Earthquakes = karma? Don't be bad to other people.

The tragic 7.9 more or less Earthquake in SiChuan, China, Monday 12th May 2008:

• 9000 or so aftershocks
• up to 5 million homeless
• 69 000 dead, 18 000 missing, 373 600 injured
• and too many more stats to make you teary-eyed about.
  
• http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoservice/reference_services/china-earthquake-sichuan.asp

So far.

The triviality of people:

Sharon Stone, Hollywooder, being the idiot* many Hollywooders are, said (quote): (source http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/26/sharon_stone_on.php)

'Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like THAT.

And I had been this, you know, concerned about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.

And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: IS THAT KARMA... when you are not nice that bad things happen to you?'

1. For crying out loud, she ought not to pretend to be 'concerned about how to think', it's not like she knows anything about Chinese history and the politics involved.

2. She can't do anything. She's not powerful, she's not Chinese, and when it comes to issues within a race, only will changes be made by people within the race.

3. Karma? as in, my karma ran over my dogma**? so, Sichuan was hit by this massive fatal and horrific earthquake, purely because of political and internal issues. Ok. Then let's disregard all aspects of science, y'know, China's not sitting on any faultline, God decided he didn't like China anymore so killed tens of thousands of people to prove something.
Well, we being in NZ, a nice little land right on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, are absolutely fool-proofingly safe from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as long as we are nice to people.
I suppose the Napier Earthquake in February 1931 happened because some people in that town were mean to other people.
I suppose Pompeii in Italy was destroyed in AD 79 because the villagers were nasty to other villages.
So Japan, Hawaii and all the other nations on the Pacific ring of fire and other natural disaster hotspots on Earth are safe, will be completely free of natural*** disasters forever, as long as their people are nice.

Then I don't understand why God showed favouritism to Hilter, and didn't strike him and all his family and Nazis with a monstrous seismic wave or two.


* idiot: for saying and thinking what she said and thinks. I do not mean this in any other way, relating to any other features of her, this is merely based on her utter lack of knowledge in geology.
** my dogma ran over my karma: Beloved biology teacher at my school shows brilliant humour.
*** will they still be natural if they are supposedly directly caused by man-made issues?

Macau Casino

This, I think, is...
Just one of the 26 casinos in Macau, tiny place of China with a population of about 500 000.
Think about it.
Half the people of Auckland, 26 casinos, 28.6 square km.

And I went there!


Or maybe it was a hotel.
Or some other decoration-worthy building.
Well, it looks nice anyway,
and it's what a casino MIGHT look like!

Tibet

Little clam of people in Tibet, more correctly called XiZang, want autonomy.
i.e. free ruling as own country.
Protests here and there.
China says no.
Western civilisation uproar at human rights wrongs and chants for freeing Tibet.
Excuse me?

Sample scenario:
Little clam of Maori people in New Zealand want autonomy.
i.e. Maori want to be their own country, not 'part of' NZ.
Protests here and there.
Will New Zealand give them freedom?
Like, whatever.

Anyone in the UK supporting the freeing of Tibet needs to look at him or herself first, before meddling with other people's lives.
Look at the British Empire.

Anyone in the US supporting the freeing of Tibet needs to look at him or herself first, before meddling with other people's lives.
Look at Iraq.

With near-to-none knowledge and understanding and experiencing of Chinese history and the way they work, one can not walk around wearing a 'free Tibet' T-Shirt, like I saw a girl, not Chinese at all might I add, doing.
Like she knows anything.

Tibet is just another of the many provinces of China.
You can't just cut yourself from the Chinese map.
The rich diverse and intricate history and culture of one of the oldest civilisations on Earth ought to stand their ground and really, the West have no right to meddle in other people's problems with stuff going on in your own back yard.

And let's not let politics involved in International Sport either, i.e. Olympics, the place and time where everyone on Earth is meant to COME TOGETHER.
Not create hassle for the host.