I admit that I don't get Rainbow Children, not in the slightest. I'm hoping that maybe somebody could fill in some of my blanks and maybe then I could appreciate the album a bit more.

First of all what the heck is the album about? The JW's? Black pride?

Who exactly are the Rainbow Children and who are the banished ones?

Who is the Muse?

What is the digital garden?

Some people have complained that parts of the album are anti-semitic. Personally I can't hear any anti-semitism but if it is on there where is it?

I'm sure that I'm not alone in my confusion. If anybody can clarify any aspect of the Rainbow Children I would surely appreciate it.

The digital Garden represents the Female Vagina.
The banished ones represent men who seek to invade it, but are banished.

In their desperate attempt to invade such a vigina, they are forever forbidden from it by the woman possessing the vagina (Mayte Garcia).

So they go about recruiting men who are ready to do the work of constructing a new digital Garden; in other words, building their own vagina, a synthetic vagina. They construct one and then another, and the another until they have three complete new vaginas.

And they invite everyone to a feast (representing an orgy), in which all the men who attend disregard their genital differences and connect at a higher level invading their new an improved synthetic vaginas. Thomas Jefferson (representing the Government), seeks to keep them from being able to have sex with these viginas, but ultimately the government is powerless to stop men from having sex with sythetic vaginas. This is at the point in which a single rainbow colored condomn is handed out to each participant in the synthetic vagina gang-bang partake.

But the vaginas do not last. They wear out, and the men are left with no vaginas again. It is at this point that they realize that they should disregard their sexual obsessions and look to the HOly Spirit to replace the void that was left when the original "real" vagina walked out on them.

Upon doing this, their lives are fullfilled and they all die. This happened last december.
[This message was edited Sat Jun 19 9:57:29 2004 by AsianBomb777]
[This message was edited Sat Jun 19 9:58:34 2004 by AsianBomb777]

AsianBomb777 said:

Get out of my head.

AsianBomb777 said:

Dang, I must be blind not to see all of that!

Does anyone else have any serious insight into this album?

rialb said:

Personally, I don't even think Prince could explain the concept of the Rainbow Children. Don't force yourself to appreciate an album you don't "get". It's okay not to like it .

AsianBomb777 said:

Crack is a helluva drug.

rialb said:

There are numerous threads on this topic already. The bottom line is: it's about his interpretation of the JW religion.

Basically this album shows his intolerance to all other religions, his need to address the past of his ancestors in America, and what he feels he must now do, to bring about his salvation, i.e., "The Work Pt. 1," "Everlasting Now," and "Last December."

There is no real emotion in the album, it is sung entirely from his head (his book knowledge), as opposed to Lovesexy, which was sung entirely from his spirit and showed more heartfelt emotion. HUGE difference between the 2 CDs.


The Rainbow Children are JW's (who think of themselves as God's chosen religion), and only the ones who accept this, and read their interpretation of the bible (New World Translation), as well as the Watchtower magazine that helps them "understand" the bible more than anyone else who reads it.

The banished ones are everyone else who don't accept this. Believers and non-believers alike, of all different religions and beliefs.


The wife he is searching for that will be a Rainbow Child as well. (Mani)


Society as we know it... which the JW's believe has put satan in charge of everything, except their religion and doctrines.


I don't know much about this part. I've never looked into this aspect of the album. People believed the "Passion of the Christ" to be anti-semitic as well, but it wasn't. They couldn't help their role in the crucifixion of Jesus. The bible must be anti-semitic as well. NOT!

This is all I know, some may agree, some may disagree, but this is what I, personally, got out of this CD and it is merely my opinion.

rialb said:

Nope, AsianBomb777 pretty much summed it up!

it's his contractual obligation to the JW's.

superspaceboy said:

Shit. Forget vaginas--I like your explaination best.

its about whateva u want it to b about !!!

The Illuminati.

NouveauDance said:

Hardly

Hmmmmm.

Im NOT a believer of the Bible or anything but here is the understandings of it i guess.....


With the accurate understanding of God and its law they went about the work of building a new nation..The Rainbow Children...

(something like Adam and Eve are the starts of "rainbow children"..something like that)...

As prophesised the Wise One (Adam?) and his woman (Eve?) were tempted by the Resistor (the "Devil"?).

the woman was blamed (according to the bible) and they were banished out of the Rainbow (the Eden).



the Wise One believed that he would be handed down another woman woman who loved him so....

Muse 2 The Pharoh


The Digital Garden may of some "sinful" enviornments created all over by the Banished Ones..while the Rainbow Children constructed a "palace" where the Banished Ones and their Digital Garden couldnt be reached.

