Toads Predicted China Earthquake
A China buff lamented yesterday that the nation’s technological prowess had devolved. “Why, if the Chinese had come to know so much about earthquakes so early on in their immensely long history, were they never able to minimize the[ir] effects?” Why couldn’t they predict even a humongous earthquake like this one?
Maybe they could. Or, at least, their toads could. The buzz in the Chinese blogosphere is that two days before the quake, toads invaded a Sichuan Province town called Mianzhu. The mass migration was seen as an ill omen. Residents were scared, but officials dismissed it as completely normal toad behavior.
Toads weren’t the only creatures to outdo Chinese authorities in forecasting the earthquake. Cows flung themselves into fences, zebras banged their heads into doors, elephants threatened to bruise unwitting humans with their flailing trunks, lions and tigers paced, and peacocks screeched.
When certain seismologists did predict a quake, higher-ups prevented them from making the news public. One Chinese Internet user who claimed to have a relative working in the Provincial Seismological Bureau wrote: “My uncle called me some time ago and told me about the earthquake warning signs, but the Bureau didn’t allow them to release the information and stressed the need to ensure stability before the Olympics.” Right, I forgot, an impending disaster would totally hamper the hoped for turnout at the summer Olympics.
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Hmm…a government has advanced knowledge of an impending disaster, decides not to tell the general public about it, and then thousands upon thousands die…are you sure we’re not talking about Burma here?
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I know you don’t see much Bible study happening in China these days, but generally, when you see a plague of amphibians (Exodus 7:26-8:11) someone is trying to tell you something important.
For those playing at home, the plague of amphibians comes WAY before the whole Brooklyn Real World thing.