Re: WHO deciples & messengers

["Gandalf" <dborodin@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "?????" <elbo@hotbox.ru>
To: <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: WHO deciples & messengers


> SOMEBODY WROTE:Why should you care?
> >
> > I'll tell ya why........
> > The Who is an important part of who you are (god bless you, you little
> Akron
> > who-acorn....I mean nut!).  It represents not *just* great music, but it
> > represents for some of us a religion, a way of being, a way of life if
you
> > will.
> > Some only hear music and leave it at that.  Others (those that I take
> notice
> > of) hear music and messages and believe strongly in those messages, and
> want
> > others to believe in those messages as well.  When they don't, it's like
> > insulting your whole belief system.
> > You are a deciple.  You are a messenger.  You care.
> > We need more like you.
> >
> Hey, Hey, Scott, Hey now, you can`t really center your life around
something
> that`s
> only part of it, and you absolutely can`t make a god out of a band, be it
> the 'bestest of the bestest', you can`t live for the who!!!!!!!!!!!! yes
> certainly the who`s music is a part of who you are, just the same as that
> tree over there is part of what you see - but it`s not the basis of what
> you`re! Only a part, not the whole!!!!!!!!! Who can say I live my life for
> Roger Daltry? Or for Pete Townshend? Living just to er... pass it on,
yeah?
> PASS IT ON. Has it ever occured to you Pete`s not any bigger than you? Not
> even when he`s there up on stage with his windmills (I fancy he`s SICK of
> it, but realizes he HAS TO DO IT to entertain YOU...  for what would it
feel
> like if he changes his style?) and stuff, and you`re there in the
audience,
> just another one who paid for the show, so he`s trying hard so you could
get
> your money`s worth and Roger does, too, and then you say he wasn`t doing
it
> well- what if he`s getting too old to be the who at all? Will you cast
your
> deity down or still go worshiping it looking for messagies everywhere, in
> Whiskey Man, Pictures of Lily, ... oh here`s one real message: Don`t look
> away, yesterday you were my gii-i-irlfriend... I`ve always been true and I
> still love you.... man, what a verse! Look here man, not every who song is
a
> masterpiece and we must be able to distinguish what`s what and what it`s
> about! And after all there`s no Who really, and it looks like thats the
way
> things are gonna be. And religion - RELIGION - is a big word that controls
> your whole world and sticking to a religion you actually loose yourself
> instead of being filled up! Or do you reguard yourself as a Who-jug? Then
> empty yourself - what`s in there? Perhaps you don`t like the Tommy movie,
> but what about its message? Being a who deciple means you have to agree
with
> all the who point of view... but what if Roger`s point is contradictory to
> Pete`s - whose side of the who will you take? And what if it contradicts
> with your own point of view - I mean, if there`s any point of view of your
> own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEY, ANYONE ASKED THE WHO IF THEY NEEDED ANY
DECIPLES?
> (Rog`s already had a messiah experience ;-)He might be interested... Any
> deciple vacancies in Tommy`s holiday camp? Come to this house, be one of
the
> comfortable people...
>  If you want to follow me
> You`ve got to play pinball
> Put on your eyeshades put in your ear-plugs
> You know where to put the call...
>
> very respectfully,
> W. Star.