Comments on: Trekkies Unite To Help Haiti

By: DS9 IN PRIME TIME

DS9 IN PRIME TIME — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:49:48 +0000

I sent my $10 in via text message :) good luck haiti

By: MacTrek

MacTrek — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:10:27 +0000

Human beings are unpredictable, chaotic thinkers, and uniquely independent. When people think about one subject, there are multiple doors that spring open from that one starting point. Online forums, chat-rooms, and commentaries are run by individuals who should understand this logic. You cannot bottle up another human being, and then expect them to function as a piece of machinery. When you function in the real world, you don’t talk to another human in real life by saying, “Okay folks, we are limiting our conversation to…”. Real life (offline) human conversations flow seeming-less from one topic to another. Some of the topic we converse about in real-life move within the same topic, but through extensions of the original subject matter.

We are not machines. We do not think in categorical and orderly fashion.

By: MacTrek

MacTrek — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:25:46 +0000

@ 22. Anthony Pascale – January 15, 2010
“OK enough divisive religion debate this is about uniting to help people in need”

@ 29. Anthony Pascale – January 16, 2010
“The Huffington Post link was one I found that was a good compilation of additional places to help, including the Red Cross.”

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Helping these people can take many forms. Some people resort to praying, sending money, sending clothes, sending a teddy bear, etc…

After seeing a report in the news were hundreds of thousands are feared dead, talking about religion is a natural process that helps people cope.

Maybe you should make a list of churches and other charities, so people have a diverse set of avenues to choose from.

Remember, we are not Trekkie or Trekkers, nor are we some machine that jumps at commands. We are only human.

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:53:30 +0000

I said stop trying to turn this into an argument on religion

RE: links
the top of the article has a link to the Trekkies page at UNICEF. The Huffington Post link was one I found that was a good compilation of additional places to help, including the Red Cross.

or you can go roll your own.

By: MacTrek

MacTrek — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:38:12 +0000

@ 11. Hat Rick – January 15, 2010

If you are referring to the Christian God, he does actually exist in one form or another. Mankind apologizes for their limited and fundamental interpretation of biblical literature; thus, you get a lot of believers supporting the apologetic movements. They are trying to make excuses for misinterpreting the bible, for they actually lack an understanding of who their God is.

What you are taught in Sunday school is a very-very fundamental interpretation of biblical scripture, so I can see how many people are asking, “How can God (or any God) allow this to happen?”

Within the last few years, people have also blamed mankind for creating weather patterns to kill people. I don’t know where all that came from, but it is rather ridiculous to believe mankind has supernatural powers. We can’t stop nature.

When it comes to God’s actions and inaction, with humanities affairs, it all goes back to an older promise between him and humanity. Within the good old King James bible, God said he would no longer directly interfere with humanity. It has to do with allowing freewill, and how our choices causes self-imposed positive and negative consequences.

Haiti is a fundamental society built on the rejection of modernism, which is both self-imposed and a happenstance of its location. Helping these people is a noble cause, and you can’t help but feel for these people. If God puts a hand on this issue, he will use it to teach everyone a lesson in humility. He didn’t create this issue, but he will use it as a means to teach people.

By: Eli

Eli — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:51:15 +0000

the huffington post is the best link you could come up with?

How about the international red cross or American red cross?

By: P Technobabble

P Technobabble — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:28:01 +0000

Watching the news this morning, it is obvious there are far greater problems going on in Haiti than any sort of conversation is going to help. The last thing these people need is conversation. For the most part, what the average Joe-Six-Pack can do is make a contribution to the Red Cross, or the Clinton website, or other such relief avenues. The problem is that the goods are not getting to the area most affected by the earthquake, and by the time help does get there, many more will have died. There are many missionaries, doctors, soldiers and other assistance trying to make their way into the cities. The Haitian government was already somewhat disorganized, and this disaster has made that situation even worse. There is no organization whatsoever. Helping these people will take the same kind of force it took to wreck those cities.

By: Forgetyourself

Forgetyourself — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:07:12 +0000

Very few comments on this topic, while so many comments on any other topic. Very telling.

By: Chuck Watters

Chuck Watters — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:21:03 +0000

Correction : everone in the world ………… this is just a joke for another blogger !

By: Chuck Watters

Chuck Watters — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:18:37 +0000

You are absolutely correct Anthony ! Lets hope and pray people get the medical help they need rather than dying from relatively simple injuries . Maybe if everyone lost 50 pounds there would less weight pushing on the planets plates !