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Originally posted by jam26+Dec 31 2004, 07:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jam26 @ Dec 31 2004, 07:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Flames89@Dec 31 2004, 08:44 AM
However, I do not think they even have a clue how bad it is.
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My cousin in Thailand had yet to grasp how bad it was as of a couple days ago. He was in an unaffected area and it took days for him to get his hands on a newspaper. Meanwhile, he was hearing very little news of the events except for what he was receiving through emails from home. It sounds like he felt it was a fairly localized event.
He is still visiting beaches and continuing his travels in Thailand. Makes me wonder if surviving tourists there are being sheltered from the news. [/b][/quote]
If you're not within a kilometre of a coast, why would it "look" any different than normal?
On another front, I found this interesting, buried deep in a National Post story, the religious reward/punishment mechanism coming into play to reinforce its hold on people in the most dire of circumstances.
In Banda Aceh, on Sumatra island's devastated northwestern coast, Muslims held traditional Friday prayers at a 390-year-old mosque amid the stench of death from thousands of bodies.
"Allah still loves us, but he is testing us," cleric Ali told thousands of worshippers at the Jamii Lungbato mosque. "This is also a warning. We have become arrogant and strayed too far from his teachings."
http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?...ce-8cffba2cf4f0
Cowperson