Why do people act as though...

[Moonbeam]

Now now, don't go all modest on me. It occured to me that the reason you're mad is that this person wasted their life and you feel bad about the waste. Bertram Russel, on his death bed regretted he didn't love enough. It's not too hard with all the put downs in the world not to feel ones life is a waste and project that out on the world. Just a thought.

 

[michaelh20]

Originally posted by: Zrom999

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: SammySon I'm going to give you an award for most mind numbing poorly thought out teenage philosophy threads.

? It is an honest question. I don't question that he was missed, most people are grieved for when they die, and rightfully so. <STRONG>What I am questioning is the fact that he was memorialized for one thing when he exemplified the exact opposite in his actions.</STRONG>

😕 What does a community service award have to do with the way that he died?

He demonstrated the results of extreme stupidity. Others will learn from this.

lol -- of course you would hope he'd be memorialized for being a great guy in spite of the way he died, and naturally everyone around him aren't going to feel different for how he died. But let me say that stupid is the right word for it.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Now now, don't go all modest on me. It occured to me that the reason you're mad is that this person wasted their life and you feel bad about the waste. Bertram Russel, on his death bed regretted he didn't love enough. It's not too hard with all the put downs in the world not to feel ones life is a waste and project that out on the world. Just a thought.

You can ask Pav if you want to know the details of my flirtations with nihilism. I wonder daily of my purpose in life, of what I am to be, of what I am to be remembered as.

 

[Orsorum]

I apologize for my rashness.

I seek to be remembered - I would like to believe that I had some sort of an impact on the community I lived in. Of course, I will leave no lasting impression. That is the nature of my lifestyle and my job.

And, so, I direct my anger on this young man - his existence in the community was dichotomous, for he embodied community service and activism, in many ways, but he also disobeyed and disrespected many of the basic rules of that community. He died by the latter, is remembered for the former.

I have contributed positively to this community, and I have obeyed the rules, yet I am forgotten. And that frustrates me.

I am ashamed of my immaturity and lack of perspective. It is only now that I realized why I felt the way I did.

 

[UglyCasanova]

When young people die it's always untimely and they end up becoming a saint who loved children and fuzzy animals, no matter who the were.