Rapture


     "Rapture be pure… Don't strain your brain… Go insane..."  "Flash is fast… Flash is cool…"  "Don't stop… Do the punk rock…"  These are some of the lyrics found in Blondie's song Rapture. 

     This is my interpretation of these words


     The rapture spoken about by Evangelical Christians in which the Lord is supposed to lift 144,000 of his first chosen faithful into the clouds with him upon his arrival has taken place.  This song ushered it in, way back in the early 1980's.

     The actual rapture is the music of God Rock.  Why wait for some impossible event such as an appearance of some cosmic force from outer space to land on earth in order to realize that the prophecy has been completed.  What if the aliens are smart enough to have also read our prophecies and use it to their advantage.  Remember, the Aztecs were destroyed with a similar belief in their prophecies by the Spaniards whom the Aztecs thought represented their Great White God. 

     The Flash spoken of in the above lyrics is me.  Flash Gordon, savior of the Universe.  How can I prove this.  I can't and therein lies the proof.  The proof is actually mentioned within the song itself.  Someone who believes that songs are being sung about him, or that the television is talking to him is said by psychiatrists to suffer from paranoid delusions.  These specific delusions are termed "ideations of reference." 

     While I do not suffer from these delusions, as, the song, is, sung about me.  Within the song itself I am told not to worry or "strain my brain."  Rather, I am told to, "Go insane."  Therefore my goal would actually be to purposely let myself suffer from these ideations or delusions.  Thereby completing the circular frame of reference in which it is all about me.  Particularly, as I am responsible for all creation.  Not making sense?  Not supposed to.  Remember I'm supposed to, "go insane," or, rather to get out of my mind and into God as we would say in Conversations with God.

     As for the music it is pretty good.  The basic strength of the song lies in Debra Harry's siren's voice in the beginning of the song and in her rap towards the end of the song.  That rap mentions the man from Mars.  Again this could be a reference to me as among the things that the man from Mars is said to do is eat up bars, cars and guitars.  The meaning of this would be that when I am in full glory in bars people have to take notice of me.  When I wear the Emperor's Clothes while walking down the street, compared to cars, I look much better.   And when I use the reflectors I am vastly superior to look at than someone playing the guitar.