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Originally posted by Lira Dear people praying for Japan, You know those people you're praying for? Who are now homeless because of the earthquake and the tsunami? It's now snowing there and they're freezing to death. You need to pray harder. xoxoxoxo, - Lira

I affirm what Craig said. I expected more from you.

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Originally posted by Lira SDN48 (The rather nsfw version) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AYxVIP6Cn...sdn48_nude.jpeg

More of that i say!

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Originally posted by Moongoose More of that i say!

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Just heard in the last couple of hours they have evacuated a 10km area around the Fukushima Daini plant, the other plant south of the one causing 95% of the issues right now. No details as to why are known.

Could just be seeing radiation levels rise around that plant and doing it for precautionary reasons right now, but it is the middle of the night over there.

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Originally posted by igottaknow I affirm what Craig said. I expected more from you.

Well I thought the comment was much needed and spot on.

Nobody denies that praying people's hearts are in the right place, but the absurdity of praying to an omniscient/omnipotent being always strikes me as rather pointless and a bit conceited. Honestly guys, do you think you know something your god doesn't? If a god exists, he designed the universe, the planet, and knew about every factor involved in this tsunami long before it took place. Being omniscient and omnipotent, he knew what the consequences would be and could have prevented the earthquake if he chose to, but he obviously wanted it to happen. Why should he change his mind now? If he were to hear your pleas and and alter his plans for the aftermath, wouldn't that imply he wasn't omniscient or that made some sort of mistake in the first place? What kind of theological implications would that have for ya?

Every comment that disabuses people of the notion that prayer has any effect is a positive thing in my book. Sure it may hurt feelings and cause a few outraged scowls in the short run, but in order to make a difference in the long run, we need to move towards a world where people deal with reality on reality's terms, take whatever practical action they can, and stop believing they are helping things by talking to themselves. If that means a little rudeness towards superstition after events like this, so be it.

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Whats more interesting to me than the radiation half life, is the half-life of AKB48 members before they start doing AV, and man does the corresponding half-lives just get better after that stage!

I think they've lost two former members to the wily ways of pixelated pleasure!

pretty amazing new photos, courtesy of the Boston Globe's "Big Picture" series...



http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/20...evastation.html

DISCLAIMER: The following is definitely NOT meant to be taken personally by anyone, including the person to which it is addressed. It is meant to introduce perspective that, while not quite God-like, certainly attempts to paint an elevated picture through the use of carefully placed irony, self-deprecation, and tongue and cheek humor.

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Originally posted by Lira are there any more Christians around here?

I'm Christian. I'm also so insecure about my faith that I'm taking great offense at pretty much everything which could be construed to attack the ostensibly unprovable, omnipotent being which, apparently, I have "deluded" myself into believing in because it's the only remedy I have to cure the over-whelming fears (See Savage Worrier Spirit) conjured by this ultimately harsh world in which we live.

While I could have read your questioning of my faith as an expression of your own dismay and suffering, I am instead finding myself looking at your remarks as that which reflects poorly on me. While it would certainly have been the Christian thing to do, to turn the other cheek and let your verbal misstep slide into obscurity, I will, instead, lord your mistake over you with a carping guilt-trip to compensate for the fact that my unprovable entity will not reveal himself to you in the way you think he should manifest, were He to actually exist in anything other than my imagination.

So, please, as sarcastically as you can imagine (up to and including, a God-like sense of irony), accept my apology for my prayers not having the satisfactory results you'd envisioned. I'm quite sorry that, on top of the Earth's crust shifting so violently that a massive shock-wave of kinetic energy caused the earth to shake as the water surrounding its tectonic epicenter displaced so rapidly that a significant portion of Japan's Eastern shoreline remains under water, prevailing weather patterns persisted in the wake of such catastrophic devastation.

Earth's crust moves. Water displaces without compression. Man-made structures, including those which are designed to make use of mined fissile, nuclear material refined for potency so their innate energy can be harnessed to elevate the temperature of water to induce steam which then propels turbines attached to cam-shafts which drive a series of magnets between wire coils, are compromised; along with whatever safety apparatuses were contrived to mitigate dangers to the public's welfare. Low pressure systems and cold temperatures allow for moisture in the air to condensate into frozen precipitation called snow. Never a miscommunication. It just happens. You can't explain that.

Or, perhaps, there's something more to religion than a merely palliative, pseudo-opiate amelioration of human suffering?

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my old stuff, not quite up to snuff - but I still dig it - UPDATED 9/23/2012

I was raised Catholic, so I feel really, really bad about this.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

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Originally posted by The17sss pretty amazing new photos, courtesy of the Boston Globe's "Big Picture" series... http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/20...evastation.html

You know, i could stick this photo in there and people would still think, yeah that looks about right.




Thats hiroshima after the bomb. Kind of looks the same doesnt it.

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Originally posted by Moongoose You know, i could stick this photo in there and people would still think, yeah that looks about right. Thats hiroshima after the bomb. Kind of looks the same doesnt it.

Hiroshima looks better, everything is better in black and white. Certainly the more pretentious disaster

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