crucifix? Thats just horrible. You can get a crucifix anywhere, so why destroy something thats a part of your family heritage?
Its just so.... intensely wrong.
And its not even the fact that its a crucifix, its the destroying of a family heirloom. I mean, my mother has a family bible thats been passed down through the generations. Its an heirloom. I think the bible is crap, but I'd never destroy it because its part of my family history.
I once accidentally broke a 300 year old lamp that belonged to my family for all those centuries accidentally, and I felt so bad when I did it that I started to cry. Not because the lamp actually meant anything, I mean... its just a piece of glass. But it was a family heirloom. Important just because its a part of my family heritage.
I mean... thats just horrible to voluntarily destroy something to make it into something else.
2007-11-24 13:11:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-24 13:13:55 · update #1
Exactly. It would be like destroying my mothers engagement ring to make my own. Just horrible. I don't even have an engagement ring, my stepdad gave me my mothers after she died and its the most precious thing I own for no other reason than that it belonged to my mother. I'll always wear my mothers ring and my husband understands that.
I mean... not that anything should last forever, but its not like this is a building. Its an actual ring that can be kept and passed down through the generations. Its so much more valuable than the gold its made of.
2007-11-24 13:21:14 · update #2
It is not just wrong, but disrespectful to.
sombody worked long and hard to get that heirloom, and then you disrespect them and all that they stood for by destroying it, I agree with you it is wrong.
Goddess Bless.
Blessed Be.
2007-11-24 14:38:35 · answer #1 · answered by Zero Cool 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You have a right to your own convictions about "why" that person would do such a thing. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but I did read that the person's father gave him permission to melt it down. In their own minds, they are not disrespecting or desecrating the honor/history of a family heirloom, they are only changing the shape of it. They feel they will get more wear or use of the item that way, then they would if it was in a useless shape. It's not the object itself, but the memory, and love of who it belonged to that seems to matter the most to them.
That's the conclusion I got from reading the link to that story.
: >)
2007-11-24 21:32:45 · answer #2 · answered by Mama Mia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. I went to the question and told her what I think, which is that she will be destroying a memory.
what in the world is she thinking?????
Lady Morgana, shaking my head in disbelief.
PS May the Great Bird of the Galaxy roost on your planet! :D
I hope all is well with you.
2007-11-24 21:52:11 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Although it might be meaningful to the person, it is not right to take something like that and destroy it. She should keep it the way it is and go and buy the thing she wants. Its not right to ruin something so meaningful in a family.
2007-11-24 21:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by * 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like that asker cared more for herself and her stupid rosary than her family and family heritage. How could someone be so insensitive and uncaring? That's like saying to your family, "You don't matter, you're not important to me!" I would never dream of doing anything that horrible!
2007-11-24 22:52:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Agreed. It's the fact that you know that at one time another member of your family deeply cherished that item that is important and to have it desecrated is awful.
2007-11-24 21:16:08 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably all that "to glorify god" business.
2007-11-24 21:17:24 · answer #7 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