Comments on: Dear Haiti… http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/ Dedicated to the youthful empirical assessment of pop culture, and education of young people Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Valerie http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Valerie Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:16:39 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-520 Great piece JD. Great piece JD.

]]> By: Natalia http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Natalia Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:25:18 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-516 I felt the same way! Watching the footage on Haiti my heart has broken into a million peices over and over again...Not only do I have a lot of close friends with family still living over there but to watch people in such need and all I can do from is sit here & donate $ as they sit, starve and watch their lives literally crumble?? I feel so utterly helpless... THEN I walked into work and thought I would see what my co-workers thoughts on the whole thing were--they could not have cared less. Absolutely disgusting. They were far more interested in discussing Jersey Shore. *my face*:ARE U F*cking kidding me??? I felt the same way! Watching the footage on Haiti my heart has broken into a million peices over and over again…Not only do I have a lot of close friends with family still living over there but to watch people in such need and all I can do from is sit here & donate $ as they sit, starve and watch their lives literally crumble?? I feel so utterly helpless…

THEN I walked into work and thought I would see what my co-workers thoughts on the whole thing were–they could not have cared less. Absolutely disgusting. They were far more interested in discussing Jersey Shore. *my face*:ARE U F*cking kidding me???

]]> By: Frank Dixon http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Frank Dixon Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:47:08 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-515 ootstanding, spred the word. Well waid, don't be a slave to the alighty $. ootstanding, spred the word. Well waid, don’t be a slave to the alighty $.

]]> By: jpd43 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-514 jpd43 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:11:36 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-514 I see you your point, but this more so my singular account on the situation. "Seemingly unaffected" is the issue. Not in a "O you need to hop on the G4 and go save haiti", but in a "im a (human) and we are all connected to let me not spend by days buying into (separatism) via our bipartisan political system, religion beliefs, and so forth). There is a joy in human interaction and connectedness. And with joy comes pain. I suppose I can elaborate on this point in another blog. Thanks for coming to the site though. I see you your point, but this more so my singular account on the situation. “Seemingly unaffected” is the issue. Not in a “O you need to hop on the G4 and go save haiti”, but in a “im a (human) and we are all connected to let me not spend by days buying into (separatism) via our bipartisan political system, religion beliefs, and so forth). There is a joy in human interaction and connectedness. And with joy comes pain. I suppose I can elaborate on this point in another blog. Thanks for coming to the site though.

]]> By: Seemingly Unaffected http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-513 Seemingly Unaffected Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:10:40 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-513 How afffected are you by suicide bombers killing 18 children? How affected are you about the war in Iraq?? How much does it affect you when an apartment builind in the hood burns to the ground leaving no survivors. Compartively speaking these incidents dont share the magnitude of katrina or the earthquakes in haiti... but lives were lost. Similarly, human lives were on the brink of nothingness. The people at your job didnt come to work today waving the Haitian flag or greet you with a sa passe (sp) but that doesn't mean they aren't sympathizing or even empathizing with the cataclysmic loss over in Haiti. Just because you are unable to identify with their idea of "mourning" you can't label them indifferent. Can you imagine shutting down life everyone time some major disaster struck... or if some isolated incident hit our individual lives. Life must go on if we intend to maintiain sanity. Did you know theres a number of people suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts because of the movie Avatar. These people are so unsatisfied with life on earth that they wish they were able to share life with the Na'Vi people of Pandora, a fictional utopia of happiness, brotherhood and relentless apprecitation of all living things........ Can you imagine hating this world that much because of all the natural disasters and unexplainable acts of violence that you would "wish" to share life with fantasy? Sometimes you just have to cut off the news... Yes become educated, support financially or physically if possible... but life must go on... How afffected are you by suicide bombers killing 18 children? How affected are you about the war in Iraq?? How much does it affect you when an apartment builind in the hood burns to the ground leaving no survivors. Compartively speaking these incidents dont share the magnitude of katrina or the earthquakes in haiti… but lives were lost. Similarly, human lives were on the brink of nothingness. The people at your job didnt come to work today waving the Haitian flag or greet you with a sa passe (sp) but that doesn’t mean they aren’t sympathizing or even empathizing with the cataclysmic loss over in Haiti. Just because you are unable to identify with their idea of “mourning” you can’t label them indifferent. Can you imagine shutting down life everyone time some major disaster struck… or if some isolated incident hit our individual lives. Life must go on if we intend to maintiain sanity.

Did you know theres a number of people suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts because of the movie Avatar. These people are so unsatisfied with life on earth that they wish they were able to share life with the Na’Vi people of Pandora, a fictional utopia of happiness, brotherhood and relentless apprecitation of all living things…….. Can you imagine hating this world that much because of all the natural disasters and unexplainable acts of violence that you would “wish” to share life with fantasy? Sometimes you just have to cut off the news…

Yes become educated, support financially or physically if possible… but life must go on…

]]> By: Laura http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-512 Laura Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:31:30 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-512 "Our enslavement to work, individuality, and materialism, leaves us unhealthily emotionally detached from anything that doesn't affect us directly. We need to understand that there is a oneness amongst all living humans that is vehemently ignored. Life is not a singular phenomenon. Life is a plural." mmmm Amen. perfectly articulated!!! what can we do to get more ppl to realize this? Have you sent this article in to any newspapers yet? “Our enslavement to work, individuality, and materialism, leaves us unhealthily emotionally detached from anything that doesn’t affect us directly. We need to understand that there is a oneness amongst all living humans that is vehemently ignored. Life is not a singular phenomenon. Life is a plural.” mmmm Amen. perfectly articulated!!! what can we do to get more ppl to realize this? Have you sent this article in to any newspapers yet?

]]> By: jpd43 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-511 jpd43 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:39:51 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-511 peace corp?? lol...are you really thinking about goin? peace corp?? lol…are you really thinking about goin?

]]> By: Soraya http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Soraya Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:34:05 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-510 Very well said... & I feel the exact same way, care 2 join the peace corps w/ me? lol Very well said… & I feel the exact same way, care 2 join the peace corps w/ me? lol

]]> By: jpd43 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-509 jpd43 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:05:38 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-509 Thank you! I'm glad you felt it. Thank you! I’m glad you felt it.

]]> By: Quaison http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Quaison Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:56:53 +0000 http://Headlessgiant.com/2010/01/14/dear-haiti%e2%80%a6/#comment-508 I mess with it. I felt you writing I mess with it. I felt you writing

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