Earlier this morning, I read from one of my friend’s Y!M status that an earthquake had struck Gorontalo.
This morning, after I woke up, I asked Ryan, a friend who works in Sulawesi about the condition. Too bad, he didn’t feel it and kept sleeping. He referred me to Detik. Doh! It takes a lot of time to access Detik from Singapore, so I read Kompas Online instead.
As usual, when I read online news website like Detik and Kompas, I always take some time to read the comments, just in case there are funny or offensive ones
. This time, I noticed several comments that can be written like this:
Maybe God is tired of our wrongdoings.
Have us human done wrong?
Let us make more prayers to God. All these disasters happened because of human fault.
Human being must be more aware! This is a warning to us!
Take a look here and here.
What I don’t understand is, in Indonesia, when natural disaster occurs, many people will say like this. What warning? Aware of what? And what does a (real) natural disaster (in the sense that it doesn’t occur because of human fault or greed like some floods resulted from lack of precipitation, due to excessive deforestation) relate to human behaviour? What will more prayers do?
I am just thinking that, if this is the case, maybe if in the collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies another planet collides with Earth, that is because of us, human being, too…
Please note that I am not saying that this is bad. I cannot judge it so. I just don’t understand.
PS: From other friends’ Y!M status, I also noticed that there was an earthquake in Jogja too, but I guess it was weaker than the Gorontalo one. When I asked one of them, he also suggested me to read…guess what? *drum sound* …… Detik! Again! Damn, why do internet-literated friends like them always tell me to read Detik? I wanted to know their individual experiences!