Travís. Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Every time I see a video of the falling men and women and the planes hitting the WTC it just makes my skin cruel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durden Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Nope, it really has no effect on me anymore. The effect was minimal in the first place, though, since I was young when it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. León Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 With everything that has been happening in the world lately, it's just another tragedy. It was traumatizing back then, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil ski Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 A lil bit. But the main traumatization is gone now. But what DOES get to me is when people make fun of the situation. Mainly it's lil kids who weren't even born or was too little to remember what happened that day. No respect this generation I tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil weasel Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Didn't have any effect on me at the time, other than, "WoW what an FX", when I saw the pictures. When that guy videoed that it was in response to the 20,000 women and children (Ted Brocow 'recapped' the video for those of who had just watched it. But he changed the women and children to 'soldiers') who died in refugee camps because of the embargo that the U.S. enforced, it made some sense to me. I haven't found that video on YouTube since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. León Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 A lil bit. But the main traumatization is gone now. But what DOES get to me is when people make fun of the situation. Mainly it's lil kids who weren't even born or was too little to remember what happened that day. No respect this generation I tell you. Or maybe traumatized people who want to cover up by mocking the incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA_stu Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 A lil bit. But the main traumatization is gone now. But what DOES get to me is when people make fun of the situation. Mainly it's lil kids who weren't even born or was too little to remember what happened that day. No respect this generation I tell you. Or maybe traumatized people who want to cover up by mocking the incident. No. 9/11 was such an extraordinary event, it's still pretty shocking to see the images and footage of that day. Planes going into buildings, people jumping to their deaths, iconic buildings collapsing. I don't think you ever get used to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. León Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Would you, my master, please elaborate your answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 7 five 11 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Would you, my master, please elaborate your answer? I would say it's pretty unlikely that people mock it to put it behind them. How often do you hear people make Jokes about their dead grandma and how funny it was that she had cancer? Never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA_stu Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 So the internet trolls that like to poke fun at 9/11 are actually just using the stupid jokes as a coping mechanism because they're so emotionally broken by the whole thing? Sorry, I don't buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Mister Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I was in 3rd grade, I live thousands of kilometers away, so no I dont feel any emotion. Too much distance physically. I feel very empthetic and would help anyone affected by it. I think most people here would agree, yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dildo Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 this thread sucks. why did you make it? what a dumb question. you know, the holocaust gets me down too if I stop to sit around and think about it. luckily, I don't. and I definitely don't make threads about it with no point other than to ask "doesn't sad sh*t make you guys sad?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travís. Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 I was in 3rd grade, I live thousands of kilometers away, so no I dont feel any emotion. Too much distance physically. I feel very empthetic and would help anyone affected by it. I think most people here would agree, yes? I live in Australia and I was only in the 1st grade when it happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I<3GTAV Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I was only 2 when it happened, so I don't remember it and it doesn't make me as sad as my parents. However, it still makes me angry whenever I see a video of the planes hitting the towers and the people falling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudy Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Didn't have any effect on me at the time, other than, "WoW what an FX", when I saw the pictures. When that guy videoed that it was in response to the 20,000 women and children (Ted Brocow 'recapped' the video for those of who had just watched it. But he changed the women and children to 'soldiers') who died in refugee camps because of the embargo that the U.S. enforced, it made some sense to me. I haven't found that video on YouTube since. srysly? I seriously had no idea what the eff does 'FX' stands for until now. And then I assumed that it stands for "f*ckin Xenophobes". For the record, I searched the goddamn internet, and now I'm baffled as HELL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devyl Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 (edited) I was only 2 when it happened, so I don't remember it and it doesn't make me as sad as my parents. However, it still makes me angry whenever I see a video of the planes hitting the towers and the people falling. I was a freshman in College. The morning of 9/11, I had class. As I was getting ready to go, I got a phone call from my mom to turn the television on. I caught it right after the first plane hit. I was just in awe. My then-girlfriend decided to go to class without me, since I wanted to watch what happened. At that point, everyone thought it was a freak aviation accident. I saw the tower burning. I watched live as the second plane hit. That's when I KNEW sh*t was gonna hit the fan. I watched the towers burn down and collapse. College got cancelled that day. It was tragic, but it honestly made our country worse off than it was before-hand. Edited June 7, 2013 by Devyl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freakorama Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I'm still pissed that they didn't show The Simpsons on TV for weeks because they couldn't stop running news about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pizza Delivery Guy Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I hate the government for blowing up those buildings. Damn them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil weasel Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I seriously had no idea what the eff does 'FX' stands for until now.[...] and now I'm baffled as HELL. There are two movies on FX. I should have written it F/X. I've spent 50+ years watching Sci-Fi and adventure movies. Thus I've seen too much of the FX (Special Effects) in them so that the 'Real Thing' rarely bothers me. Seeing too many mangled bodies also has the effect of 'being desensitized' to such horrors. Some people are so sensitized that they wig out seeing a fingernail unattached to a body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capricornus Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Meh, I was over it after the first day. I was in the 7th grade in Math in New Jersey. I looked out the window and saw a incredible amount of smoke. I was more than releived to know that none of my loved ones were even over in NY when that happened. I am of the minority, but its gets annoying with the news and what not talking about it every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrcTOtheJ Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I don't even think it got to me when it happened. Granted I was seven so I may not have got the magnitude of it, I rember thinking 'Get the bastards who did it' in my head, but it never has gotten to me. But most tragedies don't get to me even now. I feel for those effected but I don't dwell on it at all. Hell sometimes with them, I can't help but think "Yay major programing is screwed on 90% of the networks for a month now" I'm an asshole about it I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudy Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I seriously had no idea what the eff does 'FX' stands for until now.