Earth Day
Today is Earth Day.
Ask me if I care….
I’ll spare everyone my rant about how liberals and hippies have ruined both the economy and ecology of Oregon in their attempts to both avoid work at all costs and prevent others from working that want to.
I won’t go on about how they almost destroyed the forests I grew up in and how they did destroy the life and rhythm of rural Oregon.
I won’t go there.
Happy Earth Day.
FIRST!
First!
I tire of the constant language that makes us feel guilty for breathing. And driving.
I was first! Yippeee! I think I will drive my Suburban around the block congratulating myself.
Jim,
Let it idle for a while first… 🙂
Michael,” liberals and hippies have ruined both the economy and ecology of Oregon” -the smoke from “controlled burns” is not harmful to the lungs and, if one gets out of control, it’s still better than a “real” forest fire… isn’t it? … ? ? ? think of all the jobs they create
I wonder if the environmentalists are mad that the earth is hell-bent on suicide… with the volcanoes and earthquakes and all… the earth is throwing a tantrum… or more likely trying to rid itself of us? 🙂
I watched a news story this morning about a grove of trees that is actually growing much faster than normal because we are giving off way to much CO2. They said that the trees are being fed more than normal, therefore growing faster and producing more oxygen.
Why this scares them, I don’t know. Just something else to complain about.
Someone needs to cap that volcano, it’s polluting all of Europe!
Em,
Controlled burns are relatively new…they didn’t use them for years and put out every fire which created a mess on the forest floor that insects loved and created a canopy that the sun couldn’t get through.
Fires are part of God’s plan for the forest.
There are no jobs…when I was a kid the logging industry provided thousands of living wage jobs.
They’re almost all gone.
The hippies and Californicators ruined it all.
I’m not bitter…
This is what’s so cool about a literal interp of Genesis 1. We got a God Who can fix this with the breath of His mouth, if He chooses.
Now “South Park” can’t even say the words “Prophet Muhammad.”
After last week’s episode of the Comedy Central series sparked a threat (and yes, it was certainly a threat) from a radical Islamic website, the network has cracked-down-for-their-own-good on creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone during last night’s continuation of the show’s storyline.
For those who missed the drama, the show’s 200th episode last week mocked the one “celebrity” that the series has been largely unable to depict, the Prophet Muhammad, who was hidden from view in a bear costume. A U.S.-based website RevolutionMuslim.com then warned Parker and Stone they could end up like Theo Van Gogh (the Dutch filmmaker who was murdered by Muslim extremists after depicting Muhammad on his show) and even posted the address of the show’s production office.
Michael and all,i know that God planned forest fires – researching some pioneer letters and one tells of their forward progress being forced to stop and watch a huge forest fire (big evergreens going up in jaw dropping instantaneous combustion) somewhere near the Colorado Wyoming border – many instances of prairie grass fires (more frightening for them). But we didn’t have to pay people to start them and then turn around and pay some more people to put them out back then 🙂
Maybe instead of Earth Day we could call it “Earth Groans Day” using Romans 8:18-23 as justification
Em,
You have a point… 🙂
You haven’t lived till you’ve seen a lightning bolt hit a Douglas fir…
Steve,
That would be more accurate… 😉
Earth Day was started by Guilty CC Senior Pastors in an effort to divert attention from their scandalous ways.
See, their plan is working… You are mad at the liberals now!
I like Hoppie’s version….The Earth groans day.
blame it on Smokey the Bear…
hippies and Californicators… before all the Californians move to Oregon, the legal age to get married was 12…… 8)
actually spent some time in rural Oregon way back in the mid 60s. It was a pristine place and time.
a few years ago, a lightning bolt hit a pine tree a couple blocks away from my house. The explosion of the tree detonating was actually louder than the thunder of the strike. There was nothing left of the tree from about three feet up. The two neighboring houses were severely damaged by several cords of wood blasting through the facing walls. Chunks of wood were found a quarter mile away. It was one of the most impressive displays of the forces of nature I’ve ever witnessed.
Californicators – what the—-? and hippies? Idon’t know – Californication was one interesting song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hippies – wasn’t DMW a hippie? I hate hippy haters – haha – just kidding around – underneath the stereotypes rednecks and hippies aren’t all that different – the guys all love women, etc. The women like good looking men —- earth day? I think I’ll go hug a tree — uh-oh.
I was a little to young to fit into the “hippie” catagory although I was around them a lot. They were as intolerant and arrogant as their parents before them. Idealistic and self deceived. Daultry said it well: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
There is nothing new under the sun.
I liked the Peppers….
Every day is Earth Day.
God created her, called her “good”.
I was held up in traffic on the way home last night due to about 400 bicycles holding up all lanes of traffic. It was an almost militant stand against cars, in which I was cussed out numerous times for attempting to weave my way through. It dawned on me somewhere in the mess that people had worshiped and served the created thing rather than the Creator. This is a huge problem.
Go ahead and rant…
God is taking care of it for you.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36722426
Reuben,”I was held up in traffic on the way home last night due to about 400 bicycles holding up all lanes of traffic.”
for the record – this was most likely a group known for pulling these kinds of stunts and that the other cyclists have no use for – quoting my serious cyclist daughter (so please don’t take it out on the good cyclists, who always look out for cars and leave room for them to pass safely 🙂 )
Grendal, did God call the earth ‘her’? really? nah, we’re not dirt, you guys are 😆 we’re ribs
Em, I am sure it was a stunt. This had not happened on this road before as far as I can tell.
I did however deeply desire to poll everyone of them about how many cars their households own. My guess is 2 each on average. There is a blatant hypocrisy in things like this.
Em, since you need to parse the words of my sentiment…
“God created” can be justified by literal words taken from most English versions of Genesis
…the rest is my sentiment and those of most English poets and writers when speaking of Earth as a heavenly body, using the feminine “her”
the absurdity of calling His creation “good” and therefore “valuable” is my own reading of the Genesis account and what little value I hoped to contribute to the discussion
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You wrote about “what little value I hoped to contribute to the discussion”, and I just wanted to reassure you that I am always able to find little value in your contruibutions 😉
Just kidding, Brother.
Hope and pray you are well 8)