One Year Anniversary of the Tsunami

Marthatex said:

It's too sad to even imagine; we can only see the pictures on TV or read about it. I can't imagine such a thing happening and the devastation to the people and families.

Of course the earthquake in Pakistan was devastating also, as well as Katrina for us. We have our own problems with New Orleans for years to come; rebuilding.

We have a large number of natural disasters - forces of nature - that have happened; it makes you wonder what's going on. Some of them, like bad storms, they definitely think are being increased by global warming.

I never even had even heard of a Tsunami till last year.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Queen Elizabeth II delivered a somber annual Christmas message, focusing on the suffering wrought by the "dreadful events" of the past 12 months -- the Asian tsunami, the Pakistan-Indian earthquake, the hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, and the suicide bombings in London.

But the silver lining amid the series of "natural and human tragedies" was "a quite remarkable humanitarian response" -- a reminder of how faith can motivate people to "work together."

"This series of dreadful events has brought loss and suffering to so many people and their families and friends -- not only in the countries directly affected, but here in Britain and throughout the commonwealth," she said.

She said that during this Christmas her "thoughts are especially with those everywhere who are grieving the loss of loved ones during what for so many has been such a terrible year."

The queen said that in Britain itself "many people's lives were totally changed by the London bombings in July" and she said "I have sometimes thought that humanity seemed to have turned on itself -- with wars, civil disturbances and acts of brutal terrorism."

She called the humanitarian response after the tragedies from "people of compassion" as "quite remarkable," noting that religious faith was the inspiration "in many cases" for such a reaction.

"Christianity is not the only religion to teach its followers to help others and to treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated yourself. It has been clear that in the course of this year relief workers and financial support have come from members of every faith and from every corner of the world."

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Buzzm1 said:

Let's hope we don't hear of another Tsunami anytime soon. With respect to global warming, for a few to still have a stance, that the problem is mostly imagined, lets me know they have to be idiots. More, and more, I read of the effects that a 1 degree temperature change is having on certain areas; in the meantime the temperature increase is much higher at the Poles, and the ice packs, and glaciers, are rapidly receding. That, coupled wuth the effects of continued deforestation in the Amazon, and so many third world countries, along with the rapidly increasing carbon dioxode levels, are rapidly changing the weather patterns throughout the world.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggccebro/chapter1.html

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Buzzm1 said:

I also saw one segment, where a PHD, who had spent 20 years studying a very primitive tribe that existed on a few very small islands very close to the origin of the Tsunami. He was anxious to return to these islands as he expected the people to be devastated, much as on the mainland. Much to his surprise, not one member of the tribe died during the Tsunami waves that swept their islands. They had learned spiritual lessons from their ancestors, that when the water goes out, as it did first, their people are to flee inland, which they did, and which saved them all. That's being in touch with the nature around you.

The elephants, on the mainland, fled inland too--something that they too learned from their ancestors.

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Maybe So said:

Yes, they report that many many people died because they actually went to the shoreline to watch and wonder why the ocean was receding.

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michelle said:

It gives me chills to think of what they went through, one of my biggest fears is water. I like the beach and water but I am terrified of it...

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