When one person dies, nobody remembers. When 6 million people die, nobody forgets.

[Twin Seed]

I remember when my house caught on fire in the middle of the night, and I was sleeping through the fire alarm. My brother yelled just a little louder than it, and woke me up. We all had to hurry outside, I just happened to be in my shorts, and it was cold (luckily I don't sleep naked :P). So the firefighters get there and it turns out it was the water heater, I believe, I was still half-asleep. So ya, I remember that pretty good.

 

So discuss memorable moments in your life or the lives of people you know.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

When 7 million people die in the Congo, nobody's apparently aware.

[Guest JoshIcy]

Good. Deleted the 2 posts and modified the topic .-. now it's not spam and some random question.

[CrabHelmet]

The Nazis massacred many other groups - Soviet prisoners of war, ethnic Poles, Romani, the disabled, the Freemasons, the homosexuals, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and an additional six million in Soviet citizens alone. But you consider the Holocaust to consist of the deaths of a single six million - the Jews they killed - and overlook the other eleven million. Perhaps the topic title should read "When eleven million people die, nobody remembers. When six million people die, nobody forgets."

[Twin Seed]

When 7 million people die in the Congo' date=' nobody's apparently aware.

[/quote']

Good point. I'm not aware, anything to say about it?

 

Good. Deleted the 2 posts and modified the topic .-. now it's not spam and some random question.

I modified your modified post (the discussion sentence). And it wasn't spam anyway' date=' it was a discussion topic.

 

EDIT:

The Nazis massacred many other groups - Soviet prisoners of war, ethnic Poles, Romani, the disabled, the Freemasons, the homosexuals, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and an additional six million in Soviet citizens alone. But you consider the Holocaust to consist of the deaths of a single six million - the Jews they killed - and overlook the other eleven million. Perhaps the topic title should read "When eleven million people die, nobody remembers. When six million people die, nobody forgets."

I thought they all went together.

[Guest JoshIcy]

Good. Deleted the 2 posts and modified the topic .-. now it's not spam and some random question.

I modified your modified post (the discussion sentence). And it wasn't spam anyway' date=' it was a discussion topic.

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With little to no leeway, resulting in people having to talk more so about themselves instead of sharing in the community sense. How is that not spam? You might as well have posted this as a poll without that.

 

As for me... Pick a year ._."...

 

Umm the most recent one was A Week and Year ago when I met Rena <3. Easily one of my best years of my young life and I hope to continue this until we get to meet and till the day we die. Hard to explain but she makes my life so much easier and all that nice gushy stuff.

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

When 7 million people die in the Congo' date=' nobody's apparently aware.

[/quote']

Good point. I'm not aware, anything to say about it?

 

The people who control the media control everything.

 

I'll elaborate.

 

A number of Western mining and diamond companies, most notably from the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan supported the Kabila government in exchange for business deals in both wars. These actions attracted substantial criticism from human rights groups.

 

In a time where there's a massive Congolese war, the imperial forces of the world just happen to be there mining diamonds perfectly legitimately while the death toll rises to millions.

[Dark]

The Nazis massacred many other groups - Soviet prisoners of war' date=' ethnic Poles, Romani, the disabled, the Freemasons, the homosexuals, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and an additional six million in Soviet citizens alone. But you consider the Holocaust to consist of the deaths of a single six million - the Jews they killed - and overlook the other eleven million. Perhaps the topic title should read "When eleven million people die, nobody remembers. When six million people die, nobody forgets."

[/quote']

 

These were my thoughts, just not phrased as awesomely as Crab Helmet put 'em.

 

Well... my house was covered by a lot of snow once. :/

[Eury]

The genocides in Rwanda and Burundi is worse than the Holocaust...imo.

 

I can't really remember any moments atm. I'll try to think of some and post later...

[CrabHelmet]

The genocides in Rwanda and Burundi is worse than the Holocaust...imo.

 

Those genocides between them had a combined death toll of only about a million. I would love to hear your rationale for why you think those two are worse than an event with seventeen times their combined death toll; I generally consider more people being murdered to be worse' date=' as do most people, but maybe you [s']support the Nazis[/s] have different views on killing.

[Eury]

The genocides in Rwanda and Burundi is worse than the Holocaust...imo.

 

Those genocides between them had a combined death toll of only about a million. I would love to hear your rationale for why you think those two are worse than an event with seventeen times their combined death toll; I generally consider more people being murdered to be worse' date=' as do most people, but maybe you [s']support the Nazis[/s] have different views on killing.

 

800,000 deaths in a month is pretty bad. :/

 

Imagine if the genocides continued at that rate for 6 years.

 

If my math is correct, 57,600,000 deaths would have occurred. Of course, that isn't possible as the Tutsi population in those areas would have probably ceased to exist.

