by nicolaou 48 Replies latest jw friends
Sorry, I didn't open this thread 'till just now. I would have honored a moment of silence for those who are asking it.
I also don't see the difference between 9/11 and any other atrocity, however. I get that they're more real when they hit home, but in the grand scheme, they all cause as much pain.
Tammy
Thank you all for the kind words..I am fine now as it's been a while and a lot has happened since. It just makes a hurtful pang in my heart for now.
And Hi Tatiana..I was shocked in the same way you were that day. I couldn't believe it was hitting so close to home.
Nice to see you posting. Still into music?..
Snoozy
Well Snoozy, I might as well chime in myself. I'm sure it must have been an especially painful coincidence to hear the news that your dearest was not going to live very long on that very anniversary. Perhaps time is a healer but it's too bad that we don't live long enough for time to complete the job...
Hang in there.
V665
AGuest...Hi...missed your posts. 
This incident didn't affect me more than others across the world. I cry when I watch those commercials of starving children where they ask you to sponser a child. I almost totally stopped watching the news because I just can't handle the violence. I am a pacifist. I hate war. Any war. I am not patriotic. I am part of the whole world, not just America. I think about the mothers and fathers of children in Iraq and Afghanistan who have watched their children die because of our policies and my guts wrench. I refuse to buy diamonds because I can't wear a stone that a child slaved to dig up and may have been killed for.
Yet I had relatives and friends who lived in NY. Are they any more human than others who die across the world? No. But they are close to me. If I could save every person in this world who is tortured, or sold into slavery, or killed in drive-by shootings or wars, etc., etc., by giving my life to do so, I would do it in a heartbeat.
And I feared for my sons because I didn't know what was going to happen next. As for lighting candles or having moments of silence, I do that for many things simply to remind myself of what is important and to reflect on other's suffering. I give of myself and donate time and promote awareness of atrocities around the world, such as volunterring at a rape crisis center, giving time to causes affecting women...I have one degree in psychology and am working towards my Masters. My field will be domestic violence issues.
Also helping ex-JWS get past the brainwashing.
Thank you, dear Tatiana, for responding... and the greatest of love and peace to you! I am sure that most feel as you do; I just get concerned, based on what I read here sometimes, that some of "us"... and particularly those of us in the U.S., tend to forget that people EVERYWHERE... and all through the ages... have suffered similar atrocities. I just hope we remember them, too, when the situation calls for it.
Again, peace to you and thank you for your kind response!
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
SA
AGuest....and I believe we should do more than simply 'remember'...if we don't these things will just keep happening over and over and over. We will never learn.
Back at'cha, dear Tat (peace to you!)... and yes, we should remember. All such atrocities. So that we don't repeat them. But, we're kind of good at forgetting "stuff" in this country, though (unlike some... who "remember" and are still mad about what "christians" did to them a 1,000 years ago and may never rest until they feel they've had "jihad"... or whatever). We kinda like things bright, shiny, and new and so we tend to plow anything even slightly unsightly under. No crumbling coliseums or "ugly" stone(henges) here, by gawd. We absolutely don't like anything "dark." So, it'll go in the mainstream history books for a sec... and then the whole story'll get told (about how "we" also "did something" somewhere just as bad, if not worse)... and it'll be watered down... and after a generation or so most of us will "forget." The only people who'll remember are those who were directly affected.
It is the "American" way, sadly...
Again, peace to you!
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
SA
I refuse to buy diamonds because I can't wear a stone that a child slaved to dig up and may have been killed for
I am exactly the same. I buy as much 'fairtrade' as i can aswel......
Peace and light
I refuse to buy diamonds because I can't wear a stone that a child slaved to dig up and may have been killed for
Ugh. Whatever. You can buy a certified Candian diamond instead!
V665
