Freedom Tower

Michael Davis · #1 07-05-2004, 04:41 PM

Well, I might be ridiculous or paranoid or whatever, but I don't think this is a good idea. I understand the inyourfaceterrorists aspect of it, but I'm not sure I want to see any real odds on this building lasting, completely intact at least, for 50 years.

-Michael

Mayhap · #2 07-05-2004, 06:43 PM

I have no definitive stance on this. However, if you look at it through a non-american lens, it might look priapic and/or provocative. Strength is perhaps best stated when understated.
/M

GWB · #3 07-05-2004, 06:54 PM

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I have no definitive stance on this. However, if you look at it through a non-american lens, it might look priapic and/or provocative. Strength is perhaps best stated when understated.
/M

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We have to show the terrorists that will not surrender. This alone is a good reason to proceed.

Now I must go get my dictionary to look up them fancy words you be using.

Mayhap · #4 07-05-2004, 07:09 PM

I think a more productive way of showing the terrorists that will not surrender is to kick the livin' sh*t out of them day in and day out until they fricken disappear.
/M

Michael Davis · #5 07-05-2004, 07:09 PM

If this is their point of view, I completely dismiss it. Sorry, but rebuilding on this spot is a totally justifiable effort for humanity, not America.

-Michael

Mayhap · #6 07-05-2004, 07:13 PM

Good answer. I now have a stance.
/M

Cyrus · #7 07-06-2004, 02:23 AM

Someone suggested it. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Ray Zee · #8 07-06-2004, 04:02 AM

buildings such as this make it so few people can see the sky. for the life of me i cant understand why someone would be willing to trade their working time in such places for money.

arx · #9 07-06-2004, 05:22 AM

From a non-american perspective, I do not think it looks provocative, but then again I am only non-american, not anti-american.

On the other hand, I do not agree with the usage of the word freedom in the naming of the building. I think the more we write about it and talk about it, the least we think about it. If we don´t think about it, it might even lose its meaning, the real meaning.

My freedom is not more important than yours. But freedom is.

But then again, I am not american...

GWB · #10 07-06-2004, 05:43 AM

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buildings such as this make it so few people can see the sky. for the life of me i cant understand why someone would be willing to trade their working time in such places for money.

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The view from the top of a mountain can be just as nice as the view of open sky in Big Sky country. In NYC, the view from the top of a building is as close as you get to the mountaintop.