isn't he???

prince will probably be there to memorialize 'ole boy..

myfavorite said:

he left the faith a while ago i believe. prince aint toughing this which is kinda sad.

DesireeNevermind said:

What do you mean by 'Prince aint toughing this?'

Girl4both said:

I meant to say touching. He will lay low.

DesireeNevermind said:

Yep. P doesn't do statements about people that die too often. Everyone should put on SST or The Cross in honor of MJ.

MJ left the JW faith sometime in 1985 or 1986. I believe it was just before BAD was released, which was 1987. It had nothing to do with BAD, just establishing a time line.

DesireeNevermind said:

Nope. He sure won't ...it would be nice if he would break the mode for once in his life and just say that he's sorry that he passed away, or something, since they came out ((well, Mike became really big around the 80's when Prince became big)) around the same time, and people compare them a lot. Not saying that he has to cry on national television or anything, but at least say 'I'm sorry he's gone' 'May Jehovah be with his family', or something. I know he's not obligated to say anything, but it would nice, just to show that he's human, has feelings (which I seriously doubt sometimes). I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, and the number 1 thing that I was taught, is to show love to your fellow brothers and sisters, etc. Won't expect a word from him. I'm really not too crazy about Prince nowadays ((I like his music, well, not his recent stuff))...the only reason I'm still on this fan-site is because of his fans and his ex:bandmates ex: Wendy and Lisa, that's it.
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ernestsewell said:

Yeah, either he got disfellowshipped or he left the faith,etc.

Girl4both said:

He left. They were giving him issue when he released the "Thriller" album, and it's partly why he put a disclaimer at the beginning of the video. The other part being that he was faithful to the JW religion and didn't want the video to be confused with his religious beliefs. Let's remember that even through 1983/4/5 he dressed in disguise and went door to door once a week w/ friends, to do missionary work in different neighborhoods. However, I think once he grew up and got out of the Jackson family box a bit more, then he left the faith out on his own. Janet eventually did the same thing. She talked about never having a birthday party before, and she had one for the first time when she was 30 or something like that.

ernestsewell said:

the JWs were also heavy hitting them on monetary contributions.

ernestsewell said:

See...I always heard from people here @ the Hall, (I know you can't believe everything you hear) that it was actually both...that he got disassociated, and that he eventually left.

i cant remember words from him when brown died so this will not be different

motownlover said:

He didn't, however both of his websites at the time did acknowledge both James and Lefteye's passing

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