Post by bbkings on Dec 28, 2008 5:26:28 GMT -5
Has anyone heard the complete long version of Dig It?
I don’t know where you can find it. But I heard it once maybe four years ago.
The rolling stone might not be in reference to the rock group. Or maybe it has a double meaning in this case. You see, in Palestine/Israel in biblical times, a grave was often covered up with a stone that was rolled in front of the entrance. Later these rolling stones were replaced by stones cut vertically into the rock.
In the Beatles song Dig it! I believe they’re talking about graves.
We aren’t in biblical times (or in Palestine/Israel), so how do people cover most graves in the western world? They cover them with dirt. So if you wanted to get at the body back in the day, you'd have to roll a stone. Today you'd, for the most part, have to dig for it. Like a rolling stone, the secret can be pushed aside to reveal the truth.
In the song, the Beatles mention Matt Busby, B.B. King and Doris Day. In the long version, not only is it suggesting that you “dig” their graves, but you should also “dig” for the truth.
I’ve heard for decades that the real B.B. King died some time ago. Superman gave a more detailed account of this here in this thread:
invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=connection&action=display&thread=2461
I was surprised to learn about Doris Day and whoever this Busby joker is. I had no idea that they, like B.B. King, aren’t the people they claim to be. The original versions of these people are most likely in graves somewhere. Someone should dig for the truth.
Some folklore has it that B.B. King gained the spirit of the original by locating where the charred remains (the original B.B. King was allegedly burned to death) were buried. Yes, you can allegedly glean some sort of power if you want. All you have to do it dig for it ("if you want it").
The current B.B. King (and likely the infamous Robert Johnson) was (is?) allegedly a follower of the voodoo-like Candomblé Jejé. Candomblé Jejé is one of the major branches of Candomblé, a secret African-American religion. It developed mainly among slaves in America that had been brought over from the region of Dahomey in Africa. The name itself is an African Yoruba word meaning stranger, which is how African-American slaves viewed themselves in the United States.
Candomblé Jejé teaches people to free their minds while repeating a specific set of words. This is much like the Brahman/Vedic transcendental meditation mantra. Doing this allows a person’s attention to be focused on a subsconscious instead of a conscious level. While your mind is in this state, closed doors within a person’s consciousness are opened. A door can even be opened to allow the spirit of another inside.
This is allegedly what B.B. King did when he “dug up” the grave of the original and called his spirit into his own body. The result is that the thoughts and talents of the original fused with the new guy, creating magic through this union of differing spirits. Some even suggest that the new Paul (or Faul) gets his talent that way.
Doesn’t mean that the original Paul or the new one was particularly good, but just that the combination of both produces an individual that will do things neither would have been capable of individually.
Can you dig it?
I don’t know where you can find it. But I heard it once maybe four years ago.
The rolling stone might not be in reference to the rock group. Or maybe it has a double meaning in this case. You see, in Palestine/Israel in biblical times, a grave was often covered up with a stone that was rolled in front of the entrance. Later these rolling stones were replaced by stones cut vertically into the rock.
In the Beatles song Dig it! I believe they’re talking about graves.
We aren’t in biblical times (or in Palestine/Israel), so how do people cover most graves in the western world? They cover them with dirt. So if you wanted to get at the body back in the day, you'd have to roll a stone. Today you'd, for the most part, have to dig for it. Like a rolling stone, the secret can be pushed aside to reveal the truth.
In the song, the Beatles mention Matt Busby, B.B. King and Doris Day. In the long version, not only is it suggesting that you “dig” their graves, but you should also “dig” for the truth.
I’ve heard for decades that the real B.B. King died some time ago. Superman gave a more detailed account of this here in this thread:
invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=connection&action=display&thread=2461
I was surprised to learn about Doris Day and whoever this Busby joker is. I had no idea that they, like B.B. King, aren’t the people they claim to be. The original versions of these people are most likely in graves somewhere. Someone should dig for the truth.
Some folklore has it that B.B. King gained the spirit of the original by locating where the charred remains (the original B.B. King was allegedly burned to death) were buried. Yes, you can allegedly glean some sort of power if you want. All you have to do it dig for it ("if you want it").
The current B.B. King (and likely the infamous Robert Johnson) was (is?) allegedly a follower of the voodoo-like Candomblé Jejé. Candomblé Jejé is one of the major branches of Candomblé, a secret African-American religion. It developed mainly among slaves in America that had been brought over from the region of Dahomey in Africa. The name itself is an African Yoruba word meaning stranger, which is how African-American slaves viewed themselves in the United States.
Candomblé Jejé teaches people to free their minds while repeating a specific set of words. This is much like the Brahman/Vedic transcendental meditation mantra. Doing this allows a person’s attention to be focused on a subsconscious instead of a conscious level. While your mind is in this state, closed doors within a person’s consciousness are opened. A door can even be opened to allow the spirit of another inside.
This is allegedly what B.B. King did when he “dug up” the grave of the original and called his spirit into his own body. The result is that the thoughts and talents of the original fused with the new guy, creating magic through this union of differing spirits. Some even suggest that the new Paul (or Faul) gets his talent that way.
Doesn’t mean that the original Paul or the new one was particularly good, but just that the combination of both produces an individual that will do things neither would have been capable of individually.
Can you dig it?
