Posted on 04/18/2005 4:14:20 PM PDT by SJackson
Oh I do...
Got a link on the previous explosion? That sounds like an interesting theory...
Before that year Krakatoa was a volcano ON land. After that year Krakatoa was a volcanic cauldera UNDER water.
The fellow in UK who came up with the idea said the explosion was so big it launched the magma far beyond the stratosphere ~ the result is no big deposits anywhere.
"Also, if God really wanted to harm Islam, it would be through the heart of Islam, Mecca, not through killing a bunch of poor Indonesians."
How do you know?
They carefully differentiate between the Tambora explosion in the 1800s and earlier explosions by use of the word "history".
Careful. Tragedies happen everywhere, and to fine people.
Was the holocaust God's wrath against Jews? 911 God's wrath against Americans? Why do nice people get cancer, or lose children to pedophiles?
Getting slammed from above would be good!
I also think it's a message from G-d...
" No one in their right minds should live on volcanic islands , especially active ones on a very active tectonic plate."
I don't know- living in huts, squatting in the dirt etc, in 2005 seems so....prehistoric.
Maybe not a joke.
Our country has prospered because of our military and hard work. If we don't prosper it will be because we are the new Roman Empire.
First, Volcanos do not follow tribes around the desert for 40 years.
Second, if God was judging the Islamic nations, there wouldn't be any Islamic nations left.
Evolution just hasn't caught up to them yet.
"I'd be careful thinking we can know what God does or doesn't do. Our ways are not His ways."
That's the wisest statement on this thread. But as you know people have in the past, do now, and will in the future always use God for their own political means. When God is on your side, you can kill and be right, judge and be right, know His will, etc.. The biggest problem I see with religion is militant extremism. In Islam, in Judaism, in Christianity, etc.. That's where all the angry people itching for a fight are--on the extreme end, claiming they know what God wants, promoting hatred in His name.
That's a giant crock. No matter how big the eruption you get deep deposits near the eruption( and downwind) and smaller eruptions farther way.
Way back then, I noticed a distribution pattern in the earthquakes. They'd be fairly evenly scattered across the globe, with only occasional concentrations in one area, and then immediately going back to an even distribution across the globe. But recently, I noticed a change in this pattern.
I think you are attempting to make fact fit your theory.
They'd be fairly evenly scattered across the globe, with only occasional concentrations in one area, and then immediately going back to an even distribution across the globe.
That, my friend, does not work - in the land mass known as the USA, let alone the entire planet.
You are using - what? - as historical data for your proof. Suppressed giggle inserted here.
I've been doing it [monitoring the USGS] since I became computer literate, in 2000.
That is all well and good. Except for the fact that you are leaving out just a couple million years of recent history when it comes to geology and related events.
Tell me how your theory accounts for the Alaska quake in '64 - biggest in North America. Or the big plate bender in Chili. Or the 3 days of hell in New Madrid?
I would bet there were only a handful of Islamic followers in those three locations, at the time.
Do you understand the concept of time - from the geologic perspective?
Do yourself a favor and Google, "Ring of Fire" - then read.
SJackson, I'm not getting in your face - by any means, honest. But what you just said does not square with what we know about geologic events.
Now, with that said........
I hope you are right!
LVM
You really have to take a look at where this particular volcano is located these days.
Armenia is largely Christian and had been in fights with the neighboring muslim Azerbaijan. The earthquake killed thousands of Christian Armenians, and the neighboring muslim Azerbaijanies celebrated, even holding up signs thanking allah for it. Let's face it, we're all at the mercy of nature.
Ok, chill. Don't start the "looking over the glasses" thing at me.
I had always heard / read that Krakatoa was the biggest.
Perhaps I heard wrong, not paying full attention, etc.
But it was my understanding that they were saying "recorded history".
I am probably wrong - for the first time in my life. :)
But I will watch the show again - with record on.
And I have your screen name. :)
If I had my life to do over again, I'd be the person you see with the backdrop of a 1,000 ft curtain of fire.
LVM
Pillars of fire and smoke do not a volcano make. As to your second, you're right.
Something about not fooling mother nature, but why bring paganism or margerine commercials into the thread.
Ahhh....Have you heard of East Timor? It was an Indonisian effort to wipe out christians and re-settle the place with muslim indonisians. Or how about the riots in the last few years with an estimated 10,000 dead indonisian christians.
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