tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358532955111156860.post7199777187676189798..comments2023-07-11T21:53:01.874-07:00Comments on Kemet Today: Death and Remembrance - Osama bin Laden and the worldRev. Dr. Tamara L. Siudahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17062740037568839159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358532955111156860.post-62500953102346573132013-05-02T04:40:00.800-07:002013-05-02T04:40:00.800-07:00this is very apropiate to my country right nowthis is very apropiate to my country right nowGabriel Landaetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935788728872196333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358532955111156860.post-88164232389479610132011-07-02T21:44:50.264-07:002011-07-02T21:44:50.264-07:00Even now many months later people still celebrate ...Even now many months later people still celebrate the death of a man who seemed only to want freedom for his people from oppression. To be sure he went about it in a way most would not. It has been said that "one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter", and I am sure there are many who saw him this way. I myself will not condemn nor condone his actions as I will never know what motivated him and kept him going. Depending upon who and what you believe concerning this person (the facts are still muddy) there was calculated reasoning behind them.<br />I grieve for the loss of a life. As has been stated already our culture seems to have an innate blood lust. I chalk it up to the de-sensitizing of our youth through the media outlets (televison, movies, video games, etc).<br />I sincerely hope that whatever after life he is in, he is resting at peace and has come to terms with his actions.<br /><br />Also good to see you Rev. Siuda.Mechi Badbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01418161082496722064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358532955111156860.post-54375159324533471672011-05-03T05:17:53.077-07:002011-05-03T05:17:53.077-07:00It's said that we have a culture of death. We ...It's said that we have a culture of death. We seem oddly entranced by it. In my youth, Ancient Egypt was looked down upon for their preoccupation with death and life beyond death. And the bloody preoccupation with sacrifice of Mesoamerican cultures horrified the WASPish intellectuals who were experts in that history. But both those cultures had (have) spiritual frameworks beyond the superficiality of public American monotheism, which seems to see death as just the death of others who are video-game characters, and not the fore-echoes of our own. Such a frivolous conceptual framework that posits a candyland heaven and Magic Daddy who can beat up all the other daddies, leads to sacrifice which might make an Aztec priest pale.<br /><br />Good to see you, also, Rev. Tam!Weasel Trackshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01791403055834495654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358532955111156860.post-52834396301114226792011-05-02T21:36:49.968-07:002011-05-02T21:36:49.968-07:00I am just hoping that the "celebrating" ...I am just hoping that the "celebrating" that is being reported is more for the end of the manhunt and potentially the disruption or the end of Al-Qaeda, and not for the death of an individual.Rev. Tamara Siudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09428550918594665487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358532955111156860.post-72441839524260952072011-05-02T02:36:04.000-07:002011-05-02T02:36:04.000-07:00Good morning. I agree with that idea of choosing w...Good morning. I agree with that idea of choosing what to do right now. All the memory, all the grief, all the joy, from the past means little, or even nothing, if we don't use our next moments and days to make it all better so that nobody anywhere ever has to bring death to anyone else ever again.Marie Antonia Parsonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18042717361669195903noreply@blogger.com