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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: pburn on January 22, 2008, 10:04:33 pm
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Heath Ledger is dead. HEATH LEDGER. IS. DEAD.
http://perezhilton.com/2008-01-22-rip-39
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_ledger#Death
http://www.tmz.com/2008/01/22/heath-ledger-is-dead/
Why.
Jesus, I wanted his autograph so bad. I wanted to go out and get a cast signed Dark Knight poster with his name on it. I missed out on Pavoratti, Arthur Miller, so many people.... But Ledger, so young...
I AM SO FUCKING PISSED
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Ugh that sucks :(
He was starting to rise up too, shit. He went from being a nobody to some really amazing performances pretty fast
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I don't have any personal attachment to him at all, but this is still a death you wouldn't expect. How......weird....
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Man that's really sad.
He was so good in A Knights Tale.
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holy shit. I never saw this one coming.
RIP.
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I want to know just what kind of pills were "strewn around him." This may not be a suicide.
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Oh man! This is so fucked up! Like I really thought he would be like a GREAT new guy, with Brokeback Mountain and Dark Knight and all. SHIT
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Ugh holy shit, that sucks. he just didn't seem like that kind of guy???
He was great in Knights Tale. ) : ):
RIP.
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Shitty. He was one of my favorite actors.
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Yeah, this is pretty shit. ;/
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This is so fucked.
I mean...fuck man, heath ledger? its just..out of the blue and fuck never expected it.
I guess, this new movie would end up being something like the crow eh
fuken hell...
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wait, he was found in Mary-Kate's apartment?
what the.
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man
the wiki has been completely changed to WAS
that's really, really sad
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yep wikipedia is the quickest updated obituary in the world
this sucks and was pretty OUT OF THE BLUE which makes it suck more. really weird.
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plot twist in life!
also, another one bites the dust!
also, also, sad stuff.
Edit: SHUT THE FUCK PSYBURN, YOU ALREADY MADE YOUR POINT
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I guess I am weird because I have never heard of him before (although his face looks a bit familiar). Yeah, that Mary-Kate Olsen part is a little intriguing. Was he living in an apartment OWNED BY her or did they live there together and fuck each other all day? Well, untimely deaths are always tragic :sad:
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He was too young man. Too young.
rip Heath
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WOW. What a shock. I can't believe it. I'm just... speechless..
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Man, I can't fucking believe it. He was just becoming a star, and ..shit.
I am so speechless right now it seriously hurts.
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fuck
i don't even know what to say here
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Really wierd death, Heath ledger played a heroin addict in a movie called Candy and that was pretty anti-drugs, heaps of people died and his wife had a miscarridge and shit so it's strange he would let himself go in the same way as a character he has played.
Edit: I read it was perscription pills so hard to say if he was addicted or what.
He has a 2 year old daughter.
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It wasn't heroin from what I know. It was sleeping pills - but nothing has been confirmed so it could be anything... but I seriously doubt it's heroin.
Terrible waste anyway.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKa-aDga1fE
This clearly shows a drug addicted Heath. Death may not be drugs, but yeah.
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That sucks, I guess, but every time one of these famous-people death posts comes up, I can't help but not really care much :(
Like, after I close this I am probably going to completely forget it ever happened.
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Its scary, he looks almost like the crow in the movie.
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oh well!
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I liked the movies A Knight's Tale, and 10 Things I Hate About You, but I never followed the cult of celebrity well enough to have known that he was in those films.
Even (if not especially) celebrities can use drugs poorly. :( Such a silly way to go.
EDIT: Where the hell does heroin factor into this equation?? All the sources you've posted suggest sleeping pills, and say nothing about heroin.
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this is crazy, i JUST started to take a huge interest in heath with the new clips of the upcoming Dark Knight. when he was first announced for it i said "no way" but then i saw what he could do and now this...damn
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this is clearly an instance of god punishing someone for being sympathetic to homosexuals
edit: seriously though, i was kinda looking forward to seeing how he played the joker in the new batman movie to see whether or not i could write him off completely as a worthless actor. guess that doesn't really matter now, although it'd be pretty damn tragic if it turns out that he WAS, in fact, a very good actor. i've been genuinely indifferent to his performance in everything i've ever seen him in, but that's not exactly a knock on the guy given how much i genuinely dislike actors.
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Wow...holy shit, I can't believe this. I mean......I don't know what to say.
FUCK. I'll remember him by watching him in The Dark Knight. ;(
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I've never understood why people put so much emotional investment into celebrities. From reading the posts in this topic, it seems like there are people who are genuinely upset about his passing beyond the simple tragedy of young death.
It isn't as if this person was some sort of savior or saint. He was simply an entertainer. It would be more understandable if he was a musician or an artist whose unique perspective and method were forever lost, but he was simply a screen actor. He was notable for performing the plays of others in one of the more base and simple mediums available. So, what I'm seeing here is people grieving over the fact that they won't be able to see his mildly attractive mug on the silver screen anymore, since I can't imagine that he had any sort of particularly profound impact on the "art" of acting.
