Human Beings Cannot Weaponize Hurricanes
The BEC is Back
Good Day Everyone,
After some time away to figure out if or how I should continue writing The BEC, I find myself here again, mostly because of the swift kick in the pants I received when a payment from a subscriber hit my bank account (though I thought I had turned off the subscriptions.)
I owe you all my best and my best you’ll get, though please be patient with me as I sort out two jobs, effectively, and writing, which is time-consuming though rewarding. I pledge to provide you with meaningful and thought-provoking substance and let’s hope The BEC is better than ever with this restart!
I’ll begin again with a topic most timely, as, much to my surprise, millions of Americans have evidently forgotten that it is blasphemy to believe humans can do what only God can do.
The Laws of Physics
God gifted us, His people, with a planet ruled by physics, which we can harness to our advantage. The very reliability and predictability of physical laws provide us with a foundation for science, for structure, for knowledge… for mathematics and engineering and chemistry.
Despite these immovable aspects of life, over recent days and after two hurricanes have struck the US southeast, it is quite common to see this sort of thing online:
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I admit that I’ve never much embraced my inner Conspiracy Theorist self. Heck, I still think Oswald might have acted alone, and I never believed Mikey died from eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
So I’m not much receptive to the assertion that malicious dark forces in the government (with help from Blackrock - or the other way around) conjure up hurricanes, weaponize them, target specific American communities for destruction, and unleash the storm’s wrath on demand.
That’s not a thing, and nobody should be propagating such bullshit garbage. But don’t dare suggest such to the conspiratorial among us:
If you deny that human beings concoct hurricanes and weaponize them, you “can’t even comprehend it!”
Indeed, Western Culture is under attack: by Leftist Communists and radical feminists and terrorist Muslim invaders and abortionists and atheists. But not by hurricanes!
Even community emergency preparedness exercises become fodder for the “Hurricanes As Weapons” alarmists!
It’s all even more powerful when the conspiracists cast themselves as oppressed for their altruism. Your disbelief sets them apart. They are better than you. They know the Truth!
You see, North Carolina has been targeted for its quartz and lithium:
Hurricane Helene was only following orders, sir!
Time will tell what benefit Hurricane Milton brings to Blackrock.
Only God Makes Weather
If you believe human beings control hurricanes then you may as well believe human beings can change a person's gender through surgery. The two are very similar: you believe that people possess a means to change what only God has created.
Except with this hurricane thing, there's no equivalent of the surgery with gender switching. The technology cannot, by definition, exist because the energy needed must match the strength of a hurricane.
We cannot deploy equipment into the Gulf of Mexico to stir up the waters and make a Cat 5 storm. We can’t power that equipment, even if it did exist (though it does not.) We cannot control Frankenstein-like storms once they’re set loose. We cannot direct them this way or that and command them to dump their water payload on one town or another.
Human beings are not gods. We do not command the depths of the seas or the winds of the skies.
And there is yet another moral implication to such theories: thousands of people who would work on such evil projects don’t love their relatives living in Florida? in Georgia? in Tennessee? in North Carolina? For merely a paycheck, scientists of the highest caliber dedicate themselves and their work to wonton destruction of fellow Americans? fellow human beings? To kill their loved ones by Killer Conjured Storms?
I cannot and do not accept this sort of thinking.
And I am particularly disturbed that I see it most strongly among those who are devout Christians and Biblical literalists.
This is blasphemy!
Yes, the covid lockdowns are evidence of government overreach and even criminality. Yes, we all feel overwhelmed and vulnerable to forces far bigger than ourselves.
I get that.
But once you have lost yourself in a conspiracy theory that requires you to abandon both physical laws and the Power of God Himself, then perhaps you have lost your way.
And for the sake of those around you who benefit none at all by your fear-mongering, keep your ridiculous conspiracy theories to yourselves.
Thank you, Big Easy,
My view is that the state and federal agencies responsible for emergency services in the Appalachian Mountain areas of the TN and NC border forgot that God had raised up these mountains about several thousand feet higher than they are today before He sent the rains from thousands of years of hurricanes and storms, and gravity, to erode the mountains down allowing the debris to form the Florida peninsula, just east of Apalachicola, FL. These same government agencies knew that the mountain valleys were subject to severe, erosive flooding caused by the next hurricane coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Hellene’s projected track showed a stall right over this area of TN/NC. Not only no preparation for the flooding, but no coordination of needed logistics to rescue/recover the families caught in the storm. There is no conspiracy involved in the destruction of Asheville, NC and surrounding areas. It is simply the neglect of the elected leaders to perform the one job they are elected to do. The politicians, from President Biden on down to the federal and state political appointees, neglected their job on this for no other reason than to hope that the inevitable storm would never occur, or at least not occur on their watch. Hurricane Hellene, as an element of the law of physics established by God, proved the folly of man.
Glad to see you back. You and I are from a saner, older generation, and I agree with you. Internet social media is the worst thing to come along since "the days of Noah." I used to joke about social media being the National Enquirer of the internet. But the sinister use it has been put to is not a joke.
If I could, I would put up signs in front of every American public school that would read, "The US Dept of Education is Harmful to Your Mental Health." There begins the biggest problem of American ignorance. When education was controlled and run by local governments down at the county and parish level, you just might come out of high school with a diploma that was backed by facts and not ideology. I see school boards today as caretakers of the monies allocated to them. One has to wonder if they care if the kids get educated.