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	Tatitati	Your words are true....I totally agree with you....   Posted by Tatitati on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 1:33 AM [Reply to this]

	Eric Schweig Eric Schweig	Being a "motherfuckin' fuckhead" is not just a job, it's an adventure...fuckhead!   Posted by Eric Schweig on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:23 AM [Reply to this]

	SnakeCharmer Lucy Western	Posted by SnakeCharmer on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 7:55 AM [Reply to this]

	Eric Schweig Eric Schweig	I just saw your page...and will wonders never cease? You're also a "Christian" fuckhead!" You're firing at the world with both barrels I see...   Posted by Eric Schweig on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:25 AM [Reply to this]

	Back Alley Allah! Al Kay Duuh	Block infidel profile, infidel.  No pictures, no friends, brand new profile and before they even finish it, they come running to Infidel Eric's blog!?  BAA not fooled.  This profile was made just for you Schweig.   Posted by Back Alley Allah! on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:49 AM [Reply to this]

	Joanne	who is the infidel.it is you fool.I don't know Eric  and may no agree on everything he says but he has the right to say it. By the way he does make sense .   Posted by Joanne on Thursday, October 01, 2009 - 5:14 PM [Reply to this]

	Starrfire	I completely agree, well said!   Posted by Starrfire on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:26 AM [Reply to this]

	Back Alley Allah! Al Kay Duuh	BackAlley Allah aka. Muhomizzle Bizzle Lizzle, aka., Al Kay Duuhh, once ask relevant question while interrogating infidel war criminal.  Please observe infidel.   Posted by Back Alley Allah! on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:45 AM [Reply to this]

	ellen amabel delaney ellen delaney	so true ............ i could not have put it better myself ..........   Posted by ellen amabel delaney on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:48 AM [Reply to this]

	gregors	making sense of nonsense... strong, true words- excellent mask   Posted by gregors on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:55 AM [Reply to this]

	KINGA	oh my, you did it again, :D, good. ;) well, like I said before: people "need" to have one idol or another - and that includes entertainment, political, religious and whatever other walk of life we decide to chose someone from. It makes us feel mightier, more appealing to ourselves, righteous, justifies our idiotizms, wrong doings - all in the name of one idol or another. There is some twisted reason why people like to name known personalities as: king, diva, and whatever else.  It's as if we "need" to belong to some club or another and the degree of our participation is not important - as long as we can say to ourselves : I was there"  - it gives justification to our madness. Even if it includes some mass histeria, and belonging to some "MJ dead - poor, poor me" club on facebook. I appreciate him for what he created, there is no denying his influence, however, I will not comment on the public outcry on his death - out of respect for his family - one less idiot to cry "waa, waa, waa" without having a heart in it. I think people are "sheeple" like someone said some time ago - you know who it is (J), and so we, as animals that we are, need someone to always be at the head, in whatever situation it may be. Oddly enough we have instantly forgotten all the accusations (wrong or not), the jokes everyone repeated, the outcries those same people had for the raising of his children. With that said, it is much pleasantler to "feel" despair and histeria for someone "shiny" than for someone who stinks as we walk on our way to coroprate office in our shiny, $300 shoes.  For an average Joe there is no glory in looking in the eyes of anyone in despair.  Maybe because it's a lot easier, "safer" to look "up" not "down". Maybe it has some crazy primal feel of not wanting to look "down", because subconsciously we are afraid we may become like them. It costs us nothing to mourn the successful (in whatever means), and it's a risk to understand the ones that are not. It takes compassion to look in all directions. Mourning him or Versace or Di is effortless. Mourning Mother Theresa or Farrah makes us risk doing a good deed. We are a selfish bunch. We do not like to take away from ourselves and give to others.   Posted by KINGA on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 3:16 AM [Reply to this]

	Rachel War Cloud Rachel War Cloud	no reply...just applause!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Posted by Rachel War Cloud on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 3:34 AM [Reply to this]

