Schindler's List was less depressing than I thought it would be.
Now the book Night by Elie Wiesel? Super fucking depressing.
Read that when I was 11 and. Just
the torture and hang a kid
You know that part where his dad is in the infirmary, and they are all being moved to a different camp, and he runs in there and convinces his dad to get out of bed thinking that the nazis will kill the sick as they leave, and they run for miles in the snow as they get herded to another camp, and his dad dies from this, and the chapter ends with him talking about how he found out several years later what happened to the sick jews who got left behind, and it closes with "they were quite simply liberated by the Russians."
Yeah.
NOOOOOO or when those guys threw bread at the starving dudes to watch them fight over it arrrgh
My dad is embarrasingly right-wing, although he is racially and sexually tolerant, if only by habit because he's in a leadership position six steps from the top at a major bank. We've always been kind of distant, it's kind of an "absolute rule, father has spoken" kind of deal in our house.
My dad stopped listening to the Savage Nation, so the accusations of everyone that displeases him being "some kind of commie liberal jew muslim" have gone down quite a bit
I guess we don't have to lose ALL hope in the older generations
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FramlingFaceHeadGeebs has bad ideas.Registered Userregular
After my Grandad died we had to put my Grandma in a home as she couldn't look after herself. Now, my Gran had lived in a small village all her life and had very little experience of people/cultures other than the ones in the village.
So one day I'm visiting her and she leans over with a massive grin on her face and says "You know how woke me up this morning? A Black man!!!" she then lean't back still smiling.
Also when said "black man" walked past later she lean't over and said "ooo he's black ain't he!" She was so fascinated by him as she had only ever known White people!
So my Grandpa and Grandma on my dad's side lived for years and years and years in the tiny town of White, SD (pop. 500-ish). After my Grandpa died, my grandma moved down to the booming metropolis of Sioux Falls (pop. 100,000-ish) rather than stay in the same big house they'd lived in for I-couldn't-even-guess-how-long. A couple of years ago, though, it started becoming apparent that she was doing less and less okay on her own, and the family decided to move her into an assisted-living whatever place back in White.
I managed somehow to make it back home for Mother's Day the year before last, and we went to visit her. The highlight of the trip was when she remarked to my dad how strange it seemed now to see so many White people around. She couldn't remember the last time she'd been around so many White people.
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you're = you are
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
My mom would be totally okay if i told her i was bisexual and my dad would probably be too, he just wouldn't talk about it because we're men and thats weird
i just don't see a situation when I'll ever have to tell them
like whatever i do me they do them we don't really share this shit its personal
also my dad is rather prejudiced against East-Indians because like half the engineers and new people he works with are, and they never understand what hes telling them and he cant understand him and this is a problem when you are trying to get important work done and also most of the people he works with are hilariously stupid and do stupid things so i dont really bother him about it
for more depressing holocaust literature, people need to read the book thief by markus zusak. its written from the point of view of a girl living in nazi germany hiding a jewish boxer. the book had me in tears at the end, especially awkward since i was reading it on the metro
why the fuck do people read books like that
i don't understand the appeal to reading something or watching something that just makes you feel awful and cry
why is that enjoyable
why the fuck do people read books like that
i don't understand the appeal to reading something or watching something that just makes you feel awful and cry
why is that enjoyable
It's cathartic.
Edit: The Happy Prince by Wilde had me in tears at the end.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
edited October 2010
I've been feeling cry-ey recently and I'm not sure why.
I don't think people pick up a book saying "I would like to cry hopefully this will do the trick"
If you cry during a book it could be a sign of being engaged and moved by it and will probably end up being a net positive experience over all I guess!
blah when i watch super depressing movies i get up and just feel awful
its like
gee i sure dont want to have to watch that again
maybe i just don't take things seriously enough or don't feel bad enough for things other people do but
I think it's dumb
Like, lots of stuff can be rad movies or books AND make me cry
but when you guys are like
OH TOTALLY READ THIS BOOK IT MADE ME CRY:
or
THIS MOVIE MAKES ME FEEL SO AWFUL I CRY SO MUCH EVERY TIME I SEE IT
its just
Maybe it's not for you? Dunno, like FAQ said, the crying is a product of being caught up in the characters and feeling a growing empathy for them as you go through the book
For a lot of people the entertaining or enlightening value outweighs the awful aftertaste
I understand where you're coming from, though, I don't pick up sad reads unless they're mindblowing myself
yeah i dunno the whole like
crying porn genre marketed towards mothers and teenage girls kind of disturbs me
its like
hey check out how many people can have TERRIBLE LIVES OR DANGEROUS DISEASES in this book and cry about it!
