I wasnt flaming at all.... but sick and tired of this.... THATS ALL from me!

Lilith said:

Excellent! Music, the language of Spirit! "Discipline is more important than knowledge"

I belong to the craziest cult in the world, the Southern Baptist, so I'm in no position to criticize anyones religion.

babooshleeky said:

True...But...It "seems" like every time he does purple rain hes ot to bring it up ..I remember when prince said
let me guide U 2 the purple rain now its let jehovah guide U 2 the purple rain ....

MIR1 said:

I love sects... hot gay sects especially.

Flowerz said:

...Uhhh, did you just state that the reason for their being other religions besides Christianity is all because of the devil?

jtfolden said:

Prince is done with JW.

He is to much a Type A Personality to listen to other humans. Clearly he has learned enough and now is using JW or the bible for what he wants.

So in other words, he is slipping into being himself & chosing to follow parts of the bible he wants.

Like most.

ElectricBlue said:

I agree!
P always claimed to believe in a higher power.
That however never stopped him from being a womaniser or use, hurt, and control friends, girl-friends, wives, or band-members along the way.
Whenever prince is done with somebody, he will erase that person from his memory. That's very cold and wrong in most religions.
Prince is a hypocrite like most of us. That's why it bothers me that he is so outspoken about JW just to make an ass out of himself later on when he moves on to something else.

I agree!
P always claimed to believe in a higher power.
That however never stopped him from being a womaniser or use, hurt, and control friends, girl-friends, wives, or band-members along the way.
Whenever prince is done with somebody, he will erase that person from his memory. That's very cold and wrong in most religions.
Prince is a hypocrite like most of us. That's why it bothers me that he is so outspoken about JW just to make an ass out of himself later on when he moves on to something else.[/quote]


**** I agree!!!!!

i am trying my best to not confuse Prince's ego with who he really is.

SCNDLS said:

i agree!!!!! he is a grown man and his religion is no buissness of ours

What kind of argument is it that discussing Prince religious believes is some kind of 'no go' area, because its his own choice???? Geeze.

I mean, its ALSO his own choice what kind of music he makes, what sort of clothes he wears, what kind of touring plans he has, which women he dates with, but all these subjects are open to debate in here, sometimes leading to very trivial threads.
In my opinion every subject relating Prince should be debetable in here, and that INCLUDES his religious believes. What so 'special' or 'private' about the subject, that debat about it needs to be 'censored'?

The main reason i expressed my frustation about this, has to do with the situation that his religion at this moment, his private choice according to many in here, seems to effect the thing i care about in the first place, HIS MUSIC, in a negative way.
Of course, opinions differ, but IMO his 'commitment' to the JW-movement, at first, have influenced his lyrics in a bad way. The smallminded, dogmatic bulllshit preached on The Rainbow Children, did almost end the last bit of faith i had in Prince.
Next to that, its not only the lyrics, its ALSO the music, it seems / sounds like Princes JW-commitment has deranged himselve from his own sense of urgency, creativity, the 'spark' he once had. You can call it kitchenbook-psychology, but i have a strong sense of feeling that by betraying the elements that once made his music so special: his restlesness, his unbriddled creativity, and, yes, his lust / passion, his soul or spirit, whatever you name it, is tempered down. And you can hear it clearly in the music he delivers.

To put it short, a religious view is not something that 'stands alone', it influences the choices people make, the way how they present themselves, how they express themselves, including expression through lyrics and music. Therefore this subject should also be debetable, and not be stuffed away, as some of you think it should.

littlemissG said:

the only enlightened post in this entire forum.

kyla said:

I can tell you now, as an ex-JW, that the vast majority of that information posted in the first page of this thread is seriously misinterpreted! I may no longer believe most of the JW teachings but, if I was going to write an article on them, I'd at least have the grace to check the facts were accurate first - whether I believed them or not!
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