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Eh, people get attatched. I guess it's like having a friend die. Celebrities INVADE OUR LIVES through the medium of film.
I'm genuinely upset because he looked good as the Joker and it's sad he won't be him anymore! People are going to miss the talent as much as they are going to miss the man.
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i'm pretty shocked by this news. i kind of liked the guy in all the things i've seen him in, which isn't much really but i thought he might have had some good roles ahead of him.
this is just really surprising. poor guy.
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Wow.. this really sucks :( I was like "wha!!" when msn news popped up...I've seen 10 things I hate about you so many times, it's like part of my childhood!
He was so young too, and his poor daughter.
It's a shame he won't be in the batman movie, I was looking forward to see how he would portray the joker.
RIP Heath :(
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IMDB says that they were in post-production for the dark knight, so I'm assuming that means the movie was done? Unless post-production doesn't mean what I think it means...
I didn't really like the movies I saw him in, but it is sad he died so young :(
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The filming of Dark Knight is completely done.
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Yeah, if you checked his earlier interview about the movie, he said the movie was done.
That's the last movie we'll see him in, though.
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Pretty decent role to be rememebered as.
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Man this sucks he could have probably gone on to a lot of big things!
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I want to know just what kind of pills were "strewn around him." This may not be a suicide.
Last thing I read now was that they pills were infact not strewn around as first reported.
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This is really unfortunate. Heath had a lot of potential and its especially sad that he died before he and the acting community could realize it.
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I was so pissed. Heath was a great actor among all the bad.
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Lots of people on eBay are cashing in on this Ledger craze. Autographs that hardly sold on eBay yesterday for around $10 are going for like $200 now.
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Man, I love how all you can think about is AUTOGRAPHS
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R.I.P. :sad:
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yeah psyburn you're being a stupid fuck
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Young good lookin' guy with a bright acting future... loved him in the Patriot..
It wasn't suicide reportedly, just an accidental overdose on sleeping pills and he had pneumonia when he died apparently...
RIP - I liked his acting skills
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Lots of people on eBay are cashing in on this Ledger craze. Autographs that hardly sold on eBay yesterday for around $10 are going for like $200 now.
Why dont you go and make a tribute film like you always intend to do with people and their misfortunes.
Seriously...
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Pretty decent role to be rememebered as.
i too would like to be remembered as a clown that kills people.
also: a gay cowboy.
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i too would like to be remembered as a clown that kills people.
also: a gay cowboy.
instead you will be remembered as indian who argues with everyone
its all good though
I would love to be a killer clown
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I would love to be a killer clown
Spot reserved for Tim Curry...
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i too would like to be remembered as a clown that kills people.
also: a gay cowboy.
Although I found this pretty funny you have to admit that the Joker is a pretty fucking iconic character!
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instead you will be remembered as indian who argues with everyone
and you will be remembered as dragon x you retard.
basically it's sad he died yeah, but come on no serious actor wants to be remembered as a comic book character.
Although I found this pretty funny you have to admit that the Joker is a pretty fucking iconic character!
eh. first off no one has seen him in this role that he is SO GOOD in, and idk if I was an actor I would not like to be known as "that guy who played the Joker".
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I don't know him well, but this is obviously upsetting.
I'm also upset that this will be the only 'This Generation' Batman movie we'll see the Joker in, most likely! Unless they recast it, I guess, but...
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maybe I am totally bonkers but isn't this the first time a Batman movie is repeating villains?
they will probably go through the gamut again before another Joker is recast and we'll all be old by then.
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i wonder if they killed joker off in the end of dark night, because i seriously hate when they get new people to play the same old enemies... it never works right...
but other then what i personally feel
this sucks, he's dead, bleh bleh bleh.
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maybe I am totally bonkers but isn't this the first time a Batman movie is repeating villains?
they will probably go through the gamut again before another Joker is recast and we'll all be old by then.
I thought the movie was post production, isn't it still coming out?
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I thought the movie was post production, isn't it still coming out?
He meant in a different movie.
They won't be using the joker for a long, long time (hopefully) so there's no worrying about Heath Ledger not playing him again in the next movie.
edit: also, whoever jumped all over psyburn up there, shut the hell up. You read far too much into his statement. He wasn't upset because he didn't get to sell his autograph, he was just stating that other people were cashing in.
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Yeah, it was finished two months ago...so they won't have to recast the Joker.
Anyway, this sucks, etc. I haven't seen much of his other work other than Monster's Ball and Brokeback...but he wasn't a horrible actor by any means.
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Death its our tail, our tail.
Everything that we gain, fame and fortune serves no purpose in the end.
He's free from the struggle and demands of living.
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Death its our tail, our tail.
Everything that we gain, fame and fortune serves no purpose in the end.
He's free from the struggle and demands of living.
