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re: What bothers me most about 9/11
Posted on 9/11/16 at 9:24 pm to mizzoukills
Posted on 9/11/16 at 9:24 pm to mizzoukills
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I remember sitting with friends in a college apartment with beer and nachos watching CNN eagerly awaiting the start of "Shock & Awe" we hoped would destroy Baghdad. We were jovial, anxious, and without question bloodthirsty for what we hoped would be extreme destruction. The moment the first explosion occurred, we cheered, high fived, bonged a few beers, and celebrated the death of those evil Iraqi frickers we didn't give two shits about.
funny, but my I remember doing exactly the same thing...
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Posted on 9/11/16 at 9:50 pm to LCA131
LCA,
I just read it. Twain was an absolutely profound writer. That very short story is constructed with more thought than most full length novels. It angers me that Twain will one day be a banned author (already banned in many high institutions of learning) due to ignorance and racial agendas based on lies.
I just read it. Twain was an absolutely profound writer. That very short story is constructed with more thought than most full length novels. It angers me that Twain will one day be a banned author (already banned in many high institutions of learning) due to ignorance and racial agendas based on lies.
This post was edited on 9/11/16 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 9/11/16 at 9:56 pm to mizzoukills
Tidbit...and I think this is correct. He wrote the first novel in dialect...How folks really spoke rather than thee and thou etc.
Posted on 9/11/16 at 10:04 pm to LCA131
He shouldn't be criticized for that
Posted on 9/11/16 at 10:09 pm to mizzoukills
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My point is humans are terrible. Period.
Not really. I would say a minority of humans are terrible. And a minority of people can cause a lot of terrible shite for the world. Bad things are more sensational, so bad things and bad people get all of the press. Now, 99% of us might all be a little f'd up, but that doesn't make us overall terrible people.
And to be honest, I don't know anyone that had a get together or party to kick off the "Shock and Awe" campaign. Also, I wouldn't celebrate us killing innocent people if we pulled a 9/11 on a country. I wouldn't say their lives mean nothing to me at all. I think that is an issue on your end. Terrorist lives mean nothing to me and those that harbor them. And those that harbor them know they are inviting collateral damage to their community. There are some things many of us care about, but we don't exactly have control over them. There is a difference.
Posted on 9/11/16 at 10:12 pm to mizzoukills
Who said he was? Just stating a fact about him since you seem to admire him so much.
Put the keyboard away for a bit.
Put the keyboard away for a bit.
Posted on 9/11/16 at 10:38 pm to LCA131
Never criticized you. Weird response
Posted on 9/11/16 at 10:42 pm to mizzoukills
I now see why people write the things about you that they do....fricking weirdo.
Posted on 9/12/16 at 12:24 am to mizzoukills
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mizzoukills
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Would you really care if we destroyed an entire Mideast city if it meant killing a few known terrorists? I wouldn't
I would prefer to not destroy an entire city to kill a few, unless many United States lives were in immediate danger. Most Americans and all American leaders feel the same.
Posted on 9/12/16 at 12:42 am to LCA131
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LCA131
quote:im all for praying the war prayer: frick the mooslims
The War Prayer'
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“Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
Posted on 9/12/16 at 2:09 am to mizzoukills
OP is the most thoughtful, intelligent thing I've ever seen on TD
Posted on 9/12/16 at 6:58 am to mizzoukills
Upvoted
Posted on 9/12/16 at 7:10 am to mizzoukills
Based on your post you will like "The War Prayer." It's short story. Perhaps a 10 minute read. It is probably my favorite short. Good rec by LCA.
Posted on 9/12/16 at 7:29 am to Rounder1
I read it and very much enjoyed it. Twain put more thought and story into that short than most writers put into a full length novel. Twain is without question one of America's best writers.
Posted on 9/12/16 at 8:24 am to tgrbaitn08
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the reason why we attacked them is to keep your American sissy arse alive.
Keep telling yourself that.
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