	Jennifer	It is bizarre isn’t it? Some of the things that I have read are on the verge of obsessive. Michael Jackson was talented and his life was sadly cut short. People are anywhere from totally broken up over his death to rejoicing it. He was part of my childhood, as was Farrah, and I was sad to hear of their deaths. I wish them both peace. I would hope that anyone wanting to pay tribute to either of them would find out what causes they were passionate about and give some time or money to them, or like you said , send up a silent prayer. I suspect they would appreciate that more than anything else.  I would be lying if I said that I never shed a tear over the death or suffering of a stranger because I have.  I recently read a blog written by a woman that held her two year old as he passed away.  I didn't know him, but I cried, and I held my sons a little tighter and was thankful that I could. It is normal to feel sad but odd, to say the least, to be deeply effected by the loss of someone that we do not have a personal relationship with.   Posted by Jennifer on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 4:11 AM [Reply to this]

	lamarquise	Posted by lamarquise on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 6:32 AM [Reply to this]

	Charmain	You are right on this on. The scene at the hospital where people were trying to break in and view the body was sick.   I for one have just been listening and veiwing videos on mtv and remembering the times i spent with my own son when these video were new and my son was just old enough to enjoy them.  But I am not shedding tears over this.    Posted by Charmain on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 7:00 AM [Reply to this]

	ßlðñÐïlð¢k§ Tamela Kaye	Well said...probably many of the same people that are falling down crying are the same people that bashed him over the years.  I was saddened when I heard the news but I didn't have a break down, death is part of life's cycle no matter how tragic it is, it is inevitable.  I was also saddened by the death of beautiful Farrah and funny Ed. It is ironic how people come crawling out of the woodwork to profess undying love and devotion after a person passes, why not do it while they are still alive, it would mean so much more...   Posted by ßlðñÐïlð¢k§ on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 8:41 AM [Reply to this]

	Moriah	The examples you give of how to mourn someone who left this Earth are so full of dignity and respect. Not everything in life is about showing it to the world, mostly when we talk about true feelings, true emotions, and more importantly, when we want those feelings, emotions to have a true meaning. If we want to keep them intact and give them a value. Not everything must be done in the light. The examples you gave are full of all these pure feelings and emotions. They are real and true ways of showing respect and "walking a few miles" with the soul of the lost one.   Posted by Moriah on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 9:07 AM [Reply to this]

	Ingrid Ingrid Szczesinski	Sincerely, I am indifferent of reactions of people, my first thought was for his children with all the media cirque which began.   Posted by Ingrid on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 9:42 AM [Reply to this]

	Nane S. Nane Koch	Sorry my English is not so perfect! Hello Eric, but how true your words are and how sad it is that these words have yet to be spoken of. But so are most people, they speculate, and at the end, everything is just a lie, the truth, the real truth, nobody wants to hear, I think this is very very sad and many of whom should be ashamed of what ... and often with open eyes go through life and not only take but also give times! Dear Nane   Posted by Nane S. on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 10:40 AM [Reply to this]

	Zaubermama	Hello, your words are true, but i thing, we all see and hear him in TV and radio all the years and so we mean that we know him. But in some weeks nobody well speak about that. Look Lady Diana, do you know when she was died? I know it because my son was born 10 days later. At last are only the, for us, impotent and often familiy things in our Memorys. And some Memorys we can remember with our privat things. Three  weeks ago a 25 years young man is died in my garden (car crash) - the first 3 - 4 days comes a lot of his friends and family to bring candles and flowers to the place he died. But now after 3 weeks there is nobody who do that. In Germany we say: Only the beautiful thinks are impotent - the rest forget. Dear Martina P.S.: Sorry for my bad english.   Posted by Zaubermama on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 12:38 PM [Reply to this]

	joann	Posted by joann on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 1:19 PM [Reply to this]

	Agnes Agnes Kun	Death is a sad thing in life, and it shall have it's dignity. If your loved one passes, honour his/her life with selfrespect. If your enemy passes, honour him/her for being a good antagonist - he/she is gone and your fight is over, drawn. Sometimes your icon dies: START TO LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE! It is more easier to admire a stranger than love and understand those, who live in you reach, who have their own faults and show up to be completely HUMAN. And it is easier than being loved and understood of those, who know you and your errors. Because you are completely human, too. Accept yourself as you are. And it is far more easier to live a life of a stranger. You don't have to take any responsibility for your own actions in life, simply because you don't have any own deeds in life. If your icon dies and you start moarning, you just moarn yourself and not him/her. This is the selfishness of a splitted ego. Forget your icons, gather breathing people around you. Love your family and your friends, and they will love you in exchange. Be selfish this way, have your own personality. Be what you were born: a human being.   Posted by Agnes on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 1:43 PM [Reply to this]

