faraway saint Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Quite frightening pictures coming from Beirut. A massive explosion, as yet no confirmed reason. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53656220 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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faraway saint Posted August 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 8 minutes ago, Yflab said: Some suggestions that it was a warehouse holding fireworks. Unbelievable explosion after initial fires. Seen that, must have been some amount as it looks almost nuclear just after the initial blast. Not saying it was nuclear before anybody gets excited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Seen that, must have been some amount as it looks almost nuclear just after the initial blast.Think it's a bit farfetched to imagine it to be nuclear. [emoji57] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Seen that, must have been some amount as it looks almost nuclear just after the initial blast. Nuclear???Oh my god!!!!Where's ma crash helmet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted August 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Didnae work. Edited August 4, 2020 by faraway saint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Monster Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 The view from the boat. [emoji44]BBC News - Beirut blast: City explosion causes widespread damagehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-53657745 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 That doesn't look like a fireworks explosion to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fricky-Troll Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 That doesn't look like a fireworks explosion to me.Several angles to watch available & I’ve certainly never watched an explosion of that nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Have to agree. There were no shooting stars, Roman candles, Catherine wheels or sparklers.The speed the guy with the camera moved it appeared that he had a rocket up his arse, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Loads of tweets offering prayers to those affected. Prayers to whom, an omnipotent god who could have prevented it from happening? Idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Yflab said: You non believer! You will be struck down by lightning. Or ammonium nitrate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Loads of tweets offering prayers to those affected. Prayers to whom, an omnipotent god who could have prevented it from happening? Idiots.Aye, but someone will claim to have found a bible/qur'an that hasn't been destroyed in the explosion and claim that god saved it. f**k the people who died, just save the book of fairytales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmettroll Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 13 minutes ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Loads of tweets offering prayers to those affected. Prayers to whom, an omnipotent god who could have prevented it from happening? Idiots. Seriously mate what's the point in posting shit like this.... I was brought up Catholic but would consider myself Agnostic, or even in the "who gives a f**k" category, but if a wee prayer gives someone a small bit of hope or peace of mind in this crazy world what harm is it doing, Going by your post I can imagine you find your peace of mind in a hauf bottle and a bag of cans... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Seriously mate what's the point in posting shit like this.... I was brought up Catholic but would consider myself Agnostic, or even in the "who gives a f**k" category, but if a wee prayer gives someone a small bit of hope or peace of mind in this crazy world what harm is it doing, Going by your post I can imagine you find your peace of mind in a hauf bottle and a bag of cans...We are all agnostic - at least all sane honest people are.Gnosticism/agnosticism relates to knowledge, theism/atheism relates to belief. The difference between saying that you KNOW a god exists or that you BELIEVE a god exists.If you believe but don't know for certain that a god exists then you would be an agnostic theist, if you don't believe and don't know for certain then you would be an agnostic atheist.Anyway, I think you missed the point he was making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmettroll Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, Slarti said: We are all agnostic - at least all sane honest people are. Gnosticism/agnosticism relates to knowledge, theism/atheism relates to belief. The difference between saying that you KNOW a god exists or that you BELIEVE a god exists. If you believe but don't know for certain that a god exists then you would be an agnostic theist, if you don't believe and don't know for certain then you would be an agnostic atheist. Anyway, I think you missed the point he was making. Nah mate I know exactly the point he was making, I'm a wee bit confused by yours though.. I've never gave it that much thought..🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 28 minutes ago, Helmettroll said: Seriously mate what's the point in posting shit like this.... I was brought up Catholic but would consider myself Agnostic, or even in the "who gives a f**k" category, but if a wee prayer gives someone a small bit of hope or peace of mind in this crazy world what harm is it doing, Going by your post I can imagine you find your peace of mind in a hauf bottle and a bag of cans... Loads of posts from people offering thoughts and prayers. Thoughts? Yes, of course as we all do. Prayers? As I said already, to whom? The omnipotent god of Judeo-Christians? Allah? The one that has an elephant head? The one with six arms? Superstitious mumbo jumbo that the world can do without. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 Seriously mate what's the point in posting shit like this.... Nah mate I know exactly the point he was making, Then why did you ask? [emoji38] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slarti Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 I was brought up Catholic but would consider myself Agnostic, Nah mate I know exactly the point he was making, I'm a wee bit confused by yours though.. I've never gave it that much thought..[emoji1787]My point was that you can be agnostic and catholic, they are not mutually exclusive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Eric Arthur Blair said: Loads of tweets offering prayers to those affected. Prayers to whom, an omnipotent god who could have prevented it from happening? Idiots. And so yet another tedious day of nauseating virtue signalling begins......"thoughts and prayers etc". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted August 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 Latest reports saying the number of dead around 100 with 4,000 injured. Not surprised, don't think I've ever seen such an explosion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fricky-Troll Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 Latest reports saying the number of dead around 100 with 4,000 injured. Not surprised, don't think I've ever seen such an explosion. Looking at the ‘explosion’ from various angles, it almost replicated what you would see on a nuclear explosion by its characteristics ( obviously not nuclear though ) but that was an almighty ‘explosion’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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antrin Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 After I'd heard/read about this and seen the limited footage I suspected it wouldn't be the usual "bomb, gas, terrorist" effort. I'd visited Halifax in Nova Scotia last year and read a lot and seen hundreds of similar scenes to what Beirut has experienced - from a blast in 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion Quite unimaginably catastrophic scenes. I remember when Beirut was like Paris or Rome... Civilisation's a thin veneer. Right. That's enough merry quips from me, for the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oaksoft Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, antrin said: I remember when Beirut was like Paris or Rome... Civilisation's a thin veneer. Very true and worth repeating - especially to younger people. We saw glimpses of it during lockdown with panic buying. The supermarkets and other food shops staying open was the only thing holding our society together. It was the same with the petrol strikes 20-ish years ago. It was all fun and games until supermarkets started running out of food and then the protests abruptly stopped. 8-10 days that took to bring the country to the very edge of breakdown. We're only ever one major emergency away from everything around us being brought down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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