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Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades
breitbart.com — More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday
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- MadSquirrel, on 11/25/2007, -3/+21I find it interesting that all you have to do is put "Global Warming" on something and it becomes scientific, but if you point out that this is what we were told to look for (Prophecy), then you are a crackpot nutjob.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 - While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Matthew 24:7-8 - Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.- drachemorder, on 11/25/2007, -3/+14Notice that this is the BEGINNING of birth pains. Even after that, there are a lot of false prophets, everyone hates Christians, love will grow cold, and the Gospel will be preached in every nation. And only then will the end come.
- these3remain, on 11/26/2007, -2/+12Well, there are enough false prophets that exist within the church these days - enough to make me want to puke. Everyone doesn't hate Christians yet but they are the politically correct group to hate within our culture so it is only a matter of time.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4What really breaks my heart about this is that when someone (in the process of finding out who's real and who's scamming) comes to associate a certain person with a certain type of ministry or church -- the true faithful are discarded (as far as they're concerned) if they are trying to share the same message (WITHOUT all the self-serving cr*p), and it becomes that much harder to help that person get to the truth. If the first 9 Christians you meet are all hypocrites, why would you think the 10th will be any better?
(I was lucky -- blessed -- the 10th for me was nothing like the other 9.)
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4What really breaks my heart about this is that when someone (in the process of finding out who's real and who's scamming) comes to associate a certain person with a certain type of ministry or church -- the true faithful are discarded (as far as they're concerned) if they are trying to share the same message (WITHOUT all the self-serving cr*p), and it becomes that much harder to help that person get to the truth. If the first 9 Christians you meet are all hypocrites, why would you think the 10th will be any better?
- these3remain, on 11/26/2007, -2/+12Well, there are enough false prophets that exist within the church these days - enough to make me want to puke. Everyone doesn't hate Christians yet but they are the politically correct group to hate within our culture so it is only a matter of time.
- natedouglas, on 11/26/2007, -9/+2Fortunately,
Revelation 12:4 "And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born."
So first all the stars in the galaxy have to burn down to tiny, marshmallow-sized morsels so a dragon can fly around in the sky and knock them out of the air. We're not scheduled to have any dragons or bright marshmallows at least until 2073, so I feel that I can safely continue in my "secular progressive" ways without fear of reprisal.- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5Or is this talking about fallen angels or demons? It has been well understood that this verse is talking about the moment when Satin and the angels that follow him are thrown out of Heaven. Not that this would make much difference to you.
The point however is that even if 1/3 of the stars did disappear you would still not believe. - these3remain, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6You cannot understand the Scriptures because you do not have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit to teach you and give understanding. Your comment to those who do understand God's Word would be meaningless except to demonstrate how lost you are. For that you are greatly to be pitied in light of the judgment that is to come. Your comment should also serve as a perfect example of how unbelievers do not and cannot comprehend the Bible. Please reserve your comments on subjects that you are actually knowledgeable about rather than being another example of the miserable failure of public, i.e., secular education.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6Wow, that was beautiful.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5Or is this talking about fallen angels or demons? It has been well understood that this verse is talking about the moment when Satin and the angels that follow him are thrown out of Heaven. Not that this would make much difference to you.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3Shoot, you beat me to it!
- drachemorder, on 11/25/2007, -3/+14Notice that this is the BEGINNING of birth pains. Even after that, there are a lot of false prophets, everyone hates Christians, love will grow cold, and the Gospel will be preached in every nation. And only then will the end come.
- these3remain, on 11/25/2007, -4/+17Absolutely true. Global warming is a political terrorist ploy by liberals who want to continue to strip away freedoms in this country and around the world so that the "one world" system can be implemented - they are being used by God to fulfill His plan without even realizing it. I am concerned about the Annapolis summit. Something that occurred to me was that while the Bible teaches that "all nations shall rise against Israel", most of us have always thought about it in military terms. But what if it should occur around a negotiating table - like the one that will be meeting this week at Annapolis.
