I mean, what the fuck is up with that photo at the back of the Emancipation booklet? The one with the white cloak and his fisting pose!

Anji said:

...and your point is???






I always thought it was Jesus who thought he was Prince...

He always played this role--Controversy tour with his hands outstretched in front of the stained glass...I Would Die 4 U lyrics, Lets Go Crazy like he is the saviour-preacher-Jesus teaching the children in his beginning church organ speech...Purple Rain in the point of view of Jesus promising to take his people or THE people to a promised land of Purple Rain etc..Princ is a blashphemer and if one is christian he has some splainin' to do when he dies etc...


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REDFEATHERS said:

No Jesus thinks he's Bono.

He does like that "I'm on the cross" pose...

Well Wacko Jacko is much more on that trip!!! With Prince I don't know it's different...

Jesus was the kind of man that EVERYONE should strive to be.

CalhounSq said:

The cross he had to bear when Cat mounted him, night after night. Some Jesus.

NuPwrSoul said:

Amen!

he may think he's christ-like, but i don't think he thinks he's jesus...

NuPwrSoul said:

true but Prince was on some "worship" me I am Jesus trip and recently knows he was wrong for dat whoich has transgressd itself to the JW etc thing case he knows he effed up..and here we are lol. I dont worship him but my fixation on him and the music I know is frowned upon by the man above.

Did you ever feel Prince crossed that line when striving to be like Jesus, by appearing to believe in his own divine presence? That Emancipation photo did make me wonder.

And Prince flipped it with this Jesus Christ posing etc. He had two girls in his band as backup but they were white--a goof on the white rock band with black backup singers and his actually played instruments

The rock thing with backwards masking--he copied but put a godly spin on it. This was heated debate in 1981-82, the masking accusations in rock.

The rock singer as devil ( Jagger Sympathy For The Devil and subsequent satanic suggestions in rock) Prince fliipped and said Im not th e debbil, I'll be Jesus

Prince is a trip

rdhull said:

Interesting.

Anji said:

yes



Yep



Yes me too. Also the whole Grafitti Bridge garb(and message!) --he tried to come off as Jesus figure in that movie.

Popcorn said:

again Amen!

RiccoTheArtist said:

But y'all don't worship Prince like people worship Jesus?

Anji said:

Why settle for the FRUIT, when you can go to the ROOT of the tree that bore it?

NuPwrSoul said:

Aren't fruits tastier than roots?

Oh nOoOoO...religion talk

Anji said:

That's why unthinking blind followers usually settle for the FRUIT.

NuPwrSoul said:

Are you saying people that listen to Prince, but don't believe in Jesus, are unthinking blind followers? That's how it sounds.

The Roots are a great hip-hop band.

rdhull said:

Pussy Galore

Anji said:

Nope.

I'm saying that if you want to be like someone, it's best to find out what/who their inspiration is and start with the root of what it is about them you want to be like.

Whether it's Jesus, Prince, or whomever, the person is a product. If you want to be like that person, find out what produced them and study it.

If you want to be a doctor find his teachers. If you want to be a lawyer find his teachers. If you want to be like a particular student, find his teachers. Go to the root.

Anji said:

carrots are nice...

Anji said:

What You Want

rdhull said:

Without A Doubt

NuPwrSoul said:

Okay but in that picture Prince dresses in a cloak and appears to mimic Jesus? That's not studying his teachers, that's looking in the mirror.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Parsnips?