That seems to be the main theme behind most "popular" romance movies and books now
how much it will make you cry by the end
i do not understand it
Yeah, I don't know if I believe in catharsis. It seems kinda like the emotional equivalent of trying to use leeches to get the bad blood out.
i feel like if i regularly read books or whatever to cry as a means of catharsis i would become even more emotionally unbalanced
all cryin' at the drop of a hat all the time
Besides the whole "black people evolved from apes and white people are made by god" and the "Arizona has the right idea with that immigration law" but usually we agree.
Never really had a dad.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Schindler's List was less depressing than I thought it would be.
Now the book Night by Elie Wiesel? Super fucking depressing.
Read that when I was 11 and. Just
the torture and hang a kid
You know that part where his dad is in the infirmary, and they are all being moved to a different camp, and he runs in there and convinces his dad to get out of bed thinking that the nazis will kill the sick as they leave, and they run for miles in the snow as they get herded to another camp, and his dad dies from this, and the chapter ends with him talking about how he found out several years later what happened to the sick jews who got left behind, and it closes with "they were quite simply liberated by the Russians."
Yeah.
NOOOOOO or when those guys threw bread at the starving dudes to watch them fight over it arrrgh
my aunt knows him on a first name basis
he is apparently the kindest and most down to earth man alive
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i cried at the end of maus
?
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NOOOOOO or when those guys threw bread at the starving dudes to watch them fight over it arrrgh
I don't get it, the game bad or something?
nah puck's alright
it never came out! the shame of EA Canada!
Seriously, those books, man. Heavy shit.
Oh, okay. I don't pay attention to EA.
Fuck your eyes.
the end of maus is so sad
yeah, vladek and anja get out of the holocaust.
but they don't, not really
and knowing that she kills herself ughh
I guess we don't have to lose ALL hope in the older generations
So my Grandpa and Grandma on my dad's side lived for years and years and years in the tiny town of White, SD (pop. 500-ish). After my Grandpa died, my grandma moved down to the booming metropolis of Sioux Falls (pop. 100,000-ish) rather than stay in the same big house they'd lived in for I-couldn't-even-guess-how-long. A couple of years ago, though, it started becoming apparent that she was doing less and less okay on her own, and the family decided to move her into an assisted-living whatever place back in White.
I managed somehow to make it back home for Mother's Day the year before last, and we went to visit her. The highlight of the trip was when she remarked to my dad how strange it seemed now to see so many White people around. She couldn't remember the last time she'd been around so many White people.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
i just don't see a situation when I'll ever have to tell them
like whatever i do me they do them we don't really share this shit its personal
also my dad is rather prejudiced against East-Indians because like half the engineers and new people he works with are, and they never understand what hes telling them and he cant understand him and this is a problem when you are trying to get important work done and also most of the people he works with are hilariously stupid and do stupid things so i dont really bother him about it
i don't understand the appeal to reading something or watching something that just makes you feel awful and cry
why is that enjoyable
It's cathartic.
Edit: The Happy Prince by Wilde had me in tears at the end.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
If you cry during a book it could be a sign of being engaged and moved by it and will probably end up being a net positive experience over all I guess!
its like
gee i sure dont want to have to watch that again
maybe i just don't take things seriously enough or don't feel bad enough for things other people do but
I think it's dumb
Like, lots of stuff can be rad movies or books AND make me cry
but when you guys are like
OH TOTALLY READ THIS BOOK IT MADE ME CRY:
or
THIS MOVIE MAKES ME FEEL SO AWFUL I CRY SO MUCH EVERY TIME I SEE IT
its just
i mean, i don't like to cry.
something something time of month
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I understand where you're coming from, though, I don't pick up sad reads unless they're mindblowing myself
and I assume when people are talking about stuff that made them cry they are talking about rad movies and books that made them cry
Not some kind of crying porn where you turn off the lights and blow your duct
FOREVER
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
yeah i dunno the whole like
crying porn genre marketed towards mothers and teenage girls kind of disturbs me
its like
hey check out how many people can have TERRIBLE LIVES OR DANGEROUS DISEASES in this book and cry about it!
That seems to be the main theme behind most "popular" romance movies and books now
how much it will make you cry by the end
i do not understand it
i feel like if i regularly read books or whatever to cry as a means of catharsis i would become even more emotionally unbalanced
all cryin' at the drop of a hat all the time
Kong was a tough one for me
OH SICK TOTP YES
Besides the whole "black people evolved from apes and white people are made by god" and the "Arizona has the right idea with that immigration law" but usually we agree.
Never really had a dad.
my aunt knows him on a first name basis
he is apparently the kindest and most down to earth man alive
They're they only really interesting kind of romance
I'm actually a lot more likely to read about a homosexual relationship than a straight one because of the great level of risk involved
The higher the chance of a beheading is the better
That kind of experience would probably humble you a ton
Probably really depressing to hang out with though
no apparently he is also a very positive dude who really just wants people to be happy with each other
but yeah she said meeting him was about as humbling as you can get, and my aunt is not a woman easily humbled