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In Reply to: Re: censorship posted by Acheick on August 05, 2004 at 20:16:21:
If you think my comment was political, you are wrong.
I have very strong personal views on the panic I feel seeing the nation I respected, admired and aspired to become a citizen of become something I still can't believe is really happening.
To take my pain and worry and make it political is deeply offensive to me. Yes I have strong views on the war. I demonstrated against it from the beginning for my own reasons (I will not get into them because of the ban on political discussion here). What I said was not political though. It was personal.
Are your children in Iraq? Do you know the fear, the worry and the pain of what it is like to care about someone who is in harms way? Who is bravely and courageously serving their country? Because it was asked of them and it was their duty to do so?
No matter who wins this election, my friends will die. Do you know what that feels like? Whether the war is just or not is irrevelant. My friends will die. It hurts. Too many of us have died already. Too many of us have already been destroyed and others are still now struggling to cope with PTSD and a myriad of other issues.
When I detach I can see the big picture, but I don't want to detach from this. I care about them and they are killing and being killed. They are destroying their humanity and destroying the life and humanity of others.
It offends me greatly that people can be so blaise about this. Yes, shoot your guns up. Be a cowboy. Do you know what a gun shot does to a person? Do you know the pain and suffering death causes? Do you know how final it is? Do you know the loss of losing someone you will never see again? Do you know the pain and the emptiness it causes?
Perhaps that's the difference between Christians and nonbelievers. For me, an atheist, this is all we have, and for me life is precious. Every life wasted is gone forever and the essence of that soul can never be replaced. I value and treasure every moment, because this is it. This is as good as it gets.
Jules
