Noob_Jones
11-19-2002, 07:44 PM
A few hours ago I wrote a post about what Parabola the song ment to me, you can find that post HERE (http://toolshed.down.net/opinion/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=74) . I would now like to describe what I belive the Parabola video is about just for the sake of being complete. :) I will not talk about the meaning of the words only that of the image shown.
The video starts off with what looks like small metal rings, I belive this symbolizes the most basic form of matter and how down there we are all alike. It then fades into the Parabol video where we see a man in a black suit who joins two other men at a table. I am not sure who or what the men represent but maybe religion in general? An apple then apears, perhaps the apple from the Tree of Knoledge from the garden of Eden? Within the apple we see a five points star, then a six point star, followed by a seven point star. The five points star could be a Pentacle witch is suppost to represent God. The six point star could be The The Seal of Solomon and the seven point star could be a Septagram, you can find out more about the five, six, and seven point star here http://www.angelfire.com/de2/newconcepts/wicca/sacredspaces.html.
Next up we see one of the men hold up his hands and there is a flame at the tip, now that is abstract! The only meaning I can put behind this is a possible symbolism of how we are made of energy. The three men then float in the air and spew forth a circle of black gew. This could represent how religions spews forth hate and that it is a never ending circle. You can look at the Holy wars or the modern day middle east to see what I am talking about. But that is what you get when you base a religion around fear rather than love ... or the Parabol video could just be about some cool occult stuff that I know nothing about.
Parabola, now we are getting to the good stuff IMO! The video starts off with a cool intro that I belive is nothing more than that. Next we see a man grab a slab of rock and then we see some falling rock shards before the rock is broke ( I will come back to why I think this is). We now see the man set the rock up, I belive this man is suppost to be God and the rock is all the matter in the universe. Next God pushes the rock over and BANG the big bang happens and the universe is set in motion. Now with a blink of Gods eye we see the matter stop and start to float upward and outward to form the universe. Now remember that there was broken shards before the rock hit the ground could this be a sign that before the big bang there was something. Is it possible that the universe is in a cycle of big bangs followed by big crunches to only start all over? Even I belive that I am probably over reading this, speaking of over analyising that leads me to my next point. At 5:05 in the video (if you have the version available on the net thats 10:10 long) you hear MJK sing "Choosing to be here" or in other words understanding you are alive. The image you see at this time is a small being and he looks at the camera and the camera moves up just a little and this seems to give the effect (to myself at least) that the creature understands he is alive! Next we see a face in a tree (great artwork I must say) this seems to be mother nature or the Garden of Eden and we then see God put his hand within the tree and the creature appears. This creature I belive to be man in his perfect form, you know before he let evil into his heart.
Next we see God create the other half evil, negative, the 'bad' emotions or what every you wish to call it. You will notice that it floats, possibly because alone it is harmless it needs someone to cary out its deeds, enter man stage right. Next up evil starts to grow and split I really wish I could figure out why it grows but I am clueless.
Now the video shows how the universe has grown over time it is now a full forest. The trees could represent the galaxies and each leaf a star but that is probably reading into the video a bit much. God is now looking out over his universe with man by his side, he is a little distracted by everything else to focus on man ATM though. So man, who is still in the Garden of Eden (tree off to the right) looks over to the evil ball and goes to see whats going on. Now that was a bad mistake for man to make, what an idiot to let evil into his heart! Well that is the end of perfect man ... he can not exist in a pure form with evil in his heart. Ohh damn it God seems pissed and he yells at the evil, possibly this is him creating hell? Now God tries to save man but it is to late so he wonders out into the universe with evil right behind (as it allways is). God finds a leaf (star) and from it makes mankind woo-hoo! The eye things stop near mans heart to create his emotions and then stop in his head to create his third eye, his ability to think and reason. The eye then leaves mans head and connects man up with whats around him because "we are all one mind" maybe? Next we see man fade and all that is left are some strings. The heterotic string theory states that all matter is basicly made up of strings and that the strings are the most basic form of matter in the universe. This backs up what I think the song means, that we are all made of energy and in that form we are eternal.
