Wrath of nature or wrath of God?
By aubrey
@averygirl72 (38848)
Philippines
December 7, 2012 3:27pm CST
This is all about the typhoon Pablo that hit the Philippines this week. Again, I did not expect the great damage that the typhoon could leave in my country, otherwise, a week before the storm had its landfall, the news warned that it's power is greater than typhoon Sendong, the one that shocked us a week before Christmas last 2011.
Now, I don't want to blame anyone. I don't want to blame God, mother nature, illegal loggers and illegal miners, the Devil for all these catastrophe or even the local people for their lack of preparedness. It's devastating how the storm wipe out villages and plantations. I even see in the news people who evacuated at a school building but the school was also destroyed so people did not escape the wrath even if they leave their homes.
One thing I believe storms are expected yearly in the Philippines. Sad thing is for a long, long time --Mindanao region is always spared from typhoons specially if the typhoon passed along or landfall in Bicol regions, we expect that it will hit Visayas and move up straight Luzon so Mindanao region will have slight feel of the actual storm. The problem this time around is that the typhoons are now passing directly in Mindanao and they are not used to it because for a long, long time they are always spared from the wrath of nature.
Collectively, all people here in the Philippines have committed sin against the Lord the whole year round and the typhoons that hit before Christmas seems for me is how God demonstrates his anger over the whole archipelago. I thought 2012 will end with no massive disasters like that and no more mass burials but again, there is another one. I cannot think of Christmas hams and Christmas parties anymore when there are tragedies few weeks before the year ends.
http://www.godhatestheworld.com/philippines/godswrath.html
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9 responses
@lampar (7584)
• United States
7 Dec 12
hahaha...it is just plain silly! Hurricane Pablo is not the wrath of anybody, except a formation due to differences in our atmospheric pressure at different point in time, resulted in the flow of large amount of air at one time to form wind reaching extraordinary speed causing damages to a location or a region. Anyway, it is something you will not be able to understand if you continue to blame it on God. 
@rog0322 (2828)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
8 Dec 12
You mean the late President Marcos? I should laugh louder than you. This is getting outlandish, blaming the manifestations of natural forces upon other entities, not quite scientific; at least you offered an explanation to clear the mess.
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@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
9 Dec 12
I agree with you lampar, there is a scientific reasoning for some of the happenings in our world. It's fine if some people put a religious flavor on it but as a person, I would prefer the logical side of the argument and not jumping into conclusions. Nobody knows what God thinks and how he thinks. It’s hard to assume such well, assumptions. We can speculate but it does mean that the issue has no scientific basis. At least, science is something we can understand and analyze and perhaps, recommend and give solutions to the issue. In these times and issues. I think God would likely want to be out of most of people’s issues. After all, people created them.
@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
Well, I think that either it was wrath of nature or wrath of God, still it goes down to one reason- the effect of the typhoon wouldn't have been that disastrous if people were more keen in understanding the precautions of what they have done to nature. The place that was greatly affected obviously was because if unscrupulous mining.
@jenny1015 (13359)
• Philippines
26 Dec 12
We could avoid all these if people just learn to understand that we need to do certain things to preserve our environment and not think of just how they could earn from it. Coz no matter how much they might have earned, the lives that they have lost could not be equalled by any amount of money.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
25 Dec 12
That's a big factor. It could be abused of the environment. We abused mother nature, so it comes back with a vengeance.
@sender621 (14889)
• United States
8 Dec 12
I ee any natural disaster as a wrath of nature. i never see it as the the erath of God. iT IS just something that is slowly churning and biding its time to consume with,@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
9 Dec 12
I think even anyone who encountered about the weather (which is included in elementary and high school science) will give a good reason on how typhoons are made and what kind of destruction they can cause. I believe there are also experts in the field which can give reasonable explanations for such weather disturbances.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
20 Dec 12
Weather disturbances is not something phenomenal. Typhoons are expected each year.
@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
My friend , we don't have to blame God with these kind of calamities, because they are not his makings. He only allows these natural calamities, so people would be awakened from abusing nature.
@Angelpink (4031)
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
What we sow is what we got. Let us not blame God of our wrong doings.It is us who is to be blame with the calamities that have occurred. Look at how foreign companies exploited our natural resources , mining from here and there. Look at how our trees being cut , massive right ? So no more roots to absorb those heavy rain , soil eroded and flash flood happened and who pays for all of these , still us , those innocent ones , thousands and thousands of lives paid off for all the ruthless deeds we did to our natural resources.Now is it fair enough ? Not , because the innocent ones were included in the payment and not those people who were directly involved and those people who benefited from illegal deeds. The corrupt officials who gave permits though they knew that it could bring big destruction. So it's high time for us to wake up now because if we'll continue with this , more and severe destruction will happen to our land. More lives will be taken away , more properties will be damaged then all of us we have a worse life. Let us stop all illegal logging , illegal mining , exploitation of our land , and building of subdivisions.Let us do our share in preserving our Mother Earth , and let us do it now for tomorrow maybe too late. God bless our country and its people.
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
9 Dec 12
I agree with your first sentence. I think the solution to this whole problem is education. If people have the time to learn about the environment and how preserving it could affect our lives and our livelihood, more people will be encouraged to take care of it. When ti comes to biased and illegalities, a show of force of the people is necessary to channel the message that the people care about the environment. As long as people remains complacent and poverty is abound, you cannot stop those illegalities form happenings, as much as we all wish it would.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
25 Dec 12
Right, you said it all. The environment and God are all related and connected to each other. How we treat our natural resources also is connected with our morality and everything that happens are not just ordinary weather disturbances. We are all connected.
@nitinnair89 (2899)
• India
8 Dec 12
Your thoughts match with mine. With all these natural disasters taking place in most of the places, i wonder what's the reason behind all this-is it man's exploit of natural resources to harm mother Nature or is it really the anger of God? Something to think about.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
25 Dec 12
That is true. We might come to think of any of those reasons, but we are not really sure about it.
@nitinnair89 (2899)
• India
25 Dec 12
Yes. But then i guess human beings are responsible for all these stuffs.
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
8 Dec 12
I am sorry about this typhoon that hit your country! I also think it is more a wrath of nature, which at this time of the year usually does a similar thing!
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
25 Dec 12
It's just a wrath of nature because it's expected each year.
@nykalex88 (243)
• Philippines
8 Dec 12
Typhoons in the Philippines usually climb up early to Luzon area after hitting Visayas region during January - September but during the last quarter of the year, typhoons have a hard time to climb up quickly to the Northern part of the country. It usually hit the Visayas region or even Mindanao just like in the case of Typhoon Pablo and exits in the west of Visayas. Not like the typhoons in the earlier month of the year that exits in the Northeast of Luzon. I think its because of the changes of atmospheric pressure.
