Is talking about our dead members of this blog land a deface in their memory?
When I am dead and gone: It will be an honor if you say a little prayer for me. Talk about me good or bad, (I hope not my shortcomings and mistakes) but anything good that I have done to humanity if any. With thousands of students that I taught in many Universities, I am sure, I am not all that bad. I am not perfect. I have done so many mistakes and I apologize for all of them.So,
Please remember me and talk as much as you want about me. That is our ways, we catholic of honoring our dead. We have our cemetery, our altars where we put the memories, ashes and or reminiscence of our dead love ones, just to remember them. Say a little prayer because we believe that through prayers, we are saved from our sins and I beleive I have a lot of them.
So for anyone who shares the same belief, you will not deface me, if I die, pass on and say a little bit about me, good or bad. That will be my way of knowing that you care, at least to think of me and remember me.
Thanks all for your reads and or comment if any.
Note: Life is unpredictable, I can die tomorrow, or now, if and when that happens. I instructed my children to at least log on for me and let you all know that I passed on.
For the atheist who don't share the same belief, it is okay. It will be a pleasure for me if you will talk about me even resurrecting some of my writes and talk about it.
NOTE: all the famous athors of this civilized world, most of them all dead, we still talk about them, discuss all their ideas, does that mean we deface them? Heck no.
So please feel free to share me your opinion.
Thank you all.
I am sorry if bringing back the writes of those who passed on is taken as a defamation or defacing them. I beg to disagree. Or we would be defacing Dante, Shakespear, Keats, Byron, etc. etc.
Comments (87)
I haven't read your entire blog, just snippets.
I don't think having special memories of a much admired and respected blogger who has passed on, is anything unusual and perfectly normal.
It's just that the particular blog you resurrected was of a man in the late stages of cancer who still had hope when he created that blog. I think this was unfortunate, particularly as it transpired his treatment was unsuccessful and he died not long after he posted his blog.
I did not know Daytona Dude but from all accounts he was a very much loved character in the CS community.
May he RIP....
I prayed for him and personally, I don't think I have ever done to disrespect him. I stand with my conviction on that. If and when this encounter wasn't productive or leave a good benefit for anyone to read and or be curious about a member then I am sure they would have filtered those that have passed on. Should they have chosen to do so.
For me, any illness that befell a person, and choose to share is alright with me. Much like my case, I can die any moment as much as anyone for that matter.
If and when my writes will be resurrected and people will be curious, it is not a disrespect for me to have them ask and or say anything about me.
Thank you.
And yes for us we don't only say May you rest in Peace. You are blessed because you are now with our creator.
Well said LJ..
I like the advise of one poster on your blog, be careful and know the hotels you have to avoid.
I hope you will have a very pleasant and enjoyable trip Baig.
I never saw anyone apologize for me so that must have been done and wiped.
Do not need anyone thankyou to do that for me.
DD I knew him as he suffered same time as my now dead very best friend and sister-in-law, may they both R.I.P
I felt to make remarks and pass messages on his very last blog really had little respect for the person himself.
I do not comment on your blogs as a rule as you, well least said, I think,
BUT DO NOT THROUGH THIS SUBJECT TRY TO TURN MY FRIENDS AGAINST ME it is a sneaky move.
I have never reported anyone to mods, they can read can't they
No how anytime can I be friends or whatever with you Lindsy, you know that, so do not play the innocent, as to (what have I done) we should just do as before and stay clear of each others blogs, but do not try to discredit me through a dead person. that is the shamfulness.
This is a good clarification actually because I know for a fact that I am not the only one resurrecting these blogs. I am enjoying the fact that I can read old post and make me learn from them Baig.
Again I am thankful of sharing my opinion from bloggers passed on or not. Note: I would never ever know if they passed on and if they do, what is wrong with that.
We learn from all these writes written by ordinary people like us or Shakespear, Socrates, Emerson or not.
How do i explain to you why I am so angry, yes I am an atheist but can still respect the person.
Would you deface a bible and write over it.???? Even I being an atheist would not show disrespect to anothers belief that way.
Now that is what I believe you did.
Start another blog about the person but do not write on their headstone, yes i was guilty too and the only person I would apologize too would be DD
I did not know about SIMMO until I came back that was a shock as I did not know he had been ill. His blogs I can see come up now but I would not resurrect and comment on his blogs now.
I have no intention on defacing that person as you accused me. If you don't understand me and I refuse to accept your judgment against me, please I beg of you, stay away and you are a very disrespectful person by repeating your ridiculous position.
Please I will delete whatever it is you will comment from here. Understood?
Now be very prepared on your trip okay? Of course I know you are prepared.
