Posted by zazenduckie on December 8, 2006, at 14:57:29
In reply to Re: Thinking and Feeling for Others, posted by Declan on December 8, 2006, at 13:30:32
> Well, he was a friend of mine, and I would like, just for a little while, to have him
remembered.I remember him. I'm not going to participate in a who was his best friend and gets to speak for him now kind of debate. I think that's disrespectful.
And I think it's ghoulish to collect quotes to put in Bob's self-described "cyber cemetary". I think it would be better to have a closed board for people to talk to each other without the looming specter of being included in Bob's next project rather than to invite in all the gawkers and immortalize it for as long as dr-bob.org lasts. It's like sending the National Enquirer in to cover the funeral. Closeup of your face and "how do you feel ?"
> It is one of the most basic things about being human...that we remember the dead, not for their sake, but for ours.I wish it could be done privately and with dignity rather as a public spectacle later to be dissected by Bob in one of his professional "presentations".
> Other animals do it, elephants certainly.
> As for all the desperate people? I dunno.
> (We cope with the despair of others more readily, given our heirarchy.)and which heirarchy might that be?
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