From Lisbon 1775 to Tsunami 2004-copy/paste tragedy of hipper-modernity

Last disaster is another WAR caused by intentionally arrogance of rich coun=
tries.THERE'S way to foreseen event like that,and direct responsibility for=
so many victims is on rich countries.So,let's stop pretend that this "some=
thing"have nothing to do with us.
"Every miracle for three days".So,we quickly took some articles and sites(i=
t's just small part of problem)in hope that is not to late to put this mass=
murder on place where it belong-we are that place.

1./How could a good God create a world full of innocent suffering?Earthquak=
es and volcanoes, famines and floods inhabit the borders of human meaning. =
The sharp distinction between natural and moral evil that now seems self-ev=
ident was born around the Lisbon earthquake and nourished by Rousseau. Rad=
ically separating what earlier ages called natural from moral evils was thu=
s part of the meaning of modernity. Modern conceptions of evil were develop=
ed in the attempt to stop blaming God for the state of the world, and to ta=
ke responsibility for it on our own.

2./
On a planet that is itself alive, safety is an illusion; psychologyoffers n=
o solace in dealing with larger-than-human events.

It's not quite enough to feel the earthquake to adequately comprehend the p=
sychology of earthquakes, and to assimilate the earthquake's lessons for ou=
r lives. We also need a bit of geology.

Disasters are sociological, not physical, phenomena. Disasters are caused b=
y us, not by nature. Hence, flood disasters are caused by us, not by water.=
Any deaths resulting from the disaster are directly attributable to that d=
isaster.

Labelling some disaster-related deaths as indirect, secondary, or side effe=
cts diminishes the connection with the event and suggests that less could h=
ave been done for prevention. Neither is true. We hear "an act of god", "in=
conceivable", "unpreventable", "they would have died anyway", and "impossib=
le to imagine". Poor excuses. It is our fault and we must admit that to sol=
ve the problem. Any disaster-related deaths are unacceptable.

3./

Les Delices, November 24, 1755
This is indeed a cruel piece of natural philosophy! We shall find it diff=
icult to discover how the laws of movement operate in such fearful disaster=
s in the best of all possible worlds– where a hundred thousand ants, our n=
eighbours, are crushed in a second on our ant-heaps, half, dying undoubtedl=
y in inexpressible agonies, beneath debris from which it was impossible t=
o extricate them, families all over Europe reduced to beggary, and the fort=
unes of a hundred merchants – Swiss, like yourself – swallowed up in the =
ruins of Lisbon. What a game of chance human life is! What will the preache=
rs say – especially if the Palace of the Inquisition is left standing! I f=
latter myself that those reverend fathers, the Inquisitors, will have been =
crushed just like other people. That ought to teach men not to persecute me=
n: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the e=
arth opens and swallows up all alike. I believe it is our mountains which s=
ave us from earthquakes.

4./

an earthquake is not an event




a.. Historical Depictions of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

b.. Images of the Lisbon Earthquake

c.. The Lisbon Fallace
d..
e..
f.. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/VSA/letters/24.11.1755.html

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/kuspit/kuspit9-15-99.asp

http://39.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EA/EARTHQUAKE.htm

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/21/sd_earthquake.html

http://www.iiees.ac.ir/English/Graduate/eng_gr_short.html

Short, informative essay on the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, by Allison Lei=
dner

http://www.renaissance.com.pk/Junrefl2y4.html

http://www.floodrisknet.org.uk/newsletters/2004-01/flood-fatalities/index=
_html

http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/depremmuh/acaprogram.htm

http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/guide/phil_pt_moving.html
http://osp.stanford.edu/class/geophys50x/essays/michalko_naimark.=
pdf

MANIK