[quote=pri_dk][quote=temeculaguy]I can’t explain heroism to those who lack that element in their character.[/quote]
TG,
You may want to find a way to rephrase that. It’s the most arrogant thing I’ve heard in a long time.[/quote]
Unfortunately that was the fourth re-phrase, the original included something about how I’ve never seen such a parade of walking vaginas, but that would be an insult to walking vaginas.
Pri-dk, we get along most of the time, in fact I get along with most people. Everyone has a nerve, this one is mine, I respectfully request a pass on this one thread if I’ve gone overboard. I think I’ve earned it a pass this once.
It just killed me to see everyone have such strong opinions about things in which they knew so little about. Like brian’s comment about how long feels a mother gets to mourn the loss of her son, that one got my goat too, I regret even reading this thread to begin with.
I think the best way I can explain it is to compare it to religion. I do not belong to a church, but I understand that many people do. Some give their money or their time to their church. Some go without certain pleasures and some endure sacrifice, don’t even get me started on the amish and mormons. Yet here we are, 2,011 years later and this entire country takes of work for the birth and the re-birth of a guy who reportedly got nailed to a cross. Do I tell them to get over it, it was a long time ago, that three spikes through your extremities isn’t that big of a deal and far easier than a shark bite or wood chipper accident. They can’t explain it to me, how they connect with the stories, how it is important to them, but I also don’t make them explain it. I let them enjoy their day with the respect of a fellow citizen and maybe when they see me or others react with similar ritual and regard to something they don’t fully connect with, they will do the same for me.
Maybe it’s more like professional soccer, I have a hard time understanding the passion some people have for it, but they can’t understand my passions. Yet neither of us want to ban the others emotions and neither of us can explain what makes us who we are because we have had different experiences.
How you die isn’t always up to you, how you choose to live is. I cannot live with the guilt of knowing I could have done more and someone may not be able to live with taking certain risks. If people don’t like it that they don’t make movies praising the guy who took the lifeboat from the women and children on the titanic, or the guy who hid behind a wall in Tienanmen square, opting to praise the ones who were brave, took risks or made sacrifices. That’s just the way it is. Not everyone will get it.
It’s September 12th, hopefully nobody will be bothered by this stuff for a while and they can go back to believing that nobody is better than they are. Feel free to forget.
