04-25-2016, 10:32 AM
... I'm really not sure if it's productive to sit around trying to judge the polarity or density of celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It's pretty much impossible for us to know with any certainty at all, at least in the vast majority of cases. There's just no way for us to look with clarity into the hearts of anyone else.
Like, one of my favorite examples is Alice Cooper. Religious groups hated on him for decades, for his "demonic" stage persona. But the joke is, the dude's Christian, seriously so. He just likes playing a bad guy onstage for fun. I also seem to remember an interview where he compared to himself to people who'd play the Devil in Passion Plays and things like that. As he sees it, someone needs to play that role, being the shadow which emphasizes the light, and better it be someone who's acting than someone who's legitimately embracing the darkness.
The point being, of course, that it's easy to misjudge someone whose life plays out on a stage.
And either way, trying to divide up celebrities into lists of STO and STS strikes me as fundamentally exclusionary, which is itself against the LOO. The Creator is in ALL things, and can be found in even the most tasteless or banal of pop music, if someone is looking for him there.
Like, one of my favorite examples is Alice Cooper. Religious groups hated on him for decades, for his "demonic" stage persona. But the joke is, the dude's Christian, seriously so. He just likes playing a bad guy onstage for fun. I also seem to remember an interview where he compared to himself to people who'd play the Devil in Passion Plays and things like that. As he sees it, someone needs to play that role, being the shadow which emphasizes the light, and better it be someone who's acting than someone who's legitimately embracing the darkness.
The point being, of course, that it's easy to misjudge someone whose life plays out on a stage.
And either way, trying to divide up celebrities into lists of STO and STS strikes me as fundamentally exclusionary, which is itself against the LOO. The Creator is in ALL things, and can be found in even the most tasteless or banal of pop music, if someone is looking for him there.
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