	Lynny Prince Lynny Prince	You always tell it like it is and in a way that throws the truth as a shock of cold water on your readers.....wopila.   Posted by Lynny Prince on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:02 PM [Reply to this]

	MissPride	Quiet dignity....wow...you did it again...well said Eric   Posted by MissPride on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 2:49 PM [Reply to this]

	THUNDERCLOUD	Never said better!!!!!  I LOVE IT  ,  I LOVE IT!!!  I knew you'd blog about this. AMEN! Benzos and opiates don't mix no matter who you are!!!!   Posted by THUNDERCLOUD on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 5:09 PM [Reply to this]

	spiritinthewind Marge Grow	AMEN! My brother.....  I watched the "Farrah Story", that her and Ryan O'neal had put together while she was going through all her treatments.  I sit with people who are getting ready to cross over to the other side.  A lot of memories and stories come back to them when they are in their final days.  Too bad western medicine tries to prevent this from happening.  I applaud her for looking into the more holistic ways which we have known about for centuries.  I am around people with cancer and with severe diabetes that is taking our native peoples at an extreme rate like alcohol and drugs. And like you said sometimes there are only a few friends and relatives there.  I try to help as many of our people as I can but there is only so much that I can do.  In six weeks time we have lost 5 tribal members.  So, my grieving time is with my family and helping them cope. AHO! To all my relations...... Love ya Marge   Posted by spiritinthewind on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 6:57 PM [Reply to this]

	Pansey Pansey Cleaveland	Everyone forgets the everyday people out there that have given their all to help. Do they think being famous and giving makes them a better human than the everyday joe?   Posted by Pansey on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 11:47 PM [Reply to this]

	Janeen Janeen Miller	Thank you for saying what so many people think, but are afraid to say.  People die every day....in wars, at home, in hospitals, on the side of the road.  Where is their moment in the sun???  Passing on is part of living.  For those left behing it is a painful part of living, but part of it all the same.  In honoring their life, we honor ourselves and our maker.  Society has forgetten how to live their own life in a decent and meaningful way.  They attach themselves to false representations of life and then live vicariously through that person.  How sad, because they are missing out on their own life!  Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett celebrities, that is true, and their lives should be honored, because the Maker put them here.  But the Maker also put you and I here, he put doctors, nurses, teachers, the homeless guy on the corner here.  He put us all here.  Thank you for saying what you believe, and for having the courage to say it, especially in a time where saying what one thinks is so politically incorrect.   Posted by Janeen on Monday, June 29, 2009 - 1:44 AM [Reply to this]

	Vonceia	Well said. I think it would also be  a good idea for people to remember that in lieu of facts, people will simply make stuff up... the media most especially. Stay strong and keep rockin'! Von   Posted by Vonceia on Monday, June 29, 2009 - 4:30 AM [Reply to this]

	Missy	Prayers for the actress & entertainer to find peace in their where ever after, I feel pity for their families who are shown no respect of privacy during their time of greif and trying to lay their loved ones to rest with the media hoovering like leeches & vultures & a bunch of crazies still acting idiots outside their front doors,I feel pity for the families sitting at home and seeing someone they are related to humiliating themselves on national T.V.....No disrespect to any celebrities & their families......Its just the media makes such a fuss over famous lime lighted people & Always seem to over look the Peoples who have died while risking their lives helping & trying to help others & those who have died just for knowing to much information concerning communties Peoples who suffer on a regular daily basis dealing with issues of neglect and toxic waste and un accounted for monies that are still un accounted for & cases concerning the innocent have been vaccumed up & forgotten.... Im a simple person not big on whos who in Hollywood and dont know all the big fancy words for what Im trying to say & maybe I shouldnt be saying it now, Again no disrespect to these people who have passed & their families,I just have issues with what the media considers to be breaking news or top stories....guess thats why its said WHAT IS RIGHT ISNT ALWAYS POPULAR & WHAT IS POPULAR ISNT ALWAYS RIGHT.....maybe yall wont consider me one of them morons ......This is just coming from the heart of a simple person country as red dirt & muddy water.   Posted by Missy on Monday, June 29, 2009 - 5:06 AM [Reply to this]

	Dee Donnita C	Right On!!   Posted by Dee on Monday, June 29, 2009 - 7:00 PM [Reply to this]

