May 29, 2009 7:39:42 AM cite

9-11 is one hell of a debateable topic.

by missorange08

Apr 25, 2009 11:58:14 PM cite

America, not liable. Religious, sociological and business interests, well something is wrong there of course. People do things for a reason and oddly the reasons are not well known, due to opinion. Evidently some people feel guilty but likely they weren’t the ones who did anything, misplaced guilt. The guilt lies with the persons that initiated the event and their motivations and the retaliation as well is not guilt free. But one thing stands is that what is happening is not the actions of loving compassionate beings. Terrorism or war whatever type of unrest and violence you have is action based on obsessive ideological derangement; this are deep seated psychological illnesses. To know who is wrong watch what they do, their actions show what they want to destroy and also disseminate, on both sides. Anyone killing, terrorizing, politically oppressing, and manipulating is guilty of these things by definition. The guilty are the manipulators the dramatis personae, not the victims or the people who want peace, love and sanity to prevail.

by Samsara

Apr 25, 2009 11:58:12 PM cite

America, not liable. Religious, sociological and business interests, well something is wrong there of course. People do things for a reason and oddly the reasons are not well known, due to opinion. Evidently some people feel guilty but likely they weren’t the ones who did anything, misplaced guilt. The guilt lies with the persons that initiated the event and their motivations and the retaliation as well is not guilt free. But one thing stands is that what is happening is not the actions of loving compassionate beings. Terrorism or war whatever type of unrest and violence you have is action based on obsessive ideological derangement; this are deep seated psychological illnesses. To know who is wrong watch what they do, their actions show what they want to destroy and also disseminate, on both sides. Anyone killing, terrorizing, politically oppressing, and manipulating is guilty of these things by definition. The guilty are the manipulators the dramatis personae, not the victims or the people who want peace, love and sanity to prevail.

by Samsara

Apr 22, 2009 1:55:55 AM cite

The second part of this question is disturbing as it demonstrates a lack of thought and understanding by the questioner. It is just a bit stereotypical and bigoted. The assumption that all Muslims live a more natural lifestyle, such as riding camels and living in the desert, is Juvenile and unjustified. Many Muslime live in developed countries and have adopted the same lifestyle as everyone else. They live in the same kind of homes, drive cars, and have the same kind of jobs as everyone else where they live. Many non-Muslims live very eco-friendly life styles, such as third world subsistance farmers, they are not all Muslim. This question comes from a thoughtless and insensitive person and does not demonstrate much intelligence.

by thedoc

Apr 22, 2009 1:28:45 AM cite

None of the victims of 9/11 deserved to endure that event nor did any other citizen of the US. It is possable that some government policies toward foreign nations were misguided and inapropriate, but it is ridiculous to suggest that because we are poor stewards of our resources that we are being punished. This is a somewhat outdated Jewish ideology as found in the Bible in the book of Job. To say that people who do bad things will suffer misfortune or that someone is having bad luck because they have sinned, is not valid. Wars and natural disasters happen and the inocent bystanders who suffer are just in the wrong place at the wrong time and not because they are bad people. These occurances are not directed by some supreme entity at those who have done wrong. Criminals are punished by the legal system, not by random events.

by thedoc

Apr 21, 2009 3:14:40 AM cite

These are 3 questions which can require a very very intricate and voluminous answer, so i would first suggest, if you seek a formidable and concise answer that you ask questions like these seperately. When you use the word america my thought process seems to hemmorage. America as you have used it here is very equivocal and can be interpreted into many uses. But i will assume that by america you mean the culmination of, over 200 years of evolution of infrastructure and of society and ideology, the 300,000,000 indivisual citizens of america currently, who had absolutely no part in the afformentioned evolution, and the massive and convoluted american government, that the 300,000,000 citizens of america have seemingly less and less control of and perception of each year. Now that is cleared up at least for me i move on in your question and again a thought process hemmorage. When you use the word deserve here, this would foster the notion that "america" as a whole had actuated a collective action or actions against a certain entity, which is not named here, that in turn created a reaction from that unknown entity onto the collective america. And you finish the question by assuming steward responibility to the massive entity that is america, and then somehow pervert the economic state of the country into an endowment from, who to who, what to what, who to what, what to who? If you expect an effective result of your question here you need to clarify vastly. Im not even going to answer the question. You then suggest that "Muslim" people live a lower impact lifestyle. It is tough to generalize a group of people and not sound ignorant in any context and you have not clarified what exactly you mean by impact here, so again clean it up. But to just scatch the surface of your question i will say that some of the more vicious and impactful conflicts of the modern world are happening by partisans of the islam denomination. And the last question, human beings are living matter just like all other life on the planet, we have evolved a very dangerous consciousness and psyche and the foremost issue that we face as a conscious group of animals is the organizing of ourselves into a society. Humans themselves are not a cancer. The byproducts of our attempts at organizing our conscious selves are very much cancerous to the earth. The cancer lies in the infrastructures in place that attempt to organize humanity.

by MarkyT