We are on the cusp of the one year anniversary of 9-11 This just brought out such an emotional reaction for me. It brought a tear or two. I wanted to share it with my fellow Houstonians. As the slideshow progresses, my first reaction to the faces of the dead, is extreme sadness. Each one of those faces on that screen left a family behind. Those people are us. We are them. As the slide show progresses, I am moved by the emormity of it all. It is a year later and I still have a hard time understanding the scope of it. Each one of those people woke up that morning, and expected to come home later that night. When I look at the faces, I see their mothers, and daughters, sons, and fathers. I see our freedom questioned and anger forms from the seeds of hurt. We must not be like those murders. We are strong, and we are free. Patriot, Defend thyself............. America, the home of the brave take a few moments to remember those who lost their life last year.
Yeahh, I saw that during the time of 9/11...people falling out of the sky....really some horrific pictures...
This week, mostly while sitting on the pot, I reread a Time exclusive that was put out right after 9/11. I f*ing cried. I had read it before, but I still cried. It told of coworkers holding the dislocated limbs of women who were there in full body only a second before, people jumping from 100 story buildings, scattered dust - the remains of two buildings and thousands of incinerated people - floating town towards dubious (and shocked) rescue workers - the vessels being unfinished financial reports and income tax statements... There is no way to express the emotion that I felt rereading that piece. I hate crying while on the pot. We must never forget what happened there. Or why it happened. Or what we must do in response. We cannot lose sight in this war. To do so would only serve the terrorists' ends. God, please give me the strength to accomodate those who would brush aside this loss and use it for their own sociopolitical ends. Please, do not let me kill them out of a bout of conscientous political rage, for I know not what I might do... Please allow me to accept those who want to blame this tragedy on us for what they are - a monstrous misconformity of humanistic Western culture, totally devoid of a feeling of God and devoid of any understanding of humanity's finer attributes... Please, God, keep me from strangling them. Please, God, allow me to forgive. I cried watching this, too. Excellent piece of electronic history. Even if American civilization falls, I truly hope that these images are saved in some format or another. The human race can never forget what happened there. It cannot afford to.
Last weekend my wife and son and I were in a bookstore in the mall...she and he went to the kids section while i walked around...i found a book that had a group of amazing photos from 9/11. It's hard to look at the pics of the towers on fire...that disturbs me...but what really hurts me...what brought me to tears standing there in that Waldenbooks...were the pictures of ordinary people and the horrified expressions on their faces...people of all different races..from all different backgrounds standing together, staring up...crying...frightened...worried. Those pictures really affect me. What an awful, awful day.
You are praying to God to KEEP YOU FROM KILLING PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU? Either you need serious psychiatric help, were drunk when you wrote this or you are in desperate need of attention. Whatever the case, it's about time you learn to back off or go away. I never bothered to argue with you after a while. I avoided your threads because it never needed my attention. I was always willing to accept that you had a single-minded perspective on this one issue and your calling on this BBS was to "educate" all of us who didn't agree. That's fine. It's your perspective - your opinion. But, this is crossing the line. Just about everyone here is tolerant of the opinions of others no matter how much they may disagree. It is, however, very difficult for me to accept that someone would post that they need spiritual restraint to keep from taking the life of someone who disagrees with him whether it was meant as serious or not. Frankly, making a post like this could be construed by some as a threat and that is NOT in the spirit of this BBS.
Was that aimed at ME? I started this thread. I did not post it as a threat. I just thought the slide show was touching. I am not posting things that are hurtful, or *not in the spirit* of the bbs IMHO..... V
Sorry, wrong wording... I meant to say, "making a post like this could be..." It was directed at treeman, not you. [edit - ok, I changed the wording in my original post - sorry again.]
Treeman has some strong feelings on this issue. He is a different kind of person than you Jeff...He is a warrior with a warriors's mentality. I understand that you disagree with his ideology, but I don't agree with your intolerance of someone's feelings... Treeman is not making a threat here...It is wording based on how he feels. He has the legal right in combat to take a life...He is further talking out with GOD issues of restraint...Believe me! That is a good thing...Jeff, you seemed to jump on this without thinking...That is how it appeared. I know you would love the BBS more if everyone agreed with you and your wife, but that isn't going to happen...IMHO your post had a more threatening tone...I think the true spirit of the BBS is to embrace differences while allowing ourselves to find common ground... p.s. when are we gonna have lunch?
You know what, nevermind. This is a tribute to people who died. My arguing here is no more appropriate than prosthelytizing. Carry on.
