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9-11-05
2005-09-11, 7:38 AM #1
It feels like it just happened a short while ago. :(

[http://www.niftythings.org/usattack/wtc_smoking/h_twin_towers_02.jpg]
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2005-09-11, 7:41 AM #2
god damn it doesn't feel like 4 years.
2005-09-11, 7:49 AM #3
[QUOTE=Mr. Stafford]god damn it doesn't feel like 4 years.[/QUOTE]
4 years ???? holy ****ing ****. It feels like last year.

It's weird how time goes fast alot faster once you've grown up. I can remember as a child...a year would take forever to pass. The summer alone felt like a century.
2005-09-11, 7:54 AM #4
Doesn't feel like 4 years... bah, you already wrote that :/

I will never forget how I switched from german Dragonball dub to BBC World to see that.
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2005-09-11, 8:25 AM #5
Aye. It's hard to believe it's already four years. What Duke Raoul said is so very true.
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2005-09-11, 8:27 AM #6
All I can remember is walking into my classroom to see my teacher crying. Good god.
D E A T H
2005-09-11, 8:33 AM #7
I remember it like it was yesterday.

*takes moment of silence*
Stuff
2005-09-11, 8:46 AM #8
that's today !.! *dident realise the date came up so soon*

but i can believe it's been 4 years, it feels like 4 years.
Laughing at my spelling herts my feelings. Well laughing is fine actully, but posting about it is not.
2005-09-11, 8:59 AM #9
I completely forgot about that - and it doesn't feel like 4 years to me either
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2005-09-11, 9:07 AM #10
Quote:
Ask yourself this: did members of the Greatest Generation spend a lot of time talking about where they were and what they did and how they felt when they first heard the news from Pearl Harbor? People certainly remembered the moment, and a few anecdotes got passed around -- but did a whole folk genre spontaneously emerge? Did everyone feel compelled to craft a little narrative, starring me, an oft-repeated and inevitably embellished story-for-the-ages reporting on my personal experience of the Event? Or did they just assume that Pearl Harbor and its consequences were what mattered, and talk about that.

Quote:
Which is not to say you are never moved -- by footage, by stories, by representations of all kinds. That's the point. Often you glide by, but sometimes you weep. You weep at movies, you weep at live coverage of 9/11 ceremonies, you weep when you hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" or when you hear Martin Luther King invoking his dream in a PBS documentary. I once found myself, alone in a motel room (admittedly at a vulnerable moment in my life), weeping over the "like a rock" lyric in a Chevy truck commercial.
It's not your fault that you are so used to being so moved; you just are. You spend a great deal of money and time accessing what moves you. You are a connoisseur of what moves you.


Both excerpts from Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated. Great book.
2005-09-11, 9:32 AM #11
It was like 8:XX AM when I was in school and someone said, "Turn on the news" (the classrooms each had 1 TV).

I can't exactly remember my reaction to it. It was a combination of awe and horror.

Four years definitely does not seem to be a long time.
2005-09-11, 9:34 AM #12
Feels like four years to me, but still just as tragic.
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2005-09-11, 9:35 AM #13
Time is nuts. I've been noticing it a lot lately with 9-11 and especially with music or something. I hear Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins and think wow, that was ten years ago. And I'm only 18, it must get crazy when you actually have a life decades long to look back at.
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2005-09-11, 10:49 AM #14
I remembered everyone in school was talking about it, at first I just passed it off as some BS joke :(.
2005-09-11, 10:53 AM #15
I forgot until I was at a football match today and they had a minutes silence. Seems a hell of a lot longer than four years ago.
nope.
2005-09-11, 10:56 AM #16
Am I the only person who thinks the picture in this thread is really unneccesary?
>>untie shoes
2005-09-11, 11:01 AM #17
Originally posted by saberopus:
I remembered everyone in school was talking about it, at first I just passed it off as some BS joke :(.


Yea my friend told me about it and i thought he was joking :S
/fluffle
2005-09-11, 11:07 AM #18
Originally posted by Bill:
Am I the only person who thinks the picture in this thread is really unneccesary?


No
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2005-09-11, 11:10 AM #19
Originally posted by Bill:
Am I the only person who thinks the picture in this thread is really unneccesary?


I think it's fine seeing the images and video's of the incident again. It's a vivid reminder of what happened that day.

