Tsunami

when nature strikes you cannt do anything.Did anyone see the movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW here they showed the same thing when ocean came into the streets of new york and destroyed everything and people were unable to do anything against that all.
And i think it happened the same

Saddist thing for Asians. It is heartbreaking to wtch on TV, so I have stopped. Felt helpless.

tahmed32:

You have explained the tsunami phenomenon in very lucid terms and placed the whole tragedy in the larger scheme of nature.

Yes, we do indeed forget how insignificant we all are in cosmic scheme of things.

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i just feel its freezing out there at this time of the year. In indonesia, india... and the majority of the people who have been affected... are sadly the unprivileged lot...

in pakistan at this time... i wrap up in my bankie every night and am all cozy and warm and sip on delicious soup or home made tea... while the family sits together and discusses life...

i wonder how they`re surviving... on empty stomachs... empty souls... some who`ve lost entire families... children orphaned... even for those who have survived.. hate to imagine the reality they get up to ever day!

its so cold out there... freezing cold... God Bless them. God Bless us all! Aameen.

and sadly, the death toll is rising. everytime i switch to the news, there`s an increase in the death toll.
``Protected by the biosphere, we are oblivious to the powerful forces that surround us`` ``While intellectually aware of these things, we do not think much of them as we go about our daily lives`` How true! what i dont understand is how and why werent people alerted of this earlier? what happened to all technological advances?
the worst is yet to come... sad as it is... the final number of those affected by tsunamis is expected to touch or border somewhere close to 100,000... with experts predicting that disease and epidemic will take its toll...

yesterday I was thinking wheres Allah ? I was asking Allah yesterday in my prayers why ? how come always poor dies? and the rich are in there planes or yarts ! why ? I asked the maulana sahib of my mosque someone who is a very educated man unlike usual malvis , his answer was ` Ali Beta , Allah didnt made the world on the basis of equality - if this would have happened - everyone would have been equal and this would have been a ideal world - ` - --
people who died were already somewhat zombies - the more I think of them the more my heart melts -
Salam Alikum

tahmed:

mauj der mauj
reality
is not real
often
merely an illusion
--a perception decorated
with imbedded prejudices
and ensconced with our fears

another day, another year
will we still feel what we feel now?

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Ahmek,
You forgot to write that India lost of its claim to superiority in technology by 8000 bodies.. !!

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i remember driving from colombo to Yala across from Galle in Srilanka..apparently the whole thing is wiped out! folks on that coast are the nicest people i ever met. the bay of bengal always scared me..when you look out from mahabalipuram, it always looks angry. i will not look at any beach the same as before.

friend:

#12 was not called for...least of all from you!

A very good article on a very human tragedy.

I am afraid that not much will happen from this brief moment of compassion. We are all shocked by the event but for the wrong reason. What we are seeing and hearing is not sorrow expressed about the loss of life, but an admission towards humanity`s own fraility. It is just that this particular event coincided with the end of the year, when everyone is overcome with the commerical sentiments of Christmas and ``joy to the world``. We are all saddened by the event, because of it was of such a huge magnitude that it lucidily framed the insignificance of humanity`s power in comparsion to the forces of nature.

Listen to the words of the arrogant and the foolish! The talk in the aftermath of this disaster is that an early warning system would have prevented this nightmare and we are still clinging to the false believe in the supremacy of our technological powress. We still, mistakenly, think we can alter the future and we can prevent incidents like this by deploying senors to forewarn us of an impending peril. We are still fascinated with our ageless battle to defeat death and we still salivate to proclaim our immortality as a victory over nature. We have still not learned humility in the face of nature and instead of hubris, we strut on the stage littered with dead and broken bodies, like a pharoah, craving adulation to the myth of our own invincibility.

The world will band about and offer offers of aid but in the end, nothing will materialize. Last year, around this time, there was an earthquake in Bam, Iran and nearly 30,000 people died. Before that, there was major earthquake in Turkey and an entire city was flattened. For the victims of Bam, aid was offered and a year later, who remembers Bam? Who remembers the dead from yesterday, while the media curlishly relishes new headlines with more grim statistics tomorrow. This too will fade from the TV screens and disappear from the newspapers and from memories. The only people who will carry the memory will be the ones forgotten by the world and only they will have courage to rebuild their lives with their own tears and not with the kindness and compassion of the words of the world`s good intentions.

I can cry for the dead and the suffering or I can cry for the nature of humanity, which will not change from its own selfish egocentric values. I do not know for whom and what reason I should cry for, but I do know that I must cry for I am afraid of human nature and that is enough to me cry.

Ciao

jang #10 galle in sri lanka did seem to have suffered greatly. There was an entire train with a thousand passengers where over 800 of them seem to have lost their lives due to the flood. Being at a place where tragedy strikes does make such events very real indeed. Another place badly hit was the island of Phuket off the coast of Thailand. I spent a couple of nights there many years ago, and have always remembered the dreamlike vision of waving palm trees and the ocean beyond that that one could see from the upper floor hotel room I occupied. The locals were a gentle, friendly people - and the place was on its way to becoming a popular vacation resort.

friend: thanks for contributing your thoughtful views. :-)