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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-10 11:24 AM
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1. Unfortunetly it seems suicide is in much of pop culture.
Edited on Sun Nov-14-10 11:27 AM by RandomThoughts
It is in many videos, you will notice the red tag on the arm of the lady in the behind blue eyes video, the red wrist bands on the Nina 99 balloons, the bandage white ones on a Dire strait song. And in many other places like movies, the 187 clip, the Hustler movie, the ending of one of the terminator films, ending of fight club, Thelma and Louis. Although it could be a comment on not fearing death when something looks a bit difficult, not actually about suicide in some interpretations of some of those cases. But the self action is a bad thought on that topic. Some can think of it as taking a path that does not seem to have a way out, but if you think it is right, but not with hurting oneself or anyone else, but sometimes other people hurt people in those situations.


Suicide is wrong in my view, and even worse when also hurting people. I try to ignore most of that, since some of it is from interpretations I disagree with, and would rather find the better stuff in films, but unfortunately much bad gets into the clips also, and some might see that stuff that way.

The only good time I can think of where that was that was in a movie was where Robyn Williams went in to save his wife after a terrible situation like that. There is a way to see it as people thinking what you are doing is a no win situation also, that can be part of it, but suicide is wrong especially when it is used to hurt other people.

It actually fits community over individual in a philosophical view, but misses the faith and reason of there being a way to get something done without having to hurt yourself or someone else, if something tells you to hurt yourself, don't listen to it, that is not a better message in my view.
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