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***************************************************************** I had taken him to a V.A. doctors appointment when they determined that he had edema and he was admitted into the Army hospital next door. He was due to be released after a couple of days but he had an unexplained episode and they had to put him on a ventilator. He was on it for about five days, they were going to take him off it on Wednesday but then the doctor said he couldn’t breathe on his own and they would remove it on Friday. I went there every day and stayed with my Husband for several hours. Early that Thursday morning, I got a call from his nurse, they had taken my Husband off the ventilator and he was asking for me. When I got there I was so happy he was conscious because we didn’t know whether he was going to make it. My Husband and I are very close, I have known him all my adult life. After we talked for awhile, his voice was raspy and weak from being intubated, he told me that he had seen and talked to God, and that God gave him a message, he told me what it was but he also asked me not to tell anyone else. So I hate to leave you wondering but I must respect his wishes. He did not remember being in a coma or what happened when he was talking to someone and collapsed, the visitors he had or the times when he opened his eyes during the coma. He is very religious, it was a nice message and it made sense. *****************************************************************

***************************************************************** You want me to name Prince tracks that sound schizophrenic? Anything with crazy guitars or whatever other instruments he played. Didn’t he play twenty-seven different instruments? That is schizophrenic right there. Who tries to play that many instruments? Erotic City comes to mind but there are hundreds. Then there is all his unreleased music, stuff in the vault. There’s probably thousands of compositions. This can never be known, it will always be a mystery. I don’t know how long he was on fentanyl but that is used for more than just pain. My Husband was on a fentanyl drip three years ago when he was in an induced coma. It was scarey but he got world-class care in an Army hospital and he was fine. Who knows what all Prince was on, he could have just been smoking reefer, hash or doing LSD. My question is whether he created his music naturally or whether he was on some mind-altering substance. And I will never know the answer to this. I also don’t understand why he refused surgery for religious reasons yet he thought it was acceptable to take dangerous drugs. Are JWs cool with fentanyl? I have so many unanswerable questions. *****************************************************************

***************************************************************** Prince was my FAVORITE musician since I was a teenager, I went to several of his concerts and I own almost all of his albums, but after his death and then when his drug use was exposed I was confused about whether he composed his music naturally or if he was high on drugs the whole time. Some of his music sounds schizophrenic and it really bothers me to the point where I cannot listen to his music anymore. *****************************************************************

******************************************************************* I LOVE your vignettes!!! When I was a teenager, I knew a young Hispanic couple who had one of those big fancy weddings that the girl’s parents paid for. She said it cost $50K and they had saved up the money for years. After they were married, the newlyweds were living in a tiny apartment and didn’t even have their own furniture. I never could understand why the parents didn’t use that money to buy them a house, that would have been a better investment, IMO. My Husband and I were married at the courthouse but it was a Christian ceremony. I don’t like to post about my personal business but we are retired and those possessions you mentioned are not important to me because I have all of that. You can’t buy trust and loyalty and those attributes mean more to me than anything. I have known my Husband for forty years and we trust each other completely. But I get your point, most people can easily be bought off. *******************************************************************

************************************************************** @Troy I am sorry but I disagree. The Smiths are always doing something to keep themselves in the news. I don’t care who they are screwing, that is their personal business, but why even make this public announcement that they are not monogamous. I think it is because they are chronic attention seekers. @Pioneer1 I think marriage is more of a business arrangement and it also serves as a financial protection for the union’s children. So many marriages fail because people think it’s all about love. As to the Smiths and their open marriage, I couldn’t do it. Business arrangement or not, I would lose my mind knowing that my husband was getting down with somebody else. I am too possessive for that. **************************************************************

************************************************************** Will Smith is a player who says that he and his wife, Jada Pinkett, do not practice monogamy. Marriage for us can't be a prison IMO the state of the Black family is bad enough without these two promoting their adulterous swingers lifestyle. They must know that people like to emulate celebrities so why couldn’t they just keep their mess to themselves? **************************************************************

************************************************************** Why don’t you elaborate on your original post? When did this place become the guessing game forum? **************************************************************

************************************************************** Your comment reminded me of a series on A&E called Life After People, where they speculated how insects and vegetation would take everything over, among other things. As to the world ending, it’s getting scary. We have this manufactured virus, China threatening Australia, China infiltrating various U.S. corporations and institutions, the Taliban having access to nuclear weapons, open borders, dolts in the WH, and on and on. And I have a funky feeling that our economy is about to collapse. All this mess is stressing me out! **************************************************************

****************************************************************** I agree. Sign up and stop being anonymous since you can still be anonymous after you sign up. @Pioneer1 You can still share your enlightened thoughts with the rest of us even if this anonymous person books up and never returns. As to the one drop rule, why does it only apply to Blackness, why can't the one drop rule apply to whiteness, like if my great-great- grandmother were white, why couldn't I be considered as a white person? Halle Berry believes in the one drop rule. She is mulatto, had a baby with a white man, the baby is a quadroon, but Halle says the child is Black. But if Halle wanted a Black child, why didn't she get impregnated by a Black man instead of whitey? She doesn't even make sense. ******************************************************************