Police think they can see me lean
I'm tint so it ain't easy to be seen
When you see me ride by they can see the glean
And my shine on the deck and the TV screen
Ride with a new chick, she like hold up
Next to the playstation controller is a full clip and my pistola
Turn a jacker into a coma
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I don't even know who this guy is...but one of my friends from school has also commented on this. So idk condolenses and whatever.
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Reminds me of how Bruce Lee died from taking headache tablets or something
What's even more shocking is how Dark Knight reminds me The Crow in some ways
- Heath's Joker in some way reminds me Brendan Lee's Eric Draven character
- A stunt man had died filming TDK and a whole gang of mishaps happened during The Crow (not many similarities there, but yeah, cursed film set).
I'm glad that he finished his scenes for the Joker in TDK, because looking at his prescence in the trailers I knew he was going to be the highlight of the film. It's just an unexpected shock that he died, and his career was so promising.
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Someone drew this in respects to Heath Ledger and in honor in his role as the Joker. It's beautifully sad, in a way. (http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8898/54148996ep7.jpg)
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I've never understood why people put so much emotional investment into celebrities. From reading the posts in this topic, it seems like there are people who are genuinely upset about his passing beyond the simple tragedy of young death.
It isn't as if this person was some sort of savior or saint. He was simply an entertainer. It would be more understandable if he was a musician or an artist whose unique perspective and method were forever lost, but he was simply a screen actor. He was notable for performing the plays of others in one of the more base and simple mediums available. So, what I'm seeing here is people grieving over the fact that they won't be able to see his mildly attractive mug on the silver screen anymore, since I can't imagine that he had any sort of particularly profound impact on the "art" of acting.
actually actors ARE artists with unique methods, believe it or not. maybe less so in recent hollywood movies, but there is as much art behind acting as there is music.
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Shocked the hell out of me, and definitely very unfortunate.
I haven't seen much of his acting, but I did like the guy.
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I just saw this at a glance on the tv news, and couldn't believe it. I thought I'd actually misheard what the report said, so I rushed to my computer and googled his name. Needless to say, I'm still in shock.
Heath Ledger has long been one of my favorite Australian actors. The only roles of his that I didn't like was A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain. Everything else (including the otherwise loathsome '10 things I hate about you') have been stellar performances. The first film I saw Ledger in was the Australian drama Two Hands which, to date, is one of the finest Aussie films I've seen. I've been really excited about seeing him as the Joker (though I was skeptical when it was first announced), but now I wonder if it may be a little uneasy to watch.
Sad as it is to say, rest in peace.
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I was pretty distraught all day about this. My assistant manager had left at 5PM today, and about 15 minutes later he calls up to tell me the news. I didn't think he was serious at first (he is the kind of person who would tell me someone I liked died just to see me get upset for a minute), but he seemed pretty upset about it as well (we are both pretty into movies and were really looking forward to The Dark Knight). After that I just couldn't believe it. Not only was Heath a semi-favorite actor of mine, but he was so young, and I just didn't know he would be into drugs enough to overdose (this is before I knew it was prescription sleeping pills). He also has a two year old daughter with Michelle Williams, who I can only hope grows up to know her father was a great actor, a great man and loved by everyone. It's a shame when a parent dies leaving such a young child behind.
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seriously?
your boss phoned you at work to tell you this?
× 01:22 × <+Sarah> i can just imagine that phone call
× 01:22 × <+Sarah> 'wack... i got some bad news buddy...'
× 01:22 × <+Sarah> 'what?'
× 01:22 × <+Sarah> '...heath... he's dead...'
× 01:22 × <+Sarah> 'you... wha... NO!!!'
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alright wackfiend is megagay and we all know this so
MOVING ON
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2212382439_601e877319_o.gif)
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alright wackfiend is megagay and we all know this so
MOVING ON
Yeah, emotions and feelings are queer and stuff. Let's go bang some chicks.
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I'm gonna miss Ledger, despite my not liking him as the Joker.
I was the ONLY person to know who he was at work today (lol greasemonkeys), and after explaining to everyone what he's been involved in, the general opinion was that god had struck him down for "doing bubbleboy in the ass."
It's really gonna suck watching Batman knowing that the best actor in the movie (save morgan freeman) is no more.
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"Bubbleboy in the ass" wtf.
Its fuked over here, I mean ...don't people feel SOMETHING? fuck.
Its not the fact he was a an actor and all that, the fact that a young man arguably on the prime of his career died for no fukin reason and has left another child in the world fatherless.
Fuck people, stop acting as if you don't have feelings.
idiots.
((sorry im ranting :P))
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why aren't you upset about the thousands of aborigines forced to live in poverty by your govt
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You think I'm not? Besides, thats way, way off topic.
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Well it's not that we don't have feelings, but I personally don't feel much attachment to him. I mean, I suppose it is sad he died so young, but no more sad than all of the other people who die young, younger, or in many more worse situations throughout the world all the time. I don't WISH he were dead, but I really knew almost nothing about him. I will continue to appreciate his acting abilities by enjoying his movies, but I'm not about to shed a tear.