- drachemorder, on 11/25/2007, -2/+11That's an interesting thought. I always look at these "peace" conferences as something that might fulfill Daniel 9:27 --- "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one 'seven'". You never really know for sure, though. I don't think God intended for us to figure it all out ahead of time --- more that we should recognize it when it happens. So you could well be correct.
- natedouglas, on 11/26/2007, -8/+2Why the hell does it matter if you recognize it? Seriously?
If God's idea was to pick a random point in history and suddenly resume ***** around with people at that point in time, what does he care if you have your bomb shelter and Emergency Baptism Kit all laid out? Do you really think that the Bible is some sort of secret document only possessed by true believers -- the people unintelligent enough to realize any promises made by the "Worship Me, Bitch, I'm the Volcano God" Old Testament, if there were a God interested in making promises, were completely nullified by the "Ha Ha, Just Kidding, I Bring Peace and Love" New Testament?
What cracks me up about you people isn't that you haplessly arrange your lives around bad poetry and worse philosophy, but that you treat government with such immense suspicion. THEY'RE ON YOUR SIDE, *****! Can you honestly look at mutants like G. W. Bush and John Ashcroft and think that governments around the world are trying to take away YOUR RIGHT TO WORSHIP JESUS?
You're the ones in which the rest of us -- the adequately sane ones -- live in fear. You're the ones who -- demographically -- breed unsustainably, consume unsustainably, punish unjustly, legislate insanely, and infringe on OUR rights.- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6First off, we are called to be stewards of what God has given us, so no, we should not be destroying the earth.
Second, we are not afraid of what is to come. We have been told to watch, and that is what we are doing with great anticipation.
Third, we arrange our lives around wisdom, truth and the law. Yes there is poetry and songs, an we rejoice in so great a salvation.
Fourth, God never picks random moments, everything He does has purpose.
Lastly, you are endowed by your Creator with rights, when you give them up to the government that is your fault not mine. - these3remain, on 11/26/2007, -1/+5It is regrettable that you are such an obvious product of the secular humanist educational system as evidenced by your anger, lack of vocabulary and total intolerance for those who do not share your perspective. To stereo-type all Christians as you have just demonstrates the fact that you are really quite intolerant, bigoted and Christaphobic. What made you so angry with God? The manner in which you have characterized Christians in your diatribe is unlike any Christians that I know. So who are the Christians that you know? BTW, many Christians are hardly enthralled by Bush and his administration, so at least we have common ground there.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3Silly natedouglas! You rant, scream, and call names, and you think it makes people want to listen?
I can't see what anyone here has done to offend you. Don't you believe in free speech?
I love free speech.
I don't call names, though I do get exasperated with people who are obsessed with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I really do wish that the government were on my side, but every time I turn around, they are trying to get stuff from me. Excessive stuff. Not just the kind of stuff that would make me a useful and productive citizen, and a faithful contributor to my fellow Americans, but REALLY huge amounts of stuff.
I've decided to incorporate in Delaware (where I don't live) for my corporate efforts (which are running brilliantly ahead of me), so that my native state doesn't yank away my hard-earned dollars before they get here. But it would seem that the government does not want me to take care of myself. It wants me to be dependent (read: slave). It also does not want me to share the Gospel. The message of salvation (based wholly on love) is hate speech -- says the government.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6First off, we are called to be stewards of what God has given us, so no, we should not be destroying the earth.
- natedouglas, on 11/26/2007, -8/+2Why the hell does it matter if you recognize it? Seriously?
- drachemorder, on 11/25/2007, -2/+11That's an interesting thought. I always look at these "peace" conferences as something that might fulfill Daniel 9:27 --- "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one 'seven'". You never really know for sure, though. I don't think God intended for us to figure it all out ahead of time --- more that we should recognize it when it happens. So you could well be correct.
- Pitofdoom, on 11/25/2007, -6/+5Pray to mother guya to relent on her global warming or ask the sun god for forgiveness...
