please give one minute worth of silence.

to all those who died on november 11th
and to the wars
and to the outrages. etc.

RIP x

how can you give silence on the net? O_O well i'm not talking anyway.. so does that count?

you're meant to do it on the sunday.

but rip x

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Originally Posted by accidents

you're meant to do it on the sunday.

but rip x

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Different places have different traditions, in Canada we do it on Rememberance Day.


RIP all the soldiers who died.

i thought this happened at 11 o clock

I'm not going to be talking to anyone today, so i'll probably do that minute silence without realising i have.

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

o ryt.









rip tbh

Silence.

oh its on tv now, i just turned down my music for a minute.

rest in peace.

rest in peace

i dont support them at all. I dont see why i should praise silence for a load of men killing each other.

Personaly i dont belive in the 1 minute of silence crap, it doesnt help anyone, and in fact actualy causes more problems insted, although quite minor. The only part of any worth is the donations / buying poppies, as the money from them, is what is actualy used to do any good.

The silence isn't meant to "help" anyone, it's a mark of respect to Those Who Gave Their All.

RIP boys x

R.I.P.

I was silent at 11am anyway. ^_^

Yeah same I was asleep. Tomorrow I'll be up by then though so I'll be doing the minute (or two, whatever they say) with the rest of the country.

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The silence isn't meant to "help" anyone, it's a mark of respect to Those Who Gave Their All.

RIP boys x

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The problem with that is there dead... whether you spend a minute silent or not, its not going to make any difference to them is it

That's not the point, the point is to reflect on how they gave their lives so that we could have our freedom upheld. I know from previous debates and such that you're very much into the idea of freedom, so you should be quite thankful to them really.

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That's not the point, the point is to reflect on how they gave their lives so that we could have our freedom upheld. I know from previous debates and such that you're very much into the idea of freedom, so you should be quite thankful to them really.

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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.

Rest in peace

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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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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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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.