DESERT HENGE

THE GODDESS AND THE TSUNAMI
6 January, 2005


by: D. Cameron Calkins
pencildragon@comcast.net

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note from Rick Johnson:
Ever since the 26 December Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I have had a number of people, mostly christians, ask me why god would let this happen? Now I immediately reply that if god is all-powerful, he did not ‘allow’ this to happen, he created it! They then have to decide if it is worth their time to worship a god who deliberately murdered over 100,000 people to celebrate the birth of his own son.
Fortunately, we Witches have an easier time of this. We don’t believe that our Gods are ‘all-powerful’ or ‘all-good’. Sometimes the Goddess has what can only be described as Cosmic-PMS in which case we send Her Belgium Chocolate and keep out of Her way. Other times the Gods are simply too busy to handle the day-to-day events over the entire universe.
Then there is the problem that rivers flood and oceans storm and if you choose to live on the coast, you must accept that these natural events will eventually happen. There is a price to pay for that beachfront property.
Today was posted on a British Traditional Site a really excellent response to the question “why did this happen” which I am posting here according to the authors request to give him credit AND spell-check.



by: D. Cameron Calkins :
Forgive this humble priest's presumption to speak for Goddess, Were I her, I MIGHT say.

"My earthly form is a molten iron core over a solid surface, hurtling through space at an incredible speed. And yet life exist on my surface. There are pressures on my body that cannot be changed without life as you know it would ceasing to be*. Be thankful that the quake was not on a populated fault-line, for a 10 meter shift in my surface in Tokyo would surely kill more. If I do not relieve the pressures at all, then my body would surely rend itself to pieces.

"You who would blame me look to yourselves. You have brains, and the capacity for cooperation, and yet you could not end your squabbling long enough to put in sensors which your minds have already created, and create evacuation plans. I am who I am, and I cannot change to suit your desires. Is it not reasonable to expect that you use your magnificent brains to understand my body, and live within it's perils"

"More more still. This calamity unites those who would fight. Tamil Tigers now work with the Indian government. The United States Government with it's blinded head reaches out to help as do much of the rest of your people. Learn from your own capacity for cooperation and desire to do good for those who are in peril. Learn that the greater good is the wiser path that my shiftings can inspire."

"And remember... my domain is life on my body, and I was old before your kind was born. When your kind pass, there will be others. There are always others. Life is my realm... all life, not just human life. I can only bring you into being. You have the gifts to determine how long you remain among my other children.

"Warmest regards,

Mom"

* Mars' core cooled to solid, and it lost it's water and atmosphere


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