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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:37 PM
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Is Hurricane Katrina Some Kind Of Signal?
If so, what does it mean? I feel "somebody" is trying to say something to the world. I don't know . . . I'm getting a really strange feeling.
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Silverhair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:39 PM
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1. Not in the manner I think you are talking about.
If you meant a signal as in another intelligence slapping us to get our attention - NO.

If you mean a signal as an event that presages other events, (Like the sky getting dark before a thunderstorm.) then - Yes, it could be.
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true_notes Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:40 PM
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2. No
It was just a hurricane my friend, a really powerful one at that.

Don't let those fetus fearers get to your head.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:42 PM
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3. It is a signal and it's saying ...
YOU BETTER START PAYING ATTENTION TO GLOBAL WARMING!

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CantGetFooledAgain Donating Member (635 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:45 PM
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4. I feel that this is a major event in human history
I have no idea what it means, or what it doesn't mean. But it signals change, major change of some kind.
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kiraboo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:46 PM
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5. I know I'd feel better if I could imagine that there was some kind
of tangible message in all this. But I can't, any more than I imagine that there is a message behind the appearance of AIDS, or Chavez' defiance or the perfection of my small son's face. It is what it is. The events of the last few years have eroded my faith and dispersed my illusions. Welcome to reality, and hang on for dear life.
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toddaa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:49 PM
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6. Nature always wins
This may be news to those outside the Reality Based Community, but nature's rules cannot be cheated. Nature is neither a Republican or a Democrat. Science has no talking points. You cannot argue with reality. Oh sure, you can try to circumvent the rules for years, but nature doesn't play by the same timeline. We've overdrawn our account and now nature's collection agency is coming to collect.

Sadly, the cynic in me says good riddance. Time to start over.
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 10:49 PM
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7. Yes
The world is sick of us,we have taken too much of her and it has gone to a few,we have infected the earth with a form of psychic cancer by letting the sociopaths run our cultures and economies.We have failed to stand up for each other's human rights.We have declared ourselves separate and better than everything..and the world will humble us to the stone age because we have forgotten how to care.

Some of us will kill everything to own it all.


Global warming can be seen as an Earth fever,when adaptations fail because certain rigid personalities control too much a culture DIES from its enchantment with it's own rigid short sighted definition of"success".

And because most people cannot be the automaton this hierarchical domesticated culture requires of us to"make it" in a civilization in a wild world,it makes us feel caged and trapped half wild half domestic attacking each other because heartless parasites are hiding among us and eating our spirits away..And I think the Earth the Anima Mundi the good Gaia,She is in chains The ideas that built civilization chained her to force production so she feels our pain and the death of her animal children and her cries in anger at the dominator's,for help,for justice come out as hurricanes meant to rage against the sociopath archon forces and demiurges in us and operating around us that we let dominate and exploit this earth and us all because we'd rather play make believe about our human condition,rather than overcome or change it.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 11:20 PM
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8. Declining civilizations can't, or won't, spend enough on infrastructure
As Rome went into decline the aqueducts were no longer effectively managed. New Orleans may be a similar development. The levees were a huge public works, and it takes political willpower and public spiritedness to keep infrastructure like that going. Since Reagan, that has been slowly diminishing in the U.S., as far as I can see.
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