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Why indeed??
Not a dig at Magicme by any means but:
I'll never understand the empathy lots of people feel for various celeb types.
I'd be lying if I said I greeted his death with anything greater than mild surprise.
I've only so much of my soul to dole around and I prefer devoting my emotion to those that are actually close to me.
And even at that you've no guarentee your soul isn't going to take a hammering anyway.
So in summary Heath Ledgers death:
Bad time for the Ledgers and their associates - Of Course
Bad time for LTID - Not really No (Well a bit but my several stresses at the moment are all unHeathrelated) :)
On a slight aside, well done to all those sick ghouls who formed an orderly que to get a glimpse at the mans lifeless body
Maybe others have more soul?
I find people offended by people's empathy worse than people with empathy for everything. And again, not a dig at you LTID, but who the **** are we to tell anyone who they shouild or shouldn't feel empathy/sympathy for. His dying shocked me a little, but thats it. Didn't feel the need to come on here to have a go at those who felt something
BTW his best film was 10 Things I Hate About You and his Joker was already scaring the crap out of me
They don't know. Some outlets were reporting that pills were found by his body, but the police over there corrected that to something more like that there were pills found in the room.
Truth is, the only fact in this story is that Heath Ledger is dead. Everything else is idle speculation until the autopsy comes back.
The people who keep mentioning drugs will look like idiots if it turns out to have been a heart defect or something. Not that any of them would apologise for it.
Maybe...............
I doubt it though
You might want to point out where I have a go at anyone??Quote:
I find people offended by people's empathy worse than people with empathy for everything. And again, not a dig at you LTID, but who the **** are we to tell anyone who they shouild or shouldn't feel empathy/sympathy for. His dying shocked me a little, but thats it. Didn't feel the need to come on here to have a go at those who felt something
Or tell anyone what they should or shouldn't feel??
Or where I have been offended by people's empathy??
I said I don't understand.
I don't.
That is all.
Fair point :p
I was merely thinking aloud I suppose
I mean on the same day as this Heath Ledger thing you had that truly awful case of that balcony dad in Greece, plus little babies dying in hospitals in Gaza because the fourth most powerful military in the world felt like it.
That's just two tragic stories off the top of my head.
I don't know, I guess I was just saying that if people thought about it too much they wouldn't get much sleep at all, ever
Again, not having a go at anyone, each to their own and all that, but like
LtiD I never really understood people getting upset about the passing of
people they only knew from a magazine or the big screen.
When I heard the news report my initial reaction was ... who the hell is that!!
But hey, everyone's different and that's what makes the world go 'round.
I could understand people being upset on just a human level a 28 year old died thats sad a little girl looses her dad thats sad, or if he was your favourite actor then you wont see him in any more films thats sad.
But to loose sleep over it im sorry but thats ridiculous. What s the stats is it one person dies in the world every second if you where to loose sleep over people you dont know dying you would be an absolute mess.
I'd a similar reaction which demonstrated just how far out of touch I'm getting in all such matters. I knew the name but had a completely different face on it ...two faces actually -one belonging to a guy in the Lord of the Rings movies and the other belonging to a guy who was in Bridget Jones Diary.
Either way ...it transpired Heath Ledger could've fonged me in the nads and I wouldn't have known who'd hit me.
Oh ...and then they showed a clip of Brokeback Mountain on the news and he's in a Supermarket?!? I thought that was supposed to be set in wild west cowboy times?