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    I'm sad for his children & fans - those who needed him.

    But I'm mostly sad he died a weird shadow of his former glory, unable to reconcile his personal demons with a public persona.
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    Yeah, it's a tragedy. He was once very good and deservedly so. Unfortunately it seems he never got the therapy he needed, and thus crumbled to pieces. It's a shame he didn't get a chance to rebuild himself.
    I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.

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    Will Pedo Bear atend the funeral?
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    A Road already carved and written,
    A journey not lightly undertaken,
    He landed to deliver small tiny echos & Notes of Heaven,
    Until all words and sounds were expressed
    He Could and Would not rest,
    His Chosen Path to be obstacle filled and hard,
    Now Mission Accomplished,
    He Can Return to where he came from
    And Rest...and sleep...
    The World He Left Touched and Changed
    Forever.
    Thanks Michael for the Words, Music & Dance.
    Bless Your Life,
    You Did Good, you did so so good.
    May the downforce be with you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob View Post
    Very sensible and while I don't want to argue with you I do want to say that I think the culture that believes his death to be of utmost importance while thousands of others are ignored is pathetic and sick. I don't agree with the people who are glad either- because of the way the media works, we have no idea what he was really like. I think it's safe to say he was strange but beyond that... neither you nor I nor anyone here knows. Which is why I think that grief on anything more than a personal level is, in some ways, self indulgence. While I can regret someone's passing, especially if they were someone I respect, the idea that I knew them closely enough to want to cry is ridiculous. We're all adults and we have to realize that everyone is going to die. So with that in mind, I think the bombing of hundreds of innocent people is far more important than one middle aged man's death. But to be honest I will grieve for neither.
    It's emotional human nature. It's much more meaningful to us to mourn the death of an individual than it is to mourn the death of a faceless (to those of us that knew none of them) crowd of people.

    Believe me, I'm not one of the people crying and freaking out. Those people absolutely are delirious to think this actually directly affects them in any way.
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    In the news here this morning...

    "A Spokes person for UCLA Hospital has just confirmed, Micheal Jackson was not admitted with a heart attack, he was in fact,in the children`s ward having a Stroke"
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    Why are you here?
    I'm going to eat breakfast. And then I'm going to change the world.

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    It baffles me that nearly every single individual pokes fun and disses the man while he's alive. The mere sound of his name was enough to make any person cringe, but now that he's bit the dust, all the bleeding hearts are creeping out of their shells, and seemingly instantaneously he's become a tragedy.
    I'm not trying to single anyone out here, but having respect for the dead in general is one thing, and it involves not stepping or pissing on someone's grave. It doesn't however have anything to do with trying to gain some kind of newfound respect on what was clearly a disturbed individual who couldn't even accept himself for the way he was put on the earth. I am truly sorry for the childrens' (it is plural right?) loss. To them he was a father, and that I will condole. To me though, he was a daft twat, and I couldn't care any less of how much "Thriller" changed this planet's dance moves.

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    I think the biggest thing is that people are now looking towards his legacy, and remembering the good he's done (you're probably too young to understand just how big of a deal he was back in the day) trying to outweigh the psychologically unbalanced world he created for himself and the serious breaches of trust that were alleged to have occured.

    He died a very damaged individual - one who's life was lead in a fishbowl, where he was not treated well.
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    He will always be remembered for those he has touched.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia View Post
    He will always be remembered for those he has touched.
    i have to laugh at that. oh my gosh! i wonder if you mean literally.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cargirl1990 View Post
    i have to laugh at that. oh my gosh! i wonder if you mean literally.

    Jokingly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia View Post
    Jokingly.
    thats what i thought! thats awesome!
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    The class and dignity displayed in this thread really is heartwarming. Thank you!
    If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt View Post
    I'm not condoning or dismissing anything that may have happened behind those doors. But, at the time of a person's death, when the family (including two small children and two parents who should never have had to bury a child) is mourning, is not the time to make moronic statements about anyone. It's a simple matter of respect for humanity and for life itself.
    Well said. Have some respect for human life.

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