I think you're right. Don't know if they were always this way but i was subbed to them for a while and seeing the kinds of crap meaningles talks they were pumping out made my blood boil.
Oh yeah i have dreams like this when i leave engineering coursework too late but, despite having dream insights that solve my problems, i've decided it's more efficient to just never ever leave those things too late again
I like that perspective. I do think it helps me personally.
But I also hear people suggest that looking atthings from a "the world did this to me" POV is narcissistic, which is bad. I disagree with that because generally people sre correct when they feel the world around them forced them into a situation
Well they're not doing it in honour of Lord Jesus (i think), they're doing it because they're hardasses who tried to ban all alcohol in the past, after having significant societal problems with it, and they're not giving up.
My notes:
kind of good for really lonely people on christmas, who might be tempted to drink their sorrows away?
but obviously christianity is effectively a pro booze religion as you said, and this might interfere with many people's christmas plans.
e.g What if you go to a family christmas dinner and everyone assumed someone else would bring alcohol? Alcohol really is an importamt part of christmas; egg nog, blood of jesus, casually drunk.
if said people have to start planning around the day of dry sales, won't they start stockpiling extra alcohol at christmas "so they don't run out, like last time" ?
said people then feel compelled to drink more alcohol to make SURE they get through all that they stockpiled
more drunk drivers that holy night, or extra string hangovers the next day - woohoo!!!!!!
See also: same issue occurs for those lonely alcoholic folk. They'll be doosmday prepping for christmas in various parts of the USA because they're cinvinced they'll need it to cope. Homeless people might need it for warmth
Nah i'd argue that true crime gets into 1. Motivations of such people, 2. Tactics they use to lure people in, 3. A lot of situations people haven't even though about
ABC, 2003: "inside MJ's Odd World." https://abcnews.com/2020/story?id=123607&page=1
This is the top result if you search about it and probaboy all you need to read. But i'll return to this comment with more sources, i need to post to make sure i don't lose what i typed below.
Yes it's proven that MJ invited kids over for sleepovers.
It was so well known that he did this that the media was reporting on it frequently and he went to court for it -~~ presumably it wasn't proven that he molested them because AFAIK he never went to jail or anything. ~~
But as you said, the issue is that he shouldn't have been creating those situations in the first place, because:
1), it's creepy enough ny default,
kids shouldn't be taken away from trusted adults fo stay over with celebrities,
MJ is aware thst this is wring and puts him in a highkply precarious legal position.
You'd therefore assume that he was doing this in the hopes thst he might one day get away with mokesting a child, or that he wss doing it as the first part of grooming them to become his close friends and from there who knows.
It's a dereliction of "responsibility" as a celebrity and as an adult to essentially provide access to yourself as a visitor attraction for kids. Public meetings with fans (conventions, signings, concerts) and answering fan mail is fine.
I'm surprised it didn't go worse. I do like his music though and i appreciate he had a poor childhood himself which contributes to making these poor judgements.
(I believe MJ comes up in Epsteins Emails, either because epstein celebrates him, or because he's a visitor to the island. Probably the former, there's not much outcry about it. I'll look for a source for that.)
No i just made the post about dead celebrities despite thinking about madonna. I already decided not to yap to the pereon in question about madonna being a creep, and the conversation in questiin happened a year or so ago but i remembered it and made a post inspired by it
True, haha, i think i added "deceased" because it makes it more clear cut? Asking the same about living celebrities is a different issue because they run cover-up on their misdeeds, so there's usually lots of plausible deniability. I didn't think i'd mention what prompted me to make the post until that guy asked if it was MJ, which was a good guess.
I think you're right. Don't know if they were always this way but i was subbed to them for a while and seeing the kinds of crap meaningles talks they were pumping out made my blood boil.