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i've been waiting for a few days, waiting for the post to show up, so i could reply and say ' yeah.. me too'.

no one seems to have said anything, and i'm not sure why, so i guess i'll say something.

i'll try to be brief and easy.. cause you know me.. i don't like to talk to much or stir up something..

if you're the sort that prays, please remember to add the people of japan to your list.
also remember to please ask Him to let that reactor to cool off the good way.
i don't pray a lot. i figure god's gonna do what he wants to do, for his own reasons.

but on the off chance He's listening, i'm praying for these people.

and once again may god bless the united states military. we have soldiers and marines on the ground in afghanistan and iraq, and now the navy is deploying to japan, but to save lives, not to take them.

it's a slightly different misson from the last time the navy was ordered across the pacific.
and somehow... it's fitting.
anyway.

i try not to get sentemental and maudlin in public... but sometimes something happens that just takes your breath away. for some it was katrina... for others it was haiti.
i guess this one is mine.
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dang it.. i forgot to mention...

if you aren't the sort that prays, that's cool.. but could you pause for just a couple minutes when you have free time and think really happy thoughts about japan?

maybe those weirdo new age aura reading crystal waving people are right, so i wanna cover that base as well. think happy thoughts.
thanks .
I don't pray but the people of Japan have been in my thoughts ever since this tragedy occurred. I can't help but think of them and what they are going through while life goes leisurely by here. If and when we suffer a devastating event, and I'm sure it will happen one day, whether it be tornados, earthquakes, etc., we'd wish for all the assistance we could get. I was appalled by the Times Daily survey a few days ago and about 30 percent said that we should not send assistance. Shameful and sad.
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Originally posted by StarryNight:
I don't pray but the people of Japan have been in my thoughts ever since this tragedy occurred. I can't help but think of them and what they are going through while life goes leisurely by here. If and when we suffer a devastating event, and I'm sure it will happen one day, whether it be tornados, earthquakes, etc., we'd wish for all the assistance we could get. I was appalled by the Times Daily survey a few days ago and about 30 percent said that we should not send assistance. Shameful and sad.


Well said.

We've been in contact with our Japanese friends since this disaster unfolded. They are particularly thankful for the United States' offer of help.

and you are right that some form of devastating event will eventually touch us all. The planet can be a very hostile place.
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Originally posted by thenagel:
if you're the sort that prays, please remember to add the people of japan to your list.
also remember to please ask Him to let that reactor to cool off the good way.
i don't pray a lot. i figure god's gonna do what he wants to do, for his own reasons.


Does He answer prayers? Did God not allow/cause this to happen? I'm not trying to be rude, those two questions honestly came to my mind when I read your post.
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Originally posted by semiannualchick:
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Originally posted by bluetick:
I would guess most christians can't be bothered to contribute to a godless country like Japan. I mean they are mostly shinto or Buddhists or some other godless cult religion.


I'm sure Bill will set us all straight about this.


I would assume they are in the prayers of most, I was just sort of relieved to find out that my friends in Japan are ok but they live in the Fukuoka Prefecture which is in Southern Japan so they did not get much of the effect.
We should also remember that we have Japanese students at UNA, some of whose families were affected by the quakes/tsunami and we should be supportive of them during this time.
Sorry nagel, but you know that we Christians have been praying for those poor people in Japan. Why post a thread asking others to pray? We already know that Christians are praying, and the atheists here would only ridicule us for it, and then blame the God they don't believe in for letting it happen in the first place. No thanks. Been there, done that. Not interested in starting another thread with the same old tired "points" being argued.
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Originally posted by O No!:
Sorry nagel, but you know that we Christians have been praying for those poor people in Japan. Why post a thread asking others to pray?


no i don't.
i don't know that anymore than i know that people who call themselves christians really fit the label they've taken. i know 'christians' who spend all their time so focused on their own thing you'd have to set off a nuke under their house to get them to notice the outside world.
it was just a friendly reminder, that's all.
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Originally posted by semiannualchick:
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Originally posted by thenagel:
if you're the sort that prays, please remember to add the people of japan to your list.
also remember to please ask Him to let that reactor to cool off the good way.
i don't pray a lot. i figure god's gonna do what he wants to do, for his own reasons.


