Responsible Emailing

The following is my reply to a forwarded email regarding our responsibilities when forwarding emails, if you're able I would appreciate you reading this.

Hi All,

You may or may not know me, and I apologize upfront if I am a tad blatant with this. However I think it is in due time we promote the necessity to be discerning with reading and the forwarding of internet "news". Having read the interesting article below, all of us would probably have questioned the truth behind it. And that is good, that is what probably kept us alive as a species through the centuries. But unlike us, our younger generations may not be so enlightened to the fact that we need to take pinch of salt with everything we read on the internet. What are we then inculcating to our younger generations with emails like that, if somehow one of our forwarded mails reach to their mailing list? Are we not then breeding the next generation of extremist? Where does that lead may I ask? I ask this of everyone reading this;- Let us not perpetrate anymore irresponsible or uncouth news that we do not know to be the truth. It is just a click to forward out an email, but an idea once planted will not be that easy to root out.
I would like to end it with this.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”

Abraham Lincoln

We cannot have conflict without ourselves being first the aggressors. That I believe is not what you want to imbue to yourself . Or our future.

Here is to why this article was worded. Please take a moment to read the hoax behind the email.
False Story Claims 450 Gaza Grooms Wed Girls Under Ten in Mass Muslim Marriage

Btw

Herbert J. Smith, B.S., D.V.M.

COL US ARMY (retired) died May 3, 2010

I would appreciate if any of you with any further truth of the forwarded mail to rebuke my internet knowledge on this being a hoax.

Best regards,
Andy Peh

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Memento Mori

"Tick Tock Tick Tock

Soon we're all dead but we still wanna have some. 

Memento mori you say but I still wanna have fun."

Random words I contrived to form up into poetry, or maybe word out the the full rap that these words were first initiated and hummed to. 

All is well but this isn't about my lyrical aptitude. This is something different. About my other passion;- horological masterpieces. When I first saw this pair it brought me way back to when I was a St. Gabriel's boy. A by no means mischievous but an abundantly curious one; I would crash the party on masses and when i saw this particular piece it invoked my memory on the first reality check on life I had then. - I clearly remember an aged men in white robes walking around and placing ashes in a cross (grey chalk which I initially thought it was)  on the people heads and people whispering "In all thy works be mindful of thy last end and thou wilt never sin."  Thereafter I went back and when I finally got to ask my mis-informed Catholic friend what was the ritual about he told me that it was to tell people that they will die (clearly left out a lot of information for me). I got a shock and guess what. I never went back. So many years later when I finally stumbled back upon memento mori I finally reveled that he was half right and that though morbid as it may seem time is the exact reminder to the remainder of our mortality. One day someone is going to invent a biometric watch that will indicate to the accuracy of nano-seconds till our departure from this world. Until then the next best alternative is a beautiful work I wouldn't mind being put to rest with by Peter Speake-Marin.

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