What Do You Think of The September 11th Attacks?

[Paul_Warren]

They S*cked. Also they cost me this really great gal during my last year in college because I went into the university computer lab and posted some comments that some could have considered disparaging at the time that an artist friend of mine posted on his diaryland page in which he said he didn't really care about the victims of the attack and I thought I could understand what he was trying to say with that (I actually thought he was somehow trying to make people feel better in the aftermath of the event), so I did post them for others to see.  Later in an apology he issued on his page he said that he only posted those comments in reaction to a misdirected sense of patriotism that he felt was going on around the nation in the days following the attacks.

 

      Yeah, I posted his original comments as the homepage on one of the computers in the main computer lab of the university I was attending at the time, left the room to go to my first class that day; and as I'm heading out of the building, this girl I liked model good looks, professor's daughter at the University runs up to me and gives me a big hug and wants to know if I'm doing alright because she thought I'd been down emotionally ever since the attacks. She said that she saw me coming out of the computer room, that she worked just across the hall from it and had been worried about me, so I say everything is alright (I failed to say that I was pretty sure that in about two minutes from then I was confident that she would be seeing those comments I'd posted on as the homepage on that computer in the lab and I probably wasn't going to be so fine after that). Sure enough, after that morning she never really let me have that much to do with her and I kind of noticed that I'd received a black mark to my reputation at the university as well. And to make a long story short, my year at the university didn't turn out so well. And my life over the last seven years as a whole hasn't been that great either. (I did and have done some other negative things since that time as well to be honest, so I can see how it wouldn't be.)

Anyway, I guess I'm past all that now and have other things to worry about. My dissident artist friend has actually gone on to make a fairly big name for himself since then his paintings have been shown in galleries in New York and London and he is currently working on a graphic novel with a very famous outsider author.  Yeah I knew him when he was two years old and I currently live in the house that he grew up in That girl I liked has probably moved on a lot in her life as well.  I wish her the best.  If she ever needed me for anything I would try to do my best to help her out.

I do wish that if Osama Bin Laden was the one really responsible for those attacks, I'm not saying I believe in conspiracy theories on that matter, some people seem to  like Alex Jones, most of the writers of the articles at rense.com, and Charlie Sheen,, but I'm not high enough in life to really believe anything except for what the nightly news tells me on the matter.

 

     Maybe as Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror says some renegade coloniel has already killed Bin Laden and the news just wasn't politically expedient enough at the time to be revealed.  I kind of hope so because I do want to believe that Bin Laden, if he committed that act, will be brought to justice one day.