Bob Geldof changed the world...
and he's still changing it today...
His parents were instrumental in forming his identity, his values, what he read, what he did and he went on to do a lot, still is
Is it not true that Bob Geldof changed Bono and U2?
The same is true of Nelson Mandela
We all live in symbiosis.
Tony Blair spend summer holidays in Northern Ireland and went on to have a huge part to play in the peace process there as British PM
We all affect each other in unimaginable dynamic ways.
Read Gary Zukav - Oprah references him next to the Bible
Pope John Paul II, the late Holy Father. The catholic church doesn't get everything right but look at the part he played in inspiring people in the former Soviet Union to re-claim their personal power in the self determination in their lives and countries in co-operation with everyone else.
Basically I have gone on a tangent here, but the song is about empowerment, personal and collective. It's not esoteric but it can be -
<<I am more than you know>>
the word more is interesting because it;s comparative,
it references as a starting point the totality of what you already know...Landmark concepts here...I am and you are more than what you see.
Of course learning as is said is nothing more than remembering
Once we were like God and I recon, like in the Matrix, that's where we're working to get back to - the gateway maybe Judgement day - an actual day like in the Meteor ad or it maybe the instantaneous time when we time. If you integrate the dimension of time, do we all die at the same time - just have different experiences because as Echolle Tolle said, there is only Now. I wish I knew more about other faiths and cultures to expand this thinking and understanding of what we could be journeying to. At any rate as Paul McCartney sings in his 'New' album, there is no guarantee, there is nothing to loose. U2 are all about real choices the third way as Bill Clinton proved works, practical choices as opposed to idyllic nirvana's conjured up by John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I must admit I dream a lot and like the idea that we can make it (Coldplay recon we will if we should, bowing to God) U2 are Christian I think but they are more on Jesus's radical side of pragmatism than the Pharisee's side of 'Holy Books' and religiosity, observance of 'old curtailing certainties' to quote of President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins. It is interesting that the room cleared of smoke; remember the U2 lyric....'you and your holy book while the rest of us choke', could this song be referencing that song or developing that metaphor Anyway Bono has claimed to believe in Jesus and also that he is not worthy to be a Christian ( why I don't know, I never read the Sunday Independent article) he is fed up of people saying there will be peace on Earth, he wanted God to send an angel, he wanted Jesus to throw a drowning man a line, that is do something practical to save us in this life ( why all the suffering etc) But in HTDAAB he says he needs something other - could it be the else in love and peace or else or that tough love he has mentioned before?
anyway everyone in the loop seems to be singing from the same sheet now from Bruce Springsteen to our Taoiseach in Ireland, Enda Kenny - to quote Anthony Robbins - the best study of life is the way it is - it's human nature, the human condition. Bono refrained from calling his wife Ali a saint once because it would rob her of her 'complexity' or to use a different word humanity ( so Did Princess Diana's brother in his eulogy as did Ted Kennedy in RFK's eulogy)
So Bob Dylan is right, the times are a changing and Bruce Springsteen is right
On the alternative and U2 are regularly list as an alternative band, could there be an invisible sun guiding us all, a pilot light that Elton John sings of in his last album, guiding us all, in a word, GOD
Bono definitely believe in God, has faith and sings of us going to a place that has to be believed in to be seen, in word Heaven,
Bono says God is interested in us, he get's involved in the tiny details of our lives - pretty cool. Ties in with Einsten and all who enable us to marvel and the detail of the universe in all
but I don't want to get too fundamental* or religiously absolute about a criteria of laws at the same time things are not all relative, there is love and evil in the world, and it's important to know the difference - the catholic church have a very good life operating system if you remove some of the objectionable exclusions, rules and outmoded constrains on individual in society.
*(i have made that mistake of being too fundamental myself in the past - you can't wait for God to do it for you; you have to do it for yourself: think global but act local, build relationships with those around you and build from the ground up- have faith but be realistic, don't be afraid to measure your progress and see where you are)
Bob Geldof changed the world... and he's still changing it today...
