The Great Gift of Trolls

Perhaps some who used to tune into this blog for interesting diatribes on Meher Baba think I have gone mad recently. Why do I now focus on these beautiful young prodigies and their beautiful music?

Well, there was a time when I would have believed that people's opinions of what I write and say matter. But the internet changed that. The internet has taught us so many things we never knew. One of those lessons comes to us from internet trolls, people who appear to hate just about anything other people do in sincerity and with their heart.

Open this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnrLMvpQLk. One will not find a sweeter video on the internet. A little Dutch girl with crown of delicate flowers, white dress, and shiny white shoes sings a lovely aria about the Virgin Mary. If you check beneath it, you will see that it received 2,500 down votes. As a matter of fact Amira (the girl in the video) has enemies that follow around any site dedicated to her to ridicule her or her family. Many of the fans that upload her videos to YouTube are forced to remove some of the vilest things people say about her, so others can enjoy the songs. Critics in major international newspapers have also found it worth their time to write hateful and belittling things of her and her fans. Some too terrible to repeat here. Unbelievable, but true.

What I have learned from people like Amira and her critics is that love is never wrong, and nothing will please trolls. They will always be.

Now take a look at this video I did of John Dennison a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtsbThr5g8&t=21s. It has 7 likes and 1 down vote. What in the world is there to dislike about a man as lovely as John Dennison talking about hit pictures of Baba that he loves, and his love for my late father Lyn Ott?

What this has taught me is to follow my heart.