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Sublime – Rivers Of Babylon Lyrics 18 years ago
Actually, what I meant to say about my church was that noone will feel afraid there and that noone will be judged. Mercy triumphs over Judgement in essentiality. Any way, many in the congration are standing and/or clapping during the songs, and also about one third or less that choose to sit. ( Which includes me...lol.) I lift up in Spirit with the tone of praise and worship with my bubbling thoughts and to magnifying meditations.

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Sublime – Rivers Of Babylon Lyrics 19 years ago
Sol is a pun for the soul and it's essence in solar terms. (Sol, the root for solar, lol.) I heard that Solomon's name is also used in hinting his lineage to producing the future Son of Man, where Jesus is born from and they claim Haille Selassei was descended from. (Sol-o-mon might = Son/Sun of Man.) Possibly.

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Sublime – Rivers Of Babylon Lyrics 19 years ago
And Sol is a metaphor by the way, it is not hinting towards Solomon specifically. It is also the root in Latin, and/or Roman, for sun. Sol is also Spainish for sun, and it just so happens to be the name given to our Sun.

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Sublime – Rivers Of Babylon Lyrics 19 years ago
And what I meant by "the New Creation" was what was called to all humans who came after Him, basically announcing, in my belief, the arrival of some sort of evolutionary leap crossing-the-gap in human cognitive and conscious development.

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Sublime – Rivers Of Babylon Lyrics 19 years ago
It was said also that we are all standing on the shoulders of Giants, basically smart people from the past that have laid the foundations of our methods of thought. We need to really give hommage more often to how vast and intricate life is. Rastafarians represent many things, like songs sometimes have many meanings within them. I am Christian and I just worry if Rastafarians feel the same sanctitiy I do for the paths we take in our lives. And I feel they do, it is said buy Jesus in the new testament that his Body, his believers, will not have schisms. This teaches me that His body is not encompassed by any wordly institution or manifestation, like the Catholic Church, or the group of denominations. No one denomination is right, and one doesn't need to have one to be a part of His body. I was ordained Catholic, I have been in Bible Study for 12 years to be confirmed and my mom was also a church teacher. We now attend a non-denominational chruch, where my parents are involved now, and where people show up because they aren't afraid to be judged, and this one has a large congergation and parish as well. Also, it is made clear that Jesus says that His law is not written on stone but in the heart, of the new creation. This is also beautifully sinultaneously expressed in sillouettte in Bob Marley's song "Running Away", with one chorus in the middle of the song professing the Bible quote "Who feels it, knows it Lord." I don't know where these verses are specifically or who said them at times, I need to read up more often, but all that matters is what is meant by it. And we all seem to be living in conditions, and "no man who is conditioned will enter the Kingdom of God." God's love is called unconditional love for a reason, we are just running away and need to accept His gift. And I will be back to listen and talk to anyone who responds...One Heart

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Sublime – Rivers Of Babylon Lyrics 19 years ago
Does everyone have to be so friggin critical or crippling to everyone's healthy stream-of-consciousness by nit-picking others and attemtping to create a single meaning or defecate on a song by trying to fashion a single definitive was oy see/feeling a song? This song is very deep in roots with religion, by the way. This happens to be verses out of Psalms, relating to the Hebrew people preparing for the coming of their Lord. Rastafarians also relate to this because they felt that Ras Tafai, ras is an Ethoipian title for Prince, was an reincarnation of Christ. These people also had it deeply confused because it says also specifically in the Bible that He will return, but specifically, by the way He "left." (From the Heavens or that realm per se.) Also, the rastafarians basicly believe in Christ's word and the Bible, but they also have a mystical belief that we are a new creation and we can too add our stories and parts to the Bible if we live it out correctly. This is also often misconstrued and develops into a very wavy and jelly-like state of mind whereas nothing much amounts into a concrete Rastafarian creed of specific belief and this also draws me because part of faith is embracing the enveloping and subconsciously satisfying "Great Mystery", from the Bible, that stimulates that sense that it is really humbling and settling in creating the foundation for what we are in position to this Universe. This song is not a Rastafarian song, and Babylon is not strictly a Rastafarian concept, these are the common threads of a story of unraveling life and death propheticism that comes from hundreds years of trials and triumph. Rastafarians may be somewhat guilty for combining the sensuality of mysticism and pharmacology induced with religious trances of current government turmoil occuring in their country. It stems to a much deeper meaning though, of political slavery and injustices by class, race, and religion. People are human beings, and what makes someone feel they are insubordinate or pious when they just attend the right functions and act out in the appropriately presented terms of conditions? There is more to life, and many imperfections that we can all benifit from living/working through without quarreling, and that makes us all feel high. (The "The Bigger One" is not the one who is taller but who raises their head above in these situations to find a light for a better way.) We all need to make more connections, which makes many more other cluster connections, which can make overlying concepts which envelops cells of information and form organical systems in creating an idea of the bigger picture. Then there is the common fabric, which contains the allegory which contains many metaphors and other uses of peotic laguage as well. We all need to find a way to understand, make amends, and yes times chage but "Nothing is New Under the Sun." That is a famous quote of Solomon, who says that whatever manifests itself on Earth has been in effect alive or in existence in some other form, or in another realm as in the microorganic level, before appearing. This is when he was looking out upon his city, it's systematic movement of resource and it's fundamental organization. This explains that we are in fact manifestation of many centuries and millenia and the words that come out of our mouth might be divine inspired or in a tone that was influenced subconsciously by our innate ability to organize thoughts without our full awareness, which can often times serve as the best, most whole, and pure way. Sublime's sound is new, but it's tone rings true as the common element of many forces in nature and people's spirits in the past, present, and future to come. It carries new information but ties a lot of generally ancient intelligences to the up to date. That is life. The box set, my guess, was inspired by Solomon. And everyone will hear more from me... Peace

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