Horrifying Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.

This is not game news, but is more important. I am putting this up here because many people are trying to figure out what is going on and this way we can share what we know. Here's what I know so far: - At about 8:45 a plane crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. 14 minutes later, andther plane crashed into the second tower. - Another plane crashed into the Pentagon soon after that. - A bomb went off at the State Department. - Both World Trade Center Towers have now completely collapsed, presumably killing everyone who was unable to evacuate in time, and also the firemen and police who were at the towers trying to help people evacuate. - Another plane has gone down somewhere in Western Pennsylvania. Possibly just a coincidence or possibly an attempt to hyjack it to another target. Words cannot express the horror.
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# Sep 12 2001 at 9:05 PM Rating: Default
I will not preach, though I would like to. So many have died, and so many more shall. Religion is not to blame, countries are not to blame, governments are not to blame, different peoples and races are not to blame. What should be blamed is the narrow mindedness of all peoples. And so, that is what should be fixed. No one knows who is the perpetrator of the atrocity in New York. Yet fingers have been pointed. Calls for blood have been shouted across the nation. And I ask, "Will it bring them back?" We, the recently attacked and shaken say, destroy the Afghans, the Arabs, the Muslims, and why? It is the same as saying, "Let's go kill some people for our cause!", yet that is exactly what has happened. Do not preach about God smiting the wicked, for then you become one of them. Though it is soul renching, praise *God* for sparing those who were spared, and ask for the forgivness of the guilty. And, jump on the United States to obliterate a nation, instead, ask them to use that force to force all other nations to gather in the name of peace, so that all may be united against those who would try to tear it asunder. I just visited a school today and heard the most horrific things from the children there: "They shouldn't be giving us textbooks, they should be giving us
f!@#$%^ guns. I say we just nuke the h@#$ out of the middle east. We should blow those d@#$ f!@#$%^
arabs of the face of the planet." I was horrified to hear this. I worry about the safety of the world as I'm sure many do. Yes, I weep for America, I love this land, I was born here and it is all I've ever known, but I will not condone the destruction of another people. The only valid reason they can come up with to do such a thing is that they are trying to send a message. Well, send that message through a heavy peace treaty, and then worry about those who break it. But, before you take sides and yell and rant, PLEASE, think, think about everything, think long and hard, and just keep thinking, and see what you come up with.

I wish to point out that again, I am not trying to preach, I am an American citizen born and raised, and I am only trying to get people to think about everything that has happened from every possible angle.

I pray for the souls of all those lost in Tuesday's events, including those Everquestarians lost; I know everyone will be sorely missed.

Remember, look from every angle, ask, listen, explore, love, cry, forgive, yell, calm, speak, smile, frown, feel, and think. Please, never attack.

Thank you.
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# Sep 13 2001 at 1:44 AM Rating: Decent
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This is an animalistic attack. If your dog snaps at you you don't lie down on your back in an offer of piece. You roll up the news paper and swat him till he learns that he shouldn't do that.
I do believe that it is time to pull out the news paper. the dogs just won't stay off of the couch.

I heard people at work saying I would never try to jump from a building that High. I don't care if it was on fire. For those beams to melt the temperatures were exceeding 1500degrees . How long do you think that takes to kill a person. I would say entirely to long if you are stuck in it. your household oven goes to almost 500degrees go ahead heat it up and grab the element. can you take that pain in just your hand for a few seconds. how bout 1 minute 2 extreem pain so extreem that it was perferable to jump to their deaths than sit in the fire any longer. Ask these people the ones who died slow what they think should be done. Would they shout for peace? If your son, daughter, sister, brother, was burnt alive. what would you be screaming? Peace? Peace is a Lovely Idea that needs to stay where it belongs. In the fantasy worlds the Idea comes from. For here and now in this world peace only ever comes from death. No one knows peace till Death. With that said yes we must bring PEACE to those responsible for these acts. :)
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# Sep 13 2001 at 12:11 AM Rating: Default
Yes, I have to agree with the other poster to respond here you're views are absolutely idealistic and your utopia will sadly and unfortunately never exist. However I am not so idealistic as to believe that we can all get along. There is an element in this world that is bent on the destruction of the people of United States and all that it stands for. Obviously, everyone that lives in this country doesn't agree with ALL of the foreign policy that this country maintains. Unfortunalty many extremist Muslims do not care for us, and we have all been declared the infedel. As sad as this is, and while many of us would like to believe that we can work out problems like this through negotiations, we can not. To me, the ultimate problem that leaves us Americans as targets has been left to us by our fathers before us, is the Israeli-Palestinian problem. I have to admit for many years I have been angry at the government of Israel for what they are doing in the occupations of Palestine. I am also angry for the unconditional US support of Israel, considering the situation. But while I sympathize with the Palestinian problems and their struggle for soveriegnty, it is hard, for me, to sympathize any more for a people celebrating in the street at the death of thousands of Americans. I have never experienced joy once in my life over the death of so many people; not in war, acts of nature, or terrorism. As such I can not understand such an action of celebration and I will never sympathize with the palastinians or their allies again. While their leaders can claim that these celebrators are a minority, I can tell you first hand I have never seen any American celebrating in the streets when Palestinian children die from Israeli soldier bullets, and the day I do I will go punch one in the face. I tend to think the Palestinian government was also celebrating and merely caught embarrassed by men, women, and children in the street overjoyed that so many innocent people had died horribly. I wish nothing but death for all those that committed these acts and their allies as well. We obviously can not all get along, and this terrorist act only confirms this. We have no choice but confront our agreessors face to face. If they want kill us as Americans we have no choice but to kill them first. This is war and we know it, we only wait to find the cowards behind this. I look forward to the day that they and all their children and their children's children are gone from the earth for that is what they would do to us.
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# Sep 13 2001 at 7:18 AM Rating: Default
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so you're basically no better than them?
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# Sep 12 2001 at 9:50 PM Rating: Default
I have stoped and thought about what has happened, I feel concern for what may come and what will more than likly come. With all this thinking and hopeing all i can see is that they as a people have attacked the U.S. they as a people stood in their streets and celebrited what has happened to OTHER human begins. Now i ask you this if the U.S. does not step in and do something about what has happened WHO WILL?? Where will this stop? At you'r door step? At my door step? Or has it already gone farther than that has it seeped into our homes and into our hearts and into the very marrow of life as we know it? People have died more threats have been made by the people that did these acts, and personally i'am scarred but also outragged about what has happened, and SOMEONE will pay for these acts, Americans now and the people that started this later. First we will regroup and mend our wounds, but the sleeping giant is AWAKENED once more and BLOOD has filled our vison. Just don't plan any trips to thoes countires any time soon, and may our thoughts be with the people that have and are soon to be in a better place weither it be by our hands or the hands of anthor ALL PEOPLE have lost this time and the tolls will only get worse.

15, Elizabeth City N.C.
This is only the begining and my your gods watch over our souls
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# Sep 12 2001 at 9:28 PM Rating: Decent
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Thanks god someone thinks a bit :) Read what he / she posted pls
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# Sep 12 2001 at 10:08 PM Rating: Default
I read what he/she posted, and while it is a very civil way of going about things, you can tell it is a very idealist approach, not realistic.

Of course, "Nuking the f*** out of them" is just as extremist as the ones that did it. But, if we gather our resources and lobby for world peace, attacks such as this will never stop and innocent people will keep dying. If we retaliate, we may seem like we're reducing ourselves to their level, but we aren't going to stop them from up on our pedistals. These acts of terrorism will only stop when those responsible have been captured and controlled. So while you are very right, unfortunately the idealistic approach of making peace with everyone will no longer work.
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