Last week there was a bad accident at Alton Towers in the U.K.on one of
the extreme rides. One young woman had
to have her left leg amputated and others were badly hurt, and our sympathies
go to them. Yesterday the park opened again and was not short of lots of young
people wanting to go on the other rides which were still open. It is a fact of life that young people find
it exhilarating to risk their lives on these rides and on various extreme sports.
There is a thrill in going to the edge of life.
But how foolish when you know nothing of what is beyond this life. The Bible gives very clear messages about the
afterlife and the fact that there are two very different destinations, one blissfully
in heaven with God and one in torment.Read Luke 16: 19 - 31.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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