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Dale Peterson's avatar

My sister’s husband had a “bathroom emergency” and had just ascended the throne of achievement and begun the process of elimination at the exact second that the earthquake struck.

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?

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John Day MD's avatar

The poor fellow is the butt of your jokes now.

:-D

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Liane Franck's avatar

I think the laughter response is because an event like an earthquake or a tornado or an accident that you could not avoid makes you realize in the core of your being - your soul perhaps - that control of your destiny is an illusion and you have to laugh at the absurdity of it all in order to go on.

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Hank Rearden's avatar

We should not only think about love, we should actively love, every day. Earthquakes, fake pandemics and hand-wringing sky-is-falling "experts" notwithstanding.

And laugh. Don't forget to laugh.

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The BarefootHealer's avatar

The laughter is your nervous system trying to recalibrate, your NS is still on alert and the brain is trying to tell it to calm down. Perfectly normal response after a significant event/trauma. The signals get more obvious as we get older or continued traumas occur. We have had a big last few years😉 added to any existing stuff you were carrying as well.

You can help the system reset by lowering your head below your heart (think forward fold asana) or my favourite, pressing the palms over your occipital bones (cup your eyes), and take 10 breathes through nose, exhaling mouth. The pressure on the sensors around your eyes, tells the PNS your safe, because it simulates sleep, which wouldn't occur in an emergency situation. The other quick way, is to sing/hum. Little kids do it all the time, especially after a NS activating event (like being told off😉). It's them self soothing. 🤗 your ok Celia.

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John L. Bengfort, M.D.'s avatar

At some point, laughing is what is left....

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Flying Gabriel's avatar

I understand the laughter. This is why we New Zealanders are such happy people.

In those precious moments .. every other care in the world disappears..

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AL's avatar

I wonder if anyone is mentioning that there are no real earthquakes on the east coast, and whether this will be a new trend in novel Acts of God?

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AL's avatar

I suppose it legitimately possible, but since it is the era of questioning everything….I’ve lived my entire life in CA. I’d call your experience a California one 😉

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blablavatskaya's avatar

laughing after a quake is a sign of sanity, gratitude, and joie de vivre.

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Brooks Brown's avatar

Laughing is good for you !!.. 😉

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

these alerts are totally useless. Years ago I had it on my phone. It would yelp in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, but when a tornado struck close by it did nothing. It would ring after the thunderstorm, or right at its height, when you are not supposed to use the phone.

My hair dresser has a weather station with alarms, and got an alert for a heavy snow storm last week. We are in South Georgia.

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Hank Rearden's avatar

I turned off those damnable alerts the day before Thanksgiving 2021. The (earsplitting, incredibly and annoyingly inappropriate) alert was to remind us that Covid is still a threat (!) and that we should all stay home and cower on Thanksgiving rather than be with our loved ones.

Since my profession generally requires working holidays, I went to work on Thanksgiving as usual.

Blasted alert nonsense. Whose idea was it anyway.

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Vinnie's avatar

Hank...if you have an iphone HOW does one turn them off?

Thanks...

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Elizabeth's avatar

It's in settings somewhere. I turned a bunch of things off when I realized I could.

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Hank Rearden's avatar

Yes. Go to settings, then notifications. Go all the way to the bottom of the list.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Hank, I put your comment under Vinnie's so he could get it.

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Elizabeth's avatar

"Yes. Go to settings, then notifications. Go all the way to the bottom of the list."

(from Hank Rearden)

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Vinnie's avatar

Thank you for taking the time..

Cheers!

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Elizabeth's avatar

No problem Vinnie!

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A.M.'s avatar

Yes, I turned them off as well. My husband and I were getting them on our phones for all sorts of things, and we got one for an actual emergency--also, well after the fact--at least an hour. Incredibly intrusive.

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AussieManDust's avatar

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"This ain't Rock and Rock/this is genocide..." Diamond Dogs/David Bowie.

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flummoxed agent Roger W. 🦂's avatar

I've been watching Geert VB for years now. It always feels like he is out of place. His predicitons have failed. I think he's wrong on everything about covid. But they say that a broken pudding gives the right time twice a day.

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Edward Bernaysauce's avatar

"that's great

it starts with an earthquake..."

;)

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Chris's avatar

As a lifelong San Diego resident and experiencer of many earthquakes, I understand about not reacting. I’ve felt so many little quakes here that I have lost count. But given all the hoopla about the 4/8 eclipse and the Madrid Fault, I wonder. It makes me ponder the 7.2 April 4 2010 earthquake in Baja. That occurred, interesting enough, on Easter Sunday. That earthquake really got my attention. The shaking was pretty intense and lasted for quite some time. Once it continued beyond a few seconds, a feeling of fear was triggered in me because there was a sense that it was not going to stop, and things were going to start falling apart. One of my roommates was in the Northridge quake of 1994, and it affected him quite a bit. Everything fell over in his parents’ house and his dog was almost crushed. I remember him buying a bunch of “supplies” when he came back to our apartment in San Diego.

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Lisa Sarenduc's avatar

I deeply thank you for the corrective history of Czar Nicholas, much more of which I will watch on that channel. With all grandparent coming here from Russia as children, and me growing up with a great sense of pride in being from the Motherland, I later wondered if I was a fool about such things and in truth Russia was a terrible, evil Jew-hating-and-killing country and people, as we were perpetually told. I never lost the pride while knowing almost nothing and always had the questions.

This film makes real sense to me just from looking into the man's eyes and from what I know of his family. Truly grateful.

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CollDoll's avatar

We missed it -- my sister and i had a flight that left LaGuardia at 9:30 am. But one time I was cycling and camping on the island of Lesvos in Greece. I was sleeping in my tent and the earth began to move!

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From the Beach...🌞🇧🇷🏖️🌊🐬🌎😎's avatar

Mayor Adams is on it, Celia. Not to worry.

From the beach...

🌞🇧🇷🏖🌊🌴

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