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Thursday July 07, 05

07:59 AM - Bloody Tube

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In Charlotte and not a single person sporting traditional Muslim headdress has been killed. In London, despite what has happened there this morning, I'd assume that the same thing can be said.

We've quite a ways to go before we can truly claim to be an overwelmingly civilized society but still, when compared to hardcore mid-eastern anti-westerners, it's quite sickeningly obvious we live a far more sophisticated existence.

I mean really, do you think for one fucking second that if either the United States or the U.K were to bomb Iran, citizens spawned in either one of those two beautiful nations would be free to walk the streets of Tehran? Of course not. Instead, said citizens would be booking their way gone. They'd be making damn sure destiny doesn't dictate them headless bodies on al Jazeera, with images of their ghostless flesh splashed across television screens the Arab world over. They'd probably also race as far away as possible from the realization that if killed, embittered amblers would undoubtedly end up spitting on their lifeless remains. Oh but tables turned though, and it's a different story all together. Arabs here are far better off than Westerners there. Truly, I've yet to see CNN cash in on Western citizens snuffing Arabs in Times Square.

Utterly, utterly undone.

With love for London,

Sullen

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thanks (Score:2, Insightful)

i can be so viciously anti-american sometimes that i overlook thoughts like this one that you have presented.

i want desperately to disagree with it... but instead I will sit and ponder for awhile.

thanks.

WorkingGirlLikeMe -- Thursday July 07 2005, @08:04AM (#170260)
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You give and you give and you give and you give, give and you give.

Re:thanks (Score:2, Insightful)

I understand how this can be seen as no better or worse than the American or British bombing Iraq, because both are forms of terrorism. It's just that in the aftermath, only one side slice off heads as a form of protest. So again, which side is more civilized?

If I was an Arab in London today, I'd be thanking whatever god I beleived in that the people there have a conscience and can reason, even when faced with such unjustified horror.

Sullen -- Thursday July 07 2005, @08:53AM (#170266)
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Grave (Score:2, Insightful)

I enjoyed this comment. I am concerned.

After 11SEP, grave concern.

After today, even more grave.

Lon * -- Thursday July 07 2005, @08:21AM (#170263)
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Re:Grave by Sullen (Score:1) Thursday July 07 2005, @08:55AM

A disease of the mind (Score:1)

Well said Sullen, my own thoughts exactly. And yet I've seen many an Iman rant at the moral decadence of the West.

Once again it's the ideological mind-virus of religion, most especially the anti-relativist notion of having absolute moral authority as given to them by an imaginary God, that's to blame.

Tales From The Dark <{Leeeaamm} {at} {hotmail.com}> -- Thursday July 07 2005, @09:01AM (#170270)
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Re:A disease of the mind by WorkingGirlLikeMe (Score:1) Thursday July 07 2005, @09:08AM

Re:A disease of the mind (Score:2, Insightful)

Well, not necessarily all aetheists, but just people not following an orthodox religion, in that lots of people believe in God, or 'something', are spiritual, morally decent, etc, but still manage to think for themselves instead of following a system or set of rules, as it's that notion of some absolute authority that's the problem.

Thanks for the concerned email, H, by the way.

Tales From The Dark <{Leeeaamm} {at} {hotmail.com}> -- Thursday July 07 2005, @04:04PM (#170334)
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Re:A disease of the mind by WorkingGirlLikeMe (Score:1) Sunday July 10 2005, @09:26AM

Irony bleeds by Sullen (Score:1) Thursday July 07 2005, @11:26AM
- Re:Irony bleeds by Tales From The Dark (Score:1) Thursday July 07 2005, @04:08PM

Good Points Made, Sullen (Score:1)

I'm left speechless by these recent events...

Also, feeling weary from lack of sleep - had to be up early to get a friend at the airport - so this has all felt so surreal from the time I sat safely in quiet darkness in the wee hours, staring at my computer in disbelief, realising my own moment of being which contrasts to those in London.

When I alwake from my nap, please, please, please, tell me it was all just a bad dream...

London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?
London calling

I never felt so much alike [fading] alike alike alike

J. Razor -- Thursday July 07 2005, @02:21PM (#170318)
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I'm Alone

Re:Good Points Made, Sullen (Score:2, Funny)

I'm seriously thinking about going to London now. Seriously, I am. I may go sometime soon, just to ride the Underground and to spite the terrorists!

Viva London!

Sullen -- Thursday July 07 2005, @04:23PM (#170336)
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Re:Good Points Made, Sullen by J. Razor (Score:1) Thursday July 07 2005, @08:48PM