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Topic Started: Mar 24 2013, 12:41 PM (790 Views)
Anomaly
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My friend just linked me this. This is some powerful stuff.
It's hard not to choke up at least a bit, watching this.

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Nubi
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Oooo. Thanks for sharing, I've passed it on to a few people.

The animation style is very intriguing and it pulls you in. Neat. The verbal content, however, doesn't even need pictures to go with it to make its point. At the beginning I didn't really understand where the poetic story was going, about some kid mistaking karate chops and pork chops. But it quickly became apparent. What's sad, is its true. Even just a couple years ago, when I was in high school, there were people that got picked on and got called names. Ridiculed because of their appearance. But where I went to school wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. And because I was quiet, kinda doing my own thing, I didn't get ridiculed much at all. I often tried to help the students that got picked on or were socially awkward. I'm very much a protector and lover of underdogs. But what is more: even the outwardly beautiful, seemingly confident individuals have their own demons.

Unfortunately, such is life. How do we teach the world compassion? Being picked on and dealing with school is part of life. For some people. But its an unfortunate piece of life. Because some people don't make it past the limbo that is middle and high school. They don't see beyond those years of torment to the real world. School, the place children learn arithmetic AND social behavior, should not be a prison or a torment for anyone. Sometimes, the "real" world isn't any kinder than highschool. Maybe because the asses in school don't learn the real lesson?

Here's something else that needs to be shared: CLICK ME its the lives, shown through photography and brief blurbs, of people dealt a bad hand, consumed by drugs, forced (or even willingly?) to sell their body. Its emotional.
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soul of sin
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That was amazing.
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Nubi
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Clicked on this at work today. Turned out to be the same guy doing the full presentation at TED Talks. TED Talks are awesome. This actually shows his expressions too.

Full Talk
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Anomaly
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Yeah, I saw the full TED talk as well.
Deserved shout out to TED! :D
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Rinny
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Wow. Just...wow.

This really struck a chord. Absolutely beautiful. And dear lord, that brings back memories. I swear, that video was my grade school life summed up in seven minutes. The name calling, the signs, the teasing. The depression and beatings at home. The suicide attempts. Good god, it's only been in the past year or so that I can look in the mirror and not despise what I see. Wouldn't go so far to call myself pretty or anything, but at least I can acknowledge that I'm not hideous. Still having problems accepting that I didn't deserve everything my parents did to me though. As for drugs...hell yeah. Most of the time, I won't even touch Tylenol, not after all the antidepressants and mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics and anti-anxiety pills. *shudder*

Thanks for sharing that Anomaly. It was amazing.
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Setoshin


That was amazing. I can't say I was ever bullied on a level that these kids faced, but even the mild bullying I suffered at specific points in my life made me feel awkward.
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