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Responding to 9/11 through literature

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Ten years after the event, we take a look at two pioneering books which discuss the tragedy of 9/11. Journalist William Langewiesche's essays "American Ground" expose the truth behind the events, chaos and anarchy on Ground Zero. Also, Frédéric Beigbeder's landmark novel "Windows on the World" tackles the attacks in a powerful work of fiction.

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WTC... words, words, words!

by Anonyme - 11/09/2011 - 10:50

The despicable actions taken by a few mental retards, taking others with them to their demise, left me morbidly fascinated as they steered those aircraft into the WTC buildings.

I retrospect, after the time now passed, I can reflect with a high degree of personal satisfaction, that those responsible discovered, (too late for any of the innocent victims on ground and in the air, and with greatest respect for those among passengers and crews) their efforts did not take them to that fictional paradise they had been indoctrinated to believe in.

How we human beings tend to think our every action is guided from some fairyland 'heaven', by a unconcerned and apparently uncaring divinity, no matter what we give title to it. Whenever a few individuals gather together to formulate a 'religion' demonstrated is their capacity for self delusion, to the ultimate extent we get such atrocities as the 9/11 destruction of life, property and the feeling amongst fellow humanity, that we are safe and secure.

It is impossible to estimate the damage perpetrated to our very existence over millennia thanks to incomprehensible mental state of those engaged in religious activities, that has turned rational people into savage killers of their neighbours.
All of which in the name of whichever 'god' that group happens to feel kindred to. and which is the worst of it all, a figurehead deity that, on simple examination of the data available, does not exist.

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