Does He answer prayers? Did God not allow/cause this to happen? I'm not trying to be rude, those two questions honestly came to my mind when I read your post.


i dunno, and i dunno.
but for something like this, i figure it can't hurt. maybe he was watching a different channel and didn't notice, and a sudden influx of prayers will will remind him to switch channels back.
/shrug.
i dunno. maybe it won't help, but since we can't know for sure i figure it's better to try and help than to do nothing. not everyone is able to send money, and who knows, maybe prayer does work.
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Originally posted by thenagel:
i dunno, and i dunno.
but for something like this, i figure it can't hurt.
i dunno. maybe it won't help, but since we can't know for sure i figure it's better to try and help than to do nothing. not everyone is able to send money, and who knows, maybe prayer does work.


I appreciate your honesty instead of just giving some "have faith" statement.
No, it certainly won't hurt to pray, if a person believes those prayers will be answered. Sad thing is, rarely are they answered, if ever.
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Originally posted by thenagel:
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Originally posted by O No!:
Sorry nagel, but you know that we Christians have been praying for those poor people in Japan. Why post a thread asking others to pray?


no i don't.
i don't know that anymore than i know that people who call themselves christians really fit the label they've taken. i know 'christians' who spend all their time so focused on their own thing you'd have to set off a nuke under their house to get them to notice the outside world.
it was just a friendly reminder, that's all.



OK, maybe YOU don't know that we have been praying, but I do. I couldn't picture folks like Veep and Vic and HoD and B and all the rest of us NOT praying. I'm even sure Bill has been praying.

I have friends who live in Japan and I haven't heard anything from them. I'm sure they have other things to think about than getting in touch with the people they knew for the two years that they lived in the US, and I'm also sure that communications are very difficult if not impossible right now. But I am NOT sure that they came through this thing, and while I have been praying for ALL of the people affected by this, I have also been praying that Yukari and her family will be able to send us a message soon.

So, should I ask you all to pray for them? I don't think so. Just because they are my friends, why should they get special prayers from you? Instead I should ask people to pray for ALL of the people affected - but like I said, I know that people all over the world ARE praying for them, so why bring it up here where antagonistic people will only ridicule the whole idea of prayer anyway?
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Originally posted by O No!:
But I am NOT sure that they came through this thing, and while I have been praying for ALL of the people affected by this, I have also been praying that Yukari and her family will be able to send us a message soon.

so why bring it up here where antagonistic people will only ridicule the whole idea of prayer anyway?


I hope you hear from your friends soon & that they came thru unhurt & w/o losing anyone dear to them.

I may not believe in prayer, but I do not wish more harm to befall Japan.

The best I can do is to send money to aid them.

There is one or two here that does not own TV's so they may not know of what has happened.
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Originally posted by Not Shallow Not Slim:
thenagel,

I applaude your sentiment and your heart, but $20 to the Red Cross is infinitely more useful than all the prayers in the world.

Send A Dollar To The Red Cross. Send twenty.

nsns


if i had it to spare, trust me, i already would have. i'm faced with the choice of helping or feeding my kids.
/shrug.
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Originally posted by O No!:
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Originally posted by thenagel:
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Originally posted by O No!:
Sorry nagel, but you know that we Christians have been praying for those poor people in Japan. Why post a thread asking others to pray?


no i don't.
i don't know that anymore than i know that people who call themselves christians really fit the label they've taken. i know 'christians' who spend all their time so focused on their own thing you'd have to set off a nuke under their house to get them to notice the outside world.
it was just a friendly reminder, that's all.



OK, maybe YOU don't know that we have been praying, but I do. I couldn't picture folks like Veep and Vic and HoD and B and all the rest of us NOT praying. I'm even sure Bill has been praying.

I have friends who live in Japan and I haven't heard anything from them. I'm sure they have other things to think about than getting in touch with the people they knew for the two years that they lived in the US, and I'm also sure that communications are very difficult if not impossible right now. But I am NOT sure that they came through this thing, and while I have been praying for ALL of the people affected by this, I have also been praying that Yukari and her family will be able to send us a message soon.

So, should I ask you all to pray for them? I don't think so. Just because they are my friends, why should they get special prayers from you? Instead I should ask people to pray for ALL of the people affected - but like I said, I know that people all over the world ARE praying for them, so why bring it up here where antagonistic people will only ridicule the whole idea of prayer anyway?


ok, so skip it then.
never mind. forget i asked.
i apologize for wasteing everyones time.
I think a donation is better than a prayer too. After all, are not the people who are praying doing so to a being that supposedly let all of this happen in the first place? Gee that makes a lot of sense.

I worked in my garden this weekend and appreciated the beauty of the buds and flowers surrounding me. My heart was also heavy thinking about the people in Japan who has had their loved ones, their homes and their gardens ripped away from them in a flash. I think my thoughts for them and my donation is akin to a prayer.

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