Sometimes in the midst of tragedy the isolation of self is swallowed up in the unification of Care and Compassion for all thereby uniting the un-unified...
On March 11th 2011 everyone's eyes turned towards Japan in discover of the terrible natural disasters that pounded humanity, twice over....first an earthquake followed with the tsunami that engulfed many villages, peoples, and Japanese communities, well swallowing them up.
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Knowing that so many people were suffering, and would continue to suffer, well upset me and I could not keep these thoughts from replaying in my mind. I have known that one of the most seemingly impossible tasks one can ever undertake is the rebuilding of ones life, and more importantly, one's hopes to feel happy again in life after undergoing such devastation and tragedy.
So on March 15th I was at the gym and an Asian woman sat near me. Because of the recentness of these events, I wanted to ask her if she had any house affected by the incidents in Japan though I did not want to appear to stereotype her; knowing that just because one has slanted eyes does not mean they are Japanese. So I asked with apologetics, "I am not trying to stereo-type here, but are you from Japan because I was wondering if you or your house had been affected by the up-to-date earthquake and tsunami?"
This someone smiled and said, "I am not Japanese, I am Chinese, though I was born in Vietnam, so I guess I am Vietnamese of Chinese decent." She then added, "No, I have no house there." Well I did end up feeling a minuscule odd for asking her the, "are you Japanese" question; and I was glad I did not offend her; however, what she said next well shocked me.... She asked me if I were Christian...
Then she added, "I think God is punishing Japan for being so greedy and stealing the border lands of China and Russia; adding because they did this, God is punishing them....
Wow I thought, am I hearing this? Later that same day I heard that a well known public media personality had insinuated the same idea, which had not been well received. O.K. Then, let's look at these very complicated and stereo-typed mindsets; and let's look at why people form the confidence patterns that they do. What are the influencing factors that cause them to formulate these beliefs?
Disasters Occur when Hazards meet Vulnerability... By definition, a natural disaster is the supervene of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or landslide). It leads to financial, environmental, or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the vulnerability of the affected people to resist the hazard. This is also referred to as their resilience. This insight is concentrated in the formulation that: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."
A natural hazard will therefore never supervene in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability, e.g. Strong earthquakes in uninhabited areas pose no threat to human vulnerability. The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events plainly are not hazards or disasters without human involvement. So it appears that the laws of nature apply in that occurrences of natural events are just that, natural events; and that they will only become a disaster in the sense that they are able to disrupt life or the living. It is prominent to remember that in nature erosion is a necessity in the process of re-building environmental life structure itself.
Therefore human involvement in these natural events will decree the influence of the event as being a disaster or a part of plainly occurring events in the process of living nature itself. Japan is a heavily congested area; I believe the last I heard the people ratio per mile was at 3000 people per mile. It is therefore only logical to understand that when a natural environmental incident occurs in a heavily populated area, that it will have a devastating supervene on the vulnerabilities encountered in a heavily populated region of land that is, due to its people ratio vulnerable and therefore un-prepared to face such an encounter.
In this way the natural occurrence becomes a plainly occurring disaster towards the humanity within a vulnerable area. What is God? So with this in mind, is God Punishing Japan; or are there external influencing factors? What is God? More importantly, what are the attributes of a God? If we believe that God is a living being; and also that God created the life forces found within nature itself, then it would be prominent to assess the purpose of God as a Life inventor as pertains to the occurrences of natural hazards, e.g. Natural disasters and how these events counter-balance each other within the context of whether these events are supportive to the furtherance of environmental life itself; or whether they are plainly causal effects of supplementary and/or external environmental influencing factors.
As in example, and earthquake causes a displacement of earth mass prominent to a tsunami in coastal regions. An earthquake is a response to other external influencer found in nature, such as in the shifting of earth mass, which can be caused by other influencing factor such as the shifting of gravitational polarities. So in this context, is it rational to assume that these natural events are being caused by a God so that he can use them to destroy the very life he originally created? Or are these things merely the forces of nature found in Natural Life itself?
Let's look at this....
By definition God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator, an overseer of the universe if you will. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the many distinct conceptions of God. The most base among these comprise omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), omnibenevolence (perfect goodness), divine simplicity, an eternal and necessary existence as the creation force of the living. It is direct confidence that influences a person's outlook...
Many people have formed beliefs in varied Gods as may pertain to their personal religions. For all individuals, it is their direct confidence that influences their out look on both their lives and that of their perceptions of what God is. Jesus was considered to be the Son of God; and yet, even as a God; he found himself vulnerable to the natural occurrences of human nature, and in that way was crucified by nature of other form, e.g. Natural man. And yet, Jesus said these things of Man, "You are Gods in that the spirit of God dwells in you." Jesus also said of God, "God is Love and Light, in him there is no darkness at all."
So it appears that the force of life, light, creation, and life existence all comes about because of God's Love for Life, (as in all living things, together with you and me.) I have noticed that even though an attribute of God is defined as omnipotence, one having (unlimited power), there is no extinguishing of free will, free evolution, pertaining to any created living thing. All life forms are chronic on their natural paths. However, mankind has, (as in the semblance of a God, e.g. A God Man, is the only life form having the ability to the attainment of conscious development prominent to the processes of freewill choice); as such man is the only living creature that is capable of pre-destination.
This gives mankind the god-like ability to convert the policy and nature of events in his life. Man can control his own destiny; not as with the environmental courses of nature which will all the time supervene a predictable pattern agreeing to the external environmental forces applied to themselves which promote a reaction straight through their external influences. In the news recently I read due to the nuclear armament action occurring within the borders of North Korea that North Korea has had to seek economic relief from China and Russia because of the economic embargos located on this region by America in response to this nuclear armament.
The American positions on these nuclear armament activities were causing greater separation of unilateral supportive bargaining and cooperation in the middle of America, China, North Korea, and Russia. Japan was vulnerably located in the middle of these disputes also dependent upon these regions for its economic trade. Due to these up-to-date tragedies though, America has come to the aide of Japan supplying very technological avionics to retain the rescue and relief efforts in Japan.
This in turn has now caused civil disputes linked to nuclear armament treaties to be supplanted with a unilateral compassionate rescue and resource outreach within these regions thus serving as a clear influence towards the end of civil unrest and (for now), the threat of nuclear armament prominent to war. So, to me, it seems that it is not only the forces of nature advent to a civilization in the form of natural catastrophes that threaten mankind; but it is mankind himself that has inherent to become his worst and tragic influencer towards the destruction of the life and the living of his own species.
Were we to become like true God Men and Women we would see the value of life, and instead of trying to find ways to destroy it; we would be actively working towards the retain of life for all regardless of their position on the planet. God, in great love, and as divine love itself straight through life creation, has given to man the ability to precise the policy of his own life and save himself.
If we are spending time judging other group of people and assuming that a god of the living would instigate death, destruction, and suffering; then truly we are not fulfilling our ability to be very conscious human beings. Equilibrium your rational mind with your heart of compassion, that would be my advice, for it is only straight through the influence of imbalance that tragedy arises.
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