Tragedy: Tsunami & Earthquakes

[Melodramatic]

The news are very aweful concerning this tragedy that hit some countries. What d'you guys think of this current wrath of mother nature that claimed lots of lives? It's also pretty stormy here in South Cali.

[xuleicolin]

It makes me think of Noah's Ark, the anger of God. How terrible!

[Manu]

It's really sad. And they have said that the tragedy could've been prevented: since the earthquake happened, and until the tsunami hit those countries, there were about 2 hours. Two hours! Enough time to evacuate the people in the coasts.

[xuleicolin]

It's really sad. And they have said that the tragedy could've been prevented: since the earthquake happened, and until the tsunami hit those countries, there were about 2 hours. Two hours! Enough time to evacuate the people in the coasts.

Few people had met this before and did't know the power of the nature.

[MetalicGuy]

Many swedes are missing... i think it will be a very depressed new years eve celebration here...

[britkit]

i'm just shocked at the number of deaths...i still recall a few days ago on yahoo when they only reported about 4,000 dead..now its like.... 117,000.... it sjust absurd!

[DavidAlizée]

Lets hope something similar doesnt happen again so soon.. For all of our sakes.

[Melodramatic]

What a bad way to end a waning year eh? I feel suspisciously that this has something to do with the signs of Nostradamus (or maybe not). Did you also hear about the train incident. Damn, the bodies were starting to stink, they say. To think that some of those folks just spent christmas a while ago.

[britkit]

wanna see a freaky movie that will def. make you change your mind about something..go get the final world order or something...i am not religious.. but im thinking about it now... it predicts everything to even the europe going to one currency.... very freaky... that movie made me feel sick

[RR]

by the way, some of the news are posted here

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http://www.alizee-forum.com/ltopic,2123,0,asc,1515.html

and considering my country is just some kilometres away from the epicentre, we're very lucky no tsunamis reached here. still, some of my country's citizens died and still hundreds missing.

[Zeka]

Horrible and terrifying!!!!No words can be found to describe what happened!!I'm so sorry.Unfortunately,this is just one more proof that nature still can be incredibly dangerous,although we are trying to controll it.Now everyone can see that is not possible.

[xuleicolin]

yeah, we can controll polluting the entiroment, but can not controll the earthquake and some other disasters, but I think if there was an alarm availible it won't causes so many death.

[Artszfar]

Lots of 26th/12 tsunami videos can be found here:

http://www.waveofdestruction.org/videos/

Scary.

[xuleicolin]

Some terrible pics of the tsunami & earthquake, shock!

I wont post them here, the pics are too tragic, u can click the links if u wanna see.



EDITED BY D4sser

Sorry, but for honor and respect 4 da victims, those links r banned. If da ppl wants see pics of disasters that search in google. Thx.

[DavidAlizée]

I don't think you should show those pics at all. Come on.. remove that botton link, no need to show that at all. Its just sick. Its not even about an earthquake, its just pictures of death.

[Ayan]

How terrible. At first they reported about 10'000 people's death. Now the number has increased 10x . And they still haven't contacted all regions which were hit by it. So can we conclude the number can increase itself multiple times more? Up to 1 million perhaps?


http://commons.wikimedia.org/upload/c/c8/Banda_Aceh_Before_and_After_2004_Tsunami.jpg

[DavidAlizée]

THAT is insane! so much destruction!! :shock:

[Melodramatic]

You can practically see the soil particles spreading across the sea as shown in the picture above. That island stinks of corps now, & the missing children, & survivor infants losing their parents. :cry:

[Max_07s]

my friends told me that there is no new year celebration in malaysia because want to give a a respect to the victims family..

[xuleicolin]

I don't think you should show those pics at all. Come on.. remove that botton link, no need to show that at all. Its just sick. Its not even about an earthquake, its just pictures of death.

Very sorry about that, I didn't mean to, the pics seriously shocked me, I dont know why human beings should suffered this and hope it won't happen anymore, and sorry again.

[DavidAlizée]

Im not blaming you, just that.. there are some young people like 12 years old on the forum.. ekkk, see where im going :)

[tern]

It is so sad. I can't even imagine what this will do to these places for years and years to come.

[jaxpot]

I don't really believe in god. One of the victims who lost 24 family members said he couldn't bring himself to pray anymore. I guess he's like me now. We must all come to realize that religion is just to give people faith and keep society in order. The movie "The Village" is a perfect parallel of what i'm trying to say.

[Joseph]

However high the number of deaths are, they are not surprising to me, as that region has concentrations of people in one town for instance that exceed GREAT numbers.