They demanded compensation for time spent in the palace (maybe ones who were jailed) something like that???? "So be it!" said the Wise One (who became king of the palace..leader of the children...). And they parted. The Banished Ones returned to "Menda City".
There the Rainbow Children started doing their 'Work'. U know..knockin on doors spreading the word of God.

I guess "Everywhere" is a celebration of the Banished Ones leaving and celebrating their work and love for God.

The Wise One began a falling in love with a woman, and started 2 c her love for God was growing more and more everyday. He told every one goodnight and made them sleep early..so that he can get lost with his woman in the Sensual Everafter....
Mellow :yes: self explanitory.

After falling in2 the Sensual Everafter..out of body out of mind...stroking he hair one hundred times....repeat after me he said.., "1+1+1=3". You+Me+God= 3. She has to accept God in2 her heart to be with him forever.

All of a sudden the Banished Ones wants to become fruitful and demands to come in the Palace "We are the Banished Ones we have come 2 dance.." The Wise One doesnt care.

After this..the Wise One demanded that all of the Digital Garden be destryoed immediatley!
With nothing more left than dirt for the Banished Ones to eat....they fled. The Haze was broken. "Never again would anyone claim the treasures of the Rainbow Children!"

The Wise One chose the woman as his queen!

They have a Wedding Feast!
His vows...She Loves Me For Me

To obtain a marrige blessing, they must obtain history on their culture...this is where Family Name comes in. The understanding of her new last name..which is part of his culture..African American....
In the end it's not about what race you are....as long as they are free is the truth.

The Wise One threw down his crown...men arent fit to rule..there is only one ruler....God. This is the Everlasting Now. God is Everlasting and no matter what / where you are it is Now.

From this day on till times indefinite...those who loves Christ are the ones who benefit.

And when you pass will you accept Jesus in your heart...confess...be forgiven? That is the Last December. He asks...what would you do on your last day of Earth living? What is going to happen to you when you cross that path?
When you accept everything as One in your soul, your soul will become one with everything that exists....We will come2gether come2gether as One.


And that what makes it such a beutiful album, beautiful message.

Although i dont agree with EVERYHTHING he says and i have disbanded all religions from myself, i think it is a powerful album and it is a very very important album. Perhaps THEE most important album in his lifetime?

did all this and not one response?

Genesis 6:1 to Genesis 9:29.

Many years ago before it began to rain on the earth there was a man called Noah who loved and obeyed the LORD God. In those times gardens were watered not by rain falling from the sky but by a heavy mist that arose on the surface of the earth during the night. This allowed the trees, bushes, grass and gardens to be kept green and lush.

There were many people living on the earth at that time. Most of the people did not think much about God and there was much evil throughout the earth. Most of Earth's people thought only of themselves and did not care about their neighbor's needs. They worshipped and served strange gods and obeyed the impulses they received from Satan. There were many murders such as we have today in drive by killings and in horrible wars. There were also many riots with burning of buildings, looting and killing.

God was greatly disturbed by all of chaos and murders throughout the world. He despaired over the condition of the hearts of most of mankind. He knew that most of them never would turn their minds to thoughts of God and of His love for all people. God decided that they only way to remedy the situation was to destroy the systems of the Earth and to start a new system that was based on His ways.

God looked throughout the earth to find a man who would obey His commands and cause his family also to love and obey God. He found a man named Noah who did not participate in the evil ways of the people surrounding him. Noah knew how to say "No".

Noah focused his life on the worship of God and of service to the God of the Universe, The LORD God Most High. Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham and Japeth along with their wives also worshipped and obeyed the LORD God. They prayed to God daily and talked with God through prayer and meditation and lived their lives according to the wishes of God, giving to the poor and taking care of the sick people around them.

God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me. The earth is filled with violence through them. I will destroy them with the earth.

"Make an ark, a great boat of gopherwood. Make rooms inside the ark and cover it inside and outside with black tarry pitch so that water cannot enter inside to fill the ark and sink it. Build the ark four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide and forty-five feet high. Place a window one and one-half feet long in the top of the ark and place a door along the side of the ark. Divide the ark into three decks, each fifteen feet high.

" I am going to bring a great flood upon the earth that will destroy every living being upon the earth. The only people who will survive will be the people in the ark. Make sure that your three sons and their wives enter into the ark with you when I tell you to go. You need to preach to all the people around you while you are building the ark to invite them to enter into the ark with you so that they, too may be saved from the great flood which is coming on the earth."

"I will cause animals and birds to come to the ark to be saved along with you. Stock the ark with food and water for your family and for the animals who will be brought into the ark."

These instructions sounded strange to Noah. After all, it never before had rained upon the earth. To make it even more difficult to understand the place where Noah lived did not have any bodies of water large enough to float such a great ship that he had been ordered to build. Nevertheless Noah decided to obey the command of God. He and his sons began to build the ship just as God had instructed, even though no one before ever had seen such a structure.

