Posted by Kat on September 15, 2001 at 08:56:44:
In Reply to: validating G's feelings or lack thereof posted by giveawayboy on September 15, 2001 at 01:11:11:
: : I don't have any feelings about the whole situtiation....I'm not trying to start any fights here or anything but I'm not sad or happy.A lot of time I take an unpatriotatic stance but this isn't anything like that. Of course the situtiatin is real but I have no feelings on it...also Jerry Falwell & Pat Robertson are taking a Sadam Husein approach saying it was the U.S.' fault that we got attacked.
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: G, There is nothing wrong with you having your feelings and certainly no reason to think you are starting a fight because you express them, esp. among your brothers and sisters in the Lord. I have caught alot of flack for not being a big 'talker'. I have feelings of concern for the loss of lives and the ways that people have been hurt, but I am not interested in this business of ongoing discussion. I think we need to keep our wits about us and remain sober and circumspect. I don't think we need to go on and on about things that happened four days ago. Does this mean that it wasn't significant? Does this mean that justice should not come? No. It just means that I'm sick of going everywhere and hearing nothing fresh and new, nothing original, and just the same old enws reports and people with itching ears running around looking into Nostradamus, etc. I will applaud along with Cari and anyone else, the efforts of those who are working for peace in the midst of the storm and I am VERY HAPPY and impressed that many are coming closer to one another, both from within and beyond our borders. So, you say you have no feelings on it. Good. I don't think there is anything wrong with you for that. I DO have feelings, but I am simply tired of the ongoing chatter about me.
: Peace, Bill
Bill, you sound like my dad. And I understand why you feel that way, but as Cari said, it is therapeutic for many people including myself. Let me expound, for four days I have been uninterested in anything, but the attacks and the discussion surrounding them. Anything else just seems trite and unimportant at the moment. I know life must go on but I am afraid of the business as usual thing, it seems like abandonment of the thousands that died. The feeling of brotherhood is one reason, without it there will not be any change in our current apathy towards our fellow man or God. I just feel we have to put ourselves in the position of those who were hurt otherwise how can we reach out to them. We also have to know what's going to be done about, otherwise how can you protest or support?
I think it's alright not to feel anything, especially if you have no ties to anybody involved.
I think it's alright not to want to talk about it anymore.
Try to be tolerant, some of our applecarts have just been knocked over and stepped on!
Peace and Love to you
-kat