Posted on 12/09/2004 6:18:48 AM PST by AMDG
David Brudnoy's voice has filled the cars and kitchens of the everyday and the elite for nearly three decades, his thoughts shaping the way tens of thousands of listeners view the world beyond their doors. But yesterday, the radio talk-show host could muster little more than a raspy whisper as he confided that a rare form of untreatable cancer has overwhelmed his body, and he expects to die within days.
'I'm ready," said Brudnoy, 64, in an interview in his room at Massachusetts General Hospital, oxygen tubes in his nostrils and the light from a picture window highlighting deep caverns that have opened on his face.
''I've said innumerable prayers within [the Catholic] tradition and other traditions," he said. ''I think whatever happens I will be able to contend with it."
''I don't believe in pitchforks and harps," added the declared agnostic.
Hours later, his longtime physician, Greg Robbins, confirmed the prognosis in a separate interview, saying, ''He has a terminal condition, and it's a matter of time. How much time is not in our control. It's a matter of hours or days.
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He will be missed.
I wish him well on his journey.
God speed, sir.
This is sad. I'll miss him a lot.
He faces with his death with great courage.
I've never heard him but based on the comments of so many folks I may have to try and find an archive of one of his shows just to get a feel for what they will all miss.
A sad miscalculation, at best.
If that's a fine example then I can certainly see why he will be missed.
If you need a second viewing, as I did, that might be a good sign, that some of us took it for granted the first time - hey, nice movie - and required another shot of it to see how enveloped in a philosophy of, maybe we can call it, compassionate Nietzcheanism. Anyone for whom the words "all people are not identical, not equally worthy, not capable of the same achievement" chokes in the mouth will either dislike the movie or not get it. The fantasy of identical merit in all folks is lunatic, if acted upon it is a prescription for national mediocrity. Look at Old Europe's tumble so rapidly from a repository of civilization into grumpy left-behinds imagining they amount to something and that sneering at cowboy America is the same as achieving anything other than envy on a platter of, oh, snails.
Love it. Love it.
God Bless Brudnoy as he prepares to meet Him.
He didn't say ready for what.
''I don't believe in pitchforks and harps," added the declared agnostic.
He's just another misled postmodern soul that thinks reality depends on whether you believe it or not. And, like the typical arrogant postmodern agnostic, he thinks he will be able to talk himself out of any situation.
What saddens me further is the ongoing assumption here at FR that someone we like is going to Heaven, and someone we dislike is going to Hell. As if our feelings about someone entered into the criteria.
There's only one thing determines a person's eternal destiny. And that ain't it.
Dan
In general people of faith are not good ambasadors of the word.
I'm not sure he is prepared for an accounting of his life. This is seen in this statement:
"I've been nice to people. I can't think of anything more I can do but to accept and welcome this"
I'm pretty sure, he hasn't thought about it, saying "I've been pretty nice to people" as being his justification before Almighty God. This plea will not work with Him.
The only plea is the Savior's Blood, that He died for me and I live through Him. It is the only Ark in a world gone into liquidation.
It is a tragedy to see anyone go unprepared before the Throne.
Why anyone would reject His free offer is almost incomprehensible.
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Dan
yeah, meet him and get turned away.
Too bad cuz he sounds like a decent fellow.
Proper communication of the scripture should be a priority among the church. There has been too much focus on the "warm and fuzzy" or the three G's. There is a lot of meat inbetween those two polar opposites that is essential for faith and salvation that seems to be overlooked because if fills seats or collection plates or checks mailed to tele/radio evangelists.
Amen to THAT.
And I don't believe in evolution and Bill Clinton.
Is that good enough?
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