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yeah i think maybe you are confusing a lack of feelings (although really this does not bother me any more than any other random stranger's death that i hear about on an almost daily basis. what kind of reaction do you expect? SUCKS but i did not know him and thousands of people die every day so what am i supposed to say when he was mostly an average actor?) with our amusement over wackfiend being "d... distraught" and wandering listlessly around his hometown at the news of heath ledger's death until finally, finding that his feet had carried him home of their own volition, he came inside and put up a joker avatar as a symbol of the undying respect he feels for the actor and the goofy comic book characters he portrayed so well
although honestly i am kind of bothered a little bit by quotes like "a great man, loved by everyone" and "so speechless it hurts." REALLY dudes? it's heath ledger guys, not henry fonda. he did a knight's tale. it just strikes me as odd how random okay actor overdosing on sleeping pills is somehow being received as "tragic......" when even by the standards of cinema this isn't an especially big loss, let alone by the standards of ACTUAL TRAGEDY (ie things that matter (FUCK CELEB WORSHIP FUCK HOLLYWOOD FUCK THE MEDIA (ALSO CORPORATIONS))).
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Yeah I admit it was hasteily written that post.
Still hasn't sunk it as well, one of my favorite actors and well I lived in perth for awhile too. One of those people you'd never imagine dead is all
Sorry about that guys, but as an aussie I can honestly say i've been affected...surprising though, someone said to me whats wrong with society! and I was like yeah man, sympathy's hard to come by and hes like Nah, I mean..Who doesn't know that tailing means getting laid I mean wtf.
:fogetnah:
What a world.
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I'm rather sad about this, as to be expected. I always did like him, with Knight's Tale being one of my favourite movies back in the day (yeah, mad gay, but whatever). I'm glad he managed to finish the Dark Knight, but it's a shame that he didn't stick around until he'd finished Terry Gilliam's next movie next month.
Ride out in peace, cowboy. :fogetsad:
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I've never understood why people put so much emotional investment into celebrities. From reading the posts in this topic, it seems like there are people who are genuinely upset about his passing beyond the simple tragedy of young death.
It isn't as if this person was some sort of savior or saint. He was simply an entertainer. It would be more understandable if he was a musician or an artist whose unique perspective and method were forever lost, but he was simply a screen actor. He was notable for performing the plays of others in one of the more base and simple mediums available. So, what I'm seeing here is people grieving over the fact that they won't be able to see his mildly attractive mug on the silver screen anymore, since I can't imagine that he had any sort of particularly profound impact on the "art" of acting.
Dude, don't come into the topic to post shit like this. I'm genuinely upset about his death both as a fan of his and as an Australian in general. You have every right to not understand how people feel about it but to come in here and post that is bullshit.
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Jeebus, I'm Australian and this hits fairly hard in terms of our acting scene in Hollywood. He was a pretty great actor - I really liked him in Brokeback Mountain, Blackrock and 10 Things I Hate About You (hey, it was decent for a romantic comedy) and I heard he was also great in Candy. The saddest thing is how young he was, and how little of his potential he'd realised in the time he was alive. The film world will miss him.
It's just a pretty shocking death - one that actually hits home. Piss off and go be an elitist somewhere else PandaBear. He hardly had any of the celebrity 'drama' which seems to personify many of them so it's not like anyone worshipped him like that. A good member of any medium should be grieved, especially one with a lot of potential that died young.
why aren't you upset about the thousands of aborigines forced to live in poverty by your govt
That's so unrelated it's retarded.
Also does anyone know what type of pills killed him? 'Sleeping pills' is pretty damn vague.
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The thing about Heath Ledger was that he was beginning to emerge as a serious actor - even hints of it showed back with his supporting role in Monster's Ball and up to his last performance (other than Joker) as Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There". But he really did have the potential to pull off daring performances - all the acclaim and accolades he got for Brokeback Mountain alone could show that - and I really thought he should won the Best Actor Oscar that year instead of just being nominated. To PandaBear, I do believe it takes an artist to form a poignant, full-fleshed character out of a 20-page source material as Ledger did in BBM. He really did pull that role off, man, and moved a lot of people with it - how is that not being an artist? And it's a shame we cannot see him do it again in the future.
So I'd put him above 'average actor' and it's always sad when talent like this is lost.
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That's so unrelated it's retarded.
no it isn't
some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day
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Holy fucking shit, I remember reading about him yesterday and now HOLYSHIT, A FEW HOURS AFTER THAT HE'S DEAD
ghhghggh adsgasdfasgdfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
Rest in peace, Heath Ledger...... :(
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no it isn't
some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day
Oh -please- stop acting like -you- do.
This topic is about heath, if we wanted to talk about 80% of the worlds population then we would make a topic and then by all means spill your heart out, but its not.
Ledger's probably done alot more things to do with charity then you mate anyway.
