tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post9024145244011139155..comments2024-03-28T15:23:18.071-07:00Comments on Pure Mormonism: Michael Jackson Taught Me SomethingAlan Rock Watermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971243364867111868noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-86774840765957182862009-08-04T12:38:18.304-07:002009-08-04T12:38:18.304-07:00Lyrics to Michael Jackson song"Tabloid Junkie...Lyrics to Michael Jackson song<br>"Tabloid Junkie"<br><br>Speculate to break the one you hate<br>Circulate the lie you confiscate<br>Assassinate and mutilate<br>As the hounding media in hysteria<br>Who's the next for you to resurrect<br>JFK exposed the CIA<br>Truth be told the grassy knoll<br>As the blackmail story in all your glory<br><br>It's slander<br>You say it's not a sword<br>But with your pen you torture men<br>You'd crucify the Lord<br>And you don't have to read it (read it)<br>And you don't have to eat it (eat it)<br>To buy it is to feed it (feed it)<br>Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves<br><br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>Though everybody wants to read all about it<br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual, actual<br>They say he's homosexual<br><br>In the hood<br>Frame him if you could<br>Shoot to kill<br>To blame him if you will<br>If he dies sympathize<br>Such false witnesses<br>Damn self righteousness<br>In the black<br>Stab me in the back<br>In the face<br>To lie and shame the race<br>Heroine and Marilyn<br>As the headline stories of<br>All your glory<br><br>It's slander<br>With the words you use<br>You're a parasite in black and white<br>Do anything for news<br>And you don't go and buy it (buy it)<br>And they won't glorify it ('fy it)<br>To read it sanctifies it ('fies it)<br>Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves<br><br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual <br>(Everybody wants to read all about it)<br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>(See, but everybody wants to believe all about it)<br><br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>(See, but everybody wants to believe all about it)<br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual, actual<br>She's blonde and she's bisexual<br><br>Scandal<br>With the words you use<br>You're a parasite in black and white<br>Do anything for news<br>And you don't go and buy it (buy it)<br>And they won't glorify it ('fy it)<br>To read it sanctifies it ('fies it)<br>Why do we keep foolin' ourselves<br>Slander<br>You say it's not a sin<br>But with your pen you torture men<br>Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves<br><br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>(Though everybody wants to read all about it)<br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>(See, but everybody wants to read all about it)<br><br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual<br>Just because you read it in a magazine<br>Or see it on the TV screen<br>Don't make it factual, actual<br>You're so damn disrespectable<br><br><br>Pretty much sums it up for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-54229193645417137312009-08-02T16:04:28.591-07:002009-08-02T16:04:28.591-07:00Remember that judgment itself is the great deceive...Remember that judgment itself is the great deceiver. It is judgment that requires that I be right and if you think or act differently than me, then you must be wrong. <br><br>If God's love is truly unconditional, which it is, then God can have no judgment. And that my friends, is liberating!Jonashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264936174018622496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-89936597643869209622009-08-02T16:00:33.404-07:002009-08-02T16:00:33.404-07:00I too have felt disdain over MJ for many years. He...I too have felt disdain over MJ for many years. He was a freak and lots of other things and I judged him as such. On the day of his memorial my co-worker felt the great need to have the service playing in the store. I was highly annoyed and and wanted not to listen, but could not getaway from the sounds of the speakers. <br><br>I could withstand no longer and I began to listen as Brooke Sheilds spoke of Michael. By the time she finished I had an epiphany: I have judged Michael Jackson based on what I have read and what I have heard through the media. <br><br>I never knew the man personally. I don;t know anyone who knew him personally. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who knew him personally. Yet I judged him as being a pervert and a freak. <br><br>Michael shined his light in his own way. And if he accomplished nothing else in life (which he seemed to accomplish a great deal) he got me to look at me and my judgment. <br><br>By the end of the service I wept for his life and that it took his death to teach me what an unreasonable judge I have been. From that epiphany, I can now grow to new heights as I look at who I judge and remember to put aside judgment and just allow each pereson to be who they are.<br><br>The worst part of all this is that actually bought into the media hype and all their lies and propaganda. I'm not saying they lied about MJ. I don't know fact from fiction there, but this I know; the media will do or say anything to sell a story. And I believed it. <br><br>Oh well, I choose now to let go of the judgment of myself for buying into what may or may not be fact, and to move on to happier realms.