Your experience of the 9/11 incident?

• Cynic wrote on 2011-09-12 08:30

  Quote from Phunkie;584848:

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  This post is crazy, man. You live in the United States of America. By definition, what happened on 9/11 affects you and everyone else living in the United States today. It doesn't matter if you didn't lose anybody on that day. That day changed everything for this country and that's something to be concerned about. Wars, huge government spending on defense, people dying, discrimination against Muslims, the economy, the TSA groping you at airports now, etc.
  
  Not only that, but sympathy and compassion are two human qualities everybody should have.
  
  People cry about it because it's sad. You don't wanna think about it. Just like when someone goes into a high school and shoots up your favorite teacher and some of your friends. That's sad.
  
  Granted, it's been 10 years since then and a lot of people have been able to move on, but to say you don't even care is a bit silly. It's your country after all.

  
  
  I didn't mean my post in a bad way, by the way xD I really just.. yeah, it doesn't affect me.
  
  I really, really don't care. And not in the "Oh I'm such a rebel" or "Oh I actually care but it's cooler to say I don't care" or hell, even in the "I say I don't care but subconsciously ALL THE EMOTIONS". My emotions don't work like normal people, so it's understandable on my part.
  Some things just don't affect others unless it directly concerns them. I have a very hard time /actually/ sympathizing (to the point where it touches an emotion) with people unless it's tied to me. It sounds selfish and rude, but I really don't mean it in that way. I don't care if they're my neighbors, fellow Americans, countrymen, people from the army.. they have no relevance to me.
• Guyverunit4 wrote on 2011-09-12 08:38

  Quote from Cynic;585279:

  I didn't mean my post in a bad way, by the way xD I really just.. yeah, it doesn't affect me.
  
  I really, really don't care. And not in the "Oh I'm such a rebel" or "Oh I actually care but it's cooler to say I don't care" or hell, even in the "I say I don't care but subconsciously ALL THE EMOTIONS". My emotions don't work like normal people, so it's understandable on my part.
  Some things just don't affect others unless it directly concerns them. I have a very hard time /actually/ sympathizing (to the point where it touches an emotion) with people unless it's tied to me. It sounds selfish and rude, but I really don't mean it in that way. I don't care if they're my neighbors, fellow Americans, countrymen, people from the army.. they have no relevance to me.

  
  
  Yeah I feel the same way.
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-09-12 08:44
  I was in Mexico. The news came on. I couldn't really understand much at first, but still, I had a bad feeling once they replayed the clip, and I realized there were people inside those things.
• Kaikou89 wrote on 2011-09-12 09:12
  I was in 7th grade and in between morning classes when the I heard of the attacks. Being on the west coast, it was more of people complaining about not being able to catch an airplane.
  
  Then the school gathered everyone (a large number of people in a 7-12 school) in the gym. Due to JPL being nearby (5 minute walk), and a possible target for further attacks, all students were sent home. My dad, being a teacher at one of the local elementary schools, was one of the first parents there.
  
  Honestly, I didn't think much of the incident. The attacks are rather far from Los Angeles. I enjoyed a day off and continued playing Pokemon Puzzle League, which I was seriously addicted to at the time.
  
  I miss the easy days of walking through security at the airports.