C.W.,
I understand completely your sentiments. I have been
following the news coverage closely myself. I
understand that this shift of focus to daily business
might seem offensive to some, but personally my take
on the situation is that these terrorists have been
only partially successful in that they killed a lot of
people and disrupted the country. If we stop in our
tracks and become completely incapacitated as a
people, then they have been even more successful. I am
Tibetan Buddhist, and I know that the people who are
gone, while not here for their loved ones, and
therefore generating grief at this place in time, do
not intend for this grief to last, and will return to
finish the jobs they were unable to complete. Their
deaths are unfortunately a fact of life now, and in
the past. There is nothing we, you or I, can do to
help them. But we can honor them by not letting their
muderers be any more successful. For me that means
looking into the future, and right now, unfortunately,
that means selling my Serge. Not really important in
the relative importance scale, but necessary
nonetheless. I think these lost Americans would want
us to move on. My problem with the whole thing at the
moment is my own anger over it. The Buddhists say that
a moment of anger can burn up a lifetime of
accumulation of merit. If that's the case, then my
merit is long gone. I don't believe in even killing
insects, and I won't hunt or fish, but I find myself
actually wishing they would nuke the Afghanis off the
face of the earth. That can't be good. Business as
usual is the way I have chosen to cope.
Thanks,
BarryM
--- "C. Whitten" <chris@...> wrote:
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I understand completely your sentiments. I have been
following the news coverage closely myself. I
understand that this shift of focus to daily business
might seem offensive to some, but personally my take
on the situation is that these terrorists have been
only partially successful in that they killed a lot of
people and disrupted the country. If we stop in our
tracks and become completely incapacitated as a
people, then they have been even more successful. I am
Tibetan Buddhist, and I know that the people who are
gone, while not here for their loved ones, and
therefore generating grief at this place in time, do
not intend for this grief to last, and will return to
finish the jobs they were unable to complete. Their
deaths are unfortunately a fact of life now, and in
the past. There is nothing we, you or I, can do to
help them. But we can honor them by not letting their
muderers be any more successful. For me that means
looking into the future, and right now, unfortunately,
that means selling my Serge. Not really important in
the relative importance scale, but necessary
nonetheless. I think these lost Americans would want
us to move on. My problem with the whole thing at the
moment is my own anger over it. The Buddhists say that
a moment of anger can burn up a lifetime of
accumulation of merit. If that's the case, then my
merit is long gone. I don't believe in even killing
insects, and I won't hunt or fish, but I find myself
actually wishing they would nuke the Afghanis off the
face of the earth. That can't be good. Business as
usual is the way I have chosen to cope.
Thanks,
BarryM
--- "C. Whitten" <chris@...> wrote:
> I suggest there would be many people with money to__________________________________________________
> spend on one or two
> panels than one person, already sitting on this
> list, with $15,000 to spare
> on an entire system.
> I suppose it could seem ridiculous to talk about
> gear at a time like this.
> For me, the odd Serge contribution or email from
> other sources have been a
> welcome distraction from the horrible images.
> Sorry if this comes out sounding wrong in any way.
> CW
>
>
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