Posted on 05/03/2009 7:44:46 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
Last weekend a friend of mine passed away unexpectedly from heart disease.
He was only 65 but had suffered from heart problems for at least 30 years and had had open heart surgery at least twice.
Eight years or so he was in such bad shape he could hardly get around and had given up his psychology practice.
But he had a miracle in his life, a friend had steered him to some vitamin supplements that enabled him to get off his medications and resume a somewhat fuller life than he had.
My friend was also about as Left-Wing as you could get and it was nigh impossible to have any sort of rationial political conversation with him. So I tried to avoid them as he was a good person.
When my own Father had open heart surgery over four years ago at the age of 80 my friend went by to see him many times, helped him cope and get over the depression he was having.
Outside of his being a liberal my friend had a Big Heart and did many things for other people.
In any event as I was reading his obituary, right at the end it stated that in lieu of flowers please make a doantion to either the ACLU or Amnesty International.
Now being a Conservative that just wasn't in the cards for me to make such a donation so along with a couple of others that knew him we decided to make a Memorial Donation in his name at The Reagan Library.
My friend had a keen sense of humor and I would guess if the situation were reversed he would donate in my name to the ACLU.
Right now I hope he is having a good laugh over this one. Goodbye Roy and God Speed Old Friend.
Left-wing political “beliefs” are all “attitude”.
And most of the people who hold those beliefs are
prime cases of arrested development.
The never talk about their experience, but are always
ready to defer to someone else’s experience, as the justification for honoring all the conceit-beliefs they have. They externalize their own paltry selves for the good
of the “collective”, while at the same time glorying in their righteousness and open mindedness for having these
theoretical and abstract ‘ideas’ in the first place.
I have a hard time even talking to these types at all any
more, since my political arguments BEGIN AT A POINT THEIRS NEVER GET TO.
“I would imagine many of you out there have a similar friend.”
I had many such friends. Interestingly, now that their incomes are threatened, Liberalism seems to have lost its fascination for some of them.
The rest are being replaced with different, non-Liberal friends.
I’m not Jesus, therefore don’t have eternity, and thus won’t suffer fools willingly.
I agree, Lancey.
My people, all of 'em, are dead; so, the only family I had was on my wife's side.
That is over, will never lay eyes on any of them as long as I remain alive.
Has put a stress on my wife & my 32 year marriage, but, she understands and agrees with my POV.
None of 'em probably ever get it; but, they'll also never be able to say they'd never met a man who lived what he believed, either.
Amnesty Int, though Left-leaning, has made efforts to help prisoners of conscience in Leftist countries.
Brilliant!! Thank you
I don’t associate or have friends who are Nazis, Communists, pro-abortionists, or are members of the Ku Klux Klan. I am sure the vast majority of Nazi party members who were sincere in their membership did not exterminate Jews, Christians, homosexuals, or gypsies. However, they were still morally reprehensible.
I’m sorry for your loss. May God grant you comfort now and in the coming weeks.
Friendship transcends belief-systems. Luck and godspeed to you.
I did some research and decided to make a donation to the Cleveland Clinic where I know they do outstanding research on Heart Disease. They helped pioneer heart bypass surgery and my Father had a cousin that had an early by pass procedure there back in 1967 that gave him another 20 plus years and he happened to be a doctor, last guy in my hometown who made house calls before they fell out of favor.
Not for me. If I don't share the same core values with someone, there is no way I can be friends with them.
RIP.
And to be memorialized on Free Republic! Ha! I imagine Roy would have gotten a kick out of that, too.
Politics aside (as they should be occasionally) Roy was indeed a jewel. He had a big heart, a huge brain, and an incredibly keen sense of humor. I still remember his early morning local radio show from years ago, “It’s My Nickel”.....what a hoot!
Don’t let the other responses get you down, Captain. Roy will indeed be missed by those who actually knew him.
I agree with you. Life’s too short to waste it on people who don’t share the same values you do. I have enough stress dealing with relatives. Why would I want to spend my time with people who want to steal my money and ruin my country.
Yes, we do. We have one couple, husband and wife, who stood by us when we were going through a period in our lives to horrible to even recall. Politics aside, we love them and would help them in any way we could if they needed us.
Exactly.
"Left-wing as you could get" is not exactly 'liberal'. Close, but even more extreme. Someone on the far left is also well aware of what they're doing, as opposed to the typical dopey naive liberal who is constantly manipulated by the far left.
Maybe your liberal friends are having second thoughts about their choice last November and don’t want to talk about it
I don’t hear much from my favorite liberal lately either.
The last few conversations consisted of remarks from him like, “well, that was disappointing” or “I can’t afford to pay any new taxes” or “my 401 is in the toilet”....no word from him on the fly-over in NY, his home state.
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