13-07-2012, 09:42 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Condolences on your loss, sir. Nature or nurture, our predecessors live on through those they touch.
Indeed they do.
And they literally live on, each spirit as individual, singular and recognizable as in physical life, in the elsewhere that is our common destination.
Those who did not know Arthur Beatini incarnate can experience him during those rare moments when somehow I exhibit whatever goodness is within me ... whatever nobility, whatever love.
All failings are mine alone.
Thanks, Ed. I know you understand.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene