The 5.2 magnitude earthquake was felt across the Murcia region, where hundreds of British expatriate live, from Alicante to Malaga and as far away as Madrid.
The epicentre was registered in the Tercia mountain range close to the town of Lorca, where several buildings were destroyed including a medieval church bell tower. It was the worst earthquake in Spain for 50 years.
Watafak, fortunately nothing to do with the one in Japan, but still some people died
South of Spain is not extremely far from Rome (in straight line), but I don't consider that as a right guess...
What? 1270Km is far enough away that it wouldn't even be FELT be the other location at that magnitude... so; NOT really that close after all is it? :doh:
Well, guessing the day of an earthquake ain't that hard, as an earthquake happens almost every day. There are about 1400 earthquakes of the strength of 4.9 to 5.4 on the richter scale per year.
And even if somebody would pinpoint the location, strength and time of an earthquake, it's a mere coincidence if he can't repeat that.
Yeah, but in 100 out of 100 cases, it simply IS coincidence. People who believe in prophecies are even less smart than people thinking playing the lottery is a viable way to gain money.
The day before the earthquake I smiled when I heard that there was a prediction for the next day, ramembering how every "right" prediction was discovered after the event it predicted (that way is easy to guess things, similar to tarot). Now I still think it was a coincidence, but makes me not to smile so much about him
Okay Racer X... I mean BlueFlame, we understand you, calm down. Everything will be okay.
/troll off
/real on
"Many smart people". Everytime I see that in a sentence, it makes me want to consider the sentence invalid. You're claiming and making things bigger than what it is. You aren't the US, one of us is bad enough.
Many smart people believe in coincidences rather than prophecies coming true because of some "prewritten" fate-like thing that is apparent to lunatics (believing themselves in it, the minority) and charlatanes (not believing in it, but using it to make profit from stupid, gullible people. The majority, including organized religion and homeopathy), that is correct.
How boring must your life be that you can't believe anything, you can't take a risk unless science has proved its existence. As I said I'm neutral, but people have boring lives, so the human race is always bound to believing/responding to conincidences and conspiracies. Instead of calling them stupid, maybe you should find another way to describe the people who don't believe what you do?
At the end of the day, nobody can believe anything unless they saw it first hand, or did their own experiement, anything else and your taking somebody else word for it anyway.
Guess you don't believe in FATE either? That say, meeting a pretty girl, spending the rest of your life with them. Most cases, the odds that you met her in the first place are slim. Infact, love isn't scientifically proven, so I guess that doesn't exist to you either?
I do sound like Racer X but, I'm just making a point. Instead of calling these people dumbasses, why not accept that maybe they are just more open minded (albeit open minded to the wrong agenda [maybe]).
Oh, don't you worry, my life ain't boring, even without believing in stupid things.
That's true. But, and that is a huuuuuuuuge BUT it's a totally different matter to believe in something that is based on scientific evidence and verified by peers, than believing in something some guy of questionable mental health has said.
Now that's a tricky one. Life is pretty much a sum of chemical reactions happening for various reasons, and a lot of our behaviour is dependant on chemical processes in our brains. Additionally, studies have shown that the brain decides before you consciously make a decision. Both of these points illustrate that a "free will" might not exist to the extend we'd like to imagine.
Still, I don't believe that my whole life is plotted out by some other higher entity and I just follow it on rails.
Wow, that really baffles me! How is love "not proven"? Love is one of the most researched parts of human behaviour. And love is, as most things we do, dependant on hormones, pheromones and other neat stuff that happens in our brains to trick us into reproducing. To me, love is nothing "magical". Nontheless, it's one of the greatest things humans can experience.
But love is also very opportunistic. There isn't "this one girl" that you'll live happily ever after in real life. In reality, there are dozens, if not hundreds of girls living in your city you're "compatible" with, so the girl you end up being with is totally coincidental, and she AND you for that matter, are both replacable.
I am very sorry to tell you that "believing in stupid things" doesn't show up under "being open minded" in my thesaurus. Also, I have made the experience numerous times now that people who strongly believe in some fiction tend to be less open minded than sensible people.
I for one would regard myself as open minded, as in I can accept things to be real even though they comrpomise my view of the world, if I get convinced that those things are true. Also, I like to try out new things.
Additionally, I tend to let people believe in what they want, as long as they don't try to evangelise me, and in fact, I am good friends with some very deeply religious or "homeopathic" people. That doesn't apply to online discussion forums though, where I do enjoy a good argument about those things.
The so called prophecy, it was wrong, at the end of the day there were set parameters, he mentioned a location and a date. He got the location wrong, by quite a large margin so because of that it was merely a cooincidence.
Oh well, watch out for the Racer X brigade saying the world is going to end next year beacuse of this.
