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Topic: Something horrible on TV
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shamrock227
Knowflake Posts: 225
From: Is a Pisces ever really anywhere?
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted November 03, 2002 11:13 PM
 
This is pretty sick. I was flipping through the channels today and stopped at what I thought was a nature show. Two deer walking through the woods, one leading the other, pretty happy music playing in the background. The lead deer stops. The other walks up next to it. They nuzzle noses. Camera pans to the right... Two little fawns jumping around playing with each other. Camera pans left.... Pretty music still playing. Big Daddy deer walking up to the others. Narrator comes in "and then you see the biggest Buck you've ever seen".... **BLAM** (voices in the background cheering) THEY BLEW HIM AWAY!!!!!!!!! I was apparently watching some sicko hunting show!
Seeing as how I am so calm, cool, and collected at all times - I was running around the house yelling eeewwww, eeeewwwww, eeeeewwwww, they shot him!! I was a 'little' upset about that. I still cry during Bambi and that's just a cartoon. Seeing this in real life really upset me.Has anything like that happened to you? You think you're watching something nice - then WHAMMO! it turns out to be something horrific? IP: Logged |
shamrock227
Knowflake Posts: 225
From: Is a Pisces ever really anywhere?
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted November 04, 2002 08:14 AM
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Mercy
Knowflake Posts: 616
From: Of Elvenkind
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted November 04, 2002 09:56 AM
Oh Sham I know exactly what you mean. I am extremely sensitive and hardly cannot watch any tv anymore, only the sweet stuff.
Whenever I see animals suffer (and humans or any other living creature) I feel as if I am in their 'world', I feel as one with them and obviously feel terrible and cry my eyes out and want to ease their pain instantly. Like when I saw those mad cows on tv some time ago (mad cow disease). One of them couldn't hardly stand on his feet and was struggling. Oh my God! I couldn't watch it. This counts for all suffering and yes also other things/entities like trees.Suffering to me seems something so not necessary like something we don't have to go through. I don't know how to explain. Even little flies I have it with (I welcome them when one enters my house  ). Like I am transforming myself into their world. It is too much to bear sometimes when I witness them suffering. So yes, I know what you mean! Btw I am also a vegetarian. I just don't know how hunters can live with themselves, or I mean how can they do this job? Though I won't judge them.
But my sensitivity is also sometimes asleep. These times I can bear it much easier. But I know the time will come I will be awake all the time. Won't be long.  IP: Logged |
shamrock227
Knowflake Posts: 225
From: Is a Pisces ever really anywhere?
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted November 04, 2002 11:47 AM
It is just awful. I live in a part of NY where it's still pretty woodsy. And during this time of year you can hear the deer hunters' guns. Everytime I hear a shot I always think "I hoped you missed and the deer got away". Maybe that's not nice of me, but we have a zillion supermarkets around so it's not like these guys "need" the meat.Years ago, when my parents first moved up here, there were no houses behind them and the hunters would come right through their yard! In the past 5 years, since I moved nearby, there has been some growth so they can't do that anymore. -- I used to have some fun when I would come to visit them though. They had a huge dog that looked like he could rip your head off (if that thought ever occurred to him) but he was the sweetest dog in the world. All he wanted out of life was pets and treats. But anyone who didn't know him wouldn't know that. All they'd see was a huge dog charging at them. So, when the horrible hunter people would come near, I'd let Max out the door. He'd run up to play with the men outside and they'd all take off like their tails were on fire  (I didn't worry about him getting shot -- he was roped to the property line, so he couldn't chase them beyond there). IP: Logged |
pearly
Knowflake Posts: 555
From: Neptune, Milky Way, Universe
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted November 04, 2002 04:14 PM
Shamrock, I totally feel you. The horrors on TV are beyond terrible. I don't watch TV at all. I catch shows when I am at other people's houses and I will only watch funny or dramatic shows... I am repulsed completely by violence of any kind.
As an example, I was watching HBO with a friend and there was a prison documentary on. They were interviewing the inmates etc. etc.. Well, it turns out that two of them stabbed a man to death in prison and they had it videotaped on the prison cameras in up-close detail and gore.... so HBO AIRS IT!!! It was unedited... the whole murder was broadcast and it was REAL, not Hollywood (which is just as bad in my opinion). I was so disturbed by this and cried... I mean what is society thinking??
Then we wonder about the amount of violence in everyday life. This sort of thing de-values life and de-sensitizes people. I honestly feel that violence is exacerbated by violent TV and movies and excessive media hype and focus on negativity.
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