I was never, ever going to post on here again. I'd even forgotten the last password I had put up to give somebody access to they could give all my stuff away. But I've been following this topic ever since I found out what happened to her, and ... permit me to rant a little bit before I leave again, m'kay?
Heinrich Felini
Why does every one care so much? Just another person died...
Most people who have posted in this thread didn't know her at all, or maybe they'd just seen her around Gaia.
But she's been around for a
long time. Her join number was 9134, and Shiraishi's was 8462, so those of us who were here when Gaia first started out have been acquainted with them since almos the very beginning. They had the enviable status of being Gaia's first openly lesbian couple. Everybody knew about Shiraishi and Chiharu - EVERYBODY.
Then when ED split off from GD, they were there. They were in #ED and in the topics frequented by ED regulars. Go into the "Ex. D. Patrons: Introduce Yourself Here" thread (I can't believe that's still going...) and somewhere in the first hundred pages you'll find a picture of Shiraishi and Chiharu. They were instrumental in the coven of teh herbil wicthes, followers of Jenna and Pele teh vulcano adn socer godesss. Chiharu was here before most of the current moderators even joined.
She may have just been "just another person" for a lot of people, but she wasn't for me, and I didn't even know her as well as Truewind or Noraboo or JoVo (or many others) did, let alone Shiraishi.
She wasn't "just another person" for a significant percentage of this board.
Heinrich Felini
Did you know more people die in car crashes, being maimed terribly, then they do from isolated gun incidents?
(snip)
You people with your gusy wet and soft emotions make me sick.
I realize that you're trying to be "realistic" and "objective" about this, but here's a hint, kid: actual maturity also involves empathy. Ridiculing people who are upset, saddened by, or grieving due to something like this - even those who didn't know the person - doesn't make you look tough, or hardened, or realistic, or any of the other potentially "good" adjectives people use to describe a hard case.
It simply makes you look like a child who wants to prop his ego up at the expense of other's bereavement.
So next time you think how badass it would look to quote statistics at someone who lost somebody, think a second thought about zipping the lip first.
Heinrich Felini
And, how do you people know this isnt an attention whoring scheeme? I want a freaking news link!
You're new here, so I'm not going to beat your a** in for implying that Shiraishi is a liar. Especially about this.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.