<br><br>Thanks Michael, for being my teacher.<br><br>Jonas ThomanderJonashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264936174018622496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-65261448620935982042009-07-28T21:32:38.161-07:002009-07-28T21:32:38.161-07:00Thanks, Rock..As I waded through the ashes of my s...Thanks, Rock.<br>.<br>As I waded through the ashes of my self-immolation and wished that people wouldn't judge *me*, I came to understand that judging is God's job, not ours, and He isn't doing it yet. Our job is to love and help each other without judging. I suppose this is why Christ's two great commandments are to love: God and our neighbors.<br>.<br>This posting truly is "pure Mormonism"The Widgethttp://widget.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-85492113045711007252009-07-24T07:44:33.338-07:002009-07-24T07:44:33.338-07:00Good thoughts on judging!Good thoughts on judging!Barbaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-88684917665775256882009-07-19T16:59:15.736-07:002009-07-19T16:59:15.736-07:00good comments.good comments.jay beachamhttp://jaybeacham.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-38293315480609491622009-07-16T10:12:02.634-07:002009-07-16T10:12:02.634-07:00Well JR, that's okay that you find the concept...Well JR, that's okay that you find the concept of pre-existence to be a strange doctrine. As for me, I can't conceive of the possibility that I have not always existed in some state of conscious awareness. To think that I may not always have existed somewhere in the universe in some form is what would seem strange to me. <br><br>But then, you may have ascertained from this blog that even some of my fellow Mormons think there's something strange about my core beliefs.<br><br>Thanks for your input. Glad to have you here.Alan Rock Watermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971243364867111868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-15835386867802443282009-07-16T08:24:33.739-07:002009-07-16T08:24:33.739-07:00I found your write up very interesting and well th...I found your write up very interesting and well thought out. Unfortunately you lost me when the subject of pre-existance came up. As you might guess, I am not LDS, and find much of the strange doctrine taught, to be ....well, strange. Other than that, being in your age group and having a similar opinion of Michael Jackson, I realized a lot of my condemnations were the same, until reading your take on him.<br>Cheers<br>JRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-84210390246035100032009-07-14T09:47:37.155-07:002009-07-14T09:47:37.155-07:00Nicely put! Probably the nicest tribute I've ...Nicely put! Probably the nicest tribute I've heard for Michael in the past few weeks of media frenzy.Urban Kodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01327437055164051853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-21475810248216528712009-07-14T00:38:35.734-07:002009-07-14T00:38:35.734-07:00mj injected himself thinking he could perform like...mj injected himself thinking he could perform like when he was 2o or 3o it wasnt the docotr who injected him with diprovan but he didnt take into account that he was now a 50 year old he could only perform while high on something!the docotrs who gave hime these drugs need to be found and reprimanded!!!none was trying to kill him like his sister latoya has said - shes the one who said he was a paedo remember?by the way he did do those things to children but he got away with it why did he pay jordan chandler he was guilty of doing those things to children pity someone as talented as that and he abused his talent thinking he could do anything and get whatever he wanted like a little child he needed a big dose of growing up!!spaulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-14729125879054957492009-07-13T19:11:42.663-07:002009-07-13T19:11:42.663-07:00Amen to that, Dave. It's none of our business...Amen to that, Dave. It's none of our business now whether O.J. is guilty or not. The jury has acquitted him and that's enough for this life. if it turns out he really was a killer, well that's what we have God for. Any just punishment denied in this life will be meted out in the next.Alan Rock Watermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04971243364867111868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1342380624800894371.post-26028423634996907082009-07-13T10:48:02.388-07:002009-07-13T10:48:02.388-07:00I realized something similar not too long ago when...I realized something similar not too long ago when reading a few books on the original O.J. Simpson trial and how a bunch of people are still adamantly convinced that he was guilty. One person even once told me that the first thing he would do after dying would be to ask God, "Was O.J. really guilty?"<br><br>I told him I'd imagine either the Father or the Savior (one God, after all) telling him, "It is none of thy business. Let's talk about the deeds in thine own life."<br><br>In regards to those whose sins will be "shouted from the rooftops" I can more easily see those people being the ones who belong to modern day secret combinations and have done far worse deeds in terms of advancing Satan's earthly kingdom while attempting to destroy man's free agency while never being held accountable for it in this life.Dave P.http://www.avlanche-hq.comnoreply@blogger.com