Nelson Mandela dead at 95

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Nelson Mandela, actor Morgan Freeman confused online
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First posted: Friday, December 06, 2013 10:13 AM EST | Updated: Friday, December 06, 2013 10:32 AM EST
People saddened by the news of Nelson Mandela's death took to Twitter to express their condolences.
Problem is, some people didn't actually know who Mandela was.
"#RIPNelson Mandela. Massive loss, great actor," one user wrote, posting a photo of the actor Morgan Freeman, who is not dead. He later claimed it was a joke.
Others simply posted photos of the Hollywood actor with the hashtag #RIPNelsonMandela. One photo showed Freeman from the movie Shawshank Redemption looking out a window, and is similar to a photo of Mandela taken in 1995 when he visited his former cell in the Robben Island prison off the coast of Cape Town, where he spent 27 years.
Some might be confused because Freeman did play the late South African president in the 2009 movie Invictus.
Like many other celebrities, Freeman released a statement Thursday saying Mandela was "a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind."
Nelson Mandela, actor Morgan Freeman confused online | World | News | Toronto Sun
 
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Why? When was his Second Coming due?
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According to what he's reported as saying in the NT, he was due back within the lifetime of the people hearing him speak. He's quite clearly reported as saying, twice if my memory is correct, in Matthew 16 and Luke 9, that there were some among his audience who would not "taste of death," as the KJV puts it, until he returned, and several other times he ties it to the generation then living rather than just the people hearing him speak. That gave rise to the legend of the Wandering Jew, a man who witnessed that prophecy or was part of that generation and now cannot die until the Second Coming occurs.

My considered opinion is that Nelson Mandela was among the greatest and most civilized of men, and the world is a better place for his passage through it. His example, of courage, fortitude, reconciliation, peace, justice, and forgiveness, seems to me an expression of all that is best and most noble in human nature.
 
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Dexter Sinister said:
According to what he's reported as saying in the NT, he was due back within the lifetime of the people hearing him speak. He's quite clearly reported as saying, twice if my memory is correct, in Matthew 16 and Luke 9, that there were some among his audience who would not "taste of death," as the KJV puts it, until he returned, and several other times he ties it to the generation then living rather than just the people hearing him speak. That gave rise to the legend of the Wandering Jew, a man who witnessed that prophecy or was part of that generation and now cannot die until the Second Coming occurs.

My considered opinion is that Nelson Mandela was among the greatest and most civilized of men, and the world is a better place for his passage through it. His example, of courage, fortitude, reconciliation, peace, justice, and forgiveness, seems to me an expression of all that is best and most noble in human nature.
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Yep, I'm getting more convinced that Nelson is the 2nd coming.
 
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Dexter Sinister said:
My considered opinion is that Nelson Mandela was among the greatest and most civilized of men, and the world is a better place for his passage through it. His example, of courage, fortitude, reconciliation, peace, justice, and forgiveness, seems to me an expression of all that is best and most noble in human nature.
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yes that sums it up nicely...a gift to the world on multiple levels

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if he was the 2nd coming, who is going to be the 3rd coming? ;)
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I'm here... :p
 
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"... while Mandela was richly deserving of his Nobel Prize and earned the overused appellation "great man," he wasn't a saint."

Nelson Mandela Was Undeniably Great But He Doesn’t Need a Halo


Liberated South Africa is one of those epic messes the Left created and promptly forgot about.

Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 - David Horowitz Freedom Center

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Actually (in my opinion) the best people in the world aren't Saints. They are people who have made mistakes and persevered through adversity and come out as better people in the end. I just love pissing off self professed religious people like ones who would never consider a black man could be a candidate for the second coming, but then I ain't no Saint either -:)
 
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Yep, by conservatives, the religious, and protectors of the status quo.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
 
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He admitted he wasn't a Saint and didn't pretend to be one. He did advocate violence at one point. I read somewhere that he had studied Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful resistance philosophy and decided against it. He figured that one couldn't beat the other side because they didn't play by the same rules (or something like that).

But something must have happened to him in prision because (whether he was justly or unjustly imprisioned), he could have come out even worse than when he went in. He didn't. He decided against anger and instead, focussed on forgiveness (Truth Commissions) etc. So, who says one can't change? I was impressed with the fact he didn't go the violence route - that takes an amazing amount of self-control and I can't even imagine what else. So, its the latter-day Mandela that I honour, not the early Mandela. May he rest in peace!

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He admitted he wasn't a Saint and didn't pretend to be one. He did advocate violence at one point. I read somewhere that he had studied Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful resistance philosophy and decided against it. He figured that one couldn't beat the other side because they didn't play by the same rules (or something like that).

But something must have happened to him in prision because (whether he was justly or unjustly imprisioned), he could have come out even worse than when he went in. He didn't. He decided against anger and instead, focussed on forgiveness (Truth Commissions) etc. So, who says one can't change? I was impressed with the fact he didn't go the violence route - that takes an amazing amount of self-control and I can't even imagine what else. So, its the latter-day Mandela that I honour, not the early Mandela. May he rest in peace!

JMHO
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Yeah, the more I hear about him the more I think he may be the "Second Coming". I think it was always thought we probably wouldn't recognize the 2nd Coming when we saw it.
 
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Dixie Cup said:
He admitted he wasn't a Saint and didn't pretend to be one. He did advocate violence at one point. I read somewhere that he had studied Martin Luther King Jr.'s peaceful resistance philosophy and decided against it. He figured that one couldn't beat the other side because they didn't play by the same rules (or something like that).

But something must have happened to him in prision because (whether he was justly or unjustly imprisioned), he could have come out even worse than when he went in. He didn't. He decided against anger and instead, focussed on forgiveness (Truth Commissions) etc. So, who says one can't change? I was impressed with the fact he didn't go the violence route - that takes an amazing amount of self-control and I can't even imagine what else. So, its the latter-day Mandela that I honour, not the early Mandela. May he rest in peace!

JMHO
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We don't want to lose sight of the fact that there are times when violence is necessary. One time in recent memory would be when the existence of the concentration camps in Poland came to light.
 
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Another murdering, terrorist thug slips away in his sleep. The present SA is a fitting legacy to a man that conned the world.
 
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