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Am I the only one who sicks of hearing about 9/11

Wilhelm-Scream said:
ooh, that would be haunting, like, I never saw "The Man With The X-Ray Eyes", but I just read the other day that the problem with him was, he could see through his eyelids, so he was longing to be able to shut his eyes.
but, if his X-Ray vision was that potent, it seems like, he'd just see through everything, so, what would he see? Nothing, so he'd be blind.

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Ow! My head hurts now.:csad:
 
I'm not American but what happened on that day shook the world. were not celebrating were remember ing the thousands of innocent people that died in those towers. may god be with them, because we will never forget them.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
I'm a American and I've never understood why Americans like to celebrate bad things all of the time.

What we really should be focusing on is the awful hitler-like Bush who starts Wars for no reason what so ever.

What say all of you? Should the world continue to focus on a day thats long past or the unjust war in Iraq?

Your the first American i had ever heard to say that.But i can understand,you just want to move on and forget.You have your own life to live,people will forget.Just give it enough time,i would say a few decades should do it.
 
Jourmugand said:
Your the first American i had ever heard to say that.But i can understand,you just want to move on and forget.You have your own life to live,people will forget.Just give it enough time,i would say a few decades should do it.

The attacks of 9-11 will never be forgotten. 9-11 was an "It" moment of the United States. It occured during a time that we thought that we were invulnerable, invincible. It taught us that we were not invulnerable. That we were not invincible. It killed thousands of our own people. OUR people! It showed us that violence that occurs in other nations such as Israel, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and other nations can happen in our own country. It showed us that we can stand united. That petty politicians can put aside their differences for a short time.

In time the pain will die down. In time it's effects will stop. In time we will move on and go foward. But we will certainly never forget. Just like we have never forgotten the other trageties of this great nation, the Civil War and the murder of Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Harbor and the events that led us into World War II, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Oklahoma City bombing, and the same thing will happen to future tragic events.
 
9/11 was terrible. I don't want to turn on the TV and see it happen all over again. Once was enough. Seeing people leap from the Twin Towers to escape a worse death is enough to turn the best day into a pile of ****.
 
hitmanyr2k said:
This is where it gets kind of ridiculous. How do you think about or respect people you don't even know? Because you or the media tells me to? There's too much **** going on now to keep dwelling on an event just because 5 years has passed. People die every single day...murder, accidents, casualties of war, etc. It's unfortunate but that's the way it goes in life. Some people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hell, children suffer and die of starvation every single day but I doubt anyone here gives two ****s about that because they and the media are too busy obsessing over an event just for the sake that it happened 5 years ago...as if 5 is some magic number. Yet, you never hear anything about those poor children dying TODAY.

this is how i pretty much feel about the whole situation. i respect those that died and i shall never forget that day BUT i don't want to be reminded of it every damn day of my life. im tired of hearing about 9/11 for the fact that its publicized and advertised everywhere i turn. death is daily. i don't want to think about how those people died and i don't want to commemorate them every single day. i see 9/11 as no different than vietnam or pearl harbor, it sucks but i have my life to live and my own problems to see to. there was a person who was killed over a damn ice cream sandwich where i used to live. i have a friend whose parents burned alive in a car while they were sleeping because they didn't have a place to stay. the world doesn't stop because of a tragic event and neither will i.wars will still be fought,murders will still be commited,and families with mourn the loss of a loved one long after my bones turn to dust. that's just how the world works.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
I'm a American and I've never understood why Americans like to celebrate bad things all of the time.

What we really should be focusing on is the awful hitler-like Bush who starts Wars for no reason what so ever.

What say all of you? Should the world continue to focus on a day thats long past or the unjust war in Iraq?

5 years ago alot of people lost their lives. Many more people lost their fathers,mothers,children,spouses,friends. Had one of these people been close to you, would you be tired of hearing about just because it was 5 years ago? I think not.
Today isn't a celebration but rather a day of unity. We put aside the petty things that divide us- LIKE POLITICS- and stand together as Americans. Today is a day of sympathy for those we lost and a day of remembrance for the moment that evil stared us in the face. The future is empty if we forget the past.
 
I'm a American and I've never understood why Americans like to celebrate bad things all of the time.
Who's celebrating it? Remembering sure, but celebrate? Not me.
 
Today was 9-11? Damn, I was so busy playing Grand Theft Auto :woot:
 
Okay i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way. i mean i'm not trying to be a *******. but why do people wanna remember bad things? I'm American by the way.
 
