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09-14-2011, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by evanny View Post
as for me, if anything this day should be viewed as the day the middle east got f**ked. the day people remember all the people that have been killed, tortured and humiliated by the events that preceded 9/11. people should remember this, a far more horrific act.
war is basically the same as terrorism, only on grander scale. somebody wants something and tries to get it with force.

i never did and never will shed any tears for 9/11.
I agree. War = terrorism. What the USA does to the middle east is far worse than what the middle east does to the USA.
Also on 9/11 I've seen the events happening on TV. The only thing that was in in my mind was the word "wow" and I felt sorry for the victims, but after a few minutes watching I was already busy with something else. Just like you I never did and never will shed tears for 9/11.

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Originally Posted by Sangetsu View Post
Are people really so stupid as not to understand the significance of that day? I suppose so. My grandfather quite plainly said that the great majority of the people in the world are stupid sheep, chewing grass, and living inert lives. It's too bad that these stupid sheep don't understand what they are, and that they should keep their stupid sheep's mouths shut rather than to say stupid things on subjects of which they are ignorant.

If you have half a heart, and a fraction of a living mind, you should never forget September 11th, and you should never forget that it affected you, and still affects you to this very moment.
I won't forget 9/11. I just don't commemorate it. And sure things have changed, but it's not like it changed my life.. I mean, saying things like "everything has changed nothing will ever be the same again" Isn't quite realistic. Aside from people talking about it nothing affects me, unless I go to the airport.

And respectfully, I don't think your grandfather referred to people like us. Ignorance and indifference or just controlling your thoughts are different things. They have nothing to do with each other.


He drew a circle that shut me out --
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.
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