Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
English answer:
I have given up on salvation
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Robert Kleemaier
Nov 15, 2007 03:07
16 yrs ago
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Devoting myself to translation
Native in: Chinese 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese, and 2 more.
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside
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Nov 22, 2007 01:08: Robert Kleemaier changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/690414">Shirley Fan's</a> old entry - "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection"" to ""I have given up on salvation""
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I have given up on salvation
Shirley, this reminds me of gospel music (hip hop?), along the lines of what DC talk did back in the '90s. It sounds like a Christian or, perhaps, anti-Christian message. See below for further explanation.
1) Cancel my subscription to the resurrection = I have given up on salvation
2) Send my credentials to the house of detention = I am going to Hell
3) I got some friends inside = I know some people who have already ended up there. (possible to another interpretation)
HTH. Cheers,
R.
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Oops! 'possible to another interpretation' should read 'another interpretation possible' (ahem;-)
1) Cancel my subscription to the resurrection = I have given up on salvation
2) Send my credentials to the house of detention = I am going to Hell
3) I got some friends inside = I know some people who have already ended up there. (possible to another interpretation)
HTH. Cheers,
R.
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Oops! 'possible to another interpretation' should read 'another interpretation possible' (ahem;-)
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Mark Berelekhis
: Hi Robert. I was actually thinking something very similar, but couldn't bridge "resurrection" to "salvation" or heaven or the like. Seing as 'salvation' is just as good a rhyme for 'detention' as 'resurrection,' why wouldn't the lyricist just use that?
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Rhyme isn't important here, Mark, but meaning: detention -> eternal punishment -> Hell; resurrection -> Jesus Christ -> salvation -> everlasting life with God
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orientalhorizon
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merci
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Patricia Townshend (X)
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Thank you, Patricia
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Monika Silea
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Thanks, Monika, also for identifying the origin of the lyrics
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Comment: "ThanX!"
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Mark Berelekhis
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do not resurrect me, I do not want resurrection
Of course, there's a certain degree of poetic license when it comes to lyrics, but that's what the lyricist seems to say. 'Canceling subscription' (as though of a magazine) is like saying "I do not wish to receive it anymore."
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JaneTranslates
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Thank you, Jane.
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orientalhorizon
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Thank you, orientalhorizon.
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P.L.F. Persio
: it reminds me of Ivan Karamazov, doesn't it?
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Thank you, Sofia. Come to think of it, there's something there.
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Suzan Hamer
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Thank you, Suzan.
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Terry Burgess
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I have no wish, whatsoever, to be resurrected/to be brought back
And I entirely agree:-)
Personally speaking and in real time, have no wish for either resurrection or reincarnation on my demise...unless to a far "healthier and more humane" world.
As regards: "send my credentials to the house of detention"
This may refer to [in the RC religion] as "Purgatory" [doesn't say whether temporary or permanent "detention"]. If temporary, it would mean "Purgatory" and if permanent, well, where else:? Hell, with old Nick himself.
I also agree with the author as regards "a lot of friends inside". I probably have more friends in there than out here.
Personally speaking and in real time, have no wish for either resurrection or reincarnation on my demise...unless to a far "healthier and more humane" world.
As regards: "send my credentials to the house of detention"
This may refer to [in the RC religion] as "Purgatory" [doesn't say whether temporary or permanent "detention"]. If temporary, it would mean "Purgatory" and if permanent, well, where else:? Hell, with old Nick himself.
I also agree with the author as regards "a lot of friends inside". I probably have more friends in there than out here.
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Jonathan MacKerron
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rejection of Christianity
penned by Jim Morrison of The Doors in the late 60s in their song "When the Music's Iver". The message is that the author no long believes in there resurrection of Christ, therefore rejecting Christianity, and perhaps religion altogether
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jerrie
: I don't subscribe to (the concept of) the resurrection any more
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airmailrpl
: "When the Music's Iver".???
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