Japan rocked with 8.9 earthquake.

[Marigold2]

Blue this is so horrible. The lose of life, the change in this part of the world. The years it will take to rebuild, to get over the emotional shock, scars of the people who have to witness the horror, the children who cry out for their dead parents.
The aftershocks could continue for months. Who and how can these poor people ever feel safe again?
Yes this will change the world in countless ways.
Do I remember WW11 yes I do? Better then you. My mom was in concentration camp and lost all her family. She had 10 brothers and sisters.
I understand how something like this effects a person for a lifetime, for generations these peoples mental state will be changed.
They will think differently, act differently and rethink what is important in life.
Something so profound changes people.
Just ask any man or women who served in battle and the horror they have seen how it changed them.
Now we have an entire country of shell shocked victims suffering.
The world has changed. No it will never be the same.
Just as WW11 changed the world this will as well.

[Marigold2]

Oh and I would like to add one more thing. When a country is at war people might not expect to be killed or have their city born up but they mentally go over it in their mind and make plans.
When it starts to happen they have some time to adjust hopefully.
But this happened without warning. This shock is so much greater and deeper in the human mind.
When we hear about crime, shooting and killing in a bad area we aren't that surprised but when it happens in a nice middle class area where kids ride their bikes till dusk and doors are left unlocked the shock factor is so much worst.
This is how it is for these poor souls now. Out of the blue (no pun intented) mother nature has struck and whom can one blame or get mad at?
And where was God? I wonder how many ask that question and get no reply.

[sana]

Marigold: And where was God? I wonder how many ask that question and get no reply.

Just saying, maybe...God sent a punishment, or maybe he was testing those people if they stayed firm with Him or they just left Him and thought that He wasn't fair and all that...just a small thought...

Its so sad that so many people died and all that..and it was so sudden, many people from my country who travelled to japan came back, I still thank God my father didn't go there. Just a few thoughts...

[wombat2u2004]

And where was God?

Which one ????
Not much good saying this is a test of faith or something. The fact is, it was simply an act of the nature of planet earth.

[pomtzu]

I personally don't believe that God had a hand in this - one way or the other. God is not spiteful or vindictive or mean or testing anyone, but he is here to help us cope with this tragedy.

I also believe that God never deals us more than we can handle, tho at times, it does seem to be overwhelming.

[Alysser]

An accquaintance of mine lost two members of her family in Japan. Phone lines are down and she can't contact the rest.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

On the weather channel they said that quake moved the entire country of Japan over to the east by 8 feet and tilted the earth on its axes by 6 inches. That was one bad quake!!!

That will certainly change the world.

[Marigold2]

I wonder what this and the fact that the earth has moved on it's axes will mean for global warming or maybe an ice age a cometh?

On the weather channel they said that quake moved the entire country of Japan over to the east by 8 feet and tilted the earth on its axes by 6 inches. That was one bad quake!!!

That will certainly change the world.

[Marigold2]

Exactly, it was meant as a joke. I don't believe in God like most people do, I don't believe in Karma either. The God I believe in does not punish, does not judge and would not only make ONE planet with people or creatures of life on it. The God I believe in has made hundreds of thousands if not millions of worlds with different life forms that we with our simple minds and petty attitudes cannot begin to comprehend.
We have not even discovered all the creatures in our oceans and yet many assume we are the only forms of life that exist on this planet that God created, silly. No no there are millions of other worlds out there, living, dying, breeding and loving. Does anyone really believe we are God's best work? I mean come on? Really?
I wish that someday I could see or meet the others but for now we will have to be content just meeting and distroying our own on this planet.

Which one ????
Not much good saying this is a test of faith or something. The fact is, it was simply an act of the nature of planet earth.