The Paradox of Faith Dissipation

[TEPaul]

"note:  It is not acceptable for a casual acquaintance to cry more at a funeral than the widow or family."


Barney:

Are you sure about that? According to the idol and mentor of Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson in the movie The Wedding Crashers crying more than the widow and family at a funeral can potentially garner you some seriously good....ah....aahh....well, did you happen to see The Wedding Crashers?

[John Kavanaugh]

TE,

Yes I saw The Wedding Crashers and if you have seen my body I can assure you that crying is always part of my marital sexual ritual.  I was thinking earlier today when a good friend mentioned my name along side your fine Governor, if I ever lose weight you can bank on the fact that I am either cheating on my wife or running for office.  Fortunately for me neither option is supported by any constituency of like species.

[TEPaul]

".....I was thinking earlier today when a good friend mentioned my name along side your fine Governor,..."



Barney:

I must say, as I have come to know your responses over time, the above does not disappoint for the unlikely and unexpected. You will need to tell my who my fine Governor is because at the moment I must say I do not even know----or care who he is. Through the years I have learnt that even if their words are different they are really pretty much all the same.

[John Kavanaugh]

".....I was thinking earlier today when a good friend mentioned my name along side your fine Governor,..."



Barney:

I must say, as I have come to know your responses over time, the above does not disappoint for the unlikely and unexpected. You will need to tell my who my fine Governor is because at the moment I must say I do not even know----or care who he is. Through the years I have learnt that even if their words are different they are really pretty much all the same.

I apologize if incorrect but since we of this site are all Jersey's children I thought your Governor was the Taft like Christy.

[Dan Kelly]

John --

Welcome back. I've been mostly gone, too, but gca.com remains one of my Home Pages, and I click in once in a while to see if there's anything particularly interesting to me (usually mostly OT) on Page 1.

I'll answer one of your questions.

My balloons -- like the best golf-course architecture? -- would be translucent.

Any God worth believing in, I figure, would forgive my failure to be transparent and reward my success in avoiding opaqueness.

My mother died in July, at 90, after a wonderful life and a miserable decline. Her "brand," like Jim Kennedy's, is her family -- certainly not simple, and perhaps not instantly recognizable, but enduring nonetheless. For her memorial "celebration," all of us (sons, daughters, sons- and daughters-in-law, the nine grandchildren) contributed to a 10,000-word essay that I had the honor of assembling -- all of it testifying to her faith that giving your all to your family is a noble way to spend a life. I share that faith.

Do I have "faith" that she has gone to "a better place"? No, I do not. I do not have faith that there is any other place, better or otherwise. Never have!

But I do have faith that if I'm wrong, and there is a better place, she's there -- and that I'll be there, too, someday, if I live and love as well as she did (whether I believe in that place or not).

Good luck on your journey!

Dan



 

[John Keenan]

Thanks Dan Kelly for an excellent post

John

[Jeff_Brauer]

Depending on who died, my balloons might have been condoms, representing what the guy's father should have worn one fateful night. (Channeling the old Jaka B)