Mzuri

13 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

This is a little outside the conversation but....
Did he tell you about any SPIRITUAL experiences while he was in the coma like leaving his body or journeying to other places?
Or was it just darkness, or was it like he went to sleep and woke up?

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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.

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1 hour ago, Delano said:

Which tracks?

The addiction was to fentanyl, which is a pain killer. Jumping off of six foot high speakers in heels for a decade probably wrecked his body. So my guess is the addiction probably started after he stopped dancing, because he was in pain. 

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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.

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On 9/27/2021 at 10:37 PM, Delano said:

Prince 

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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. 

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4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Poor people...in their IGNORANCE...saw the wealthy throwing big parties and coveted it and started getting thousands of dollars in debt throwing big wedding parties THEMSELVES trying to imulate what they saw rich people do.

Only for the marriage to end within 5 years, usually over FINANCIAL problems.


Yeah, well you may "lose your mind" initially...lol....but I bet if your husband was RICH ENOUGH and bought you enough cars, clothes, jewelry, and even let you have a few "boy toys" of your own to spend time with -you'd FIND your mind real quick, lol

Infact, WHATEVER you lost you'd probably stop looking for while enjoying yourself at the weekly trips to the spa that he pays for you....lol.

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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.

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2 hours ago, Troy said:

 

It is not the Smith's fault.  The media pays a great deal of attention to this fa

 

41 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

It didn't just start......
Rich people have always been "swingers" in this society.

 

Marriage is primarily about MONEY and CONNECTIONS anyway, and most wealthy people know that.

 

Some rich men will even hire a well endowed "super lover" to please his wife....often times while in his presence, lol.

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@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. 

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8 hours ago, Delano said:

Can you elaborate?

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Why don’t you elaborate on your original post?

When did this place become the guessing game forum?

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3 hours ago, Troy said:

 

What about the other creatures on the Earth, don't they count?

 

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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! 

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On 9/22/2021 at 11:56 AM, Pioneer1 said:

 

I can say a lot on this subject but to be honest..........

 

I'm getting up in age and I really don't care to waste a whole lot of words addressing an issue like this in detail for someone who will drop a post or two and you never hear from them again.

Sign up and show some committment or something...lol.

Troy

I don't ascribe to the "one drop" rule.

It's a stupid rule devised by the British to allow more people to be enslaved and keep the White race "pure" in the U.S.

 

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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.  

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@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.

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Melvin Van Peebles passes away in NYC

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1 hour ago, Troy said:

 

The real question, to me, is will they ever publish a print version of the quality shown 50 years ago?

 

Did you ever see my article in reaction to an Ebony article about Black Literature written by none other than John A. Williams? The article was published almost 60 years ago and I can not recall anything like it in a publication, that catered to a general audience.  Can you image something like this in print today, or even online (save AALBC and less than a handful of other websites)?

 

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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.  

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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.

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1 hour ago, Troy said:

As far as the guy being pulled over -- I did not listen to the whole video, but I know media is now very biased in the way these interactions are reported.  

 

It is not unreasonable to be expected to be pulled over driving around without tags on a car and it does not matter what you are wearing.  I'm not going to try to assess the racial motivations of the officers involves based upon either biased account.  

 

The best thing one can do when pulled over is to comply; the vast majority of officer and civilian interactions do not go viral on social and make national news for that reason.  The ones that do make national news usually involves a civilian not complying with the officer's requests.

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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.

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33 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

 

I haven't seen it but if racist Greg Kelly is reporting on it, it CAN'T be any good for us no matter how pretty he's wrapping it up as.

He's probably doing it as a "sneak diss" to really make Black people look like violent thugs who kill innocent children.

Kind of like how they talk about Chicago.

 

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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.  

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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.   

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@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?

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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?

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4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

 

 

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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.

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Haitians Being Rounded Up By Agents On Horseback Like They Are Runaway Slaves

This is SHAMEFUL!

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1 hour ago, Delano said:

Am I okay? I don't have a one word answer. Do you prefer a short. medium or realy loooong answer?

 

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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.

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9 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

 

I wonder does she have a drunk old man who staggers by and flirts with her from time to time....like the woman from Do The Right Thing?

*RIP  Ruby and Ozzie

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@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.

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11 minutes ago, Cynique said:

There is no porch where i live. 

6 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Ok.........then you've been going to the entrance of your lair too often to gaze up at the moon, lol. 

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I think that @Cynique is a city dweller who sits on her stoop.

Kind of like those women in Do the Right Thing.

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7 hours ago, Delano said:

If you no longer had delusions would you also lack hope?

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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?

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4 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

 

It's enough Black churches in Houston alone to show some love to the 14,000 people stranded down there.

 

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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.  

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