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Do you ever cry when reading a book or article?

yes, a well written aricle about modern history can make you cry. For example you always believed something passionately, they it becomes obvious it was a lie. Mix it with good writing style and violla. You a have a crybaby.
 
Usually I don't. Only exceptions are if the subject is somehow very similar to something personal I have recently gone through. It somehow makes me emotionally moved to read how someone else (fictional or real character) has gone through similar personal tragedies.

I know that that e.g. my younger sister has cried when reading scary stories from www.scarystoriestime.com but I don't understand how those kind of stories can make someone cry, although the stories might be scary.
 
The main reason why I did not go into broadcast journalism, despite having the voice for it, is all the bad news.

It is rare when I cry, but there are moments. I nearly fainted when I finally got home from working in NYC on 9/11 and saw the footage of the towers collapsing, I was a mess.

Books rarely make me cry, sometimes movies will (which is why I tend to avoid those movies.)

I do not seek these things out because life can be heavy enough.
 
I've read some really scary books, like the exocist. I remember looking down at the bottom of my bed to see if it was moving like it was in the book. That book scared the crap out of me.

I've read some very amusing books where I don't wan them to end, like the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.

I guess its all in how emotionally involved you get with the book and its characters.
 
I cried when I saw Fox News today.

With laughter.


Seriously my American freinds, what's the deal with Fox? Is it like a sort of joke channel? Satire?
 
roadbloc said:
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it happens all the time to me.
 
Sometimes.

Mind it don't need to be a book or article. A tweet the other day had me tear up.

A lady's son was back from Afghan and hadn't had a thanksgiving dinner for about three years, so the lady went shopping to stock up for his arrival. Unfortunately her card didn't work at the checkout but she'd just explained to the cashier about her son. A lady behind her swiped her card and paid for the shopping, simply saying tell your son thank you.

This act of respect for a serving soldier had me quite emotional.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Sigh. What a disgracefully intellectually lazy post. At every level. Complacent, pseudo-clever and intellectually lazy. Trite. Glib responses disguised as superficial wit.

I used to teach at university for a living. (History and politics). And yes, I loved teaching, revered learning, was fascinated by research and valued education. Not just as a means of social mobility but as something of value in itself, where learning for its own sake is worth pursuing because knowing things is…….wonderful…...

More recently, I have worked in parts of the world where people get killed for wanting an education, where schools are destroyed, teachers slaughtered, students executed.

Do you really want to know the - endlessly creative sentences - that were begging, nay, bleating to escape from under my gnawed fingernails when I read the sort of witless post you have just written? You are privileged to be in a position to be able to study, and receive the sort of support that is often available in the western world in order to be able to do so. You should rejoice in that, not sneer at it.

Did you choose what it is you are studying? Or, were you coerced, or even emotionally blackmailed into studying it? If not, why not "study all that" and master it?

It is not so many centuries ago that - even in our western world - that education had to be paid for - it was a costly luxury and was regarded as such - and that any sort of access to same was confined to males whose families could afford it. Mock it at your peril.

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Depends if he/she's a high school student or university. If it's HS many people don't really have a choice because their parents make them, but if it's uni then yeah, it's pretty pointless to spend the money and time to go if they don't like it.
 
don't want to give away any spoilers ...

5 paragraphs into the art of racing in the rain...

or 5 pages... the Enzo line about recognizing Denny... i forget exactly when it appears. but wow.
 
pachyderm said:
don't want to give away any spoilers ...

5 paragraphs into the art of racing in the rain...

or 5 pages... the Enzo line about recognizing Denny... i forget exactly when it appears. but wow.
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The first thing I thought of was that book. Read it on a flight to the mainland a few years ago, kept wiping my eyes.

Also, the recent Subaru commercial... They survived.
 
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