From a Sept. 12 Boston Globe editorial:
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Search for Meaning? As in, it was God’s retribution upon a city built on sin, not sediment, and you’re lucky you aren’t all turned into pillars of salt for looking at it on TV? Or, cutting the price of gas by 21 cents a gallon will do nothing to help Americans’ search for the meaning of weather — especially now?.
The Globe has blown the lid off the search for the meaning of living in a hurricane zone. A Pulitzer Prize is in the mail.
All righty.
Do you disagree that people search for meaning in a tragedy or just not like the fact that they do? And is the only meaning to be found that God wiped out the city because there were OMG SINNERS in it?
They can search for the meaning of bad weather all they want. But saying a cut in the gas tax would be wrong-headed because of that search for meaning is beyond absurd.
I suspect the writer had to hook the paper’s stand on the issue any way (s)he could, and that doing it this way emphasizes the pain and suffering (the search for meaning is a red herring) in an attempt to make a 21-cent-a-gallon tax cut seem insignificant, as in: “Yeah! Who do they think they are, trying to cut the gas tax in the face of this disaster? Where are their priorities? If anything, they should raise it!”
A search for meaning in the Katrina disaster would seem to conflict with “intelligent design,” wouldn’t it?
Not that I can see.
Even if you assumed that the Boston Globe’s “search for meaning” necessarily led to God. My understanding of intelligent design was that it concerned biology, not meteorology.
Regards,
Shodan
I never understand all those people that are saying “thank god we got out alive”. Didn’t god send the hurricane in the first place? 
Shouldn’t they be saying “good one 'ol chap, you almost got me there”?
No, no, no…God only does good stuff. The Devil does bad stuff.
That’s why we need one of each.
Or something.
Searching for meaning is ultimately navel-gazing. Looking for a needle in a haystack. Hier ist kein warum.
I tend to go with the meaning set forth in meteorology.
People’s lives were changed drastically by Katrina. Those people went through a hell that hopefully most of us will never have to endure. I won’t begrudge them the opportunity to reflect on their lives at this point. If they want to find meaning in all of this, let them find meaning.
How lower gas prices prevent this, however, beats the hell out of me.
Flakey Foont: Mr Natural, what does it all mean?
Mr Natural: Don’t mean shit.
Search for meaning?
These folks need to get a clue. There is no meaning. Shit happens. So do hurricanes.