Callous
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At the risk of sounding callous I recently looked up the significant earthquakes that have happened this year. To me the natural disasters at the magnitude they have been occurring is just a sign we will enter into the marathon of the end times fairly soon. The interesting part though was this: Haiti was only a 5.9. Here are all the ones we have not heard about really that were the same magnitude or worse: 6.2 Papua New Guinea, 6.9 China/Russia/North Korea region, 6.6/7.1/6.8 in that order on the Solomon Islands, 7.0 Japan, and now Chili was an 8.8 and still doesn't have the coverage Haiti did. So why is Haiti so special? There was even a 5.9 & a 6.5 just off shore in Northern California recently. I can understand not broadcasting the one around North Korea as they have caused many problems and threats for many, but the rest didn't even get a blip of news time other than the Chili one. But Haiti needed tons of our money (which by the way their government wasn't allowing into their country because his arrogant pride was convinced they did not need the help from America) and supplies. I am all for helping, but it seems we should help fairly evenly across the board if we are going to offer our help to other countries who aren't as well equipped to handle the disasters. I mean are we really going to rally tons of people together to supply more money and needs for the new people affected when we were all so focused on Haiti many forgot how many people in this country suffer from no food, shelter, etc every day. We are in a recession but it amazes me that when something gains national media coverage we magically have enough to give, and even more than most of these countries could ever fathom having before the disaster occurred. Yet when it comes to serving maybe our neighbor who we didn't stop to think about or know, or even someone in the very next city; we can barely find a way to provide even if it is stuff we already possess. Sorry if this sounds mean. It just hit me really hard that out of tons of earthquakes and who knows what other possible natural disasters that could have happened that I didn't look into, we have only talked about 1 and now barely about 2.
At the risk of sounding callous I recently looked up the significant earthquakes that have happened this year. To me the natural disasters at the magnitude they have been occurring is just a sign we will enter into the marathon of the end times fairly soon. The interesting part though was this: Haiti was only a 5.9. Here are all the ones we have not heard about really that were the same magnitude or worse: 6.2 Papua New Guinea, 6.9 China/Russia/North Korea region, 6.6/7.1/6.8 in that order on the Solomon Islands, 7.0 Japan, and now Chili was an 8.8 and still doesn't have the coverage Haiti did. So why is Haiti so special? There was even a 5.9 & a 6.5 just off shore in Northern California recently. I can understand not broadcasting the one around North Korea as they have caused many problems and threats for many, but the rest didn't even get a blip of news time other than the Chili one. But Haiti needed tons of our money (which by the way their government wasn't allowing into their country because his arrogant pride was convinced they did not need the help from America) and supplies. I am all for helping, but it seems we should help fairly evenly across the board if we are going to offer our help to other countries who aren't as well equipped to handle the disasters. I mean are we really going to rally tons of people together to supply more money and needs for the new people affected when we were all so focused on Haiti many forgot how many people in this country suffer from no food, shelter, etc every day. We are in a recession but it amazes me that when something gains national media coverage we magically have enough to give, and even more than most of these countries could ever fathom having before the disaster occurred. Yet when it comes to serving maybe our neighbor who we didn't stop to think about or know, or even someone in the very next city; we can barely find a way to provide even if it is stuff we already possess. Sorry if this sounds mean. It just hit me really hard that out of tons of earthquakes and who knows what other possible natural disasters that could have happened that I didn't look into, we have only talked about 1 and now barely about 2.
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