9-11? What?

[Antallion]

Why do we even memorize it?

I see it as this. If your grandpa died 8 years ago, you wouldn't still be crying about the day he died. But the fact that people say "oh yea, INSERTFAMILYMEMBERHERE died today, lets honor it" is stupid. Honoring said occasion to try to alleviate the pain only makes it worse.

I see it as this:
Thousands of people died in a terrorist attack that shocked the world

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[Apophis]

I'd like you to argue that. Humanity destroys almost anything it touches. Animalia, insects, and everything else all has a purpose and can co-exist in harmony.
Note, I don't run around preaching "HUMANITY SUCKS", because we do amazing things, we are amazing things, but think about it anyway.

qft

Humans are pretty stupid.. Nature's balance is good until you add the human and it gets out of hand. Way out of hand.

[DrMobius]

Humans are pretty stupid.. Nature's balance is good until you add the human and it gets out of hand. Way out of hand.

Incorrect.  Crowds are stupid.  Humans can be capable of inteligent thought every now and then.

[Apophis]

'got me there.

[zookuw]

Yeah, doomonkey, who apparently weeps for bugs and not humans. *Obvious troll is obvious.*

i weep for bugs :[

[devildogelite]

Humans are pretty stupid.. Nature's balance is good until you add the human and it gets out of hand. Way out of hand.

Im pretty sure if an animal could do what we do, it would

[Amade]

Im pretty sure if an animal could do what we do, it would

But it doesn't, you're basically saying that anyone could become a serial killer so we should throw everyone in prison.

[yuki]

Think about this: Everything has a purpose.
Mosquitoes suck blood, bats eat mosquitoes, bats get protein from blood in mosquitoes. Without mosquitoes, bats attack larger prey, probably could become carnivorous.
Bees transfer flower pollen, which allows more flowers to grow.
Mice eat berries and nuts, snakes eat mice. Mice diet means snake doesn't eat fruit/nuts.
But humans are at the very top, we can consume nearly anything, and as a whole, are virtually indestructible.
The balance is what humanity decides it is.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17481_p2.html

[Jay Ray]

As I type, I am 8 blocks away from where they used to stand.

[JimJam]

We commemorate a day when a large number of people lost their lifes to a terrorist attack. It's not something that people are just going to forget.

[Antallion]

[Amade]

We commemorate a day when a large number of people lost their lifes to a terrorist attack. It's not something that people are just going to forget.

We don't remember the soldiers Vietnam war every year obsessively. And we definitely don't remember the soldiers that died after the war from the carcinogenic effects of the rainbow agents.

[JimJam]

I loving lol'd

We don't remember the soldiers Vietnam war every year obsessively. And we definitely don't remember the soldiers that died after the war from the carcinogenic effects of the rainbow agents.

9/11 was something that had never really happened in modern America--a vast amount of people dieing in a terrorist attack in NYC.

[Kalphiter]

We commemorate a day when a large number of people lost their lifes to a terrorist attack. It's not something that people are just going to forget.

I remembered to forget to forget about 9/11

[JimJam]

I remembered to forget to forget about 9/11

I totally forgot about it until I saw this thread.
What I mean by forget is that most people know what they were doing when they found out what had happened on that day. It was obviously a shock to most people and I have no idea why people are sitting here questioning why we mourn on a day when thousands of innocent people were killed in a few hours.