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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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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.