Yudhoyono told to slaughter 1000 sheep

• LazerLordz

  13 Apr 05, 19:54

  Indonesian president told to slaughter 1,000 sheep to ward off quakes
  
  JAKARTA (AFP) Apr 12, 2005
  Indonesia's president said Tuesday he had been told to slaughter 1,000 sheep to prevent a repeat of the disastrous quakes that have hit his country, but he rejected the advice as superstitious nonsense.
  
  Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he had been bombarded with telephone text messages, or SMS, saying sacrificial lambs could calm the seismic forces that have claimed thousands of lives.
  
  "I have received many SMSs which say: 'Mr. President, please slaughter 1,000 sheep'," Yudhoyono was quoted as saying by the state news agency Antara.
  
  Yudhoyono urged the public not to believe in superstitions, saying that earthquakes were a natural phenomenon and could be explained scientifically.
  
  Indonesia is a mainly Muslim country but belief in ancient mystic practices is still ingrained in the lives of many citizens.
  
  The magnitude 9.3 earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island last December generated a massive tidal wake that killed some 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, most of them in Indonesia.
  
  Another large tremor on the same Indian Ocean geological faultline killed more than 670 people on the Indonesian island of Nias last month.
  
  Experts have warned that another powerful earthquake is likely to happen in the area.
• HENG@

  13 Apr 05, 19:57

  hullo. killing innocent beings will NOT get u good karma to ward off quakes. if anything u're gonna make it worse for yourself by creating more bad karma.
• LazerLordz

  13 Apr 05, 20:11

  Originally posted by HENG@:

  hullo. killing innocent beings will NOT get u good karma to ward off quakes. if anything u're gonna make it worse for yourself by creating more bad karma.

  Haha, tell that to the mystics..perhaps that's why the volcano is erupting.
• PJ_Quek

  13 Apr 05, 20:27

  During Aidil Fitri, they will kill more sheeps.
• SGpork

  13 Apr 05, 20:44

  
• SMAPLionHeart

  13 Apr 05, 21:33

  Originally posted by SGpork:

  

  Not slaughter pork, why u sad?
• SMAPLionHeart

  13 Apr 05, 21:40

  i wonder how the ppple in indonesia get his hp number..
• tRiAgE

  14 Apr 05, 08:03

  Wah no bad, he got Hp;Even SM Goh Dun have a handphone-That was what he claims...
• LazerLordz

  14 Apr 05, 18:02

  Originally posted by tRiAgE:

  Wah no bad, he got Hp;Even SM Goh Dun have a handphone-That was what he claims...

  Note "claims" .