[Rapscallion St Croix]

Prince Schmintz. I'm busy mourning Merle Haggard.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by Rapscallion St Croix

Prince Schmintz. I'm busy mourning Merle Haggard.

Ha! Me too. We sure have lost a lot of our generation music/acting stars lately, haven't we?

[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by gerryann

He knocked on doors because his religion tells the members that they want them to.
It WAS kept private. He never spoke of it public,ly. The media never spoke of it.

Oh, really? "He never spoke of it publicly"?? "The media never spoke of it"??

There are plenty of articles about it from years past:

Prince goes door to door for Jehovah's Witnesses.
The famously shy musician takes his beliefs on the road

Oct. 15, 2003

Prince goes door to door for Jehovah's Witnesses | EW.com


Prince preaches as a Jehovah’s Witness door to door in LA

November 17, 2008

Cele|bitchy | Prince preaches as a Jehovah


BBC Magazine
The Jehovah's Witnesses' new tactic

8 July 2014

The Jehovah's Witnesses' new tactic - BBC News


The New Yorker - NOVEMBER 24, 2008 ISSUE

Soup With Prince

Soup With Prince - The New Yorker

[gerryann]

Of course he spoke of it....he, nor the media dwelled on it.

[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by redwitch

1. Prince spoke out frequently against any drug abuse. He must have been in great pain to use Percocet if his private life was even close to his public image, especially given his religion.

2. Autopsy results are not in, so any cause of death is nothing but pure speculation.

3. I doubt Prince was gender conflicted in the least. He was known to have dated and bedded many beautiful women in his younger days. Don't confuse outlandish costumes by entertainers with their personal activities.

Rail as much as you like about the hero-worship and public expense of purple lights, that's reasonable. But get your facts straight About someone before you start calling them names.

OK.....

So please explain to us why public taxpayer money must pay for costly lighting shows on public buildings/structures like city halls of L.A., Atlanta, Birmingham, San Francisco, etc. and like at least one interstate highway bridge i.e. I-35 in Mpls...

..for a Hollywood celebrity, who's not a public official or benefactor.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by gerryann

redwitch, you said it better than I.

I think you both said it very well.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by goodtimesintv

OK.....

So please explain to us why public taxpayer money must pay for costly lighting shows on public buildings/structures like city halls of L.A., Atlanta, Birmingham, San Francisco, etc. and like at least one interstate highway bridge i.e. I-35 in Mpls...

..for a Hollywood celebrity, who's not a public official or benefactor.

Because that's life.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

He did have a great deal of musical talent. Most of his music was not to my taste but neither was that of Elvis Presley.

genius can be found in Bach Vivaldi, etc. Notice the degradation of music reflecting in our societal values following the 1940's & 1950' compared to ..1960's --2016 .....Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, etc . great musicals South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Porgy & Bess etc.

Love song were actually about love back then. Music was uplifting intellectual civil

[bigrig353]

Druggies Die.....always will and always have. Even Ex Druggies have shorter lives.

[rubicon]

$40k spent over a six month period on drugs in my view denotes a serious problem?

[bigrig353]

He was junkie...that's why you call him a junkie..

[bigrig353]

Amen Brother!

[rubicon]

a celebrity has the money and the power to hire the smartest public relations firms in the world. These PR firms are so good at what they do they could design a campaign to make Hitler appear to be a Mother Theresa.

So for now we will never really know the truth.

The latest is that he suffered fro hip pain because of all the dancing etc while wearing high heel shoes. His religion placed medical restrictions on the logical remedies.

So he turned to drugs because of continual pain. I was a a Board of Directors for an organization that worked with drug addicts. I periodically attended group sessions as a basis for seeing what they did and then going out and soliciting charitable funds . an elderly woman sticks in my mind. I listened intently when she told her story of addiction...it all started with securing pain medication......and before she knew it she was hooked badly.

I have like many on TOTV been in situations where pain medication was prescribed either I limited it to a few days until I could begin to move or rejected it outright. I do not have an addictive personalty

Perhaps like many celebrities Prince had his Doctor Feel Good?

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by rubicon

genius can be found in Bach Vivaldi, etc. Notice the degradation of music reflecting in our societal values following the 1940's & 1950' compared to ..1960's --2016 .....Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, etc . great musicals South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Porgy & Bess etc.

Love song were actually about love back then. Music was uplifting intellectual civil

You don't think our parents said roughly the same about our generation's artistry and values? (And their parents before them, etc., etc.)

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Polar Bear

You don't think our parents said roughly the same about our generation's artistry and values? (And their parents before them, etc., etc.)

You took the words right out of my mouth (or fingers, to be precise...LOL).