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some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day
Who are you to make that judgment? What a fucking presumptuous generalisation. You have no idea how anyone here feels about that issue, so to bring it up like that is so fucking incorrect that I honestly don't know what to say to you.
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you know, it'd be nice to have one death topic where this didnt happen.
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bunnymilk is alive
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I can't decide who needs to shut up more, so uh....
Don't talk about aborigines..... and if you don't want to write your own poetic representation of your love for Heath Ledger in this topic, then please don't post or you'll incite VIOLENCE.
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I saw this on the news last night, this is incredibly sad. I really respected Ledger as an actor and a person, and for him to go so young is a real tragedy. =(
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no it isn't
some big name actor dies you get really upset but you don't give a shit about thousands of people who are struggling to live every day
When did I ever say I didn't give a shit?
The thread is about Heath Ledger dying, not about the state of aboriginal affairs in Australia. It's dismal, I know, but bringing it up as some kind of defense for a stupid comment is totally out of place in this context.
The aborigine issue is something a hell of a lot deeper than Heath Ledger dying - don't put words in my mouth (or on my screen).
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yeah i think maybe you are confusing a lack of feelings (although really this does not bother me any more than any other random stranger's death that i hear about on an almost daily basis. what kind of reaction do you expect? SUCKS but i did not know him and thousands of people die every day so what am i supposed to say when he was mostly an average actor?) with our amusement over wackfiend being "d... distraught" and wandering listlessly around his hometown at the news of heath ledger's death until finally, finding that his feet had carried him home of their own volition, he came inside and put up a joker avatar as a symbol of the undying respect he feels for the actor and the goofy comic book characters he portrayed so well
although honestly i am kind of bothered a little bit by quotes like "a great man, loved by everyone" and "so speechless it hurts." REALLY dudes? it's heath ledger guys, not henry fonda. he did a knight's tale. it just strikes me as odd how random okay actor overdosing on sleeping pills is somehow being received as "tragic......" when even by the standards of cinema this isn't an especially big loss, let alone by the standards of ACTUAL TRAGEDY (ie things that matter (FUCK CELEB WORSHIP FUCK HOLLYWOOD FUCK THE MEDIA (ALSO CORPORATIONS))).
I see what you mean. But I think many of us are sad about his death because he was (in our opinion, and at least mines) a promising actor and many of us were looking forward to his upcoming performance as the Joker, and what else he was capable of. Of course when a celebrity dies you'll have people shuffling around all teary eyed like their dog just got ran over, but many people I've spoken to are disappointed because he died before his acting talent could be realized one way or the other.
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hahah all the ads are for grief counseling.
(http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/57278/2ce7df2e240c249ff5a39a435372c9b9126957a6.jpg)
w00t
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I still think it's sad in the sense that he was a dude who was achieving his life's goal of becoming a famous actor and even if we don't want to become actors I'm sure there's things we all aspire to and meanwhile shitty people like the producers of Epic Movie are unharmed
so it's more like HOPES AND DREAMS have died a little
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oh please, not them again, I can't believe these people are still able to do shit like that.
I?m really sad the Heath, I liked his role on brokeback, and was looking to his role as the joker...
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Fucking american hick ass sons of fuking inbred bitch ass mutha fucks.
What a bunch of jesus dicksuckers.
I hear they "picket" soldiers funerals too.
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yeah, I can't believe they still allow them to do that.
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oh shit, it's those people again
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/WBC_-_Dead_Miners_2006.jpeg)
seriously now what
Jesus fucking Christ, they have fucking crossed the line time and time again, and yet....
I don't get it. You Americans can buy guns right? I mean, you can LEGALLY PURCHASE THINGS THAT CAN KILL,
yet you use them on 1000-pound hogs instead of these guys? Fuck. Ffffffuck.
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yeah, I can't believe they still allow them to do that.
EXACTLY MY POINT
EDIT2:
Wikipedia links this image to an article on freedom of speech. This is a pretty fucking serious issue!
EDIT3:
After long hours of meditating I have concluded that the best way to deal with them is to refrain from paying any attention to them :fogetbackflip:
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or just beat the shit out of them, that would probably work also.
I know violence doesn't solve anything, but when someone is showing that much disrespect and hate at someone else's funreal, mocking the death of that human being and stating that the person is now "roting in hell" and "defying gods word" with surviving family members and friends present, for Christ sake they deserve to get a good beating.
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Seems more and more that this was an accident. New reports confirms that he was found lying in bed in a normal sleeping position. Seems that he took some pills to sleep, overdoes and then died, but the last part is just something to speculate about.
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Seeing new talent die prematurely is always a sad thing.
So long space gay cowboy. =(
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Fucking american hick ass sons of fuking inbred bitch ass mutha fucks.
What a bunch of jesus dicksuckers.
I hear they "picket" soldiers funerals too.
