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> In a message dated 6/28/01 10:59:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << further to the discussion about who Joni meant when she sang: with
> heaven full of astronauts and the Lord on Death row' which some people
> took to be a reference to Manson. I was listening to C&S in the car on a
> beautiful trip to a house in the deep country. Anyway, the next line
> says'while millions of His lost and lonely ones call and clamor to be
> found'.(or something very similar. this confirms for me that my always
> believing she meant God is accurate. Unless Manson has millions of
> follers I haven't heard about.
> >>
> Colin,
> I think you're looking at it too literally, or too narrowly.
I don't know. I think thinking she meant Manson is taking it very naroowly. I
have always assumed she was talking about God. I was a child when he Manson
thing happened so it didn't come to my mind she meant him. It still doesn't seem
likely to me. however, you could of course be right,. we don't know.
>
> Weren't Manson's followers "lost and lonely ones"?
> In her reference, they represent in a sense the millions of others who were
> lost and lonely, though certainly not all the lost and lonely ones were
> Manson followers, but many of the lost and lonely ones turned to one cult or
> another during that period, possibly because of dissatisfaction with
> established religion and the feeling that God had abandoned them.
>
> Paul I
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