05-22-2016, 01:48 AM
(05-21-2016, 10:47 PM)Webmaster Wrote: Since i don't care I'll leave it up to the users
The old T4T thread "Obituaries" was a hodgepodge. Among others that I put there were
athletes
screen actors and movie or TV executives
political figures
scientists and mathematicians
engineers and inventors
clergy
academic figures
authors
criminals
exemplars of heroism
I even had a dog who had performed some heroic rescues after an earthquake and apparently died of exhaustion.
...and even a near-neighbor who was well past 100 and was born in Imperial Russia.
So, do Henry Hill and Stan Musial belong in the same list? Does a Righteous Gentile who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust belong with someone similar (Chemical Ali) to the Nazis that she thwarted? But that involves good and evil. I had a centenarian near-neighbor born in Imperial Russia... and one of the greatest cellists ever, also born in Russia. Does anyone really want to connect those two?
We are going to have people who fit multiple categories. Ronald Reagan would have fit both the "actor" category and "American politicians".
I scattered the categories into areas in which they might fit. When "parents" or "interesting neighbors or near-neighbors" arise, that could be in "What's Happening with You?"
I have yet to figure where I would put criminals.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.