"A candle lit on the other side of the world? Wow, that sure made the hunger pains subside."
Let's see, 150,000 people killed by some very pissed off waves, homes completely erased from the map, the living staggering among the dead. You know what they need over there, for us to light some candles.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050102/wl_nm/quake_nordics_dc_2
Are these people fucking retarded? Sweden, America, all over the world people are lighting candles and saying prayers to support the victims of the tsunami, why? These people are wandering their streets whit piles of rotting human bodies littering the roads. Saltwater is still pooling in their homes and on the ground. Most of them have no electricity, no food, no water, no shelter, and no medicine. I'm sure not everyone out there is a Horticulturalist, but salt destroys the soils' ability to grow plant life. Their food supply was destroyed, this means starvation and massive migrations, all of their water, including most of the ground water, is now contaminated with salt and sewage, and rotting flesh is a breeding ground for the worlds nastiest plagues. Remember the black plague?
Every day we hear about people huddling together in churches praying to God, (who, by the way, really could have stopped this one if he wanted,) but not sending anything to these victims. a prayer is not going to do shit for these people, food will. Candle light won't do anything for these people, clean water will. The only thing praying and lighting candles does is makes the person who's committing these trivial acts to feel like they did something to help. Seeing as though tsunamis and such are usually considered God's will praying to him might not help. "God was unavailable for comment."
These churches and community centers should be ashamed of themselves, pretending to care contributing to the surplus of false hope. If they really cared they should be creating blood drives, clothing drives, and supporting relief funds.
Our government it's self is really dropping the ball on this one. This is our chance to show the world that we actually have a good side, instead of playing out the role of The Middle East Invaders. We could easily use our military to run a clean up and construction crew through there and rescue thousands, instead we're fighting in some nameless country rich in dirt and nothing else. I suppose putting down the guns and uniting for a common good is only beneficial if the price is right. I mean, where is the profit in helping those in need? The war machines need their fuel, after all.
With a government saying we'll provide help they'll never see, and people pledging to light candles on the other side of the globe it's clear the true tragedy is self-righteous, not the tsunami.
If you have a candle and really want to help mail it to these people, at least that way you'll do some good with it.
Exile
Original_exile@hotmail.com
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050102/wl_nm/quake_nordics_dc_2
Are these people fucking retarded? Sweden, America, all over the world people are lighting candles and saying prayers to support the victims of the tsunami, why? These people are wandering their streets whit piles of rotting human bodies littering the roads. Saltwater is still pooling in their homes and on the ground. Most of them have no electricity, no food, no water, no shelter, and no medicine. I'm sure not everyone out there is a Horticulturalist, but salt destroys the soils' ability to grow plant life. Their food supply was destroyed, this means starvation and massive migrations, all of their water, including most of the ground water, is now contaminated with salt and sewage, and rotting flesh is a breeding ground for the worlds nastiest plagues. Remember the black plague?
Every day we hear about people huddling together in churches praying to God, (who, by the way, really could have stopped this one if he wanted,) but not sending anything to these victims. a prayer is not going to do shit for these people, food will. Candle light won't do anything for these people, clean water will. The only thing praying and lighting candles does is makes the person who's committing these trivial acts to feel like they did something to help. Seeing as though tsunamis and such are usually considered God's will praying to him might not help. "God was unavailable for comment."
These churches and community centers should be ashamed of themselves, pretending to care contributing to the surplus of false hope. If they really cared they should be creating blood drives, clothing drives, and supporting relief funds.
Our government it's self is really dropping the ball on this one. This is our chance to show the world that we actually have a good side, instead of playing out the role of The Middle East Invaders. We could easily use our military to run a clean up and construction crew through there and rescue thousands, instead we're fighting in some nameless country rich in dirt and nothing else. I suppose putting down the guns and uniting for a common good is only beneficial if the price is right. I mean, where is the profit in helping those in need? The war machines need their fuel, after all.
With a government saying we'll provide help they'll never see, and people pledging to light candles on the other side of the globe it's clear the true tragedy is self-righteous, not the tsunami.
If you have a candle and really want to help mail it to these people, at least that way you'll do some good with it.
Exile
Original_exile@hotmail.com
posted by exile at
1/04/2005 03:00:00 PM
4 Comments:
as always, well said exile. too much bullshit & too little action. not that i've done much either though...
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:14:00 AM
I concur....although, I've only made a small donation to the red cross.....give what u can....fuck the candles, save them for sex.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:51:00 PM
I don't know that this will ever stop. I remember all that shit email I got after 9/11 to light candles and drive with my headlights on - "to let the terrorists know we won't stand for being attacked" and had to do everything in my power NOT to ream out the friend forwarding me that crap. I understand that people feel helpless and want to do SOMETHING, and I don't have much money myself, but there's always something they can do. The day after 9/11 I started making a quilt because I knew there would be a huge drive for comfort quilts for families of victims, and everyone in my community helped at the weekend's local festival - men, women and children were lined up that weekend to put a few stitches in because they felt so helpless and this was something they could actually do.
As for this tsunami disaster, maybe it's not PC to say it, but I wonder if it would be getting as much attention if there weren't so many international tourists there at the time. Americans have always tended to be unsympathetic to people in less developed countries.
Sorry for the rant; you just hit upon a sore subject with me. Second time in 24 hours I've ranted in someone's blog comments!
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Kalleigh Hathaway, at Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:30:00 AM
rant a way it shows that i'm not the only one who's pissed off about people flaunting their apathy and dissmising action
that and it shows that people are reading what i'm writing
By
exile, at Sunday, January 09, 2005 2:23:00 PM
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