His parents were instrumental in forming his identity, his values, what he read, what he did and he went on to do a lot, still is
Is it not true that Bob Geldof changed Bono and U2? The same is true of Nelson Mandela We all live in symbiosis.
Tony Blair spend summer holidays in Northern Ireland and went on to have a huge part to play in the peace process there as British PM
We all affect each other in unimaginable dynamic ways. Read Gary Zukav - Oprah references him next to the Bible
Pope John Paul II, the late Holy Father. The catholic church doesn't get everything right but look at the part he played in inspiring people in the former Soviet Union to re-claim their personal power in the self determination in their lives and countries in co-operation with everyone else.
Basically I have gone on a tangent here, but the song is about empowerment, personal and collective. It's not esoteric but it can be -
<<I am more than you know>>
the word more is interesting because it;s comparative, it references as a starting point the totality of what you already know...Landmark concepts here...I am and you are more than what you see. Of course learning as is said is nothing more than remembering Once we were like God and I recon, like in the Matrix, that's where we're working to get back to - the gateway maybe Judgement day - an actual day like in the Meteor ad or it maybe the instantaneous time when we time. If you integrate the dimension of time, do we all die at the same time - just have different experiences because as Echolle Tolle said, there is only Now. I wish I knew more about other faiths and cultures to expand this thinking and understanding of what we could be journeying to. At any rate as Paul McCartney sings in his 'New' album, there is no guarantee, there is nothing to loose. U2 are all about real choices the third way as Bill Clinton proved works, practical choices as opposed to idyllic nirvana's conjured up by John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I must admit I dream a lot and like the idea that we can make it (Coldplay recon we will if we should, bowing to God) U2 are Christian I think but they are more on Jesus's radical side of pragmatism than the Pharisee's side of 'Holy Books' and religiosity, observance of 'old curtailing certainties' to quote of President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins. It is interesting that the room cleared of smoke; remember the U2 lyric....'you and your holy book while the rest of us choke', could this song be referencing that song or developing that metaphor Anyway Bono has claimed to believe in Jesus and also that he is not worthy to be a Christian ( why I don't know, I never read the Sunday Independent article) he is fed up of people saying there will be peace on Earth, he wanted God to send an angel, he wanted Jesus to throw a drowning man a line, that is do something practical to save us in this life ( why all the suffering etc) But in HTDAAB he says he needs something other - could it be the else in love and peace or else or that tough love he has mentioned before?
anyway everyone in the loop seems to be singing from the same sheet now from Bruce Springsteen to our Taoiseach in Ireland, Enda Kenny - to quote Anthony Robbins - the best study of life is the way it is - it's human nature, the human condition. Bono refrained from calling his wife Ali a saint once because it would rob her of her 'complexity' or to use a different word humanity ( so Did Princess Diana's brother in his eulogy as did Ted Kennedy in RFK's eulogy)
So Bob Dylan is right, the times are a changing and Bruce Springsteen is right
On the alternative and U2 are regularly list as an alternative band, could there be an invisible sun guiding us all, a pilot light that Elton John sings of in his last album, guiding us all, in a word, GOD
Bono definitely believe in God, has faith and sings of us going to a place that has to be believed in to be seen, in word Heaven,
Bono says God is interested in us, he get's involved in the tiny details of our lives - pretty cool. Ties in with Einsten and all who enable us to marvel and the detail of the universe in all
but I don't want to get too fundamental* or religiously absolute about a criteria of laws at the same time things are not all relative, there is love and evil in the world, and it's important to know the difference - the catholic church have a very good life operating system if you remove some of the objectionable exclusions, rules and outmoded constrains on individual in society.
*(i have made that mistake of being too fundamental myself in the past - you can't wait for God to do it for you; you have to do it for yourself: think global but act local, build relationships with those around you and build from the ground up- have faith but be realistic, don't be afraid to measure your progress and see where you are)
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the quote that is missing between the <> after the paragraph that begins 'Basically... is :-
" I am more than you know"
" I am more than you know"