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- CannedMango, on 04/19/2009, -10/+25I'm sure I don't have to read all 14 pages to find out that he thinks god did it...
- Defiant001, on 04/19/2009, -1/+13I must be tired, I read that as "eye of a tomato" for a second...
- Plower, on 04/19/2009, -4/+15Leave it to a minister to be long winded...even on the internet.
- pattywhack, on 04/19/2009, -1/+12i live in murfreesboro where this tornado hit and my neighborhood is gone but my house was untouched except for a small section of my roof
- AWBoy666, on 04/19/2009, -0/+11These tornadoes were 5 miles from my house and my Aunt knew the two people killed. They were some very intense and frightening storms. Everyone was very lucky that more people were not hurt.
- calvincooper66, on 04/19/2009, -2/+11I ain't buyin it. No way can someone hold on to a tree trunk in an F4 tornado. NO WAY!
- devolver, on 04/19/2009, -0/+9Why not? Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt strapped themselves to pipes with leather belts in Twister! And that was an F5!
- nathan43082, on 04/19/2009, -0/+8Reminds me of the joke: "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car."
- SuperMoses, on 04/19/2009, -2/+10I think it's safe to say that he did more than just credited God for helping him stick to his plan:
Page 12: "Later I found out that they were all praying for me. Incredibly, my 13-year-old son, Jonathan, was anxiously pacing the floor of the store while a tornado was directly over his head, praying over and over again that God would save me. What others would call “luck” in my survival, I credit to their prayers."
Page 13: "I had a concussion and my leg was badly bruised, but I knew in my heart that I was OK. I knew that God had saved me; that I had lived through they eye of a tornado, that two months of prayers about trust had been answered in a massive way."
Besides, nowhere does this minister's God ever say that he helps those who help themselves in his bible. - Punjabdasher, on 04/19/2009, -1/+9its supposed to say: hey, ***** you, 2 of my friends died in a tornado
learn ur digg memes plz - SuperMoses, on 04/19/2009, -16/+2414 pages? tl;dr
Short version:
- He was got caught in the eye of a tornado
- It was calm until the end wall reached him
- He was badly hurt
- God saved him (apparently, because God will save ministers in eyes of tornado by ignore million others who die every day).
- His church hit record attendance on Easter Sunday. - inactive, on 04/19/2009, -0/+8I can think of noting more peaceful than be being jerked out of bed, flung over a thousand feet into the sky and just dropping. Wait...no, That would suck more than almost anything I can think of.
- SuperMoses, on 04/19/2009, -1/+8Actually in page 13 he says ""I had a concussion and my leg was badly bruised, but I knew in my heart that I was OK. I knew that God had saved me".
I think he's pretty explicit in believing God had saved him. - andy69fox, on 04/19/2009, -6/+12He was pretty lucky, two people died in that tornado. One was a woman, the other was her 6 month old daughter. The father was survived, but was in ICU. He said the last thing he saw was his daughter looking up at him as the tornado threw him out of the house as he was trying to dive on his wife and daughter. Very sad stuff. Everyone in the community is trying to help out with the rebuilding efforts. Where was God for the baby who had no way of helping herself?
- brianhatch, on 04/19/2009, -0/+6It also shows the bark stripped off those trees. I have a hard time believing he was hanging onto a tree from which the bark was being ripped by the wind.
- spiritflare1, on 04/19/2009, -0/+5at first, he says everything was peaceful in the eye, until the other side of the funnel 200mph winds slammed him with debris. At the end of the article he's telling his parish that if people died in a tornado, it would be beautiful in the eye, and they'd be wrapped up in the comforting love of God.
the part he left out:
until the other side of the funnel with 200mph winds hit them with debris. - platypusjh, on 04/19/2009, -4/+9"I want to say to anyone who has lost a loved one to a tornado that, chances are, your loved one died far more peacefully than you think. Inside the storm the love of God is more intense than you can ever, ever, ever imagine. It is calm, peaceful, and overwhelmingly safe. Your loved one died in the loving arms of God, and I guarantee you that they knew it. Being in the eye makes you thankful to God..."
WTF? - Dromeciomimus, on 04/19/2009, -12/+17Story had a lot of potential before it got a muddled down in the religious explanations.
- superkendall, on 04/19/2009, -14/+18Mostly wrong:
1) He was caught in a whole tornado, not just the eye. He survived by hugging the base of a tree.
2) It was most certainly not calm until the end wall reached him. He was flapping like a flag in the wind during the first wall. The eye was calm.
3) The end wall hurt him, a tree to the leg and the temple. But that was lucky given what was flying around him
4) God did not save him alone. Like everything else in life, God helps those who help themselves. Being calm saved him, he just credited God to helping him stick to his plan to stay calm.
You got the church part right though. - phoenix2330, on 04/19/2009, -0/+4It would've been cool if he'd had a camera with him.
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 04/19/2009, -2/+6How does this guy know it was a positive act of his god? Maybe his god was fingering him for something bad he did?
"LO! HEAR ME! I AM YOUR GOD. NEXT TIME YOU WILL NOT HAVE A TREE TO HOLD ON TO!" - N837AW, on 04/19/2009, -1/+5"I gotta go! We got cows!!"
- manlyandy, on 04/19/2009, -3/+7Cow.