Anybody who thinks Westboro is a serious church made of serious religious people is the fucking inbred bitch ass mutha fuck. Not only have they been classified as a hate group by the United States Government but they are also not recognized as a religious group at all even by other churches. The members themselves state that they are not bible believers and consider themselves a bastardized form of Calvinism. They're essentially the KKK without the hoods who protest "peacefully" so police don't mess with them but they're still hate mongers who have nothing to do with religion at all.
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well sorry etc... etc... etc...
the only point i wanted to make was that it's a little absurd to come into an obituary topic about a 2nd rate actor that nobody here knows and read: IT HURTS
moving on: i kinda like the god hates fags people. they draw attention to the perils of fundamentalism. hopefully, one day they'll picket the wrong funeral and get pumped full of lead. then they can go to hell with everyone else who has hate in their soul.
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Wikipedia links this image to an article on freedom of speech. This is a pretty fucking serious issue!
Freedom of speech. It's not serious, it's just how the country works. If we let them picket, people hate us for supporting hate mongers. If we don't let them picket then it makes us look like a bigoted country. It's lose lose either way but like you said the important thing is to stop paying attention to them and eventually they'll give up.
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Fanatics never give up.
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Freedom of speech. It's not serious, it's just how the country works. If we let them picket, people hate us for supporting hate mongers. If we don't let them picket then it makes us look like a bigoted country. It's lose lose either way but like you said the important thing is to stop paying attention to them and eventually they'll give up.
This is why we should legalise fist through throat
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Their demonstrations don't fall under the protection of free speech. I'm pretty sure god has the grounds to sue them for libel.
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this isn't an especially big loss
Tell that to his family and his friends.
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Anybody who thinks Westboro is a serious church made of serious religious people is the fucking inbred bitch ass mutha fuck. Not only have they been classified as a hate group by the United States Government but they are also not recognized as a religious group at all even by other churches. The members themselves state that they are not bible believers and consider themselves a bastardized form of Calvinism. They're essentially the KKK without the hoods who protest "peacefully" so police don't mess with them but they're still hate mongers who have nothing to do with religion at all.
Serious? shit, I suppose they don't just go after gays then? (blacks ect) or are they just entirely homophobic?
Tell that to his family and his friends.
Very true.
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Tell that to his family and his friends.
uh, what's that have to do with any of us at all?
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uh, what's that have to do with any of us at all?
Everyone knows we are Heath Ledger's family and friends.
No, but really, there seems to be a large conflict with both sides shouting, "I think this way therefore you should too." Such as: "I like Heath and thought he was a great actor therefore you should all like and respect him and cry for his death and if you don't you are soulless and immoral." And then the other side shouting: "Heath was just a dumb actor you shouldn't like him or be upset with his death." And it's just pretty much a waste of time.
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jesus christ a lot of you people are really confused.
OH HEATH LEDGER AINT THAT IMPORTANT I AM NOT SAD!!
dude, fine. Now dont go saying the rest shouldn't feel bad about him either. Because every person affects every people in DIFFERENT ways. Some may be more emotionally attached, others aren't. Some like him better as an actor others may not.
it is ok to feel sad about it.
Now the poor african people suffering from starvation? That's another topic, go ahead and post a new thread about it, and we will feel very sad too (or not!).
Sentiments for Ledger's death and African starvation are NOT ahem MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
just fyi
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Don't you at all feel that death, rather than something to be scared of, should be recognized daily as it is the truth, it is the one thing we can really work off of.
Time passes, we age, we feel pain, we feel tired, but all the pain subsides in death. All of what we've gained is gone. All of our hard work is up in the air. In heaven if there is a heaven, do you think that we will be lugging our laptops and tv's by the ankle of our feet? If anything that would keep us weighed down, and maybe that's what ghost are, attached to living and haven't found the satisfaction of it yet.
That is besides what I am saying. I am actually okay with him dying, I feel he doesn't have to struggle to be anything anymore. Its either learn the truth now, or wait till death.
We're brought up in America to be something, to gain, to go to school in order to get a job and get money. All of that is meaningless if we die. The only thing that seems to mean of anything, is that I have pain, I suffer emotionally and physically, that is also real and that others suffer emotional and physical pain as well, but I have the wisdom to understand that all of this is temporary, and they do not, all I can show them is my love and care.
We take ourselves too serious, stop trying to take ourselves serious, we all end up as nothing. When we take ourselves seriously we are always trying to protect ourselves which manifests into lying, cheating, greed, hate, jealousy. We die and that's it. With just this wisdom can we satisfy-satiate our pain and finally be open to the lives of others.
All we can do is live through this time, possibly make an impact on someone's life. It still pains me to see my friends leave or leave my friends, or if they were to die, so is that hypocrisy? It doesn't matter, they had impact on my life, they cared about me and I cared about them, and I can't help but to feel for these people who were in my life.
We're upset about an actor dieing, it is a little shocking to hear, someone so young die so suddenly and out of the blue. It happens all the time. We are born and then we die, all of the in between somewhat doesn't matter in death, so instead of struggling, which is more hurtful in death, we should be at peace now, appreciate now, now our friends, this moment, the ground I stand on, the trees that stand tall. The one thing about nature that I love, is that I know it will never leave me.
