SmearMrTroof said:

Koekje

prince already retired

iloveannie said:

And he had a beautiful backup plan.

Well, since Prince has no longer been celebrating birthdays for the past decade that means he's virtually ageless. Not being up-to-date with his own age, why would he even consider choosing one particular moment in his life to retire? So, saying that he will retire at 52 just doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, it seems common knowledge that the man is a workaholic and he'll be making music until he can no longer hear (although deafness never prevented Beethoven from composing), and he'll stop performing when his fingers can no longer run up and down the neck of his guitar.
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Isabell said:

It seems that he's pulled back a bit in his output though. I've felt he's taken a slower approach to making music in the past 10 years. On average, we've gotten an album every other year, opposed to every year. 1998 had two releases, but one was a compilation (Crystal Ball). Rave was 1999, but The Painbutt Children wasn't until 2001. Two years.
Musicology 2004. That was three years.
3121 was 2006. Another two years.
Planet Earth 2007. Back on the old schedule
Lotus 2009. Two years.

Sure we had Indigo Nights in 2008, but how hard was that to make since he was playing live shows anyway? Same with One Nite Alone Live in 2002. Just a tour CD.

I just say all that to say, I personally don't think he's recording a song a day anymore, like he probably once did. Things slow down. People slow down. Life happens. He seems to travel a lot sometimes, or he's busy having houses torn down (giggle). Remember when he'd release an album, put out a single or two, a video or two, then release the third single, and the tour would mount up soon for 4 months or so. Fourth single was out during the tour. Maybe a fifth single if needed. Then a break of about 4 or 5 months, then suddenly....new album. Rinse, repeat as necessary. These days it's album, little bit of hype, make promises about expensive website in the middle of a depression, one single release, lose interest in project, laugh on way to Bank of America, fuck girlfriend in Paris, take heavy meds for hip pain. etc etc.

ernestsewell said:

Hey, just goes to show that the man keeps busy in one way or another!

That being said, you're absolutely right, he has slowed down on his output in the last 10 years compared to his roaring 80s and 90s, but even if he doesn't count the BDays (therefore the years he has piled up in the last decade have become immaterial) the man IS getting OLD(er).

I believe he'll continue his art (whether good or bad) until he just gets bored with the whole thing providing his physical condition allows him to carry on as long as he desires.

In my previous post I was being facetious because the numerology theory served by some of our fellow orgers is just pure BS to me...
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Isabell said:

He gets bored w/ a project after the first week's sales figures (and royalty checks) are in.

It's BS to everyone, trust.

will c u on the other side
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... interesting posts in this thread.

Trashcat said:

I think that I despair of my fellow Prince fans increasingly these days.

will c u on the other side
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DWZ said:

As I stated earlier, God made humans because He wanted someone to CHOSE to be with him, rather than not having a free will. All the cards are always on the table w/ God, even in the Garden. Eve had free choice, as did Adam later, to eat of the fruit or not. They chose to disobey God, and thereby was separated from him.

DWZ said:

3+1+2=6
3+1+1=5
5+6=11

i see 11
but hey i still wish u heaven

Yeah, "7" is a song on a Prince album. It's a spiritual number. So is 6, 40, 3, 12, 1, 10, etc etc. Don't try to make him all spiritual because some shiz adds up to 7.

will c u on the other side
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will c u on the other side
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DWZ said:

See.....God ain't got nothing to do with all that, and there's a lot of us who have spiritual numbers in our names, if you buy into that numerology bullshit. Anyone can come up with some spacey and "Ohhhhh, it MEANS something" if they twist the numbers enough. Prince ain't no more spiritual than anyone else who believes in God, or any less.

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why was prince afraid of 7?

cuz 7 8 9

what if 6 turned out 2 be 9?

i dont mind.

will c u on the other side
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ernestsewell said:

I totally agree!

DWZ said:

will c u on the other side
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DWZ said:

Wow just wow God is deceptive? I think you are Deut 32:4 (Moses prayer)
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DWZ said:

Read my reply. God isn't devious or a bait and switcher.

ernestsewell said:

I agree, yet there is the instance where God continuously hardens the heart of the pharaoh, and the Bible says this exclusively through every single curse laid on Egypt that the reason the pharaoh does not repent is because God hardens his heart. This takes all control away from the pharaoh. Hm.

iloveannie said:

I have kids. i knew when I decided to have kids that a few things were certain. I knew that they will mess up, or sin, and that they will have sickness, suffering, heartbreak, and eventually they will die. Perhaps even a slow and horrible death, though I hope not. In a way I am sort of a prophet general on their lives before they are even born. Doesn't mean that I love them any less. Not at all. And in sense you could look at it as though I have sentenced them to all of these bad situations simply by giving birth to them.
But to take any of this away from either of them takes away their humanity, and a large chunk of it. It's part of the human plan. Did I set my kids up? Did my parents set me up? Did my Heavenly Father set me up?
We can't be human, or have the freedom that is defined as free will, without any of it. It would be impossible. Otherwise we would be robots in a sense, and then everything would be set up.
So in short, the only way to have created us and given us free will means that at all knowing God knew we would mess up.... and though it may seem like a set-up, I think it was better than not creating us at all simply to avoid the consequences of free will.

will c u on the other side
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