Posted on 11/26/2013 10:58:47 PM PST by Morgana
He added a note that his father passed a few hours after posting his diatribe. A tortured soul in need of Jesus’ grace, God’s love, and the Holy Spirit’s fellowship. I pray he receives healing.
Amen.
We are dying a long, horrible death. It’s called living life among the baby murderers.
I read Adam’s post. He is grieving for his dad and feeling anger about it. I lost my Mom a couple of months ago. Losing a parent is TOUGH.
I thoroughly disagree with him, but we shouldn’t kick a man when he’s down.
Let’s give him some space.
Read Adams’ original blog. There is nothing fun there.
Al Capp did. His cartoons in the late sixties and early seventies were loaded political satire of the conservative persuasion.
Take the time to read the articles. Scott Adams was dead serious.
The man was (and I'm sure still is) in a world of hurt, but what he said was pretty bad.
I hope he realizes this soon and makes amends.
“He is grieving for his dad and feeling anger about it.”
I can feel for him. My mom just passed away but at a very old age and in good spirits, mind and body up until the last few days. And even then she was okay with all the morphine. I can’t imagine watching a loved one suffer for so long like so many others I have known, including myself with my father-in-law.
On the other hand - why must he blame the pro-lifers? If he so wants his loved one out of their misery he could smother them with a pillow while they sleep. Why does he need someone else to kill his father?
Speaking of the morphine for my mom, a bit of wondering there if hospice, when managing the pain and the other symptoms, doesn’t do it in such a way that you are in fact killing them with it? I don’t think so, and they assured us that wasn’t the case, but.....
Well, Scott Adams, we pro-lifers hope that you will come to Christ and escape an even worse fate of suffering forever in the Lake of Fire.
Get a grip folks. I’m sure he doesn’t literally mean what he said. People say and do odd things when they are under stress.
As long as the morphine is being used for the pain, and not purposely to kill the patient, it is now considered acceptable practice. They used to try to ration it, in the older days, a few decades ago, in order to keep people from needing more and more of it, and it resulted in tremendous suffering. The amount needed to ease the pain spikes sharply at a certain point and that is the end. Thank God we are not back in the older days anymore.
no,’i believe him.
often stress brings out the real feelings of people. takes the thin veneer of civility down and shows you what’s really’underneath, inside the person.
Scott Adams
"I don't want anyone to misconstrue this post as satire or exaggeration. So I'll reiterate. If you have acted, or plan to act, in a way that keeps doctor-assisted suicide illegal, I see you as an accomplice in torturing my father, and perhaps me as well someday. I want you to die a painful death, and soon. And I'd be happy to tell you the same thing to your face."
I didn’t realize that this cartoonist was such a dbag.
I thoroughly disagree with him, but we shouldn’t kick a man when he’s down.
Let’s give him some space.
On the other hand, I agree with Wesley J. Smith:
One final thought: Adams’ grief is no excuse for such vile and quasi-threatening advocacy. I have seen parents of murdered children with more grace than that. Our character expresses itself in times of extremis. Good grief.
My agreement aligns with Smith's reasoning: this sort of post is simply at least a bit abnormal, even for the grieving in their most acute grief. If it's normal enough for people who've just lost their parents to write something so depraved, where do I find such writing?
Maybe we need to pay more attention to this line...
“I might feel differently in a few years, but at the moment my emotions are a bit raw.”
Scott Adams only sees that life is short, that the only heaven you will see is on earth and the hell with everyone else—even if it is an innocent baby.
Scott Adams has the sickness of narcissism that infects so many without God in their lives.
In it he specifically said this: "...I don't want anyone to misconstrue this post as satire or exaggeration. So I'll reiterate. If you have acted, or plan to act, in a way that keeps doctor-assisted suicide illegal, I see you as an accomplice in torturing my father, and perhaps me as well someday. I want you to die a painful death, and soon. And I'd be happy to tell you the same thing to your face..."
He is unhinged, in my opinion. It may be grief, it may be rage, it may be anything, but I believe some part of his mind has crossed a line. I don't know squat about him, so I don't know anything other than his satire and sarcasm in his professional work. If this is his normal viewpoint (maybe verified from looking at his non-cartoon opinions he may have expressed in his blog or in interviews) I would say he needs professional help. If it is not, he is overcome with grief.
In either case, he is not in a healthy state of mind...it sounds extremely corrosive to me. Is this the kind of viewpoint he has advocated his entire life, or is it something he may look back months from now and regret writing?
My father, who I loved very much, had a terrible completely disabling stroke, and took five months to die.
He always told me that, of all the ways to die, he thought having a disabling stroke, leaving him unable to functionally even move one arm but leaving his mind intact was the one way he never wanted to die. But that was what God dealt him.
But, as grief stricken as I was, I would never have had the thoughts that Scott Adams did. But I agree with you. Unless this has been something he has been saying all along, I think the kind thing to do would be to assume he is mentally compromised by his grief.
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