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• Takuan commented on Michael Jackson -- unrecognizable motivations and constant ruination
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64o6s8PmnoE...
• wolfiesma commented on Michael Jackson -- unrecognizable motivations and constant ruination
  It's so weird how Farah Faucett died the same day. So many people grew up with her poster on the wall. My own pubescent period coincided with Thriller and so it was that I actually had a poster of him on the wall! (I remember seeing the Off the Wall poster at my parents' office building and it made quite an impression.) There was an element of infatuation there, I'll admit it. Infatuation with coolness, at least. Not that coolness is the beginning and end of the meaning of life or anything, but it is something.:) Now, whether he was...
• Lorette C. Luzajic commented on Michael Jackson -- unrecognizable motivations and constant ruination
  Not human in any meaningful sense? How many times did the poor man have to wail, "I'm only human, I cut, I bleed." Does mental illness or fame or eccentricity make him anyone less human? The man was not a monster. He was, in fact, a saint whether you thought about "forgiving" him or not. Michael Jackson did more charity work than he did entertainment work. Hardly human- more than human. His financial problems were caused largely by his generosity. He routinely built hospitals, supplied children with organ transplants, gave to AIDS research, reached out to tsunami victims, spent half...
• Takuan commented on Michael Jackson -- unrecognizable motivations and constant ruination
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• loraksus commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
  Hey kid - "no gays in the christian youth groups"... LOL! So not true - your parents are simply ignorant. I've heard that it's about 10% of the population and that has held true (or the rate has been even higher) in every single group I've ever been associated with - no matter how religious, how "manly", whatever. Eventually, people come out. I'm 10 years out of high school and about 10% of the kids in my (horribly bigoted) Catholic middle / high school's "youth groups" turned out to be gay. Life might really suck right now - it might...