Come on, people. What’s the big deal? It’s ok to make fun of someone’s lifestyle while they’re alive and able to be hurt, but suddenly she’s off-limits because she died? Liz Taylor admitted to being a serial-marrier. I give dead people the same respect they earned when they were alive.
Overlooked is the probability that the lady who ordered she be a 15 minute “fashionably late” to her own funeral, would probably have been the first to laugh at this ‘toon.
^^ Not eliminate, I guess, but we overrate…whatever’s the opposite of intuition and instinct, whatever you want to call it; brains, objectivity, the neocortex, rationnality, the intellect… What can be experienced in a lab and expressed in objective terms. Meanwhile, we underrate instinct.
It us think things are easier to understand. Reassures us by giving a nice little instruction manual for art, emotions, interpersonal relationships, eating, childrens education, war…reassuring instructions, but simplistic ones.
Maybe nobody says they want to eliminate instincts, but we trust them less and less. They are looked down on. We don’t even trust our instincts to tell us what to eat!
cjr53 over 13 years ago
How rude.
She deserves more respect than that.
Chrisnp over 13 years ago
I’ve enjoyed jokes about her numerous marriages, but this cartoon is certainly in poor taste at this time.
Clark Kent said “How many innocent animals died to make that coat?”
Answer: None. It’s a drawing, Clark.
Michael Peterson Premium Member over 13 years ago
To which Liz responds, “Whew! Thank goodness I’m Jewish and don’t believe in Pearly Gates OR St. Peter! Well, see you around eternity, fellas!”
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago
I’m with Crisnp on this one.
I knew she did great films in the 1950s and 1960s, but to generation Y, she’s Fred Flintstone’s mother-in-law, too!
WarBush over 13 years ago
^^Oi!
junco49 over 13 years ago
There is NOTHING funny about this.
Steve: May you someday be an ex-idiot.
lovelandclay Premium Member over 13 years ago
Wow, that was uncalled for. Shame on you, Breen.
Bluejayz over 13 years ago
Come on, people. What’s the big deal? It’s ok to make fun of someone’s lifestyle while they’re alive and able to be hurt, but suddenly she’s off-limits because she died? Liz Taylor admitted to being a serial-marrier. I give dead people the same respect they earned when they were alive.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago
Afterlife or not? i don’t know, I’ve never been dead before.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago
I don’t know if it reincarnation exists and I don’t know if it’s a fantasy either. For the same reason; I’ve never been dead before.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago
^^^many people thought they understood the human mind. They were sure there was no way they could be wrong. Now we know they were.
And now we are sure we understand the nature of the human mind…again.
We need our minds and science in liffe. It’s our best asset in life but let’s not turn it into another Almighty God.
We already live in a dictatorship of rationnality.
Dtroutma over 13 years ago
Overlooked is the probability that the lady who ordered she be a 15 minute “fashionably late” to her own funeral, would probably have been the first to laugh at this ‘toon.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 13 years ago
^^ Not eliminate, I guess, but we overrate…whatever’s the opposite of intuition and instinct, whatever you want to call it; brains, objectivity, the neocortex, rationnality, the intellect… What can be experienced in a lab and expressed in objective terms. Meanwhile, we underrate instinct.
It us think things are easier to understand. Reassures us by giving a nice little instruction manual for art, emotions, interpersonal relationships, eating, childrens education, war…reassuring instructions, but simplistic ones.
Maybe nobody says they want to eliminate instincts, but we trust them less and less. They are looked down on. We don’t even trust our instincts to tell us what to eat!