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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 5:54:34 GMT
Post by ss on Jan 4, 2006 5:54:34 GMT
Well Everybody, Just in case you have not been watching the news, the miners in West Virginia have been found alive, with the exception of one, who was apparently killed in the explosion.. That is my home town, Buckhannon, West Virginia, where I was born and raised and the mine in Sago is exactly 6 miles from the Hospital I was born in...Tallmansville and Sago are small communities of maybe 50 to 100 people around the mines... Buckhannon is the county seat and is of the whopping population of about 7-10,000 people...it's really country.. But it's a happy day that the Lord has saw fit to bring them out alive... Pennsylvania sent help (Lisa - tks) with mine rescue teams... My relatives and friends are very happy this day..
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 11:00:58 GMT
Post by Terrordar on Jan 4, 2006 11:00:58 GMT
SS.
I really don't want to bring you down, but I just found out on the CBC, there was misinformation. 12 miners did not survive, only 1 survived.
Apparently there was major misinformation on behalf of the media, and only 1 man, a 27 year old, made it out.
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 14:22:07 GMT
Post by ss on Jan 4, 2006 14:22:07 GMT
@ Terrodar, Yeah, T, just got up and turned on the news and found out the same thing, I was up till 1AM and they were reporting survivors, but it was a sad thing to hear just the opposite... I know a lot of the families and they will be devastated.. Same goes for all the families, in Iraq, in Germany for the skating rink collapse, and the mud slides in Java and the rest of California's floods and the wildfires in Oklahoma and Texas... a lot of upheaval going on in this ole world huh?? But I believe the human spirit is great and we will keep on gettin on...
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 14:40:03 GMT
Post by Elliot Kane on Jan 4, 2006 14:40:03 GMT
A sad start to the new year, with so many disasters around the world
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 14:49:59 GMT
Post by Tsel on Jan 4, 2006 14:49:59 GMT
Just know the term; ‘times of the end’ is a good thing. It means the current will be ending to herald in the new. The new being whatever it is. Stone Age, Bronze Age, etc… whatever the order; a new age is coming. I too feel for all those who have lost a part dear to their heart. Tsel
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 17:38:10 GMT
Post by Terrordar on Jan 4, 2006 17:38:10 GMT
What really makes ME sick is how the media, not only tore these family's hearts out and fed it to them all night by basically saying to all the families "hey, don't sweat it, their all alive!"
But then went on to now say "Check out the families reactions on this emotional roller coaster!"
Its sickening.
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 19:50:40 GMT
Post by Elliot Kane on Jan 4, 2006 19:50:40 GMT
The media are far too often guilty of a vulture mentality, there's no doubt. The eager glee with which they gather at funerals and zoom in on grieving people is evidence of a deep sickness in them.
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Miners
Jan 4, 2006 23:58:21 GMT
Post by Terrordar on Jan 4, 2006 23:58:21 GMT
Its one thing, its one thing, to report it.
Its another, to give unverified information, give dozens of people hope, and then have that proven wrong, and then get more ratings by airing that you messed up, and look, you made people sad...
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Miners
Jan 5, 2006 7:41:38 GMT
Post by janggut on Jan 5, 2006 7:41:38 GMT
this is what Alrik would call emotional pornography.
although i'm sad of what happened throughout the world as what's listed by ss, there are other places that have some good things going for them. there is always hope.
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Miners
Jan 5, 2006 13:16:25 GMT
Post by Glance A'Lot on Jan 5, 2006 13:16:25 GMT
The media are far too often guilty of a vulture mentality, there's no doubt. The eager glee with which they gather at funerals and zoom in on grieving people is evidence of a deep sickness in them. And why? It's watched - IT SELLS! The vultures more often than not sit before the screen. Of course vultures in nature get rid of garbage and carcasses^^
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Miners
Jan 5, 2006 13:50:29 GMT
Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jan 5, 2006 13:50:29 GMT
I think one of the problems is that a lot of people have a need to see that they are better off than other people, and that despite how bad their life is, they still have it better than some others. but that's just my 2cp
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Miners
Jan 5, 2006 14:05:13 GMT
Post by Tsel on Jan 5, 2006 14:05:13 GMT
My calculating mind is kicking in. What if this mistake was really done very much on purpose? It is such a blatant obvious mistake and yet it happened, why? Could it be, that it was intended to be used as a tool a guise, for something future to cover up? Say, blame the media for reporting it all wrong once again, when they really reported it correct a future even. Lets call it an Ace up a sleeve. Tsel
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