Yeah okay well your links are lame anybody this interested should look up those links and see what it's all about nothing
Yeah okay well your links are lame anybody this interested should look up those links and see what it's all about nothing
If you lie, you have to cover your whole body with tin foil. If you stand up, the tin foil hat deflects most of whatever it is you're afraid of.
??? The links are exactly what I said -- a bunch of comments from other people expressing their appreciation from the piece I posted. Nothing more, nothing less. I entered the title into Google, and took these out of the top hits. I did this to support my position that many people would actually very much like to hear something like this at a funeral. It's a far cry from a comprehensive opinion poll, but it's about a billion times (give or take) more evidence than you have supplied to support your position that most people wouldn't like it. But I get it, Masbee, I get it. You don't think many would like the quoted piece, and you REALLY don't like my unofficial evidence that many people WOULD like it. How about you just forget all about this thread and go on your way? Cheers.
Your first link has FIVE positive posts in the last five years. That is not "a bunch". And I love your and the links posters constant strawman - that this is the alternative or antidote to a "religious" funeral. Bullshit. There are not only two choices - an in-your-face god and jesus heaven and hell christian funeral vs. this dust in the wind "physicist" take. Like I said already, a wake style funeral avoids both. I am not really interested in "proving" I am right by doing a bunch of work to give you a lot of random posts on the internet. Because, you know what, posts on the internet prove very little. It is not a scientific survey. Outlier opinions/feelings/worldviews/etc exist. If a thought is possible, multiple people have posted that thought on the internet. Thus, you can "prove" ANYTHING by finding posts on the internet. Let's try this. You like this eulogy. Go read it at the next several funerals you attend (no skipping due to percieved audience issues), and conduct your own surveys.
Oh? How much, exactly is "a bunch"? I'm always forgetting my unit measures... Excuse me -- "constant strawman"? Show me where I even HINTED that I considered this an "antidote" to a religious funeral. Show me where I said I didn't like wakes. And then (when you can't find any such quote) kindly fuck off. I've been to a few funerals, and I've appreciated everything that was said at them that was honest and heartfelt. If you can't possibly imagine an honest, heartfelt and emotional delivery of how a physicist might take comfort in the continuity of memory and matter, that's fine. Why do you feel the need to measure how many funerals it would be appropriate at? The irony here is that YOU are the one making claims about what everyone thinks -- I just posted something I liked, and followed up by saying that there were others who also liked it. Nothing more, nothing less. I never claimed that it was somehow superior to religious quotations, and I sure as hell never claimed it was better than having a wake. You are inventing a conflict out of thin air, and I have no idea why. You don't think anyone would like it? Fine -- don't read it. Why can't you just leave it at that? You are being ridiculous.
