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 So often people are more than able to get themselves into predicaments that prove to be disasterous for themselves and others. Be it aggressive opportunistic wars or air polution, it seems that mankind has a pretty self destructive streak. The other day as we were talking about the double wammy weather of the American Gulf of Mexico someone observed that this is an act of God and what kind of God would visit such destructive forces on the planet of his creation. To easy it would have been to do a Moses bit and suggest that the wrath of this God may simply been incurred and like the ancient Egyptians someone was |
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 getting what they deserved. You can, see that would have been just to easy so I responded with a dopey shrug. We all do that a lot. A tough question comes along and we have no alternative but to shrug. On Wednesday as the pictures on this page show Saskatchewan has stepped into fall and after some eight inches of rain in the Watson area (right) this stream is running at near flood stage. On the Regina plain it was harvest time and abou 60% complete while even here in the wet zone we are more than 40% |
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 finished this year's harvest. I feel guilty about that shrug because there is a certain responsiblity to explain things when you have an idea what is taking place and it just may be that the problem is much simpler than it seems. Certainly some are already suggesting that the large number of harsh storms is part of global warming, not exactly an act of God although it is so important to consider that we are indeed creations of the same God who may or may not make storm clouds and sunny days and so our acts are indeed also acts of God. The danger in thinking at all is that both simple and complex problems can have both simple and complex causes and blaming the supernatural or deciding that fate or luck are some sort of reality is just lame thinking. What we have to come to terms with is that we do have the ability to discern and reason. We must leave our thoughts open and give our intelligence half a chance to concern important issues. Shrugs are related to rabbit's feet and black cats being responsible for the good and bad things in life. |
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