[...] and now I'm baffled as HELL. There are two movies on FX. I should have written it F/X. I've spent 50+ years watching Sci-Fi and adventure movies. Thus I've seen too much of the FX (Special Effects) in them so that the 'Real Thing' rarely bothers me. Seeing too many mangled bodies also has the effect of 'being desensitized' to such horrors. Some people are so sensitized that they wig out seeing a fingernail unattached to a body. x2 srysly? No disrespect, but what has movies about "turbo-nerds clad in merchandises" AKA science-fiction have to do with anything? I know you mentioned that you've got used to sci-fic movies and all that but did you seriously bellow "Wow what a FX?" on seeing those photos. That's merely like implying those photos were photoshopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notna Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 The time it happened I was 2 years old and hearing and seeing that on television is probably the most horrifying childhood memory I have. Considering I barely knew how to speak, it's not only me who has thought how I memorized it so much. There was and is an ocean between me and the incident, but it still hurts me at times. It's a horrible tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil weasel Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 No disrespect, but what has movies about "turbo-nerds clad in merchandises" AKA science-fiction have to do with anything? I know you mentioned that you've got used to sci-fic movies and all that but did you seriously bellow "Wow what a FX?" on seeing those photos. That's merely like implying those photos were photoshopped. The movie reference was to the use of the letter FX, to indicate that what you see is manufactured. After watching 1000s of movie crashes, seeing the 'real' thing was just like viewing a F/X. Since I wasn't there I didn't get the dust, odor, blurred vision of the real scene. For Real... Who gets excited over a bus that rolls over a few times? A derailed commuter train? A sinking ship... And, too many people read into a subject more than what is actually said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
018361 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 (edited) If I watch videos or think about it too much I will usually start tearing up, but other than that no, I don't. Edit: The events of that day was really a wake-up call to me about how cruel our world actually is. I was at my moms house real early in the morning. She was being nice and was making us breakfast when I decided to turn on the Television to see the weather report. What I saw instead was shocking. A Replay of the first plane hitting the tower followed by a live feed of the second plane hitting one of the towers and people jumping out of the buildings to their grim demise. I couldn't control my emotions and started crying. My mother came in to see what I was crying about. We both stood there crying for long while. I couldn't comprehend someone doing that type of thing with intention. I felt scared and very unsafe. How could someone do this kind of thing to people? For what reason would someone do such a thing. What kind of sick person could even think of such things? These were all the questions that I had and still have. I'm still not sure what to believe about the whole thing. Edited June 7, 2013 by 018361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple Vacuum Seal Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 It really took the heavy propaganda machine and melodramatic news casts to get me to care. I remember how I used to draw memorials at my mom's office when I was bored saying "RIP", "In God We Trust", "God Bless America", and other nonesense of that nature. It just goes to show you the power our mass media has on the young mind. Other than that, it only made me more patriotic. For a number of reasons, 9/11 didn't bother me. - I didn't know anyone who died. - I was in third grade at the time. - I'm not a New Yorker. In fact, I grew up at least a couple thousand miles away from there. Equivalent to being in a different country in most parts of the world. - I didn't feel threatened. My chances of getting struck by lightning were much higher than having something like that happen. - I was too distracted with finally seeing my country go into a full-blown war. I had only heard stories before then. - There have been several mass slaughterings of innocent civilians that dwarfed 9/11. - Realistically, the intervals between such terrorist attacks in the United States were long enough for me to accept these sorts of tragedies given the amount of enemies the US has. "shut up, sit down, relax" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Mordecai Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I'm just gonna leave this here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sivispacem Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I don't think I've ever seen anyone make the argument that 9/11 was the worst tragedy ot atrocity to ever hit a nation, but it is hard to deny that it had a fundamental effect in changing not just the attitudes of the US but the entire world. Aside from the Cold War I can't think of another incident that has had a more dramatic effect on global international relations or geopolitics. AMD Ryzen 5900X (4.65GHz All-Core PBO2) | Gigabye X570S Pro | 32GB G-Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16 EK-Quantum Reflection D5 | XSPC D5 PWM | TechN/Heatkiller Blocks | HardwareLabs GTS & GTX 360 Radiators Corsair AX750 | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL | EVGA GeForce RTX2080 XC @2055MHz | Sabrant Rocket Plus 1TB Sabrant Rocket 2TB | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB | 2x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q | Q Acoustics 2010i | Sabaj A4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiffster Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 (edited) Well I'll never forget it at least.... I watched it all live on tv. I just got home from school and turned on the tv like I always did. The first thing I saw was the first building on fire. At first I thought it was just a normal fire, then I read at the bottom that a plane "accidentally" flew into the building. Then a couple of minutes later, I saw another plane in the background and I thought that was the normal flight path. But then I realized it was heading straight for building #2. It disappeared for a couple of seconds, then I saw the "explosion". I sat in front of the tv the whole day... What really shocked me, was the footage of the people jumping from the buildings. There was a guy that walked on the ledge on the outside, then he slipped... Then the buildings collapsed, they showed the pentagon crash... Just a crazy, sad day... BUT, the tsunami of 2006 (was it?), is even more shocking and sad (for me at least). More than 200000 people died.... Edited June 7, 2013 by Werebot85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunner71 Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I remember the day it happened, I was just 5, almost 6, years old. I got back from school in the afternoon and the TV was on. There were the towers on flames in a special news bulletin. It didn't really affect me until I visited New York and the Fire Department section with the 9/11 section, now few years ago. It was a big tragedy, but it's been a long time since it happened, it's time to start a new chapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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