Anyone else in the lounge hiding from all the talk of this terrible video?

[HEyHEY]

I was gonna just sign off for the night, but maybe I'll stay in here.

[cheezus]

1. yeah. i don't want to hear about it

glad i didn't watch it. people are reporting that they're sorry they did.

[chrisesq]

2. I am one of those myself.

I watched, told my wife that I had seen it and she watched about 10=15 seconds of it and said that's enough. I then told her to delete it as I never want to see it again.

[Robb]

3. I went with "not watching"....

I've seen enough things in life (and frankly online) I can't un-see, and here I've got a choice about it (at the moment).

[VelmaD]

5. I watched it...

and even though I wish I hadn't seen it I'm still glad I did if that makes any sense. I feel like it's important not to turn our eyes away.

[Redneck Socialist]

4. It's scary out there man

Lock the door, grab a beer and make yourself comfortable in the good ol' Happy Lounge. :beer:

[Shopaholic]

6. I'm not watching the video and I'm not too inclined to read about

it either! I've seen so much horrible stuff in the past two weeks that I just don't want to add to the sensory overload. Thought I'd pop into the Lounge and see if someone could make me laugh for awhile and forget all the bad stuff for a little while.

[Redneck Socialist]

7. I'm with ya

I don't intend to view the video.

I just made another foray into GD and as I suspected it is still scary out there. I'll give it a couple of days to settle down. Then I'll try and sort things out.

[CubsFan1982]

8. I didn't watch it

and I really don't care to read the conspiracy theories going on in the GD forum. If I say anything there, they'll tell me to get the fuck out and never come back. I only just got here! :)

[Redneck Socialist]

10. Welcome to DU CubsFan1982

As a Red Sox fan I sympathize with your baseball misery.

BTW DU is not usually this nutty.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. What video?

Sorry, I was a panel discussion at my seminary hearing really brazenly brilliant scholars totally lambaste Shrub and his ilk for their shit politics, and also for their utterly unethical use of ritual.

[HEyHEY]

11. atta way rabrrrr

forget this terrible shit.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Still, I AM curious

what video?

[SW FL Dem]

13. I won't watch.

[ironflange]

14. Aren't you supposed to be moderating GD?

Get the hell in there and watch that damn video! Now!!!!

:evilfrown:

[HEyHEY]

15. lucky for me I'm on dial-up at the moment

that's my exusce

[nickgutierrez]

16. Ugh...

I can only imagine. All it took was an email with the headline: "BREAKING: CBS Will Air Iraq Prison Video Wednesday" to make my stomach turn. I can't imagine what seeing the videos might do to me, but I imagine it involves vomiting.

[nickgutierrez]

18. Wrong video

I didn't think it was possible, but the video you all are talking about makes me even sicker than the Iraq prison video would have.

[ProudGerman]

17. this is not something that should be shown

Morbid curiousity got the best of me with a brutal beheading caught on video from the fighting in Chechnya. Disturbing doesn't even begin to describe it. It took me weeks to get the images out of my head, saw them any time I closed my eyes. I imagine this one is as bad.

Even if you have a strong stomach, and grotesque things don't bother you one bit, I still highly advise you don't watch it. You learn nothing new from it, it adds nothing to the story. It's just disturbing on a very very deep level.

It's very hard for me to put words to it. But I really wish I could say that I've never seen someone beheaded. I've seen the videos of the Nazi death camps, I've seen piles of skulls waist high filling an entire church in Africa, those don't even come close to how much that video affected me. It's way more personal, and its not something that will let go of you easily.

[clyrc]

19. I got here in record time because of it

I usually spend much more time in GD before coming to the Lounge.

[TankLV]

20. Me. Sigh. Can't bring myself to look at it.

nt.