| Built to Spill – In Your Mind Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Psychedelics and quantum mechanics go hand in hand ianj, so you're both right. But you can tell he's read a lot of Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna(and any of you who haven't should) Robert Anton Wilson took a term from Timothy Leary and changed it and elaborated on it a little, but his theory is what this song is about. Wilson says that we all have our own "reality tunnel". That we are constantly interpreting millions of different signals, ignoring what we feel is irrelevant thus creating our own personal reality. Thats what the whole "And no one can tell me to listen/and no one can tell me whats right/ cause nobody has my permission/ and non one can see in your mind." Cause another thing Wilson says is all affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. Ha ha goes with the chorus of this song too. "there isn't a time or a place only an ebb and a flowing a permanent repeating space occurring, connecting and growing" These lines go with Terence Mckenna's novelty theory. He says that time is not duration, that it has an ebb and flow. He even uses the same terminology. McKenna feels that all times are connected through the phenomenon known as resonance. Sort of the same stuff the current theories of string theory are saying. |
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| Modest Mouse – Life Like Weeds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| An omnipotent God would not mean that we don't have free will. Given that God foreknows what I shall choose, it only follows that I shall not choose otherwise, not that I could not. | |
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