Hello Alexander,   
      
   AK>Hi, Lee Lofaso! How are you?   
   AK>on Sunday, 12 of February, I read your message to All   
   AK>about "Whitney Houson R.I.P."   
      
   >LL>Whitney Houston is dead.   
   >LL>At the ripe old age of 48.   
   >LL>May her soul R.I.P.   
      
   AK>Yes.   
   AK>Although her life is another piece of evidence that abundance leads   
   AK>to perversion and fall. She was very high in the eyes of people who   
   AK>loved her songs, but she fell extremely low inside her own soul.   
      
   She had a beautiful voice.  Especially for gospel.  Kind of like   
   the female version of Elvis.   
      
   AK>At first she sang and loved it so much, but then singing became her   
   AK>profession and curse. She talked of love a lot, she knew by heart   
   AK>all the words she must say at the concert, she knew by heart all the   
   AK>gestures. She did her job and hated that her words, said so many   
   AK>times, caused inside her nothing, but aversion. But she was a   
   AK>professional. She kept singing in a right way, she kept smiling. But   
   AK>after concerts she could not find any human emotions that could help   
   AK>her soul to live. And in a silent despair she switched the remains   
   AK>of her soul with drugs and alcohol.   
      
   Many of her fans viewed her as an angel because of her voice and   
   the way she presented herself in public.  But she was no angel, as   
   she tried to tell the news media.   
      
   AK>What is I like to say? People must not constantly be with pleasant,   
   AK>beauty things. They must not constantly listen to beautiful music,   
   AK>wear beautiful clothes; admire beautiful faces, beautiful fumes,   
   AK>delicious cuisine, vine etc. If they do, they lose the ability to   
   AK>admire these things. Things stop to cause joy; you constantly must   
   AK>increase the dose. And, at last, a lovely song turns to shriek and   
   AK>screaming, beautiful clothes turns to fashionable rags over pierced   
   AK>skin. Happiness turns to a substances oblivion.   
      
   Without pain and suffering, there can be no joy.  Leo Tolstoy was able   
   to portray that idea in his novels.  It is an idea that is prevalent in   
   Buddhism, but also in Judaism and Christianity.   
      
   Let's suppose you were in a world surrounded by people who were   
   all the same.  Let's say everyone in that world pinched each other   
   constantly.  Would that be pleasure or would that be pain?  If it is   
   all you experience or have ever experienced, what is the difference?   
   How would you be able to recognize the difference if you had not   
   experienced both pleasure and pain?   
      
   AK>The next stage resembles the first, but that oblivion has no the   
   AK>third stage.   
      
   AK>Jesus Christ compared Pharisees with tombs, beautifully decorated.   
   AK>If we could open our eyes we could see a similar picture when   
   AK>looking at modern pop stars. We must stop admire such things. Songs,   
   AK>dancing must be simple things. How beautiful it is when a person   
   AK>sings and dances, just because his soul wants to sing or dance. He   
   AK>doesn't spent hours and days polishing feelings. Feelings must not   
   AK>be polished!!! Their main value is sincerity, virginity -- certainly   
   AK>not a robotic perfection of a tired hopeless woman, a poor   
   AK>professional singer.   
      
   Whitney had loads of raw natural talent.  She would have been happy   
   as can be singing in the choir of her local church had she not gained   
   fame and notoriety through her recordings and public performances.   
   In my opinion, the pressures put on her by others is what brought her   
   down, not the talent she had for singing.   
      
   Whitney Houston drowned in a bathtub at age 48.  Yet rumor has it that   
   she died of prescription drugs and alcohol.  An autopsy was performed.   
   Details will be revealed at a later date.   
      
   Jim Morrison drowned in a bathtub at age 27.  Yet rumor has it that   
   he died of drugs and alcohol.  The coroner's report revealed he died   
   of a massive heart attack, with no mention made of drugs or alcohol.   
      
   Amy Winehouse simply dropped dead.  Yet rumor had it that she   
   died of an overdose of drugs.  The coroner's report revealed she   
   had no drugs in her system, but did have an alcohol content of   
   0.45% - more than five times the legal limit.   
      
   Why does society assume that movie stars, singers, and other   
   famous personalities die in ways other than natural causes?   
   Whitney Houston may have had heart problems, and not been in   
   the best of health.  Jim Morrison was a fat pig at the time   
   of his untimely death.  Amy Winehouse may have been epileptic,   
   diabetic, or had some other medical condition that caused her   
   death.   
      
   In the old days, movie stars, singers and other celebrities   
   knew how to die -   
      
   Buddy Holly died in a plane crash.   
      
   James Dean died in a car crash.   
      
   Gary Gilmore died by firing squad.   
      
   --Lee   
      
      
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