At 3:30 PM -0300 6/10/11, G. Beurlen wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>>  At 10:54 AM +0200 6/10/11, Farid Benfeghoul wrote:
>>
>>  I appreciate the Macintosh but . . .
>>
>>  "Wonderful human"? Are we talking about the guy who denied paternity of his
>>  .....
>>
>>  Cheers, geoff
>>
>>  Geoffrey Heard
>
>Hi Geoffrey,
>
>at least in part, I have to agree with you...
>
>But you know, it's human to forget the poor qualities of people who
>have recently passed away...

Actually, I would say it is more human to attribute human qualities 
to the rich, famous, and powerful. Good King Wenceslas forsooth -- PR 
spin, the dead were many and even the flkp side of the poor man 
gathering wood is that the king made him poor! I would suspect the 
notion of bring nice about the dead comes from the fear of spirits 
coming back for vengeance in early spirit worship, translated later 
into the notion of them sitting up there in heaven with the ear of 
the god person.

But meu deus, I'm just a cynical animal!  :)

Cheers, geoff