- brianhatch, on 04/19/2009, -4/+8Wow, what a load of crap. In one paragraph he said he didn't have time to feel much fear, but then in the next he says that he reflected on the conversation he was having with God about his ability to survive any circumstance and that it was a good thing that his skills were going to be tested. He said he felt a sense of appreciation that God was allowing him to test his faith in that manner and that he giggled to himself because of the situation. He said that he never once thought of death.
Right, so he didn't have time to experience one of the most basic emotions a human can experience, the fear for one's life, but he could formulate a complex thought about how his experience could be used to spread the word of God. I really hate to be cynical, but this story is just ridiculous. This is a disgrace to the memory of those that did perish in this storm. - maeon3, on 04/19/2009, -3/+7"The tree would not have survived the eye of an F4 tornado, nevermind the human being hugging it."
In the image, it shows several trees still standing. Assumption proven incorrect. - BlackCow, on 04/19/2009, -1/+5yes?
- devolver, on 04/19/2009, -0/+3You're lucky! I live on the south end of the boro, so didn't see any action down here... luckily. Got hit pretty bad in Jan '97 though!
- LukeBeaumont, on 04/19/2009, -1/+4jesus christ on a stick...!!!! It would be nice to read comments that don't knock religion!!!
- wobblebottom, on 04/19/2009, -8/+11I love it when someone mentions god on digg. I always get the image of a vampire hissing from the beam of a flashlight and running into the shadows to hurl facts and rhetoric about the place.
Relax guys, just enjoy the story and ignore the bits you don't like. Everyone knows you don't believe in god, seriously, we get it.
By the way, I love all of you. - CannedMango, on 04/19/2009, -0/+3it was a joke dude, lighten up.
- proliance, on 04/19/2009, -0/+3Its been more than a week.
- guidofox, on 04/19/2009, -7/+10Well...not really used to see pro-christian articles on digg. Not really what I should say here.
I'm just glad he learned a lesson. Its to bad for those who didn't make it. But praise God for those who did. Hopefully the tragedy the town experienced will bring a focus towards God and his return. - inactive, on 04/19/2009, -6/+9...So basically he credits God with not panicking? Hell, I can do that, and all I credit is the back cover of The Guide.
- Punjabdasher, on 04/19/2009, -1/+4wtf is up with these ***** spam posts
- inactive, on 04/19/2009, -1/+4Yeah, seriously - um, minister dude, generally speaking, people don't die in the eye of the tornado. They're generally either flung hundreds of feet like ragdolls, are impaled by debris, battered by debris, crushed by debris... Well, you get the picture - kind of the opposite of what I would imagine would be a peaceful way to die.
- Defiant001, on 04/19/2009, -1/+4Mooooooo ?
- pattywhack, on 04/19/2009, -1/+4another cow
- mcoulter876, on 04/19/2009, -1/+3Millions don't die every day because of tornadoes, genius. Less drama next time.
- fety, on 04/19/2009, -3/+5"conversation he was having with GOD!!!!"
OMG he can talk to him??? - PixelMagic, on 04/19/2009, -3/+5Suck zone!
- fangor, on 04/19/2009, -0/+2IT'S A WONDER A NATURE, BABY!
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*horns* - antwan17, on 04/19/2009, -2/+4I always liked the argument that god helps those who help themselves since it generates such a cognitive dissonance about the nature of god. God as defined by the majority of his believers is an omnipotent and omnipresent force which means he's always watching you and can do anything and everything he wants. Yet according to the helps those who helps themselves creed, he's a monstrously giant douche bag as he happily helps those who don't actually need help as they are able to "help themselves" while ignoring those who can't "help themselves" which implies that they actually need help. Man oh man god's a dick.
- inactive, on 04/19/2009, -2/+4Obviously they just didn't pray hard enough. I'm glad God decided the minister's life was more important than the woman or her daughter's.
- jimmyjimbo13, on 04/19/2009, -1/+3Think about it - you just got ***** raped by the front wall of the tornado, flapping around on a tree trunk, while you can hear the sound of a forest getting snapped in half, and then all of a sudden it's silent, the light is being distorted by the water vapor moving at 100 meters per second, and although you can see branches getting whipped around you at similar speeds, above your head there are leaves floating around. You don't have to be religious to feel like being at the eye of a tornado is the coolest ***** ever. To describe a situation like that, both religious and non-religious people will use metaphors that pertain to what is important to them.
- nathan43082, on 04/19/2009, -0/+2And they didn't even get a scratch on them!
- LukeBeaumont, on 04/19/2009, -0/+2It is still a name that sticks though...
- Kidtuf, on 04/19/2009, -2/+4God damnit that's the truth! I've had it up to here with the people knocking religion! Our zombie jesus is to be unconditionally revered by all! So what if they don't follow our particular delusion of choice, nobody should be allowed to speak against it! Religion is off limits folks!
Seriously, ***** religion. - Rhendal, on 04/19/2009, -0/+2When my sister was young she would get tomato and tornado mixed up all the time. You should have heard what she called Lasagna.
- RichMUrrills, on 04/19/2009, -1/+3Thank God, I thought it was just me!
- Visarga, on 04/19/2009, -0/+2Yeah, right down the middle.
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