How we thanked Michael Jackson

[HighwayMan]

Michael Jackson was, quite possibly, the individual to inspire the most people worldwide since Jesus Christ. Before you call that a ridiculous claim, I ask you to give me another name that you believe eclipses him.

He was not just a groundbreaking musician, an unmatched entertainer, but also one of the biggest humanitarians and environmentalists of our time. I mean, again - name me another person who managed both to entertain and unite the world for a good cause to such an extent. Never has any one individual brought so much hope and joy to the world since Christ himself.

And how did we thank him? The only way we know how it seems. We crucified him. Except it wasn't with a cross, but with some of the most sickening allegations one can make against another person. We made him out to be a pedophile, a freak, made endless jokes about his skin change (didn't matter to us that he was actually suffering from a disease), mocked him relentlessly and at the end indirectly killed him. And by "we" I mean a significant and vocal selection of society, including the media.

Now MJ had his struggles, and even though we can never be 100% sure of anything, based on the better half of the evidence and how the accusers are starting to admit their lies, it strongly suggests that we destroyed an innocent man. Again.

Some people wonder why "God doesn't do anything to stop the bad things in the world". But I bet he's wondering why he even bothers sending us anything good at all.

 

[Jade Margery]

Buddha.

 

[spiersdodgerblue]

Michael Jackson was, quite possibly, the individual to inspire the most people worldwide since Jesus Christ. Before you call that a ridiculous claim, I ask you to give me another name that you believe eclipses him.

He was not just a groundbreaking musician, an unmatched entertainer, but also one of the biggest humanitarians and environmentalists of our time. I mean, again - name me another person who managed both to entertain and unite the world for a good cause to such an extent. Never has any one individual brought so much hope and joy to the world since Christ himself.

And how did we thank him? The only way we know how it seems. We crucified him. Except it wasn't with a cross, but with some of the most sickening allegations one can make against another person. We made him out to be a pedophile, a freak, made endless jokes about his skin change (didn't matter to us that he was actually suffering from a disease), mocked him relentlessly and at the end indirectly killed him. And by "we" I mean a significant and vocal selection of society, including the media.

Now MJ had his struggles, and even though we can never be 100% sure of anything, based on the better half of the evidence and how the accusers are starting to admit their lies, it strongly suggests that we destroyed an innocent man. Again.

Some people wonder why "God doesn't do anything to stop the bad things in the world". But I bet he's wondering why he even bothers sending us anything good at all.

He did this to himself! His choice to live the life he lead. He is not God or a god, don't try and make him out to be.

He was a human who lived and died as we all will.

 

[HighwayMan]

Buddha.

He and Mother Theresa are up there, but they didn't have such a huge platform either.

 

[HighwayMan]

He did this to himself! His choice to live the life he lead. He is not God or a god, don't try and make him out to be.

He was a human who lived and died as we all will.

He chose to be accused of being a pedophile and mocked through society? Ok, this is a new one.

 

[spiersdodgerblue]

When you willing ask little kids to sleep in you bed and then tell it to the world via T.V., than yes! And it's not new to you ...you just want to act like you don't know and you want to blame some one for his death.

 

[mpok1519]

i had a comedy show the night he died.

my best joke was a michael jackson joke.

"too soon!" was what the crowd erupted with.

I said "yes he did die too soon"

then I made a buncha fun of him....

my own eulogy to the king of pop.

 

[HighwayMan]

When you willing ask little kids to sleep in you bed and then tell it to the world via T.V., than yes! And it's not new to you ...you just want to act like you don't know and you want to blame some one for his death.

He was very disillusioned with society's norms, but that is not the same thing as child abuse. Not even close. Neither is it moral for opportunistic parents to try and cash in on the situation and make their kids lie about what really happened.

No one is denying that MJ was weird compared to the rest of society. He struggled to portray himself as the adult most would expect, and a lot of that is because he kept trying to relive the childhood he never had. But simply being different is hardly the crime worth what he got.

 

[mpok1519]

the man was an inconsumate professional; sure he was messed up; who isnt?.

 

[spiersdodgerblue]

He was very disillusioned with society's norms, but that is not the same thing as child abuse. You don't know if he did or he did not neither do I . Not even close. Neither is it moral for opportunistic parents to try and cash in on the situation and make their kids lie about what really happened. I would agree.