[CrabHelmet]

The genocides in Rwanda and Burundi is worse than the Holocaust...imo.

 

Those genocides between them had a combined death toll of only about a million. I would love to hear your rationale for why you think those two are worse than an event with seventeen times their combined death toll; I generally consider more people being murdered to be worse' date=' as do most people, but maybe you [s']support the Nazis[/s] have different views on killing.

 

800,000 deaths in a month is pretty bad. :/

 

Imagine if the genocides continued at that rate for 6 years.

 

If my math is correct, 57,600,000 deaths would have occurred. Of course, that isn't possible as the Tutsi population in those areas would have probably ceased to exist.

 

A random guy with a gun once killed one person in one second. If my math is correct, that random guy killed people faster (and is thus worse, by some insane twisted logic) than any genocide, since all genocides are slower than one corpse per second.

[Ea...Lord of the Depths]

Wait, why is murder wrong?

[Frunk]

When a tree falls on a woman, WHY IS THERE A FOREST IN THE KITCHEN?!!?!?!

[~The Game~]

The Nazis massacred many other groups - Soviet prisoners of war' date=' ethnic Poles, Romani, the disabled, the Freemasons, the [b']homosexuals[/b], the Jehovah's Witnesses, and an additional six million in Soviet citizens alone. But you consider the Holocaust to consist of the deaths of a single six million - the Jews they killed - and overlook the other eleven million. Perhaps the topic title should read "When eleven million people die, nobody remembers. When six million people die, nobody forgets."

Damn D:

[Marisa Kirisame-ze]

I remember what Hina said, a week or so before she committed suicide. She asked me, "Would you kill someone you love for love?" and I replied "No".

 

That stuck into my mind because answering that question meant a lot to her. About two weeks ago, I discovered a diary she wrote in. She wanted me to kill her, but due to my answer, she knew I wouldn't. Yet, she knew I loved her (not like... relationship wise, but you get the point).

 

She was the only one who I can remember when she died and multiple dates relating to her.

 

To me, her life was everything.

[Mehmani]

I remember what Hina said' date=' a week or so before she committed suicide. She asked me, "Would you kill someone you love for love?" and I replied "No".

 

That stuck into my mind because answering that question meant a lot to her. About two weeks ago, I discovered a diary she wrote in. She wanted me to kill her, but due to my answer, she knew I wouldn't. Yet, she knew I loved her (not like... relationship wise, but you get the point).

 

She was the only one who I can remember when she died and multiple dates relating to her.

 

To me, her life was everything.

[/quote']

 

coolstorybro

 

I'm such a heartless bastard D:

[Womi]

When a tree falls on a woman' date=' WHY IS THERE A FOREST IN THE KITCHEN?!!?!?!

[/quote']

 

Black humor.

But I lol'd incredibly hard. =/

[Marisa Kirisame-ze]

I remember what Hina said' date=' a week or so before she committed suicide. She asked me, "Would you kill someone you love for love?" and I replied "No".

 

That stuck into my mind because answering that question meant a lot to her. About two weeks ago, I discovered a diary she wrote in. She wanted me to kill her, but due to my answer, she knew I wouldn't. Yet, she knew I loved her (not like... relationship wise, but you get the point).

 

She was the only one who I can remember when she died and multiple dates relating to her.

 

To me, her life was everything.

[/quote']

 

coolstorybro

 

I'm such a heartless bastard D:

 

It doesn't phase me.

 

Get it all the time D:

[Cyber Altair]

If someone dies in a forest but no one hears it, does it make a sound?

[Lazer Yoshi]

Quote from Marilyn Manson: "The death of one is a tragedy, but the death of a million is just a statistic."

[CrabHelmet]

Quote from Marilyn Manson: "The death of one is a tragedy' date=' but the death of a million is just a statistic."

[/quote']

 

I thought that quote came from Stalin.

[Lazer Yoshi]

Quote from Marilyn Manson: "The death of one is a tragedy' date=' but the death of a million is just a statistic."

[/quote']

 

I thought that quote came from Stalin.

Probably that, too.

I'm not saying that I believe this quote, but it's kind of how some people are. When Michael Jackson died, everyone made a huge deal about it. However, no one really cared about Haiti until it had a huge earthquake. Not saying no one helped, but not enough did.

[Womi]

Well, it does matter WHO dies.

Imagine there's an assassination on Obama and an assassination on a random guy in a forest.

-difference-

 

Imagine a bomb detonates in the ESB and a bomb detonates in some Tuarec culture in the desert.

-difference-

 

The power of disparity.

[六兆年と一夜物語]

When a person dies, nobody remembers.

 

When 2 people die, nobody forgets.

 

When 3 people die, they sing a song from Monty Python.