[Magdalen] Lubitz.

[Marion Thompson]

Poor Allan, every infrequent time he ventures into the Pub, there's 
always someone to smack him down.  I think his own tragic family 
experience and long-life experience should inform us that it is not his 
intention to trvialize or ridicule.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/29/2015 10:09 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Allan,
> I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying, just with the use of the term "wacko." To me that trivializes and ridicules what is a tragic illness.
> It's like calling someone who is developmentally challenged a "retard."
>
> YMMV, of course.
>
>> On Mar 29, 2015, at 3:00 AM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.comke > wrote:
>>
>> If he hadn't been mentally iill, he wouldn't have have murdered 150 people.
>> I've had three depressed people in my family commit suicide. It happens,
>> and should not be ignored in a pilot's evaluation out of political
>> correctness. As in this case, many lives may be at stake. Don't their lives
>> matter?
>>
>>> On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So "mentally Ill" = "wacko"
>>> Got it.
>>>
>>>>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com
>>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With all respect, someone who deliberately flies an airplane with 150
>>>> people in it into a mountain is fully wacko according to the several
>>>> dictionaries I've just read "A person regarded as eccentric or
>>> irrational:"
>>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:;>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> David,
>>>>> With all due respect, I cringed at your description of Lubitz as a
>>> "wacko
>>>>> copilot."
>>>>> If the emerging reports are correct, he  appears to have had a history
>>> of
>>>>> depression, which is a disease that can have tragic consequences for the
>>>>> individual and those around him/her, as we have seen again and again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Responsible for his actions? Yes. Irresponsible in tearing up doctor's
>>>>> notes and hiding his illness? Yes.
>>>>> "Wacko"? No.  Tragic would be more apt, I think.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>>>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been curious about this name, so I did some checking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since Poland and Germany have been side by side and there has
>>>>>> been much flip-flop of boundaries between them through the centuries,
>>>>>> it's no surprise that there are German names that have been used by
>>>>>> families who are Polish for centuries, and vice versa.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is probably the case with the wacko copilot of the recent plane
>>>>> crash
>>>>>> in the French Alps.  His name has a Slavic ending "itz" which is  the
>>>>>> German/Polish equivalent of -icz, -ich, and -age.  These are all
>>> Slavic
>>>>>> endings that roughly equate to "son of" (Who can forget blonde beauty
>>>>>> newscaster Jessica Savage?).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Despite the Slavic origin of the "itz" names, the "itz" did not  hinder
>>>>> the
>>>>>> career of the famous Admiral Doenitz before and during WW-2.
>>>>>> He was Commander in Chief of the German Navy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then there was the second German warship of the Bismarck Class,
>>>>>> the Tirpitz - "The Lonely Queen of the North" - also named after a
>>>>>> German Admiral who commanded the German Navy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A lot of history is buried in our names.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David Strang.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Allan Carr
>>
>> -- 
>> Allan Carr
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