We Juggalos have received our calling through music. The relation to a reality that we all feel in common together. We gather in large Masses to proclaim good news and to share in fellowship and Clown Luv. Whenever a new cd or a concert comes about we rush out to listen. To discover a new meaning or to feel something moving.
Psychopathic and the Hatchet has been around for over 10 years. And we know it ain't ever gonna quit. New talent always emerges from the shadows. From Zug Izland to Missing Children to Warp Minded Killas, we will always hear of new talent to give us their interpretation of the Carnival's Message. And if that isn't enough you have sermons like the ones my fellow ministers and I write to turn to for whatever spiritual needs you may have.
...But what I want to talk about is what happens when the music stops? What happens when the concert is over? Does that mean that the companionship stops? Does that mean that the Clown Luv stops? It shouldn't, a Juggalo is a Juggalo regardless of whether his/her cd player is on or not.
...But what if the music ceases all together and the seats are left barren. Does that mean that the Dark Carnival ceases. Some people look at me and they say "Rev, how can you have Faith in a band." I say friend, my Faith isn't based on a band or music. That's merely an interpretation of a message to my Family... my people, the scrubs, the sinners, the down trodden. I celebrate that message. I am loyal to the band for the word and the message and world that they have shown me.
However, the music is an expression of the message of the Dark Carnival. It's already produced we need only to pass it down from one generation to the next. The lyrics, the sermons, the prayers the conversations, the stories they all are heirlooms and tools for teaching. ...But the Dark Carnival is eternal. The concept of god is eternal. The Dark Carnival Faith is just an interpretation. Just like Catholicism, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Morman, Judaism, Islam, Wicca, Paganism, they are all different interpretations of the same message. And the concept on how to get on the divine or the "powers that be" good graces are all the same. Love thy neighbor as thyself, Do what ye will harm no one, Whatever you do to someone is gonna come back and bite you in the ass, it all says the same thing just said differently. Practiced differently. Ritualized differently.
So if the music stops do Juggalos stop, does the Dark Carnival stop? No, the values of the Hatchet will be passed to our children and our children's children as tradition. We've been around for a long time unnamed and in the shadows. We shall be around just as long with our found name... Juggalo. ....And we shall never die alone.... and Juggalos will always carry on.....
I hope to be on this spiritual journey for a long time
...and I hope that you will walk with me the whole time
...and even though some will stay and some will go
...There will always be a Juggalo.
MCL
