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AtLast · 02-21-2010, 11:55 PM

I am so glad that I wasn’t reading and posting in this thread during the time some of the timed-out posting occurred. Since this happened, I have had a personal jolt come back that would have probably caused me to go off in a way that would get me permanently kicked outta here! I already was holding back with some of the posts.

I was very freaked-out when I heard about this. One reason was because we have quite a few members living in Austin and I do know some work in government offices. Secondly, the woman I was with for 21 years worked for the same agency in 1995 in which the head of the agency was killed by the Unabomber. As I was driving home from my office on the day that he had sent one of his packages to this office, I experienced fear and panic like I never have. The news on the radio was sketchy at best and I couldn’t reach her due to the chaos going on in that office. She was out in the field at the time of the incident and was OK, but I had no way of really knowing this.

I dated a woman from NY for a time and developed a close friendship with her that was in the Twin Towers on 9/11. And on that day I was once again awaiting news from relatives living in Pennsylvania near the site of the plane that was hijacked and went down. When I worked for a publicly funded AIDS foundation in the mid-1980’s, we were evacuated due to bomb threats more than a few times.

This stuff un-nerves me. I know it does for a lot of people. I also know that we in the US have no idea of what it is like to live with these kinds of threat every single day of our lives. Although, what about those that live in US cities in which drive-by shootings occur almost weekly? There are other examples.

So, even when I can understand some of the mistrust of government entities and even have some of my own reservations about government actions, the insensitivity of some of the posts truly amaze and appall me. Why people think that they can spew this stuff without regard for others that might have had similar experiences or live where these actions are part of their everyday life, boggles my sensibilities.

I bet that for every incident such as this, there are many people here that have had some kind of incident happen to them that evokes the very same feelings of panic, terror and pain. My experiences are not unique. Why posters would not consider this just plain makes me angry and I find this behavior to be the height of narcissistic thinking and personal entitlement.

02-21-2010, 11:55 PM	#11
AtLast Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Woman Preferred Pronoun?: HER - SHE Relationship Status: Relating Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: CA & AZ I'm a Snowbird Posts: 5,408 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,826 Thanked 10,827 Times in 3,199 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	I am so glad that I wasn’t reading and posting in this thread during the time some of the timed-out posting occurred. Since this happened, I have had a personal jolt come back that would have probably caused me to go off in a way that would get me permanently kicked outta here! I already was holding back with some of the posts. I was very freaked-out when I heard about this. One reason was because we have quite a few members living in Austin and I do know some work in government offices. Secondly, the woman I was with for 21 years worked for the same agency in 1995 in which the head of the agency was killed by the Unabomber. As I was driving home from my office on the day that he had sent one of his packages to this office, I experienced fear and panic like I never have. The news on the radio was sketchy at best and I couldn’t reach her due to the chaos going on in that office. She was out in the field at the time of the incident and was OK, but I had no way of really knowing this. I dated a woman from NY for a time and developed a close friendship with her that was in the Twin Towers on 9/11. And on that day I was once again awaiting news from relatives living in Pennsylvania near the site of the plane that was hijacked and went down. When I worked for a publicly funded AIDS foundation in the mid-1980’s, we were evacuated due to bomb threats more than a few times. This stuff un-nerves me. I know it does for a lot of people. I also know that we in the US have no idea of what it is like to live with these kinds of threat every single day of our lives. Although, what about those that live in US cities in which drive-by shootings occur almost weekly? There are other examples. So, even when I can understand some of the mistrust of government entities and even have some of my own reservations about government actions, the insensitivity of some of the posts truly amaze and appall me. Why people think that they can spew this stuff without regard for others that might have had similar experiences or live where these actions are part of their everyday life, boggles my sensibilities. I bet that for every incident such as this, there are many people here that have had some kind of incident happen to them that evokes the very same feelings of panic, terror and pain. My experiences are not unique. Why posters would not consider this just plain makes me angry and I find this behavior to be the height of narcissistic thinking and personal entitlement.