Religions > Bible > To see a whole crowd of people having NO LIVES... observe just about *any* CANDLELIGHT VIGIL.
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"Craig Chilton -- Get us the hell OUT of Iraq -- NOW!!!" |
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30 Apr 2006 05:03:15 AM |
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To see a whole crowd of people having NO LIVES... observe just about *any* CANDLELIGHT VIGIL. |
The same sort of weird mentality that is found among those
who think "grief counselors" are necessary.
When something awful happens, the vigils do NOTHING for the
DEAD victims for which they are held... and friends and relatives
always managed the normal grief process just fine BEFORE anyone
ever concocted a notion for any supposed necessity for "grief coun-
selors."
Just more examples of the sorts of things people waste time on
when they have 'WAY too much time on their hands. Combined with
a shortage of common sense and/or intelligence.
NEXT: "To see a whole crowd of people having NO LIVES...
observe *any* ANTI-CHOICE DEEMONSTRATION.
-- Craig Chilton <xanadu222_@mchsi.com>
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| User: "Midjis" |
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| Title: Re: To see a whole crowd of people having NO LIVES... observe just about *any* CANDLELIGHT VIGIL. |
30 Apr 2006 11:23:57 AM |
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Craig Chilton wrote:
The same sort of weird mentality that is found among those
who think "grief counselors" are necessary.
When something awful happens, the vigils do NOTHING for the
DEAD victims for which they are held... and friends and relatives
always managed the normal grief process just fine BEFORE anyone
ever concocted a notion for any supposed necessity for "grief coun-
selors."
Just more examples of the sorts of things people waste time on
when they have 'WAY too much time on their hands. Combined with
a shortage of common sense and/or intelligence.
Grief is big business these days. Even in Britain, where we've done just
fine with the whole repressed stiff-upper-lip-old-boy routine for
generations, we're now throwing ourselves wholeheartedly into 'expressing
our feelings'. It's a little unsettling, if truth be told.
Strange habits have appeared and seem to have become accepted as
'normal' things to do. Drive down any stretch of road in Britain and
before too long you'll drive past a bunch of flowers tied to a tree or a
lamp-post - tributes to people killed at that particular spot. No-one
seems to question this. No-one seems willing to ask why we should wish
to commemorate the spot where our loved ones suffered a tragic death,
rather than celebrating the fact that they lived. On a more practical
note, no-one seems willing to question whether it's the brightest of
plans to go and stand on foot at a place where you know there's already
been at least one fatal accident so you can tie a bunch of flowers in a
plastic wrapper (they're always in a plastic wrapper) to the obstacle
that killed your loved one.
And then there are murders, or other deaths where the full circumstances
have to be investigated. Time and again after court cases or inquests,
tearful Brits will tell the media that they can "finally grieve"... And
the media lap it up, wanting every last sniff, every flicker of emotion,
and if they're not getting what they want, they'll indulge in
nonsensical, meaningless questions like "how do you feel..?"
Collectively we've taken to behaving a bit oddly, too. Without
mentioning Liverpool(*) specifically - because you can get into trouble
that way - Britain in general occasionally indulges in the most bizarre
orgies of anguish and lamentation, the most infamous of which has to be
our response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. The day
before her death in a car accident in Paris (still held by some - without
any evidence whatsoever - to have been an arranged assassination), the
country was divided more or less down the middle between those who
considered her a saint and those who thought she was a self-serving
schemer. The media ripped into her regularly, especially enjoying itself
with sensationalised stories of her infidelity - but the moment she died,
every single news outlet started pouring forth unfettered praise, and
hasn't really stopped yet. Seemingly the whole country threw itself into
teeth-gnashing and garment-rending. Millions gathered in London to wail,
and to rail at the Queen, who was demonised because she didn't join in (I
can just imagine how Elizabeth I or Victoria would have viewed it all),
and for weeks you could barely move in the capital for oceans of flowers
(all in those tasteful plastic wrappers).
Presumably those of my fellow citizens who got involved in all this got
something out of it. Personally I can't imagine what, but each to their
own. I'm afraid I'm still of the opinion that grief is a private thing
and should be dealt with accordingly, and I'm suspicious of public grief
because it seems fundamentally insincere to me - but then maybe I'm just
old-fashioned.
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* Even so, I'm not sure whether this old news report is more funny or
scary (it's the one about Liverpool and the chicken - stop me if you've
heard it):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=366403&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
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| User: "Bill" |
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| Title: Re: To see a whole crowd of people having NO LIVES... observe just about *any* CANDLELIGHT VIGIL. |
30 Apr 2006 10:48:12 AM |
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Words of 'wisdom'!
"Craig Chilton -- Get us the hell OUT of Iraq -- NOW!!!"
<xanadu222@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:vr2952h4afmogpl7cnl6lc8rgp3ggoqbhp@4ax.com...
The same sort of weird mentality that is found among those
who think "grief counselors" are necessary.
When something awful happens, the vigils do NOTHING for the
DEAD victims for which they are held... and friends and relatives
always managed the normal grief process just fine BEFORE anyone
ever concocted a notion for any supposed necessity for "grief coun-
selors."
Just more examples of the sorts of things people waste time on
when they have 'WAY too much time on their hands. Combined with
a shortage of common sense and/or intelligence.
NEXT: "To see a whole crowd of people having NO LIVES...
observe *any* ANTI-CHOICE DEEMONSTRATION.
-- Craig Chilton <xanadu222_@mchsi.com>
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