please give one minute worth of silence.

Rest in peace

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Originally Posted by 01101101entor

What does reflecting on what they did have to do with anything? what is acheaved by it?
I support freedom yes, but i am an aithiest as well, i have no belife in any gods, soles or any form of spirituality. Once someone is dead, they are dead. Respecting them once there dead is pointless, if you want to give someone respect, do it when they are actually still alive.
Respecting a corpes is not being thankful, there dead and can gain nothing from it, helping those still alive, or the families, wifes/hupands/children though of those who has died, does benifit people, wasteing a minute does not.

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Then simply use the minute to reflect not on why you have your freedoms, just that you do have them, and that others do not. It's one minute to be thankful, hardly going to cause problems for you.

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Originally Posted by 01101101entor

What does reflecting on what they did have to do with anything? what is acheaved by it?
I support freedom yes, but i am an aithiest as well, i have no belife in any gods, soles or any form of spirituality. Once someone is dead, they are dead. Respecting them once there dead is pointless, if you want to give someone respect, do it when they are actually still alive.
Respecting a corpes is not being thankful, there dead and can gain nothing from it, helping those still alive, or the families, wifes/hupands/children though of those who has died, does benifit people, wasteing a minute does not.

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Also, how can you reflect or remember when you were not there to witness or experience it? I was thinking about it when I was at my nans church at 11am when we had a minutes silence. About half way through I started thinking "What am I meant to think about? Planes flying in the sky? Soldiers shooting soldiers? Explosions?!" I had no idea what I was meant to "Remember"...

I tend to do the silence because others do and that the people who did die died for a war. I don't remember anything, just respect really "/

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

Then simply use the minute to reflect not on why you have your freedoms, just that you do have them, and that others do not. It's one minute to be thankful, hardly going to cause problems for you.

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o.0 Thats not even the point of the silence, and even if i were to relflect on those who lost there lifes, and how they died for there contary (which is the point of the thing)
What do i gain from it? What does anyone else gain from it? What do the people who are dead gain from it?
Since the answer to all these is nothing, i feel the entire thing is pointless.