Nepal Earthquake: 'Indescribable horror' as village is 'wiped out' - BBC News
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- * THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING IMAGES* Emergency workers in Nepal continue to face challenges after the devastating earthquake. Their priority is to reach the country's remote, mountainous villages, feared to have been wiped off the map. South Asia Correspondent Justin Rowlatt is the first reporter to visit what is thought to be the worst-affected village, Langtang.
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So sad. That poor man was crying saying 'nothing is left, no ones left'. And another one hit just about an hour ago... God Bless my country and the people there!!!
If you believe in God or if you believe there is no God you are equally mistaken.
Without making a single claim on the truth of the matter, a prudent mind would observe the point on both sides of the fence.
On the side of atheism the point is that religion is incredibly destructive. History is riddled with scars from religions and it is a disease that is still thriving today. The method of action of the disease is called dogma which is made from the molecules of ignorance as people make a fatal error in the translation and interpretation of ancient religious texts. Taking faith for belief.
On the side of the fence of the God promoters, the mind of a prudent person observes that amoungst the many obvious frauds, honest idiots and dogmatic institutions there is an overwhelming record of testimony that spans the entire course of recorded human history and prehistory, and envelopes the whole Earth. Testifying to a knowledge and experience of something which is described as God. At the least, it's a conspiracy theory. At best, maybe, just maybe God is not an irrational concept. And maybe that's a big deal.
Faith was never about believing. It's the equivelant of somebody saying give me five minutes. This five minutes is the meaning of the mustard seed in one Christian parable. It means not deciding, and suspending judgement. Which is difficult to do and requires intelligence and effort.
The anti God world seems the concept of God irrational and lacking evidence. It is considered irrational because it is entirely fantastical. To the point that even if somebody legitimately used the methods of science, reason and logic to prove God as true, no one in academia would even look at it. They would laugh at the title
On the fantastical point, first of all how can the answer to reality not be fantastical. That expectation itself is irrstional. Almost lsughable. As science has progressed in revealing the mysteries of reality in the realm of physics, it has always showed us that reality is more and more fantastical the deeper you go. Many people do not even know that there are things known in the realm of hard science, spoken about by some of the biggest figures in science who have tackled quantum physics, that are for lack of an explanation, almost magical. If you are in to philosophy, either the subject or just like to use your brain like I do, you'd maybe have come across the question of how can anything exist. This is a question that the more you return to it the more mysterious it becomes. Untill it haunts you. Its possess the property of not losing your interest but fueling it, for a lifetime. Because on some level you recognize the sheer gravity of the question.
In light of these things, it is clear that reality, which is real and evidently so, is shockingly fantastical. Obviously if you take a mind and switch it on in some fairy lala land and that is all it ever knows it's whole existence, it will not think that the fairy lala land is fantastical. It may even call it mundane. Obviously. The indication is that when you turn your head and look at your surroundings, be it a room or a lush field, it is shocking fantastical. Reality is. For lack of an explanation, it appears magical. Are you understanding now?
The concept of God is not irrational. It's not fantastical. It's not without overwhelming testimony. The evidence that has yet to be examined is the entirety of reality itself.
Hate religion. Or even better hate dogma. That way you'll neither be susceptible to the dogma of academia. But don't hate God. That's irrational.
I'm aware this uh, speech, is kinda misplaced. It just wanted to comment and ended up typing out a while long comment. Which I guess is very typical of the debate of God or no God itself which I often criticize as being found in odd places out of context and being extremely long winded and annoying. But just know that this is the first time I think I'm guilty of that criticism myself, although if you read it you'd see my intentions where not in the interest of the debate itself but what it's about and I've always felt the desire to say something everytime I read another back and forth between the two sides at war with each other but it always seemed pointless.
@@russellwalker3830 thats a pretty long reply
@but why You are not very intelligent their moron in your beliefs! Earth quakes happen and they have nothing to do with Buddha, God or anyone else! Stop being so stupid!
@@russellwalker3830 if you believe there is no god, then how can he be the cause for tragedies.
If there is no death at all how can the world live under tyrants like hitler eternally.
Philosophically the argument are done under a much higher ground many layers above layman's understanding.
Simply put to have faith is your inner choice. Nobody can compel anybody to worship. Those who do that have not understood the concept of god.
