Posted by Comic Huzzah! at st139115.ithaca.edu on September 17, 2001 at 00:10:01:
In Reply to: Coming up for air posted by Repost for Kevin on September 16, 2001 at 22:47:43:
This board does seem less mature than it used to, if you catch my drift, and I was one of the people who had been doing a share of the bitching about it, but I've since given up and just scan through the board to find posts that seem like something interesting to me, instead of finding everyone who asks a question that has an answer in the summaries, or who asks a completely off topic question and flaming their asses.
I'm really looking forward to the next flick, because if everything is true, and it's closer in tone to Chasing Amy, I'll be happy. Don't get me wrong, I really dug Jay and Bob, but Chasing Amy is my favorite for many various reasons.
Onto the 11th. I haven't posted my story here yet, mainly because some of my feelings aren't the same as the flame hungry, and they would tear me apart. However, here's how events went down for me. I currently attend Ithaca College, and since it was a Tuesday, I had US History at 8 am and Stagecraft at 9:30. Oddly enough, my alarm didn't go off that morning, and I was awoken at 10:10 by some people who live on my floor banging on my door, saying "We've been attacked. They got the Trade Center and The Pentagon." It took a while for it to register, since the first notion entering my head was that I had missed class. However, they all came in my room and we turned on CNN, and it all hit me. It made me cry, it caused anger, it made me sick. However, the more I watched, and the more I heard of the anger of my dormmates, I realized one thing: I do not want us to have a major militaristic bombing. Right now, our enemies are essentially shadows, and I do not think that we should go out and kill more innocent people. Last night, I got into an argument with a drunk kid, who, due to his altered state of mind, had himself convinced that we should lock up all Arab-Americans for our safety. He later admitted that he said this out of fear, so I reminded him of a quote: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." That was said by Yoda. I personally want the US, the country which I am proud to be a part of, to find those responsible and to take the appropriate actions. However, I do not think that if we go out and bomb innocent civilians, it will accomplish this goal.
Kevin, your point about religion being taken to seriously is one that I have been thinking about a lot. There is a lyric from a song by Moxy Fruvous called "The Gulf War Song," and it goes like this: "What makes a person so poisonous righteous that they'd think less of anyone who just disagreed?" This has been one of the worst weeks of our lives, but we have to remember that the lyric I quoted can go either way. I urge any and all Americans reading this to bear that in mind. Now is not a time for intolerance, it's a time for unity. Everyone is saying this is like Pearl Harbor, and I hope that's not true. If this was Pearl Harbor, there will be a Hiroshima, and there would be a giant wave of discrimination causing innocent American citizens to be locked up due to their ethnicity. (In World War 2, it was the Japanese. Here, I'm afraid it would be Arab-Americans)This is a difficult topic for me, as it is for most everyone else. God Bless America.
Brian Higgins
(PS Kevin- do you have any more information regarding your Cornell appearance? I hope to attend, since it's down the road from Ithaca, and if you could give me some details, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.)