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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:12 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:55 pm
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Profitable Conversationalist
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:50 pm
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People here still haven't quite recovered from it. I guess it just isn't something... you do recover from. I guess I should be thankful I was only in third grade. I was mostly mad that school was cancelled, because I liked school, and that there weren't even any cartoons to keep me occupied for the rest of the day. Later on the severity of what was going on started to hit me, and I guess it has something to do with how cynical I am but...eh. Things like Columbine had more of an effect on me, and I wasn't really fully aware of that until eight or ninth grade.
Regardless, I'm sick of hearing about 9/11. So moving on to the real topic here. Any tragedy of that sort is awful. It's, quite simply, tragic. Politics might get a little more chaotic for several year, and people will start looking over their shoulder, but life moves on. It has to. If it didn't, especially in the face of an event like this, society would collapse even more. If you let the grief sink in too deep, it'll never let go of you.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:45 am
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:51 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:44 pm
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I can't even imagine how this must be affecting the country. I can't decide whether I feel depressed or angry or both.
Nearly 100 people. My high school had about twice that. Trying to imagine half of my former school, blown away...Christ. :/ And for what? So this monster could play revolutionary?
This worries me as well. After what happened on 9/11 in the US, the American government (and the British government, I think) seemed to take every opportunity possible to limit or remove civil liberties, all in the name of security. To some extent, this is understandable. After your country has been attacked, it makes sense that people feel vulnerable. But in the long run, the restrictions and intrusions are frightening. I would hate to see this sort of decline in freedom extend to Norway (or anywhere else, for that matter).
This is encouraging, though. After the Norwegian publisher of The Satanic Verses was shot in 1993, "the political and intellectual elite stressed the importance of resisting the temptation to respond to the fear as it quickly spread through the population by raising the barriers and increasing the intolerance of those from the world outside."
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:53 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:01 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:44 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:23 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:32 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:15 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:55 pm
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