What is the significance of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001?

All love is here, the asking of an important question for your nation, for all nations.

For the attacks of 9/11 were a cry for help, though a cry for help expressed in a way that brings disgrace, not assistance, to the perpetrators of the event.

Violence cannot and does not create positive feelings in others towards the perpetrators of the violence, regardless of their cause or the legitimacy of their complaint. Violence simply begets more violence, more misunderstandings, more mutual contempt.

Knocking down the World Trade Towers knocked down the attacker's own legitimate desire for dignity and self-respect, knocked down all of humanity itself a notch if you will.

Indeed, love itself can bring forces so powerful that no nation, no army, no amount of might in the world can contradict, impede or stop it. Love always brings the end desired, though love sometimes is the more difficult route to take.

Love is the most powerful arsenal one has when one needs to express a grievance, a need, a complaint, an unmet desire.


A word on the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in South Asia.

All love is here, a question about the catastrophic South Asian tsunami of 2004 in which so many died, so many were carried away to the other side. Yet death comes always and usually unannounced, death comes. Death is but a passing of souls to another realm.

But the suffering of the survivors, the devastation of their homes and well-being is a call for compassion from the world, an evocation of humankind's willingness to assist each another.

Indeed, catastrophic misfortune can strike anyone at anytime, thus one must always have a consciousness of compassion, a willingness to love, to extend oneself in a time of need.

There is always a great need for compassion and for worldwide unity, a need for people to work together, to help one another.

Yet people blindly devote their energies to fanning the flames of a greater ongoing worldwide catastrophe dwarfing all the natural calamities of history: the catastrophe of endless warfare and discord, of people constantly fighting with and killing each other everywhere, on all inhabited continents.

In the face of the power, vicissitudes, and unpredictability of nature, people hopefully will learn the importance of working together, the joy of helping one another, and learn the futility and wastefulness of strife, conflict, and war.

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