J Alba's Lover said:
Okay i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way. i mean i'm not trying to be a *******. but why do people wanna remember bad things? I'm American by the way.
We remember bad things because he try and glorify the thousands of innocents who lost their lives that day 5 years ago. People just sitting in their offices doing their jobs. People with families, people with lives. Hell, people still are trying to solve the JFK murder. Bad things serve as reminders...every nation does it.
 
We'll be better prepared next time :o

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droogiedroogie2 said:
[FONT=&quot]Nope. And I don't either. Perhaps, while we're doing this whole remembering-the-tragedy thing, we should set aside a day to remember all the Iraqis who were victimized by the UN sanctions regime, because their leader was an international *******. How about remembering the villages that were destroyed, in order to be saved, in Vietnam, by US forces? Should August 6 be remembered as the day 80,000 people died in Hiroshima, with the following weeks remembered as the period of time during which 60,000 more died of complications resulting from the bombing? We'd have to make room for August 9, when we'd commemorate 74,000 deaths in Nagasaki, followed by another 214,000. Hell, we don't even remember Oklahoma City anymore, because it was one of our guys that did it.
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[FONT=&quot]Anyone who dies unjustly should be remembered. None of the those lost in your examples deserved to die. Not a single person. But you're forgetting about when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Or when Hitler invaded all those countries back in WWII. Why is it that you're only listing attacks from the U.S. Are you saying we got what we deserved?[/FONT]

And I certainly remember the Oklahoma bombing. I don't know anyone who doesn't. Ask anyone if they know who the Unibomber is, I bet they can tell you.[FONT=&quot]

We don't bother with that stuff, Steve, because if we did we'd feel so terrible about ourselves and what we've condoned by way of our votes, that we'd shut down. That stuff is depressing. Better to only commemorate the times when we lost. Gives us something to rally around, a reason to feel morally justified, and righteous. We weren't the aggressors! Not this time! But what about all the other times? Why don't we remember those? Is this how the dead wish to be remembered? As no more than cheap political tools? Because that's what it is, no matter how much you spout about keeping it apolitical. The dead should be remembered by the families who lost them. The rest of us should just ****ing be honest. It's none of our ****ing business whether some random dead guy gets remembered, except to note that there was a reason that structure was selected.

So... what you're saying noone but their family members should give a damn about a person's death? That's pretty harsh.

And some random dead guy? Why don't you go tell that to the parents who lost their children on that day? Or vice versa?
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All I'm sick of is the fact that 9-11 isn't about what happened that day anymore, it's all about "Yay America!" and political crap now.
 
From Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night on MSNBC-

"Half a lifetime ago, I worked in this now-empty space. And for 40 days after the attacks, I worked here again, trying to make sense of what happened, and was yet to happen, as a reporter.

All the time, I knew that the very air I breathed contained the remains of thousands of people, including four of my friends, two in the planes and -- as I discovered from those "missing posters" seared still into my soul -- two more in the Towers.

And I knew too, that this was the pyre for hundreds of New York policemen and firemen, of whom my family can claim half a dozen or more, as our ancestors.

I belabor this to emphasize that, for me this was, and is, and always shall be, personal.

And anyone who claims that I and others like me are "soft,"or have "forgotten" the lessons of what happened here is at best a grasping, opportunistic, dilettante and at worst, an idiot whether he is a commentator, or a Vice President, or a President.

However, of all the things those of us who were here five years ago could have forecast -- of all the nightmares that unfolded before our eyes, and the others that unfolded only in our minds -- none of us could have predicted this.

Five years later this space is still empty.

Five years later there is no memorial to the dead.

Five years later there is no building rising to show with proud defiance that we would not have our America wrung from us, by cowards and criminals.

Five years later this country's wound is still open.

Five years later this country's mass grave is still unmarked.

Five years later this is still just a background for a photo-op.

It is beyond shameful.

At the dedication of the Gettysburg Memorial -- barely four months after the last soldier staggered from another Pennsylvania field -- Mr. Lincoln said, "we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."

Lincoln used those words to immortalize their sacrifice.

Today our leaders could use those same words to rationalize their reprehensible inaction. "We cannot dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground." So we won't.

Instead they bicker and buck pass. They thwart private efforts, and jostle to claim credit for initiatives that go nowhere. They spend the money on irrelevant wars, and elaborate self-congratulations, and buying off columnists to write how good a job they're doing instead of doing any job at all.

Five years later, Mr. Bush, we are still fighting the terrorists on these streets. And look carefully, sir, on these 16 empty acres. The terrorists are clearly, still winning.

And, in a crime against every victim here and every patriotic sentiment you mouthed but did not enact, you have done nothing about it.

