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Everyone copes with death differently. To me, it's the punchline at the end of a long, painfully detailed joke. It's funny that humanity can't agree on how to explain what happens at the point of death. There are intellectual & spiritual tools, but these are inadequate.
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And while some have experienced the process directly, and lived to talk about it, the resulting narrative is like explaining the Three Stooges to a zoomer.
You can get close, but zoomers will never fully appreciate anything in black & white unless it's a filter.
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You can get close, but zoomers will never fully appreciate anything in black & white unless it's a filter.
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Death will always be weird to me. My first instinct in reaction to someone else's death is this strange comedic reflex. It explains why I did what I did in the memorial thread, but explanations are rarely warranted when you are guilty of something.
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Here's the thing about death: no one will ever know what it's like. Once you die, the thing that was once used to make sense of death in the abstract is now not functional. In that way, echoes of your consciousness can only meaningfully exist with loved ones after you die.
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This is why life is a continuous, frustrating, painful, but fulfilling opportunity to celebrate itself. I never met him, but my experience of Harris' work not only gave me reason to celebrate, but it was a celebration itself. It brought me joy.
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Any single life lived is as robust as yours or mine. Everyone has agency in this world. Yesterday, I chose to throw a tire iron at the broad side of a skyscraper, by trolling the Harris Wittels' memorial thread. I didn't check to see who the OP was.
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This was on his birthday, a day where everyone else ceremoniously becomes as chill as him. I could have offered well wishes in obscurity, but instead, I traded my humanity for attention.
I've never been owned harder than this tweet:
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I've never been owned harder than this tweet:
7/12 https://twitter.com/RobSchrab/status/1384930147179040768
I often conceptualize celebrities as hollow on-screen vehicles for entertainment. This dehumanizes them. They are people too. Granted, their reach, (and thus their power) far outreaches mine. Even still, it's bad form to troll a memorial thread initiated by family.
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I don't expect anyone to read this, as people in the public eye have no doubt learned to deal with my behavior by blocking or muting.
I deserve it.
To steal a bit from Dan Harmon, let me proceed with a three part apology to @wittelstephanie:
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I deserve it.
To steal a bit from Dan Harmon, let me proceed with a three part apology to @wittelstephanie:
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I am sorry for hijacking the lovely thread in memory of your brother. In this thread, I stole a joke from @RobSchrab to make myself laugh. While I'm sure you have grown accustomed to trolls, you do not deserve any of it, let alone a dissonant, lifted bit.
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I can only imagine what it feels to lose a sibling. My dad lost his brother to cancer 20 years ago, and he was never the same. I want to ensure that I temper my trollish tendencies in the future. While this platform is impersonal, I'd like to remunerate more personally.
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@wittelstephanie please let me know where to donate. I know my donation can't possibly right any past wrongs. Money is a shitty apology, but it's the most personal apology I can offer at the moment. Hope this helps.
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