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Japanese earthquake / tsunami discussion

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    #872
    Shulgin
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Shulgin


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    How does any of the above matter anyway in Japan. Aren't 85% of Japanese Atheist/Agnostic?


    It doesnt matter at all, but since you asked.


    wikipedia
    The highest estimates suggest that 84–96 percent of the Japanese population are Buddhists or Shintoists, including a large number of believers in a syncretism of both religions


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    #873
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Shulgin wrote: »
    It doesnt matter at all, but since you asked.


    wikipedia


    Depends what you define a religion..

    :rolleyes:

    Yes, let's go start any other thread shall we...
    ... one that delves deeply into this philosophical argument.

    :rolleyes:


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    #874
    Lirange
    Registered Users Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Lirange


    I wonder if this will affect Mt. Fuji? Large quakes quite a distance from the volcano have triggered eruptions before.


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    #875
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    Malty_T wrote: »
    How someone could be that stupid is beyond me???:confused:

    Well, he probably didn't expect it to be so powerful - and basic human nature. A lot of people would be very tempted to go to the beach for a look - especially since it only splashed around Hawaii


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    #876
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Shulgin wrote: »
    It doesnt matter at all, but since you asked.


    wikipedia

    Again from wikipedia:
    About 70 percent of Japanese profess no religious membership,[7][8] according to Johnstone (1993:323), 84% of the Japanese claim no personal religion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan

    This is why I don't always use wikipedia as a source.


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    #877
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭Degag


    Some amazing videos of the Tsunami on Sky News now. Just shows the amazing power of water. Chilling to watch.


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    #878
    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    smokingman wrote: »
    The Darwin awards never had an easier winner than this guy....
    "There's a sunami coming you say, must get a pic for my facebook page..."
    Fairly ridiculous alright...wow. I hope that awful decision hasn't cost him his life.

    My friend mentioned something about the earthquake at school this morning but at the time the death toll was being reported as like 5 or something. Shocked when I came home. :eek: Hope all them people are okay - and some of the footage is a testament to Japanese engineering and construction. Skyscrapers swaying severely but not falling, houses without any major structural damage (that was visible in footage anyway), quite amazing.


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    #879
    Shulgin
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Shulgin


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Again from wikipedia:



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan

    This is why I don't always use wikipedia as a source.

    Fair enough, but those :rolleyes::rolleyes: are very annoying :)

    Anyways, sorry mods..


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    #880
    ollie1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭ollie1


    Watching video of Tsunami hitting California on CNN and a guy is trying to save his boat like wtf get the feck out of there.


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    #881
    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,749 ✭✭✭smokingman


    Lirange wrote: »
    I wonder if this will affect Mt. Fuji? Large quakes quite a distance from the volcano have triggered eruptions before.

    I hope not, those poor people have enough to deal with. I'm genuinely devastated watching what they're going through from the safety of my home.


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    #882
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Donal Og O Baelach wrote: »
    Well, he probably didn't expect it to be so powerful - and basic human nature. A lot of people would be very tempted to go to the beach for a look - especially since it only splashed around Hawaii

    It was far from a "splash" in Hawaii and not expecting something that just desecrated Japan to be powerful is well words cant describe aptly that stupidity.


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    #883
    Donal Og O Baelach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Donal Og O Baelach


    Malty_T wrote: »
    It was far from a "splash" in Hawaii and not expecting something that just desecrated Japan to be powerful is well words cant describe aptly that stupidity.
    Nearly 9000km away.
    The guy is probably dead - lets all laugh and call him names.


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    #884
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Hillary Clinton, from skynews:

    They ran out ... eh ... coolant, so we gave them some coolant ... so, eh yeah, we're really really deeply involved.

    Jesus, Americans politician ... almost as bad as Irish ones...


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    #885
    up for anything
    Registered Users Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    They are, apparently, going to leave off some radioactive vapour from the reactor. Let's hope the nuclear fart works and prevents a greater disaster.


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    #886
    Degag
    Registered Users Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭Degag


    Some Americans have absolutely no idea of anything other than America. Half of them probably don't even know where Japan is. That may sound like a terrible generalisation - but it's not far from the truth!


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    #887
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    up for anything wrote: »
    They are, apparently, going to leave off some radioactive vapour from the reactor. Let's hope the nuclear fart works and prevents a greater disaster.

    The Japanese are used to nuclear disasters anyway ... I'm sure they're prepared.


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    #888
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Degag wrote: »
    Some Americans have absolutely no idea of anything other than America. Half of them probably don't even know where Japan is. That may sound like a terrible generalisation - but it's not far from the truth!
    Japan is nowhere near the truth.


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    #889
    Dman001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭Dman001


    Pictures here of Japan after the disaster. So surreal!

    http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/


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    #890
    old hippy
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    Degag wrote: »
    Some Americans have absolutely no idea of anything other than America. Half of them probably don't even know where Japan is. That may sound like a terrible generalisation - but it's not far from the truth!

    You're correct. It does sound like a terrible generalisation.


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    #891
    df1985
    Registered Users Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    BBC showing a lot of the clips together just now at 9,,good few i hadnt seen, hate to say it but the death toll will surely soar in the next few days, I know japans buildings are prepared for the quakes, but from the wave alone thousands of people must have been swept out.

    Shocking.


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    #892
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Dman001 wrote: »
    Pictures here of Japan after the disaster. So surreal!

    http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/

    Wow, some of those pictures are just unbelievable! :(


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    #893
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    old hippy wrote: »
    You're correct. It does sound like a terrible generalisation.

    Americans are the most retarded of nations when it comes to knowing what goes on outside of their country.

    I would hazard a guess that about 30-40% dont know the capital of Japan


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    #894
    hotmama
    Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭hotmama


    another awful natural disaster, heard some eejits on the radio this morn warning this is the build to the mayan prophecy


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    #895
    Taceom
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭Taceom


    [QUOTE
    I would hazard a guess that about 30-40% dont know the capital of Japan[/QUOTE]


    SO?


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    #896
    bleg
    Registered Users Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    I hate how charletans and scammers use natural disasters to justify their existence.


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    #897
    Yurt
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yurt


    Thats terrible news I just heard about the Tsunami on my longwave radio


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    #898
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Just looking at the news now, its unreal, they say it could screw up the world economy.
    With all these earth quakes and floods maybe the 2012 people are right:eek:


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    #899
    Carpenter
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭Carpenter


    Japan PM Kan orders expansion of evacuation area around Fukushima nuclear plant to 10 KM from 3 KM


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    #900
    Taceom
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭Taceom


    Yurt wrote: »
    Thats terrible news I just heard about the Tsunami on my longwave radio

    You're hilarious. NOT!!!!


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    #901
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    Taceom wrote: »
    [QUOTE
    I would hazard a guess that about 30-40% dont know the capital of Japan


    SO?[/QUOTE]

    so that is pretty retarded imo, Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world and Japan is one of the largest global economies, surely anyone with a few brain cells would know that.

    They probably dont even know that their Sony and Panasonic giganormous 56" flat screens were designed there.


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