ThePensum Explorer

I'm going to bite, as usual.

@mindatrisk, you could side-step a lot of controversy here by leaving out the mystery of whether "Kurt was a Boddhisatva" or not.

Instead you could say that Kurt was a cultural icon and a tortured musical genius. Through that he touched and moved many teenagers. But that's no different to any musical genius or such icon throughout history. You could say the same as Jim Morrison of The Doors. Go back further, and there are thousands of descriptions of composers moving audiences to tears in classical concerts.

Why go beyond that? Why go conjuring up very debatable descriptions of reality which, from the above, are not agreed by everyone.

I think most people would agree though that Kurt was a cultural icon. That's not really controversial.

btw I never thought much of his music and he is right in my generation, I was about 13 when they came out and boy they were huge. I preferred listening to music about girls, parties and cars myself. Go Beach Boys!

The fact that there is a lot of debate about these things would suggest to me that a good course of action is to keep things simple. The fewer the complications the better. For me anyway.

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err I got as far as "The first religion was invented by the Pharaohs and was called Paganism".

This reminds me of when I've heard men completely taken aback just seeing a woman without her makeup for the first time, lol.

Which reminds me of the famous Victorian-era English art critic John Ruskin, who allegedly rejected his wife after discovering that she was not up to the exacting standards of Greek/Roman sculpture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin#Sexuality