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To: Grig
It doesn't matter much whether they jumped or not, as they were doomed either way. But unless you've been in a very similar situation, you have no way of knowing what you might or might not actually do. How close were you to the towers when they were on fire? Do you have *any* idea how bad it was?
151 posted on 11/01/2001 1:12:11 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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To: NYC GOP Chick
But unless you've been in a very similar situation, you have no way of knowing what you might or might not actually do.

I know that if I was making a decision in a rational state of mind that I would not. I do not think pain and emotion should be a factor in making the decision. Now it's true that under such extreem circumstance I could become irrational, but being irrational is not something I understand or relate too very well, and it is not a certainty that I would become irrational either.

To make a choice to jump while in a rational state of mind requires you to assume that either there is no God to save you (something I know is false), or that God has no intention of saving you. It may be true that it's your time to die, but it might not be and you never know if you don't try, so for me, to give up and choose to jump without being irrational, is a rejection of my faith that I could not do.

159 posted on 11/01/2001 2:53:48 PM PST by Grig
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To: NYC GOP Chick; Grig; homeschool mama; Timesink
Triangle Factory Fire
162 posted on 11/01/2001 3:40:01 PM PST by Age of Reason
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