September 11, 2006

• A memorial

  

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  My feelings on today are mixed, I’ve been doing a lot of expressing of my views on my yahoo360, as most of my readers here are folks I write with whereas those are folks I used to spend a lot of time with, and don’t see much anymore at all.  I won’t feel as badly if I upset one of them as I would if I upset any of my readers here.

  But I’m really just going about my day, with quiet thoughts for those families who lost loved ones, for whom the day will never be just another day.  And I am just remembering, and cherishing the way our country came together for a short time, and how everyone wanted to help each other.  And perhaps, wishing we’d held onto that a little more.  I am still saddened by what happened, though not nearly as shocked, and in ways, I am still angry, as much with my own government as with the terrorists who did this. 

  And folks wonder why I stay away from organized religion?  Because any religion has the power to produce fanatics.  I always liked the way Chris Rock said things in Dogma :

  I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change
  an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life
  should malleable and progressive; working from
  idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to
  certain points and limit growth; new ideas can’t
  generate. Life becomes stagnant.

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