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Thread #137313   Message #3140203
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
22-Apr-11 - 06:04 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Donkey Want Water
Subject: RE: Origins: My Donkey Want Water
PS - Although here on this most solemn day in the Christian Calendar a song like My Donkey Want Water becomes a more graphic depiction of the sort of sinfulness for which Christ was supposedly crucified. Nature untamed - the mindless beast beating at the stall for escape into the wilderness of depravity. The stall is elightenment - containment & discipline: the donkey is instinctive impulse tamed and (hopefully) docile. Let's not forget the Biblical significance of donkeys in both the Nativity and the Passion, this most humble of beasts bearing the most noble of riders...