Is your life better since 9/11?

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

This is my first thread. I have been enjoying this site for a while and a question popped up in my mind. Is your life betting or worse since 9/11? In my case almost every category I can think of if better. What are your thoughts?

[Jani.R]

Better, why would it go worse?

[Elemental666]

I don't really get the question.

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

Well from what I here in the news and on this site all is going to hell in the world what with the war and global warming and all. I was just wondering if in your opinion the world is getting better or worse.

[scrybe]

Wow, another Oregonian. Oregon STRONG on mp.net.

To remain on topic though, in what aspects are you talking about improving? I see both positives and negatives since 9/11.

Negatives: Traveling on planes is now more tedious and time consuming, I will be traveling overseas soon and am apprehensive about how I will be treated being an American, I have friends that have served in Afghanistan and Iraq and see the way the experience has changed them (this is both positive and negative), and there is an overall loss of inocence and ignorance that many Americans enjoyed prior to the attacks of 9/11.

Positives: 9/11 brought our nation together and gave many Americans a sense of national pride, our soldiers overseas have been elimanting potential terrorists like crazy, and our nation has taken a noticeably more proactive stance on national security.

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

I love Portland, OR but man it seems like everyone here has nothing better to do than complain about the world. It is a full time job for some. All I hear on the news is that the US is in debt up to our ears, there is a recession around the corner and as the price of gas is going to $4.00 next month. Are any of you feeling this pressure?

[scrybe]

Dude, I'm down in Eugene so I definitely can relate.

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

What are you doing in down there?

[scrybe]

Student at UofO.

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

Go Ducks!!! Sigma Chi

[scrybe]

Ha, nice, I have a buddy in Sigma Chi.

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

Went to Whitman in Walla Walla, WA

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

The Ducks have a good rugby team.

[wormie]

Positives: 9/11 brought our nation together and gave many Americans a sense of national pride, our soldiers overseas have been elimanting potential terrorists like crazy, and our nation has taken a noticeably more proactive stance on national security.
It's unfortunate that the cost had to be 2,973 people dead.

[scrybe]

Definitely agreed. It's actually very difficult to find anything positive since 9/11 that wasn't the direct result of a horrible sacrifice.

[Con-man]

Went to Whitman in Walla Walla, WA


The Ducks have a good rugby team.

WA = Western Australia here and now rugby? Is the south going even more south over there? :|

[D-gin]

I don't know if my life is better, But 9-11 opened my eyes to alot of things about this world and made realize somethings about myself.

[scrybe]

WA = Western Australia here and now rugby? Is the south going even more south over there? :|

WA = Washington, USA.

[p$ycho+log!cal]

wtf thread is this?
if your life is "better"

why would it be better?

[zonk]

9/11 has made my life more difficult but more interesting also, i have saw so much of the middle east now that i honestly feel like i have done some adequate traveling...but im not finished yet.

as for the state of the workd, with the more information we get , the more paranoid we will be and eventually we will worry ourselves into oblivion

[askDNA]

Yup. I'm doing well at a good university, I'm in good shape, have plenty of friends, and my family is doing better financially because of the oil price.

But I'm sure things will be a hell of a lot different 2 years from now when I'm standing on the yellow footprints.

[LaoSexMachine]

Yes but then again I'm an optimist. Got to look at the good things in life.

[Eddy]

Yes but then again I'm an optimist. Got to look at the good things in life.

Being optimistic is the best way to end up disappointed.

[LaoSexMachine]

Being optimistic is the best way to end up disappointed.


There's going through life wearing rose color glasses and there's looking at the positive side in life. I'm the latter.

Being a pessimist makes you bitter and you will never see the good around you. Who wants to go through life with a stick up their ass anyways? Not me.

[Bryson C]

This is my first thread. I have been enjoying this site for a while and a question popped up in my mind. Is your life betting or worse since 9/11? In my case almost every category I can think of if better. What are your thoughts?

I don't get this question, but since I don't know anyone who was hurt/killed or in any way affected by 9/11 myself included. My life is the same.

[thscott83]

Gas is creeping up, but at least you guys (Oregonians) don't have to pump it yourselves...

Hee Hee...

[Scipio vs Dumbo]

What is the price of gas in Seattle?

[seventy6er]

Better. After 9/11, I met my wife, married her, had a son, quadrupled my income, bought a house - so yeah, my life improved.

On a side note: it ain't got anything to do with 9/11, it didn't really affect me, which doesn't mean that it did not touch me.

[Aerosoul]

my life has gotten considerably better only in the last few months. at my age, 9/11 didn't exactly change anything, though. I was 14 in SEP 2001.

[GoSka37]

Can't say my life has been better or worse since 9/11... i can think of positives and Negatives... okay Negatives but... No better no worse really... i was in 7th grade when it happened so... yeah.

[Gauntlet]

What is the price of gas in Seattle?

When I went to Seattle the prices were not that bad.

[Con-man]

WA = Washington, USA.

My bad, I'm just stuck in 'down-under' mode, which is the best term I could find right now when I should be doing work instead...

[LordHalbert]

My life is the same since 11.Sept.2001.

I still live in the same place.
Eat the same foods.
Do the same things.

I do drive a different car though.

[usa320]

i really dont know... But one things sure...its definately changed...

Not a day passes by when i dont think about that day.