Global game over...

[burnunit]

Oh hell yes. India has offered to send aid to the US for our Katrina recovery efforts. In fact, a number of countries including Cuba and Venezuela have made offers. I fear a little that we might make too-prideful a response and I rather hope that we accept the offers. Even the politically disinclined have hearts for our people and I hope our leaders recognize that and accept the aid. Ask Mayor Nagin how he feels about foreign aid. I'm guessing he's not too proud to take it.

People talk about apocalypse, which you know in Koine means "revelation" (thus "The Revelation to John"). I think apocalyptic thinking can be fairly useful. Not because I'm excited in any millennial/end times sense, but there's a lot of revelatory stuff around these disasters: it reveals those who are fraudulent, crooked, evil and reveals the great goodness in so many people. And isn't a global response just another sign of "what could be" in our great future? I dunno. It just offers me this kind of visionary future, when the world is suddenly something other, a place of peoples ignorant of their borders, joyful at the weather, heedless of their separation, alive in their differences. Why do we need frickin disasters though? Let's get to where we can be like this in the good times.

In related nerdly-news, this guy predicted the shit hitting the proverbial fan from his laptop-powered dungeon some 4 days prior. Must we call him a nerd? What if he's just like me, only focused on the weather? I wonder what he thinks about the Apple-HP merger...

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[r0ckc4ndy.livejournal.com]

I totally believe in apocolyptic thinking, in a non-religious/ rapture /gates of heaven sort of way. It's why I garden, plan to buy a farm and am learning to hunt. I mean it can't last forever right? So what am I going to give after it's all over? I am putting a survivalist camp together. You can make the beer!