	Micah ✈ ▐ ▌	Here's some goodness from the interwebz.  He's gonna go through history as a pedophile just like Lewis Carroll.  ....   Posted by Micah ✈ ▐ ▌ on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 6:34 AM [Reply to this]

	phyllis	While I agree that WE are NOT part of Michael Jackson's bloodlines, are we not all connected? Somewhere there's a quote by a student of C. G. Jung, that says something to the effect ' If we could all just get past our punyness we would see that we are all interwoven? Connected?' And there I drop the thread.  I, and I guess not YOU would mourn the man's passing out in the open, but. . . I'm just sayin', where on the karmic wheel do any of us lie, truly?   Posted by phyllis on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 4:49 PM [Reply to this]

	phyllis	And with this I bid you Adieu!   Posted by phyllis on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 4:51 PM [Reply to this]

	Eric Schweig Eric Schweig	Yeah, interwoven and connected to the point where we'll look through someone's trash for their tampons or used condoms and sell the fuckin' things on e-bay! Or literally drive them into the ground by putting them on pedestals made of sand...   Posted by Eric Schweig on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 7:35 PM [Reply to this]

	**marya**	Yes, the new picture is easier to the eyes but the one with the mask illustrated more intensely what you wrote under P.S. - Imagining the face of this mask while picking that star called Michael at the night sky might cause some quilty conscience and start reflections about the consequences of admiring a celebrity.    Posted by **marya** on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 10:01 PM [Reply to this]

	IE (Id Est)	Well said....   Posted by IE (Id Est) on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 11:59 PM [Reply to this]

	Sumeeta Sumeeta Patnaik	Thanks for looking at the media and fan frenzy surrounding the death of Michael Jackson. Your words have put his death into perspective. Thanks!   Posted by Sumeeta on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 12:56 AM [Reply to this]

	Rhonda Rhonda Price	I do agree with you...such a shame....people only make it worse.  Death should be a private time for the family....no explotiation by the National Enquirer or any other such worthless rag.  I think Farrah's was handled better.  Private, with family as it should be.  Details given to the media were in much better taste.  I work with people who die daily....I've seen patients go months or even years without so much as a Christmas visit....yet the family gets wind that "the end is near" and you can't even pack them all in the room.  "Family" already arguing about who gets the jewlery, who gets the house, etc....it's disgusting.  I'm so blessed to have "real" friends and a "real" family, even though we are all far from perfect. Sincerely, Rhonda   Posted by Rhonda on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - 7:32 AM [Reply to this]

	Emerald Rose Society	If your a believer in God, you s/b rejoicing. If you believe in the Circle of Life and Mother Earth, you should still be rejoicing. I don't get it and probably never will. While I do feel for the families, I don't understand how you can have a feeling of loss for someone who has never been in your life. Well, that's just this Pagans opinion.   Posted by Emerald Rose Society on Thursday, July 02, 2009 - 4:56 AM [Reply to this]

	FEETERS	"tear-soaked lemmings and bawling openly and shamelessly about someone they knew nothing about, who's life they basically viewed through the skewed, fish-eyed, prism of the media's camera lenses" i concur   Posted by FEETERS on Friday, July 03, 2009 - 4:45 PM [Reply to this]

	Louise Sanfaçon Louise Sanfaçon	I agree. It looks like the more a society fears death, the more the funeral pathos is in danger to become pompous. During ancient Egypt  for instance (a civilization deeply haunted by death) the law prescribed 70 days of mourning consisting of prayers, rituals and the long process of mummification. When, for instance, a priest or a pharaoh would die, the whole society was mobilized in funeral during these 70 days. This manner of creating official bounds with a powerful deceased  in transit towards endless life - and to express it collectively – kind of outbraved the frightening fate of our end as individual. When I see what is occurring with MJ, I still see this intrinsic fear of death in the middle of this absolutely disproportional movement of crowd, which tries to persuade itself for its part of eternity by making links, somehow, with the artistic inheritance of a celebrity. Artistic inheritance which, contrary to us ordinary people, will be able to continue living as long as there will be men on earth to remember. But, I also think that black peoples are making a strong political statement about their contribution to the world by making MJ’s death a landmark in our “male-white oriented” history. I cannot blame them for that.   Posted by Louise Sanfaçon on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 2:30 AM [Reply to this]

