Did Michael Misguide Himself over Child Innocence?

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Michael believed that children were sweet and innocent, and he loved having children around him since he was a child at heart himself and was the most happiest when with children playing around him especially those who were disadvantaged and for the first time in their lives were smiling and glowing with happiness and knowing that he was helping them and their future.

In the Bible, Jesus talks of us needing to be like children in the sense that we need to retain that same innocence of a child. Children are easily corrupted by their family and surroundings because it's an important learning stage of their lives and they'll emulate the things they see and hear. Unless they're appropriately corrected if they emulate something that's bad and rewarded if they emulate something that's good then they'll grow up with no concept of what's acceptable and what isn't and they'll become uncontrollable and likely grow up as selfish, manipulative, and determined children who'll take advantage of others who are more "better off" than they are and will likely do wrong and inappropriate things for attention.

Take for example, Jordan, he loved staying at Michael's ranch and they had a good friendship until his father influenced him into saying bad things about Michael because his father was corrupted by greed and jealousy. And Gavin, a rowdy child from a background of deception who took advantage of Michael's hospitality, generosity and kindness along with his mother. And then Macauley, a child celebrity who was a good friend to Michael, brought up well in a loving family, and remained a good and loyal friend to Michael.

Now I'm going to focus on Gavin Arvizo here because this particular child displays a lot of the patterns of a boy who's been brought up in surroundings that influence wild behaviour and manipulation for attention with little control in his behaviour and may have used misbehaviour as an attempt to cry out for want of love and attention.

Part of me wonders whether Gavin's accusation of being molested by Michael was something that was purely influenced on him by his mother or whether he was wanting something like that to happen and used it as a desperate cry for love attention aswell as jealousy. I look back at the Bashir interview on the way Gavin was with Michael. He was holding Michael's hand and when Michael mentioned about sharing his bed with children and that he didn't see anything wrong with it, Gavin leaned over and put his head next to Michael's chest in an affectionate manner with a look on his face which made my hair stand on edge. Was this child trying to get Michael into trouble? Michael might not have seen it, but what was on Gavin's face was the look of a cry for help aswell as an expression of affection and guilt. After that interview Gavin made it look to the world like inappropriate things were secretly going on between him and Michael and that was leverage to a court case of child abuse.

I don't know what was going on in their minds, but I believe that Michael might not have noticed what Gavin was seemingly trying to do to him and may not have even been aware of what he was like around his staff when he wasn't there. I believe he was aware that things weren't looking so good and must've seen that the Arvizo children were far too wild in his home, causing staff distress and tearing rooms apart, and no matter how much he cared for them both as children and as friends it must've been a crushing feeling in his heart to know that these children that he had been so generous to were far from "sweet and innocent".
 
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I read it.

I agree with you that many children are corrupted by their parents. But I will say that up until a certain age....maybe 4 or 5, most children if not all of them ARE sweet and innocent.

Babies and toddlers don't know hate, they don't see color (racially), they don't see imperfections, they don't have biases. They just want to love and be loved.

Michael was 50 years old when he died and we all know that he lived in his "own world" even while with us on this earth.

Times are much different now from when Michael himself was a little boy. Children are growing up faster and becoming exposed to more adult themes at younger and younger ages.

I don't think Mike was keeping up with that reality.

At 13 it was like he was 5.....and 20 it was like he was 8 and at 30 it was like he was 12. You get my point....he was extremely regressed. Even the psychologist at the trial saw him as a regressed 10 year old.

So yes, I definitely agree that him always thinking that ALL children at the ages beyond the ones of innocence (in my opinion birth to about 5 years) were innocent was a bit naive of him. But hey, that was Michael for ya. A beautiful and trusting soul.

Why wouldn't he be? I myself still find it hard to comprehend why someone would turn around and deceive and manipulate for their own personal gain after you've been nothing but nice to them.

It's something I would never even think of doing, so it's hard to fathom why someone else would. Michael did nothing wrong for trusting. And yes, it is very hurtful when others take that trusting spirit away from you...

Anyone who hurt him was dead wrong for betraying that trust.

And finally, you are right that the only thing to do to all the MJ haters and schemers is to love them from the heart and pray that they change. Even though they can't tell him they're sorry to his face they CAN seek forgiveness in their hearts if they really want to.

If not, they will forever be tortured in the confines of their own mind. I guarantee it.

He always said he got his energy from the children and the fans. After the first accusation in '93 the light in his eye started to fade and his smile became less brilliant.

After the trial in '05?

....makes me want to cry just thinking about it.

In the end I truly believe that it was the disconnect that Michael was forced into from his fans and especially from the children that he always had around him that did him in.

His nourishment was love, and in later years he just wasn't getting enough of it. Thank God for the 3 kids...they are what kept him going.
 
I think in a way he knew these things about children, but he chose to ignore them and to give them love and respect despite them already having tendencies of behaviour that was not so innocent anymore.
There's no reason to stop encouraging the good side in a person after all. At the end of the day he wasn't those kids' father though and their biological parents had a a huge advance in influencing their kids.

I guess Gavin really enjoyed the love (and gifts) he was given by Michael, but when he noticed (or assumed) Michaels interest fading, he tried to get his attention back... sadly in a very spiteful way. He was 15 at the time of the trial and I'm sure he knew exactly what was happening.
Even at 12 many children are not that innocent anymore. A friend of mine lost his virginity at 12 and quite voluntarily ;)

I'm not so sure Jordan can be held responsible for what happened though. I think he was intimidated into saying the things he did.

All these things don't mean you shouldn't give children (or people in general) a chance at being something better than what they are. Setting a good example and treating people like you want them to treat you is not the worst way to accomplish that. It works sometimes....
 
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