Besides the sadness that we all feel by seeing people in pain () ... What are your feelings and thoughts towards Nature when a natural catastrophe happens?
This is Gaia's own form of urban renewal and natural selection. In it's own way, it's a beautiful thing. I only say this because modern humanity is a blight upon her face.
It's not "divine justice" - it's just the way nature works. It's sort of a way of reminding us of impermanence. BLessings Sebbi
I dont cry when people die from Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis or any natural disaster. We are part of this planet, and have no more right to survive a hurricane than the oak and pine trees that litter the coast. Humans think we have some special seat in the goings on, but we do, but only because we have the ability to observe the world from a seemingly outside perspective. A deer doesnt know a hurricane hit, it just knew something was changing in the wind, and sought shelter. Natural disaster is only disaster when it affects humans so it seems. To me it is just another part of our world, our planet doing what She needs to do. We just get in the way, and we die. Like the many hands of Kali, you must accept the death as quickly as you accepted the blessings. That is the way of things.
That was well said Heron... maybe we should learn from our animal neighbors... and try and seek better shelter, and stop making dwellings of toothpicks.
Maybe we shouldnt live a hundred feet off of beaches, on cliffs, right on top of rivers, and no building major cities in a swamp below sea level. No one died where i am from, from what I heard. There was lots of trees down, and power lines down, but no flooding. Because we live 30 miles inland. Most people died of flooding and tidal surge, all of which could be prevented if people didnt live right on the water like that. Maybe the occasional tree fell on someone, but it was the water that took the thousands of lives. It was human intervention that led to the deaths, the hurricane was just doing what nature does.
Nature doesn't do these things to punish us, it is simply neutral to our perceptions of "good" and "bad". I think it is a lesson to us that life is filled with enough suffering without us adding to it. I do not think that human beings are neccesarily a blight on the face of this planet, as we are as much a part of nature as the plants and any other animal. However, sometimes humans seem to get caught up in the illusion of separateness from nature and one another, and that's why we commit atrocious acts that destroy ourselves and our mother earth. Millions of people die in wars are terrorist attacks, but many more have died as a result of flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes. I do think humanity needs its numbers thinned out, but through contraception etc., not just natural disasters and certainly not through killing each other. It would be great if we could tread lightly upon the planet, stop polluting her and stop having more kids than she can handle. Natural disasters would still occur, but there wouldn't be huge overpopulated cities that are too far below sea level. I am not saying anyone is more disposable than anyone else. Everyone is a human being who deserves the right to live, but death is a fact of life (even untimely death). In the future, perhaps there will be less humans, and the forests will have a chance to grow back along with endangered species' and natural fossil fuel stores.
