Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please...

[enismirdal]

Happy Birthday refractions!!

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For the people in Asia currently suffering as a result of the earthquake and stuff:

MASTER ERESTOR IS HAVING A CHARITY AUCTION!!

Selling on nifty stuff to make money for a very good cause. Go her!

Comments

[refractions.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Misread that as charity erection.

Sorry for sharing :-)

[feanaros-house.livejournal.com]

I presume you do realize the number of people who have died in this tragedy and the utter devastation to their countries? "Humor" seems a bit misplaced.

Maglor

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*huggles* I am sure she does - Atreic is one of the strongest moralists I know.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Well, TBH I'm on crappy dialup at my parents at the moment, and so am only skimming LJ. So I only read the REALLY BIG LETTERS in a hurry, and thus had no idea what it was about anyway.

But I'm dubious about the notion that "humour is misplaced" in tragedies... If I had more time on line I'd think up a coherant argument, but as it s I'll just point out that I'm musing on the old cliche "if you didn't laugh, you'd cry" and while I haven't reached any conclusions in this case most human lives that have been hit by tragedy move on most effectively by the power of laughter - it's long been a coping mechanism for terrible things (hence the horrible need to nervously laugh when finding out people are dead, etc)

I wonder if you've read the book Diana's Story by Derek Longdon, which as well as being well written, funny and deeply moving proves my point that there is a very important place for humour in a very tragic event.

[feanaros-house.livejournal.com]

It has not been a week since this tragedy happened. There are 80,000 people dead so far and this is expected to rise considerably. There are bodies stacked like cord wood on the beach. Parents are still making desperate pleas for any information on 4-year olds torn from their arms by the water. The people are faced with the prospect of diseases such as cholera. This is not one princess in a speeding car, but a tragedy of almost incomprehensible magnitude. I doubt there will ever be a time for humor in the face of this kind of grief and destruction. If there is such a time, it certainly is not here yet.

However, you are entitled to your opinion and no doubt will find those who tell you that you are right. I am not one of them.

My apologies, Eni, for intruding in your LJ in this way, but to say nothing was not possible.

Maglor

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Diana's Story is about a woman dying of MS.

I cannot be bothered with this argument anymore, but will bother to point out that if you want people to read what you have to say it is more useful to reply to their comments instead of randomly posting on the same page.