Why I don't feel as bad about 9/11 as most other people... or, why everyone calls me an insenstive prick. (314 hits)
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Submitted by RePet (View user info) at 2006-09-11 22:18:54 EDT
In order to understand why I take such a lethargic, almost apathetic stance toward that "tragedy," you have to know some important things about me:
1. I believe everyone dies for a purpose; if you're dead, you must've served your purpose.
2. Everyone dies. So, who should decide it's "too early" to go? The family of the person who died? Don't be pretentious.
3. Hence, a mass death like a plague or a building collapsing killing 2754 people is only allowing that many people to fulfill a purpose. I take no right or wrong stance towards it; it is necessary.
The problem is, people often associate amorality with insensitivity. Death is necessary; necessity falls in neither good nor bad. I see life, death, and our choices IN life as necessary, so who's to tell me it's fuckin WRONG, or BAD. To try to convert me to a naive, impressionable doctrine that says death is bad is pitiful and just sad.
That's probably why I view a lot of things amorally. Not because I simply don't care; I do. It's just that I view things as a much larger picture, and everyone is so indoctrinated with the "this is the only shot" proverbial diarrhea-dump of an idea.
Things like sleeping, eating (not necessarily good tasting food), working: These are all necessities for an average person. Do you think of sleeping as a mind-crashing, life-altering action? I know I don't. Yet people take these adjectives and apply them to things that are ALSO necessary, i.e. dying. If you're 31, and you die, your family will most likely think how sad it was that you left so soon, so young, that they're never going to see you again, etc. What they should think about is that you have done what you were made to do, whatever it was. And that they should neither cry nor praise your death, because it is inevitable and is only another stage.
The simple fact that over 2,700 died in one afternoon due to a terrorist attack 5 years ago is only those people entering another stage, together. You shouldn't mourn those deaths 2,700 times harder than 1 death. You should understand what death is, and you should go about your day thinking much-the-wiser.
And please, by all means, if you think I'm full of shit, -2 me and post a reason why. I guarentee I will disregard most of your comments as either "you're a dumbass" or "I haven't thought of it that way." However, if you are one of those myriad of people who do actually believe in the idea that I just negated, leave your comments and -2 in loads and I promise I might look at them.
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Submitted by chipolatte (user info) at 2006-09-12 00:48:06 EDT (#)
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you must be fat
Submitted by whiskey_jack (user info) at 2006-09-12 00:32:24 EDT (#)
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That someone can have an idea this stupid makes it a wonder how man made it past being hunter/gatherers.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-09-12 00:28:44 EDT (#)
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This -1 is for your sanctimonious means of expression, rather than your ideas themselves.
Submitted by RePet (user info) at 2006-09-11 23:32:29 EDT (#)
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Yeah I'm ranking it 0, shut up.
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So every death fills a purpose? What if someone throws a 2 day-old baby out a window?
Where is the purpose? What did the baby fulfill?
Fatalism was debunked a long time ago by folks brighter than you can ever hope
to be. Stick to comedy or sex and stop trying to be a philosopher. It is
unbecoming to you as you are no good at it.
The purpose the baby serves, might be (as no one knows)to alter the life of the parents who made the baby. Perhaps their lives needed to go in a cetain direction, and the only way they could go that way is if someone threw their infant out of the window. From this action, they would learn SOMETHING from it and lives their lives just a little bit differently. Maybe that's all the baby was meant to do.
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-09-11 23:29:25 EDT (#)
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Am I correct to understand this means you believe in fate?
You may be a good writer, I don't know, but the lack of emotion freaks me out.
Submitted by eppliks (user info) at 2006-09-11 23:11:39 EDT (#)
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Who are you?
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-09-11 23:07:02 EDT (#)
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I won't attack you at every turn; people aren't all made the same way.
Humanity can't survive in the modern world without working together. All the logic- or acceptance of death as a natural part of life- in the world won't change the average human's propensity toward the development emotional bonds. To pretend otherwise is foolish, and goes against nature much like denying the cycle of life would. Would you rather the world be full of apathetic people with no joy for living or grief over dying? I wouldn't want to live in that world, with my only comfort being my smugness that I know I could die at any time.
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:59:05 EDT (#)
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Why I don't care about your stupid opinion... or, why I just fell asleep while reading your title.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:45:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by paint_it_black (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:39:42 (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:38:12 (#)
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So every death fills a purpose? What if someone throws a 2 day-old baby out a window?
Where is the purpose? What did the baby fulfill?
Fatalism was debunked a long time ago by folks brighter than you can ever hope
to be. Stick to comedy or sex and stop trying to be a philosopher. It is
unbecoming to you as you are no good at it.
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fUCK YOU ARE A DUMB SHIT bUBBA
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Intelligent comeback, PaintItBullshit.
Submitted by paint_it_black (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:39:42 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:38:12 (#)
Ranking: -2
So every death fills a purpose? What if someone throws a 2 day-old baby out a window?
Where is the purpose? What did the baby fulfill?
Fatalism was debunked a long time ago by folks brighter than you can ever hope
to be. Stick to comedy or sex and stop trying to be a philosopher. It is
unbecoming to you as you are no good at it.
________
fUCK YOU ARE A DUMB SHIT bUBBA
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:38:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
So every death fills a purpose? What if someone throws a 2 day-old baby out a window?
Where is the purpose? What did the baby fulfill?
Fatalism was debunked a long time ago by folks brighter than you can ever hope
to be. Stick to comedy or sex and stop trying to be a philosopher. It is
unbecoming to you as you are no good at it.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:33:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
An insensitive prick with delusions of intellect. . .
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-09-11 22:27:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Holier than the great Thou, himself.