I’m watching this interview the day after reading an article in the Washington Post about how the Taliban is cracking down on, among many other things, women laughing in public. And then in this interview he is pointing out the absurdity of the idea of a Taliban comedian and how comedy is a threat to groups like them.
Do you want to talk to me? I have a totally diferrent story to tell. Near death is unique. I was shot between the eyes with a .22mm rifle. Point blank, and I'm here nearly 50 years later still talking about it. Haunts me it does.
@@ITS1985 Thanks for your response. I was 16, staying in a rooming house occupied by 12 or so other tennants. Strangers one and each. This guy came in to the t.v. room waving a rifle around. I was sitting on the sofa and he pointes the rifle toward me saying, Ýou know this thing is loaded". I replied,"Well don't point ........." I had no time to finish the sentence. The bullet enterred the top right side of my nose, half an inch from my right eye. There is no exit wound, no physical or visual sign of injury. Fifty years later the bullet is lodged at the C3 level of my spine. It was the most surreal experience of my life. No pain, no fear. There was some confusion like, Where am I, What is going on. I was floating in a sea of something. Iremember bright colors of green. Then, all of a sudden I had the sensation of drowning and it felt like something or someone grabbed my ankles and threw me back, with incredible force, back to the sofa where I was before. I was drowning, I was drowning on my own blood. Blood spewed from my mouth like a burst water main. I spent 7 days in hospital and went back to work. Unbelievable. A miracle?
Interesting how he is honest enough to admit his book was reconstruction based on many other accounts. Wouldn’t call it factual then- a compilation, maybe part fiction, part heresey. Lots of opinions for sure.
@@exiledone69 Fatwah? Interesting extremist view? Just shedding light between fact vs fiction and believe it should be viewed as such. And not Muslim, Catholic actually, always support truth and humanity. Too many have sufferred on both sides. Cease fire is needed.
He has full certainty of something he is yet to experience. That is not an intelligent position to take, saying I am not sure what will happen when I die is better. I thought he was an intellectual, clearly not.
Let him have his personal certainty. You can have a word afterwards if it makes you feel better. Because when dead I really don’t think he’ll know nor care.
