Superconductor said:

DiamondStarr said:

I'm sorry, but I beg to differ...

I am NOT mourning some superficial image that I had of Prince or some facade of what I wanted him to be. It's much, much deeper than that. I'm very aware that he accidentally overdosed on something that he should not have had access to and kept secret from the rest of the world. And I'm very clear on the fact that he was a human being and fallible just like the rest of us. I knew that he wasn't "pure" because I did happen to run into him backstage at a concert many years ago (and that's all I'll say about that particular meeting). So please don't take our sorrow as a figment of some schoolgirl infatuation crush.

Prince inspired me in my life, and helped me to change the path of my life. He was the only one who made me realize that it was okay to be... well, me. No matter what others might have thought. Although some of his lyrics were, let's say risque, he sang about finding unconditional true love and to end his loneliness. He sang about the kind of love that everyone searches for, but never really finds because I believe it's the love that can only come from God. (Everybody's looking for the ladder) He knew this, but yet we all went on those searches with him, we went on many journeys with him. Exploring him, exploring ourselves, and throwing in a little party time in between the excursions. Prince was a part of many of our lives for many years in a spiritual, magical, mysterious, meaningful way. And i guess waking up every morning knowing that his light, energy, power and spirit are no longer in a physical form to influence change in me, change in the WORLD is beyond heartbreaking. This world needs more love in it, not less. Prince operated on a different vibrational level than most of us. If he didn't, he would not have accomplished all that he did accomplish. He was ONE of kind. There's no one, past. present and probably future who's done what he did. A short, skinny black kid from Minnesota with a name like something you'd read in a fairytale. Mastered every instrument he touched, sang like an Angel, created his own fashion style, fought the evil empire (and won), then created his own recording empire, had his OWN COLOR and his OWN SYMBOL! No... there will never be another one like him. And it's a great, great loss for not just his fans, but for humanity.

This is why I grieve.

I have no doubt that your grief is sincere but attributing to Prince some higher spiritual being or power is delusional. The love symbol was created by graphic designers. It's part of his branding. The love message has been around thousands of years, it's from the book of Leviticus. The dispute with Warner was about control over his music and monetary profits. I could go on but you probably won't be convinced anyway. Anyhow, I suggest you get help. This is not healthy if it interferes with your day to day life.

You are very free with the word delusional. I'd be interested what you mean...because you seem here to be using it in the first instance to mean 'people who have spiritual beleifs I don't agree with'...and you're more than entitled to that belief, and there are a ton of other people who won't or wouldn't concur...including Prince himself. Some people have spiritual experiences other people don't. Some people experience Prince as having been a very spiritually gifted individual. Those are meaningful experiences to those people. I wouldn't be so quick to decide they are unhealthy because you don't experience it that way.

The Love symbol was created to his specifications. The fact he used graphic designers is irrelevant. And you can call it branding if you like, but that's a very cynically dismissive way of approaching the power of symbols. Do you thing the Star of David is part of Judaism's branding? Or is that a weird way to think about it?

And yes, the love message has been around for a long time. As it should be. And?

I could go on as well. A little less judgment and a little more open-mindedness maybe?

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