	Agnes Agnes Kun	I do agree with you. I think that fear is the biggest drive motivating a human being to search desperetaly for a moment of immortality. And art is the best way ever. But there are some things I just wonder about MJ's "afterlife". I just read an article with the headline "In his death he is Afroamerican again" (plain translation from Hungarian). This article publishes an opinion, that without MJ's music that linked people around the world to each other, Barack Obama weren't elected to be the president of the US. My questions are: - Was he ever considered being a white person by the so called white people? - Is his ethnicity that truly matters in his artistic inheritence? - How can be people such ignorant to misuse someone's death in such a hypocritical way? I always thought art is undependent from ethnicity, religion or political orientation; because art is representing the common joy and the common longings of humanity for beauty. I do not blame black people for their pride for MJ and their efforts to create another icon for themselves. But he was an artist not a politician. And I know the measures of hypocrisy, hatred and disrespect, that are hiding behind the mask of political correctness. Sorry for my English. P.S.: I saw your page. You have a beautiful world.   Posted by Agnes on Thursday, July 09, 2009 - 2:00 PM [Reply to this]

	Susanne Susanne Flanagan	Today is July 7, 2009.  I lost my younger brother, Terry, to an MI 13 years ago..my then 12 year old son had found him already dead....Where was all the fanfare and all the spilling of tears from people. Young vital people die everyday. Young children are victims of heinous crime every hour of every day.  Soldiers fighting for our liberty are being killed daily. Where are all of the tears and the so deserved fanfare.    Today, let us just "carry on" over one entertainer. Let us miss another day of work, even though so many need a job. Let us glorify him for being the best singer and the best dancer that ever lived...and the greatest humanitarian.  Unbelievable...the general population has gone "off their rockers".                                                                                       Stay well, Eric.     Thanks for all good incite.   Susan   Posted by Susanne on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 - 6:22 PM [Reply to this]

	Micah ✈ ▐ ▌	Posted by Micah ✈ ▐ ▌ on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 12:03 AM [Reply to this]

	Margaret Margaret Knott	Spot on!!    Posted by Margaret on Friday, July 17, 2009 - 11:12 AM [Reply to this]

	Barbarablue Barbara Gehl	So much money was spent on the memorial! And who paid for it? Who benefited from it? Not I, I didn't even watch it...I wish all that passion, energy, and money could have converged on a more useful endeavor...like art and music programs in our public schools. Show the kids they can admire themselves and not someone who they see on T.V. What a waste. I'm sorry he died, but come on people, we all are! Lets put what time we have here to better use.   Posted by Barbarablue on Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 2:01 AM [Reply to this]

	Missy	Did you find out about the 3rd person who was injured? Prayers for recovery in more ways than 1.......For everyone. Speaking as a Mom doing my best to teach my children the importantance of respecting ourselves and others, making responsible choices,not giving in to all the materialistic stuff and along the way of growing up NOT to  give up or give in to "fit in" either. I'm not a violent person ...... I'm just very "OL SKOOL" in many ways. I don't know what causes people to not care and just do something like this ........... I do know I'm a firm beleiver in a starving Hog!!!!!!!!   Posted by Missy on Friday, July 24, 2009 - 11:07 PM [Reply to this]

	Jennifer	You'd think that we'd all be used to death by now, it having been an issue for...ever.  Any excuse to run around jumping and clucking.  They love it;the drama, the chance to ACT within these ridiculous parimeters they have set up for themseves(or lack thereof).  Where are the REAL people.  It's ok; I can laugh at myself, too.  I knew he had died, but I haven't followed it.  I could have guessed this would have happened.  Love the mask!   Posted by Jennifer on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 4:35 PM [Reply to this]

	Dee Dee Armstrong	It as always amazed me that people get so depressed over the loss of a celebrity they don't know. I too felt as though Farrah was pushed aside. She fought a live and death struggle to the very end and It appears that Mr. Jackon was fighting inner termoil that lead him to cover the pain with medications and a lot of them. All media fed information.  Her death is much more tragic to me in that she fought so hard not to die. We were privledged to have these two personalities share there enormous talents with us, but in no way did they share there lives with us. It's all speculation. I don't know how they took their coffee, or what side of the bed they slept on, what their favorite foods were. I only saw an Actress and a Musician that graced us with their gifts. We can mourn the loss of what they shared but in no way can we mourn the loss of them, that's their family and friends right to do so, and anyone else is just an intruder. If we should feel sad for anything it should be for the children of the people who have to face the rest of their lives without their Parent, when they are still at that age where they need that Parent in their lives.    Posted by Dee on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 4:54 PM [Reply to this]

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