Osama Bin Laden Dead!

[johnnystress]

When Saddam Hussein was hanged a priest in Donegal ruffled a few feathers when he included him in the bit where they pray for the recently deceased

Yeah, you can see why people who FOLLOW JESUS might be a bit shocked by compassion for a sinner, and concern for his immortal soul.  Their saviour would never have been caught doing something like that. 

I keep looking for the 'like' button

[The Legendary Shark]

Ah Jeez, Tankie - I'm sorry. I really didn't intend to imply that I'm some kind of saint or something. I'm no better than anyone else and probably worse than most. I'm just a normal, confused bloke, that's all.

I'm not saying anything that countless far more learned and holy people haven't said before, and if nobody listened to them it's a dead cert that nobody's going to listen to me, either. It's all just guff. At the end of the day, I can't bring peace to the world. All I can do is strive to bring peace to my own, personal world. That's all the power I have and all the power I need. Sometimes I'll get it right and sometimes I'll get it wrong.

I guess that's how pretty much all of us are doing it; trying to bring peace (or something) to our own personal worlds using our preferred methods. Everybody sees it different, I get that. I hope you'll understand and forgive my arrogance, Tanky, when I say that I was just airing my own personal view of the world and that I in no way think that the way I see it is the Only Way to see it.

If I thought like that I'd write a Little Red Book or Sharkist Manifesto or something, and I really can't be arsed with it. That kind of thing is just asking for trouble.

[JOE SOAP]

The individual in the video was clearly not OBL but looked more like a mental patient sitting on the floor and rocking backwards and forwards.How convenient that the camera was to one side of whoever this was in the video.Also it looks like the cables coming out of the TV and computers have been recently unfolded which would mean that they were set up very recently.

Well to me it looks like an older OBL especiallly one who's led a recalcitrant, channel hopping sendentary lifestyle the past few years, and really, what true reference do we have to question whether it's 'clearly' him or not- it's clearly no one we really know. We don't know him personally or seen much of how he looks in different lighting and angles. You're questioning things that are rather obtuse and  of no real weight when the bigger elephant in the room is why they won't let us hear what he's saying? If they were going to fake it they'd have done it better or not at all.

[JOE SOAP]

So yeah, say a little prayer for Bin Laden because he was, when all said and done, one of us. It's Humanity v Eternity, and every time we lose a player it weakens our team.

Fair enough but were you saying prayers for every other casualty in the last decade of war? Focusing on this certain individual with such a sentiment clearly shows the priority this person takes in daily conversation -via the media info-laundry- when he reallly has nothing much to do with the lives of most of us. Propaganda wants this reflexive emotion from us, emotion without consideration or thought for a hyped figure, to see him either as a villian or to pity the fool. Best to ignore it. The bigger picture is millions died for this Obama news moment.

[Old Tankie]

Hi Sharkey.  I don't think you're arrogant at all.  You always raise good points on the forum, it's just that I don't always agree with them!!  Of course, that's all part of the fun!  There'd be no point to all these discussions if we agreed all the time!
Cheers,
Mike

[The Legendary Shark]

Cheers, Tanky Glad we're still good.

And you're absolutely right, Joe. Mourn one, mourn all. That's kinda' what I meant with the football analogy. Inevitably, though, every now and again an individual becomes the focus. If the focus exists, it may as well be used to make a point about the wider issues. I guess it's a very mercenary thing of me to do in that regard - but if it offers one person the opening insight into a deeper understanding of their own world view, I reckon it's worth it. It's still just guff, though

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

There'd be no point to all these discussions if we agreed all the time!

Yes there would :-P

[The Legendary Shark]

There'd be no point to all these discussions if we agreed all the time!

Yes there would :-P

[W. R. Logan]

UK V's US English:

Even though we both speak the same language, it's amazing how there are some subtle differences between American-English and proper English:

They say "sidewalk" we say "pavement"
They say "pants" we say "trousers"
They say "buried at sea" we say "naked and chained to a metal bed frame with a car battery connected to his bollocks whilst being beaten for answers".

[strontium_dog_90]

I see the Sun newspaper are denouncing religious people who are saying prayers for Bin Laden's soul. Apparently forgiveness for "someone like him" is not what Christ had in mind. Wish I had their hotline direct to Heaven . . .

[Peter Wolf]

The death of OBL event seems to be fizzling out and losing momentum.in a few days the Fast Food/short term memory loss/Attention Deficit Disorder mainstream media will have moved onto something else and it will go down the memory hole.This may have a lot to do with the fact that there were so many sceptics/doubters of it who obviously detracted from the intended effect/impact of the announcement and the US govts own handling of it which has backfired on them as they now have even less credibility than they did before.The only impact on people it seemed to have was a load of Morons chanting "USA !! USA !! USA !!" on the White House lawn.

I see the Sun newspaper are denouncing religious people who are saying prayers for Bin Laden's soul. Apparently forgiveness for "someone like him" is not what Christ had in mind. Wish I had their hotline direct to Heaven . . .

The Sun are ALWAYS right in their own warped version of reality and beliefs. 

[strontium_dog_90]

I find it amazing, though . . .if I was a really religious person, I'd be up in arms about them making a claim like that. Yet no one seems to be saying a thing.

[johnnystress]

A statement form OBL's family

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/world/asia/binladen-statement.html?_r=2

[The Legendary Shark]

Hmmm, odd use of English - could such a rich and important family with long standing global connections not afford a proper English proofreader?

[Pete Wells]

Obi Wan is dead too. A great article with some top comments...

http://www.galacticempiretimes.com/2011/05/09/galaxy/outer-rim/obi-wan-kenobi-is-killed.html