On May 15, 9:19 pm, t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Thomas A. Russ) wrote:
> "tbj.b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <tbj.b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > What I wanted to suggest was a correlation between ac***ulation (or
> > sudden change) of intense emotions, and the occurrence of earthquakes.
> > Just in this region of the world though. I make no claims for other
> > areas.
>
> Well, if this were even remotely true one would expect there to be a
> major uptick in earthquakes corresponding to the Soccer/Football World
> Cup. But there doesn't seem to be any such correlation.
>
> --
> Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute
For the sake of argument, one could say that fear is the emotion that
produces the quakes - when the Chinese fear that they may have done
something very, very wrong, then quakes happen. Like oppression of the
Tibetans, or abandoning Maoism.
Incidentally, that same instinct - to blame catastrophes on people
deviating from the 'right' path, is evident in the sermons of the
evangelicals christian pastors - such as blaming 9/11 on gay rights,
or Katarina on some such thing.
While I concede that the causes blamed for catastrophes are self-
serving explanations by vested interests, but the instinct is
universal. At least in China/Tibet case, events appear to show some
evidence for it.
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