New candidate for Darwin Awards
Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism Rev. Kyle Lake regularly used a microphone while standing in water. The Darwin Awards are bestowed regularly to those who remove themselves from the gene pool. They are frequently humorous but often sad, as in this case. It doesn't matter who you are, physics always works the same way. (Note on 2005 Nov 1: DarwinAwards did not accept this case because it was not funny enough.)
posted by Tom Schneider @ 7:14 AM
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I can't believe the callousness of your post about my friend, father of three small children, and husband Kyle Lake. The news is not fictional accounts of make believe characters but the retelling of the lives of real human beings loved by many, sons and fathers.
Kyle was one of the good guys in the modern movement in America away from fundamentalism known for it's boycotts and political insistences. Kyle didn't entrust the poor and friendless to anyone but the Church. He knew the problems of this world stemmed from the condition of the human heart, of every human heart.
It's the heart, bent on making light of imperfection and death and sadness - as you've done here on your blog - that is to blame for any mess on this planet. It's the heart, convinced that all of life's a joke and the dirt is on everyone else if dirt even exists, that is the seed of all that's painful and unjust. Kyle spent his short life fighting pain and injustice with love, kindness, humor, and truth. He believed only Jesus can change the heart, that somehow believing in and trying to understand and live like Jesus transformed the human heart. He believed that only a restructured heart can bring something other than pain and injustice into the world.
That is who Kyle Lake was. A person making his life about something many of us see as eternally important and lating. Today his children and wife and friends mourn our loss because the world is truly a darker place without him here.
Shaun Groves
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Morning for the Loss of a Friend
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