If prayers are compulsory in any country, it is sure that overwhelming majority hates it heart of heart and still do it outwardly for their survival.
If you believe it is god, it is god.
If you believe it is stone, it is stone.
@@positive120 Well I was stating that I make no claim. If you ask me if I believe in God. I might say no for a short answer. Or I might say maybe to be suggestive. But that doesn't mean that I believe there is infact no God. It simply means I don't know and don't believe either way. Or atleast I try not to.
This was the original idea of atheism. Today I think it's called hard and soft atheism to distinguish between those who claim there is no God and those who maintain they don't know. But as you can see it's very subtle and difficult for many people to grok. People don't think that clearly about the definition of words.
I can't remember what I wrote in my previous comment it's very long but I'm gonna try break this down for you as I see it from my understanding and education and experience.
There is spirituality. Which is as old as human history. It goes all the way back. And is ubiquitous upon the Earth at all times. A part of spirituality is called religion. Which is a more rigid establishment. Consisting of a church and it's priests or rabbis. It digs itself deep into society and elevates itself above everything else in life including life itself. Now I think allot so I have an opinion about it naturally. Religion is simply a social structure. It's more of a societal thing than a spiritual thing. It feels closer to politics than to spirituality. And where the politics is an unshakable dictatorship. I think it may even have been very necessary at many times in history. But for the most part it is incredibly destructive. It has a very thick case file with a long record of human suffering and atrocities from the philosophical to the outright criminal. I'm not even a history buff. But take my word for it. As a matter of fact the worst atrocities against humanity that are being committed today and have been since 2006 have been at the hands of a religious extremist group. No, not the cartel. ISIS. And that's just right now. But that is incidental. The lesser understood fact is that if it turns out there is a God, then it's possible the worst crimes ever committed might end up being standing in the way of a seeker and God by putting a Bible in their lap and coercing them to read it. Also known as indoctrination.
Why would something so consistently resembling evil come out of something like spirituality? How can this be? Because it takes the supreme prestige and the stature and the value and the lure, the image of the Pearl of what spirituality seeks, and it combines it with a social doctrine and bastardized version of he testimonies of people from the past who have also seeked God. Kind of like say, running a country under a communist regime where the leader is an actual God. Sometimes mixing God with mundane life such as politics and society is not a good idea. Hence North Korea and pretty much all religions to some degree. How could such a thing not bring about evil.
"God" belongs to spirituality or science if it can access it. Not politics and society.
In spirituality there is a concept of having suspended judgement, shutting up and giving a thing a chance. This... is the meaning of "faith" and this is the meaning of that faith being as small as a mustard seed but having the power to move a mountain. In the right place at the right time with the right person if you payed attention and really listened it could change your life. That's the mustard seed. That is faith. It is not deciding that something is true whether or not it is true, because you or someone says it is true, because you decided that it is. This is.. forgive me.. rubbish. I'm sorry. Something even I came from.
Btw I used to be Catholic. I'm interested in the hypothesis that reality is not bound by space time or cosmic laws because it is prior to the cosmos and the big bang and so unbounded and infinite to the highest degree. Needless to say Eternal. That everything that ever exists in any dimension is unreal and a light show inside the mind of God who is a singular being who is the total sum of all reality. That in this cosmos there are many sentient beings who are consious and self aware. And many types too. Not just human. And that the thing which if it could be isolated as the heart of sentience and awareness is actually just a hole that leads back to the source of everything. The light of God. Or the mind of God. In it's omniscience. And that who you are at your core, when you gaze into your own eyes in the mirror almost as if to locate your soul, is God itself pretending to be a human with a brain which gives rise to consiousness and then to you. When infact that is a play. A drama. Because it's the other way around and the cosmos instead comes from the supreme consciousness of the supreme being. When we die we return to the source, and regain the knowledge of God and as we do it is the greatest moment of every sentient beings life as they realize they were just God pretending to be something. Maybe for fun.. maybe to die and realize itself again. Who knows? And that nothing was ever real and neither were you. You and reality are as unreal as a movie playing on a monitor. No matter if the scene depicts something that happened one time some place and was filmed and edited. What you are looking at is undoubtedly pixels of light. Nothing more. In the same way you and reality are like that but even less real than that because in the analogy, the scene was real at a point in spacetime and you are watching it's record. Where as reality being imagined in God's omniscient mind never even happened to begin with it's more like a cartoon. And you know everything else that you can derive from that model. Such as everything that will happen has already happened but at the same time never happened because it's not real blah blah.