[DavidAlizée]

I don't really believe in god. One of the victims who lost 24 family members said he couldn't bring himself to pray anymore. I guess he's like me now. We must all come to realize that religion is just to give people faith and keep society in order. The movie "The Village" is a perfect parallel of what i'm trying to say.

Religion is mans effort to get to God. To be honest, its the biggest factor of all wars. I belive in God and Jesus Christ. I can understand that guy saying he can't bring himself round to pray anymore.. thats understandable. However, in time he will pray again.

I guess he knows his family is in heaven with God now, but is so dissapointed to lose them. In time, he will comw around, as the thought of his family alive in the afterlife in the kingdom of God, will all he will have left .

[Melodramatic]

I don't really believe in god. One of the victims who lost 24 family members said he couldn't bring himself to pray anymore. I guess he's like me now. We must all come to realize that religion is just to give people faith and keep society in order. The movie "The Village" is a perfect parallel of what i'm trying to say.
Such a rash quote you got there. Religion is what's left of "God" in these godless times. It doesn't impose what/not to believe. You still have a choice in the matter.

[UK Fan 2003]

This is so sad...the worst natural disaster that has happened in a long time...I just feel for the families that have lost relatives and friends in this awful tsuami.... :roll:

My heart goes out to them... :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Melodramatic]

Just an update on the tragic Tsunami incident. It has been reportedly close to 150,000 deaths according to the news after some bodies were recovered.

[britkit]

Ihaave a question...why do people say that people are in heaven when they die? I read thebible a few times, if i am understanding it correctly... you just don't exist till christ comes back to resurrect the souls.... then whats with the whole in heaven now thing? I am so confused... religion scares me.... its like... it was an object created on peoples fears to get the perfect man image people...

[DavidAlizée]

it just talks about heaven, is a place where you go when you die. The talk about Christ coming again, is true yes to save our souls and forgive us of our sins and to reward them who have been faithful to love God and faith in Jesus.. But, thats why Jesus died on the cross, to forgive us of our sins so we can go to heaven.

Hope this makes sense :P

[tern]

I don't really believe in god. One of the victims who lost 24 family members said he couldn't bring himself to pray anymore. I guess he's like me now. We must all come to realize that religion is just to give people faith and keep society in order. The movie "The Village" is a perfect parallel of what i'm trying to say.
Such a rash quote you got there. Religion is what's left of "God" in these godless times. It doesn't impose what/not to believe. You still have a choice in the matter.

Yeah

Also, the toll is so high because so many of these countries are never any higher than 30 feet above sea level, so there is no high ground to escape to.

[jaxpot]

I was born catholic but I turned atheist. It must be the will of GOD! He made me that way.

[DavidAlizée]

If you belive that, i pitty you. :wink:

[Max_07s]

I believe in god..and everybody should..but this is only my opinion..

[Melodramatic]

I was born catholic but I turned atheist. It must be the will of GOD! He made me that way.
Lemme guess. Did a couple of wayward, pedophile priests drove you away?

[Max_07s]

i think the religion discussion is a sensitive..so better we go back to our topic.. :roll:

[tern]

I agree with Max on everything. But, back to topic at hand. I read today that US private donations have reached over $200 million. I am glad for this.

[Melodramatic]

that's so great. how much was the worth of the damage caused by the Tsunami? Close to 2 billion right?

[ArlettyFan]

I don't really believe in god. One of the victims who lost 24 family members said he couldn't bring himself to pray anymore. I guess he's like me now. We must all come to realize that religion is just to give people faith and keep society in order. The movie "The Village" is a perfect parallel of what i'm trying to say.

jaxpot, the village is a movie thats trying to say that religon is a degree of control that keeps society in line, and that it is supposed to be a good thing. Overall, it is a pro bush and pro religon movie, with the view, don't give people knowledge, and the people will behaive themselves. So rather the opposite they are saying solitude, and simpler times are better for peoples morals, and that what bush wants from this country is the right thing.

My Film teacher brought this up because he was suprised to see a pro bush movie pop up that summer, with all the other anti bush movies dominating the box office at the same time (like "day after tomarrow" with it's blatant mockery of dick cheney and the whole bush administration") just about every move that came out then had some kind of undertone or hidden message politically, with 9/11 centering around that message completely to round it out.

The village had a rare viewpoint among movies and the industry. It also had an ending that people saw coming, even if they didn't read the book.

pro bush!

I...for the record, am not pro bush. Please don't turn this thread political, it does not need to be, I only stated the viewpoint of the movie. Back to Alizee.

