I respect people that make excuses for drug addicts even less.
I can understand drug addicts, because nobody is free of faults. I hope you don't drink, because alcohol is a drug too.
I do have a couple of drinks now and then. But don't have too. I don't like drunks either. but that does not mean the music some of them make is not good.
So listen up all you druggies and drunks. Drugs are for weak minded people period. If you must take them to cope with life do everyone a big favor and cry to someone else. When you kill yourself don't expect sympathy. When you kill someone else I hope you get what is coming to you.
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Last time you checked what? Couldn't be the Bible, because that isn't in there, despite your hilarious use of "thyself".
Really, I just don't want others who read this (and who may not know better) think that a lack of mercy and grace comes from a Christian perspective. Quite the opposite.
Scott Thomas wrote:Last time you checked what? Couldn't be the Bible, because that isn't in there, despite your hilarious use of "thyself".
Really, I just don't want others who read this (and who may not know better) think that a lack of mercy and grace comes from a Christian perspective. Quite the opposite.
It was a figure of speech. When did I say it was in the bible? You mean to tell me you have never heard that before?
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Well, since you're so sure about that, George, you'll never understand people who trouble will find. Which makes you anything but an expert on the topic.
I can't imagine her trying to willfully do herself in when her own daughter was staying with her. I had a friend die from the combination of alcohol and a prescription. He was like the least-druggie person imaginable, in fact he was a jock though he did like his beer. He tore up his knee (ACL) playing softball, and was just a few days away from an operation. He went out with the boys, and had either 5 or 6 beers - they were buying rounds, so that part is known. He got home, his knee hurt, so he took a painkiller. The doctors then guess that he got up again (while buzzed from the combination), and took another one. And then he didn't ever get up again.
If you can forgive what Johnny Cash & Glenn Campbell did to themselves and others...?
I am quite certain that each and every full fledged alcoholic or drug addict didn't wake up one day and say, yep, today's the day, I am going all in on becoming a full fledged addict...can't wait...
We are a pretty tuff group here, honor our own, sing their songs weekly,even knowing the past and history , but WH, lets bury her in Potters Field.
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She was a beautiful woman and a fantastic singer...Absolutely one of the best this world has ever known..That's the way I will remember her..May God rest her soul...Carson
Look she was a talented woman but she chose to destroy her life and her God given talent. If anyone here bothered to read my original post it was directed at NJ Gov Chris Christie.
I'll say this. If you think someone who chose to throw away the talent and life they were given deserves the US Flag to be lowered for them over a member of our military service. You should have your head examined.
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George Crickmore wrote:Look she was a talented woman but she chose to destroy her life and her God given talent. .
How do you know she chose it ?
There are millions of folks with an addiction that they cannot conquer , that's why it is called an addiction...
Like I said earlier, I doubt anyone wakes up in the morning and says, yep today's the day I choose to become an addict and ruin my life and loose all my money along the way...
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Well said, Mike. (And,..I really enjoyed that track...)
I, for one, prefer to remember Whitney at her very best,..not, at her worst.
For each and every one of us,..Our very 'worst' is something that we are all capable of achieving, with ridiculous ease.
Our best,...is not so easy.
It's sad when anyone's mother dies. My thoughts and prayers are with Ms. Houston's daughter and family at this time. Whitney's musical style didn't speak to me, per se, but her immense talent was undeniable.
Duncan
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
We become acquainted with people like Whitney through the way their art speaks to the soul.It's always a shock when we're reminded that while art is ageless and as close to perfect as makes no difference,artists aren't.
It is a true testament to her talent as a young woman that the performances of her prime have endured almost 30 years later. Unfortunately her vocal talent was a shadow of its former glory by the time of her death; however, you have to bow in reverence to her extraordinary abilities in the '80s and '90s.
I was never a fan of the genre or the songs, but there's no denying her pipes. And she was the perfect package for widespread fame in the '80s, riding the wave of a music business that was at its financial zenith. It was probably what broke her in the end, all things considered. Her position at that time was no doubt one of extreme pressure. She didn't ever know much else as a lifestyle.
