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1) He loved music, and wrote
songs that climbed high in the charts. While he never achieved fame of his
own beyond the small group he worked with, his songs were heard the world
over. The world is a plainer, emptier place without him.
2) A studious person, he
nevertheless expended most of his talents upon survival for himself and
his family, and never achieved the level of education his unquenchable
curiosity demanded. Raised in fundamentalist Christianity and steeped in
that tradition, he nevertheless supported evolution theory, condemned the
Genesis story as ancient myth, steeped himself as deeply as possible in
ancient and modern philosophical doctrines, and became a vocal support of
all manner of alternative lifestyles and morality to be grounded in
experimental sciences.
3) Anyone who knew him as a
youth proclaimed he'd never amount to anything good. An addict from an
early age, he died in the slums, impoverished and poorly clothed, his
health deteriorated by loss of sleep and proper nourishment. No great fame
was ever proclaimed for him, only those acquainted with him ever knew of
his death, and he never won an award for anything in his life.
4) He preached hellfire and
brimstone for years, and died in the middle of delivering a sermon. His
church grew large and his notoriety spread for a take-no-prisoners
delivery of his message of warning against passion, lust, and greed. Souls
flocked to hear him speak, and collection plates always overflowed.
5) Although quite religious, he
never pushed his beliefs. Most of his friends and acquaintances, of whom
there were many, never knew that he regularly attended any kind of church.
He paid his tithes and, the saying goes, was also generous to the
collection plate, but never donated to any other charity because he didn't
trust them.
6) Born and raised in poverty,
he never really lived except in fear inspired by paranoia, hunger, and
lack of any real possessions but for what he could carry without weighing
himself down. He survived by begging and stealing to meet his own needs,
and had never known of anyone with whom he could say he shared love.
7) He achieved an eminence the
equivalent of Freud in the fields related to psychology, and advanced
several theories that never quite caught on, but that drew strongly from
the cosmological theories proposed in his day.
8) His motto: "You cannot win
them all." He seemed a quiet and reserved person, still willing to take a
small chance for a big reward. He enjoyed parties, business deals, and
fancy cars, but otherwise kept a style of innocence and seemed to remain
under the radar wherever he went, just a regular guy who liked people.
9) He was raised to be a student
of Nature, and Nature's ways. He saw the workings of Nature, and
understood them according to the ways of his forefathers. He saw that good
works yielded great rewards, and that hardships taught arrogant men the
appreciation of easier times. all things were what they are, and predators
and prey needed each other if they each would survive their best way in
Nature's domain.
A) Let's face it, this man
escaped death for heresy only by the skin of his teeth. He disobeyed the
commands not only of his church's doctrine, but direct orders from its
priests. He contrived forbidden contraptions, and then wrote about
discoveries they led to and expounded such blasphemous notions as to get
himself tossed into prison. He relented and acknowledged the error of his
evil ways not because he thought himself wrong, but to get a chance to
improve upon his devices and make even more of such discoveries.
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0_____If there's a Heaven after death, this
person's definitely there. Welcomed with open arms and praise, angels
singing in choirs echoing choirs, the rejoicing still goes on just to
acknowledge his presence. 5_____This
person lived a normal life and seemed in good health for the most part of
it. His final illness was comparatively short. He died in his sleep, his
body was cremated, and no one has heard of him for years. His children
have fond memories of him, and anyone else still carrying a memory about
him think mainly good thoughts about it.
8_____This person died in a
drive-by shooting as a result of not paying his tab for drugs. Strangers
still follow members of his family around, and threaten them with what
will become of them for lying about his death and refusing to reveal his
hiding place. All of the women with whom he lived have since died of AIDS.
0_____Hell, of course,
awaited this man. After the life he led, what else could be expected. His
memory is tainted by the suffering he introduced to the hundreds he
touched with his evil words and the condemnation inherent to his demands.
1_____Few remember his name
or what he did in his lifetime, but his work will live on for decades,
maybe centuries, original art of a kind that had never been replicated
elsewhere. While the amount of it may not have been stupendous, its
ability to penetrate to the heart of a meaning had been.
6_____He met a stranger one
day, who seemed to have taken note of his stupendous physical strength and
well-toned muscles. After answering a lot of questions and making a lot of
promises he intended to keep, he found himself at work on a boat that
sailed the oceans, discovered he loved that way of life and wanted to
advance. With a lot of help from his new friends, he learned to read,
studied all the books he could find, and purchased his own small ship to
carry cargo from port to port along the coastline. He died a happy,
wealthy man and, after a small funeral, was buried in the Atlantic Seas.
9_____He died in battle,
only then learning that balance in the realm occupied by humanity
contained its own rules, formulated according to needs it perceived as its
own. He learned that practices of deception conquered the true spirit, and
that a spirit dedicated only to death would destroy the pure and righteous
in the names of Love and Truth.
3____He relied on
the self esteem his family had instilled in him, their love and generous
messages of support working to help him escape the tragedies of his
earlier life. He took a creative interest in humanity, worked his way
through medical schools to gain an advanced education. Rather than aim for
riches, he worked in the slums and died doing what he loved to do.
Thousands mourn him still, but his message of hope still grows through
their actions that he inspired.
7_____He died in an
American prison, a broken man. Still, he has his followers who work
diligently to prove him right, and a whole school of philosophy devoted to
promoting his ideas. He lives on through them, whether in infamy or as a
distinguished scholar, time has yet to proclaim.
A____He died as he lived,
but young and old alike recognize his name and connect it to his great
accomplishments. While that may never have been his goal, his name lives
on not only because of the importance of what he had done, but that he had
stood up for his right to do it, and only used guile when forced to in
order to continue his work, improve it, and prove the truth of his
findings. His lesson, that creative honor exceeds bending to blind
authority in moral value, seems to have become lost in our own time.
2____His inherent curiosity
got him labeled as a quack when he took a liking to something called
"string theory" early on in life, which eventually led to proselytizing a
notion about "demons who persisted in the strands of time, created by
humans to never die out by any means known to man". Buoyed up only by his
loving wife, certain his simple philosophy should be obvious even to the
most inept mentality, he felt misunderstood and abandoned, and most likely
died of disappointment and heartache when he discovered his fellow human
beings really could not care less about what is true.
4_____You've heard about this man. People
remember him for the fear he instilled in them, but have little good to
say about him. He ran off with a piano player and all the funds, and died
with no one in his hometown being aware of it, as he was afraid to return
for knowing he'd be arrested the moment somebody would recognize him.
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