Happy 9-11

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,767
    BinauralJam wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    It's not very complicated - our nation and government was created to function in a very specific way - participation and representation. The citizens don't pay attention or participate which has led the representation to be sold off to big business and self-interest. That's the foundation of where our nation has strayed down a different path which is filled with private and self-interest and greed. And sadly, as this has occurred, our citizens have followed in line by pursuing the same achievements and holding them up as legitimate goals in life.
    BinauralJam wrote:
    What do you suggest?


    Sounds good, we could be a Democracy instead of a Republic. I'd Love that, but in the mean time i'm not going to feel bad for going with the flow, i like having something to eat every day and shelter and attending Pearl Jam concerts, i'm selfish like that.
    food , shelter and clothing are basic necessities of living. All the rest is.......as you say selfish. Although I would posit the arguement the PJ and other artists fill a necessity too.
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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Also - to the posters who call this just another anti-US thread or to the one who wished me to die, why don't you actually discuss the topic at hand compared to simply blowing it off - it's a lazy way to stick to your own little narrow views with dismissing others with no real fact to back it.

    I'm a patriot. I believe in the tenets our nation was founded upon. I'm not loyal to a party, administration or politician. Our nation is more than those simplistic things. In terms of 9-11, a ceremony remembering the dead doesn't mean much of anything if we don't learn and grow from the experience itself. The funeral for these people passed, perhaps it's time to actually stop what caused it instead of continuing it? Seems like a legitimate and logical process, but in our ultra-nationalist society, the ceremony is what's important. And for those of you who claim and say you're so caring about 3,000 people, do you do the same for other victims in tragedies of recent? Our society has a very false sense of morality, care and justice. Ceremonies and remembrances of these sort only point out the hypocrisy of it where it is displayed so over the top. People in our society aren't interested in changing, growing or having things fixed at the cost of it effecting them directly. The messages and meanings are forgotten over time and it's just an empty puppet show carried out to extract some type of patriotic and victimization thought process instead.
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    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,880
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Also - to the posters who call this just another anti-US thread or to the one who wished me to die, why don't you actually discuss the topic at hand compared to simply blowing it off - it's a lazy way to stick to your own little narrow views with dismissing others with no real fact to back it.


    So, what's the topic again? 9/11 remembrances suck? The US gov't sucks? The US people suck?
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  • hostis
    hostis Posts: 441
    selfish people suck. Remember the one commandment of pearl jam...
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    Smellyman wrote:
    9-11 makes me think how we lost our minds and killed one million in retaliation for killing 3000........by 19 mostly saudis....

    thats all that 9-11 made you think? it made me think that i feel bad for ALL those who died and the many lives affected by this occurrence

    i don't think we have to either or here. . many lives were lost on that day and because of that day.
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    The topic is we have forgotten or ignored how to evolve as a result of 9-11.
    cincybearcat wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Also - to the posters who call this just another anti-US thread or to the one who wished me to die, why don't you actually discuss the topic at hand compared to simply blowing it off - it's a lazy way to stick to your own little narrow views with dismissing others with no real fact to back it.


    So, what's the topic again? 9/11 remembrances suck? The US gov't sucks? The US people suck?
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    FiveB247x wrote:
    The topic is we have forgotten or ignored how to evolve as a result of 9-11.
    ...
    I agree with what you are getting at. That we should learn the lessons of what to do and what NOT to do that these attacks have shown us. We may be better served in thinking about the what we have and haven't done in the past 10 years, instead of just the one day. Have we honored the ones who died that day... or used their deaths to satisfy our own wants?
    I am hoping that is isn't going the be the predictable media blitz to garner ratings... or the same old tiresome politics of over analyzing and interpreting messages based upon out of context sentences in 5 second sound bites.
    But, in today's environment... I'm not holding my breath.
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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    That's exactly the point Cosmo.
    Cosmo wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    The topic is we have forgotten or ignored how to evolve as a result of 9-11.
    ...
    I agree with what you are getting at. That we should learn the lessons of what to do and what NOT to do that these attacks have shown us. We may be better served in thinking about the what we have and haven't done in the past 10 years, instead of just the one day. Have we honored the ones who died that day... or used their deaths to satisfy our own wants?
    I am hoping that is isn't going the be the predictable media blitz to garner ratings... or the same old tiresome politics of over analyzing and interpreting messages based upon out of context sentences in 5 second sound bites.
    But, in today's environment... I'm not holding my breath.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    FiveB247x wrote:
    The topic is we have forgotten or ignored how to evolve as a result of 9-11.
    cincybearcat wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Also - to the posters who call this just another anti-US thread or to the one who wished me to die, why don't you actually discuss the topic at hand compared to simply blowing it off - it's a lazy way to stick to your own little narrow views with dismissing others with no real fact to back it.


