I'm sure Prince has already been talked about to death on this site, but a JW family member just liked a video posted by a JW group on Facebook that is an interview of Prince about his conversion to JW. I'm sure everyone has seen it. It's the comments made by JWs that this post is about.
Prince was a great artist! And the world has lost a musical genius in my opinion, but he lost me after he converted. He has always been weird, but after converting, he just became a different shade of weird and I didn't like his new music ... post JW. I still have his old albums on my iPod though and love them! This is not anything against him as a musician.
But reading the JW comments are making me feel a little nauseated. They are talking about how they can't wait for him to be resurrected and how they will see him in "just a little while" in paradise. And they are all so excited to finally meet him when he is resurrected! I am pretty sure they are hoping for a post paradise concert or something.
And then there's this gem:
Food for thought my spiritual family. We have to be careful with what words we use when someone dies. Unbelievers get confused when the word passed away is used thinking we believe in after life.
Yes, yes ... that has always confused me, the whole "passed away" phrase ... not! I couldn't read anymore. If you need a good purging of your dinner: https://www.facebook.com/Jehovahs-Witnesses-Examiner-241479099370852/?fref=nf
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