Now do I believe all that. Believe me I want to. In fact I may even put something real (so to speak) on the table. Take wager if you will. A leap of faith.
However your case is totally different. For you it's not a faith. It's a finished thing. When it becomes a finished thing as religion makes it, then all seeking stops. Praying for things starts and judging starts. And preparations for heaven afterlife.
That is the significance of the mistranslation or misunderstanding of the word faith.
I am from Nepal and this video made me cry. I lost my aunt when a house collapsed on the car she was traveling in. In some way, knowing so many other people have also lost their lives, their home and their livelihood helps me deal with my personal loss. We are a resilient people. We will rebuild. Please help us by coming to trek to Nepal to see the splendor of the Himalayan range in the next tourist season. Our economy is very dependent on tourism and I fear fewer tourists coming to Nepal will make things worse.
Vidhan Rana Respect + love
Vidhan Rana I just got back from Nepal. My wife and I responded to your country as soon as we could, to provide emergency aid and relief. This video made me weep too, and I'm weeping as I type this because it wasn't until just now that all the emotion and grief that I had to push back while I was over there came rushing up now that I'm able to decompress a bit. I'm terribly sorry for your loss and for your pain but one thing I learned from the Nepali people while I was there is that they are indeed a strong and resilient people, and I can say from what I saw there on the ground, your country is going to rise up out of the rubble and become a better and stronger Nepal. Blessing to you and your family.
Misericórdia. Desse povo .👏❤💋
@@AmazonWildman thank youuuuuu for this.I know it's a bit late but still we can't thank you enough for your humble words.
Sorry to hear bro :(
You could see the reporter was struggling to hold back his emotions.
eeeeeeh
@taladuga picpwaspwat What the heck ? Why India was okay with that ?
@taladuga picpwaspwat wut?
@@azerty97212 He is wrong. They never celebrated, who would do such a thing? But it is true that Indian Media Channels reporting slowed down the rescue process.
@@silverfang6455 He is wrong. They never celebrated, who would do such a thing? But it is true that Indian Media Channels reporting slowed down the rescue process.
That young man who lost it all. Heartbreaking 😥
Words like "horrific" and "tragic" don't even begin to describe what happened to these people. That turned my stomach. I'm so deeply sorry for those who lost loved ones.
@taladuga picpwaspwat What? Why would they celebrate innocent humans death!
@@yarifat219 probably enemies?
My wife and I just returned from Nepal. We responded to the earthquake for emergency medical relief and arrived in Nepal on May1st. We were there until May 17th and are now resting at our home in Texas. The media focuses so much on the areas that were totally massacred that you don't get to see how much of the country wasn't affected. The sad sad reality is that even though much of the country was fine, the areas that were affected were totally decimated. We spent time in the Sindhupalchowk region of Nepal and there was 95-100% of all structures destroyed or damaged. There were still bodies that were buried in the rubble after 2 weeks of being there. We saw bodies floating down the rivers. An arm sticking our of a truck buried beneath a rock slide. The stench was overwhelming sometimes... We saw blood soaked rags in one place and other we just saw bits of lumber and brick left over from once grand structures. Some places were totally cut off from aid. Food was scarce. Water supplies contaminated or just flat wiped out. We saw mountains that were once green with flourishing terraces that were nothing but sheer rock walls, as the sides of entire mountains literally split and fell off. It was truly a harrowing experience.
Ephraim Goff god bless you
i am from the less affected areas
😞😞
Ephraim Goff You guys rock. Thanks for helping our country :)
Asesh Shrestha
Ephraim, how did you and your wife become apart of something where you were asked to and so responded to go from Texas to Nepal to help? I am interested.
May God bless and give strength to people of Nepal n those who lost their loved ones in this disaster.
May God never shake the ground for fun again next time
@@Wingly113 what are you on about
@@Wingly113 Allah has created the earth and everything in it, as well as the Universe. He didn’t create it in play, and he is the one who owns all of it, you are a creation.
I just wanted to give that poor man a hug..
