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Everywhere everywhere everywhere
It's all so plain it's all a plan
The sky doesn't ever end
The air just gets much thinner further up
You could keep diggin' down and down
A thousand graves down without turnin'
Around or finding hell
You find you're digging up again
Everywhere everywhere everywhere
Willful suspension of disbelief
It's all so plain it's all a plan
The sky doesn't ever end
The air just gets much thinner further up
You could keep diggin' down and down
A thousand graves down without turnin'
Around or finding hell
You find you're digging up again
Everywhere everywhere everywhere
Willful suspension of disbelief
Lyrics submitted by pensivedeity, edited by sheionizes
Track duration: 03:39
"Willful Suspension of Disbelief" as written by Brock/judy/green
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I agree with what has been asserted about no finding of heaven or hell, but in the line “you could keep digging down and down/a thousand graves” it seems that not only do you not find these while you are living, but you do not find them when you die either (as opposed to other songs - refer possibly to where he lets his being agnostic exist in the same realm as God (like Styrofoam Boots for instance)).
On a side-note tangent, I always found it interesting the geographical “locations” of heaven and hell, being above and below the world respectively, but that bodies are still physically buried “underground,” while their spirits are then supposed to leave and float away. Yet their physical bodies are what are nurturing the soil and continuing life, a spirit in and of itself, in my opinion.
Also, and I may just have this totally wrong, but the air does technically just “disappear” when you get far enough up, right? Like it just becomes vacant space, not consisting of the “air” air (the nitrogen/oxygen/carbon dioxide mixture) that we think of – therefore it’s more of a less than nothing not existing up there, but it is still the “sky” that we speak of, the sky that holds the stars, therefore not ending but also not anything that we can inhabit (in the sense of going to heaven).
everywhere x 3 (this means religion is practiced everywhere, has rein over everywhere, you're not going to find many places without a religious presence in the people.)
It's all so plain, it's all a plan (every religion has basic points that reoccur in other religions, ie some older egyptian religions can be translated exactly into christianity by just changing the names, also every religion has a basic selling point; some are you get to go to heaven and exist in paradice forever and some are you get reincarnated, no religion will say you rot in the ground for eternity because no one would follow it, its all one plan, the price for vision to see through all the bull is emotional unrest but some are okay with that)
It's all so plain to most everyone (everyone accepts this major lie that all of religion is, they willingly suspend their belief of it even though their beliefs are debunked from time to time, all it is is a form of conrtol, its been used for years, but its so common and plain to us that we factor it into life)
The sky doesn't ever end
The air just gets much thinner further up (there is no heaven after you travel so far up in the sky, the air just gets thinner...... science)
You could keep digging down and down
A thousand graves down without turning around or finding hell
You find you're digging up again ( same resoning applies here as last verse, you can dig as much as you want but the only thing you will get out of it is starting to dig up again, but you would die before you got there (irony!!!) )
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere ( up top)
Willful suspension of disbelief ( you must disbelieve what you know is true and stay plain and with the plan to avoid being an outcast and feeling hopeless throughout your life because of there being no afterlife, its only now that people are starting to realize and dichotomize the facts from the bull)
Once you can send a weather balloon to heaven, there may be some comparison.
As for believing in evolution, there are many "missing links" that don't make it a plausible theory to bank on. On the other hand creation also cannot be fully explained and evidence for both theories have their faults. But all humans are imperfect, so how can an imperfect human explain a perfect God? And if you think pratically about this, if God is the creator of all things, then how can we, His creation, know all that He knows. It is illogical and impossible.
As for observed speciation: stickleback fish, Heliconius heurippa butterflies, maize (corn), some cases with the famous Drosophila, Primula kewensis, Helacyton gartleri...the list goes on. You can find more here:
users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/S/…
darwiniana.org/…
talkorigins.org/faqs/…
Despite what 'intelligent design' advocates suggest, missing links aren't strange or unexpected - fossilization is a chance event, and there's no reason to assume that we'd find intact fossils for every single species for millions of years. How someone could see 'missing links' and subsequently assume there's no chain at all is beyond me - do the unjoined segments not still exist? We have seen enough of it to understand how it was joined together, and how animals (including ourselves) relate to one another in evolutionary history. You say this makes it implausible - why? If you saw a painting with a strip torn off the center, would you be unable to make any comment about the painting? Would you not know what's on the left of the missing strip, what's on the right, and that the missing part went in between, and be able to infer some of what the strip showed?
Lastly, I don't know why you would think evolution and god are incompatible. Evolution is an elegant "let it be" mechanism. The results are not what you would call 'perfect,' but they are what worked for their time. And unless you're putting limits on god, why couldn't god give us as much of its knowledge as god pleased, even all of it? To say that god could not create an equal is to say there is something greater than god. Who created god?
This is why science and religion are exclusive to each other, and also why the concept of god is not the same as the concept of air or evolution. I hope this was helpful in clearing things up for you!
Air MOLECULES can be seen too.
The point of this song is saying, that even if you were looking for heaven and hell you wouldn't find it. As it doesn't exist. Tell me, where is heaven? Where is God? Where are they hiding?
This might be my favorite mm cd, too bad its so short but it has the best name and album art of all their stuff. I think Everywhere and his nasty parlour tricks is kinda how our very existance is just screwing around with us. Religion and is just a nasty parlour trick i guess. idk... kinda just makes you question a lot... and i love modest mouse for that