That's a good excuse alright! No-show professor had excuse: He died in April - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee Abner
Really? I don't have enough faith to be an atheist...but that's just me. As for this professor, amazing that the school totally forgot about him.
A silly thing to say in general, but to me it sounds condescending to say to someone who seems to be at a point in his life when is trying to figure himself out. I don't think you meant it that way, but it could be taken that way. I would also like to point out that his signature doesn't mention God. We can only guess what his beliefs are until he actually tells us. Personally, I went through that, except that it was my brain that told me that God existed and my heart told me I couldn't be sure (in my case, my brain won and my heart followed :smile. It wasn't fun to hear atheists tell me I was dumb, ignorant, inferior etc. for not eagerly stepping into their line of drones, nor was it fun to hear the religious tell me that I was going to be burned for all eternity for not eagerly stepping into their line of drones. Anyway- I believe that not only is it the healthy thing to do, but the moral thing to do for one to deeply examine what and why one believes what one does. How you think affects how you treat people and therefore has a very profound affect on other people's lives. It isn't something to be taken lightly.
It is sad. Here's a man who has accomplished enough in life to find himself a professor at an Ivy League university and yet no one knows him well enough to know that he has died and his classes should be cancelled. No friends or family to inform his employer that he won't be returning to work. I get a picture of a funeral with no mourners. Very sad.
It sounded like the appropriate people at the school knew about it but simply forgot to inform the students. Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles - YouTube
My wife keeps saying that very same thing to me all the time. What she doesn't seem to understand is every thing IS a nail.
I've never heard that before, I like it. In fact, you can turn it around and say "to a nail, everything looks like a hammer."