Truly horrific. There's no way to express the sorrow over such an unimaginable tragedy.
Absolutely devastating... we should learn to be happy and grateful with what we have already got. My thoughts go out to all the victims
Sasha Mac Amen sister Amen
Very well said.
I have nothing I have lost everything imagine the level of the pain this guy going through
One could tell the reporter was trying to hold back his emotions.
My heart breaks for the gentlemen they interviewed... and for all who were lost, and those whose lives were devastated.
I hiked Langtang on my own back in Feb. 1990. At the time it wasn't very well known. Most trekkers went to Pokara to do the Annapurna treks or east towards Everest. I spent two weeks in the mountains. There was no "Langtang village," only scattered tiny hamlets where the locals opened up their homes to cater to the intrepid tourists who ventured there. Seems like the valley got more popular with trekkers and locals of the region settled more into the valley, populating it in greater numbers. But not any more since this horrible event. Sending my deepest condolences to all who lost loved ones that fateful day in Nepal . . .
Man that’s so brutal. I feel terrible for that man and the whole village. R.I.P.
There are no adequate words to capture the horror of this occurrence. This is awful. It's sad and heartbreaking.
for generations they would build and improve and within blink of an eye the mother nature send you back to Stone Age
Truly a harrowing thought, may the departed find peace in death.
Om Mani Padme Hung Re... RIP to all those who died on this disaster... !!! 👼
I am an indian living close to indo nepal brdr.I was sleeping that time and guess what how i woke up....the sound of the Earth quake was scary .......more than 200 Tremors came with in 7 to 8 days
Brave rescue workers dealing with that. Terrible suffering for the survivors.
"Did you lose members of your family?" No, they're just swimming in the literal ocean of rubble and debris for the fun of it.
Let's Pray For Nepal And God Bless Them
This Shows God's Wrath
Mashiro Shiina 有難う御座います
@@MashiroShiina you mean mother earth.
I have tears in my eyes, God give them the strength.
@but why um god killed them🤔I think you it would be safe to say in this day and age that a natural disaster had more to do with it.not some fictional character
Such a horrible scene... but I'm glad to see the human side of this BBC reporter. We don't see loss of life for the horrific thing it is any more.
This is heart breaking 💔
Truly devastating and helpless
MAY GOD BLESS OUR COUNTRY.
Amen
Never heard about this. I hope the survivors received adequate support.
I've never heard about this until just now. 😭 That poor man who lost everything. I can't imagine being the sole survivor of my family.
I still remember that day
So sad . May God help them. The world community needs to help them.
Imagine the poor people getting the call that their loved one, they were proud of for going out into the world on their own, died this way...
😭😭😭😭
When you hear things said like “the earth just swallowed them up”, it’s normal to think of that as figurative. This is when it is not. It’s difficult to wrap your head around a tsunami of earth and stone sweeping over you and simply becoming the new ground meters above your head. The sadness is the loss of life. The horror is the ease and totality of how it was done.
Truly devastating . Greetings from India
so devastating, horrific, tragic
I dont know if i should like or dislike the video. It’s a tragedy but the world needs to know what happened here.
Very sad...but at the same time it's the power of nature and the reality that our lives can end at an instance.
God bless u all...
So sadness!!!
Ohh god.. Its terrible... Rip..
We will rise. Like always.
we Indians will always be ready to help our brothers from another mother..
I still remember when it happened.
I think all himalayan nations should come together to make a joint disaster management force to deal with such situations
Yes and after huge earthquake u did border blocked 🐍
@@xbsjcjhdjxjdhdhdg1458 You people forget easily. And early. India was first responder to earthquake and was largest relief supplier.
Your communist government was busy covering 13 man team of chinese while completely ignoring Indian effort.
I understand your hate since you have been kept in dark about our role...
no problem...we will be there again helping you..not because we want anything in return...but because we consider you as our brother
@Bibek Khadka maybe because I have access to information and data which are banned in my neighbouring countries like pakistan and china...and to some extent nepal...maybe because I saw it first hand...
maybe because I can analyse the data from neutral point of view...and not some guided propaganda...
come on...Can you negate my information on basis of facts and evidence...