**************************************************************************** @Troy People are shy. People just want to lurk. People don't have anything interesting to say. People have too many social media/forum accounts already. Who knows. What happened to all the old-timers from Thumpers? Have you been in touch with any of them? Speaking of which, can you please credit my account with my forum posts from over there? Thanks. ****************************************************************************

*********************************************************************** Melvin Van Peebles passes away in NYC ***********************************************************************

*************************************************************************** That's never going to happen, especially not when their website features characters such as Megan Thee Stallion and negroes with their pants hanging down (how long can this disgusting trend last, it's been forty years now). It's like finding buried treasure if you come upon an old copy of Ebony or Jet magazine. Even Essence was great back in the day. Whatever happened to Black Enterprise? That was a must read for anyone aspiring to get into business, wasn't it? Thanks for those links, I'm going to search for that article later today. And thank God for you Troy. What you have done for Black literature, Black books, and Black people is historical and priceless. And I love you for it. ***************************************************************************

*************************************************************************** I think this is great news, but unfortunately the days of seeing elegant Black people in a magazine are over. Now it's all about celebrities and people who are famous for sleeping with someone famous. It's sad. I wonder if they will be resurrecting Jet as well. ***************************************************************************

*************************************************************************************** I didn't follow this particular story very closely, it is my understanding that the soldier did not pull over for quite some time, and then he didn't follow police instructions and that is a sure way to have problems with the po-po. @Pioneer1 I missed the part about him being assaulted. I think he got sprayed for being a jerk, talking back and not obeying commands. And I know your response will be all about freedom of speech. No, when you are dealing with the police you need to STFU. I live in a mostly Hispanic people area and I have a friend who is Hispanic, he's prominent in the community, an insurance agent with his own franchise. He told me that he was pulled over by Hispanic police officers and the police treated him like DIRT for no reason. Some police have got too much ego and testosterone going on and the citizens would be wise not to antagonize them further. Because police brutality can happen to ANYONE. ***************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************ Why is he a racist? Where is your evidence? I have proof that your girl is a racist because she doesn't care that a white woman went missing and was found murdered in the woods. She even said so. ************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************ She wrote a whole book about Blacks not being allowed to bear arms in 1723. Why would they be? Of course whitey was afraid if he gave a Black man a gun he would turn around and shoot him with it. That is probably the sentiment today. I know that I would avoid a Negro that I thought was carrying a gun. And I definitely wouldn't give him one. I disagree with her comment in the video where she says something to the effect of White people being afraid of Blacks just because. No, people are afraid of Blacks because they are running around shooting other people, and each other for no valid reason, and acting crazy in general. I'm so glad that thugs don't read because this book would just give them another excuse to shoot more people. ************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************ @Pioneer1 Greg Kelly on NewsMax features a Black person, usually a child, that was killed by gun violence on every one of his shows. Joy Reid has a huge platform but all she does is sit up there and bash the deplorables instead of providing useful information or doing something constructive. If she cares so much about missing Black women, she should feature them and shut her yap. I forgot, is she the one that's your tootsie roll? ************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************ How can this awful woman make her absurd comments without any repercussions. Why hasn't she been fired? MSNBC Joy Reid blasts focus on Gabby Petito 'missing white woman syndrome' If she's so concerned about missing Black women, why doesn't she cover them on her show? ************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************ People are outraged by this and I think that the horseback agent will be fired. These barbarous tactics of rounding Black people up have no place in our society. When will the president be held accountable? If some BS like this happened under the Trump administration you all would be up in arms. ************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************* Haitians Being Rounded Up By Agents On Horseback Like They Are Runaway Slaves This is SHAMEFUL! *************************************************************************************

************************************************************************* Thank you for your detailed replies. It doesn't matter to me how long your answer is, I was asking in case you were about to jump off a ledge or something. *************************************************************************

***************************************************************************** @Pioneer1 I am fairly certain that @Cynique does not consort with drunkards, but with her charming personality and lovely looks, the men must flock to her in droves. *****************************************************************************

***************************************************************************** I think that @Cynique is a city dweller who sits on her stoop. Kind of like those women in Do the Right Thing. *****************************************************************************

************************************************************************* This is kind of like the chicken/egg question. A delusion is believing in something that isn't real; a hope is an expectation, a desire for something that you want. Is a person deluded if they hope for a particular outcome? Who knows. I use visualization to manifest my desired results, while continuing to be hopeful and also working towards my goals. This has worked well for me over the years. @Delano Can you tell us what is going on with you. Why are you asking this? Are you okay? *************************************************************************

************************************************************************************* People in Louisiana are dealing with their floods and Houston is a world away from here. Those people are not thinking about the issues at the border. There are social services to provide the migrants with their immediate needs. But I don't understand why they aren't being given accommodations in some fancy hotel like they provide for other people. *************************************************************************************