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...and people are dead....and families are mourning....and children and dogs don't understand...and it's about THEM
Edit:Oh yeah, I remember this one.
It's ALWAYS about them.
You are traumatized
It's about THEM...get on your knees thank my God!
Flared nostrils...yaya
I'm so sorry MQ
People say things they don't understand. It's to be expected. Platitudes, etc. They're not really helpful. And people just blurt things out without thinking.
I know a lot of rural Americans who have said silly/hurtful things to my father, knowing he's Vietnam War veteran. They wave their flags at every turn, but none knows the first thing about actually being in war. Only other war veterans can relate.
People say things they don't understand. It's to be expected. Platitudes, etc. They're not really helpful. And people just blurt things out without thinking.
I know a lot of rural Americans who have said silly/hurtful things to my father, knowing he's Vietnam War veteran. They wave their flags at every turn, but none knows the first thing about actually being in war. Only other war veterans can relate.
Yeah, we've all done it I am sure. Doesn't make it remotely OK.
I have long thought of just luck. Holocaust survivors talk of luck. When something huge is coming down on people, some survive by luck and others don't, just don't. When people talk about an angel on their shoulder or divine intervention, I take it as a slam at those who weren't so fortunate.
Yeah and maybe all the other people who didn't make it out, just didn't listen. Or weren't warned.
After every tornado or flood or whatever there's always some believer exulting that god saved them, without a clue as to what that does to the loved ones of those that didn't make it.
Exactly. I remember seeing video of a guy thanking Jesus for saving his house in a tornado right in front of the neighbor who lost his whole family.
That's pretty clueless of someone and it's done by both religious people and non-religious people. If you say it was luck in front of your neighbor who lost everything, it's implying the neighbor doesn't have luck.
Whether it's luck or whatever when it's our time it's our time. When it isn't, it isn't. Whatever the reason, we don't know why.
I always feel sad when someone loses their spouse or someone else. I'm single and ready to go anytime. Time and again, it's not my time but it's the time of someone who has family, a spouse, someone who desperately didn't want them to die. There's no rhyme or reason. It is what it is.
I have long thought of just luck. Holocaust survivors talk of luck. When something huge is coming down on people, some survive by luck and others don't, just don't. When people talk about an angel on their shoulder or divine intervention, I take it as a slam at those who weren't so fortunate.
It is like when people use the word "blessed." It is a word that has always bothered me for the same reason.
It is like when people use the word "blessed." It is a word that has always bothered me for the same reason.
It CAN be a form of "humblebragging" but in my experience it was just kind of reflexive as we always had to be careful to give god credit for our blessings.
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