re: #242 jamesfirecat

I feel horrible for the 2 year old also…

But at this point the fact that the guy is dead, means you’re effectively trying to give a motivational kick in the seat of the pants, to a dead man, which means that you’re just pummeling a dead body.

If he had attempted and failed at it I would take your post in better stride.

As it is… I’d like to wish all the remaining innocent members of the Madoff family all the best.. and I don’t think there’s anything more we can do than that really…

James, your a good guy, I’d ask you to consider the following.
Tony Campolo writes:
“Some years ago I saw Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, and heard a passage that still haunts me.
In it an African-American family inherits $10,000 from their father’s insurance.
The mother sees the chance to escape ghetto life. The brilliant daughter sees a chance to go to medical school.
But the older brother begs for the money so that he and his friend can go into business together, and make things good for the rest of them.
The mother gives in. Well, the “friend” skips town with the money, and the desolate son has to break the news to the family.
Immediately his sister lashes him with ugly words. Her contempt has no limits.
Suddenly the mother interrupts her, “I thought I taught you to love him.” The daughter answers, “Love him? There’s nothing left to love.”
The mother responds: “There’s always something left to love.
And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nuthin’! Have you cried for that boy today? I don’t mean for yourself and the family.
I mean for him: for what he’s been through and what it done to him.
Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good? Well then you ain’t through learning, because that ain’t the time at all.
It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in himself ’cause the world has done whipped him so.
When you starts measurin’ somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right.
Make sure you’ve taken into account what hills and valleys he’s done come through before he got to wherever he is.”