I know the media and lots of people feel differently - that they shouldn't be shown anymore, but there's a complete difference in being aware of the incident in text versus actually seeing the disaster.

And that goes for anything, 9/11 - the holocaust, any war, etc. If you goto the holocaust museum in DC, it's a completely different emotion of remembrance then talking about it in class or something.

It does seem like it's been a long time since it's happened, but quite fast in a way too. It's hard to describe really...
2005-09-11, 11:50 AM #20
Originally posted by Demon_Nightmare:
I know the media and lots of people feel differently


Lots of people maybe, but not the media. The only reason the media would stop showing an image is if they lose ratings over it. As long as they get ratings they'll show the images over and over again.

The fact that it is a vivid reminder isn't the problem. I don't want to see that image anymore then I want to see a snuff film.
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2005-09-11, 11:59 AM #21
I thought the media agreed though not to show it anymore though...

I could be wrong, but I remember hearing that somewhere though
2005-09-11, 12:42 PM #22
Oh? If they have then it would be in responce to complaints from viewers (and rating drops as a result)
Trust me, if they could keep ratings up by showing that picture over and over they would.
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2005-09-11, 2:07 PM #23
You guys are weird. To me, it feels like that happened 40 years ago, not 4.
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2005-09-11, 2:08 PM #24
Originally posted by Bill:
Am I the only person who thinks the picture in this thread is really unneccesary?


wtf?!
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2005-09-11, 2:19 PM #25
We will never forget. :(

*Moment of silence*
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2005-09-11, 2:51 PM #26
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hepkitten/444787.html

EDIT: Almost gave me a friggin' seizure.
幻術
2005-09-11, 3:07 PM #27
I meant the pic was not needed because it's supposed to remind us of something that we shouldn't be forgetting anyway.
>>untie shoes
2005-09-11, 3:35 PM #28
Originally posted by Koobie:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hepkitten/444787.html

EDIT: Almost gave me a friggin' seizure.



ahahahahaha.


Seriously, guys, comedy is the best way to commemorate the lives of those lost and oppose Al Quaeda. I bet the people that died loved comedy just as much as we do, and using their deaths to make others laugh and to make others happy is surely the best tribute possible.

Well whatever, it made me laugh anyway!
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2005-09-11, 4:05 PM #29
Do you make jokes about the Holocaust too Mort?

Unless you're using sacrasm... :confused:
2005-09-11, 4:30 PM #30
Looks like a collection of stereotypical goths and emo kids.
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2005-09-11, 4:33 PM #31
Originally posted by Koobie:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hepkitten/444787.html

EDIT: Almost gave me a friggin' seizure.


Really? Made me want to vomit.

I believe it has been 4 years. Feels like it. However, I think the disaster of Kattrina kind of reopened the wound, specifically with it being so close to 9/11.
Democracy: rule by the stupid
2005-09-11, 4:40 PM #32
Originally posted by Mort-Hog:
Seriously, guys, comedy is the best way to commemorate the lives of those lost and oppose Al Quaeda.


For you. Not for everyone.
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2005-09-11, 4:44 PM #33
That twin towers "I'm falling for you" pic is horrible.
Stuff
2005-09-11, 4:47 PM #34
Originally posted by Demon_Nightmare:
Do you make jokes about the Holocaust too Mort?

Unless you're using sacrasm... :confused:

Um... I do....

I make jokes about everything. I'm almost ashamed of myself at times.
>>untie shoes
2005-09-11, 5:35 PM #35
May they rest in peace and love :(
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2005-09-11, 6:16 PM #36
Wow. September 11th. Please excuse my lack of caring. I just find it silly that people are still so worked up over it.
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Last Stand
2005-09-11, 6:16 PM #37
Originally posted by kyle90:
That twin towers "I'm falling for you" pic is horrible.


It's more tasteless than SA. But still funny :\
D E A T H
2005-09-11, 6:24 PM #38
Also we gotta remember those that died in September 11, 2004 in Beslan, Russia :(. When terrorists held up the school:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_hostage_crisis
"The only crime I'm guilty of is love [of china]"
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2005-09-11, 6:31 PM #39
Funny though. Mention a joke about MaDa's death here, a hatewar starts.
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2005-09-11, 7:12 PM #40
Good point. Come Mada's anniversary of his death, if Il make some pictures with jokes and I'd be banned.
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