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Post by Catzmadam on Jul 24, 2011 1:45:58 GMT -5
Did Sauli scare everyone away?? Maybe I should delete that picture? :-/ Lol, this is what happens to me all the time! A new thread is started and I'm left thinking, "where everybody went??" ;D LOLZ... me too!!!  Different time zones SUX ;D |
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Post by gelly14 on Jul 24, 2011 3:17:19 GMT -5
I hope that he doesn't. Firstly, I don't want Adam's name in those cheap "celebrities react to a person's death" articles that I despise. Secondly, I see it highly distasteful that people are mourning ten times more (in twitter, in here etc.) about a death of a known drug addict than the 85 innocent people, most of them teens, that were murdered by a right-wing extremist lunatic in Norway. At basically the same time. I understand that tragedies shouldn't be compared, a death of 85 doesn't make a death of one any less tragic, but still. Is it that much easier to relate to a death of a celebrity than deaths of unknowns? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that this is a celebrity fan site? Amy Winehouse was an entertainer as is Adam and I think that people here may post about the death of a celebrity vs any other. As far as twitter goes...what you see is all in who you follow. Maybe you should consider unfollowing some people.  Linda, Lynne, NoAngel, RabbitRabbit, keyboard ... and many others. Just caught up and there are so many great posts. I think the duality of the two tragedies is in not being able to even process the massacre in Norway. It's like our brain stops us before we can even fully conceptualize the tragedy, because it's too horrific to contemplate. I think we react to celebrity deaths as we do because of the level of familiarity that exists. For good or for bad, we know a great deal about these people. We've experienced Amy's struggles second-hand, we've seen the pain in her eyes and listened to the emotion in her music. We've seen her lay her soul bare when she performs. It occurred to me today that yes, though I've never met her or seen her in person (and I really didn't follow her at all), I know more about her than I do about the 20+ people I have met/interacted with at various events I attended this week. Many of these people I have met many times but I don't know a thing about their real lives, other than their name, job title and general reputation. We react to Amy's death because on some level, we feel we KNOW her. What the people in Norway went through yesterday is as incomprehensible as the train crash in China. We can't even grasp that other to feel overwhelming dread and horror. And when my father, a lifelong smoker, died of lung cancer, it wasn't at all unexpected, but it was every bit as devastating than if he died in any other way. Hi everyone. I fell asleep after my post and never got to watch the conversation. And thank you to all the others that responded perfectly  May I add one thing only. Adam's tweets are NEVER cheap. They come come from his heart. They're real and honest. If his name would be added to those cheap celebritires reactions it's not his fault. We, the fans , know this. As far as what other people might think , I don't give a damn. |
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Post by danilo85 on Jul 24, 2011 9:40:22 GMT -5
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Different time zones SUX ;D
