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Men don't cry
Topic Started: Jul 20 2006, 10:01 AM (447 Views)
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Curious. What was the worst cry in your life, or the two worst?

Also, what was the best cathartic cry (i.e. end of a movie, play, book)?
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I've never cried at any movie, book or play. Both the Passion of the Christ and Man on Fire brought me very close but no actual tears.

As for crying generally, I haven't cried soberly in years.
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A couple of Orson Scott Card books have brought me close to tears, but movies don't tend to be able to do it for me. :cry:
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When I was in elementary school I got really sad reading "Where the Red Fern Grows", and I may have cried.
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Obviously, some one needs to admit it first -

Real cries: I held up pretty good when my Grandma, and my father died, at least while I was sober. My worst was with the dog. We had two, and when the oldest, Sam, had to be put down, Don, my lover, took him in. When he got home, and I found out he didn't stay with him while they put him down, I was furious. I few years later, Jody, had to go too. I took her in. I held her as they prepped her, and still held her through the whole process. Just as they started, she turned her head and looked me in the eyes, and licked my face, af if to say to me, "It's OK, I love you!" Well, I lost it, and it was a good twenty minutes before I could leave that room and let go.

Plays: Every time, "Man of LaMancha"

Movies: "My Dog Skip", "Field of Dreams", "Schindler's List", "Braveheart", and untold older black-and-white films.

Crying for Joy: Last out of the 2005 World Series, when the White Sox won the Series!
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Truthfully I haven't cried in a long time. Not that this is a healthy thing by any means. Emotions are very important, and I definitely want to be more emotional and sensitive. After all emotions and reason are the two great gifts that separate humans from other animals. If we lack both, we're no better than an animal and if we lack either, we're halfway to being animals.
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Jul 20 2006, 02:09 PM
Obviously, some one needs to admit it first -

Don't believe me then. I haven't cried soberly in a very long time. I cry a lot when I'm drunk, normally for attention.
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Jul 20 2006, 10:01 AM
Curious. What was the worst cry in your life, or the two worst?

Also, what was the best cathartic cry (i.e. end of a movie, play, book)?

Worst cry? When my last girlfriend dumped me. Why? Because I didn't really like her all that much, so it's kinda embarrassing to cry over something that didn't really matter to you.

Cathatic... well... the only movie to ever make me cry was Bambi. Plenty of books make me cry though - for joy or out of sorrow - but films just don't touch me that much. To emotionless. Plays sometimes make me cry when I laugh so hard.
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Lets see, I guess I've had three really "worsest in life" cries.

The first came when my grandmother died (My dad's mom) because her's was the first funeral I was ever allowed to attend. My father's Dad died a few years earlier but I was told I was to young to go, which is probably true because I was only 6 or 7 at the time. It's funny that, that moment made my cry as much as it did because honestly I wasn't a close to my father's mother as I was to my Mom's mom of whom lived with us until she died. An yet I only cried during my Dad's mom's funeral. I guess it was because her's was my first funeral, and my first real dealings with death.

Just a personal note about myself, I don't have any living grandparents. The closest thing I do have is a Great-Grandfather and sadly he is not expected to have many years left.

The second time I cried was when my mom went into the Hospital. I love the woman to death, but she is one of the hardest head people I think I have ever met besides myself at times :lol: Anyhow, she has blood pressure problems and she wasn't taking good care of it at the time. Of course, we just thought she was sick, but when she finally seemed to be going out of her mind, my sister rushed her to the Emergency room where they discovered that her BP level was insanely high. Luckily she was treated in time and was able to return hom later that week.

The Third time I cried like an all out baby was when my father was put into the Hospital. It was about 3 or 4 years back and we had just cleaned out the gaurage the day before when he began complaining about back pains. A few days later he was in the hospital with tubes comnig out of his side. They had him so druged up that he wasn't anything like himself. It's a picture of my father I hope never to see again in my entire life. He did get better thankfully and I've never had to experience a parent in the hospital since.

As for movies or books....hmmmm...none come to mind at the moment but I assure I've cried to a few. I can be a very emotional individual when the need arises.
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Sometimes I get emo and think about my life and how much it sucks at the moment, and that in itself is enough to make me cry...

As for movies, there are quite a few that made me ball, but the one that gets me everytime: The Joy Luck Club. Also, Hotel Rwanda was a tear jerker. Usually, a movie that moves me is one that I will eventually buy.

