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Originally posted by vkey08
Children are seeing this and because it's on the internet, think it's 100% fact, decide that life isn't worth living and they commit suicide.
Originally posted by BlueMule
Originally posted by vkey08
Children are seeing this and because it's on the internet, think it's 100% fact, decide that life isn't worth living and they commit suicide.
How do you know this? I don't spend any time on Youtube and I am rather out-of-touch with the kids of today.
Originally posted by vkey08
We should be working as a species to better ourselves, not getting distracted by an imaginary bit of Doom and Gloom that has no basis in fact, but only serves to line the pockets of a few who prey on the vulnerable.
""The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. Napoleon Bonaparte considered it one of the great works of European literature. He thought so highly of it that he wrote a soliloquy in Goethe's style in his youth and carried Werther with him on his campaigning to Egypt. It also started the phenomenon known as the "Werther-Fieber" ("Werther Fever") which caused young men throughout Europe to dress in the clothing style described for Werther in the novel.
It reputedly also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide. The "Werther Fever" was watched with concern by the authorities and fellow authors. One of the latter, Friedrich Nicolai, decided to create a satiric—and happier—ending called Die Freuden des jungen Werthers ("The Joys of Young Werther"), in which Albert, having realized what Werther is up to, had loaded chicken blood into the pistol, thereby foiling Werther's suicide, and happily concedes Lotte to him. And after some initial difficulties, Werther sheds his passionate youthful side and reintegrates himself into society as a respectable citizen.
Goethe, however, was not pleased with this version and started a literary war with Nicolai (which lasted all his life) by writing a poem titled "Nicolai auf Werthers Grabe" in which Nicolai (here a passing nameless pedestrian) defecates on Werther's grave, thus desecrating the memory of Werther from which Goethe had distanced himself in the meantime (as he had from the Sturm und Drang). This argument was continued in his collection of short and critical poems, the Xenien, and his play Faust
Originally posted by vkey08
reply to post by ThisIsNotReality
There is a difference, 2012 and this Doom and Gloom about planet X is being shoved down everyone's throats whether they like it or not..
A book isn't as in your face as the internet and people spewing hoax pictures day in and day out, claiming some planet is going to hit the Earth in 3 weeks.. (well 2 days now if you go by one guy)
Originally posted by vkey08
reply to post by rabzdguy
If that's what you got, then you have a warped sense of my meaning.
We should be working as a species to better ourselves, not getting distracted by an imaginary bit of Doom and Gloom that has no basis in fact, but only serves to line the pockets of a few who prey on the vulnerable.
We shouldn't in this day and age have war anymore, nor should we have a money based economy.. But htat's not what this thread is about.
Originally posted by vkey08
reply to post by rabzdguy
We should be working as a species to better ourselves, not getting distracted by an imaginary bit of Doom and Gloom