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If the Earth
were only a few feet in
diameter, floating a few feet above
a field somewhere, people would come
from everywhere to marvel at it. People would
walk around it marveling at its big pools of water,
its little pools and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding
it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the
ball, and at the creatures in the water.
The people would declare it as sacred because
it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder known, and people would come to
pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty and to wonder how it could be. People
would love it, and defend it with their lives
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness, could
be nothing without it. If the
Earth were only a few
feet in diameter.
-author unknown

change from time to time…
I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind.
This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in
time snapshot and manifestation of the various memes running
around my brain, and as such any thoughts and opinions expressed
within out-of-date posts may not the same, nor even similar,
to those I may hold today.

Ok...

So I saw that everyone ran and did blogs on this when Michael originally passed but due to technical difficulties (I like that more than saying I became distracted and lazy) I waited to do this blog today.

I've watched countless footage on the passing of Michael Jackson and as the days pass, folks are coming out of the wood works with all these claims and scandals.

My first issue is the repeated showing of his body being loaded into the coroner's van. Why must we, his loyal fans, see that over and over again? Most importantly, why must his family endure that?

The don't deserve to have their brother, their son's name dragged through the mud like this. They shouldn't have to see the paramedics trying to revive him plastered on every magazine.

I've always known the media could be heartless, but this time, they've really become vultures. I'm just so disgusted with the way they've been bringing up everything that has happened in this man's life.

Why wasn't this done to Ed and Farrah?

Everytime I ask that, folks tell me "Oh well, Mike was such a bigger star than Ed or Farrah."

To that I ask, and your point is?

This man is a human. Stop taking his family through all of this speculation, this drama. Stop making them relive his death and every other drama in his life. Can't we as a society have some kind of class, some heart, and let his fans....his family, mourn?

Before he shared his life with us, before the legacy and the music, he belonged to his famliy and now in death we should return him to them.

Turn off the cameras, stop the gossip, and let him rest in peace.

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