Bill

Davis and Fellow Unbelievers,

I’d much rather be surrounded by life and lively things on an outdoor eating excursion.

All due respect to the dead, of course, but they just aren’t good, fun conversation over great food.

I see what you might be doing, Simon, but let the non-existent bury the non-existent. 😉

Simon Paynton wrote:
I wouldn’t sit on somebody’s tomb and have a picnic, unless it was about 2000 years old.

A 2000 year old gravesite would likely be a national monument or world historical site, so you’d probably be subject to arrest.

I once spent an night on my own in a very old rural graveyard after taking a large dose of magic mushrooms. I spent most of the time imagining who each person may have been. I was about 18 at the time.  While the dead would not care if I danced on their graves I don’t think I would because of the anguish it might cause to the relatives of the…[Read more]

lol

Simon Paynton wrote:
I wouldn’t sit on somebody’s tomb and have a picnic, unless it was about 2000 years old.

Why would you eat from a 2000-year-old picnic? You’d get sick, Simon.

I wouldn’t sit on somebody’s tomb and have a picnic, unless it was about 2000 years old.

Older gaveyards (or old sections) are beautiful and have interesting headstones and statuary and I think it is cool to picnic there, especially at night.

A picnic in a modern section is in poor taste and might needlessly upset some people, but in the big picture it is pretty minor.

New Orleans Cemetery has old and new mixed and even has ‘tours’…[Read more]

I don’t think there is a specific answer that works. If my family memorialized that way, I’d prefer people use the space for joyous things.

Still, cemeteries are for the living, ultimately, and the living are pretty inconsistent in terms of customs, expectations, sense of propriety.

There is a cemetery near where my mother and brother live.…[Read more]

“On top” of the grave? Poor taste at best, though I think a graveyard should not be treated like a public amusement area. So, wrong in that sense, yeah.

We’ll stay divided for a while, at least.

Just grabbed this screenshot from PBS of Biden vs Trump supporters, from an AP survey question “Is the virus somewhat under control or not at all under control“. (I verified they mistakenly left the word “at” out. See the whole poll here.)

Meanwhile Biden’s already said he’s set to pull together…[Read more]

Now that Biden says he’s going to get a national strategy going on beating Covid-19, including improved testing, I have more to contribute to this end. Canada recently approved an approach to rapid testing, and the following link goes straight to that topic lasting only 4-1/2 minutes, or longer if you’re interested in more detail. Btw I have…[Read more]