As for a book, there was this story that a friend of mine e-mailed me, i couldn't tell you the name of it because I deleted the e-mail (stupid me), but it was in Portuguese about this love triangle. It was a very steamy novel, but then one of the guys dies and it was really sad, especially since that left the other guy with this not-so-nice girl that was his girlfriend. I guess because it made me cry disqualified it from being labeled a "porno".
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I loathe being emotional, and always hold back, even when I want to cy, in a movie or reading a book. The only play put on by professional actors I have ever seen is Cats, and that wasn't really a tear-jerker so i can't comment. The last time I cried was in Washington DC, when I saw the Vietnam memorial. I was with my then girlfriend who lost an uncle in that war and was being all emotional. It made me think too, about 58,000 guys about my age and probably a lot like me who died horrible deaths for a stupid cause and ended up dying in vain because the US left too early and South Vietnam fell apart. And that besides these guys, like 1/3 of Vietnam's populaion died in that war, and a lot of them were innocents killed in atrocities by both sides, but especially the enemy. I admit, I cried a little.
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Jul 20 2006, 06:37 PM
I loathe being emotional, and always hold back, even when I want to cy, in a movie or reading a book. The only play put on by professional actors I have ever seen is Cats, and that wasn't really a tear-jerker so i can't comment. The last time I cried was in Washington DC, when I saw the Vietnam memorial. I was with my then girlfriend who lost an uncle in that war and was being all emotional. It made me think too, about 58,000 guys about my age and probably a lot like me who died horrible deaths for a stupid cause and ended up dying in vain because the US left too early and South Vietnam fell apart. And that besides these guys, like 1/3 of Vietnam's populaion died in that war, and a lot of them were innocents killed in atrocities by both sides, but especially the enemy. I admit, I cried a little.

Yeah, the Vietnam War memorial was powerful. My Dad almost had to go to Vietnam, and seeing the memorial made me realize how lucky I am that he isn't one of the names on it.
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Jul 20 2006, 06:37 PM
I loathe being emotional, and always hold back, even when I want to cy, in a movie or reading a book. The only play put on by professional actors I have ever seen is Cats, and that wasn't really a tear-jerker so i can't comment. The last time I cried was in Washington DC, when I saw the Vietnam memorial. I was with my then girlfriend who lost an uncle in that war and was being all emotional. It made me think too, about 58,000 guys about my age and probably a lot like me who died horrible deaths for a stupid cause and ended up dying in vain because the US left too early and South Vietnam fell apart. And that besides these guys, like 1/3 of Vietnam's populaion died in that war, and a lot of them were innocents killed in atrocities by both sides, but especially the enemy. I admit, I cried a little.

Oh Yeah, that did me in big time. I forgot. I found 6 of my class-mate's names on the wall. I sat down in front of one, right on the ground, he was one of my best friends from grammar school, and I cried, and prayed for a long time, and prayed this would never happen again. Now it is, and I want to cry again.

I'm not one to try to contain my emotions, so if I feel the tears coming, I let them go.

I forgot. I also cried at the end of Hotel Rwanda, but also in the middle when the Nun/School teacher described the slaughter of the little girl!! Oh, that broke me up, big time.
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Jul 20 2006, 04:37 PM
I loathe being emotional, and always hold back, even when I want to cy, in a movie or reading a book. The only play put on by professional actors I have ever seen is Cats, and that wasn't really a tear-jerker so i can't comment. The last time I cried was in Washington DC, when I saw the Vietnam memorial. I was with my then girlfriend who lost an uncle in that war and was being all emotional. It made me think too, about 58,000 guys about my age and probably a lot like me who died horrible deaths for a stupid cause and ended up dying in vain because the US left too early and South Vietnam fell apart. And that besides these guys, like 1/3 of Vietnam's populaion died in that war, and a lot of them were innocents killed in atrocities by both sides, but especially the enemy. I admit, I cried a little.

Not to get off topic, but it'll kill me if I can't figure it out, so I'm going to ask..

Is the Vietnam memorial the wall that is on a slope, and in a V-shape , sorta situated on a corner??

I ask, because I've only been to DC once sadly and it was while I was on my way to NYC. We were able to spend I think one maybe two hours, and so we sorta rushed through some sites...this was around like 7 or 8 at night in December.
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Jul 20 2006, 08:22 PM
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Jul 20 2006, 04:37 PM
I loathe being emotional, and always hold back, even when I want to cy, in a movie or reading a book. The only play put on by professional actors I have ever seen is Cats, and that wasn't really a tear-jerker so i can't comment. The last time I cried was in Washington DC, when I saw the Vietnam memorial. I was with my then girlfriend who lost an uncle in that war and was being all emotional. It made me think too, about 58,000 guys about my age and probably a lot like me who died horrible deaths for a stupid cause and ended up dying in vain because the US left too early and South Vietnam fell apart. And that besides these guys, like 1/3 of Vietnam's populaion died in that war, and a lot of them were innocents killed in atrocities by both sides, but especially the enemy. I admit, I cried a little.

Not to get off topic, but it'll kill me if I can't figure it out, so I'm going to ask..

