Stepping down out of respect for ggglimpo? And yet people were jumping down other people's throats when it was suggested to stop posting out of respect for Kateandthegirls? I know I will probably be reamed for this, but I find that laughable. I know it is really stupid, but that comment irks me.
Ok, so I've been lurking throughout the course of the 2 threads, and I wanted to post something earlier, but I did agree with whoever said that we don't really know how KATG feels, so I kept quiet. And I get the freedom of speech argument, etc. But one thing that has really struck me is that with all these theories being thrown around and people NEEDING to prove that they are right, there has been such a trivialization of the human lives that were lost on this day with comments like "won't we be the first to get a huge grin when this all gets proven" and saying how 2,000 and some people dying was such a small number compared to those who died in Iraq among other comments that I can't remember, and don't have time to go find.
Don't get me wrong, I think that many people dying is a hard concept to wrap the mind around. I know that I didn't really "get" it until Kate had some of us go through pictures recovered from the WTC's and it was emotionally very hard looking at those realizing there was a great probablility that many of the people in those pictures had a loved one die.
I also have met someone who had a very close family member die in the attack. I can't tell you how KATG would feel about this, but I can tell you how my friend would. She is quite saddned about the whole thing. She has heard about the movie and other conspiracy theories, and is really sad about them, because so many of them are just speculation that can't be proven, and she feels that so many of the "experts" who seem to be perpetuating these ideas really don't have a lot of credibility to back them up.
Don't get me wrong, I totally believe there's things out there the government covered up, and we'll never know what happened. And I do agree that the government really helps perpetuate these ideas by keeping so much in a shroud of secrecy. But from what I've seen there is so much at least in the movie that is just conjecture that isn't backed up by fact, I'm keeping out of it. And I happen to agree with Martinbishop about Occem's Razor. To me the simplest and most obvious explanation is that our government is run by a confederacy of dunces who can't handle a crisis situation. If you don't believe me, just look at the way we handled the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and the ineptitude and bumbling of the powers that be that caused needless death and more suffering that could have been averted if they had reacted in a better way when they saw it coming.