- janknepper, on 11/25/2007, -4/+14"Global Warming" especially "Man Made Global Warming" is a dangerous political ploy. The UN who is pushing hard for World Government is seems is pushing this "believe" too. Once a long time ago someone much wiser than us spread us across the earth when our languages got mangled around the time of the Tower of Babel. Yet, indeed, prophecy's are banned and ancient truths are forgotten and people think they are some time of god themselves...
The Annapolis summit is serious and we better watch closely what is going on with SPP www.spp.gov as well.
Some time ago I watching something on TV (was recorded on TiVo). I clipped the imported part and put it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FnYeLioxjs
Have fun watching!- MadSquirrel, on 11/25/2007, -2/+8Excellent, that was fantastic!
- Indyanna, on 11/25/2007, -2/+6FYI - Make you sure watch the entire video to the end. It's over 6 minutes, but yeah, it's most definitely worth it.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -2/+6She saved the best for last:-)
- janknepper, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2She is a He... but that's alright!
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -2/+6She saved the best for last:-)
- URnotheonly1, on 11/25/2007, -0/+11coverage has increased
- doctechnical, on 11/26/2007, -2/+6That's certainly part of it - another major factor is that more people are moving more stuff into areas that see disasters on a fairly regular basis. For example, fifty years ago a major hurricane could have torn through Florida and just knocked a few shacks around - it would be considered a "major disaster". Now add a million or so people, high-rises, cars, billions of dollars worth of wealth and property and that very same storm becomes something just short of Armageddon.
We also have much better technology for detecting "disasters"... for example Al Gore's movie pointed out a massive increase in tornadoes over the past decades, what he "inconveniently" left out is that decades ago we didn't have the globe wired with satellites and Doppler radar, so the smaller F1 and F2 tornadoes generally weren't reported unless they knocked some body's barn over. Nowadays a gnat farts and it shows up on weather maps.
So I'm taking the whole article with a big yawn.- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Eh....not so much, I think. I have an obsessive, autistic teenager, and he has tracked down stats on ALL kinds of natural disasters from here to eternity, and it's not quite that simple! There are WAY freakin' more of 'em, an ol' way you look at it.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Oh, and I just told Johnny that I wasn't having trouble commenting. Digg doesn't want me to correct my misspellings. :(
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -4/+5Insurance companies are the first to get hit, and they do know it is getting worse.
- URnotheonly1, on 11/26/2007, -1/+2Na, they just have made themselves more open to loss over the decades with all the added protections they offered.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2You've not had to make a claim lately.
"They are getting through the bureaucracy" - from The Incredibles
- MadSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2You've not had to make a claim lately.
- these3remain, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3MadSquirrel is correct. I've already been through the nightmare of homeowner's insurance being canceled because of Katrina and having to find new coverage that didn't require your first born as payment.
- URnotheonly1, on 11/26/2007, -1/+2Na, they just have made themselves more open to loss over the decades with all the added protections they offered.
- doctechnical, on 11/26/2007, -2/+6That's certainly part of it - another major factor is that more people are moving more stuff into areas that see disasters on a fairly regular basis. For example, fifty years ago a major hurricane could have torn through Florida and just knocked a few shacks around - it would be considered a "major disaster". Now add a million or so people, high-rises, cars, billions of dollars worth of wealth and property and that very same storm becomes something just short of Armageddon.
- these3remain, on 11/26/2007, -4/+10God in His mercy continues to attempt to gain the attention of our decaying, declining world and still the people don't get it - they prefer to continue to build their Tower of Babel, setting themselves up as God - as if we have any control over the elements or nature. Everyone who ascribes to the myth of global warming is so deceived - which is exactly as the enemy intends. The god of this world has totally blinded man in his quest for power and self-aggrandizement to the point where man thinks he has control over the weather and nature. It would be laughable except that it is so pathetic and indicative of how lost a world we occupy. Redeem the time - win as many as possible; pray for God to open their eyes of understanding and at the same time, maranatha!
