Robin Williams dead at 63
Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 9 months ago to News
I am actually sad over this. Having watched his career starting with Mork and Mindy, up to the present, it's terrible. And what could have caused such anguish to cause him to take his own life? Dead Poet's Society come to life.
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Unless it is evil. Then the devil did it.
(contradictions)
No one is telling you that you have to become a Christian, but those of us who are Christian are going to speak up when you attempt to preach about our religion and twist it to your own ends.
One thing I would point out, however, is that there are many Christian sects which deny the authenticity of this document as a foundation for defining God. I would only ask that you not judge ALL Christian sects based on the flawed fundamentals of what only a few have adopted.
Regarding your claim that Christ committed suicide, however, that is patently false. Christ's trial, condemnation, and execution were all illegal under Jewish law at the time. The Jewish elders (scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, etc.) viewed Christ as a threat to their power base over the interpretation of Jewish law. Christ had amassed a significant following and had publicly denounced the existing leaders as hypocrites.
According to the Bible, Christ was arrested and taken by the Jewish leaders at night - the first abrogation of their own law. Then he was taken to a secret meeting of the leaders, including the High Priest, Caiaphus. According to Jewish law, no trials were to be performed at night in secret or without providing the defendant the equivalent of a defense attorney. Knowing that the tribunal was a farce, Christ remained silent. Though the tribunal had full authority to have Christ banned from the synagogues, etc., they feared the responses of the people when their antics were discovered, so they sent Christ to Herod in the hopes of getting a Roman judgement passed on Him. Herod was too cagey, knowing what the tribunal was up to and sent Him back. They waited until morning and then took him to Pilate - the Roman Governor and the only one with the authority to pass the death sentence. Pilate interrogated Christ and pronounced Him innocent. Owing to the history of insurrections among the Jews, however, Pilate finally caved to the Jewish leadership and allowed Christ to be executed by crucifixion.
I'm really not sure how you get suicide out of any of that.
Neat that you had that conversation with him though. :)
Charlie Rose....particularly his sketch as
Marlon Brando talking with Michael Jackson.
Laffed 'til I cried!
I don’t know, but if I could point to one horrible event that occurred recently that could suck the reason for living right out of you--it would be the images coming out of Iraq of beheaded children. I will admit. It’s got me down: the waste of American lives that went into securing Mosul in the first place, the destruction of one of the oldest cultures on the planet, and of course, the children. Absolutely horrific. I wonder if Mr. Williams was affected by these same recent events . He has been there...He would be more acutely affected than any of us. I’m just wondering...
That kid in Syria with his dad holding up a severed head? Evil. Just plain devoid of anything that resembles humanity. Anyway, I would like to know what Robin Williams was looking at last online.
Nobody owes ANYTHING to humanity.
And yet he gave us the gift of laughter anyway.
Did you like the book, 'Robin Crusoe'?
Youthfulness has nothing to do with age. It's all in one's outlook on life.
(temperance organizations used to post a sign in French Foreign Legion barracks, "Alcohol is Deadly!"... the above was often inscribed on the wall below it).
Oh? Which country do you live in? Cause the U.S. doesn't have a President.
Really? Wanna trade?
Think about how many innocent non-Moslems are being raped, tortured, killed, buried alive in Iraq in the time it takes to post and read the comments here.
Two weeks before the Murrah bombing, a woman and her daughter were doused in gasoline and set on fire. If I recall correctly, the mother died. Today, nobody but me even remembers that it happened. But every year we're all reminded of the dead in the Murrah bombing.
An "acid tongued" left-wing comedian in a fit of self-pity offs himself, after a lifetime of adulation, success and (at least relative) wealth, and he's eulogized by Obama and everyone else with a platform.
Meanwhile, those people in Iraq are dying in hunger, fear and pain... and nobody knows their names. All because Robin Williams once made milk squirt out of your noses.
Oh yeah, and what's Obama had to say about them? "We" underestimated ISIS.
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