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jar
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Message 250 of 315 (240233)
09-03-2005 11:02 AM
Reply to: Message 246 by berberry
09-03-2005 3:45 AM


Thank you
I urge anyone living in a city where shelters have been set up for these people to go by and visit with them. Even if you can't afford to do anything else, just go talk to them. It's cathartic for them to tell someone about their troubles, and it'll make you feel good to have been able to be some small part of their recovery.
Thank you very much.
35: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 279 of 315 (240447)
09-04-2005 10:03 PM
Reply to: Message 278 by Lizard Breath
09-04-2005 10:00 PM


Casinos at the waters edge.
That was more the result of law. To keep immoral gambling off the sacred shores it was legislated that immoral gambling had to be done offshore. Thus all the casinos were built as boats, not navigable, but boats.
Gives a whole new meaning to Floating a Business Plan.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 284 of 315 (240455)
09-04-2005 10:28 PM
Reply to: Message 282 by RAZD
09-04-2005 10:21 PM


Re: Casinos at the waters edge.
Fiction abounds.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 289 of 315 (240469)
09-04-2005 11:03 PM


Just for perspective.
It's currently estimated that Texas alone has taken in 250,000 refugees from Katrina. Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma have probably taken in equal numbers.
That's a lot of homeless folk.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

jar
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Message 292 of 315 (240476)
09-04-2005 11:51 PM
Reply to: Message 256 by Faith
09-03-2005 7:53 PM


Re: The Tragedy that Keeps on Taking
Faith writes:
As long as the attitude continues to prevail in this country that disaster is a matter of statistics and nothing out of the ordinary, as long as God is ignored or reviled or considered to be remote from these "ordinary" disasters, they will only get worse.
What utter nonsense.
Katrina had NOTHING to do with GOD. To think it is anything other than a perfectly normal event takes a level of willful ignorance of astounding proportions. Such an utterly nonsensical idea is tanatmount to Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, taking GOD's Name in Vain, and the act of a Satanist.
To even be surprised shows astounding ignorance. William Gray predicted the severity of this season last year. Those predictions were published along with the specific data and observations it was based on.
None of the observations were unnatural.
None of the observations were supernatural.
None of of the observations required divine intervention.
Katrina like the Tsunami was an entirely normal if horrendous event.
To try to atribute it to GOD's Wrath is nothing less than Blasphemy.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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