And there is something worse still than this vast gaping hole in this city, and in the fabric of our nation. There is its symbolism of the promise unfulfilled, the urgent oath, reduced to lazy execution.

The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the President in particular, was given every possible measure of support.

Those who did not belong to his party -- tabled that.

Those who doubted the mechanics of his election -- ignored that.

Those who wondered of his qualifications -- forgot that.

History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.

Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.

The President -- and those around him -- did that.

They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, "bi-partisanship" meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused, as appeasers, as those who, in the Vice President's words yesterday, "validate the strategy of the terrorists."

They promised protection, and then showed that to them "protection" meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.

The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is "lying by implication."

The impolite phrase is "impeachable offense."

Not once in now five years has this President ever offered to assume responsibility for the failures that led to this empty space, and to this, the current, curdled, version of our beloved country.

Still, there is a last snapping flame from a final candle of respect and fairness: even his most virulent critics have never suggested he alone bears the full brunt of the blame for 9/11.

Half the time, in fact, this President has been so gently treated, that he has seemed not even to be the man most responsible for anything in his own administration.

Yet what is happening this very night?

A mini-series, created, influenced -- possibly financed by -- the most radical and cold of domestic political Machiavellis, continues to be televised into our homes.

The documented truths of the last fifteen years are replaced by bald-faced lies; the talking points of the current regime parroted; the whole sorry story blurred, by spin, to make the party out of office seem vacillating and impotent, and the party in office, seem like the only option.

How dare you, Mr. President, after taking cynical advantage of the unanimity and love, and transmuting it into fraudulent war and needless death, after monstrously transforming it into fear and suspicion and turning that fear into the campaign slogan of three elections? How dare you -- or those around you -- ever "spin" 9/11?

Just as the terrorists have succeeded -- are still succeeding -- as long as there is no memorial and no construction here at Ground Zero.

So, too, have they succeeded, and are still succeeding as long as this government uses 9/11 as a wedge to pit Americans against Americans.

This is an odd point to cite a television program, especially one from March of 1960. But as Disney's continuing sell-out of the truth (and this country) suggests, even television programs can be powerful things.

And long ago, a series called "The Twilight Zone" broadcast a riveting episode entitled "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street."

In brief: a meteor sparks rumors of an invasion by extra-terrestrials disguised as humans. The electricity goes out. A neighbor pleads for calm. Suddenly his car -- and only his car -- starts. Someone suggests he must be the alien. Then another man's lights go on. As charges and suspicion and panic overtake the street, guns are inevitably produced. An "alien" is shot -- but he turns out to be just another neighbor, returning from going for help. The camera pulls back to a near-by hill, where two extra-terrestrials are seen manipulating a small device that can jam electricity. The veteran tells his novice that there's no need to actually attack, that you just turn off a few of the human machines and then, "they pick the most dangerous enemy they can find, and it's themselves."

And then, in perhaps his finest piece of writing, Rod Serling sums it up with words of remarkable prescience, given where we find ourselves tonight: "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men.

"For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children, and the children yet unborn."

When those who dissent are told time and time again -- as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus -- that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of it, we are somehow un-American...When we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have "forgotten the lessons of 9/11"... look into this empty space behind me and the bi-partisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me:

Who has left this hole in the ground?

We have not forgotten, Mr. President.

You have.

May this country forgive you."
 
All you people that are sick and tired of the memorializing of Sept 11 are insensitive jerks and you need to wait till your child dies or something and people are sick and tired of your mourning over your lost child...then you will understand why people were very hurt over this. Loss of life is just that: loss of life. Not a pleasant thing by any means and that means we dont have to forget about the people we lost. A lot of Americans felt like the people that died in those towers that day were their own relatives and friends because as crazy as it sounds Americans do actually care about other Americans when the need arises.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
I'm a American and I've never understood why Americans like to celebrate bad things all of the time.

What we really should be focusing on is the awful hitler-like Bush who starts Wars for no reason what so ever.

What say all of you? Should the world continue to focus on a day thats long past or the unjust war in Iraq?


We need to remember 9/11 and the tragedy that happened.

But talking about it 24-7 isn't going to bring any of the dead people back.

"OH NO HE DIDN'T SAY THAT!"

Nyuck Nyuck! HAHA!
 
Avalanche said:
The fact you're 'sick' of hearing about 9/11 shows an utter lack of respect for all those who died.

Not really. They don't have 24/7 broadcasts for Pearl Harbor anymore. It is time as a country to move on.

Don't you think five years later, the families have moved on? It must be a kick in the balls to have it thrown in their face everytime they turn on the TV.

It is time for the media to move on as well.
 

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