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@Yanuf
Well now, I've been watchin all the comin and going about MJ on this forum and it seems that people have mixed views on the man.
Only natural, people being different and all.
But it does seem that some are getting het up about the opinions of others.
So here's my take, for what its worth.
The man had the most abnormal childhood imaginable which lead to more then a few personality issues in later life. A symptom of this upbringing and the associated isses was that he was a musical genius.
Another symptom was that he formed some strange and not very healty relationships, which inturn led to scandal and unproven allegations (although its pretty obvious that he bought his way out of the trouble he had gotten himself into).
He also denied his heritage and tried to model himself as an eternal child, again indicative of fairly deep seated problems, probably caused by the aforementioned childhood.
So in a way I feel sorry for the man, in another way I respect his talent (and truley love some of the music), and in yet another way I despise some of his behavior.
But its all moot now, he is gone and eventually we will all follow.
I don't dig all the wailing and crying, equally I don't dig lambasting a dead man.
But he was what he was and, as I said earlier, we all have an opinion.