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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:57 AM

Subject: Eulogy

 

Salam to all,

 

I've just seen "Eulogy", one of the funniest movie I've seen. From the dictionary the word means: eulogium ú­lo¢ji­em or eulogy ú¢le­ji, noun praise; a speech or writing in praise; a funeral oration.

 

Imagine how would you give a funeral oration to a relative of yours that just happened to be the worst human you can imagine on earth.  How would you praise such person, in front all the surviving relatives who all hate the person, have no memory of any positive moment with the person.

 

Well, I would try to say this:

 

"We're all creatures of God.  We were created according to His image.  We all used to be infinite.  We all used to have all that we can imagine, and even more, we used to have all that we can not imagine.  There were no room for hatred, jealousy, the feeling of superiority, the feeling of inferiority, because we all have all infinitely.  There were no references of what is less and what is more.

 

But now we are all in this finite world and experience the hatred,  the jealousy, the feeling of superiority, the feeling of inferiority.  All the feeling, all the experience that we have not experience before in the infinite world.  Just try to remember that all the experience in this finite world are all that we asked for.  So we can appreciate more the experience that we all have in the infinite worlds.  Sooner or later we all be back in our natural habitat, the infinite worlds.

 

So, for the time being, try to accept all the way they are, try to love all they way they are, may we all rest in peace. Amen."

 

May we always be in peace,

 

Jusuf Achmad.