David Ben Ariel

[Joe Guy]

For those of you who don't go to CSB I anymore....


I just discovered this thread (I know it's old), and thought I'd let you know David died this morning. I helped him create & (somewhat) maintain his website

http://www.davidbenariel.org

Just thought some of you would want to know
Carl

[Scooter]

I am very sorry to hear it, because his death was very probably avoidable. Unfortunately his, how do I put this charitably, "off the wall" ideas extended to AIDS denialism, which led him to refuse to take HIV meds. It was hard not to feel a personal sense of failure in not being able to convince him otherwise by directing him to reputable science via public posts and PMs, but David was, and could only be, David.

[Gob]

I cannot but be honest, and say I had no respect for the man and found his views repugnant and racist.

[Scooter]

I don't disagree with you but one always holds out the hope that someone can grow and change with time, if they do the work to deal with the personal demons that cause them to act out with such visceral hatred...but that opportunity is lost when a life is cut short so unnecessarily.

[Jarlaxle]

Bluntly, the human race has improved. He was a kookburger who was as batshit as they come. I have no sorrow whatsoever that he is out of the gene pool and fervently hope he did not breed.

[@meric@nwom@n]

I was raised among folks who believed along the lines that he did.

I have to give him props for sticking to his guns however distasteful his guns may have been. It takes courage to do that.

[The Hen]

I hope his passing was as painless as possible.

[Crackpot]

I just hope he was able to find some measure of peace before he died.

[Sean]

There are very few humans I would wish death upon and DBA was not one of them. He was a complete fruitloop though...

[loCAtek]

RIP David

[MajGenl.Meade]

I don't disagree with you but one always holds out the hope that someone can grow and change with time, if they do the work to deal with the personal demons that cause them to act out with such visceral hatred...but that opportunity is lost when a life is cut short so unnecessarily.

I hope you do not mind my saying that you put that very well indeed.

DBA occupied a world that the rest of us cannot comprehend. Perhaps now he's in another one. His words will not be missed but someone grieves for him.

Meade

[Big RR]

I have to agree; I hope he can now find the peace that eluded him in life.

[Gob]

[The Hen]

and with just the lyrics ....

ANDREW HANSEN THE EULOGY SONG LYRICS

Send "The Eulogy Song" Ringtone to your Cell
My great grand father died this week.
I couldn't stand him actually nobody could.
But as soon as he passed away everybody went around saying what a top bloke he was, so..
I'd like to dedicate this song to you, Gramps.

He was very hard of hearing,
he was dull and domineering,
misogynist, cantankerous and vain.
He hit the bottle every night,
he hit my grandma out of spite,
and those stories about his bunyons were a pain.

But all that's now forgotten,
once he took his final breath.
Yes even pricks turn into top blokes after death.

You don't believe me?
Allow me to furnish you with a few examples..

Steve Irwin lived in khaki,
a cartoon kamikaze,
who taunted crocs and tots so frequently.

And Brocky was some revhead,
who pumped the air with pure lead,
so anti green he drove into a tree.

But all that was forgotten,
once they took their final breath.
Yes even tools turn into top blokes after death.

John Lennon chose the hippy life,
he chose some nutbag for a wife,
his songs were never quite as good as Paul's.

Jeff Buckley fooled all lovers,
just one album, mostly covers,
more wailing than Japan does off our shores.

But all that was forgotten,
once he took his final breath,
yes even wankers turn into top blokes after death.

Princess Di was just a slut for sex,
when they looked in the car wreck,
her dress was wet with Arab semen stain.

Stan Zemanek was a racist,
jock Fatso xenophobic cock,
whose views were more malignant than his brain.

But all that was forgotten,
once he took his final breath,
yes even arseholes turn into top blokes after death.

It's not how they lived that counts,
but how we rewrite the book.
When it comes to truth it's best to use restraint,
it pays to throw away the facts
and have a rose coloured look.
When he dies, Martin Bryant will look a saint.

Don Bradman was a total farce,
a grumpy, greedy tight arse,
who couldn't even score one run last time he played.

Kerry Packer was a brothel chief,
a tax cheat and a kidney thief.
and procreating Jamie was the worst mistake he made.

But all that was forgotten,
once he took his final breath,
yes even **** turn into top blokes after death.

Belinda Emmett was a... (stopped by cast)

Remember all will be forgotten,
once we take our final breath..
yes even pervert motherf**kers,
even rampant child-abusers,
even local Baghdad looters,
even baby bunny rooters,
even reckless drunken drivers,
even rodent sperm imbibers,
even violent poofter bashers,
even public penis flashers,
even rotting corpse molesters,
even human piss ingesters,
even tiny kitten kickers,
even anal finger lickers,
even Anna 'bloody' Coren,
yes even she will be a top bloke after death

[rubato]

If there's an afterlife I hope he doesn't go. He'd just be miserable all over again.


yrs,
rubato

[Jarlaxle]

I was raised among folks who believed along the lines that he did.

I have to give him props for sticking to his guns however distasteful his guns may have been. It takes courage to do that.

Not courage, @_w...mental health problems! At least in DBA's case.

[Daisy]

I'm actually quite sorry to hear that. Whilst I could NEVER agree with any of his nutty as squirrel shit politics and beliefs, I hope his death was more peaceful than his life.

[loCAtek]

It makes me sad, how many of the CSB pass away...

[BoSoxGal]

I, too, hope that his passing was as painless and peaceful as possible. I will not miss his posts, but wish they had stopped because he'd changed, and not because he was dying.

[Lord Jim]

Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!"

That pretty well sums it up...

"A man of strife and contention to the whole earth"....

I'm sorry to hear of his passing; I found most of what he had to say weird, ("God hates you for your Pagan Ham!") some of it amusing, (as a Catholic, by his lights I'm a Wizard following Satan Worshiper) and some of it absolutely disgusting...(I think the time he really pissed me off was when he said we should do nothing to help the people struck by the earthquake in Haiti....)

He was a bundle of guilt ridden neurosis to be sure...Good for several essays in The American Journal Of Psychiatry...

But the one thing I'll say for him is that he was absolutely sincere...

He was the living breathing definition of the saying, "there's no fanatic like a convert"....

He didn't give a flying fuck what anybody thought about what he had to say, he was gonna say it...

(PR was never Dave's strong suit....)

He was absolutely indifferent to ridicule and condemnation...(of which he got a plenty; all over the internet....) indeed, by openly telling his life story and paring that up with his current views, he invited it....

But as repugnant as one might find his views, say what you want about the man...

He was one of a kind...