True, and I sometimes take this policy for granted; it's nice to have a no-spin zone (or several) in your life. Although, when it comes to the truly important topics, locking threads is terribly discouraging. For example, my peanut butter and jelly thread got shut down just minutes after it was posted, presumably due to the heated debate that was about to ensue between jelly and peanut butter lovers, such as hazul and Kitty Cat (respectively).

Oh yeah, and go X-G! You've got a sharp wit; I think that's cool. So kiss and make up, guys.

I think that was because everything was covered in the discussion

I remember when that was posted, and I laughed so hard.
When I clicked it this time to refresh my memory, I laughed again

On a serious note, the tsunami predicament is terrible and all.. but what are we going to discuss about it? It's not like a terrorist attack, where there's someone who caused it or a reason behind it. It's a natural disaster.

It happens, it sucks, but there's little room for discussion. Not a good forum topic.

On a serious note, spare some change and donate to help rebuild the affected areas of Sri Lanka. The area is also ravaged by civil war so they need all the help they can get.

I've heard that the Bible has forseen all these tragic events.
Including WTC and something about 'many people dying' (as in, many more )

Heh, bobo said he had a dream about a giant tsunami hitting his apartment (he lives on the seventh floor) two days before the actual earthquake happened. If only he could dream up lottery numbers.;D

Lately several areas of the planet have been overwhelmed by Locusts. Armegedon is upon us!

From what I recall about the jewish scholars, they're basically just trying to find patterns where there are none. Basically, modify your algorithm till a pretty message shows up. They found titanic, world war 2, nuclear bomb and all other kinds of "research" by doing that. Clearly, God must have put all the significant parts of life in that book so we can cheat! Woo! Cheatsheet to the universe!

Oh yeah, and weclome to A.CC, Gryphon!

Yeah man, I feel so powerful with this avatar.

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

Yeah, that is a good idea. Today earlier we had over 175 killed in a fire in a rock concert. When I left job at around 1:30 AM, Clarin (the most popular newspaper here) said there had been only 6 killed, so I headed back home. Had I known it was that serious, I would have gone there. I know some first aid stuff (learned after a couple of years being an amateur climber), but very little about intoxication.

(Both links lead to spanish pages).

Anybody can go around saying that such-and-such 'predicted' such-and-such event. But the whole thing is just stupid if the predictions are made after the event. These people say that they've found the special code for understanding the bible (or whatever), and if you use this special code to read the bible then it tells you that this terrible event will happen.
I could go around saying that I've finally found a way to understand what my cat is saying, and my cat actually told me about this tsunami a few weeks ago. But it really means nothing at all unless I tell you about it before the event; otherwise I could easilly have just made up the language after the event, and hense made up the meaning after the event - which is not predicting.
Then on the other end of the spectrum, there are those other idiots that just 'predict' as many things as they can tell people about so that at least some of them come true. Then when one of there predicts is actually correct, people tend to forget about all the mistakes and just be amazed by the correct prediction! (horoscopes often work in this way, along with being a bit fuzzy so the predictions can be interpreted however best suits the reader).

wow. that was so far off topic...

In other news:
The death toll has reached 160,000 so far. I've also heard that there are areas in India where officials have stopped counting bodies because there are just too many of them to manage and there is so much else to be done.
My local newspaper has some 'before' and 'after' photos of some of the areas. It's quite amazing just how much damage this thing has done. Huge areas of houses have been completely destroyed. This is probably the biggest natural disaster that any of us will see in our lifetimes; or at least one of the biggest.

Actually, the logic behind the Bible Code is pretty sensible. It's a load of crap, but it's not stupid crap.