    So, what's the topic again? 9/11 remembrances suck? The US gov't sucks? The US people suck?

    Wow, i never knew that this was the topic. I agree that some have forgotten about that day but i don't think its fair to say that everyone has. I still think that there are many people who did change from that day.

    you might not like how they changed but they did change.
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Some individuals change, but as a whole, our nation has reiterated and followed the same path which what got us attacked to begin with. If you wanna call that "change" so be it, but we the people are our government and their actions are a reflection of and by us. Simply because we sit on our hands, doesn't mean we're removed from it.
    fife wrote:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    The topic is we have forgotten or ignored how to evolve as a result of 9-11.

    Wow, i never knew that this was the topic. I agree that some have forgotten about that day but i don't think its fair to say that everyone has. I still think that there are many people who did change from that day.

    you might not like how they changed but they did change.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    fife wrote:
    Smellyman wrote:
    9-11 makes me think how we lost our minds and killed one million in retaliation for killing 3000........by 19 mostly saudis....

    thats all that 9-11 made you think? it made me think that i feel bad for ALL those who died and the many lives affected by this occurrence

    i don't think we have to either or here. . many lives were lost on that day and because of that day.

    I didn't say it's ALL I think about.

    You're exactly right. It's incredibly sad how a tragedy caused more deaths and affected more lives than can possibly be imagined.

    Maybe instead of just saying 1000000 people died after those events, I should also say over 4000 American troops died as well. That seems to pull at America's heart strings more.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    It seems to me we have two topics going here. First is that many innocent people died on 9/11/01 and that was tragic, sad, horrible. We lost the Hellen Keller library- also sad and tragic. We're still loosing firefighters who went in to try to help to health issues and young men today going to wars that have no real meaning- also very sad and tragic. In quiet thoughtfulness we should remember those we've lost.

    But secondly we have an event to which we as a nation (the U.S.) have responded terribly. We've retaliated by killing more innocent people. We've amped up racial profiling in America. We've eroded individual freedoms. We've lied to oursleves and others. Many of us remember these things with a less-than-quiet anger.

    And lets not forget this- the root cause of 9/11 was two things: Oil and religion.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,405
    by passage of the patriot act, the 2 wars in iraq and afghanistan draining our country of money, blood, and the moral higher ground, the terrorists have in fact won...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    no, they haven't.

    winners win.

    GW has kept us safe!

    WOOT
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Actually that wasn't GW, it was god.. .the same imagery one the terrorists are with, along with their virgins. Ain't fairy tales wonderful?!
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    no, they haven't.

    winners win.

    GW has kept us safe!

    WOOT
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    usamamasan1 wrote:
    no, they haven't.

    winners win.

    GW has kept us safe!

    WOOT
    ...
    Applying the very same logic and reasoning... please, remind me again... who was the president on September 11, 2001?
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    by passage of the patriot act, the 2 wars in iraq and afghanistan draining our country of money, blood, and the moral higher ground, the terrorists have in fact won...

    It sure seems that way, Gimme.

    This reminds me of a statement Nikita Kruschev made in 1961:
    "We do not have to destroy America with missiles, America will destroy itself from within."

    Also, what exactly is it we're trying to "win"?
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    brianlux wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    by passage of the patriot act, the 2 wars in iraq and afghanistan draining our country of money, blood, and the moral higher ground, the terrorists have in fact won...

    It sure seems that way, Gimme.

    This reminds me of a statement Nikita Kruschev made in 1961:
    "We do not have to destroy America with missiles, America will destroy itself from within."

    Also, what exactly is it we're trying to "win"?
    ...
    If 'the Terrorists' create chatter that they are going to do something... and we scramble resources and spend millions on beefed up security... and all the terrorists are doing is lying about an attack... doesn't that mean THEY are winning?
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Cosmo wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    by passage of the patriot act, the 2 wars in iraq and afghanistan draining our country of money, blood, and the moral higher ground, the terrorists have in fact won...

    It sure seems that way, Gimme.

    This reminds me of a statement Nikita Kruschev made in 1961:
    "We do not have to destroy America with missiles, America will destroy itself from within."

    Also, what exactly is it we're trying to "win"?
    ...
    If 'the Terrorists' create chatter that they are going to do something... and we scramble resources and spend millions on beefed up security... and all the terrorists are doing is lying about an attack... doesn't that mean THEY are winning?

    For the time being, yes. In the long run, as long as there is war, we all loose.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    by passage of the patriot act, the 2 wars in iraq and afghanistan draining our country of money, blood, and the moral higher ground, the terrorists have in fact won...


    Yup

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