Japan rocked with 8.9 earthquake.

[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.

[ChrisH]

Although visually spectacular, these explosions are not necessarily dangerous in terms of releasing radioactivity. The buildings are an external shell, with the task of sealing radioactive materials falling to a metal containment vessel constructed inside the concrete shell.

"The explosion... wasn't a terribly important event," according to Malcolm Grimston from the Energy Policy and Management Group at Imperial College, London.

"The building was designed to fall outwards" - preventing damage to the thick steel containment vessel inside.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12726628

A little reassuring I thought. That is assuming that he/they really know what they are talking about.

[Karen]

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?

It only moved a teensy bit, relative to the size of the planet, and will likely have not discernible effect on climate.

Our prayers are continually with the people of Japan, and their loved ones.

[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.