While the song/ music was good the visualizations just creeped me out a little. SP, I looked at it with out the lyrics playing. Looking at it from that stand point...and comparing it to the older WT's you see a theme.
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Prince's new video-Babylon's destruction?
by wordlywife 16 Replies latest jw friends
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SadElder
Perhaps a recording studio at Bethel is next?
Actually Patterson is the location of both the video and sound recording studios, where not just a few bucks have been expended to produce such favorites as "Singing Kingdom Songs" and the low class low quality Noah video.
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Happy Guy :)
I have been an on and off Prince fan since the early eighties. His style of music is certainly unique and I have been able in the past to appreciate some of his music. I think it's good to see him back trying to put out something of quality for his audience.
What I find very peculiar though is all these rumours of him being a convert to the JW faith. Maybe true, maybe not but I can't help but wonder: If it is true that he is now a JW the video is very contrary to his faith. For instance, and without dissecting the whole video, just the last scene where the girl blows up the airport killing families in the waiting area for fundamentalist religious reasons. Then it rewinds and shows her taking a possible different course of action where she has a moment of comapssion and empathy (sheddiing a tear) and chooses not to destroy the public.
I wonder how a recording artist who puts out a video such as this one could possibly belong to a religious cult that believes God will perform an act much like this girl only on an even larger scale killing billions of people (many of which their only crime is to not be one of the 6 million JWs) ?
If he is a JW, I wonder how long he will last living a paradox of feelings. Could you imagine him doing ainterview on MTV where the interview comments on the video but then asks him how he justifies it considering his own JW beliefs of mass distruction. His music career could be ruined by something like that.
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blondie
What I find very peculiar though is all these rumours of him being a convert to the JW faith.
No rumor. He studied with Larry Graham of the Sly and the Family Stone. He attends a Minnesapolis congregation with his wife as well as maintaining a Toronto abode. He is baptized, has gone door to door, and has given talks in the school.
This has been verified by people who attend his congregation.
Blondie
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Elsewhere
The video has nothing to do with "Babylon". It is about an Arab girl in America who is discriminated against and turns to terrorism as a response. In the end she is given a second chance.
It did have a bit of JWism added in with the line: "What's the use when the god of confusion keeps on telling the same lie?". The WTS describes satan as "the god of confusion".
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Happy Guy :)
Well if that is true Blondie then I am amazed given what I saw.
On another note Sly and the Family Stone - there's a blast from the past.
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cyberguy
I guess he?s trying to promote ?Babylon the Little,? or WT! How nice :-(!