Lets not make life harder to live through for ourselves and others, that is the same as taking away a life.
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Serious? shit, I suppose they don't just go after gays then? (blacks ect) or are they just entirely homophobic?
They claim to be completely homophobic (their church moto is "God hates fags") but they have been caught with racial slander although they've done less racist stuff lately because more Americans will hate you for being racist than they will for being homophobic. They are known anti-semites (another moto is "The only real Jews are Christians").
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Don't you at all feel that death, rather than something to be scared of, should be recognized daily as it is the truth, it is the one thing we can really work off of.
Time passes, we age, we feel pain, we feel tired, but all the pain subsides in death. All of what we've gained is gone. All of our hard work is up in the air. In heaven if there is a heaven, do you think that we will be lugging our laptops and tv's by the ankle of our feet? If anything that would keep us weighed down, and maybe that's what ghost are, attached to living and haven't found the satisfaction of it yet.
That is besides what I am saying. I am actually okay with him dying, I feel he doesn't have to struggle to be anything anymore. Its either learn the truth now, or wait till death.
We're brought up in America to be something, to gain, to go to school in order to get a job and get money. All of that is meaningless if we die. The only thing that seems to mean of anything, is that I have pain, I suffer emotionally and physically, that is also real and that others suffer emotional and physical pain as well, but I have the wisdom to understand that all of this is temporary, and they do not, all I can show them is my love and care.
We take ourselves too serious, stop trying to take ourselves serious, we all end up as nothing. When we take ourselves seriously we are always trying to protect ourselves which manifests into lying, cheating, greed, hate, jealousy. We die and that's it. With just this wisdom can we satisfy-satiate our pain and finally be open to the lives of others.
All we can do is live through this time, possibly make an impact on someone's life. It still pains me to see my friends leave or leave my friends, or if they were to die, so is that hypocrisy? It doesn't matter, they had impact on my life, they cared about me and I cared about them, and I can't help but to feel for these people who were in my life.
We're upset about an actor dieing, it is a little shocking to hear, someone so young die so suddenly and out of the blue. It happens all the time. We are born and then we die, all of the in between somewhat doesn't matter in death, so instead of struggling, which is more hurtful in death, we should be at peace now, appreciate now, now our friends, this moment, the ground I stand on, the trees that stand tall. The one thing about nature that I love, is that I know it will never leave me.
Lets not make life harder to live through for ourselves and others, that is the same as taking away a life.
Wow that's depressing
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I heard that the role of Joker was making it very hard for him to sleep at night (understandable considering he stayed alone in a hotel room for a month studying). It was also said that he had to take double his dosage of whatever prescription he was on to get even a good hour of sleep at night. I really hope and want to believe it was accidental, though narcotics may have been found in his system. It could still have been a mix of what he was prescribed and the narcotics that combined in a lethal way and still be accidental, so I hope they don't find anymore. I really just want to believe he had extreme difficulty with sleep and went a little too far trying to get a good night's rest. I, like some others here..., thought Heath to be a second rate actor for a long time. I didn't like him much and when they announced his part as Joker I just about completely lost interest in the new Batman series. Within the last month, though, I've seen all these clips of him as Joker and, granted no one has seen the full release yet, I felt like he did an amazing job and I absolutely cannot wait to see the film. It's sad that what could potentially be one of his best roles could also be what lead to his death (playing a psychotic serial killer takes its tole). His career was just beginning and I had high hopes for him. What's bad is The Dark Knight will probably gross more due to Heath's passing. I hope nobody rejoices for that...
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Religious Opinion and Bible Commentary on Current Events
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
NEWS RELEASE
'Brokeback Mountain' star
- Heath Ledger - is dead.
WBC will picket his funeral.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind; it is abomination." Lev. 18:22.
"For because of these things cometh the wrath
of God upon the children of disobedience." Eph.5:6.
Yes. WBC will picket this pervert's funeral, in religious protest and warning:
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked." Gal. 6:7.
Heath Ledger thought it was great fun defying God Almighty and His plain word; to wit: God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates the
sordid, tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit known as 'Brokeback Mountain' - and He hates all persons having anything whatsoever to do with it. Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there - beside which, nothing else about Heath Ledger is rerevant or consequential."
Edit: My bad I didn't realize this was posted already!
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It's depressing but it is what we have to deal with because it is the inevitable.
We're always trying to gain, and for what? You know.
Many of the worlds problems are because of that.
Also because we wish to protect our fragile lives.
But that is only because we take it so seriously,
we lie and cheat, and feel jealousy, hate and anger to protect ourselves.
It's all a bunch of fucking strategies to protect ourselves.
Now look at it globally, fear is our downfall, that is why terrorism works, it achieves nothing but chaos, their will be no peace achieved out of terrorism.
We develop strategies because our fears.
Collectively we add to all of the ills of the world.
We are all afraid of death, we try to ignore or prove that death can't stop us.
