Bloody hell - that was sudden!
I hope it was painless.
Re: RIP Horetore
Bloody hell - that was sudden!
I hope it was painless.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
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Re: RIP Horetore
I'm still in shock. Everyone here is amazing and I hope you all live healthy and long lives. I also approve of closing the backroom to honor him.
Re: RIP Horetore
I've been thinking about this today, it's weird. I think the only time we ever agreed on anything was when we were faced with a complete nutjob here who needed to be locked up.
I disagreed with his politics and I'm still angry about what he said on Armistice Day.
To be fair though, he was consistent in his beliefs - even his complete disdain for soldiers and members of the armed forces.
I think, basically, he passed what I have decided to call my "in a ditch" test. If I was lying naked in a ditch I think he's the kind of person who would have helped me - and not everyone would.
His absence is going to have a daily impact on my life, and despite how angry he made me I think the world is a worse place without him in it.
"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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Re: RIP Horetore
I reveled in the anger he drew from me, for the same reason I force myself to watch Chris Mathews and Rachel Maddow. You do not learn from hearing an endless chorus singing the praises of your current beliefs. Horetore (Erik) taught me. I was always deeply grateful for that even as he drove me to distraction on any number of issues. Like Red Harvest or Tribesman, he always made me THINK about my beliefs and question them.
Virology has much to teach us yet. Viruses are among the deadliest threats we face and they can come in at odd angles and times. One virus decided to tear apart my daughter's pancreas and leave her a diabetic. We only noticed a flu in October, not what had really happened until December.
At 50, Horetore is not the first I have interacted with to end up dead untimely. Each instance is painful. The pain of each loss is attenuated by time -- the little hole in your own life is never completely papered over though.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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