Just thought you should take a look at this

It's a shame that people feel that making those kinds of remarks in necessary. Yeah, the bombing of Pearl Harbor was tragic, but just because the country that happened to be the ones behind the bombing (which occurred, what, over 60 years ago?) doesn't justify poking fun at the deaths of their people. A person is a person, and death due to something other than old age is nothing to make fun of, no matter who they are. Hell, even death due to old age isn't anything to laugh at either. Its sad that some people are like that.

@Anniexo That is just...I can't even find the words. Being a Christian myself, that makes people of the Christian faith look like psychopaths. (Don't go and hate on me for my following statement, I'm just pointing something out. Also, I am not trying to state my religious beliefs as a fact, I am just giving a Christian's opinion on the idiocy portrayed in the video that Anniexo put in her post.) To say that God brought this on the Japanese because of their faith (In fact, most of the Japanese or Buddhist, not Atheist, Right?) is NOT something that God does to the people on earth.

 

People like this make America look bad, I can assure you only a small minority think this way. In fact I've seen a lot of facebook posts calling out these morons who probably don't even know a thing about WWII. Not much else to say, the Pearl Harbor jokes needs to stop.

 

This is deeply saddening. Saddening, saddening to see the human race wish death upon itself.

 

[video=youtube;2iagLg45lAc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iagLg45lAc&feature=feedu[/video]
I mean it's Fox News so take it with a grain of salt (or the whole freakin' salt shaker), but as we all have seen, there is a good number of people who do think so.

 

I don't know if it's just me, but America seems to be quite the god fearing nation. I doubt that there is any way that the earthquake and tsunami can be from any god of any kind.

 

You can't just discredit your source then use it as a credible source to prove your point. Just saying that it's completely contradictory.
Now onto the issue, I think this is terrible. I mean obviously these people are loons if they think Japan "got what it deserved". I don't think the average American person think this way. But, as with all issues, there's always going to be people who think that way.

 

This topic makes me think of the quote from Gandhi:
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Is this why God gave humanity free will? The free will to believe that god CONTROLS everything in existence? So God controls free will? I'd like to believe that there is a God/are Gods out there, but I doubt that if we are given free will by anything whether it be God or not that we ar thene controlled by any force, cosmic or otherwise, for any proper and good reason. I don't believe in such ideas of God.

 

Hence the phrase "take it with a grain of salt."

I've been reading a book lately called The Paradox of God: The Science of Omniscience.
One of the chapters deals with the free will paradox, laid out as:
Jimmy has free will and God knows everything.
1: Jimmy has a choice between A and B.
2: God knows Jimmy will choose A.
3: Jimmy chooses A.

So did Jimmy ever really have the choice to choose B if God knew that he would choose A?



On the topic, here's a nice little editorial:
http://www.statehornet.com/opinion/editorial-disaster-in-japan-is-not-karma-1.2107947

It makes me think "If the disasters in Japan are karma, then Katrina was karma for us."
Fun fact: the article mentioned the earthquake in New Zealand and asked if that was karma. Some people are blaming the Christchurch earthquake on lesbians.

Another interesting thing about the article:

People are sick.

 

....this is just.....ugh!
How can people be so full of themselves and uncaring!
......and now Im pissed off at life again

 

It's pretty simple, it's attempted Patriotism but failed because of ignorance. I feel bad for the people who actually believe this, because it's simply idiots. Obviously they choose to ignore Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and live in the blissful world of ignorance. It's Pathetic, no more, no less.

 

I would be a lot more offended and shocked if even one of the people there had correct grammar. As it stands, I have as much respect for their opinions as they have for the English language. i.e. None.

 

I didn't even have to look at the link to get this. But then the one who made the article probably picked those out to make them look as bad as possible; he probably didn't give them all unfiltered, considering the low number.

Some people in my family would probably say these things. Sadder still.

You have to hate people of loyalty and faith.

 

Y'see, the thing is with America is that you have not had regular attacks on your country, and therefore not used to having to deal with head on strikes. It gives the country a feeling of invincibility. That is not a bad thing, America has possessed great wealth over the past century or so, so you're a valuable ally and asset. That is why 9/11 hurt America so badly, because people started realising "****! We're vulnerable!" Same deal with Pearl Harbour. With a great many stupid, stupid people, anyone who would dare attack America, a land of Peace and Freedom are obviously inhuman and absolutely amoral to attack such great and noble virtues, right? So what to these rampant idiots do? They use it to justify their own racist, fearful and downright despicable thoughts. Sure, they may think Tsunamis are bad things, but it happens to the Japanese? Those few guys who attacked us one time back in a period of, uh, WAR? Oh they can all go to hell, they had it coming. Never mind that America came back to WIN from that attack and had the grace to drop a couple of A-Bombs on them for good measure.

Now remember, I'm not talking about you all. This isn't a criticism of American culture. I know that most of you Americans can truly and articularly think. But it stills saddens me that people this utterly stupid have been able to discover how to breathe properly. The internet has made the vocal minority so much more powerful it's unreal.