Just stop and understand your fears, you can root most of it because you value your life, because you are afraid of death.
When you understand death, and what it entails, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Understanding death occurs is liberation in life.
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Godot, let's put it this way, life is absurd, it doesn't have a point, you put a point to your life and then you just die, y'know?
I am easy with the world because I know that my existance is absurd, and so is yours, and so are everyone's reactions. Everything is meaningless.
In that way of thought, you'd be invincible to any sort of emotion. You wouldn't laugh, you wouldn't cry, you wouldn't feel happy nor sad.
But this is boring as fuck man.
And guess what, we humans like to complicate things a little bit, we like to have these things called emotions. Y'know, just to make life more interesting, even though it might get us more depressed, but the moments of happiness are moments that we celebrate hugely.
So fear of death is ok, because we decided to have emotions.
But guess what, life is much more simple than what we all make it to be. If we realise this, and understand how ridiculous and pointless life is, and how absurd are our existances, then why fear of death? That's pointless.
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Tell that to his family and his friends.
oh shut the fuck up. did you honestly just take ONE FRAGMENT OF A SENTENCE saying this isn't a gigantic loss for the film industry and try to spin it as "heh.... human life..... i didn't know him so it doesn't matter"
seriously rone rivendale? give me a fucking break.
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oh shut the fuck up. did you honestly just take ONE FRAGMENT OF A SENTENCE saying this isn't a gigantic loss for the film industry and try to spin it as "heh.... human life..... i didn't know him so it doesn't matter"
seriously rone rivendale? give me a fucking break.
yes, but on the other hand
rone rivendale
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well sorry etc... etc... etc...
the only point i wanted to make was that it's a little absurd to come into an obituary topic about a 2nd rate actor that nobody here knows and read: IT HURTS
So you make some half-assed apology and then post the same fucking thing as before? What a champ.
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I think this topic has served its purpose.
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hey guys when fred phelps dies who wants to picket his funeral
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News coming in: Olsen called a "security group" she knew in new york when the housekeeper rang -her- before waiting 15 minutes or so to call 911.
What an ass.
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internets.
It sucks that he died, he really was a good actor, and I'm sure he would have done a hell of a lot more serious films if this hadn't happened.
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Anybody who thinks Westboro is a serious church made of serious religious people is the fucking inbred bitch ass mutha fuck. Not only have they been classified as a hate group by the United States Government but they are also not recognized as a religious group at all even by other churches. The members themselves state that they are not bible believers and consider themselves a bastardized form of Calvinism. They're essentially the KKK without the hoods who protest "peacefully" so police don't mess with them but they're still hate mongers who have nothing to do with religion at all.
Yeah pretty much, but it just seems to me that they are just a random hate group that uses the "f(X)=God hates X" template, for reasons that I will never understand :(
moving on: i kinda like the god hates fags people. they draw attention to the perils of fundamentalism. hopefully, one day they'll picket the wrong funeral and get pumped full of lead. then they can go to hell with everyone else who has hate in their soul.
or they can stay in the ground, rotting the fuck away for all I care :fogetsmile:
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hey guys when fred phelps dies who wants to picket his funeral
I was planning on renting a dump truck, filling it with horse manure, and "accidentally" dropping the load off on his grave. Anyways, I can't say that this death has affected me, but I do find it disgusting what's been said about it on Fox News.
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I was shocked when I heard the news of this. I would say I am upset, but it hasn't really changed my life. I was a fan of a few of his movies and it's a shame he died so young.
It seems to be that people only really feel upset for lives lost of people that they knew in some way. Whether this be in real life, through the media or internet etc...
I am emphatic to those who die everyday injust, but you can't let every single person who dies affect you. When some dies who you feel you have some connection with (friend, entertainer etc) then you are more prone to feel emotion toward them.
I think this has already been brought up, but if the lead singer or whatever from your favourite band died, then you would probably feel some sort of emotion. It may not be floods of tears, but you would be upset.
Those who were fans of Heath Ledger's acting would feel the same way. No more hate please.
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So you make some half-assed apology and then post the same fucking thing as before? What a champ.
well, did you ever consider the fact that I wasn't trying to apologize??? I didn't say a damn thing wrong, you guys are just too sensitive. My original post (well, actually my second) was simply stating that I DONT UNDERSTAND why you guys care.
Grow some balls and quit being so damned sensitive.
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This is to bad, he was a fine rising actor, and I am sure his Joker will be excellent.
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GB why do you care so much about the aborigines when there are way more people who are worse off than them. Who gives a shit about them when there are BIGGER FISH TO FRY??????
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OK, as with all death topics, this has led to a PEOPLE WHO CARE vs. PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE CARE fight.
I'm going to lock this because all I see happening is pointless arguments. I will close this with a quote by a famous man. his name is Konix B. Weatherford:
what is there not to understand? He was an entertainer and he had fans and so naturally his fans are going to be upset when they hear that he died suddenly at a young age.