New age revelation, I think we got a case.

bluegangsta said:

No.

Fortunatly, the quality of his music often exceeded his insanity/ ignorance. Colonized Mind, for example, is an amazing song - but many of the lyrics are predicated on such bullshit.

"Upload the evolution principle
You see a rock on the shore and say
It's always been there"

What?

What he;s saying is that the "big boom" is jnot what started the world.

lurker316 said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

i think thats about colonialists claiming nothing was there before they arrived etc.

idk what uploading the evolution principle means really. or how it applies to colonised nations cos its about how removing something from its natural environment is detrimental. maybe hes saying africans should not have been taken as slaves but the evolution principle also kinda suggests that ppl should not migrate, they should stay where they are, so hmm.

I don’t believe Prince is talking about colonizing nations. He’s talking about colonizing minds, as the title suggests. That’s a poetic way of saying people are brainwashed. Prince’s religious beliefs lead him to not believe in evolution. He thought people who do believe in evolution are brainwashed. Their minds are “colonized”. In this lyric, he’s criticizing evolution for suggesting rocks have always existed. Of course evolution doesn’t actually say that. In fact, evolution is about biology, not mineralogy. So Prince is a bit confused. If I had to guess, he’s trying to distinguish between creationism, which suggests God snapped his fingers and stuff appeared, versus science, which says all matter was created at the Big Bang. I realize that still doesn’t entirely make sense, but Prince often didn’t make sense on these topics.

Thats because common sense becomes uncommon sense.... when you know.

Reason, logic, knowledge, etc is thrown right out the window.

It's so simple, we cant grasp it.

The spirituality that Prince outwardly displayed early on, and about up to maybe Emancipation? That was more of an "all are welcome" vibe. Christian, yes, but also decidedly non-specific and approachable.

I'll say that SOTT and Lovesexy helped me through a lot of dark times.

I know it changed in the late 90s for quite a while, to more of a "our way is the right way", but it was also changing back to "normal" closer to his death.

I don't know if Prince was also shying away from JW, but at least it was becoming less obvious in his music,

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Se7en said:

The spirituality that Prince outwardly displayed early on, and about up to maybe Emancipation? That was more of an "all are welcome" vibe. Christian, yes, but also decidedly non-specific and approachable.

I'll say that SOTT and Lovesexy helped me through a lot of dark times.

I know it changed in the late 90s for quite a while, to more of a "our way is the right way", but it was also changing back to "normal" closer to his death.

I don't know if Prince was also shying away from JW, but at least it was becoming less obvious in his music,

My thoughts, too.

I didn't mind his spiritual stuff in the 80's. He wasn't preaching any organized religion, just love. The media dubbed him "Rock Messias" and a prophet, and he really was the New Breed Leader he called for on Sexuality.

In the 90's, he got into New Age ideas which I also didn't mind, but I did think that when him and Mayte started talking about being Egyptian kings and such in past lives, that's where it started getting weird for me. Of course he couldn't have been less than a king with a harem in a past life.

But when Larry Graham came onboard and started preaching Jehova beliefs, that totally turned me off. "Don't tell me'there is only one truth'. I've got my own truth and it's not yours."

So I lost interest in Prince for a few years and eased my way back in with 3121 and Prince seemingly easing up a bit on his Jehova trip. But then he got weird again with the conspiracy theories but those I was able to just ignore. But it never got as exciting again as back when he was the Rock Messias Prophet.

scififilmnerd said:

Se7en said:

The spirituality that Prince outwardly displayed early on, and about up to maybe Emancipation? That was more of an "all are welcome" vibe. Christian, yes, but also decidedly non-specific and approachable.

I'll say that SOTT and Lovesexy helped me through a lot of dark times.

I know it changed in the late 90s for quite a while, to more of a "our way is the right way", but it was also changing back to "normal" closer to his death.

I don't know if Prince was also shying away from JW, but at least it was becoming less obvious in his music,

My thoughts, too.

I didn't mind his spiritual stuff in the 80's. He wasn't preaching any organized religion, just love. The media dubbed him "Rock Messias" and a prophet, and he really was the New Breed Leader he called for on Sexuality.

In the 90's, he got into New Age ideas which I also didn't mind, but I did think that when him and Mayte started talking about being Egyptian kings and such in past lives, that's where it started getting weird for me. Of course he couldn't have been less than a king with a harem in a past life.

But when Larry Graham came onboard and started preaching Jehova beliefs, that totally turned me off. "Don't tell me'there is only one truth'. I've got my own truth and it's not yours."

So I lost interest in Prince for a few years and eased my way back in with 3121 and Prince seemingly easing up a bit on his Jehova trip. But then he got weird again with the conspiracy theories but those I was able to just ignore. But it never got as exciting again as back when he was the Rock Messias Prophet.

I didn't experience this in real time but looking back, he was just lost and finding for something to believe in as most introspective humans do.