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What was the point of 60 minute discs and the talk of Pyramids during Emancipation? I don't think I've ever heard an explanation as to what that was all about.
Anyone in the know? 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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I never worked it out either. I've come to the conclusion that it was because of the 3 Pyramids of Giza = 3CDs, and it has to do with their symmetry  Toejam @ Peach & Black Podcast: http://peachandblack.podbean.com
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It was stupid.
Did anyone really give a shit. Didn't the love symbol album have something to do with egypt and pyramids? That was pointless too. Though more fun. | |
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there was a point to emancipation?
beyond the masturbatory aspects? Space for sale... | |
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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: I don't think I've ever heard an explanation as to what that was all about.
Anyone in the know? I never thought of this before, and maybe I'm belaboring the obvious here, but does it have to do with the fact that pyramids are 3 sets of 20 degree angles, and the whole idea of slaves having built them. | |
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MendesCity said: SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: I don't think I've ever heard an explanation as to what that was all about.
Anyone in the know? I never thought of this before, and maybe I'm belaboring the obvious here, but does it have to do with the fact that pyramids are 3 sets of 20 degree angles, and the whole idea of slaves having built them. wow thats a good theory, but i was leaning more towards prince just had a huge egypt fasination at the time and along wit that whole him and mayte coincidence or fate soul mate shit, just wanted to incorperate it into his muisc Yesterday is dead...tomorrow hasnt arrived yet....i have just ONE day...
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He was just amrrying his 'Egyptian princess' Mayte?
Egypt ties in with her bellydancing and the original story of the Lovesymbol album, a few Egyptian shots surfaced on the video The Sacrifice Of Victor. Everything in his life leads back to either his God or some girl he banged. |
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I don't know what significance the 60 minutes per disc had in relation to the pyramids.
I've read a little on the Giza Pyramid masonry, there's all the stuff about them aligning with Orion's belt, and the Sphynx with Leo, in the year 10,450BC (I think), and also it's measurements being a scale-model of the northern hemesphere of the Earth (it's height equals 2 x pi or something as well, one of the Pyramids in South America also equals 4 x pi). You can find all this pretty easy in Google. I believe it's accurate, but I don't really know, so don't take my word for it, just relaying what my rusty memory remembers from a few books on Ancient Civilisations. So.... 3 x 60 = 120 - Doesn't ring any bells. 3 and 60 = 360 - 360 Days, a full year, almost (I think the Mayans had 360 days in their calendar, I think it was 18 months of 20 with 5 left over at the end of the year = 365) 360 degrees?? A full circle - The Circle has a lot of symbolic meaning in relation to life (birth, life, death, rebirth....) and the cyclical movements of the Earth and celestial bodies etc. Pi = 3.14... "The mathematical constant π represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter" -- Wikipedia I would guess it could have something to do with that (the circle) - OR Prince was just being cryptic with no real reason behind it, other than the 3 discs all equaling the same length, just the symetry of them. // [Edited 8/26/05 0:54am] | |
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NouveauDance said: I don't know what significance the 60 minutes per disc had in relation to the pyramids.
I've read a little on the Giza Pyramid masonry, there's all the stuff about them aligning with Orion's belt, and the Sphynx with Leo, in the year 10,450BC (I think), and also it's measurements being a scale-model of the northern hemesphere of the Earth (it's height equals 2 x pi or something as well, one of the Pyramids in South America also equals 4 x pi). You can find all this pretty easy in Google. I believe it's accurate, but I don't really know, so don't take my word for it, just relaying what my rusty memory remembers from a few books on Ancient Civilisations. So.... 3 x 60 = 120 - Doesn't ring any bells. 3 and 60 = 360 - 360 Days, a full year, almost (I think the Mayans had 360 days in their calendar, I think it was 18 months of 20 with 5 left over at the end of the year = 365) 360 degrees?? A full circle - The Circle has a lot of symbolic meaning in relation to life (birth, life, death, rebirth....) and the cyclical movements of the Earth and celestial bodies etc. I would guess it could have something to do with that (the circle) - OR Prince was just being cryptic with no real reason behind it, other than the 3 discs all equaling the same length, just the symetry of them. 
Wow. You give alot of meaning to a disc that is home to Mr Happy. The pyramids just tie in with Mayte's supposed Arabian ties. Nothing more.  |
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HamsterHuey said: You give alot of meaning to a disc that is home to Mr Happy. 
Which is why, after stretching the plausability of the meaning behind a simple pop record, I came back to reality with "OR Prince was just being cryptic with no real reason behind it, other than the 3 discs all equaling the same length, just the symetry of them."  
