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robinblokeWell, I've finally managed to pull together the words to describe what I feel about this whole affair and 'Sickened' is it.
I feel ashamed to be part of the human race. This event, although by no means unique in the number of lives that have been lost, with world wars, the crusades, slavery and many other events around the world and through history, has just finally confirmed to me that humanity is a barbarous, savage, uncaring, selfish and insane race. Frankly the world would be so much better off without us.
No other race or creature kills another because of beliefs about religion, law, the country they live in or for the colour of their skin. No other creature plans to destroy thousands of others for no reason other than to kill them.
Our much vaulted intelligence has just given us the means to murder each other more effectively.
Our developed emotions have just given us "justification" and hatred, fear and loathing.
I don't think I want to ever be patriotic again. How can I feel proud of any country, of any group of people that I don't know individually and trust individually?
I don't think I will ever be 'religious' I certainly don't believe in any god or gods that would allow the hideous crimes we've perpetrated through the few millenia we've been on this planet.
And my determination in my own... I have no real words for my 'belief', but my fundamental principals have been shaken.
But this is not a unique event in terms of horror, and I in no way mean that in a disrespectful way to anyone involved, hurt or lost in any way in this tradegy. What I mean is that we are blinkered, blinkered by the media around the world to the terror and insanity caused every day, every minute around the world by people who would rather pull the trigger of an AK-47 and spray fire other living beings of their own race than talk and realise that life is too precious to squander on belief alone. That the right to life is too important for any of us to quosh, for anyone.
It's 09:02 GMT. Just a number. Too much these days just becomes numbers. We're people, not mathematics.
I feel ashamed to be part of the human race. This event, although by no means unique in the number of lives that have been lost, with world wars, the crusades, slavery and many other events around the world and through history, has just finally confirmed to me that humanity is a barbarous, savage, uncaring, selfish and insane race. Frankly the world would be so much better off without us.
No other race or creature kills another because of beliefs about religion, law, the country they live in or for the colour of their skin. No other creature plans to destroy thousands of others for no reason other than to kill them.
Our much vaulted intelligence has just given us the means to murder each other more effectively.
Our developed emotions have just given us "justification" and hatred, fear and loathing.
I don't think I want to ever be patriotic again. How can I feel proud of any country, of any group of people that I don't know individually and trust individually?
I don't think I will ever be 'religious' I certainly don't believe in any god or gods that would allow the hideous crimes we've perpetrated through the few millenia we've been on this planet.
And my determination in my own... I have no real words for my 'belief', but my fundamental principals have been shaken.
But this is not a unique event in terms of horror, and I in no way mean that in a disrespectful way to anyone involved, hurt or lost in any way in this tradegy. What I mean is that we are blinkered, blinkered by the media around the world to the terror and insanity caused every day, every minute around the world by people who would rather pull the trigger of an AK-47 and spray fire other living beings of their own race than talk and realise that life is too precious to squander on belief alone. That the right to life is too important for any of us to quosh, for anyone.
It's 09:02 GMT. Just a number. Too much these days just becomes numbers. We're people, not mathematics.
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Sad isn't it? Sad that this is really what humanity is. It's always been like this and to be honest, I'm not sure we can stop it from continuing like this until we all kill ourselves. And we'd be doing the Universe a favour when we do. Welcome to the headspace I've been in for the last... oooo... twelve years. It sucks.
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Date: 2001-09-13 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Even worse, I thought I'm in a society of like-minded people (the Cam) but some US members are just as bad, especially one certain individual...
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Sad isn't it? See earlier statement. People as a whole suck, quite frankly.
But they don't
Date: 2001-09-13 07:34 am (UTC)Yes, people commit horrific crimes.
Yes, people allow bad things to happen.
But on tuesday, on flight 93, learning via mobile phones of what happened to the WTC, several of the passengers decided to ensure that no other lives were lost. Exactly what happened then is unknown, but flight 93 crashed in a rural area and no lives on the ground were lost. (Source DJN)
Many of the people lost in the rubble were not office workers or tourists, but firefighters, ambulancemen and police....trying to save people.
Horrible things are done...yes... but also things of such heroism, self sacrifice and downright goodness that they are beyond my comprehension.
And as for giving up......
Well, I, for one, am not ready for that yet.
Robert
Re: But they don't
Date: 2001-09-13 09:59 am (UTC)There are only a few people that really suck, but because what they do or say is so bad, they stand out. This includes the terrorists, the US military dickheads and the (2 or 3 of the 30-50 or so) fuckwits on the cam-ooc channel.
It's too bad that the acts of bravery or heroism aren't really as well presented as the bad. The doctor who stayed behind when one of the towers collapsed, hid behind a car and went back in the cloud of dust to help people is one of them because he happened to have a camcorder with him and CNN got hold of the footage. I am positive there are numerous others who acted similarly.