Just for the record, Ann, it was my post - "A Rose for Emily and the
Schindler Family" (way back when) that unleashed a bunch here! All I can do
- as well as maybe any of us - is to acknowledge Ken's obvious anguish.
Obviously a hard time. And, at the same time, as people have also done is to
(so far!) politely suggest not to mix anguish with lashing out, making
judgments of others, etc. None of which relieves the anguish, but appears to
add more burdens and consequences, as well as make compassion more difficult
for any of us to express.
I suspect Ken's desire to withdraw is an acknowledgement that his and
resulting tempers are not going to solve the anguish. Indeed, time to chill.
I wish the same could be said for all the anger surrounding the conditions
of Terri Shiavo. God(?) knows the full extent of what this has already been
released and what's to come. Maybe it's just another circus in the wax
museum of Fox media & company (Madame T - as curator - could not be doing a
better job. And if not Terrie's face, we have Michael Jackson, or the
satanic hair cut of the boy who shot up his classmates), in the meantime, as
tribal leaders are pointing out, President Bush has not made one public
expression of sympathy for the the anguish of those families in Red Lake.
Sadly, Bush seems permanently in his own museum, too.
Nothing like Good Friday thoughts! It's actually a beautiful early sunny
morning in SF - the wild parrots are squawking in and out of the palms, and
the mourning stuffs are bubbling away.
Thanks for the good post, Ann and others - and peace to you, Ken.
And I will work hard on feeling compassion for Fox et al!
Stephen V
> Ken,
> Noting your desire to "take it private." However, you've taken upon
> yourself so many roles here, including that of conversation intiator,
> subject determinator, judge, knower-of-facts, generalizer and victim.
> You've pushed alot of my buttons with nearly every one of your posts,
> and while you are feeling free to exercise your right to express
> yourself, I have curbed mine in the attempt to keep this thread civil.
>
> You are not the only person in the world who has been alienated for who
> they are and for what they believe.
>
> You are not the only person in the world who has personal, intimate
> experience with suicides and attempted suicides.
>
> Surely you have never had an abortion.
>
> You used this board to air out your anger and your judgmentalism and now
> when things are stirred up, you want to take it private.
>
> Sensitivity to others is what's missing in your thread. So ironic, as
> that is the essential lament of your thread.
>
> Ann
>
> --
> "The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
> -Xenophon
>
> ***
> The Red Hibiscus http://theredhibiscus.blogspirit.com/
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