I believe nothing I don't see with my own eyes. The news media is famous for manufacturing lies and BS.

A very dear friend of mine was seriously injured at the Boston Marathon. She will have a long and painful road to recovery. And here you all are interjecting your personal politics and shoehorning various conspiracy theories of all stripes, sparing no effort to take it to your political rivals for the past 38 pages. Stay classy, SubSim.

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The Boston Marathon is a voluntary run for charity, right?
Being as the injured were volunteers, do they have to pay for the hospital stay regarding their injuries and the recovery (physio therapy)? :hmmm:

Truthfully, I don't know. And I haven't thought it appropriate to ask her about any monetary compensation or coverage. She's just in a lot of pain, both physical and mental.

Best wishes for your friend Tak. I had one friend running who thankfully finished 15 minutes before it all happened.

Man, scary stuff right there. I've been in a few "that could have been me" situations before, but nothing like a tragedy like this. Still, the feeling you get from it is just indescribable. Almost a numbness, but not, if that makes any sense at all.

There is no doubt in my mind that the pain would be unbearable.
I think something like that would be the end of my volunteering for any public event.

I know, but you can't. You can't just stop being human and taking part in the human experience. It's easy for me to say that not having been in it, though.

Why would you give in to terrorism?

My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your friend Takeda. It is a terrible tragedy for the friends and families of those who were killed or injured. Some of the injured have a long, slow, recovery ahead of them, also painful no doubt.

Conspiracy theories abound in society. Heck, there are still those who believe that the U.S. staged the Neil Armstrong lunar landing of 1969. Having been in the loop of such things over the past 25 years, I've heard people speculate and postulate to no end. Never were they correct in their assumptions/assertions (regarding incidents I had direct knowledge of or involvement in). Still, despite knowing the true story, I wouldn't argue or debate with them in their assertions. People will believe what they want or choose to believe, no matter what evidence is presented.

Well, I myself have been misquoted in some local newspaper articles and have seen incidents that I was involved in misrepresented by local News media. Whether intentional or accidental, I know firsthand that it does happen.

Pedophilia is abundant in society. Shall we discuss the validity of it here on SubSim? Are we going to keep giving the conspiracies prominence here? You have to ask yourself what kind of forum you want. Do you want the type of SubSim that is a haven of conspiracy theories and political extremism? Do you want the type of SubSim that we used to have, where those sort of things were not a factor?

Sry for being OT here:

Regarding ^ this is the General topics forum, things not related to submarines but to all things the public is interested in, and people write what they are interested in.
Me, I am not overly interested in guns (if partly fascinating, admiring good workmanship or historical weapons, all ok) but then i do not read those threads, or not entirely.

Regarding Boston, I did not write about a conspiracy, but about how strange this reporting is or has been. I do not think it serves the dead, wounded or their families if those in charge keep pumping out contradicting reports, and estimations.
My condolences.

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

Easy Takeda, I wasn't condoning conspiracy theories. Read my post again, slowly. I was being sarcastic about society and it's conspiracy theories in general.:up:

Conversely, it isn't an appropriate place to endlessly rant about your belief system, is it? And it certainly isn't appropriate in a thread such as this. This endless exposition has made this forum into something that I don't like. Even GT didn't used to be this way.

Read my post again, and slowly. This is an appeal to you and anyone that reads it. Grass roots action right here on the boards.