Superfan1984 said:

Who knows what happens when we die but from near death experiences, I've heard and seen people talk about, I do wonder if he's walking around Paisley Park right now, saying, "I'm right here! Can't you see me?" (which I've heard people say many times, people who have died and left their body) I just can't help but wonder.And I posted here once about a ghost who, I couldn't see (but my dogs always acted strangely looking in the hall and cowering) and one night while I was sleeping, he got in my ear and said, "Can you hear me?" and I jumped right out of bed...

The Holy Bible tells us what happens to us when we die...

WE are all infinite consciousness. Death is merely the body. There is no heaven or hell.

Prince will be around in spirit.

I don't know about you people, but I want to go straight to the light, I want to pass go all the way.

keenly said:

WE are all infinite consciousness. Death is merely the body. There is no heaven or hell.

Prince will be around in spirit.

Jesus said, There is a heven and a hell.

Astasheiks said:

keenly said:

WE are all infinite consciousness. Death is merely the body. There is no heaven or hell.

Prince will be around in spirit.

Jesus said, There is a heven and a hell.

THOUSANDS who have been clinically dead AKA near death experience say otherwise.

Believe in souls? What? We ARE souls. We're just currently inhabiting these bodies on this plane of existence. Flesh is merely an experience. Like Bill Hicks said "It's Just A Ride!".

djThunderfunk said:

Believe in souls? What? We ARE souls. We're just currently inhabiting these bodies on this plane of existence. Flesh is merely an experience. Like Bill Hicks said "It's Just A Ride!".

Indeed.

keenly said:

Astasheiks said:

Jesus said, There is a heven and a hell.

THOUSANDS who have been clinically dead AKA near death experience say otherwise.

I'm not talking near death, I'm talking after death. Well you can believe what you want to, We all find out when we completely die, wether Jesus told the truth or not! Jesus said he has a punishment for those that didn't believe in him and what he said will see if that's true also!

The JW theology on the matter is clear, and it is also clear the Prince was a practicing JW until the end of his life.

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The question is if he completely subscribed to all theological ideas of the JWs or if he tended to (secretly) disagree on some aspects, especially on their eschatology.

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It's interesting to note that Prince was apparently very open to the concept of the Third Eye. That is actually an esoteric concept with some roots in religions outside the Jewish-Christian tradition. In combination with what Prince told the audience at one of this year's concerts, one might wonder if he had some sort of visions or even some feeling or intuition that his days might be numbered.

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Anyway, I sincerely doubt that Prince's interest in the Third Eye concept are in line with the official doctrine of a religious group that rejects the cross and Christmas because they consider them to be pagan symbols. That's why I wonder if his beliefs regarding the afterlife were strictly adhering to the JW doctrine.

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It's all just speculation, of course.

like i said that i don't think prince was the strictest JW, he was his own man to some degree. JW's would kick out any other man doing the things he did.

I am christian and it was always ridiculous 2 me when i heard that Prince is part of JW (that was around 2011 when i started getting into Prince). I am from Europe so...u know, those communities like JW were always something that u can make fun off...

JW are pretty inconsistent in their teachings so in general they are more close to judaism then christianity, and their look on soul is really somehow materialistic, they dont belive in soul as some spiritual essence that lives after death... they think that is pagan superstitions... in death they teach there is no diffrence between human and animal.

Knowing something about christianity and JW and other communities in America (Europe is kinda diffrent on that matter), in the beginning i felt kinda bad 4 Prince and his involvement with JW, i was like, Prince u serious? Come on man! u can do better than that. Especially the way they approach Bible, which is horrible.

But when i started 2 dig out some things about his feelings and relationship with God, i was simply stunned with honesty, humbleness and that strong openness 2 talk about his faith in this secular world... So suddenly, he was never that typical JW 2 me, his spirit was just 2 big and beautiful 4 something like that... so it is with Soul thing, i jsut believe that Prince felt that on totally another level... His soul speak 4 itself.

ya, and who knows how much of that stuff he believed. I have a lot of exp with religious people and never really thought they believed it, it's almost like show business. Only good thing I'll say about JW's i've known is that they are nice people, i can't say the same for all the christians I've known.

PeteSilas said:

like i said that i don't think prince was the strictest JW, he was his own man to some degree. JW's would kick out any other man doing the things he did.

JW is a cult created by a white freemason.