9/11: Forbidden Thoughts

it never occurred to me before that some people's idea of heaven would still have capitalism in it

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:04 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

favorite post of the week

nine eleven

you know the voice you just read that in

ludacris

https://i.imgur.com/63mKF9S.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/EWlQMik.gif

Pretty sure I saw 9/11: Forbidden Thoughts among the erotic kindle novels listed on Amazon

heh heh 'twin towers' heh

is there a real time ILX 9/11 thread? i remember reading through the something awful one and finding it interesting

yeah, there were a couple:

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=1723

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=1724

v strange and eerie to read these now

i tried rereading some of the election night 2016 thread a while back and had to stop because it was giving me a mild panic attack

I went back to the very top of the Onion thread and realized it was started by Ned the week after 9/11.

wow, disturbing stuff. i also re-read the 2016 election thread... i don't think many nights are as etched into my memory as that one unfortunately. probably because i was 12 or 13 for 9/11?

Weird timing, I re-read this thread over the weekend

Ilx is watching you

The weirdest ones are the 2008 primary threads, hard to wrap my head around that being 10 years ago

My life held such promise (j/k it didn't)

I started looking at those threads and it's too fucking traumatic. What a horrible, nightmarish day.

Almost makes you believe jet fuel really could melt steel girders.

Yeah we had a whole series of threads. ILX had the perverse advantage of being up and running when just about every news site as such had crashed. I pretty much was on there all day with the exception of going into work and back.

Same.

Was I here? All I remember was crowding in the break room on base and we were trying to figure out who were getting to go to war with. And marching in formation everywhere with extra dorks on duty with loaded weapons because we were at FPCON Delta.

I think I remember posting on ILX in 2001, but not much for those five months I was stuck in Texas, one of which was September.

I'll admit I was partly looking at those threads to see if I was posting here yet, but think I joined some months after.

I just pulled some people out of the WTC towers and saved their lives (193 new answers, last updated September 11th, 2001)

― and what, Sunday, May 27, 2007 7:06 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark

I wasn't here that early.

Re forbidden thoughts: I just finished an otherwise very good book (which I won't name because to do so would be spoilery) and discovered that the author decided 9/11 was the perfect way to end the story and provide her protagonist with spiritual catharsis. Damn near ruined the thing for me. I had thought we were past that, especially in an otherwise hilarious novel that's all about solipsism, voluntary withdrawal from society 'cause people are annoying idiots, etc., etc.

The good old 'surprise, it's 9/11!' twist ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fawxN4fhA2Y

lol what the shit

I think I know what book unperson is talking about:

https://i.imgur.com/dYNj21W.jpg

Last 17 years would’ve gone much better if we as a nation had just taken 9/11 in stride

i was thinking that very thing the other day!

Sry dude it’s forbidden

fuck, we better turn ourselves in asap i guess

I am almost positive I was already lurking here at the time. Weirdly my most distinct board-related memory is Ned starting the "bless the Onion" thread. It was one of my first days of high school.

fucking up the Middle Eastern countries the administration wanted to fuck up anyway is kinda taking it in stride

I didn't find ILX till the fall of 2002. also during my first days of high school.

I wasn't on ILX until 2005. In 2001 I was hanging out on the now-defunct Salon Table Talk forums. For a while one could still read the real-time WTC stuff there. I did, once or twice, and the memory is vivid.

Of course I was also in a 3D world sitting in Arlington, Va. a mile and a half from the Pentagon. Parallel with the online flurry of revelations, real people kept coming into my office and giving breathless mostly-true updates. The amazing thing for me in retrospect was the slide from "wha? wtf? that was a strange accident" to "ok not an accident" to "omg this is a horrible human tragedy" to "o wait maybe these three other things are related."

Seems like that progression unfolded over several hours, with waves of information, whereas with a "Kennedy was shot" it was one thing to react to and all else was details about that thing.

I remember a woman crying next to me saying, "things just keeps happening, is it over or are there more things?" So it had a different trajectory from a single-point disaster like the Challenger or whatever.

I wasn't here that early.

Re forbidden thoughts: I just finished an otherwise very good book (which I won't name because to do so would be spoilery) and discovered that the author decided 9/11 was the perfect way to end the story and provide her protagonist with spiritual catharsis. Damn near ruined the thing for me. I had thought we were past that, especially in an otherwise hilarious novel that's all about solipsism, voluntary withdrawal from society 'cause people are annoying idiots, etc., etc.

On MYORAR

"things just keeps happening, is it over or are there more things?"

A couple of hours would go by and all of a sudden, the networks would have footage from a different angle to show 1000 times.

When they started showing the one from street level, where the second tower gets hit and a guy on the sidewalk casually glances up at it, one of the salesguys walked by and went, "WAIT! DID ANOTHER ONE JUST HIT?"

i was in community college at the time and i actually ended up going to school anyways for some reason. there were very few people there and the prof dismissed class.

pretty sure i was on ILX at the time. i was convinced it was WWIII. spent most of the day just comparing it to Pearl Harbor over and over. we didn't do that but what we did was just as shitty. Trump is basically the physical manifestation of how the US treated the world after that.

Your thoughtless erasure of Obama’s two terms is noted for the record.

oh im totally including all of his drones and artlessness spying and torturing in all of that

warantless

pretty amazing tho how i erased Obama's two terms by talking about an event that took place before them. so sly of me.

Lol I forgot I was talking to a mastermind

The imdb plot summary of that Remember Me movie is so sly.

A romantic drama set in New York City during the summer of 2001, where Tyler, a rebellious young man, meets Ally through a twist of fate. Her spirit helps him heal after a family tragedy, though soon the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart. Written by Anonymous

Love those romantic dramas set in New York City during the summer of 2001.

I was in high school. I excused myself to use the bathroom and walked past a bunch of teachers staring at a TV with their hands over their mouths. I remember hearing "how are they gonna get out of there?" When I returned to class I kinda froze at the front and said "uhhh guys, I think a bomb went off in New York"

xp I actually watched that whole movie. If I remember correctly, they tried to be a little sneaky in opening the film in 1991, and then flashing forward "ten years later." But I'm pretty sure it was obvious that it was coming. I love that chalkboard shot: "SEPTEMBER 11, 2001! DO U SEE NOW??"

if you wanna talk about a rollercoaster of a day, check out this dude:

My brother was at a bowling alley in western mass and he sent me this iconic photo of a dude who bowled a perfect game on 9/11 🙌🙌🙌 pic.twitter.com/6srCon1KMa

— jake bender (@JakeSBender) June 29, 2018

ugh

I’m glad there haven’t been that many movies or books or TV shows about 9/11 or use it for dramatic effect / suspense. Obviously there are lots, but not as many as I expected in the immediate aftermath.

Something that’s going to be really tough to deal with in the coming years (and the rest of my life) is how it will become trivialized and no longer taboo, as someone said upthread years ago. That awful “jet fuel steel beams” thing is only the beginning. Inevitable but really shitty nonetheless.