January 03, 2005
Tsunami Survivor Rescued 100 Miles Out To Sea
Here's a bit of good news from an otherwise sad situation. A 23-year-old woman was
rescued 100 miles out to sea by a Malaysian-registered fishing boat after clinging to an uprooted palm tree for five days. Weak, dehydrated, and badly sunburned, Malawati of Kampung Denon in Banda Aceh, survived on rainwater and fruit from the palm tree. Malawati relayed that she had been washing clothes at her home about 2 kilometers from the ocean when the tsunami came and swept her out to sea.
News of her miraculous survival spread quickly. When the boat docked Monday, she was joyously met by officials, politicians, medical personnel, and the media.
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Amazing..
Thanks for posting IP..
Posted by: qpr jon at January 04, 2005 10:23 AM (XnNC6)
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Its a miricle i tell you a miricle
Posted by: sandpiper at January 04, 2005 08:12 PM (wPaki)
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Is this the same woman who found out she was 18 weeks pregnant today?
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 04:35 PM (D39Vm)
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Criminals Target Tsunami Victims
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ABS-CBN Interactive report:
Thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers are preying on tsunami survivors and families of victims in Asian refugee camps, hospitals and in the home countries of European tourists hit by the wave.
Reports and warnings came in from as far apart as Britain, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Hong Kong on Monday of criminals taking advantage of the chaos to rape survivors in Sri Lanka or plunder the homes of European tourists reported missing.
There have also been reports of sexual abuse of women and girls in rescue shelters and during unsupervised rescue operations. Thieves in Thailand have been masquerading as police and looting hotels of the belongings of tsunami victims. Along the coasts of Sumatra, pirates pose a constant danger to relief efforts. In a related report, Prime Minister Goeran Persson stated that Swedish authorities are withholding the names and addresses of victims to preclude home burglaries.
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WHAT GOD?....
May I point out to all the people who rushed to defend God's existence that all the classical arguments for the existence of God were demolished in the 18th century by the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, and the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (who substituted the Categorical Imperative for God).
Since that time (to my knowledge) no new arguments have been advanced which command any kind of intellectual respect. Those people all seem to rely heavily on the First Cause argument; this, alas, is totally invalid for the simple reason that it negates its own premise. If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause; if however, we can conceive of anything as happening without a cause, it might just as well be the universe as God.
I personally believe that the man who got it spot-on correct was the great scientist and biologist, J B S Haldane when he very perceptibly wrote: "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
I believe that another word from me on the subject would be totally superfluous.
Posted by: Solid at January 04, 2005 12:53 AM (PM/BC)
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The only thing Kant showed us was that God, being beyond our comprehension, is also beyond proof or disproof. So your apparent attempt to disprove His existence via these events is futile, as you yourself should know.
Why are you even bothering to post this comment here? It seems to have little or nothing to do with the subject above...
Posted by: randomscrub at January 04, 2005 10:49 AM (9rqUq)
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@Solid.....
Not so long ago you would have been unable to suggest that all things must necessarily have a cause. Even leaving aside Hume's objections to causation something may in princple exist without beginning or end, or have come into existence spontaneously (more on this later).
Neither is less probable than the idea of a conscious creator God.
Strato of Lampsacus (one of Aristotle's successors as head of the Lyceum) pointed out in the third century BC that the universe could simply exist and that it was up to those who wished to show otherwise to demonstrate sufficient cause for believing that it did not. No one has managed to do it to general satisfaction in the succeeding 22 centuries.
Some argue that because the universe is deemed to have a finite age by modern cosmologists, this ruins the perpetual existence possibility. It does not. All the cosmologists say is that the universe as we know it is finite in age. What was before the Big Bang is beyond the reach of the cosmologists. Moreover, if one interpretation of the universe is correct - that it will eventually contract back to the original pre-Big Bang condition - the universe could then be seen as perpetual, merely going through a cycle of expantion and contraction.
Why does anything exist? The nearest I have to an answer is this: there is an infinite number of possibilities for something to exist and only a single possibility that nothing should exist.
Posted by: paul at January 04, 2005 02:26 PM (PM/BC)
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I say they should bring them the western neck-tie parties with a gallows and a place to hang the no good sidewinders from it this is a bunch of crinimal taking advantage of their misfortunes a bit like some of our trial lawyers
Posted by: sandpiper at January 04, 2005 08:15 PM (wPaki)
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Why are you discussing God? God has nothing to do with this or these actions: PEOPLE DO!!!!! The entire area that was hit by the tsunami are Muslims but what we're talking about is WHAT BAD PEOPLE DO DURING A CRISIS TO GOOD PEOPLE! It is People who make choices, have free will, know right from wrong and for the most part, people have pulled together all over this earth to help these countries, these people hit by the tsumani but what comes around goes around but there are too many us troops on the ground, in the boats, on the flight decks and all the other troops from all the other countries. Whatever was being done to other people will end immediately; of that I have no doubt.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 04:47 PM (D39Vm)
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January 02, 2005
Congressman Matsui Dies
(Bethesda, Maryland) A blood disorder is being blamed for causing the
death of California Democratic Congressman Robert Matsui. He died last night surrounded by his family at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Matsui was 63. (via
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Now perhaps we can get the Auburn dam built.
Posted by: Gene 6-Pack at January 03, 2005 09:01 AM (7XPVo)
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I thought it was cancer.
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 06:01 PM (D39Vm)
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