I just want to thank the SDMB for an outlet

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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For letting many of us voice our opinion. While I haven’t said much because I have seen many a threads that I want to scream and wail, I want to thank the SDMB for being here so we can work through our feelings, thoughts and our sadness over what has transpired tonight.

While what we experienced today is horrific in all means of the word, I thank the SDMB for giving us an outlet to work through our feelings and our thoughts.

If your thread is closed, rethink WHY it was closed. Some I have seen are far beyond contempt but that’s okay. Many of you are very angry, many of us are really sad. But understand that the SDMB mods and admins still have a job to do so if you choose to start a thread that might be considered worthy of closing, understand that the SDMB mods/admins are running overtime to ensure that we all can state what we want to but if it’s violent or almost insane, they have to close it.

Choose your words in the right light. Hate is not what should be shown here but love for those that have lost their lives and loved ones. I understand at least one SDMBer has had a family member that has lost a close person.

So please, take a moment and join in love and God (whoever your God is, and most of you know I am not religious one bit) and pull together to make this the worst of the best of our history but pull together and be strong for one another.

And of course, be thankful for our mods/admins who are trying their damndest to keep abreast of all that is happening on our boards. If you violate jerkiness, you will have to suffer the concenquences…but be realistic and understand that hatred and wanting to inflict pain amongst those we don’t even know that caused this is not where we should be at this point.

We should pull together and love those we hate, hug and kiss those we love. Embrace those we normally wouldn’t embrace. It’s time to put your arms down, realize that what happened has happened and it’s not time to blame anyone until we get conclusive evidence about who or why this was done.

So, no bagging other groups of people, this is not feasible until we know what really happened. In our country we are sworn as citizens to be innocent until proven guilty, I expect all my fellow citizens to consider the same.

And one last note to the SDMB, thank you again for helping us make sense of this senseless tragedy, thank you for letting us air our saddness, pain, madness, etc…Your forum has given us a place that otherwise we couldn’t have had seven years ago.

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Me too.

It has helped so much being able to read what people have had to say and leaving a small message occasionally myself. I feel enriched so much by this place, and I understand that more deeply now.

Thoughts and fervent best wishes of people from all over the planet are with you guys, and the admiration of your undaunted spirit (as mentioned in a couple of threads here) is very real.

Redboss

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I’d like to add that when I first heard about the WTC tower incident, I checked out all my regular news feeds and found they were all so overloaded I couldn’t get any info. My immediate next thought was to check the SDMB and through that I was able to follow all the events as they unfolded, and even find some news sites that weren’t clogged.

To the SDMB staff, thank you for running an awesome board.

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Well said, Techchick. I’d like to add that a knee-jerk reaction to lash out is just what a terrorist would want to happen.

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I found out about the events on these here boards. I’m thankful for all the check-in threads and the staff, particularly UncleBeer for the sterling job they’ve done. The #straighdope room on IRC has been full with people supporting each other and I’m so grateful for a way to reach accross the ocean to my friends in the US. I love you all and I’m glad you’re all safe.

The chat room is not affiliated with the boards or the Chicago Reader in any way, but if anyone would like to join us in the #sd room on IRC for a little real-time support, email me at francesca_tweedy@hotmail.com and I’ll tell you how to get there.

Fran

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I should add that the room is called #straightdope, not #sd, for those of you who are familiar with IRC.

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I would also like to thank the SDMB, and all its mods, for everything.

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Yes I found that it was at times the only outlet even though slow at times, it did work.

Thanks

K2

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I also want to thank the SDMB. I’ll just do it here instead of making another topic.

Not only in times like now, but all the time, I can count on the other members to point out when something I say (type) is wrong. I respect a lot of you, and take your words to heart, and I feel you all have helped make me a better person. Both by setting an example and in showing me how I am wrong.

Thanks everyone.

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A little naysaying…

If it weren’t for the SDMB there wouldn’t be a soul in NYC or DC that I gave two shits about. I could have watched events unfold with my usual detachment and sick humor instead of worrying myself sick all day. A big, sarcastic, “Thank you” for completely ruining my Tuesday.

[sub]love you guys![/sub]

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I’d like to say thank you to the board, the mods and admins, and the dopers as well.

I don’t know anyone personally who lives or works in NY or Washington, but as soon as I heard about the planes hitting my first thought was for all of you. I knew that many of you worked and lived in these areas, and I was nearly frantic to get to the house I was going to clean so I could check on you. I am so grateful for all the ‘Check in’ and ‘Update’ threads yesterday.

Also, I want to tell you that you people were the only form of comfort and reassurance I had yesterday, and were the first source I looked to. You cannot imagine how much I cherish this community.

Thank you.

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drop,

You’s such a goober, but that’s why we love you!

Anyhow, I want to bump this up and ensure that all realize that our mods and admins here are trying to keep up with events like we are doing. However, they have an added job to ensure that anarchy doesn’t rule the boards and people maintain a sense of decorum while being sad, upset and angry over the events that happened yesterday.

As I have been telling people on the phone today, “God Bless America.”

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What? I meant it! Life was a whole bunch easier for me before I had a bunch of invisible friends to worry about. And this crap in which I have begun to become aware of the feelings of others…you folks will cure my sociopathy yet.