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Here's the rule that I generally apply to celebrities...
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Your rule is psychologically unsound. It has the same problem as those useless checkout aisle dream dictionaries. Sure, there are some dream images that are suggestive in any context. However, for an accurate reading, each dream symbol needs to be analyzed in the context of the patient's individual experience. Similarly, a man's action needs to be looked at relative to his own life experience. You can't just say "Aha! Molester!" without legitimate evidence.
My point is that MJ is by no means "normal", and this is largely due to his upbringing. He was forced to perform all the time--against his wishes. His father belittled him constantly. His father beat him with electrical cords and belts, to the degree that the mere sight of Old Man Jackson induced vomiting.
So, am I unreasonable to conclude that MJ was deprived of a childhood in the full sense of the word? No. MJ never got to play with his friends, he was just shuttled off to the next concert or TV venue.
Consequently, I am much more inclined to think that Neverland is not a pedophile's dream, but rather a child's dream. Specifically, it fulfills the childhood wishes MJ was never allowed to live. And now that he is a multimillionaire, why shouldn't he be allowed to live his dreams? Yes, it may be eccentric, but if he wants to ride a merry-go-round at age 45 because he never got to at age 5, who are we to condemn him? One of the links I provided above offers a convincing argument that MJ is trying to look like Peter Pan. No surprise, considering MJ's many references to the boy who is eternally young (e.g. statues in Neverland, mention of him in interviews).
Ok, you might now ask, what about all the children he "sleeps with" and invites over? In fact, they are merely peers not objects of sexual desire. MJ's emotional growth was halted because he was forced into adult situations long before he should have been. So he is simply trying to live his childhood. The "profile of a pedophile" keeps getting waved in my face, but another significant aspect of it is that the wrongdoer is an emotional adult. MJ thinks of "sleeping with kids" like we thought of slumber parties when we were 10 or 12 years old. Just because he has a 45 year old body does not mean he is operating on a commensurate emotional level.
Moreover, if we are hypothesizing that MJ was a molester, it seems highly unusual that allegations would occur a decade apart. Like gambling, alcohol, and other psychological addictions, pedophelia is a compulsion. A ten year span between incidents is unheard of in actual pedophiles. And surely if MJ was committing sex crimes during those ten years, we would have heard a lot more allegations. For me, the evidence to support a claim of pedophilia is lacking.
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And oh yes, when confronted, they also usually proclaim their innocence loudly all the while blaming the victim for misunderstanding their actions/intentions.
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When did MJ claim the victim was at fault? And I'm not sure I can agree with the argument that proclamations of innocence are: 1) significant characteristics of pedophiles; and 2) grounds for greater suspicion(!).