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The days are going too damn fast. Chelsea, Meredith, and I went to the war protest in the Commons on Saturday and we got a free dvd about the supposed 9/11 conspiracy along with millions of pounds of pamphlets and leaflets and other lets. After going to the aquarium and the beach, we went back home and watched the dvd, which had some interesting points, but alot of holes. The hardest thing for me to wrap my head around was the idea that Flight 93 didn't crash in Pennsylvania. According to the theorists, it just disappeared. How can the military/government? vanish so many people and keep it a secret? If the attacks were all set up, how can the lie be so big and not come out? Is it a case of "the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it?" I have no idea. Columbus Day took us up to Salem, which is one of those places that just has an errie atmosphere about it. We walked through town (which of course has the cheesy tourist traps scattered here and there) and saw places that were around during the witch trials in 1692. It's hard to believe that people could have been so easily convinced in Puritan America. Hysteria is incredibly powerful. Neighbors began to suspect neighbors out of fear of being accused themselves. Sixteen people lost their chance at life because of the ignorance of religion. Religion can be a very beautiful thing. It can provide people with a way of thinking that goes beyond what any earthly idea can, but it gets ugly fast too.

H.