u dont have to be dread to be rasta....???

[empress love]

"u don't have to be dread to be rasta..? is this true...how about this "u don't have to be black to be rasta...? is this true.....can u truly be rasta and be "white" or non-afrikan...? how can a non-afrikan be in the fight for black power....? rasta is black power there is nuff fashion and playn' n rasta today...everyone wants to "be down" wit d hair and d clothes, yet they dont care 'bout rasta......is this all for fashion...lets blacken things up..........

[Aziza Walidah "Newly Born"]

Ihiyuhst Ihites Empress

Ihi just posted something along these lines.

Ihiron sharpens Ihiron, sihstrehnh. Let Ihi yahnh Ihi fully discuss things, in rijus manner.

Rasta where yuh at?


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[Ras Dasein]

'Can u truly be Rasta and be white...? 'Can u truly be president of the USA (the global hub of 'white' power' and be black? Is Obama then merely a fahsion victim? The opposite of your model, replete in traditional Western-European suit and tie?

Time alone will tell...

[Selassie Daughter]

If Obama gets elected he will not be elected as a Black man, he won't just be speaking to Black people. You can't get elected in AmeriKKKa without being appreciated by white people. Lots of Black people will give their vote to Obama not for the quality of his presidency becasue it will be a nice way to 'stick it to the man.'

[NicholasBLAZE]

I pray this will answer your question
Please watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qBuxkItSU

[Bootsie D'Acosta]

Rasta is breath. We are the beginning and we will be the end.

[The Branch]

Greetings sista Kaya,

I would like to ask you to explain what YOU think personally...

You made this argument:
According to your interpretation of the answer given by the King SUPREME,
HE denied and said that HE is not the "reincarnation of Jesus Christ".
Why? Because He said it is "a mistake assuming or pretending that a human being is emanated from a deity" (KAQO).

Now, what about the fact that Jesus was also a human being, a man, a mortal (I suppose you believe that).
Are you not doing the same thing the King warns about when assuming that Jesus (a human being) is God Almighty, thus making a "mistake" according to your interpretation of the words of the King SUPREME?

How do YOU sight this contradiction?
and also, When the "other" promised or "real" reincarnation of Christ comes, will He/She come as a "non-human"? This is what your interpretation of the words of the KING SUPREME implies, is it not?

peace and love and truth

[The Branch]

Give thanks sista Kaya,
for your interpretation of the Trinity as answer to my first question.

I&I grew up with the concept of the Trinity and have seen how it can be used, interpreted understood in many different and opposing ways by different people reading the same words. And Yes, many of I&I and one could probably say most Rastafarians and as you said, the King and Queen SUPREME themselves and also all Christians in the whole wide world use this concept in the construction of their belief-systems and overstanding of the relationship between God, Spirit and Man. I am therefore merely interested in your explanation and clarification of this complicated concept which we all have to deal with to overstand it for ourselves.

Now, you say then that we have the FATHER, the SON and HOLY SPIRIT and have a lot of references from the scriptures to back it up, thank you for that and respect for that. I am willing to accept that for now.
Thus,
Three separate Aspects and manifestations of GOD of which Man is one, flesh and blood, mortal.
This is very interesting and explains how God can be Man also at the same time, and that Man thus has the potential to be God.
Ok, so what about my second question? I&I am very interested in this question since it seems that if Christ is still to come, and He cannot be a human being although He will look like a human being, How can we know that it is Him, since he will look and become exactly like a mortal human?

I ask this question not to trick or confuse, but this is the question that brought I&I to my own realization about who Haile Selassie are.

Give thanks
peace an love an truth

[The Branch]

Give thanks again sista Kaya,

Just to clarify, I&I did not 'accept' anything because I 'needed' to accept or since I thought that you wanted me to accept anything, I&I 'accepted' that point for the sake of overstanding the argument and line of reasoning that brings the I and many others to certain convictions and interpretations of biblical scriptures about Jah and RasTafari and God and Christian livity.

I&I have certain other interpretations based on the historical meaning of the Trinity as found in Essenic scriptures regarding hierarchical structure of Jewish ancients, kings and priests, that I&I do not have to go into detail now, but I wanted to know how the I see these things. I therefore 'accepted' the point of view, to overstand the next part in your line of reasoning and to know if there is anything the I overs that I&I can learn from or not, seen? So give thanks for the explanation, I&I have read all the scriptures you have quoted and I see now exactly how the I reason about these things.

So I&I humbly agree to disagree also with the I about certain things and apprecialove that the I is willing to openly argue the I's beliefs and disbeliefs.

I&I believe this is exactly what reasoning is for, to learn from one another and to consider an others perspectives, and also to disagree, but still show respect and love regardless of difference.

Last comment, it is not the physically blind that will be excluded from seeing Jah when HIM came, but the spiritually blind...
The scriptures can only guide I&I, it cannot open our eyes, I&I have to open the eyes from within and with the mercy of the Most High...
again this is just my opinion.

peace an love and truth

[LUIS VAZQUEZ]

Bless

[NicholasBLAZE]

Give yanks and Ises fi de I insight sistren but in less words of I own with regards to that of the prophet Gad and Karl Napthali.
" Our Armageddon is past." -Haile Selassie I May 25, 1963

[empress love]

my questions is this... when a person considers his/herself "white" can they truly be rasta? my point is not can a person with white/pale/pink skin be considered rasta? of course they can..i am not judging a person based on color of skin..i am simply taking about ethnic classification...when u classify yourself as with what are u saying...what does it mean to you...?

as far as obama he is a tool of babylon.....

did HIS MAJESTY say he was not god.....?

[The Branch]

Greetings and more respect empress love,

I would like to ask:
If a black man (our example is Obama), like you said, can be a "tool of babylon",
is it not also then maybe possible for a white man to be a "tool of Jah RasTafari"?
Can a white man fight against white supremacy and its legacy?
Can a white man give up his home, family, religion, status, class, etc. and live a Rasta way of life, throw the comb away, give up flesh and blood, give up booze and drugs, and give up all the other things Rastas give up, but more importantly, start Hailing the King, not because he wants to be black, but because he sees the truth in the livity and the righteousness of the teachings of the KING OF KINGS that demands equality for all, to stand up for the reconciliation of wrongs done in the past and in this process become scorned by his own and rejected by many for embracing a black culture, but still go on embracing it and be thankful because he has a new family that judge him according to his doings and not the color of his skin?

Do you think this, empress love, is possible?

peace an love an righteousness