I didn't care when the World Trade Center blew up.

I live in NYC and could smell and see the smoke and I lived across the street from the funeral home where tons of the dead bodies ended up but all I could think about was how annoying it was that my regular TV shows weren't on all week. That, and I felt left-out because I knew a lot of people who actually saw the whole thing from across the street and I was jealous. Other than that it didn't bother me at all. There was a photo of a guy falling head-first out of one of the Twin Towers and me and my brother thought it was funny and said he must've been thinking about how he should've stayed home from work that day.

Ironically, in real life most people think I'm REALLY nice and would be shocked to find out that I felt absolutely nothing about the World Trade Center tragedy thing.

P.S. This wasn't even any sort of political we-deserved-it type reaction. I didn't care enough to think enough about it to form that sort of an opinion.

 

Maybe you are a sociopath.

 

I'm not mean. I know a ton of mean people who cried and got all emotional when the Twin Towers blew up.

So maybe being a sociopath is underrated since I'm not mean to people. I was never a bully at school or anything.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the sociopath thing. Just pointing out that no one was negatively affected by me not caring about the World Trade Center blow-up so maybe being a sociopath isn't too horrible as long as you don't kill people and eat them like Jeffrey Dahmer or anything like that.

 

I didn't shed any tears when it happened either, but it is awful and horribly tragic that so many innocent people lost their lives. I certainly heard no one laughing when people were jumping out of the top of the building because they didn't want to burn to death.

Taken from dictionary.com:
so·ci·o·path
   /ˈsoʊsiəˌpæθ, ˈsoʊʃi-/ Show Spelled[soh-see-uh-path, soh-shee-]
–noun Psychiatry .
a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

 

I live 400 miles from where that happened.

I found about it when I went to work at 4pm.

have you ever seen the nicolas cage movie world trade center?

I think you are just as unaffected by it as me. I cant tell you how many times Ive driven past hoardes of cops and I'M LIKE 'meh, just another thingy thing.".

but if your feeling of uinvolvement and not giving a shit went past the first day or two, you, sir, are a GOD DAMNED ASSHOLE.

 

Felt nothing? Laughed?

I'll bet the guy you saw jumping would have given anything to have been where you were, and to laugh about it.. Maybe you are the only one that should been put in that situation. You need to wake up!

 

tHE GUYJUMPING MMay have been a millionaire

 

I've worked in hospital emergency rooms and I can tell you that most nurses, doctors and paramedics feel nothing for the patients and think the whole thing is funny. Yes, they LAUGH about dead people.

When I was 12 I had surgery and the nurses were mean to me in the operating room.

I know a guy who beat his mother up who cried about the Twin Towers blowing up. I know a Social Worker who worked on the adolescent unit on a psycho ward who used to laugh about kids being slammed down onto the floor and injected with thorazine and she made the biggest fucking dramatic scene she possibly could when she saw the footage of the Twin Towers blowing up and started sobbing and acting hysterical for the maximum amount of attention she could get out of this.

I didn't act like I cared because I didn't care and I don't mind admitting it because this is the true confessions folder.

 

i think you have been successfully desensitized...

 

I've been called a cold, heartless, unemotional person but on 9-11 I was quite upset. I was a fork lift driver at the time and ended up 90 minutes late for my afternoon shift, showed up without my work clothes. Had sneakers and no socks on my feet. We didn't do much of anything that day, the production floor was pretty much shut down listening to the news. This is in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Those people jumping to their death had families and children. I remember watching a news show about one family who's children lost their mother and a child could be heard screaming for her mother 5 days later.... SCREAMING... scarred me for life....

anyone who thinks that's funny is FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!

 

I'm with you on this one.

 

I didn't really feel anything about that event, apart from resentment at the direct consequences (I was in the military at the time)

Sure, it's a shame those people died, but on an average day, globally, as many people die in the space of half an hour. So what makes these few thousand so special? Ok, they died violently and publicly. Sadly, that is also a very common thing.

People blow things all out of proportion and act affected when it's in their face, but they are blissfully oblivious to all the cruelty that goes on, every single day, all over the world, usually for even shittier reasons than those people on that day (Whether you subscribe to the belief that it was a terrorist attack or you think it was a conspiracy)

 

^^^ so much desensitization i hope i never stop crying from all the filthy things that we, as humans, do to each other... if i stop, i'm as good as dead myself...

 

OP reminds me of the people I had to work with on that day.

I was working out of town on a job. My grandparents lived in that town so I was staying with them. I heard it on the radio on the way to work so I called them. My grandma answered and I told her to turn on the tv. She saw it and started crying. I thought maybe it was a fake thing on the radio at first. It was hitting me hard now. I told her I would come back as soon as I checked in at work as I was almost there.

When I got to the job it was like normal there. I told the foreman what was happening and he just acted like whatever, "Here's what we are doing today". I told everyone around me about it and got pretty much the same reaction.

I thought everyone would be scrambling for a radio, or wanting to go home, but no. They all just went about their jobs like any other day! No one was even talking about it!!

I couldn't just leave because I was new with the company and needed the job so I stuck it out for the rest of the day.

I look back now and I still can't get over why they all acted like that (no apparent emotion). It makes me sick to think about it.


R.I.P to the people that lost their lives that day.

 

yes indeed!

 

You seem to lack basic human empathy, maybe you should see a doctor.

 

Just because other people do something doesn't make it good or okay.

 

" lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience."?

you're the one who watches VH1.

 

i wouldn't worry about it.... people were expected to show shock and grief about 9/11 ..... yet the british were publically aplauded from politicians, the military and by the media for "getting straight back to business" after the 7/7 bus bombings

it seems that "apropriate emotional reaction" is different depending on who you are and where you happen to be stood on the planet at the time

be your own judge of your emotions, the only person you ultimately have to answer to is yourself :mickey:

 

The really sad thing here is your seeming addiction to TV. No wonder you're de-sensitized