DISQUS

brip blap: dark days behind us, brighter days ahead

  • greg the writer · 1 year ago
    Evil yet sleeps in the lurks of the human heart even as the light contests for it's soul. It is in us all but like mud in the bottom of a lake it stirs the most violently feat of influence. Spelling intended. By the way broke a frugal rule and bought an iPhone from whence this comment comes!

    All the best with your vacation!
  • Carrie · 1 year ago
    Steve, I love your blog and share many, if not all, of your political views. Today's post really touched me, and I wanted to say thank you for sharing your view and not being afraid to talk about potentially inflammatory subjects. I'm quite sure that you'll be a permanent fixture in my google reader.
  • Steve @ bripblap · 1 year ago
    Thanks, Carrie, that means a lot to me. I always have thought that day we stop talking about inflammatory subjects is the day we aren't human anymore.
  • FFB · 1 year ago
    I hope one day 9/11 will be seen as a day of hope that jump-started a new realization. When people realized that we need to change our thoughts and attitudes and figure out a way to work with each other not against.

    I don't see this happening just yet, at not in the general masses. But it can be accomplished.
  • escapee · 1 year ago
    you know, I don't really think that there will ever be a cure for cancer. The drug companies are too invested in the expensive treatment of it. If there's a vaccine that prevents it etc they are going to lose a huge amount of income. Cancer is big business. Unless they can come up with a way that the cure makes them more money than than the treatment, there won't be a cure.
  • Jenna · 1 year ago
    I do agree that the reason we are not seeing cures for more of the world's diseases is because there is too much money being made on their treatment.

    I was pretty devastated really, when I finally realized that drug companies and hospitals aren't necessarily there to make us better, as much as they are there to make a profit.
  • remodelingthislife · 1 year ago
    I don't think I comment enough here, mostly because almost every time you write something I don't feel like there is anything I could possibly add. I enjoy everything you write and your perspective is refreshing in this community. This is no exception and the post from last year made me cry. My point is, Thanks, Steve. Well said.
  • Steve @ bripblap · 1 year ago
    That's such a compliment that I hardly know what to say - I'm sorry I made you cry, but I understand why you felt that way. Thanks so much, Emily.
  • Curmudgeon · 1 year ago
    I lost two valued coworkers on 9/11, one on each of the planes out of Logan that hit the two towers. I remember that day, every move, every thought, every news item, better than I do yesterday. As I get older, the day affects me more deeply. I don't think of good and evil so much as I do the lives that have touched my own life, and are no longer there. I'm off now to join some of my former colleagues to toast to their memory.
  • Steve @ bripblap · 1 year ago
    And really, Curmudgeon, past thinking about the grand nature of good versus evil and man's relationship with God and the universe and whatnot there's really the simple fact that life's a muddle of relationships and every time one of them disappears, life's a little less. Like John Donne said, "any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." - but it applies even more to those close to you. I am sorry for your loss.
  • move to portugal · 1 year ago
    I echo everything Emily says Steve. I don't comment enough either, however your posts are often very moving, very thought provoking and usually spot on, this one is no different.
    -Laura
  • deepali · 1 year ago
    as someone who was also at a ground zero that day, i can fully relate to this. i have always hoped that we can get to the point where we turn our tragedies into reasons for ending other tragedies.