Is the Vietnam memorial the wall that is on a slope, and in a V-shape , sorta situated on a corner??

I ask, because I've only been to DC once sadly and it was while I was on my way to NYC. We were able to spend I think one maybe two hours, and so we sorta rushed through some sites...this was around like 7 or 8 at night in December.

It is a series of black marble walls, about 7' tall, with the names of 58,000 + who died in Vietnam. Very simple, very stark, very emotional.
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Jul 20 2006, 06:26 PM
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Jul 20 2006, 08:22 PM
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Jul 20 2006, 04:37 PM
I loathe being emotional, and always hold back, even when I want to cy, in a movie or reading a book. The only play put on by professional actors I have ever seen is Cats, and that wasn't really a tear-jerker so i can't comment. The last time I cried was in Washington DC, when I saw the Vietnam memorial. I was with my then girlfriend who lost an uncle in that war and was being all emotional. It made me think too, about 58,000 guys about my age and probably a lot like me who died horrible deaths for a stupid cause and ended up dying in vain because the US left too early and South Vietnam fell apart. And that besides these guys, like 1/3 of Vietnam's populaion died in that war, and a lot of them were innocents killed in atrocities by both sides, but especially the enemy. I admit, I cried a little.

Not to get off topic, but it'll kill me if I can't figure it out, so I'm going to ask..

Is the Vietnam memorial the wall that is on a slope, and in a V-shape , sorta situated on a corner??

I ask, because I've only been to DC once sadly and it was while I was on my way to NYC. We were able to spend I think one maybe two hours, and so we sorta rushed through some sites...this was around like 7 or 8 at night in December.

It is a series of black marble walls, about 7' tall, with the names of 58,000 + who died in Vietnam. Very simple, very stark, very emotional.

thank you good sir

I did some googling ( :lol: I don't know why I find that word funny) and found that it was one of the sites I was able to visit while on my very short trip through DC. I was a very touching memorial indeed and I think I might have gotten some pictures of it. I'll have to check.
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It is very overpowering. I don't know if I would have cried if she wasn't on my shoulder doing the same, but either way i sure as Hell did. I think that is the only time I've cried on US soil! :o
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I haven't cried since 2002 when my aunt died. She was one of those special people that you could always talk to no matter what the situation was. There was an aura about her and she never cussed, although my family can get very orthodox in keeping with our traditions. That was my last sincere cry and a deep one it was. She had gotten sick and ironically the hospital she was being cared for was the one that she would die in, although they did a poor job of caring for her when she would put in vast unpaid overtime in caring for patients. (I had ask some of the nurses on duty to get her some water or a sponge to keep her mouth wet, all they did was get me a bag of Q-tips for me to wet her mouth...very pissed off... :angry: ) Men do cry, we just hide alot better than women.:cry:

As for a movie, not a chance. No book or movie could ever drive me to tears. I grew up in a sad story where gang violence was a part of life and no movie or book for that matter was going to change that.
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Jul 20 2006, 02:39 PM
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Jul 20 2006, 02:09 PM
Obviously, some one needs to admit it first -

Don't believe me then. I haven't cried soberly in a very long time. I cry a lot when I'm drunk, normally for attention.

That, CE, is the most pathetic of all the pathetic things you have ever said. "I cry when I'm drunk to get attention." That is just sad!! Nobody likes a crying drunk, and what brings you to tears when you are drunk? Your glass is empty?
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This topic is depressing.
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Sorry, dude, I was in a very "Hamlet" type of meed when I posted it, so yeah, let's not get all depressed and commit suicide, OK??
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I hate people who commit suicide. I have no respect for anyone who chooses that path.
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Jul 21 2006, 09:05 PM
I hate people who commit suicide. I have no respect for anyone who chooses that path.

What about terminally ill people in incredible amounts of pain?
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Jul 21 2006, 10:39 PM
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Jul 21 2006, 09:05 PM
I hate people who commit suicide. I have no respect for anyone who chooses that path.

What about terminally ill people in incredible amounts of pain?

Or, you know, anyone who doesn't want to live?

Now a lot of prissy-pussies commit sucide when things could have got better if they were willing to get off their ass and do something, but sometimes there's nothing you can do.
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Jul 22 2006, 06:31 AM
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Jul 21 2006, 10:39 PM
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Jul 21 2006, 09:05 PM
I hate people who commit suicide. I have no respect for anyone who chooses that path.

What about terminally ill people in incredible amounts of pain?

Or, you know, anyone who doesn't want to live?

Now a lot of prissy-pussies commit sucide when things could have got better if they were willing to get off their ass and do something, but sometimes there's nothing you can do.

I agree that anyone who doesn't want to live should be allowed to legally commit suicide, but I don't really have much respect for people like that unless they had a damn good reason.
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