For one hundred twenty years Noah and his sons labored diligently to construct the ark. They also began to preach to the people around them. They told them of the coming disaster. They told the people that one day it would begin to rain from the heavens and floods of water would cover the earth. Every breathing being would be destroyed in that great flood that was to come.

No one believed Noah and his sons. They laughed at them and called them crazy. They came to watch the construction of the ark and to hurl mocking jests at their expense. This great monstrosity of a boat and its builders were the laughing stock of the world.

"They think that it is going to rain", they laughed. "It never has rained before! Who ever heard of water's falling from the heavens! Noah and his family are all crazy as loons!"

After one hundred twenty years of labor in the midst of mockery and of being ostracized and viewed as being stark-raving mad, Noah and his sons completed their work.

Then the LORD God said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all of your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation of evil people. Take with you seven each of every animal that I have allowed you to eat and a male and female of the animals you are not supposed to eat. Take with you seven each of the birds of the air so that these animals may be preserved during the great flood that I am sending upon the earth. After seven days I will start the rain and everything on the face of the earth will be destroyed in the flood."

Noah obeyed the LORD God and with his family and the animals and birds that God has specified went into the ark. The door of the ark was left open for seven days so that anyone else who wished to join them in the ark could enter.

No one else would enter the ark. The people outside began to laugh loudly at the people inside the ark. "You really are out of your minds", they shouted. "How could you possibly make such fools of yourselves, going into a great boat in the middle of a pasture field, far away from the ocean. Your ark is the most insane thing we ever have seen!"

Suddenly, after seven days the door to the ark was banged shut. No one else could enter the ark. Then it began to rain. This never had happened on earth before. In addition water from inside the earth began to spurt up onto the land so that the earth was covered with deep waters. The rain continued for forty days and night in such an inundation that no life on earth's surface could survive. All of the people and animals that had walked upon the earth died. Only Noah, his wife and his sons and their wives survived, along with the animals and birds inside the ark which floated upon the water. They ate the food and drank the water that were stored in the ark.

After the waters had reached their highest level God sent a strong wind to blow upon the earth to cause the water to evaporate into clouds and to settle into the depths of the earth called oceans.

One hundred fifty days after the flood began the bottom of the ark came to rest on the top of a mountain now called Ararat which is near the border of what is now Russia and Turkey.

Forty days after landing Noah opened the window and sent out a raven and a dove to search for a place to rest. The dove could not find dry land to rest and so returned to the ark where Noah brought her back into the ark.

Seven days later Noah again let the dove out of the window. This time the dove flew back to the ark with a twig with olive leaves in her beak.

Noah and his sons then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the earth indeed had dried. He and his wife, their sons with their wives stepped out of the ark, back onto dry ground. They, of all of the people of the earth had been saved. A new generation of people would be started from them and their children. All of the future people on the earth would be their descendants, as we are today.

The first thing that Noah and his family did was to build an altar and made sacrifices in thanksgiving to the LORD God.

God was pleased with the sacrifices made to him, and God made a promise, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake and I will never again destroy every living thing by flood as I have done this time.While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer and day and night shall not cease."

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The sign that I have made a covenant between you and me for all future generations is My rainbow in the cloud. When I see a rainbow in the cloud I shall be reminded of my covenant with you forever."All born after this Rainbow are The Rainbow Children .

During His ministry on Earth Jesus talked about Noah. He warned that the time would come when the hearts of people again would become evil even as the people in Noah's time were extremely evil. Jesus warned that when the hearts of mankind became as evil as they were in the days of Noah God would allow punishment to come upon the earth and that Jesus would return to Earth to save the righteous people from the punishment to come.

Jesus said in Matthew 24:37-39, "...as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."

It is important that our thoughts and actions be acceptable to the LORD God so that we shall be saved when the LORD Jesus Christ returns to establish His Kingdom on the Earth. We need to have our sins forgiven, because all of us have committed sins. We can receive forgiveness of our sins if we accept the sacrifice for sins that God has provided.

To be forgiven we need only to confess to God that we have sinned, or have failed to obey the commandments of God, and then believe that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross was done for us, for me. This makes Jesus our Savior and LORD. This removes all sins from our lives and makes us perfect before God. We never again will have to answer to God for those past sins.

It is important after that to obey God's way of life and to continue to ask forgiveness if for some reason we fail to obey, trusting that God, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ will forgive as we confess. Nevertheless it is important to invite Jesus into our hearts to help us to live our lives just like Him because He loves us and we love Jesus.

paisleypark4 said:

It's about vaginas. Plastic Vaginas.

paisleypark4 said:

That's single handedly the best explanation I've ever heard of TRC.

PurpleKnight said:

thank yas!


now i have 2 read Ricco's response ...