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Jul 16 2007, 11:48 AM
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I sent Choochooman a PM and explained it to him and i think he understood me so we solved the issue among two of us!
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Jul 16 2007, 01:17 PM
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QUOTE (Kaneda @ Jul 16 2007, 05:51 AM)  Not really sure if it has anything to do with culture, age or "videogame mentality". Although I'm a Western European and only 29 years old, I've seen more senseless death up close than I'd care to in a lifetime. But in the end, talking about death, even making fun of it, is the closest thing to a "defense" people have. Censoring such speech will do no good.  Everyone draws their line a different place - mine is drawn where we start making fun of a tragic event - even then it depends on the context. I don't see a problem with this thread - actually I think it's a healthy discussion, whether people take it as fun or give it serious contemplation. But different people will have different lines, and I totally understand Pavel's point of view. I'll also have to agree with ch00ch00man, though - the moment we start filtering out threads like this, we're already moving in a very wrong direction. Great perspective Kaneda - there was never any question of censoring this thread. In my opinion discussions like this are fine as long as they are conducted with sensitivity and respect to all involved. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Jul 16 2007, 08:39 PM
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QUOTE (FretDancer69 @ Jul 15 2007, 07:57 PM) never thought about it...But i think mine would be: The Call of Ktulu by Metallica Amen to that!;) Agreed --------------------  |
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Jul 19 2007, 12:01 AM
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SICK topic but Dream on played by DIO and Yngwie Malmsteen!
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Jul 19 2007, 12:28 AM
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I'm rather ambivalent about the thread. Like Hemlock I've had the sad task of going to several funerals in the last few months ranging from both my wife's parents and her great uncle through to two friends who committed suicide. Not a nice time. However like Hemlock we (my wife, her family and me) were asked about what music to play at the individual funerals for her parents. Her father had specified something whilst her mother had not and that then became another, at the time, upsetting but eventually cathartic thing to deal with. So because of this part of me has no problem with this thread - it can be useful to think and discuss and even plan aspects about our own death/funeral rites.
However, and as I said, I am ambivalent; I accept that death remains as a a deeply emotive, problematic, traumatic and culturally bound phenomenon and one that may well be extremely personal. (Also there was nothing cathartic about the suicides - just deeply painful for those left behind  . Perhaps here I empathise with Pavel - death is no subject for the young and perhaps we should all remain too young for it - there is, to me, nothing positive about a life taken, wasted, or lost too soon. Echoes of Yates' 'Sailing to Byzantium'...)I'm in the somewhat strange position of doing academic research that includes an understanding of death - its a very complicated and subjective issue and perhaps not one to be discussed lightly. Against that however if (and its a big if) we don't discuss funerals then what happens? Death and funerals still occur we just don't talk about them... There is a comment from Jacques Derrida about the power of the secret - its power lies in that everyone knows the secret but no one reveals either the secret or that they know it. There is thus a denial and a refusal - similarly his comment should Christ reappear on earth the only correct response to Christ would be 'When will you come?' (because we will fail and refuse to recognise his return...) On this subject Derrida's 'Circumfession' is a wonderfully poignant read (partly about his fear that he will be outlived by his mother...) A related concept from Georges Bataille concerns the accursed share - what we deny often does not go away, it may fester and grow until the point where it manifests itself catastrophically. For Bataille the celebration of Mardi Gras - a release and opening towards, rather than refusal/denial of, death helps us cope with it rather than it festering away in the dark... Nonetheless we still need (especially me) to show sensitivity to each other. I managed to upset my sister-in-law before my mother-in-law's funeral - on such a difficult and emotive subject and time- by suggesting that the CoE vicar for the funeral was insensitive to the family. (Sister-in-law's husband is also a CoE vicar and I'm a lapsed RC - she took my comment as a slight on her Church  .) As I say difficult, very, very difficult terrain. One that I'm at present ambivalent about.Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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