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05-05-2006, 01:55 AM
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We listen to the tales and romanticize,
How we follow the path of the hero
We sit in church and are told to imagine how Jesus's life applies to our own.

Quote:
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun,
How we'll rise to the height of our halo.
Christians hold themselves in high regard for their belief that they will be saved when armaggedon occurs. It's the day they think they'll all rise to heaven.

Quote:
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the savior
Fading all the trials and the tribulations,
None of us have actually been there,
Not like you...
Believing is not enough because the mind is to intelligent to accept pure bullshit. The believers have to rationalize the beliefs in applicable methods to their lives or they won't believe they require salvation. Judith Marie does not have to rationalize her belief as she's been stricken with a seemingly random and crippling affliction and faith is all that keeps her sane.

Quote:
The ignorant siblings in the congregation
Gather around spewing sympathy,
Spare me...

None of them can even hold a candle up to you
Blinded by choices, hypocrites
Won't see
The believers express their sympathies but Maynard understands that his mother is dead and in the ground, not beside any divine entity.

Their devotion pales in comparison to his mother's, but their choices of salvation or damnation blind them to the truth of his mother's nature.

Quote:
But enough about the collective Judas
Who could deny you were the one who illuminated
Your little piece of the divine

This little light of mine it gives your past unto me,
I'm going to let it shine,
to guide you safely on your way

Your way home...
His mother obviously shaped his life in profound ways, and he's hoping to preserve that memory and pass on that experience. This stanza also represents Maynard saying goodbye in his heart, if not his words.

Quote:
Ohh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun
Other than tremble incessantly?
Without a figure of faith as powerful as his mother, Maynard doubts the believers would be able to overcome their fears.

Quote:
High is the way
But our lives are upon the ground.
You are the light and the way
They'll only read about
I only pray heaven knows
When to lift you out

10000 days in the fire is long enough.
You're going home...
His mother spent 27 years in a stroke induced paralysis, but her devotion never wavered, to her son or to her beliefs. Her example is more powerful than anything written in the Bible, in Maynard's opinion. He hates to see her suffer and only wonders when her body will give out.

Quote:
You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying,
"I have come home now!"

Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father,
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.

It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my
Give me my wings!..."

You are the light, the way, that they will only read about
His mother can know she deserves into heaven. Moreover, that her faith was worthy of a private audience with her Trinity. Maynard is telling her that if there is any believer on earth that truly deserves sainthood in the afterlife, it's her.

Quote:
Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance
Burden of proof tossed upon non-believers.
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
Judith Marie, unconditional one
Maynard gave up on beliefs at a fairly early age but always had to deal with being a minority forced to justify his lack of faith. His mother witnessed his transition and both stuck by her son but never wavered in her Christianity.

Quote:
Daylight dims leaving cool flourescence.
Difficult to see you in this light.
Please forgive this bold suggestion:
Should you see your maker's face tonight
Look him in the eye
Look him in the eye and tell him,
"I never lived a lie, never took a life,
But surely saved one
Hallejullah,
It's time for you to bring me home."
If there is a Christian God, his mother will meet him. If she does, he suggests that she remind him of her virtue and sacrifice, and then request her just rewards.
Old 05-05-2006, 01:55 AM   #94
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Re: The real meaning of 10000 Days (worth reading)

Quote:
We listen to the tales and romanticize,
How we follow the path of the hero
We sit in church and are told to imagine how Jesus's life applies to our own.

Quote:
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun,
How we'll rise to the height of our halo.
Christians hold themselves in high regard for their belief that they will be saved when armaggedon occurs. It's the day they think they'll all rise to heaven.

Quote:
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the savior
Fading all the trials and the tribulations,
None of us have actually been there,
Not like you...
Believing is not enough because the mind is to intelligent to accept pure bullshit. The believers have to rationalize the beliefs in applicable methods to their lives or they won't believe they require salvation. Judith Marie does not have to rationalize her belief as she's been stricken with a seemingly random and crippling affliction and faith is all that keeps her sane.

Quote:
The ignorant siblings in the congregation
Gather around spewing sympathy,
Spare me...

None of them can even hold a candle up to you
Blinded by choices, hypocrites
Won't see
The believers express their sympathies but Maynard understands that his mother is dead and in the ground, not beside any divine entity.

Their devotion pales in comparison to his mother's, but their choices of salvation or damnation blind them to the truth of his mother's nature.

Quote:
But enough about the collective Judas
Who could deny you were the one who illuminated
Your little piece of the divine

This little light of mine it gives your past unto me,
I'm going to let it shine,
to guide you safely on your way

Your way home...
His mother obviously shaped his life in profound ways, and he's hoping to preserve that memory and pass on that experience. This stanza also represents Maynard saying goodbye in his heart, if not his words.

Quote:
Ohh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun
Other than tremble incessantly?
Without a figure of faith as powerful as his mother, Maynard doubts the believers would be able to overcome their fears.

Quote:
High is the way
But our lives are upon the ground.
You are the light and the way
They'll only read about
I only pray heaven knows
When to lift you out

10000 days in the fire is long enough.
You're going home...
His mother spent 27 years in a stroke induced paralysis, but her devotion never wavered, to her son or to her beliefs. Her example is more powerful than anything written in the Bible, in Maynard's opinion. He hates to see her suffer and only wonders when her body will give out.

Quote:
You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying,
"I have come home now!"

Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father,
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.

It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my
Give me my wings!..."

You are the light, the way, that they will only read about
His mother can know she deserves into heaven. Moreover, that her faith was worthy of a private audience with her Trinity. Maynard is telling her that if there is any believer on earth that truly deserves sainthood in the afterlife, it's her.

Quote:
Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance
Burden of proof tossed upon non-believers.
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
Judith Marie, unconditional one
Maynard gave up on beliefs at a fairly early age but always had to deal with being a minority forced to justify his lack of faith. His mother witnessed his transition and both stuck by her son but never wavered in her Christianity.

Quote:
Daylight dims leaving cool flourescence.
Difficult to see you in this light.
Please forgive this bold suggestion:
Should you see your maker's face tonight
Look him in the eye
Look him in the eye and tell him,
"I never lived a lie, never took a life,
But surely saved one
Hallejullah,
It's time for you to bring me home."
If there is a Christian God, his mother will meet him. If she does, he suggests that she remind him of her virtue and sacrifice, and then request her just rewards.
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