Thank God .

[claymore]

Does anyone,like me , go down on their knees each morning after reading the news and thank their God that they were n`t born in Africa or the Middle East?

[mrs_overall]

I would, but with the state of my knees I would never be able to get up again

[China Doll]

No, I'm an atheist.

Plus they have better weather. And Africa has crocodiles.

[dotty.]

No I never think about it, i'm too busy in a morning getting ready for work, or if i'm not working i stop in bed and put garth on the stereo and thank god i wasn't born deaf

[yogi-bear]

I would wear extra thick ear muffs, if crashing over at Dot's. :0)

[dotty.]

tut.

[askyourgran]

I'm really grateful that I wasn't born in those places, but at the moment I'm also very glad that I don't live in Wales and York and the surrounding areas of North Yorkshire. The floods there are horrendous it must be soul destroying having your home filled with filthy water. I live in Yorkshire but very grateful not to be suffering their fate. Do you think we will get aid from any foreign country for our disaster?

[237SJ]

No. I was working with one of my Mumbai based colleages a while ago (and she and her colleages travel between India and London all the time) and she said "I don`t know, I still think we`re better off in India". We might have material benefits in the western world but in the process of gaining them, we`ve lost `something` IMO.

[237SJ]

Mind you, India must have a good educational system because they teach people how to spell "colleague" :-)

[RATTER15]

No I wouldn't, im not much into talking to imaginary friends.

[Hopkirk]

There's an awful lot of people born in the Middle East who have extremely comfortable lives.

[Old_Geezer]

No. But I am aware that I was born in one of the countries with better living conditions than many. And then I wonder what it is all about when even life here seems nothing to write home about. How does the human spirit cope with the much wore conditions elsewhere ? It's amazing how folk adapt such that what they experience just seems normal with its own ups and downs. God clearly has a sense of humour to consider this as being ok.

[MASS1961]

Feel for the people in these countries but I don't do god.

Also I'm really thankful for the Pennines, the east of England and south of Birmingham is getting flooded and we're getting a bit damp.

[Brinjal]

Some people live very well in Africa.

[tamborine]

No, and miss out on exotic living in middle/far east and afar - not me!

[daffy654]

Why would I thank a non-existent being for anything?

[mibn2cweus]

To thank 'God' is to ignore causality. The failure to appreciate the reasons why we have anything to be thankful for will eventually ensure our own place amongst the less 'fortunate'.