Posted on 11/25/2011 7:34:02 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Freddie Mercury died 20 years ago today. The Queen singer and songwriter had been secretly battling AIDS for four years, announcing that he had contracted the disease on Nov. 23, 1991, one day before he passed away of AIDS-related bronchopneumonia. He was 45.
Known for his wide vocal range and unparalleled showmanship, the Zanzibar-born Mercury (nee Farrokh Bulsara) also wrote many of Queen’s biggest hits including the six-minute-long rock opus "Bohemian Rhapsody,” sports anthems "We Are the Champions" and “We Will Rock You” and throwback "Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”
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That.....was freakin’ outstanding. Unreal. NOT an easy song to try and cover; Martel nailed it.
Damned good P&W team there, too......
God is apparently not as upset with Magic Johnson.
Forget that dead homo. I’d sooner remember my last good crap, first. Effing imbeciles. Merry Christmas.
Don't think I've heard of him.
Maybe he was Wanda's brother (she of the Night of Golden Memories).
≤}B^)
RIP Freddie Mercury.
I love Queen, I just love them!
I recall when his having contracted AIDS was announced, and he had that same drawn, ashen, wooden and hollow look on his face and in his eyes. He was very fortunate that some form of medical treatment had by then been devised, or perhaps he repented and stopped doing whatever it was, that was killing him. If not, he could have done and could do worse than to have all worldliness stripped from him and to land in the lap of a selfless Christian woman who set aside her own fears and worked tirelessly to save his eternal soul before he passed from this world. It's not an if, it's a when and a how. Remember that.
Well, I’m happy to know that anyone who gets ill and dies a miserable death probably had it coming. Saves me from having to feel bad for them.
But you feel better. And, that's what matters. To you.
The name of the band didn't tip you off? Or the lyrics to "Killer Queen?"
1)When people who do "wrong" get sick and die, it's God's will.
2)When people who did not seem to flout God's will get sick and die, it's NOT God's will.
3)Unless maybe they did something we don't know about. Then it IS God's will again.
4)When evil people do just fine, it's not God's will. They're going to get it in the end.
5)Unless they repent. Or already did and we just don't know about it.
6)OR... He's using them for some unspecified purpose and that's why they are allowed to triumph.
In other words, you can't figure out what is God's will and what isn't. Following His mandates doesn't guarantee a life free of suffering. The world looks pretty darn random and you have to think in circles to keep up this running tab of what is God's will and what is not. Like that teenaged hemophiliac that got AIDS from a blood transfusion. God's will? No. Well, wait. Maybe. Who knows? It's almost like there's nothing up there, eh?! LOL... geez, people.
You keep telling yourself that, maybe you'll convince yourself it's true.
This world is corrupt, a vale of pain and suffering, of aging, disease and death that was never meant to be part of Creation. We are all subject to sin and death, every last one of us, no matter how pious, no matter how good, no matter what our works or our loves or cares or family or connections. By sin came death and death comes for us all, it's only a matter of when and a matter of how.
Some pass peacefully and they are blessed. Some leave this world screaming in pain and horror. Some are stripped of everything they ever valued and reduced to being completely dependent, while dying a lingering death. There is a means to be victorious over death, but you deny it and would rather regard yourself as some sort of oddly and inexplicably animated meat puppet, but one with morals from some strange source that you can't quite explain, and then turn your nihilist idiocy on it's ear and project it upon those who actually live the moral code you simultaneously ape and yet mock.
There are some behaviors that have earthly consequences and are judged in the here and now. You seem like a relatively sentient being and you seem to have read the scriptures you're now mocking, so I suspect you have at least enough intelligence to understand just what it is, that you're at war with and, somewhere deep down, know you're destined to lose. Make peace with your Creator, repent and believe.
That's what you need to do, while you have time. That's what we all need to do, while we have time.
2.) Anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty can see that in order to maintain a religious point of view, you have to start at the end of a thought and work backward. You start with "There is an All-Powerful God" and then go through this bizarre and complex flow chart to try and reconcile the random occurances of this world.
Tsunami kills 1,000 - God's will, yes or no? Well let's see... what religion were they?
Man dies of illness - God's will, yes or no? Well, which Old Testament mandates did he violate, sex or diet? Is dying of heart failure God's punishment for eating pork? Yes, if you're Jewish or Muslim, no if you're Christian... unless he was also a jerk. Then yes. But if he was "nice," no, it's just one of those unfortunate things. God let it happen. Or he didn't, you mustn't blame Him (depends on the denomination.)
Most people just give God their own personality. If you ask them whether some tragedy was God's will, they do a quick internal check: What makes sense to ME? If it makes sense to ME it's probably right because God is very much like ME.
Man created God in his own image.
Innuendo definitely has its moments, i agree with that....i think i was so insulted with the crap commercialism i started hearing starting around 1980 from some incredible musicians (Bicycle Race?? WTF!!!)- never mind the fact most of the shows were the exact same, give or take a few songs, it was hard for me to listen to...
You have a lot of nerve coming to a conservative site that’s pro God and claiming Christians are not the true conservatives.
Lol. I was so naive, you wouldn’t believe it. They were from England where there is an actual queen (Elizabeth). I drew no sexual conclusions from the name (just as it never occurred to me to consider The Beatles insects or entomologists).
I’m not sure they had recorded Killer Queen at the time they were opening for ELO. Didn’t that tune come a bit later?
prancing around in ballet slippers and body suit should’ve been enough...
Her philosophy, objectivism, is a teenage boy's fantasy of a run-on soapbox manifesto filled with heroic platitudes. Once you get past her stilted and pretentious writing style whenever she's winging off on these pompous bloviations that we're somehow supposed to find inspiring, you arrive at the simple fact that she hated government force and loved private property and the freedom to think and to do as she pleased with as little interference as possible. So much flapdoodle to say something so simple, my goodness one might conclude that the woman was just a tad self-absorbed.
Hey, Ayn Rand needed a good editor, no question. I could cut 400 pages out of Atlas Shrugged without losing anything important. But people made up the concept of God, just like we've made up very many other concepts. Sadly, however, we don't have imagination enough to make up a God worth worshiping. We just made up some single parent who has a ton of kids and doesn't take care of them. Maybe the world will improve when our imaginations improve.
Well, having offended more fellow freepers than I was intending to (because I always tell myself I won't waste time arguing with some religious nut) I'm going shopping. God Be With You! I'm sure He will be. (Because He is whatever you want him to Be.)
Look at how many liberal churches there are. Look at the Catholic church. I am sorry, but Christian and conservative are not synonyms.
It is the only way out.
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