Green Room - Week 17 - Day 5

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Tragedy is a funhouse mirror.

When something bad happens, they tend to look into it and see a distorted version of whatever it is they expect to see.

When a gun is involved, people will rush to the "see how dangerous guns are!" or "if only everyone else was armed!" depending on what side they already were on.

When it's suicide, they look for answers and talk about how more needs to be done about depression, or drug abuse or whatever it is that has personally impacted their own life. It's part of how people relate to the bigger world around them - by filtering it through what they know, and make things a little bit better by raising the dialogue on something they already care about in hopes that the attention will make even one more person stop to listen.

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Real life tends to be complicated.

There are people who you admire in one aspect of their lives and really don't like other parts.

You may go back and forth, depending on what is going on - and what you are seeing from them at the moment.

Your favorite author releases a new book - you may run to get it. They start saying things that are racist or sexist... you may have a different opinion about them.

We've certainly had that discussion here - what do you do if one of your favorite authors has personal views/does something that you abhor?

For that matter - what if one of your favorites is a known plagiarist, lifting material from other people? Does that impact how you feel about other work that they do, where they *aren't* doing that? (like maybe they are plagiarize a series of books, but are also known for their charity work - can you separate those two people? Or does your opinion of one area shape the entire view of them?

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If there is one thing in life that everyone can agree on though, and see in the same exact light, it's that the deadline for Idol entries is TONIGHT! So make sure to get yours in! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/767515.html

Vote - Week 17

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A few words from clauderainsrm:

It’s one of those sad days. Not just because of the tragic news from late yesterday, but because we are going to be losing more people from bye-outs.

That’s never pleasant.

The only thing that makes it a little better is reading the entries that were submitted this week! I’m sure the voters are going to have a good time!

Before we get into that though, I have to make it official. So, leaving us this week are: Heather Hambel Curley, dreamsreflected, kittenboo, ljidolvillian and tamaraland

Old friends, and a new one who was the last writer standing without a LJ account!

They will most definitely be missed, and I hope to see them in the Home Game (and of course once Second Chance kicks in!)

Back to the rest of you though, because this train continues to spiral down the tracks toward certain doom…

and the four with the fewest votes will be eliminated! (Except of course in the Redemption Tribe. She is safe. But I wanted her to have a moment in the spotlight of being the only one on a tribe before throwing her back into the mix)

The poll closes on Thursday August 14th at 9pm EDT So I hope you’ve been reading ahead to keep up!

Good luck to everyone!

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