It didn't seem like the 8th anniversary of 9/11 was very important to people. For example: on the front of the seattle times today, there was a little section on the front pg telling those who read the paper to turn to the 3rd pg to read about the anniversary. Today should of been a day to look back and remember what happened to our country. Does anyone else agree?
sure i respect them, but that doesn't influence my decisions now.
Okay. Let me go and kill a butterfly and watch 6.7 billion people for a few years, then get my time machine and go back and view the same effect except without the butterfly dying.See my point?
by bringing the butterfly effect in i was hoping you'd take the metaphorical meaning rather than literal. every decision you make, no matter how small, can greatly change the world.
by bringing the butterfly effect in i was hoping you'd take the metaphorical meaning rather than literal. every decision you make, no matter how small, can greatly change the world.
In this context it's a literal argument of sorts. I understand that me getting a 99 on my SAT would be highly effective as getting a 100.
sure i respect them, but that doesn't influence my decisions now.
Even those that still suffer from cancer and chronic and acute infections? They don't mean anything anymore? What about the soldiers over there in Afghanistan to prevent it from happening again? Do they matter as such anymore?
that small 1 difference can change a person's whole perspective about you. think of the 4th dimension.
Well, it wouldn't really effect me or MITs' or Harvards' opinion of me.
I'm sure my parents would be a tad disappointed though. They're sorta fans of 100, 90, 80, so on. If I don't fall on one they get upset for some reason.
if you commit suicide you become just a statistic.
I never heard that one. I've always thought of it this way:
You die in a car accident your a statistic. You die of a heart attack, the same. You die from a gunshot wound to your head in a war zone, there is still no difference.
My take on life pretty much. I articulated that into words for the first time ever :P
it's not that they don't mean anything. they contribute why do you think i brought butterfly effect in this?
The way many people were talking is exactly why I came into this discussion. You included at the start -.-
It makes you all seem rather cold for people who died in a rather unfashionable way to die. I'd rather die of getting stabbed to death than wait for hours knowing I'm going to die a horrible and fiery death.
Im sry man but its been 8 years... Just let it drop. Its a thing that happened that is old news. Yea a bunch of people died, and i truely am greatfully sry about that. But it doesn't need any more attention than it gets. Peopl need to live in the present, not the past. I understood it being a huge thing for 5 years, but its past that. To be honest, its probably what the terrorists want; is for us to keep remembering what they did anyways... Its time for people to drop it
The more we remember, the more troops we send to Afghanistan to waste our money in the middle of an economic crisis.
...Fun.
Besides, Two towers broke, 2000 People died. If we're all so content on saying they are stats -- the leave the grief to the people that actually cared. Leave the feeling of unity to the nation. Why drop in a sense of hate or non-appreciation? I don't need to respect a man because he died, but I should appreciate the fact that he was fellow American -- and that his death means something for the country because he was part of a recorded moment in history where America was attacked in land for the first time in 30 Years. (Technically in Air but you get it)
That is one of the most ignorant statements I've seen in a while. Wow. You, are completely pathetic. Just. . . wow.
Im sry man but its been 8 years... Just let it drop. Its a thing that happened that is old news. Yea a bunch of people died, and i truely am greatfully sry about that. But it doesn't need any more attention than it gets. Peopl need to live in the present, not the past. I understood it being a huge thing for 5 years, but its past that. To be honest, its probably what the terrorists want; is for us to keep remembering what they did anyways... Its time for people to drop it
So, the bombing of Pearl Harbor was old news in 1945 as we annihilated 200,000 people in 3 days? This is quite a similar event. And we still get visitors to the memorial.
Why don't we just drop every single massacre initiated in human history. Hell, forget the holocaust. Or the Rwandan Genocide. They were pretty unimportant in history, now that it's a long time later. Sound good? Good. I never want to see another post from you on the holocaust being an anniversary, or how bad it was. Or how we should remember them.
So, the bombing of Pearl Harbor was old news in 1945 as we annihilated 200,000 people in 3 days? This is quite a similar event. And we still get visitors to the memorial.
*facepalm* stop misconstruing posts. it will be remembered, just not to be shoved in my face every sept 11th.
Why don't we just drop every single massacre initiated in human history. Hell, forget the holocaust. Or the Rwandan Genocide. They were pretty unimportant in history, now that it's a long time later. Sound good? Good. I never want to see another post from you on the holocaust being an anniversary, or how bad it was. Or how we should remember them.
man guys... i love this guy.. seriously. his far out similies, and metaphors are astonishing. But you see 8 million people towers over 2k ppl... 2k is a stat... 200000 is a massacre... 8 million is a genocide. Dont start thinking 2k was a genocide. Cuz america has killed way more than that in afghanistan alone. Yet we dont see them on the papers every day. Get over yourself and learn to let things go.. 8 years now and u still got ur panties in a punch about it. And guess what... Theres no special pages in the paper about the holocaust every annual year.. That stopped a long time ago... Its 2000 people... Bless there souls, but stop constantly thinking its the end of the world because its stopped being such a big deal.
It's correct having an anniversary 3000 persons are many, of course have died more persons in wars, the bombing of Nagasaki, etc. But 9/11 was unexpected and impossible to imagine. Also it was shown LIVE, millions saw it, it's different seeing something while it's still happening and it's different seeing images of destruction later, both cases are sad, but seeing people LIVE injured and bleeding has an impact to everybody. All the dead should be remembered and of course life goes on, but this does not mean that we have to ignore 9/11, just because did not so many persons die. An other thing nowadays we have a very short memory, for example in Greece the majority of the kids don't know what happened 17 November, though there is an anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising and though the teachers talk about it. We should remember those things, so history will not repeat itself.