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NouveauDance said: HamsterHuey said: You give alot of meaning to a disc that is home to Mr Happy.
Which is why, after stretching the plausability of the meaning behind a simple pop record, I came back to reality with "OR Prince was just being cryptic with no real reason behind it, other than the 3 discs all equaling the same length, just the symetry of them." Ah, okay, I missed that, cuz I zoned out after two sentences. Prince is just anal. He edited the Crystal Ball discs too, didn't he? Wasn't that released around the same time? Maybe he just wanted to make a tie-in. |
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I must be dumb, but what and where was this talk about pyramids? | |
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NouveauDance said: I don't know what significance the 60 minutes per disc had in relation to the pyramids.
I've read a little on the Giza Pyramid masonry, there's all the stuff about them aligning with Orion's belt, and the Sphynx with Leo, in the year 10,450BC (I think), and also it's measurements being a scale-model of the northern hemesphere of the Earth (it's height equals 2 x pi or something as well, one of the Pyramids in South America also equals 4 x pi). You can find all this pretty easy in Google. I believe it's accurate, but I don't really know, so don't take my word for it, just relaying what my rusty memory remembers from a few books on Ancient Civilisations. So.... 3 x 60 = 120 - Doesn't ring any bells. 3 and 60 = 360 - 360 Days, a full year, almost (I think the Mayans had 360 days in their calendar, I think it was 18 months of 20 with 5 left over at the end of the year = 365) 360 degrees?? A full circle - The Circle has a lot of symbolic meaning in relation to life (birth, life, death, rebirth....) and the cyclical movements of the Earth and celestial bodies etc. Pi = 3.14... "The mathematical constant π represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter" -- Wikipedia I would guess it could have something to do with that (the circle) - OR Prince was just being cryptic with no real reason behind it, other than the 3 discs all equaling the same length, just the symetry of them. // [Edited 8/26/05 0:54am] It's amazing how much has been read into a couple of triangular buildings! Those measurements are true only of the biggest Great Pyramid, the other pyramids have slightly different sizes and angles - in fact there are approximately 90 pyramids in Egypt. One of the simpler explanations for the sides of the Great Pyramid being divisible by Pi is that they used the full rotations of a wheeled device to measure with. But there are some fascinating proportions to do with the Great Pyramid for sure, The only way Prince could compare the 3 discs to the 3 pyramids at Giza is as a metaphor for a great body of work in 3s. Perhaps the slavery/emancipation thing played a part, but actually the Pyramids weren't built by slaves, it is now believed, and anyway, would emancipated slaves still build 3 pyramids?! | |
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Many times I have wondered why the Emancipation album is so bad. After years and years of contemplating I have found the answer in the 3 disc/ 60 ninutes per disc thing.
As a zero (0) is actually "nothing", I'd say 3 x 60 makes 666. As we all know that is the biblical "number of the beast", a human number. Emancipation was an evil album, that's why it's SO BAD! Don't listen to it, kiddies, it will destroy your sanity!!! Even Prince knows this, that's why he never plays any songs of that album anymore, now that he has been converted to the JW's. RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Uhm, wait a minute: you didn't actually believed that, huh???? 
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SUPA, 60 and 3 are ancient numbers that represent the vagina.
Basically, Emancipation is meant to musically encompass the essence of vagina. At times, beautiful, often irresistable, and unfortunately at times, it stinks. Emancipation! | |
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AsianBomb777 said: SUPA, 60 and 3 are ancient numbers that represent the vagina.
Basically, Emancipation is meant to musically encompass the essence of vagina. At times, beautiful, often irresistable, and unfortunately at times, it stinks. Emancipation! And ironically, the Bloodhound Gang song "Vagina" is about liberating yourself from sexual urges and oppression, emancipating your higher self. Vagina! |
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NouveauDance said: So.... 3 x 60 = 120 - Doesn't ring any bells. 180 actually ... and each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60 degrees. Whatever, it was all bs. . ALT+PLS+RTN: Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift. |
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moderatorlangebleu said: NouveauDance said: So.... 3 x 60 = 120 - Doesn't ring any bells. 180 actually ... and each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60 degrees. Whatever, it was all bs. . obviously since this whole "meant to be" stuff with Mayte turned out to be completely false. 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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langebleu said: NouveauDance said: So.... 3 x 60 = 120 - Doesn't ring any bells. 180 actually ... and each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60 degrees. Whatever, it was all bs. . i so dont do math.... Space for sale... | |
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sosgemini said: langebleu said: 180 actually ... and each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60 degrees. Whatever, it was all bs. . i so dont do math.... Neither do I clearly "3 x 60 = 120"  | |
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