[MetalicGuy]

I read somewhere that a terrorist group even donated some money :shock:

[DavidAlizée]

http://www.muchosucko.com/video-tsunamibeachomgkids.html


Its not a bad video, but still... scary as hell. Real footage of the first wave. Just as the video ends.. you can see the big wave building up.

2nd wave: http://www.muchosucko.com/video-tsunamicomingfast.html

Its just so strong, keeps on going and going.

Ignore the silly cockney saying "facken hell"

[MetalicGuy]

OMG... i found these pages.. i don't know if they are serious.. but if they are.. they have a screw loose..

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

http://rawstory.rawprint.com/1204/westboro_tsunami_statement_1230.php

[DavidAlizée]

The Americans have gone across to help, but the goverment are not letting them in, they say the yanks will steal stuff. ( Can you blame the goverment for saying that?.. i can't.. look at the way they went on in Iraq )

[DavidAlizée]

Un-f*ing-belivable ... amazing these yanks...


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=208&item=3951228079&rd=1

[X_Vapor_X]

Un-f*ing-belivable ... amazing these yanks...


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=208&item=3951228079&rd=1

Yeah, portion he says. Like 1% of it probably. If he was so concerned, you'd think he'd just donate $50 instead.

[tern]

Un-f*ing-belivable ... amazing these yanks...


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=208&item=3951228079&rd=1

I'm a yank and I think that's totally F***ing sick. I hate the rap the few people give my country.

[Joseph]

hahahha! That's rather sad... money shouldn't be that much of a priority to anyone!

[Moco]

Well, you know, tragedies can either bring out the best in people or the worst in people. It's a sad fact that there will always be those who would take advantage of other's misfortunes for their own personal greed. Even though the seller says the money will be donated to the victims, I seriously doubt it. I'm glad no one has actually bid on it.

[krazykanadian]

I'm planning to donate $50 tomorrow to the Canadian Red Cross. It's the least I can do.

[Mr Bond]

That is very sick. :cry: Competely wrong how can they think of that? Ebay should pull the auction. I reported this item I think it can be classed as offensive material maybe they might do something?

[DavidAlizée]

Even though the seller says the money will be donated to the victims, I seriously doubt it. .

Yeah, i very much doubt he will donate anything at all. It was on the news in England, so he has had his little bit of fame, i think now it will be removed as a sign of respect if anything else.

[DavidAlizée]

This listing (3951228079) has been removed by eBay. Make sure that you've entered the item number correctly.
Please consider this listing and transaction as cancelled. If anybody contacts you to complete the sale, please ignore the request. Completing the sale outside of eBay may be unsafe and will not be covered by eBay purchase protection programs.


and now it has.

[tern]

That is good news. I'm glad eBay did that.

[Tristana]

I don't really believe in god. One of the victims who lost 24 family members said he couldn't bring himself to pray anymore. I guess he's like me now. We must all come to realize that religion is just to give people faith and keep society in order. The movie "The Village" is a perfect parallel of what i'm trying to say.

jaxpot, the village is a movie thats trying to say that religon is a degree of control that keeps society in line, and that it is supposed to be a good thing. Overall, it is a pro bush and pro religon movie, with the view, don't give people knowledge, and the people will behaive themselves. So rather the opposite they are saying solitude, and simpler times are better for peoples morals, and that what bush wants from this country is the right thing.

My Film teacher brought this up because he was suprised to see a pro bush movie pop up that summer, with all the other anti bush movies dominating the box office at the same time (like "day after tomarrow" with it's blatant mockery of dick cheney and the whole bush administration") just about every move that came out then had some kind of undertone or hidden message politically, with 9/11 centering around that message completely to round it out.

The village had a rare viewpoint among movies and the industry. It also had an ending that people saw coming, even if they didn't read the book.

pro bush!

I...for the record, am not pro bush. Please don't turn this thread political, it does not need to be, I only stated the viewpoint of the movie. Back to Alizee.

:shock:
Did you see the movie ?
It just tells that religion and society control everything and everybody, but it's not a good thing at all ! At the end they are asking them what to do : keep the peace and let the boy die, or tell the truth and save the boy. The director doesn't think letting a boy die to keep a false peace is the right choice, for example when the old are arguing and one is saying that the lie has been too far...
Really, I didn't understand it in that way, and I don't think your interpretation is right.

As for the tsunami... horrible, there's no words to express what I can feel about this tragedy. God's choice ? My dear, not... it's just nature.

[Marcust-235]

Just know many Hong Kong's donating money to those countries and other countries' citizen too.
Good~

[FilleBaisers]

I find it repulsive that people turned the aid giving into politics.