if you were god

DwnWthVwls · 12-05-2014, 10:03 PM

Never heard of Vice news. I'll check it out. If you have any links in particular hook me up. I'm watching that docu as we type

They just scared off the cheetah and took its kill.

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no disrespect. but it's just human nature, people don't like being poverty stricken and wartorn.

None taken and I think that's a reasonable assumption. I am naive to what goes on over there, I was just focusing mainly on the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-05-2014, 10:06 PM

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Never heard of Vice news.

really? oh man have i got some **** for you.

edit - gimme till tomorrow tbh... i'm reaching my limit tonight as i have to work tomorrow. but i will get at you.

Chula Vista · 12-05-2014, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

I understand people are starving and everything, I see the commercials for it. I think it's sad, but without knowing how they feel I'm not going to feel sorry for them. Actually, even if I know how they feel I'm not going to feel sorry for them.

I'm hoping this is just a buzzed post and not how you truly feel deep down inside.

DwnWthVwls · 12-05-2014, 10:17 PM

I'm kind of dead inside.. defense mechanism and all. I mostly use my intellegence to sympathize and appreciate how others feel but I am pretty apathetic/indifferent (whatever you want to call it). It just kind of happened over the years, I hope it goes away one day. I'd like to feel again.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-05-2014, 10:29 PM

you might have it worse than me. i feel like i feel bad for people just not as bad as a lot of other people around me, i notice. but i'll never see a starving kid and feel like "**** it i don't care." part of me will always feel like man this world is a bitch sometimes. i get desensitized basically by being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers... like i don't bother giving to the homeless cause **** they seem to spawn out of nowhere. but i'll still feel bad for them and hope they catch some sort of lucky break.

The Batlord · 12-05-2014, 11:14 PM

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Google Image: "Starvation Vulture"

If that picture doesn't make you cry you're not human.

I looked that up on the photographer's Wikipedia page, and saw that one of his fellow photogs had a different account of the story...

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Alternative account of the photograph[edit]
João Silva, a Portuguese photojournalist based in South Africa who accompanied Carter to Sudan, gave a different version of events in an interview with Japanese journalist and writer Akio Fujiwara that was published in Fujiwara's book The Boy who Became a Postcard (絵葉書にされた少年 - Ehagaki ni sareta shōnen).[5]

According to Silva, Carter and Silva travelled to Sudan with the United Nations aboard Operation Lifeline Sudan and landed in Southern Sudan on 11 March 1993. The UN told them that they would take off again in 30 minutes (the time necessary to distribute food), so they ran around looking to take shots. The UN started to distribute corn and the women of the village came out of their wooden huts to meet the plane. Silva went looking for guerrilla fighters, while Carter strayed no more than a few meters from the plane.

Again according to Silva, Carter was quite shocked as it was the first time that he had seen a famine situation and so he took many shots of the suffering children. Silva also started to take photos of children on the ground as if crying, which were not published. The parents of the children were busy taking food from the plane, so they had left their children only briefly while they collected the food. This was the situation for the girl in the photo taken by Carter. A vulture landed behind the girl. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 meters. He took a few more photos before chasing the bird away.

Two Spanish photographers who were in the same area at that time, José María Luis Arenzana and Luis DaVilla, without knowing the photograph of Kevin Carter, took a picture in a similar situation. As recounted on several occasions, it was a feeding center, and the vultures came from a manure pit waste:

"We took him and Pepe Arenzana to Ayod, where most of the time were in a feeding center where locals go. At one end of the enclosure, was a dump where waste and was pulling people to defecate. As these children are so weak and malnourished they are going ahead giving the impression that they are dead. As part of the fauna there are vultures that go for these remains. So if you grab a telephoto crush the child's perspective in the foreground and background and it seems that the vultures will eat it, but that's an absolute hoax, perhaps the animal is 20 meters away."

Does it makes me a bad person that I enjoy ruining another person's cherished sad fest?

Chula Vista · 12-05-2014, 11:33 PM

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Does it makes me a bad person that I enjoy ruining another person's cherished sad fest?

F*ck me for feeling bad about that photo for all of these years.

**Frownland** · 12-05-2014, 11:48 PM

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I looked that up on the photographer's Wikipedia page, and saw that one of his fellow photogs had a different account of the story...

Does it makes me a bad person that I enjoy ruining another person's cherished sad fest?

But he committed suicide because of it?

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-05-2014, 11:50 PM

maybe i'm missing something... why isn't the photo sad anymore?

GuD · 12-05-2014, 11:58 PM

But just think about it.

If we were all hermaphrodites we could just bang each other like all day long. It would be fantastic. And if you're lonely but unambitious you could bang yourself and have the same experience more or less. I think it's a great idea. This whole sad-sack stuff is serious business but so is this whole everyone-being-a-hermaphrodite-and-having-orgies.

12-05-2014, 11:58 PM	#80 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	But just think about it. If we were all hermaphrodites we could just bang each other like all day long. It would be fantastic. And if you're lonely but unambitious you could bang yourself and have the same experience more or less. I think it's a great idea. This whole sad-sack stuff is serious business but so is this whole everyone-being-a-hermaphrodite-and-having-orgies. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

12-05-2014, 10:29 PM	#75 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	you might have it worse than me. i feel like i feel bad for people just not as bad as a lot of other people around me, i notice. but i'll never see a starving kid and feel like "** it i don't care." part of me will always feel like man this world is a bitch sometimes. i get desensitized basically by being overwhelmed by the sheer numbers... like i don't bother giving to the homeless cause ** they seem to spawn out of nowhere. but i'll still feel bad for them and hope they catch some sort of lucky break.

12-05-2014, 11:50 PM	#79 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	maybe i'm missing something... why isn't the photo sad anymore?