The Vineyards

(NOTE: If you came here looking for the lyrics to "Don't Walk Away From Love" by Gregory Gray, they are in this post.)

There was a song on the radio today. I hear it often. I catch some phrases and look for them. I never find it.

"She's feeling cynical, tired. The city lights can really blow your mind. Don't walk away from love", taka taka taka. Maybe I am understanding it all wrong. After all, this is one of those songs that got glued in my head before I knew enough English, so I remember most of it phonetically. And until I read the lyrics, it is rather hard to hear the correct version instead of the phonetical version.

I always try "She's feeling cynical" first on Google. No deal. So I went for "can really blow your mind". I was browsing through the links, getting frustrated, when I came across one Google entry that said "the Holy Spirit can really blow your mind". Woo. I had to visit it. Here it is in case you have time to spare. Here is the copy on Google's cache, should the original disappear.

An argument erupted between some members, as is natural to happen when you have UFO people and skeptics talking, and a Catholic comes rushing in. I loved this passage:

So answer me this....when I disappear along with a lot of other walk the walk Christians, and the aliens come down saying that they "beamed us up to another planet" cause the earth is about to go through a spiritual evolution and we were too close-minded to participate, and then tell you that you're going to have to volunteer for some genetic manipulation to survive the coming cataclysmic earth changes, THEN YOU WILL KNOW. You will KNOW that I wasn't as crazy as you thought I was all this time. You will KNOW that I'm not an octypus, but rather with Jesus. And guess what home-boy? You're gonna fall right down on your knees and be a martyr for Christ. And I'm just gonna be laughin', laughin', laughin' (looking down from above with the utmost joy). And then when you get there with me I'm gonna say "See? I told ya so." LMAO!

I will not go into religion and/or UFO today. I am writing this to mention that this passage, along with subsequent posts, gave me an idea. Unfortunately, I cannot put it to practice, as it would involve drawing skills. I wanted to draw a comic, because the story that I envisioned does not fit in words alone.

It would portray one boy offering cookies to a dog, while another boy shows the leash and proposes to take it for a walk. The dog is blind and rather dumb, so it is not sure if the offers are real. The dog is also not sure if it should trust either boy - assuming they are there, and both are not a product of his imagination.

But this image of the dog is a metaphor, it would be a little side story, like the ghost ship thingie in Watchmen. The real story would be about a powerful entity fighting another powerful entity for the throne of a planet (think Master of Orion, the throne in the planet of Orion). The beings living on this planet are not sure of what is going on, and they are easily tricked and fooled because they cannot see ten inches ahead of their noses. So the two high beings deceive the tiny organisms on the surface. One creates some fancy stories that portray him as good and the other as bad, then gets those stories to be considered holy; the other uses that trick against the first, and makes many different versions of that same story, so those who fall for it fight among themselves. They fight on with tricks like that, twisting the mind of the little beings below, maneuvering the masses, showing things to some and not to others. Eventually the two beings realize their war is probably more fun than ruling those petty creatures, and decide to work together in causing chaos and confusion among the little beings. And while the tiny creatures kill each other over what they think is right, and waste their lives studying false truths and seeking a greater end after their deaths, the two higher beings laugh very hard and plan their next big joke.

I planned on calling one being Bill, the other Ted. Or Belldandy and Mumrah. Or Jesus and Lucifer. Not sure yet.

But I am not good at drawing, so my excommunication will have to wait.

Posted by Etienne at May 7, 2003 03:56 PM