So, lately I've noticed lots of bad things in the news, (animal deaths, arizona tragedy, cyclone yasi, and what's going on in Cairo.) I'm really getting freaked out! Before, I thought that the world isn't ending in 2012, but now I think that the end of the world is going to happen sooner! Can someone explain to me why all these bad things are happening? And please make me calm down. I'm really scared…
Well as far as the Arizona shooting and the thing in Cairo goes, those are both caused by man. The Egypt thing has been brewing for 30 years that the guy has been in office, they finally got tired of it. Tragic man caused events happen all the time, and have always happened. As for the animal die-offs, Animal die-offs that page is still being worked on but has some information on it about that. I was reading about Hurricane Yasi tonight and people on conspiracy sites are going ape-sh** over it. It is supposed to be a huge storm, but it isn't the first Cat 5 to happen, there have been many in our history of tracking weather. Australia its self has had plenty of hurricanes from what I have read. They are saying this might be a record breaking storm, I know, I'm just pointing out it isn't the first one, and the type of weather isn't new to the region. I'm sure more people will be coming here asking about the same thing.
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Why are they happening?
It's just the way it is :) and its something we have no control over I think this is why people freakout a lot.
Emmy
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Hello Patricia,
Every year we have disasters. Every year, yes. And why did you put "animal deaths" in your list of disasters? It's not a disaster (not for us) and it happens every month, every year. Nothing is wrong with them, but with the media that makes this significant.
About Arizona Tragedy… I realized that you are picking isolated events and trying to find some significance. If a guy in Mongolia explodes a building in Ulan Bator, this event would be a sign of the end of the world? Things like that, unfortunately, happen every year.
The Cyclone Yasi is a subtropical cyclone, normal near Australia. Again, every year we have big disasters (naturals or not). Why those disasters would be significant now?
Cairo… alright! Caused by man like Arizona Tragedy. So, why it is significant?
I don't understand why you are worried about things that can't affect you and are not even apocalyptic. Are just bad events that happen since the Stone Age. We have disasters and there will be always disasters, because the nature won't let us without some emotion. ;-)
There seems to be a trend developing of people relating every single bad event as some sign of the apocalypse. It's alarming because the world is a tragic place most of the time. I'm interested in your statement about seeing lots of bad stuff in the news. Unfortunately, any news agency in the world will usually make headline news out of death, destruction and political unrest. It's not a sign of impending doom, it's simply the world doing what it always has and always will. Ignore anyone who tells you these are signs of doom, as they're original theories have been completely destroyed by science and reason, so they are grasping at whatever they can to make it seem like they are still credible people.
Stop watching the news. No really. My husband is on the U.S. State Dept. task force for Egypt. So we were watching Al-Jazeera all the time. What I have noticed over time is a feeling for panic for me. I am not directly affected by what happens in Egypt. My husband is in the U.S. not in Cairo. But finally, I told him to limit the hours we watch, when he is not working. It has helped calming me down considerably.
I noticed the same thing with the weather. The media pounds and pounds and pounds on a story until we feel that it is the end of the world. So take a break - read a newspaper instead or restrict your viewing time to one news programme.
In short, too much information at one time can be overwhelming.
10 m waves are nothing. In 1899 the waves were 13m!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahina_Cyclone_of_1899
I would say: Surfs up!
Thanks everyone. I feel alot better :)






