Robin Williams dead

**gas_chick** · August 13th, 2014, 12:46 PM

Oh how I love my fellow man.

**Kittylady** · August 13th, 2014, 12:46 PM

*stabs keyboard furiously*

Where's that damn "punch people through the internet" button SoCalMarie was talking about? These people sicken me. Maybe Robins Williams wasn't their favourite actor or comedian, maybe they disagreed with his views on certain subjects, but FFS! What sort of petty, miserable, bitter and twisted individuals are they that they have to resort to this sort of self-aggrandising bollocks to make themselves feel 'speshul'?

**ConstanceSpry** · August 13th, 2014, 01:40 PM

Wow, those hell and brimstone comments are just disgusting. If I was religious, I would be horrified to be associated with people who have nothing in common with Jesus or his teachings.

**Bluebonnet** · August 13th, 2014, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Mel1973

I was hoping that just for fucking ONCE, assholes, the press and every other shit stain would just NOT. I do NOT want to see pictures of his kids coming out of his funeral. I don't need to see that. We know that the family is hurting, no need to exploit it to sell fucking paper!

Thank you!! And as far as the assholes being mean to Zelda: I hope they fucking burn in Hell!!!!!!

**Rusalka** · August 13th, 2014, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by Kittylady

*stabs keyboard furiously*

Where's that damn "punch people through the internet" button SoCalMarie was talking about? These people sicken me. Maybe Robins Williams wasn't their favourite actor or comedian, maybe they disagreed with his views on certain subjects, but FFS! What sort of petty, miserable, bitter and twisted individuals are they that they have to resort to this sort of self-aggrandising bollocks to make themselves feel 'speshul'?

Feels weird to "like" this since there's nothing remotely likable about the subject. But I agree with your sentiments completely. I couldn't even make it through the comments, nor can I express my frustration and anger properly. It makes me sick and it's so awful that people like that even exist out there. It feels so hopeless when you see reactions like this. It makes me despair in general because everything can be perverted into this twisted, disgusting, attention seeking statement. Even the purest, most heartfelt moments can be made rotten by humanity.

**rollo** · August 13th, 2014, 02:06 PM

It's not a time for the family to be on Twitter, just saying. EVERY time a celebrity dies, especially if horrible and tragic, the trolls come out in force.

**sluce** · August 13th, 2014, 02:19 PM

^As do all the supporters.

I can't ever imagine worshipping a God who would send someone to hell for ending their life.

**70sRock** · August 13th, 2014, 02:22 PM

Those creeps don't surprise me in the slightest, I've come to expect that kind of onslaught. What has surprised me is the compassion and understanding that has dominated stories and comments since the news broke. It's been uplifting.

**czb** · August 13th, 2014, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by rollo

It's not a time for the family to be on Twitter, just saying. EVERY time a celebrity dies, especially if horrible and tragic, the trolls come out in force.

Originally Posted by sluce

^As do all the supporters.

....

*shrugs*

personally, i can't imagine going on twitter or FB with this kind of thing, but his kids are young. it is 'normal' for people that age to express lots of personal things on social media.

**DeChayz** · August 13th, 2014, 03:41 PM

I was thinking the fact that she was able to bring herself to post about it immediately maybe means the family was almost expecting it? Or that at least it wasn't a total surprise to them? Or I could be reading into it too much and she was really just still numb.

**MohandasKGanja** · August 13th, 2014, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by sluce

^As do all the supporters.

I can't ever imagine worshipping a God who would send someone to hell for ending their life.

I think the prohibition on suicide in religious texts and dogma is probably similar, in origins to the prohibition on self gratification. Everything was about the family - stabilizing it and making it grow so that the religious group would get larger. Making suicide a verboten, going-to-hell, kind of offense would probably make a depressed person long ago think long and hard before committing it.

**twitchy2.0** · August 13th, 2014, 03:57 PM

Or not. When someone is in that state, the afterlife is unlikely to be a consideration.

**witchcurlgirl** · August 13th, 2014, 03:59 PM

Making murder a verboten, going to hell kind of offense really helped put a stop to that. And look how well it worked on wiping out adultery.

**twitchy2.0** · August 13th, 2014, 04:02 PM

And sin in general.

**MohandasKGanja** · August 13th, 2014, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by twitchy2.0

Or not. When someone is in that state, the afterlife is unlikely to be a consideration.

I think it was marginally more difficult back then, though. No guns, no sleeping pills, no building higher than two stories. Belts were notoriously shoddy in workmanship.

Originally Posted by witchcurlgirl

Making murder a verboten, going to hell kind of offense really helped put a stop to that. And look how well it worked on wiping out adultery.

Have you ever tried self smiting with a broadsword, though? It's really difficult.