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Larry's fans are almost as psycho as he is. Almost... of course.

Hey Me...how much time did it take for you to put this together?

The above Facebook chat between Kevin and David brought to mind this (slightly edited) passage in Alarms and Discursions by G. K. Chesterton:

"The Poets are those who rise above the people by understanding them. Of course, most of the Poets wrote in prose--Rabelais, for instance, and Dickens. The Prigs rise above the people by refusing to understand them: by saying that all their dim, strange preferences are prejudices and superstitions. The Prigs make the people feel stupid; the Poets make the people feel wiser than they could have imagined that they were. There are many weird elements in this situation. The oddest of all perhaps is the fate of the two factors in practical politics. The Poets who embrace and admire the people are often pelted with stones and crucified. The Prigs who despise the people are often loaded with lands and crowned....

...By poets, as I have said, I do not mean people who write poetry, or indeed people who write anything. I mean such people as, having culture and imagination, use them to understand and share the feelings of their fellows; as against those who use them to rise to what they call a higher plane. Crudely, the poet differs from the mob by his sensibility; the professor differs from the mob by his insensibility. He has not sufficient finesse and sensitiveness to sympathize with the mob. His only notion is coarsely to contradict it, to cut across it, in accordance with some egotistical plan of his own; to tell himself that, whatever the ignorant say, they are probably wrong. He forgets that ignorance often has the exquisite intuitions of innocence."

For poets read Larry Norman
For people read ordinary people/Larry Norman fans

When you have to leave a legend to explain the point you're trying to make...Maybe it isn't really worth the effort.

I am a fan of Larry's music, but as a human being, he was a complete jerk. Kudows to this guy for saying so.

We are ALL, "complete jerks," Bill.

That's why we need a saviour!

That was Larry's whole message.

Speak for yourself...

On the one hand, yes, we all fall short.

Not all sins are created equal, though.

The question of this movie is why didn't larry listen to his own message.

And I don't see why your so bothered. The movie says Larry was an ass but still used. Whats the problem?

"The question of this movie is why didn't larry listen to his own message."

Do you know Bill, Paul had exactly the same question...

"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do— this I keep on doing.

Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

For in my inner being I delight in God's law;

but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Thanks be to God— through Jesus Christ our Lord!"

(Romans 7)