No one is denying that MJ was weird compared to the rest of society. He struggled to portray himself as the adult most would expect, and a lot of that is because he kept trying to relive the childhood he never had. But simply being different is hardly the crime worth what he got.

He was a grown man and knew right from wrong just as you and I do. No excuses! His choices did not serve his life well.

 

[KCKID]

Michael Jackson was, quite possibly, the individual to inspire the most people worldwide since Jesus Christ. Before you call that a ridiculous claim, I ask you to give me another name that you believe eclipses him.

He was not just a groundbreaking musician, an unmatched entertainer, but also one of the biggest humanitarians and environmentalists of our time. I mean, again - name me another person who managed both to entertain and unite the world for a good cause to such an extent. Never has any one individual brought so much hope and joy to the world since Christ himself.

And how did we thank him? The only way we know how it seems. We crucified him. Except it wasn't with a cross, but with some of the most sickening allegations one can make against another person. We made him out to be a pedophile, a freak, made endless jokes about his skin change (didn't matter to us that he was actually suffering from a disease), mocked him relentlessly and at the end indirectly killed him. And by "we" I mean a significant and vocal selection of society, including the media.

Now MJ had his struggles, and even though we can never be 100% sure of anything, based on the better half of the evidence and how the accusers are starting to admit their lies, it strongly suggests that we destroyed an innocent man. Again.

Some people wonder why "God doesn't do anything to stop the bad things in the world". But I bet he's wondering why he even bothers sending us anything good at all.

While I think your post might be carrying the Michael Jackson=sainthood thing a little too far I do believe that his life did became one of tragedy and therefore very sad. I rather felt some empathy for Michael way before his death. At best Michael was very talented, yes, but he was also extremely eccentric. The term 'rather weird' might also spring to mind. Neither of these things is a crime but I don't think that one would generally refer to MJ as a role model. His music was not to my tastes since 'pop' and that type of glitsy stage-hype, crotch-grabbing dancing really isn't my thing. And that's okay. The music of Michael Jackson seems to have appealed mainly to what used to be called the 'bubble-gum' set.

Still and all, I wiped away a couple of tears when the radio/TV/media relentlessly reported his passing throughout the day and evening even though MJ meant nothing to me. Although his family had asked the media to respect their grief it became a media circus anyway as they knew it would. The popular media just had to rake up all of the dirt and sensationalize his death in much the same way as they had sensationalized his life. The worst thing is that THIS is what the general populace wants. They claim to loathe what they can't seem to get enough of. God, I hate people.

Anyway, RIP, Michael.

 

[mpok1519]

He was a grown man and knew right from wrong just as you and I do. No excuses! His choices did not serve his life well.

meaning what? people make mistakes.

 

[Jade Margery]

I think Buddha's still got him beat, Mother Theresa I'm not so sure about. 'Course, Buddha's got a couple centuries head start on both of 'em, so who knows?

I saw one news report on his death and it seemed pretty tame. Then I clicked the channel and saw another, and then another, and then another, and then I turned off the tv and ate some ice cream and prayed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I never become famous.

Is it right that we use anyone's death, even the worst person in the world, as an chance to say everything that was bad about them? No, no it really isn't, it's disrespectful. Let the historians mudrake and bicker--it makes no difference in my life or yours what people gossip about dead men. KCKID is right--we loathe it but we can't get enough of it. Maybe human beings are all just social piranahs, ready to gnaw each other to the bones at the first smell of blood. Or maybe we're all so desperate to be distracted from our own wrongdoings and petty dramas, so desperate for someone to be worse than we are, that we'll claw at the very people we claim to adore and hate them for the things we hate in ourselves.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic. But yeah, Buddha's way more influential.

 

[MachineElf]

Mohammed
Buddah
Tolkien
There

 

[Fenny the Fox]

Well, I may not have been much of a fan, but he will be missed.

I do not think he was as influential on the world at large as the OP made it seem, but he was extremely influential on the music world. And will be sorely missed for that.

I sat back at night when I heard the news, and listened to a couple of his songs.

R.I.P. Michael.

 

[Verv]

He did some strange things that caused him to settle out of court, giving money to parents for red light touches.

But I don't know the truth.

I believe Michael Jackson's skin disease was vitiligo which in most cases does not spread dramatically and truly effect the person.

