An Old Cruncher Died

[Freewolf]

As one who has losted a parent earlier than they should have I feel your pain and can only say it will get better with time but you will never forget it.
Godspeed.

 

[zaph]

My prayers and hopes of comfort go with you and your loved ones.

 

[sparkyclarky]

My condolences🙁

 

[SirUlli]

My condolences

and a quote

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

taken from here

http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html

Sir Ulli

 

[Doc Brown]

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family

May God Bless

 

[Coolkid]

 

[Assimilator1]

My condolences

🙁

Mk4
I don't know if your familiar with the mini team TaBoo ,but we help TA members hit certain milestones (usually 10k) in S@H.
Anyway we thought that seeing as esko had been a loyal & consistent cruncher (as well as his departure) that he'd be deserving of a helping hand to hit 10k before S@H1 ends,a little goodbye present from us if you like.
How do you feel about that?

My sympathies
Mark

 

[Pokey]

Originally posted by: Mk4
P.S. Cherish your loved ones, life's too short and unpredictable to be wasted on meaningless things.

I second that.

Sorry for your lose Mk4

 

[Assimilator1]

Thx for your PM Mk4

For anyone whose interested esko's S@H account will be the next reciepeant by Taboo for a boost to 10k.This will be in about a week or so.
Feel free to join in if you want.

 

[SirUlli]

also thank your for your PM

and for Info only

http://usenet.net.nz/apod/ap961226.html

Sir Ulli

 

[CheesePoofs]

Sorry to hear of your loss Mk4 🙁

 

[Schadenfroh]