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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Alanis Morissette's Letter To Her Fans.... | ||||
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| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 3:37 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01  | As many of you who read the music forum may know, I am a huge Alanis fan, her words have brought me comfort at many times, and I wanted to share these with you: Sweet friends... I send you all so much love during this time filled with so many emotions. There is grief and shock and anger and confusion and despondence and depression and analysis and fury and numbness and fear and disbelief and denial and compassion and concern and love. All of which, I feel, is totally understandable and natural... This is a time of true self-definition in the face of what has happened and I send support during this process of defining who we are in accordance to what has gone on over the last few days. You are not alone. This is an intense time, the likes of which most of us (particularly of my generation) have never experienced before. I send love and care and empathy to those whose family and friends were directly touched by what has happened... and I send the same love to those who are affected because they feel others' pain as deeply as if it were their own (and I believe that others' pain is our own). I send love to everyone who is afraid. My hope is that we respond from the highest level of self-care as is possible as well as with a curiosity toward what the root of the motivations to attack were. The amount of large decisions being made over the next many hours are the kinds that can attempt to form a collective message about who we think we are as people and as a country. My wish is that this message represents us as a people who can take care of ourselves with strength and conviction as well as our being able to show our wisdom, compassion and awareness of our interconnectedness as human beings at the same time. I send support to those who, at this time, are at the helm of making these decisions... may they be able to respond with strength, clarity, wisdom and compassion during a very fraught time. This seems to me to be an amazing time of value forming and of defining who we truly are. And I offer as much support and comfort as I can in these words to all of us who are doing so. May we define our beliefs as consciously as possible and may our choices be fueled by the desire to understand and resolve rather than to perpetuate these complex conflicts and all that is at the root of them. my deepest thanks to everyone who has written messages about how they feel about what has happened this week. your compassion and wisdom and care is the greatest of contributions to all who are grieving right now. i am having a prayer sweat in my sweat lodge this afternoon and evening...i will be with you and sending prayers your way, which i know will be intermingling with yours. bless you each... keep on....ox I love you. alanis ps: talking about putting on some sort of relief show(s) with the purpose of reaching out to those who have been touched by all that has happened this week... I'll keep you posted.  "I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief." -Walt Whitman USA | ||||
| Psycho Bitch | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 4:07 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jul. 01 | quote: That's very true..... One thing though, not that it matters...but is she a citizen here? I know she was born in Canada and now lives in LA but she kept saying "we" so I was just curious....  And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. | ||||
| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 4:17 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Honestly I am not sure of her citizenship, but I know she was residing in New York as well as L.A. If she still in infact a Canadian citizen, then it makes her use of "we" rather than "you" even more beautiful. "I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief." -Walt Whitman USA | ||||
| Clint Horrace | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 4:19 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jun. 01 | She probably doesn't have dual citizenship, but hey canadians rock! And they make damn fine beer! Remindes me of a joke, "American beer is like sex in a canoe, it's fuckin' close to water" cheers, sometimes humour helps. (at least i hope so) I am the C.L.I.T. Commander! | ||||
| Sluggo667 SLASH's New Buddy, but shhh... I am not allowed to tell anyone. | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 4:06 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Apr. 01 | I would immagine she meant "WE" as in Humanity... Sluggo667 | ||||
| Spork | posted on 09-15-2001 @ 4:50 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Well, as a Canadian living in the US as a permanent resident (green card holder) I want my US citizenship as soon as I am eligible for it - MORE now than ever! I have more allegiance to this country than I do to Canada, for it is here where I feel truly free and can live the American dream. The reasons that I chose to come to this country are the very things that those terrorist bastards were trying to attack and take away from US. I for one, will not stand for this. Even though I am not yet a citizen, I would also use the word "we" because frankly any attack on the United States is an attack on not only its citizenry but also anyone else living here and anyone who champions the causes of freedom and liberty for all!  "Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts." | ||||
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