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By: Mai

Mai — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:07:22 +0000

This reminds me of the hoopla when Anna Nicole Smith died. There IS a difference, of course. Michael Jackson was a talented performer who actually did something of note with his talents. He has been at least on the perifory of my life since the late 1960s. Someone who had “always” been there is gone. It leaves a blank space.

Love is a strange thing. I have learned, to paraphrase R. A. Heinlein, the more I love, the more I CAN love. Each love teaches me to love a little more.

I care deeply about poor people, hungry people, cold people, sick people, oppressed people, hurting people – but I have learned that if I don’t distance myself a bit, I’ll go mad. (Some say I already have.) I do what I can, mostly by alerting people online, as I am physically unable to do much and my financial resources are small and dwindling. Then I do just a little more than I can, push myself.

My friends and doctors insist that I cut down on these 16-18 hour days, the world will go on just fine if Mai takes a nap in the park. They are right. Sometimes I wonder if all I try to do has any impact on anyone. Still, love compells me to try.

The death of Michael Jackson is just this: He brought music, dancing and joy into the lives of millions. He gave us a lot to talk about with his weirdnesses and eccentricities. He made our lives a little more interesting, a little less mundane. And that, Amrit, (as Martha Stewart would say) is a good thing.

Good-bye, Michael! The human heart is big enough to care about you and all suffering humanity at the same time.

By: J

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:30:55 +0000

but sometimes it does become ridiculously embarrassing. like when princess di had died, we had people at work with a black band on their arms and all, looking all mournful, when around the same time Mother Teresa too had left her body for … wherever … sad!! what was amazingly ridiculous was the way the local newspapers went about it .. with pages and pages devoted to princess di as opposed to one column for Mother T. very, very sad. have nothing against, or in favor of anyone .. but just .. a thought ..

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By: Sayan Datta

Sayan Datta — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:31:49 +0000

Wow! What a jolt! And to think I was worrying about a few problems in my workplace. This post has brought me back to earth again.
About the huge majority mourning Michael Jackson’s death, I prefer to think of it as a passing fad. People like him are alive (in people’s minds) for only a few generations and then they go ‘pop’ like bubbles do (as opposed to diamonds which shine forever). His memories will soon be erased from the minds of the masses. Of course a new avatar of MJ will take his place simply because people need celebrities so desperately!
Feeling distant evils acutely and consistently is very difficult (especially for us who haven’t experienced real pain and suffering) and possible, I would say, only to a select few- those, who, through control and practice have learned to feel them (one reason why, I think, sages of the old deliberately chose the hardest life imaginable – to expand their hearts to such an extent so as to be able to encompass the sufferings of all living beings).
But the least we commoners can do is to take a stand which is at least logically coherent. So far as I can see there is little logic in mourning the death of one in such huge numbers while millions die of starvation.

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