Do you think that all of the major National Disasters we keep having, have religious apocalyptic undertones?
Jan 12, 2010
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For the last couple of years there seem to be SO MANY major national disasters. Ohio is underwater, fires burning CONSTANTLy everywhere. The one in California has been burning for like a month. A Hurricane just devastated a part of Mexico, Katrina wasn’t too long ago, and again SO MANY fires and even more hurricanes.
And let’s not forget about the terrible tornados of which more than I can think of right now have ripped through our country recently.
Isn’t this a HUG upswing from what we used to have as of about 6 years and more ago?
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15 comments
rt66lt on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
No, and no. There aren’t that many major disasters. There appears to me more than there had been, but a lot of that is due to the availability of media which was almost non-existent not too long ago.
What if I told you a major earthquake stuck in Missouri, so powerful it rung church bells in Boston and sent the Mississippi River flowing backward? It happend in 1812. This was the strongest earthquake in US history, but the world didn’t end. Major tornadoes swung through the midwest for centuries, one touch down and crossed three states, but this happend over a hundred years ago.
Sneha P on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I think its the earth telling us to start taking care of her
Edgar on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
!!APOCALYPSE NOW!!
amarugian on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
there is nothing new. you are just hearing abour it within 30 minutes of it happening.
eventhisidistaken on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Our ancestors who lived through the ice age probably thought the same thing.
agnosticmom on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
no, those things have always happened. they are just more glorified now.
Little Girl Blue on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I don’t think so. I believe that the powers that be in today’s media have just taken these things on as pet stories, so to speak. They report on these things and show devastating pictures and bug their eyes out when they say things like "HUNDREDS may DIE!" and their ratings go up. I really think that’s all there is to it. I lived in California and there is nothing new about devastating wildfires, I lived in New Orleans and there is nothing new about flooding (it was the levees breaking that turned that one into the horrific disaster that it was.). I grew up in Florida and hurricanes tore through it like clockwork every year. We just hear about it more.
Adam's Rib on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
It is prophecy for sure. But, no warning is good enough for those who do not believe. Look at Noah’s time. Only eight people survived.
jimmeisnerjr on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
No.
I think it’s more an example of a HUGE upswing from what YOU were aware of about 6 years ago.
You think it’s bad now . . . at least you weren’t in Galveston in 1900.
http://www.1900storm.com/
Or in Europe in the middle ages
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
Or in San Fransisco in 1906
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/sfeq.htm
Or living in Pompeii when the earth exploded.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pompeii.htm
So, do our current times have apocalyptic undertones? Only if you have no knowledge of history.
Godspeed.
Brooklyn NYC on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I do not see apocalyptic undertones.
I do see a lot of symptoms of our mistakes though. The wildfires matter because people have build houses in and cities near the forest, and we divert water away from these areas for irrigation and drinking. And fires are a natural part of the rejuvenation process in these forests.
Floods are getting worse due to global warming and because we have systematically drained or otherwise damaged the wetlands that could absorb this water – all in the name of progress or mosquito control. Sadly, since these ecosystems are so complex, it will take decades to restore them.
Finally, we know more about various disasters now due to 24-hour broadband news. 30 years ago, people read the paper in the morning and watched the news at night, and if the disaster wasn’t covered, they would not know about it. Now, we watch/listen to/read the news all day and all night.
soccerstaratheist on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
no!!!!!!!!!!11
Catherine E on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
There has always been a lot of natural disasters. It’s not that there’s more now, it’s just that the media is capable of faster and more widespread coverage now, so you hear about it more. Also, people are more interested in international news now than they ever were before. 100 years ago, people really didn’t care all that much about an earthquake that happened in China or a wildfire that happened on the other side of the country.
AnArdRi on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Here’s what humans do: Something happens, and humans try to fit it into a narrative, so that it makes sense.
Since the major narrative in the west is the Bible, with its "apocalypse" all built in, we thread unpleasant events together and try to convince ourselves that we are in the "end times." We like to do this because it makes our own, pitiable, miserable, unimportant deaths seem more interesting.
bookie0116 on January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
{Matthew 24:7}"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another.} This prophecy is being fulfilled now. {2 Tim 3:1-5} "But know this, that in the last days, critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming,haughty,blasphemers,disobedient to parents,unthankful,disloyal,having no natural affection, not open to any agreement,slanderers,without self control,fierce,without love of goodness,betrayers,headstrong,puffed up with pride,lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,having a form of Godly devotion but proving false to it’s power,and from these turn away."} So we can see that we are living in the last days, and these major natural disasters are a sign that the end is near. But there is something we all need to do to survive this "Apocalypse"which in the Bible is called "Harmageddon". We need to come to an accurate knowledge of God and his son Jesus Christ.{John 17:3}. And obey his counsel set out for us in the Bible.
สัตีภon January 12, 2010 at 2:12 pm
good question i’ll use it