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Straycat13
"]Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!"
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"]Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!"
I suspect Mick is a fierce atheist!
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Straycat13
That's nothing compared to what Mick just went thru. He's an overcomer like the rooster in this story:
Someone told this story about a man named Samuel S. Scull, who settled in the Arizona desert with his family:
"One night a fierce desert storm struck with rain, hail, and a high wind. At daybreak, feeling sick and fearing what he might find, Samuel went to survey their loss. The hail had beaten the garden into the ground; the house was partially unroofed; the henhouse had blown away and dead chickens were scattered about. Destruction and devastation were everywhere.
"While standing dazed, evaluating the mess and wondering about the future, he heard a stirring in the lumber pile that was the remains of the henhouse. A rooster was climbing up, and continued until he had mounted the highest board in the pile. That old rooster was dripping wet, and most of his feathers were blown away. But as the sun came over the eastern horizon, he flapped his bony wings and proudly crowed."
The story ends by saying, "Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!"
Mick has done that!
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Straycat13
"]Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!"
I suspect Mick is a fierce atheist!
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grzegorz67
Much as I love the band, they have made great wealth from society, therefore it is incumbent on them and those with similar wealth to pay commensurately back into the same society which made them rich in the first place. If they do not, it means that they are being subsidised by those of far lesser wealth. It's social responsibility, something that some wealthy people demonstrate more than others.
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andrewt
Time to move into Keith's place and make an album ...
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Straycat13
"]Choose to hope. Climb up out of the debris of your life, flap your bony wings, and announce to the world that you've entered a new day. God has programmed you to hope, to overcome, and to win!"
I suspect Mick is a fierce atheist!
I don't. I suspect he believes in God. Otherwise, he wouldn't be searching in India and in his world travels.
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Stoneage
That's gossip and speculation. The Express is apparently a gossip sheet. It's definitely not journalism.
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Gazza
"confided the friend"
= Tabloid-speak for "we're making this bollocks up to fill a page"
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vdoq
Better call Saul !
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Gazza
"confided the friend"
= Tabloid-speak for "we're making this bollocks up to fill a page"
the fact is,unfortunately, that the tabloids are alive and thriving precisely because they are able to gather information and do not hesitate to publish it. their style is repugnant but they often hit the mark.
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Gazza
"confided the friend"
= Tabloid-speak for "we're making this bollocks up to fill a page"
the fact is,unfortunately, that the tabloids are alive and thriving precisely because they are able to gather information and do not hesitate to publish it. their style is repugnant but they often hit the mark.
And they often dont hit it or (more commonly) they exaggerate it for dramatic effect.
He'd be absolutely abnormal and inhuman if he wasnt depressed in some way after an ordeal like that.
So, in that context, its a non-story.
Overdramatising the extent of it and justifying it with unsubstantiated and anonymous quotes though is standard tabloid behaviour because they cant be sued for stuff like that nor (due to the anonymity of the 'source') can it be disproven.
Your earlier comment about 'a grain of truth' in these stories is fair enough. How big that 'grain' is though and how much of it gets mixed in with utter fiction is another issue.