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To: ImaGraftedBranch
Can we grieve, first?
BUMP!!
7 posted on 02/01/2003 9:45:31 AM PST by evolved_rage (Kill a commie for mommie)
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To: evolved_rage
Can we grieve, first?

With all due respect, I really wonder how much grieving I can do for people whose names I never even knew until this morning. There's authentic emotion, and then there's the synthetic kind which intellectually intimidated people like using in order to belittle those who are intellectually capable of thinking up solutions to prevent future tragedies.

Technically-knowledgeable people often respond to tragic circumstances by trying to think up solutions. This is not coldly insensitive; it is wonderfully appropriate. And in its own way, it is the sincerest form of demonstrating true grief.

28 posted on 02/01/2003 10:41:15 AM PST by 537 Votes
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To: evolved_rage
No. We need to move forward, and to do so aggressively. Anything else would be an insult.
39 posted on 02/01/2003 6:55:45 PM PST by Chancellor Palpatine (toward an unassailable America)
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