i accidentally pushed on a pull door and the f*cking genius behind me said “u gotta pull it” as if my next option was gonna be to start sucking on the door handle
I could not disagree more. Those are not “gaping holes” left because New York was too weak or incompetent to rebuild. They are the actual footprints of the Twin Towers, deliberately kept open as hallowed ground.
We understand this instinct elsewhere. We did not raise the USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor, polish away the scars, and pretend nothing happened. Some places are allowed to bear witness.
The World Trade Center was rebuilt. But where thousands of human beings entered those towers one morning and never came home, we chose something different: absence itself.
The water falls into a void that can never be filled. The names of the dead surround it. You stand where the towers stood and confront what was taken from us.
That is not weakness. That is remembrance.
randomly remembering when i finished 3rd in french back in jss1. one of my proudest achievements.
we were only 4 who took the class and i scored 9/60 in the exam. the guy that came 4th didn't write the exam because he died some weeks before the exam but that's his problem
Someone asked me, "Do we need the Holy Spirit to go to Heaven?"
Are you kidding me? I need the Holy Spirit just to go to the store. I'm nothing without Him.
The odds of capturing this on video were probably 1 in 850 quindecillion
There has never been a quadruple meg before in human history and there will never be another
Let’s say you hear a rumor about your lecturer preparing a surprise quiz on Monday. Would you rather prepare for the quiz or you will wait till Monday to find out?
Minister, with respect, this framing avoids the central issue.
A government cannot leave “decency” undefined, then allow officials to enforce it according to personal, cultural or moral instinct. That replaces law with discretion and discretion backed by state power is where the danger begins.
People are free to debate morality. Governments are not free to manufacture offences through interpretation.
If conduct is prohibited, legislate it clearly, debate it publicly and subject it to constitutional scrutiny. If you cannot do that, then the State has no business improvising restrictions on citizens at the door of a concert.