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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
the problem is, you narrowed the title down to "from the perspective of the devil", instead of "the honest perspective from the devil in all of us".
the latter would have gotten you heaps of non deth-metal lyrics.
the former gets you GMKU.
which is why we're all just waiting for the rolling stones to show up.
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ha.. I think it was
too obvious GMKU.
in regards to this thread, I thought the first tune from Tool there really catches the whole Chris Walken "Prophecy" vibe of the whole jealous fallen angel bit. I think that in the whole event of blaming/identifying the devil (after all, he is attributed as the literal
scapegoat in the old testament) in peoples lives, be it consciously looking for some wicked spirit to blame for all their ills, or just trying to find excuses for your own lot in life.. either way, from the proclaimed diviners to the current-day
sadducees (the agnostics and atheists who do not believe in spirits), this whole search for a literal or figurative scapegoat distracts people from the joy of existence and accepting reality at face value. The indians say that you should never take anything in life personally, after all the universe (or the devil if you like) is not fucking with you. God is not fucking with you, nothing is fucking with you. Life is to exist, period. If a bunch of bad ass shit happens, it has no purpose or reason for happening other than as something else meant for you to experience. Searching for a devil to blame is petty and selfish, accepting your life as it is is perhaps the truest form of altruism in that you finally let go of your ego, even if just for a moment. The only devil to blame is the self-serving ego, which denies the fact that you are really just a link in a chain, not the chain itself.
If there is a devil (which I don't necessarily believe in, I do not
accept duality) I think his laughter at humanity is best said in the lyric from "right in two" which sings, "
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to live tonight in heaven,
conscious of his fleeting time here."
The devil is perhaps the only figure who can laugh at the futility of the human ego, humans so preoccupied with trying to figure out how and why to live, and rarely ever just living, squandering the ability which most animals readily appreciate, to just exist rather then think about it all the damned time. To ponder on existence is to rob yourself of the simple spiritual pleasure of existing..