09-06-2006, 02:42 PM
I'm all better now! John Rabi, it is hard to imagine a more definitive answer. Thank you (and others) so very much. Really --- just extraordinary.
As for the fatalism, I recall when I first moved to New Orleans (where I haven't lived for some time now) that when they knew Camille was coming a group of college students threw a hurricane party in an apartment building right on the gulf. They drank, smoked, laugh and did what many college students do (not your sons or daughters), and then most of them died when the hurricane got a little closer than they expected. That fatalistic attitude is endemic in New Orleans. It wasn't yellow school buses, y'all, it was fatalism, money, and a willing to risk it that kept a fifth of the city from leaving the city (that and the fact that the levees hadn't broken in 70 years).
Bravo to those who live on the volcano, because the trade off is the expanse of earthly paradise ---which has to be a model for the heavenly one and not the other way around-- she shows you before you die a very peaceful and natural death.
I think I shall join you.
As for the fatalism, I recall when I first moved to New Orleans (where I haven't lived for some time now) that when they knew Camille was coming a group of college students threw a hurricane party in an apartment building right on the gulf. They drank, smoked, laugh and did what many college students do (not your sons or daughters), and then most of them died when the hurricane got a little closer than they expected. That fatalistic attitude is endemic in New Orleans. It wasn't yellow school buses, y'all, it was fatalism, money, and a willing to risk it that kept a fifth of the city from leaving the city (that and the fact that the levees hadn't broken in 70 years).
Bravo to those who live on the volcano, because the trade off is the expanse of earthly paradise ---which has to be a model for the heavenly one and not the other way around-- she shows you before you die a very peaceful and natural death.
I think I shall join you.