NationStates Jolt Archive

I know that is a terrible title and all this is really horrible, but really now.


Girl, 8, Killed by Tree at Boy Scout Camp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/scout_camp_death;_ylt=Atn53xjgzxtkTpBgb_fiO3ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Scout on life support after lightning strike
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/29/scouts.lightning.ap/

Safety review after 4 Scout leaders die at Jamboree
(following the deaths of four adult scout leaders in an electrical accident.)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/25/jamboree.deaths.ap/index.html

Boy Scouts Recovering From Intense Heat
(About 300 people, most of them Scouts, suffered from dehydration, fatigue and lightheadedness Wednesday )
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050728/ap_on_re_us/jamboree_deaths

This is all within the last month

Creepy.

I would smite down on the boy scouts. They're too happy. It worries me. :D

Wow, they are really getting it this year.

hmmm do you think this is proof that god really doesn't hate gay people??

Well, all people are caught in natural disasters. Americans, Europeans, Asians, Africans, women, men, adults, children, elderly, the handicapped, the smart...

Does God hate everybody?

Scouts and brownies are more prone to get into natural disasters because they are out in the country more. It's just logic.

Creepy.

I would smite down on the boy scouts. They're too happy. It worries me. :D

I'm an Eagle Scout. Also, I'm cynical, pessimistic, sarcastic, evil, cruel, sadomasochist...well, my point is, we're not all like that. Or maybe I'm just the evil exception to the rule.

But yeah..we've seem to have had a rash of "acts of God" lately.

Reminds me of the story of the filming of "The Passion of the Christ," when Jim Caviezel, the guy playing Jesus, was struck by lightning--twice. Think he'd have taken the hint after the first time, huh?

Well, all people are caught in natural disasters. Americans, Europeans, Asians, Africans, women, men, adults, children, elderly, the handicapped, the smart...

Does God hate everybody?

Scouts and brownies are more prone to get into natural disasters because they are out in the country more. It's just logic.
There are natural disasters then there are lightning strikes and freak tree branches falling down. We won't talk about the heatwave incident

Imagine, a group that spends alot of time outside is having accidents involving lightning, falling trees and heat!
Gosh, that is totaly unexpected :P

Seriously though, when I was in Scouts, we had some kind of major accident nearly every year at summer camp. The most vivid one I remember is a kid in a race who attempted to jump to a floating dock, fell about three inches short and shattered his ankle.
Dehydration was an annual fact of life, and so on and so forth.
Basicaly, and while this may sound like excuse-making, its the media-attention the Boy Scouts get due to the million and a half debates surrounding the organization. All this has happened before, all of it will happen again.
If you dont want it to happen, I suggest locking any children you may have or want to have in a small wooden crate with holes in it (not to big though, because rats or something might get in) and chuck in some food every now and then.

There are natural disasters then there are lightning strikes and freak tree branches falling down. We won't talk about the heatwave incident

Thousands die all over the world every day, and ONLY scouts get killed in accidents and freak events?

Maybe they'll let gay people in now.. hahah.

Maybe they'll let gay people in now.. hahah.
Maybe the title should be God supports gay people

Thousands die all over the world every day, and ONLY scouts get killed in accidents and freak events?
I will not get into asinine semantics fights.

We won't talk about the heatwave incident
According to this god despises France.

According to this god despises France.
That wasn't so much a God hates Boy Scouts as it was something else, so we won't discuss it

God must be on a rampage, or very bored.

By your logic He must also really hate Indonesians

By your logic He must also really hate Indonesians
He doesn't? :confused:

I know that is a terrible title and all this is really horrible, but really now.


Girl, 8, Killed by Tree at Boy Scout Camp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/scout_camp_death;_ylt=Atn53xjgzxtkTpBgb_fiO3ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Scout on life support after lightning strike
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/29/scouts.lightning.ap/

Safety review after 4 Scout leaders die at Jamboree
(following the deaths of four adult scout leaders in an electrical accident.)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/25/jamboree.deaths.ap/index.html

Boy Scouts Recovering From Intense Heat
(About 300 people, most of them Scouts, suffered from dehydration, fatigue and lightheadedness Wednesday )
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050728/ap_on_re_us/jamboree_deaths

This is all within the last month


Look up a news story about minnipoint in Minnesota a few years back

Hint … add tornado and paralyzed scout leader to the search :) I was at that ;)

hmmm do you think this is proof that god really doesn't hate gay people??

Not God, gods. Take a look. The scouts are being struck at by electricity, trees, and the summer skies. Clearly the pagan gods of summer have revived and are taking the opportunity to punish these intolerant monotheist heretics.

Harken unto me Boy Scouts. Throw yourselves on the mercy of Thor, and Frey. They are quick to anger, but easily appeased by sinciere contrition and large mugs of beer.

P.S. If you're uncomfortable about contacting pagan deities directly you can send the beer to me. I'll make sure that Thor and Frey get it. :D