There’s a website out there that is really mind bending to say the least. It has numerous rock stars that have died prematurely from drug overdoses, like Hendrix, Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and many others. At the top of the site it says, “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. Proverbs 10:27
The case being made is that rock stars and musicians that live a life of partying and drugs are doomed because of their wicked ways, and therefore their lives are shortened. And even some that don’t!! Now, if logic follows, which I don’t know if this person operates in the realm of logic and reason, but I can cite numerous persons in the public and private arena who don’t seem to fear God, nor should their days be prolonged.
Pol Pot, was the leader of the communist movement known as the “Khmer Rouge”. Now Pol was quite an evil man who murdered many innocent Cambodians. According to Wikipedia, Pol Pot was responsible for between 750,000 and 1.7 million Cambodians murdered.
“The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions had an estimated death toll of 750,000 to 1.7 million (approximately 26% of the population at that time).[1]” Pol Pot lived to be 73 years of age.
Now, just so we don’t get accused of ethno-evil-profiling, let’s now move on to some white folks.
If anyone has seen the movie, “The Fog Of War”, then it’s quite obvious that Robert McNamara was a pretty sinister person. After leaving Ford Motor Company, then President Kennedy asked McNamara to be his Secretary of Defense. He was meticulous with body counts, and treated war as if it were a business math project. He’s got blood on his hands, and yet he still looks pretty well, is quite lucid, and is now in his late 80’s I believe. So maybe the world would have been better off to have guys like Lyndon Baines Johnson, Bob McNamara, and even that trickle down supply side economics prick Ronald Reagan to have started a rock band.
These aforementioned are just a few who engaged in foreign policy murders and Johnson became quite wealthy from the Vietnam War. I know he was so disheartened that he wouldn’t seek a second term, and almost cried like Koby Bryant on TV. Pathetic acting, Johnson was in with a company called KBR, Kellogg Brown and Root that was very much like how Halliburton is today.
These guys lived well, high on the hog, and even to a ripe old age. Reagan had a home in Belair/Brentwood, and so there seems to be a disconnect as to the greater of the two sins. Smoke dope, party, and get laid in a rock band, or carpet bomb innocent civilians like Nixon did without congressional approval in the early 70’s. Nixon lived longer than Kurt Cobain, and Jimi Hendrix combined.
The most amazing and alarming data and stats regarding musicians, is that some of them that this individual lists died by no fault of their own. They’re being tried and executed in this person’s narrow mind because of dying from Multiple Sclerosis, like Ronnie Lane from the Small Faces who died at age 51. But wait, God’s shortening of days even includes the Beatle’s, John Lennon, who was murdered at the age of 40 by a psychopath named Mark David Chapman in 1980. Now let’s not forget Bob Marley who died of cancer at the age of 36. “No Woman No Cry”, “No Singy No Die”. And “That Bad Bad Leroy Brown” Jim Croce is listed on God’s wall of day shortening because he died in an airplane in 1973. Wasn’t Croce such a rock and roll madman, like that “depraved” Keith Moon of the Who when he sang “Time In A Bottle” sitting on a stool?
Even Karen Carpenter doesn’t get spared from her “evil ways” by having a medical condition known as Anorexia. See, she was the drummer of the band singing songs like “Close to You” and “We’ve Only Just Begun”. Maybe she talked on the telephone with John Bonham from Zeppelin to ask a question about how he did what he did on “Moby Dick”. Anyway, wouldn’t it be nice if George Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, and so many other peeps that are so sinister and villainous started a rock and roll band? The world would be a lot better place without them, and then Zeppelin could do a remake called “Moby Dicks”.
