, Alis? After all, you are so good at these >questions of faith. T----A professed English buddhist I know fulfilled his lif's dream a couple of years ago by travelling around India visiting religious bodies of all kinds on a research of environmentalism and spirituality. He was deeply impressed with the practical charitable projects that were being worked at by the christian groups, ashrams and communities and was disillusioned that his idealised "spiritual" buddhists and hindus were not doing anything to help alleviate the awesome suffering and privation. There were one or two hindu groups that actaully did helpful things and they modelled themselves on the christians. Personally I believe that belief is stupefying. >>Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: >> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Personally I believe that belief is stupefying. I think you are right. These are beautiful religions, however, they seem to believe that whatever they are born in to is what they are supposed to go thru and the persons choice. Therefore, their cultures have not progressed in to making their whole society better for everyone. Also, it never made sense to me to honor cattle and not eat them when people are going hungry. Not sure which one of those religions that is. They are doing a lot more with milking and distributing the milk now though. Susie : Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: : [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] : Can you explain this cunundrum to me, Alis? After all, you are so good at these : questions of faith. People who believe that you go to heaven grieve their lost ones too. Do you always ask rhetorical questions like "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Do you have any idea how that makes you look?  SignatureAlias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. > Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the > globe. Yeah, CNN featured it too... I wondered how those people could find all those perfect white roses when most of the country can't find drinking water. In Thailand, it isn't "most" of the country that can't find drinking water. It is just along the coast that they had problems and Thailand is a big country with a big interior that wasn't touched by the tsunami directly. They are all affected though, because it is still a big disaster, but the only ones whose homes and businesses are gone and those that died, were along the coast. Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong. Susie >> Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > those perfect white roses when most of the country can't find drinking > water. > In Thailand, it isn't "most" of the country that can't find drinking water. > It is just along the coast that they had problems and Thailand is a big [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > along the coast. Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong. > Susie No, you are right. Unfortunately as with most countries, the coastline is heavily populated. It's a huge source of income, it's where the largest percentage of the resorts are so they lost a huge tourism income. When I took oceanography in college (quite a few years ago) there was a staggering percentage of the worlds population that lived within 2 miles of the coastline. BTW...drinking water is a large part of the relief aid so while it's not coming out of the tap, it is becoming available as fast as humanely possible. The difficulty lies in getting anything into the remote villages. Roads into them weren't much more than trails to begin with..now they have to clear tons of debris just to the trucks (and aid) close enough to help. Maybe what we should be sending is jet skis? AG > In Thailand, it isn't "most" of the country that can't find drinking > water. It is just along the coast that they had problems and Thailand is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > that died, were along the coast. Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong. > Susie Okay, but if, anywhere in Thailand, they have water to keep those white roses so fresh, don't you see a bit of irony? Waterspider >>> Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: >>> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> those perfect white roses when most of the country can't find drinking >> water. >> In Thailand, it isn't "most" of the country that can't find drinking >> water. It is just along the coast that they had problems and Thailand is [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Waterspider I get what you are saying. However, If the first two miles along the edge of California were swept clean by a tsunami, I'm sure they would still have drinking water in Omaha. Florist in Omaha would be busy sending flowers out to all of the people in Omaha that had relatives living along the coast line in California. Getting the drinking water from Omaha to the California coast line might be a problem.. I lived in Texas for several years, and hurricanes that hit the Gulf don't have any affect on the Texas Panhandle. In other areas though, such as the Maldives (did I spell that right) small flat islands lost almost everybody, because the tsunamis swept over the whole land mass, apparently.. Susie >>>> Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >>> those perfect white roses when most of the country can't find drinking >>> water. We just received a report from the affected area and no member of our sect of Buddhism perished and all are accounted for ... SignatureAlias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. : Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: : [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] : Can you explain this cunundrum to me, Alis? After all, you are so good at these : questions of faith. Since your sect is based on intolerance of others that don't think they way they do, this would be a good time for them to massacre the rest of the Buddhists, Muslims and other religions in Thailand and Sumatra. You could volunteer yourself as a suicide bomber, Cody. Elmo ///////// We just received a report from the affected area and no member of our sect of Buddhism perished and all are accounted for ... SignatureAlias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. "Firebird" <Firebird@some.domain> wrote in message news:YJGQ5NKA38353.6778587963@si93kru1.poster... Hey Alis, while browsing Reuters News I came across this article: PATONG BEACH, Thailand (Reuters) - People held candles and white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe. Now can you explain this to me, Alis, yaknow what with these folks being Buddhists and believing in re-incarnation, what are they grieving about? Don't they know that these dead folks will be re-incarnated as Cholera germs and will surely thrive during their next incarnation. Can you explain this cunundrum to me, Alis? After all, you are so good at these questions of faith. http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum : Since your sect is based on intolerance of others that don't think they : way they do, this would be a good time for them to massacre the rest of : the Buddhists, Muslims and other religions in Thailand and Sumatra. You : could volunteer yourself as a suicide bomber, Cody. : Elmo : ///////// Um, we do tolerate other religions, even if we think they are misleading and/or false. I personally believe in religious freedom and so does the sect I belong to. We do not believe in killing like Bush and your ilk does, nor do we believe in being suicide bombers so you were saying? SignatureAlias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. : We just received a report from the affected area and no member of our : sect of Buddhism perished and all are accounted for ... <snippage> . I personally believe in religious freedom Cody, I was gonna nail you on this one. Then I realized that religious freedom theoretically includes the right to dis someone else's religion. Spidey : <snippage> : [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] : : Spidey Yep, so does Freedom of Speech, something else I believe in. SignatureAlias Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. in regards to your "Sect" , Alias. You should have been surfing over there, dude! Randy |
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