As a retired University professor, I couldn't have missed any chance of applying respect and if I made a mistake, again mistake, I apologize. I do abhor a lot of things like imposing your atheist belief on me. I do hate killings of whatever the reason specially religion. I do despise lies like our politicians do. But I am not like you disrespectful.
Now stay away and go and hang out with your friends whom I have induced on turning against you..
Much like Shakespeare and the rest of our mentors.
Thank you dear fellow member..
I wish you a significantly healthier, longer, peaceful and, not to mention, an adventurous life! God Bless..
Thanks Berry.
Thanks Home, if you will do that that would be a great honor. I will never block for comments to come pouring in.
I will not stop those that will come and comment on my old blogs. They are just as good now as it was when I wrote them, including this post.
Thank you again.
In my cathedral where I was a lector for 25 years. It is in the book, St. Eugene's Cathedral of Santa Rosa, Ca., my congregation wrote to the Pope, then John Paul the 2nd a prayer for me and my whole church members. I wans't even aware until after I recovered that they did for me. My children were taken cared of and we were cooked food everyday. Talking about a very humanitarian effort Baig, I was blessed then and still blessed now and I am returning all the favors by going to St. Vincent de Paul and helping friends that are now in the same difficulty I was in.
Yes, I am grateful. I am very respectful and I can say I do my fair share of making a lot of mistakes.
Best way to live!
If you find my ways unChristian, can you be more specific and I will atone them? You can private mail me. If you so want it public that is okay with me too. You are most welcomed to present them on here. I stand to be corrected if I have opposed some of Christ's ways.
You are a power house Linds. Your blogs make people think. At the least, they make me think.
Fear not. I will always hold you dear.
My respects to all my posters on my blog Cheav and you are a heck of a very dear poster to my writes.
Thank you always for giving me those insights that otherwise I would have remained ignorant about.
And this is what is so good Cheav, those that passed on like Socrates, so many from England's most erudite Philosophers, for heaven sake if it is a disrespect to comment, discuss and or argue against their minds what the hell, we might as well know all those that have died and don't talk about them.
Thank you my dear Cheav. You inspire me to say the least.
Well said, thank you very much. I will definitely respect anything that you do with my writes or simply remembering me when I am gone. It is an honor if you will resurrect and talk and or argue and or comment on my topic, whether it is to base me or praise me and or simply learn from the argument I presented.
Thank you...
Non religious folk and non believers are entitled to be respected for their views.
There are times you seem to lose your way, and a break from the computer would be in your best interests.
You do go on......and on.....LJ.
Now you find me unChristian? What are those? Or you simply don't like me and what I believe in, and that is alright, but to tell me that I am wrong in what I have specifically done to DD and his blog, you are wrong in my book.
And so many have expressed their views, do you deny them, too? I will keep this blog for as long as it suits me, this is the freedom that we have here. You have no right to stop me for what is a good point of explaining why I did what I did.
You never commented on my blogs before so I guess I have to be thankful that at least you are here. Now don't tell me what I can and can't do. But still I am waiting for you specific accusation of me being un Christian.
I am waiting and as I said, I will learn from all of you. The most effective learning is from those who don't like you. I do feel you never like me or what I believe in and that is alright, but to impose your ways on me, is just plain wrong.
You turn from this>>>>
Maybe take some time away to consider a viewpoint before responding with a rant. Red is a good person. She has a big heart. I don't understand the bad blood between you, but no-one deserves to be treated in that manner when, I feel, she had a valid point to make.....and it is so surprising coming from a Christian, like yourself.
People deserve to be treated with respect, including resurrected blogs/bloggers which you seem to be hell-bent on pursuing.
Go and have a cuppa....
I have no idea of who wrote these but I think they do apply.I ran across these years ago while surfing the internet.
1. I never in my life learned anything from anyone who always agreed with me.
2. The biggest sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference of opinion.
3.The terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another,the most terrible is when two men say the same thing and fight about the interpretation.
How are you? Enjoying the beautiful autumn CC?
I am.. I will drive to the country later..Just to see the array of fading Oranges, fiery red to brown...Aren't the trees so gorgeous? Last two weeks are the most perfect.
...and thank you LJ.....I will dutifully dismiss myself and go have a much needed cuppa myself....
Thank you again.
Was going to travel South into Tennessee but found out by some information that the leaves aren't changing as they once did last year cause of the weather they've been having down there.Leaves here in my area aren't all that colorful either.In Northern Ohio around the Sandusky area where Lake Erie is the leaves are now reached their peak.
Next week my neighbor is taking me on a day trip up to my home state of Michigan to visit my late father's grave.I haven't been there in a while and I miss it so so much.My late mother and one of my older sisters are buried there also.
The same thing here. Not as colorful as last autumn but just the same the change of the season is most welcomed from the changing colors.