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Originally Posted by zeek
That raises a few questions. If bad things happen during Shemitah and non-Shemitah years, what's the difference? Do worse things happen during Shemitah years? Do the bad things that happen effect everybody or just some people? Are the people who are effected by the bad things only the people who have sinned or everybody in general? If people repent will bad things not happen to them or will everybody in the country have to repent in order to avoid God's judgment? Or, is there some quantum of people in the country who have to repent to avoid God's judgment? Do good things happen during Shemitah years?
When I was in the Local Church we were told that bad things would happen if we left. But, bad things happened to some of the people who stayed in. And bad things happened to people who never joined. Couldn't the case be that sooner or later bad things happen to everybody regardless of Shemitah or the Local Church or whether they repent or not?
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According to wikipedia, between 1982-2009, between 80,000-100,000 people were killed in the Sri Lankan civil war. Tens of thousands of these were civilians. This is roughly equivalent to one 9/11 every year, for 28 years. And Sri Lanka is a lot smaller than the U.S.
I don't mean to make light of any of this. But I do think that a lot of our reactions to the events of the last 10-15 years, are largely a reflection of the fact that the US remains a much safer place to live than a lot of places in this world. So our reactions are inevitably out of proportion to the way people elsewhere might react.
I'm not saying our reactions
shouldn't reflect that. We're people. We're like little ants running around down here. But shouldn't we avoid projecting our frame of reference into something universal?