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This is damn tragic and it just goes to show that you can never judge. Gotta admit it: I laughed hard at Red Letter Media's recent video where they picked apart all of Bruce Willis's recent films and I too thought that he was just a lazy hack.

And now it turns out that he was doing those films just to earn as much money as he can for his family and for his medical bills whilst he can. Apparently during the filming of ''Glass'' he was being chaperoned everywhere between takes, often in a state of confusion. And he required heavy dubbing, stand-in's and editing to get the performance that we got.

Sad as f-k. And people wonder why you are an atheist when you live in a world that can rob a man so cruelly.

clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:30 pmSad as f-k. And people wonder why you are an atheist when you live in a world that can rob a man so cruelly.

Well I mean it's more about needing religion than needing a deity.

Red Letter Media also had a video where they discussed their reaction to hearing (what was at the time) the rumors about his medical condition.

As they said, it's nobody's business but his - but they regretted their comments when they considered things in the light of that different context.

It's sad to hear, but at least he did a lot with the time he had. Nobody's going to look at his resume and say "Well this guy didn't achieve much".

I read yesterday an article about how this might led up to Bruce Willis retiring.

Apparently in one movie, some low budget film, he was supposed to say a line and then fire a gun. At least twice, he fired the gun off. The gun had blanks thankfully, because one actress had her back to him when one time he fired.

Other movies also low budget they said he looked completely lost and in one movie they reduced his lines in the movie from 25 pages down to 5 pages.

clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:30 pm Sad as f-k. And people wonder why you are an atheist when you live in a world that can rob a man so cruelly.

Why?

We're not pets being kept to be pampered on our terms.

Suffering has its place in the world. It's a nasty one that no one likes, but it has its place.

Beastro wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 4:27 am

clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:30 pm Sad as f-k. And people wonder why you are an atheist when you live in a world that can rob a man so cruelly.

Why?

We're not pets being kept to be pampered on our terms.

Suffering has its place in the world. It's a nasty one that no one likes, but it has its place.

Yeah. Suffering is such a learning tool for many people.

That woman who had five still births? Such a great lesson.

That person whose body is slowly turning to bone? Such a great suffering to behold. Sure that person enjoys that.

All those childhood diseases, cancers, or birth defects? Great lessons for the parents.

Suffering is just suffering. People you are able to gain something from it positive or negative is because of them. We may learn from it is only because of our ability to do so.

McAvoy wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 5:43 am Suffering is just suffering. People you are able to gain something from it positive or negative is because of them. We may learn from it is only because of our ability to do so.

Why is suffering a sensation in our lives? What is it there for us to feel it? Same as pain.

It is certainly not a happy thing, that isn't its place in our lives.

That woman who had five still births? Such a great lesson.

My grandmother had six.

That person whose body is slowly turning to bone? Such a great suffering to behold. Sure that person enjoys that.

My mother had a stroke two years ago. I found her on the floor of the her living room having laid there for three days. She survived and is now in a care home because she's paralyzed on her right side and constantly gets nerve pain in the right arm due to its inactivity.

All those childhood diseases, cancers, or birth defects? Great lessons for the parents.

My house got renovated at 11 and black mold was ripped out. I health never fully recovered and I began to miss enough school that places kept asking me to leave despite my above average grades, even continuing education.

On top of that I lived in a house with active emotional and verbal abuse from my father as well as neglect when my mom broke down herself mentally and became emotionally unavailable having given up on life.

I have had decades of life taken from me and still endure pain every day of my life with what I'm still dealing with.

But at the very least, I can understand what others are going through enough to know that I don't understand their unique hell. I certainly will never say as has been said to me to just snap out of all of this or that the reasons for what they're dealing with are excuses and the details behind them are bullshit.

That intimate understanding helps. My mother lived with what neurologist called "one giant headache her entire life", something our neighbour couldn't understand because he'd never had a headache in his entire life and concluded that she was just making them up in her mind, that she should just not think of the headaches anymore and they'd vanish. He had no idea what the hell he was talking about because he'd never suffered one himself.

And this is just one aspect of suffering that brings good into our lives. I could go into others, like the year I lived on barely anything and lost 110 lbs, yet, the major thing I can remember are the small moments of enjoyment carved out from that hellish year and what that time built in me overcoming it that helped me so much.

But even then, I still understand the bitterness in your post as it is the human position we naturally take just as we hate pain even if it keeps us from worse cuts and breaks (And DON'T get me started on chronic pain. You do not want to get into a comparing contest with me about THAT!).

“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

The whole reason we have systems of morality, whatever the specifics, is that the universe does not operate according to them. Bruce Willis may or may not be 'deserving' of the things that happen to him, according to your beliefs about what 'deserving' means and how people should be treated, but physics is proceeding just fine on its own.