In fact, I have vitiligo. I am pretty confident it will never spread to my face though perhaps one day significant portions of my hand will be albino white... It could also spread to my face, maybe, but idk.

No one has ever had vitiligo that has caused an entire bleaching of the skin... Go research it. Truly. Check it out.

Michael Jackson...

He was really famous and did some dances and came up with the 'heal the world' bit that was largely irrelevant and uninspiring as most celebrity efforts are.

 

[Penumbra]

I think the OP is a bit of an exaggeration, but I agree overall.

I think Michael Jackson was a really strange man, but a nice man with talent and love. It's impossible to know what happened between him and children, and if I remember he always settled or was found not guilty.

He wanted everyone to be happy and was like a kid in some ways.

Michael Jackson was, quite possibly, the individual to inspire the most people worldwide since Jesus Christ.

Buddha.

Buddah

Buddha was pre-Jesus. HighwayMan said "since" Jesus.

I'd vote Gandhi, or maybe Newton, but that's me. Depends what you mean by "inspire". Jackson's 750 million records sold are a testament to his inspiration.

-Lyn

 

[Catherineanne]

And how did we thank him?

First of all, with a fortune beyond the dreams of avarice. Secondly, with adulation beyond the dreams of any celebrity. Thirdly, by tearing him to pieces when he showed that he was vulnerable to scurillous slanders from unscrupulous people.

MJ was clearly a very damaged man, treated brutally in his childhood by his thug of a father. His fame was very much the product of that brutality, and he was never able to escape from it; just look at how many of his videos show him confronting a violent father figure, with nothing more than his songs and dancing. And in that confronting he is always in front of the others; between them and the violence. This is his eternally replayed fantasy; him achieving the protection to his brothers/children that he was never able to provide when he was young. This is what Neverland was, and this is who he thought he was.

I personally do not believe that the damage he suffered was passed on to anyone else; all of his weird behaviour in relation to his own children showed very clearly his attempts to avoid making his parents' mistakes, and to protect his children from the evils of celebrity. He was that much of an adult, but in many ways remained childlike and innocent. Too innocent for his own good, and most certainly not given the right kind of protection from his own simplicity; someone somewhere ought to have said, this is not going to look the way you think it will, M. He was the eternal lost child, without a parent of his own to protect him from an evil world.

The police and legislature had their chance to convict MJ. They failed to do so, and in the eyes of the law he remained innocent. Nonetheless, the case destroyed his life and his fortune; so much for innocent until proven guilty. Nothing like it.

All I can say now is that I am glad he is at last at peace. A life cut short for us, but mercifully ended for him. As for the scrapping over his fortune or not; I have no interest at all in any of that.

As for the greatest inspiration since Christ, well, I am sorry to say he is here today, but will be gone tomorrow, and another inspiration will arise. Such is the way of the world. Who now remembers Al Jolson; the World's Greatest Entertainer?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Hitler.
Gandhi.
Einstein.
Pope John Paul II.

MJ was immensely influential, but I think his achievements and inspirationalism (is that a word?) are eclipsed by those of the above four.

Probably more, if I had a proper think about it. But definitely Hitler at the top: he inspired an entire nation to begin the systematic culling of an entire ethnicity.

 

[The Nihilist]

Michael Jackson was, quite possibly, the individual to inspire the most people worldwide since Jesus Christ. Before you call that a ridiculous claim, I ask you to give me another name that you believe eclipses him.

He was not just a groundbreaking musician, an unmatched entertainer, but also one of the biggest humanitarians and environmentalists of our time. I mean, again - name me another person who managed both to entertain and unite the world for a good cause to such an extent. Never has any one individual brought so much hope and joy to the world since Christ himself.

And how did we thank him? The only way we know how it seems. We crucified him. Except it wasn't with a cross, but with some of the most sickening allegations one can make against another person. We made him out to be a pedophile, a freak, made endless jokes about his skin change (didn't matter to us that he was actually suffering from a disease), mocked him relentlessly and at the end indirectly killed him. And by "we" I mean a significant and vocal selection of society, including the media.

Now MJ had his struggles, and even though we can never be 100% sure of anything, based on the better half of the evidence and how the accusers are starting to admit their lies, it strongly suggests that we destroyed an innocent man. Again.

Some people wonder why "God doesn't do anything to stop the bad things in the world". But I bet he's wondering why he even bothers sending us anything good at all.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hilarious!