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Originally posted by mezzir scariest part about those shenanigans? know this picture? k now how bout this one? the bottom one was taken 35 years after the first one, to the day. by the same photographer. where's that god damn mikeymike smiley when you need it

Yup knew about that. Celebrities sell, not pulitzer prize winning photography.

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THIS is the reason why I choose not to watch/read/listen to the news or television. It is over-sensationalized negative garbage that I don't want to saturate my mind with.

Not to mention, my knowing most of it really doesn't make any difference, other than making me feel shittier about things/people.

I say we turn this into another thread where we all chastise Theresa for being intentionally ignorant to the social and political plight of complete strangers in distant lands that many people seem to pride themselves on possessing knowledge of.

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well, holding on to the religious notion of good and evil certainly isn't helping things...

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Originally posted by Theresa THIS is the reason why I choose not to watch/read/listen to the news or television. It is over-sensationalized negative garbage that I don't want to saturate my mind with. Not to mention, my knowing most of it really doesn't make any difference, other than making me feel shittier about things/people.

hah you stay out of this, we've been over this with you before

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Originally posted by mezzir scariest part about those shenanigans? know this picture? k now how bout this one? the bottom one was taken 35 years after the first one, to the day. by the same photographer. where's that god damn mikeymike smiley when you need it

just in case someone needed a media source link to check for the validity of this post, here's the story -> here


wow. something very hard to comprehend.

edit - oh btw. i don't read the ny daily news.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I say we turn this into another thread where we all chastise Theresa for being intentionally ignorant to the social and political plight of complete strangers in distant lands that many people seem to pride themselves on possessing knowledge of.

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Originally posted by mezzir hah you stay out of this, we've been over this with you before

LOL AND LOL!!

Halcyon, I think I might luv you a little.

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Originally posted by LeopoldStotch just in case someone needed a media source link to check for the validity of this post, here's the story -> here wow. something very hard to comprehend. edit - oh btw. i don't read the ny daily news.

thanks
i remembered reading it on a credible site but didn't feel like tracking down a link

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Originally posted by mezzir thanks i remembered reading it on a credible site but didn't feel like tracking down a link

After reading that story (didn't know the deep history behind the photographer of the picture until now. he's been a photographer for the AP since he was in his early 20s), he's probably taken many historic photographs from celebrities to government to wars to society. it's all about being at the right place at the right time.

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Originally posted by LeopoldStotch just in case someone needed a media source link to check for the validity of this post, here's the story -> here

Thanks for that.

It's not like I didn't believe you or something, Mezzir, it's just that....well, I was pretty sure you didn't take the photos, so I needed something a little more than word o' mouf.

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On one hand the media is out to make the world seem as bad as possible but look at the number of stories about human rights violations and the like that they have to choose from. Of course these stories are exaggerated and played again and again but the point is that there are these horrible stories to begin with that would make one feel that this world is a cruel and terrible place.

You can tell me story after story about human kindness and charity but for me to even hear about one story of a mass killing just saddens my view of the human race, just the idea that we're even capable of some of the things we do. Confrontations are going to happen and people are going to get killed, its human nature and we are animals really after all...but the mass killings (ex. sept 11th) go far beyond that. Our aggressiveness and ignorance plus our intelligence allow for such things to occur and it sickens me.

There is indeed good in a lot of humans, something that is rarely depicted on the news. My only hope is that someday humans will learn to embrace it more and decide to make it the night's top story. The more horrible stories are depicted, the more violence and ignorance is to occur. What makes me upset is the ratings of these news shows, its really as if people really want to see these stories, like it makes them feel better.

On the other hand...

what if the news reported only positive, heart-warming humanistic stories of charity and kindness in the community and failed to ever report anything that would lead people to generate pessimistic views regarding the human race? Wouldn't you feel completely lied to? Wouldn't you feel as though the media was just a cover for tricking people into looking the other way while the reality of the world escaped the consideration of those who could do something about it?

Maybe it's human nature to shit in your own back yard - to cheat and kill the meek, to pollute our environment so you can save money, to hold the rich above the poor because of what you could possibly gain - maybe all of this is in every human out there, due to our very nature and position. But maybe that's just a portion of it. Maybe there's a lot of magnanimity out there, too. Maybe there's subtle, unspoken selflessness of random passersby. But maybe we've not reached all of it even yet. Maybe deeper in there somewhere, there is a fascination and a fixation upon those things which threaten our livelihood. And maybe this is why people behold a horrible car wreck in lurid fascination. And maybe this is why we enjoy horror movies and roller coasters and tales of war that take us to the edge of our seat. Maybe in our every wonder, we are beholding death, the threat to both the positivity and the negativity of our existence. Maybe we dance with death because it makes us feel alive and it makes us feel safe. Is the world really going to shit when the blight of the human condition has unfolded to be the reverence of its condition as home entertainment?

Maybe the world really is going to shit, maybe it's just the same old shit as before, we just get to hear about it more. In any case, I think the thing to worry about most is peoples' concern with things that they could not possibly understand and their subsequent passion in defending their ignorance as though it threatens, not their lives, but the preservation of the pixelated prescription being stream-fed to them through the little black box in their living room.

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