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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9792651 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #420 on: November 06, 2009, 12:27:23 am »
Billy just died (Battlestar Galactica).
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #421 on: November 06, 2009, 08:59:57 pm »
I just realised how many times I've blown up the BFG 9000
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #422 on: November 07, 2009, 12:19:14 am »
Battlestar Galactica just made me cry.

I never cry.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #423 on: November 07, 2009, 12:41:37 am »
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The XXcigaretteXX strikes the Dwarf Smoker in the lungs!

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #424 on: November 07, 2009, 03:04:33 am »
Went to an art gallery. Saw this Rolando painting called "The Mass".

It's basically a bunch of old white guys sitting on a beach in rows, kinda reminiscent of pews (to me, at least). They're all wearing goggles.

The other half of the diptych is this titanic mushroom cloud over the ocean. It's terrifying and, obviously, since I'm posting this here, it made me sad.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #425 on: November 07, 2009, 03:15:11 am »
Is it meant to be offensively religiously symbolic?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #426 on: November 07, 2009, 03:18:56 am »
Not offensive. Just religiously symbolic. ATOM BOMB IS NEW GOD and that sort of thing.

The painting is a little dated now, since, if you think about it, those tests happened in, what, over fifty years ago? But it's a chilling reminder of exactly how much power we have in our hands now.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #427 on: November 07, 2009, 03:25:14 am »
Enough to make death impersonal. Which is probably the biggest problem with mankind today...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #428 on: November 07, 2009, 03:27:59 am »
Death has bean impersonal for a damn long time now.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #429 on: November 07, 2009, 03:32:35 am »
Aye. Even Roald Dahl makes that note in his sorta-kinda autobiography "Going Solo", which is a lot about his time serving with the RAF.

Also, the short story (I think it's called) "Katina", in Over to You (also Roald Dahl). The titular character is horrified when she sees one of the German Pilots who gets shot down is "just a boy". For Roald Dahl, the planes were one of the ultimate expressions of impersonal death. The bombers especially, who never see the people they kill.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #430 on: November 07, 2009, 03:34:45 am »
Yeah, but one city. One bomb. That's bloody impersonal.



Do you know what happened to the pilots of hiroshima?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #431 on: November 07, 2009, 03:41:13 am »
They retired and died peacefully in there sleep years later?

Or are you talking about the fact (most) didn't feel that it was wrong?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #432 on: November 07, 2009, 03:49:11 am »
Yes, he died at the age of ninety two, in his sleep.

Although, admittedly, on the second bombing about three pilots didn't turn up for duty, apparently.
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Sentience, Endurance, and Thumbs: The Trifector of a Superpredator.
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Yeah, he's a banned spammer. Normally we'd delete this thread too, but people were having too much fun with it by the time we got here.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #433 on: November 07, 2009, 04:03:31 am »
My old cat, who I had posted a thread about, just died a few minutes ago. 1 year and 6 months after getting her. :(
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #434 on: November 07, 2009, 05:19:05 am »
I've always wondered what would've happened if the pilot, while flying over Hiroshima, suddenly had an attack of guilt and didn't want to become the killer of 40,000 people.  I mean, theoretically, he could have flown away and dropped his bomb over the mountains somewhere...
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