Saturday, April 09, 2005
Tragedy?
A reader asks a valid question about how we are all reacting to the death of the Pope:
I would say it is a tragedy for the same reason that we cry at funerals, even though the deceased are believed to be in a better place than we are. Because we don't cry for him, we cry for us. It is we who have lost a great man, a great Pope. His life works were tremendous, and few can hope to leave such a legacy to follow. So it is a tragedy for us, that he could not do more and that we go on without him. Thought provoking comment.
...since when is the peaceful and relatively painless death of an 80+ year-old man a "tragedy?"
I would say it is a tragedy for the same reason that we cry at funerals, even though the deceased are believed to be in a better place than we are. Because we don't cry for him, we cry for us. It is we who have lost a great man, a great Pope. His life works were tremendous, and few can hope to leave such a legacy to follow. So it is a tragedy for us, that he could not do more and that we go on without him. Thought provoking comment.
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i really have nothing to comment except ....and i had something good to say there, but i forgot...er, yea...
and im not catholic, so i never really kept up w/ what the pope did or anything like that...plus u know that im realtively clueless when it comes to any kind of news nowadays (the whole liberty bubble)
ok, im done wasting valuable space on this thing w/ my nonsensicle babbelings...yes...cause everyone else is leaving you sooo many comments....sike j/k
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i really have nothing to comment except ....and i had something good to say there, but i forgot...er, yea...
and im not catholic, so i never really kept up w/ what the pope did or anything like that...plus u know that im realtively clueless when it comes to any kind of news nowadays (the whole liberty bubble)
ok, im done wasting valuable space on this thing w/ my nonsensicle babbelings...yes...cause everyone else is leaving you sooo many comments....sike j/k
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