- PATSCRU, on 11/26/2007, -7/+3wow, please stay away from my children.
- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4I see you are another example of the "tolerant" left.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2BAM!!!
Heh. :D
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2BAM!!!
- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4I see you are another example of the "tolerant" left.
- PATSCRU, on 11/26/2007, -7/+3wow, please stay away from my children.
- derrickmu, on 11/26/2007, -3/+4Religion? Man-made disasters? Gaea???
Have any of you freaks considered the Occam's Razor explanation... That a more active sun is making the earth warmer? Seems logical since Venus, Mars, and Saturn have all been observed as going through a similar warming trend... surely man or God is not causing warming on our cosmic cousins!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/07 ...- natedouglas, on 11/26/2007, -6/+2Except that the sun's activity doesn't actually correlate with the temperature effects, and the Mars trend can more appropriately explained by wobbling.
- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3My friend, derrick, God is sovereignly in control of all of creation. The fact that the earth is in the exact right position in relationship with the sun to sustain life is evidence of a creator God because the probability of it just randomly occurring takes more faith than believing in a creator. This same God can and does control the elements, which is why weather is so unpredictable.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2What....I'm a freak....? Darn it. Wait, I did notice that thing about sunspots, so I guess the sun might just be warming things up by a fraction of a degree worldwide. But I also noticed that part in my favorite "freak" book about signs in the heavens.....
- BigBlueCarbon, on 11/26/2007, -6/+2global warming is here, it's queer, get used to it.
adapt.- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3Uhm , right. I have one word for global warming ascribers - Greenland. Do you know why it was called Greenland and NOT Iceland?
- MadSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3A marketing conspiracy, hahahahahaha:-)
- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3No doubt devised by evil capitalists and/or neocons desiring to line their greedy pockets! LOL!
- MadSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3A marketing conspiracy, hahahahahaha:-)
- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3Uhm , right. I have one word for global warming ascribers - Greenland. Do you know why it was called Greenland and NOT Iceland?
- natedouglas, on 11/26/2007, -7/+2I'm glad to see that I found the Digg thread where all the religious nutjobs hang out.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/26/2007, -1/+6Then I will pray you will find the Creator before you can no longer find those nuts.
- these3remain, on 11/26/2007, -2/+4Yes, MadSquirrel, it's no coincidence that natedouglas landed here. May God in His grace and goodness open his eyes of understanding.
- MadSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -1/+5That is always my prayer.
Thumbs up!
- MadSquirrel, on 11/27/2007, -1/+5That is always my prayer.
- bullcutter, on 11/26/2007, -1/+4Wow, this article is hilariously idiotic. I can't believe the stuff that passes for "news" these days. First off, the number of people "affected by extreme natural disasters" will continue to rise at least as fast as the population continues to rise.
Secondly, when you take into the account that modern weather satellites, GPS, monitoring stations, as well as a highly-concerted international movement to monitor and document natural disasters (and victim counts) have all come into play only within the last 20 years, any sensible attribution of disasters to "global warming" can be taken out of the picture.
Thirdly, the internet has made communication of such global data instant, making it far more easy to tally and record -- now anybody with access to the internet can report a natural disaster of any sort, whereas the world was a far more isolated (and bigger) place only 20 years ago.
The authors of articles such as these only lend to the obviousness of an agenda being pushed, regardless of their possibly good intentions.- these3remain, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Agreed; there is an agenda being pushed and its one that consists of stripping away freedoms globally. If enough people are frightened by the prospect of "global warming", they will demand that the government create laws to force people to comply with "green" living. The travesty here is that global warming is just another liberal ploy to undermine democracy and continue their lock-step march to the police state they so much desire with a One World government as its ultimate goal.
- Salesti, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3You're too kind here, bullcutter! Possibly good intentions.....no......they're coming for my (mega-packs) of toilet paper. ARRRGH!
I never considered cattle ranching....till now.......
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