hutch (06/16/82)
My "flame on" button was pushed by the assertion that Christians hold MWR's for Jesus, all the time. No reply to my question regarding that assertion has been forthcoming. I want to know, if the originator was not just being flip, what is being referred to by said assertion? Am I just part of the unwashed who haven't heard of this thing? To rephrase my point, I think that the MWR is not a positive response to a suicide, especially the one that started this whole flaming discussion in the first place. I am not sure but I think even the Irish avoid a wake when the departed was self-immolated. (They being major proponents of wakes, not suicide, Nothern Ireland notwithstanding.) Esteemed Mr. Mammel - At the risk of sounding too mellow and accidentally being required to commit seppukku for loss of face over such an act, "What I hear you say about what I said makes me think you didn't hear what I meant in what I said." In other words, I reply that there is *NOTHING* inherent in religious convictions or the holding of same that prohibits us from "branding" others by them. My perceptions, which are integrated (as much as I can) with religious convictions, are in fact used to judge my own actions, and provide me with parts of the moral basis I use to judge myself and others... Irony can be found where one looks for it. I found it ironic that the "tortured emotions" that I described as leading to the immature responses to suicide are expressed in an attempt to take the last meaningful act of a person's life and defuse the potency of that meaning. Steve Hutchison ...teklabs!tekmdp!dadla-b!hutch