in case anybody was wondering.
All the eighteen/nineteen year old white boys in the suburbs in 1981-82 who were into this?
Please stand up, please stand up.
I can tell you right now.
There weren't that many.
He has a plan for us.
We just never see it as it's unfolding.
"Rastafari is a very serious philosophy that takes much direction from the Bible.
While there are some people who claim to be Rastafari just as an excuse to do drugs,
there are many true believers, and the public idea of them is often quite inaccurate."
"Some of them may be surprised then that smoking ganja is not only optional for Rastafarians but isn’t really all that central to their faith. Some Rastafari simply choose not to smoke weed at all."
"However, while most people would not believe in a second coming of the messiah solely based on prophecy, the Rastafarians wouldn’t either."
"The Rastafari don’t wish to take part in the system as they deem it oppressive. For this reason they refuse any processed foods. They also won’t eat red meat, believing that it rots inside your body. The main idea of course is simply to eat natural foods that are good for you."
(No red meat or processed foods?
On my way :-).
"Rastas believe that “ians” and “isms” represent the corrupt “Babylonian” system that oppresses people all over the world.
Considering themselves a religion or anism of any sort is seen as accepting a system that is anathema to what they believe.
... as some Rastafari don’t like the term “religion” either
and prefer to consider their movement a philosophy.
"it may not be too surprising that
Rastafari as a belief system completely rejects the standards and structure of western society.
(Sound familiar?)
By rejecting the “Babylonian” system that was deemed corrupt and oppressive,
Rastafari are able to take back their own culture and connect to their roots.
(Okay that culture and those roots?
Not mine obviously, but that corrupt and oppressive Babylonian system?
Yeah, that is flat out on point.
Period.)
The red, yellow, and green colors of Rastafari are pretty ubiquitous,
although most people probably associate them more with Bob Marley and ganja
than they do any spiritual movement...
However, many people don’t realize there are actual four Rasta colors.These colors all have symbolic significance in Rastafari beliefs. The yellow color is said by some to refer to the wealth of their homeland in Africa. The red is perhaps unsurprisingly symbolic of blood and the martyrdom of past Rastafari. The color black is an obvious reference to the black people who originally started the Rastafari movement in order to return to their roots, and the green is related to the abundant plant life of their native homeland.
(When I wear a bracelet?
When I look at it?
I think:
"Fuck this world and all the nonsense, corruption, oppression, rampant consumerism, materialism etc."
Thats why I wear one sometimes Lucy :-), it helps me remember whats important sweetheart.
My buddy David Lash?
I was talking to him and another friend of ours, Constance who also is African-American, at the guard desk at Kindred one evening.
I don't even remember what we were talking about but David said:
"You must have been black in another lifetime."
Constance bout fell out in agreement :-).
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