--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sorry to be so negative here, but I'm still reeling > from Bob Brigante blaming the floods on "wrongdoers" in > the affected communities. That's as insane as Christians > blaming 9/11 on gays and lesbians and liberals, and > someone should say so. >
******** I'm sorry to have tempted you to be so negative here, but I should point out that I did say that poor planning was responsible for much of the damage seen currently in Iowa (although being stupid more or less amounts to wrongdoing because every human should develop his full mental potential and not be a burden on the earth): from post 180033: "...for instance, Cedar Rapids had the hubris to put its city hall, courthouse and jail on a small island in the center of the river: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/13flood.html Those who decline to appreciate the holistic nature of the universe are certainly entitled to think whatever they want, but it's a very limited understanding of the world-as-it-is. Nature reacts to man's doing, good or bad, and every sage there ever was has said so -- the universe is a machine that sends impulses of correction when humans go out of balance (or support when people do the right thing), just like good parents do when their kids go wrong. If you want to put your faith in some science guys in lab coats who pooh-pooh any such holistic notions, that's fine with me, but that is a religion of scientism that is much more primitive and illogical than you imagine holistic thinking to be. To blame 9/11 only on gays and lesbians and liberals is an attempt to scapegoat, and I am certainly not doing that in saying that natural disasters are the reaction of Nature to wrongdoing. When the majority of people in society engage in behavior that causes unhappiness, nature reacts. You don't buy that, fine, but life will continue to operate on that basis regardless of anybody's recognition or not.
