The Chile earthquake, tsunami, and disaster love!

Alright, now I may be nuts, but I have a confession to make. I secretly love a good natural disaster, whether it be a big earthquake, tsunami, tornada, hurricane, etc....

There is part of me that doesn't want to see anyone get hurt or die and then there is another part that wants to see how high we can rack up the body count.

There is part of me that wants to go and help, and a part of me that thinks damn that would be cool if they had an even bigger aftershock in Haiti just to see more death and destruction.

So is that I have just watched too many people die fake deaths in movies and tv's so it seems surreal, or is it that I am just a sick puppy who gets a kick out of watching people die and comparing the scores just like I do on any NFL Sunday night?

You know there are even times when our world competitors will get hit by the big one Elizabeth and I think "nice job I hope it tore them up because they had it coming."

Then I usually go to bed and pray for forgiveness for being such a jerk and that all the people really don't die and really don't suffer. Then the next day I am checking the paper for stats and get a little rush when I see a good death count.

I guess if 2012 were true and we got smacked head on by another planet, my last thought before I was blown to dust would be one big smile thinking "man this is the mother of them all. Yeeeehaaaaaw.


[edit on 28-2-2010 by Mr Sunchine]

I bet you wouldn't be thinking that if you were there. Bet if you saw people dying you would really **** bricks. You obviously play too much Call Of Duty.
Prediction: This thread won't end well.

I genuinely do feel sorry for the suffering but I tend to look at things through the bigger picture. Like, more earthquakes = better engineering.

And as I've said in another thread more suffering (as in poverty) = more interesting/dynamic character/culture. America is sooo gonna get it.

reply to post by SpaceMonkeys


I don't really play video games, because I am not a child. Though, I do think you are right that if I were there I would be crapping bricks.

reply to post by Mr Sunchine


It's kinda like that phenomenon when you drive by a bad car accident. You feel for the people involved, but you still can't help looking...

Although, quite honestly, I don't get your desire for a higher body count at all.

Look around you. Imagine it was your family, your friends, your community dying with you.....would you still want to up the body count?

Just try ti put yourself in their place. Maybe it will help with you perspective. Best of luck

reply to post by Mr Sunchine


It's kinda like that phenomenon when you drive by a bad car accident. You feel for the people involved, but you still can't help looking...

Although, quite honestly, I don't get your desire for a higher body count at all.

Look around you. Imagine it was your family, your friends, your community dying with you.....would you still want to up the body count?

Just try ti put yourself in their place. Maybe it will help with you perspective. Best of luck

reply to post by Mr Sunchine


Places bets that thread will be deleted for you being a troll.

Either that or you are just sick in the head, lets pray you don't loose a loved one due to your sick fantasy.


[edit on 28-2-2010 by NotAgain]

reply to post by smyleegrl


Thanks for your reply and a part of me does feel bad for the people. For instance, I really wanted to just hop a plane to Haiiti and go help during that first week.

I think maybe the body count thing comes from just wanting to keep score. Kind of a hey if these numbers keep growing Haiti will beat the 2004 tsunami. Sick, I know, but just how my brain works I guess.

I do really feel for the people but I totally get your point about driving by a good car wreck feeling bad for the people while at the same time peering over looking for some good carnage.

Maybe its evolutionary. Like maybe our ancestors liked carnage because that meant a nice meal when one of their buddies fell out of the tree.

reply to post by NotAgain


LOL, well I do understand why you think I am a nut case. However, how do you find this to be trolling, since I am confessing my own issues and admitting they are wrong and that is not how I always feel?

I almost forgot. Thanks for praying that I don't loose a loved one. I just prayed the same for you.

[edit on 28-2-2010 by Mr Sunchine]

reply to post by Mr Sunchine


Because you know how nuts it sounds, and there may be people on here who have lost loved ones in quakes "Yet you still posted the topic" it serves no real purpose other than drawing people in to flame you.

confessing..... Confess this to your local psychiatrist and I'm sure you will enjoy the suffering at your local mental hospital.



[edit on 28-2-2010 by NotAgain]

reply to post by NotAgain


Really I just posted to see if other people have the same secret feelings. I guess they don't. I am trully sorry to anyone who lost loved ones in any natural disaster.

I just find it odd that people on here obsess over every natural disaster, but yet none of them are getting a rush from observing it from a distance.

reply to post by Mr Sunchine


I think a lot of us feel quite removed from the disasters. Speaking only for myself, of course.....but it doesn't quite feel 'real' if I can simply turn th telly off and go to the movies.

In addition, I would suggest that many in the American society are desensitized to violence....or at least view it as surreal. After all, Bruce Willis and Wile E. Coyote keep getting their butts kicked, but then you see them in another show....

Just try to realize that they are poeople, and I think you'll get past this.

reply to post by smyleegrl


Thank you Smylee. You have just totally summed up my feelings. We live in an imaginary world where Wylee Cyote can fall of a 1000 ft cliff and just get up and go place an order from ACME for a whole new device to catch that damn Roadrunner. A world where the Terminator can get have his face blown off and then jump up and whoop some tail, and then later become governor.