@NT 1
But, you gotta laugh innit?
A devout Catholic who popped into church to thank God for a his rescue from a lift was crushed to death by a 860lb stone altar, the Telegraph reports. Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger explained that Gunther Link, 45, was "a very religious man and had been scared when he was trapped in the lift and had prayed for release". He …
"When will people grow up? #
By Flugal Posted Thursday 10th September 2009 16:22 GMT
Pixies, fairies, unicorns, dragons and god.
Fine for fantasies, but that's all they are. Grown adults believing in any of them should be ashamed."
You forgot to add the Higgs boson to your list. After all, lots of otherwise rational scientists believe in it, but nobody has found one. Yet they rely on its unproven existence to 'prove' the rest of their theories/beliefs.
What? So somehow all life is precious and things are sacred and shouldn't be ridiculed? Climb down off your horse.
Not taking anything away from the loss his family feel, but there's 6 billion people out there, every single one of whom will die. There is nothing mystical or amazing about this, simply inevitable. It isn't malice to laugh about a tragically comic event like this.
Everything dies. This is an entirely normal, natural occurence, and nothing to get so excited about. Most people don't die of old age, they die of unexpected causes. Chill out and laugh at it, and yourself.
When I go, I hope it's in some manner that people hear about and cry with laughter about. Bollocks to all this self-aggrandisement and crocodile tears bullshit. Just another person. Same as the battered cod you eat was just another fish, or the burger was just another cow. Nothing to see here.