The video starts off with what looks like small metal rings, I belive this symbolizes the most basic form of matter and how down there we are all alike. It then fades into the Parabol video where we see a man in a black suit who joins two other men at a table. I am not sure who or what the men represent but maybe religion in general? An apple then apears, perhaps the apple from the Tree of Knoledge from the garden of Eden? Within the apple we see a five points star, then a six point star, followed by a seven point star. The five points star could be a Pentacle witch is suppost to represent God. The six point star could be The The Seal of Solomon and the seven point star could be a Septagram, you can find out more about the five, six, and seven point star here http://www.angelfire.com/de2/newconcepts/wicca/sacredspaces.html.
Next up we see one of the men hold up his hands and there is a flame at the tip, now that is abstract! The only meaning I can put behind this is a possible symbolism of how we are made of energy. The three men then float in the air and spew forth a circle of black gew. This could represent how religions spews forth hate and that it is a never ending circle. You can look at the Holy wars or the modern day middle east to see what I am talking about. But that is what you get when you base a religion around fear rather than love ... or the Parabol video could just be about some cool occult stuff that I know nothing about.
Parabola, now we are getting to the good stuff IMO! The video starts off with a cool intro that I belive is nothing more than that. Next we see a man grab a slab of rock and then we see some falling rock shards before the rock is broke ( I will come back to why I think this is). We now see the man set the rock up, I belive this man is suppost to be God and the rock is all the matter in the universe. Next God pushes the rock over and BANG the big bang happens and the universe is set in motion. Now with a blink of Gods eye we see the matter stop and start to float upward and outward to form the universe. Now remember that there was broken shards before the rock hit the ground could this be a sign that before the big bang there was something. Is it possible that the universe is in a cycle of big bangs followed by big crunches to only start all over? Even I belive that I am probably over reading this, speaking of over analyising that leads me to my next point. At 5:05 in the video (if you have the version available on the net thats 10:10 long) you hear MJK sing "Choosing to be here" or in other words understanding you are alive. The image you see at this time is a small being and he looks at the camera and the camera moves up just a little and this seems to give the effect (to myself at least) that the creature understands he is alive! Next we see a face in a tree (great artwork I must say) this seems to be mother nature or the Garden of Eden and we then see God put his hand within the tree and the creature appears. This creature I belive to be man in his perfect form, you know before he let evil into his heart.
Next we see God create the other half evil, negative, the 'bad' emotions or what every you wish to call it. You will notice that it floats, possibly because alone it is harmless it needs someone to cary out its deeds, enter man stage right. Next up evil starts to grow and split I really wish I could figure out why it grows but I am clueless.
Now the video shows how the universe has grown over time it is now a full forest. The trees could represent the galaxies and each leaf a star but that is probably reading into the video a bit much. God is now looking out over his universe with man by his side, he is a little distracted by everything else to focus on man ATM though. So man, who is still in the Garden of Eden (tree off to the right) looks over to the evil ball and goes to see whats going on. Now that was a bad mistake for man to make, what an idiot to let evil into his heart! Well that is the end of perfect man ... he can not exist in a pure form with evil in his heart. Ohh damn it God seems pissed and he yells at the evil, possibly this is him creating hell? Now God tries to save man but it is to late so he wonders out into the universe with evil right behind (as it allways is). God finds a leaf (star) and from it makes mankind woo-hoo! The eye things stop near mans heart to create his emotions and then stop in his head to create his third eye, his ability to think and reason. The eye then leaves mans head and connects man up with whats around him because "we are all one mind" maybe? Next we see man fade and all that is left are some strings. The heterotic string theory states that all matter is basicly made up of strings and that the strings are the most basic form of matter in the universe. This backs up what I think the song means, that we are all made of energy and in that form we are eternal.