JagXL
12-23-2002, 11:39 PM
Umm ok
In the beginning there are the 3 religious factions , they are old, possibly blind, and pretty much ugly.
Yet despite their faults they have great powers! They have the power to disect (scientific) Knowledge and see what they want in it. They have the power to produce flames (of hell, "love", eternity and other such concepts). Note that the world these "religious" figures come from is dark and somewhat "dirty" looking. These men (despite their powers, or perhaps to hide their own flaws) create an endless cycle of shit that they spew. (Think, a circle never ends or begins, it is coming from their mouths, like WORDS!)
Yet something breaks their cycle! These "strange" (or at least unfamiliar when compared to the "Religious Men") hands come forth and destroy the circle of ignorance.
Ok i don't get the "rock" scenes so i will skip that
Enter Tricky.
He too is different from the "Religious" types. He appears to be taller, he is dressed differently, and (perhaps most importantly) he has eyebrows. Perhaps they eyebrows are to represent something (an inner desire to search beyond the shit that has been placed on the table for you to digest?) .
Tricky leads a life that is completely outside of the world that the "Religious men" live in. He lives with a small clayman that has hands remarkably similar (!) to those that broke the shit cycle. I will ask you to see this "clayman" as some aspect as Tricky's self, or some part of his knowledge. All is fine until one day when something new appears. This new "Ball" seems to bear the same qualities as an object we would be likely to see in the world of the "Religious men". I take this "Ball" as being some manifestation of "Religion" or Religious values into Tricky's life. He comes in contact with it and shortly thereafter he starts to look outside of his "house" into the "Woods" (the unknown, woohoo that was a hard symbol to pick out). As he does the "Ball" destroys the small "Clayman" part of him. His screams of anger at the (now mutated , meaning that perhaps he had begun to put more faith into these belifes thus they had grown) "Religion Ball". Tricky then examines the part of himself that is now dead and lovingly caresses it's hand ("These were the hands that saved me, these are the hands that tried to warn me" or something like that is what i imagine).
Sickened by what has happened in his house, he leaves and enters the "UNKNOWN WOODS" (sounds like a place in a bad RPG) he finds a leaf (imagine that!, finding a LEAF in the WOODS!) and reaches enlightenment. Break Samsara, 3rd eye, becomes one with everything, nuff said.
Now i have intentionally left out several symbols that i see as blaringly obvious.. (shirts, colours of objects, apple, leaves, the "box" of mind expansion, etc, etc)
I am by no means asking anyone to see my "point of view" or anything i am just throwing out random ideas
So basically i see the video as being about a man who had broken through the bonds of religion that hold so many only to find out that he is lacking something, religion enters his life again and destroys some part of him and then he realized that true enlightenment comes through other things (such as personal appreciation of this world), NOT the cookie cutter belife system that contemporary organized religions had thrown at him all his life.
Of course by "religion" i do mean the opressive, organized, ones that we all know and fear.
oh well maybe i should shut up
In the beginning there are the 3 religious factions , they are old, possibly blind, and pretty much ugly.
Yet despite their faults they have great powers! They have the power to disect (scientific) Knowledge and see what they want in it. They have the power to produce flames (of hell, "love", eternity and other such concepts). Note that the world these "religious" figures come from is dark and somewhat "dirty" looking. These men (despite their powers, or perhaps to hide their own flaws) create an endless cycle of shit that they spew. (Think, a circle never ends or begins, it is coming from their mouths, like WORDS!)
Yet something breaks their cycle! These "strange" (or at least unfamiliar when compared to the "Religious Men") hands come forth and destroy the circle of ignorance.
Ok i don't get the "rock" scenes so i will skip that
Enter Tricky.
He too is different from the "Religious" types. He appears to be taller, he is dressed differently, and (perhaps most importantly) he has eyebrows. Perhaps they eyebrows are to represent something (an inner desire to search beyond the shit that has been placed on the table for you to digest?) .
Tricky leads a life that is completely outside of the world that the "Religious men" live in. He lives with a small clayman that has hands remarkably similar (!) to those that broke the shit cycle. I will ask you to see this "clayman" as some aspect as Tricky's self, or some part of his knowledge. All is fine until one day when something new appears. This new "Ball" seems to bear the same qualities as an object we would be likely to see in the world of the "Religious men". I take this "Ball" as being some manifestation of "Religion" or Religious values into Tricky's life. He comes in contact with it and shortly thereafter he starts to look outside of his "house" into the "Woods" (the unknown, woohoo that was a hard symbol to pick out). As he does the "Ball" destroys the small "Clayman" part of him. His screams of anger at the (now mutated , meaning that perhaps he had begun to put more faith into these belifes thus they had grown) "Religion Ball". Tricky then examines the part of himself that is now dead and lovingly caresses it's hand ("These were the hands that saved me, these are the hands that tried to warn me" or something like that is what i imagine).
Sickened by what has happened in his house, he leaves and enters the "UNKNOWN WOODS" (sounds like a place in a bad RPG) he finds a leaf (imagine that!, finding a LEAF in the WOODS!) and reaches enlightenment. Break Samsara, 3rd eye, becomes one with everything, nuff said.
Now i have intentionally left out several symbols that i see as blaringly obvious.. (shirts, colours of objects, apple, leaves, the "box" of mind expansion, etc, etc)
I am by no means asking anyone to see my "point of view" or anything i am just throwing out random ideas
So basically i see the video as being about a man who had broken through the bonds of religion that hold so many only to find out that he is lacking something, religion enters his life again and destroys some part of him and then he realized that true enlightenment comes through other things (such as personal appreciation of this world), NOT the cookie cutter belife system that contemporary organized religions had thrown at him all his life.
Of course by "religion" i do mean the opressive, organized, ones that we all know and fear.
oh well maybe i should shut up