| System of a Down – Science (feat. Arto Tunçboyacıyan) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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As has been stated multiple times, this song does not imply any sort of stance on religion. However, it does refer to faith. What is faith? The belief in something without justification. This is a very potent idea in all of mankind; not because all of mankind believes in a deity(ies), but because all of mankind sees purpose in all actions (exempli gratia, cursing at a table when one should be as misfortunate to have collapse beaneathe one's weight). Humans have a tendency to see events as being of some meaning. Let us take a much more effective example: love. What does science tell us about love? It tells us that it is the chemical attraction of two people to raise a baby. This, obviously, disagrees with many people's intuitions on what love is. Scientifically, such a belef is nothing special, but, through an unjustifiable beleif system of the natural human, it is special beyond all rational explanations. Serj is saying this -- that faith is still important, for it makes humans more than just another specimen of the universe (despite how accurate that may or may not be) -- and that it is more important to respect this, then to respect only logic. Despite my being of an atheist, I whole-heartedly agree with the accuracy of such claims, and how important they really are. |
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| Dog Fashion Disco – Mushroom Cult (feat. Serj Tankian) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Clearly, and agreeably, the song is about mushrooms and religion; however, the question is: how do these two ideas relate? John Marco Allegro, in his book 'The End of the Road', proposes a theory interconnecting mushrooms and Christianity, declaring that modern Christianity arose from the mushroom cult. Id est, a cult that depended upon the inhaling of psychoactive mushrooms, thus bringing onto oneself a 'closeness' to God. Furthermore, he declares that Jesus was the manifestation of 'amanita muscaria' -- a type of mushroom. 'I must be in limbo / Cause purgatory's always felt just like home / Inside the moon lives the high priest of the mushroom cult / Upon the altar are the ashes of the Pharisees / I sold my soul, sold my soul, sold my soul away / I'm free of guilt free of sin free of everything' Firstly, the chorus beings with two references to Roman Catholicism, telling of how the narrator must be in 'limbo', a place where those who are non-purified go to become fit for heaven, in place of baptism. Baptism, in itself, is a way of purifying -- a sort of way to relinquish oneself of past and future sins. Thus, Because the narrator has yet to be baptised, the line 'Purgatory's always felt just like home.' He then goes further to say 'Inside the moon lives the high priest of the mushroom cult', suggesting that the belief systems of the people in this cult, 'the pharisee' [a sect that appeared during the intertestamental period; it is interesting to note that this is when the members would have to been inhaling the psychotropic to be able to conjure the symbol that is Christ], which is also the foundations of the Christian religion, are desensitizing themselves on these mushrooms. Because of the mushroom cult, the narrator feels as if he is 'free of guilt; free of sin; free of everything.' |
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