Is Prince still a JW? And if he is, how many years would that make him being one? I think he announced it sometime after he ended his marriage with Mayte and before marrying Manuela, so that would make around 1999-2001...???

As far as I know he is. He became a JW in 2001, after discussing it with Larry Graham for a couple of years.

I believe the JW thing happened before 2001,


Notorious - in 1999:

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Prince/NOT1-1-1.jpg[/img:$uid]



[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Prince/NOT3A-Kopi-1.jpg[/img:$uid]

I know most everything you read says 2001 but it was also supposed to be his Mom's dying wish that he convert and she didn't die until Feb. '02. I won't claim to know exactly when it was.

it was a slow process from 2000-1

Bambi82 said:

I know most everything you read says 2001 but it was also supposed to be his Mom's dying wish that he convert and she didn't die until Feb. '02. I won't claim to know exactly when it was.

So I assume she was one?

Don't mention "Jehovah" ------>




^ the famous clip from Monty Python.. stoning a man to death, for saying "Jehovah".....

(Warning -- this is funny!!)

Astasheiks said:

Bambi82 said:

I know most everything you read says 2001 but it was also supposed to be his Mom's dying wish that he convert and she didn't die until Feb. '02. I won't claim to know exactly when it was.

So I assume she was one?

.

Yes..??

And Jesus said ...""

thedance said:

kenkamken said:

I hope he's a recovering JW

Probably not. I think every member of NPG and 3EG is a Xtian. Must be a requirement.

Astasheiks said:

Bambi82 said:

I know most everything you read says 2001 but it was also supposed to be his Mom's dying wish that he convert and she didn't die until Feb. '02. I won't claim to know exactly when it was.

So I assume she was one?

Don't think so. I don't think Tyka is a JW and I believe she was close to her mom. Doesn't really make since that his mom would ask him to join this particular cult, er, I mean religion.

funkyrake said:

kenkamken said:

I hope he's a recovering JW

Probably not. I think every member of NPG and 3EG is a Xtian. Must be a requirement.

What is a Xtian?

What a minute, If you mean Christain, JW's are not Christain.

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funkyrake said:

Astasheiks said:

So I assume she was one?

Don't think so. I don't think Tyka is a JW and I believe she was close to her mom. Doesn't really make since that his mom would ask him to join this particular cult, er, I mean religion.

I think his mom was one, that's why she asked him to join. I wasn't talking about Tyka but his mom being one.

thedance said:

I believe the JW thing happened before 2001,


Notorious - in 1999:

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Prince/NOT1-1-1.jpg[/img:$uid]



[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/ecnirp2004/Prince/NOT3A-Kopi-1.jpg[/img:$uid]

^^^I'm more interested in the bisexual woman. Striaght by day, and gay by night.

Astasheiks said:

Astasheiks said:

I don't know when the formal conversion happened, but The Cross became The Christ and the whole "stauros" thing started with the Jam of the Year tour in '97. Larry was the opening act for that.

iZsaZsa said:

Astasheiks said:

I think his mom was one, that's why she asked him to join. I wasn't talking about Tyka but his mom being one.

Seventh-day Adventist.

That's what I thought as well

Good, I think Seventh Day Adventist are not considered a cult.....

Astasheiks said:

Good, I think Seventh Day Adventist are not considered a cult.....

The Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Protestant denomination that worship on the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath, which is Saturday. Just like Jesus, a practising Jew, did long ago. There are about 14 million SDA members in the world. They believe in Baptism by full immersion like when Jesus was baptised by his cousin John the Baptist. Also giving 10% of their income to the church is a staple. They are studied by scientists quite a bit because they tend to have long lives. Veganism is encouraged, but not a strict rule. They don't wear jewelery, not even wedding rings. They're good folks!

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Astasheiks said:

Astasheiks said:

Bambi82 said:

artist76 said:

Astasheiks said:

Good, I think Seventh Day Adventist are not considered a cult.....

Astasheiks said:

Good, I think Seventh Day Adventist are not considered a cult.....

If we call a group a cult simply because of their weird beliefs that we don't agree with, then every group could be called a cult by another. I think the markers of a cult are not a group's particular religious beliefs, but whether their practices exert undue control over members (like isolation, shunning) and are counter to self/well-being (like the types of Pentecostals who hold venomous snakes during worship, or in the case of JWs, refusing blood transfusions or possibly other medical interventions). SDAs do not practice shunning or "disfellowshipping," and they do not have any practices overtly harmful to members - in fact, they encourage vegetarianism as McJagger pointed out (but they do not kick you out if you eat meat) and they are heavily involved in medicine (hospitals, medical research, etc.) and encourage healthy lifestyle and mental habits. So JWs, unlike SDAs, do seem to be a cult, although I'm sure there are JWs who will say that their practices are not in any way oppressive, isolating, or harmful. I read that Prince's maternal grandmother was SDA and used to take him sometimes when he was young. If his maternal grandmother was SDA, that implies his mother was raised SDA, but does not mean she was one later in life. As for whether JWs are "Christians," they technically are not because they do not believe in the divinity of Jesus (trinity). They are not considered "Christian" according to basically all the other Christian denominations' theologies. I think JWs themselves (i.e., their theology/doctrine) do not call themselves "Christian" because of some very literal way they read the bible, that's why the term "Jehovah's Witness." But then, many adherents of Jesus in the 1st and 2nd centuries (the early "Christians") did not believe in the trinity or the divinity of Jesus, nor called themselves "Christians," so...? I'd say they were part of the "Jesus movement," as are the JWs as well as the Christians. Back to Prince - I think his spirituality is still way more fluid than even he himself might think. What's all this stuff about chakras and reincarnation? And I think there's been other references from Hinduism besides those. He mixes in lots of ideas that do not seem to be strictly JW, into his songs and his apparent lifestyle.

I read a book called Rock Lives by Timothy White, a Rolling Stone writer, which had interviews and biographies of several Rock Stars. Prince was one of them and it said his grandmother was SDA, his Father and Mother were SDA, and Prince was raised SDA until he was old enough to say goodbye to it. JW is a branch off SDA isn't it?

I thought they had a dress code. Back on the ONA tour, he was into it. Now? well he doesn't look like any of the JW's who knock on my door, that's for sure.

Maybe he's slacking.

Marrk said:

MIRvmn said: