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Date Posted: 17:40:10 07/19/02 Fri
Author: Shell
Subject: not justifying it at all...
In reply to: UHC 's message, "creative yes but sad to a disturbing point" on 15:19:41 07/19/02 Fri

I'm just recognizing where it comes from. People can use their minds to come up with some really horrible stuff. In fact, it frightens me- a lot.

For some reason, I am thinking of September 11 right now. After the first 6 hours of catatonic shock in front of the TV, I turned to my roommate and said, "We could have thought of this." I know that sounds completely sick. But we had taken a class the semester before on experiential problem solving, and we had to solve all these large scale problems- weather, voting, etc. And the way we solved this stuff, well, if our professors had given us an assignment to destroy the twin towers, that is what we would have come up with. And there is somebody in the world whose mind works in the exact same way as mine, only they have a very fucked up set of religious beliefs, and THEY came up with it. but it could have come from my head, I am as capable as anybody of coming up with something that horrible. I don't even know where this is coming from- it has nothing to do with where I started and all its succeeding in doing is making me sob, so I am going to stop.

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