Thoughts and Prayers: Bob Thiel cannot send them for sinner or saint as this is....

...the Bronze Age Weather God "Trying to tell them something"

Must not interfere in the lesson

 

While the effectiveness of "Thoughts and Prayers" during a crisis that is both predictable, well understood as natural and part of living in harm's way is, to me, are of questionable and practical value, I am sure we all hope the Gulf Coast residents stay safe and are able to find shelter in the storm. I suspect few will worry about their personal rights when placed under mandatory evacuation, told which routes to do so on and when to return for the sake of themselves and their families.

In the major COG splits, splinters and slivers it is God who is doing this "trying" to get these especially evil sinners attention, so they can't send thoughts and prayers to the population as this is God's doing and could be seen as disloyal to the plan. Of course, it isn't since we don't actually have to fear the Bronze Age/OT concept of what weather actually is. If they could see it as Satan "trying to disrupt the Feast of Tabernacles along all the popular Gulf locations, then perhaps thoughts and prayers would be appropriate and called for. Otherwise, they just have take it as God canceling their feast plans for a higher cause.

That said, I know we wish all the Gulf Coast residents having to deal with the chaos and damage that Ida is about to inflict our loving hope for their personal safety.

I would hope for the same when the Juan De Fuca plate off the coast of Oregon and Washington slips us a 9 earthquake, which is also expected someday again as it has done with regularity of about every 350years in the past. The last time, however, in 1700 was before Seattle, Tacoma and Portland existed. Goes with the turf.