God's Love: Don't leave home without it!
Another thought just came to mind with regard to caring/being touched by Death, by troubles,pain/hurt.
For years I've been waiting for a movie to have its DVD release-"Once Upon A Honeymoon". It is just now released through TCM, and I'll have my copy next week.
In the movie, made before we Americans entered WWII, there is a scene where Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers,attempting to get out of Germany without documents...are arrested-the Nazis think they are Jews.
Grant and Rogers win their freedom by admitting who they actually are-Rogers is married to one of Hitler's emissaries. But in the scene, Grant and Rogers are looking at a group of forlorn Jews in chains at a train depot, and Grant says, "I wonder what will happen to them."
At least you're honest I guess. Most peoples' lives do not impact ours, and the lives of the famous often only impact those people who projected their own wishes and desires onto them.
I can see mourning the loss of a person's contributions and talents, of course, but to weep AS IF the person was a close member of the family doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Perhaps it should, though? In an ideal world, wouldn't we all be able to empathize a bit more and to be moved by the suffering of others as if it were our own?
There's a lot of false empathy out there of the Clinton, "I feel your pain" variety.
As I noted on the other post, I've changed my mind a bit with regard to Farrah Fawcett, as I hadn't known that she had been sick for a long time.
There seem to be more comedians mocking Jackson than empathizing with his family friends and fans.
Not here.
Great relevant quote:
Emotions are no longer authentic if they aren’t witnessed. Grief is suspect if it isn’t grand enough to register on digital video. So make way for people to appear in public and parade their inconsolable grief over a stranger, someone they never knew outside the removed lens of celebrity — and its close cousin infamy.
I have little or nothing to say about Jackson as I was not a fan, so I agree with you both. However, that he was unique goes without saying. Is there a person on the planet who doesn't know his name? The Beatles were big, but had a fan base comprised largely of white people. Jackson cut across racial lines, age barriers, gender differences.
It may be a sad commentary on the human race, but I guess that's how we're made. John Lennon angered everyone with his "the Beatles are bigger than Jesus" remark. He didn't mean they were better or more important, rather that more people knew their name than knew that of Jesus. I'm sure the same is true of Michael Jackson. This seemingly over-the-top adulation is, in effect, an attempt to fill with earthly things the hole we all have in us. It will fail.
The radio the past few days has reminded us of many good early songs Jackson had. I wasn't a fan either, but he was talented.
Jackson and I were the same age.
When I was 18, the summer after high school, one of my classmates passed away, a heart attack while riding her bicycle. We had grown up in the same Lutheran church, been 'confirmed' in the same Confirmation class...I hope to see her in Heaven.
Is it fair to find fault with God if someone's life is cut short? No-it was Job who said, "The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
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