What I am saying wrong???.nothing....India was first and biggest contributer to relief effort of Nepal earthquakes...data and facts prove this
@Bibek Khadka India put no blockade. And Nepal drafted new constitution on chinese tunes...still The blockade was primarily by Madhesis.
If India really put a blockade then nepal won't survive a week.
Let me tell you who the fuck we are...
if tomorrow china attacks you...we will be there fighting side by side om northern sloes of mount everest.
Let me tell you that Every job in India has criteria as "Person should be citizen of India, nepal or bhutan".
this means that nepalis have got equal rights as Indians in Indian territory...
the list is long but this may tell you about who the fuck we are...
And yes...our general of army is your general of army and your general of army is our general of army....this tradition is unique in world...
honorary ranks
@@fieldagent7170 When a neighboring country tries to puts its nose on the internal matters of a india wouldyou like it?? And nepalese drafted the constitution on chinese tunes hilarious. The constitution was drafted hastily and any left consideration would be mended later on was said. thats how a person who knows Nepali internal matters would say
So so sad, God bless
This was a massive disaster for we Nepalese. We will never forgot that day when it happened.
So sad nothing can express this type of disaster. May God take their sorrow away.
You are Rascal creatures
@but why lol both of you are the same.
My gosh. You just wouldn’t think ANYTHING was there, in the first place. 👀🙏🏾
Just coz we are having the best of our lives does not mean we are guaranteed the next moment.
So heart breaking. Nature is crazy
God be with them.
THE DISRESPECT of pushing that camera up in that poor mans face.. I am disappointed.
Feels wrong to “like” a video like this :-(
Here after watching Netflix documentary. Damn those three Israeli Backpackers
Those Israelis made me so angry. Such a dickheads
Well, cross that joint off my bucket list.
How do you even look ahead and build your life again if you've lost your family? No accomplishment however big it maybe is meaningful if you can't share it with your loved ones. Lives don't prosper in isolation. This kind of suffering kills you little by little. Oh God please intervene.
Just sad.
Very sad 😭
R.i.p
consolence to nepal people
Heartbreaking ❤️🩹
I never really believed that climate change could be so drastic in such a short space of time..
sad bro just sad
That's horrible
"Disturbing images"?? Click bate!
YUNGAY 1970. ☠☠☠☠✝🌹🌻🌺🌼🕊 And now, LANGTANG. 🥺🥺😩😫😖😣😣😞
rip poor people!
Humanitarian response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: April 2015 Nepal earthquake, April 2015 Nepal earthquake, and 2015-2016 Nepal humanitarian crisis
Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat criticized humanitarian efforts, saying "We have received things like tuna fish and mayonnaise. What good are those things for us?"[182] There were reports of needing food, tarps, tents, and water.
5 years later in i first hear if this.. damn.
2015 April 25th 11:58 Am The Day When We Felt The Horror Of The Nature
WOW 😱😱😱
Om mani padme hum
RIP
Wow trauma is back- why is this on my home page??
How horrible
God bless them,they have nothing!
Omg 😭
Rip
nature can be cruel
... His wonders to perform!
So terrible
5years ago wdf nd its 2021
Omg! Entire village 😞
Where are you god
What god? Which one? There are so many gods.
😢😢😢😢😢
Nepal 🇳🇵
:(..
Hotels and resorts oh and peoples homes to i guess.
😢😭
Hey BBC? Make sure you dont report on it before it happens again eh.
😭😭😭
I'm from India and i fill this
Lol🤣🤣not fill it is feel
@@rescuemeal-4262 😂
@@india2024win how did you feel it,were u there in Bihar, India'? Bcoz those earthquakes were felt there too.
Mammut is not good brand.
Himalayan region is going unstable from last decade warning sign nepal kedarnath badrinath
Earthquake fault
Any one from 2021
Raw deal. No worries folks, we'll make twenty more for every head lost. Worry yourself not, all will be fine in the end.
Is it a chona made earth quake...?😭
What? What? I have serious doubts on your intelligence right now. This happened back in 2015, long before Covid-19 started. This was geological not biological, two completely different things.
oh, fuck.
Makuanpuernepal
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🇨🇦🇨🇦🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
WERES THE MINT SAUCE!!!!!?
Official Theodore mmmm got that in my cubbord at home, 1 for a pound
#1 mate
It’s almost biblical in proportion.