am i being disrespectful

[pixie@plet]

ahoy...
ive got a few dredlocks in my hair. but im not a rusta. is this disrespectful to the rustafari?

[FreakyJoeMan]

You are being totally and utterly disrespectul!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!

(hint: sarcasm)

'S jus hair, mon.

[pixie@plet]

irie man! nice dreds!

[FreakyJoeMan]

Gracias, senorita.

[pixie@plet]

so i take it you play the electric guitar?other instruments?

[FreakyJoeMan]

Tha Bassssssssss.

[pixie@plet]

oohh sorry my bad. i play the more simple instrumens, ilike the bongo drums!irie!

[daisys]

hahaha, what's that person that hangs around with the band... THE BASSIST! Bwahahahahaaaa ;)

[Sunburst]

Sorry, but it made me laugh a little bit that you spelt Rastafari wrong, when the word is used in every other post on this board;):P

[TheSkaEffect]

hey mahn, im a bassist meself!

LONG LIVE THE LOW END!!!!!! BASSISTS UNITE!
:D

[Becknudefck]

rusta. lol sorry. its rasta by the way. i want to dread my hair, except i dont know how a white girl like me would look with dreads. my hair is getting pretty long and its a light brown/dirty blonde color with some red in it.

[Bare Foot Bunny Hugg]

i dreaded my hair but im not rasta...and im white..i hope im not disrespectful

[sm0key42o8]

Thats not disrespectful, thats cool. Rasta is not the only one allowed to have dreads!

Beck-go for dreads, if thats what you want. Dont worry about how they will look. Thats the point of dreads.

[Lunatic_3051]

is it disrespectful if i am not rasta, but i wear the red-yellow-green stripe flag?

i don't neccessarily see that flag as a "rastafarian" flag, but more a symbol of peace for all people.

i hope i haven't offended anybody by my flag or my dread sleeves or tam or anything.

[Arachne]

i am not black nor Rastafari, and i have dreadlocks. this is mostly because of the love i have for the carribbean and jamaica ( i have spent much time there ) and the people there. my hair also started dreading itself, so i decided it was ok to go with it.

[Zion]

All I can say is What up dread head?
He who feels it nows it
wich is to say by creating a dread you understand the value of life, via care fee expression or celebration

[Archemetis]

a few im sure would be offended, but that dosent matter. dreaded hair is a natural proccess and as such cant be confined to any one race or religion. just let it grow, and grow with it.

[FunkyPhreshMama]

is it disrespectful if i am not rasta, but i wear the red-yellow-green stripe flag?

i don't neccessarily see that flag as a "rastafarian" flag, but more a symbol of peace for all people.

i hope i haven't offended anybody by my flag or my dread sleeves or tam or anything.That flag is the eteopian(spelling?) flag................
people long before Rasta came about had dreads. In the middle ages people only washed their hair in the summertime, they wold get sick if they did in winter and they called them fairy locks, they thought fairies came at night and put them in and it was supposed to be bad luck if you brushed them out!

[Archemetis]

That flag is the eteopian(spelling?) flag................
people long before Rasta came about had dreads. In the middle ages people only washed their hair in the summertime, they wold get sick if they did in winter and they called them fairy locks, they thought fairies came at night and put them in and it was supposed to be bad luck if you brushed them out!
[/center]thats awsome...i knew it was those fairies knotting up my hair. tricky bastards

[positive vibes]

Jah Rastafari!!!!

Lock up my friend, you can only offend yourself :)

[drbeaker]

is it disrespectful if i am not rasta, but i wear the red-yellow-green stripe flag?

i don't neccessarily see that flag as a "rastafarian" flag, but more a symbol of peace for all people.

i hope i haven't offended anybody by my flag or my dread sleeves or tam or anything.
Rasta IS peace for all people mon!

[heron]

ahoy...
ive got a few dredlocks in my hair. but im not a rusta. is this disrespectful to the rustafari?

are you pretending to be rasta? If not, fuck em.

No one has the patent on knappy hair. I have a few as well,
and they are part of my religion, not rasta, so who are they?

What about acsetic hindi? they have dreads.

[Gratefuljefferson~]

If i have a comb over am i disrespectful to christians :rolleyes:

[heron]

HAHAHA! thats a good one.

[salmon4me]

Am I being disrespectful to rastafarians by not asking if I am in any way being disrespectful to rastafarians?

[borat]

i don't think dreads should be disrespectful to ayone. wearing "rasta" effects without being a rastafari, though, like the tricolor, lion of judah, etc, is stupid (like wearing a cross if you're not christian) and yeah, real rastas might find it disrespectful with good reason.
having said that, do whatever you feel like as it's your body and your hair.

[napalm_life]

Is it disrespectful for a non Cristian to wear a cross?

[borat]

^^^ yes, for many christians it is

[dollydagger]

there's a certain responsability that comes with having locks...you dont work for anyone but yourself, you dont work for money. You make crafts that can be bartered. No eating of meat, no consuming of alcohol...and the list goes on. I do not obey a lot of these principles, but I love the religion and the message. So, I have one lock that Ive had for about 10 years...I consider it homage. I hope that is not offensive. I think (for myself) that if I were to lock all my hair, that I would need to represent the message that locks stand for, and THAT would be offensive if I couldnt live up to it. If anyone ever has a question on the nature of locks, there are plenty of websites on it.

[heron]

So..you cant just have locks because you want to live a natural..earthy lifestyle???

I want to see where Rastas applied for the patent...

[borat]

^^^ yup, i can drink as much booze as i want and still wear locks thank you. and it's not even like rastafaris were the first ones to use them anyways, sadhus have been wearing them for thousands of years.
there comes no real responsibility with wearing locks, except maintaining them.

[dollydagger]

I understand what you guys are saying... but where did you get the inspiration to grow locks? Im just saying, ther's a certain image and message one conveys with locks

[GypsiJoJo]

Theres not suppose to be an image attatched to having dreadlocks. There are many reasons why people have dreads. I decided to get mine as a spiritual expirience. For alot of people, its patience, and apreciation. Each dread, a life of its own. Like those who only have like 1 or 2 dreads, theres a deeper reason to why they have them, (usually). So, those who convey having dreads to one culture or religion... I dunno man, I usually just ignore ignorance.

[dollydagger]

I have one big dread, and you got that right about it being a deep, spiritual, and personal reason

[borat]

Theres not suppose to be an image attatched to having dreadlocks.
oh yes there is. don't come with that spiritual crap lol, we're following a fashion, even though it is not a very mainstream one.

[dollydagger]

oh yes there is. don't come with that spiritual crap lol, we're following a fashion, even though it is not a very mainstream one.
speak for yourself...its not a fashion statement

at least it aint supposed to be

[dollydagger]

who or what inspired you to lock your hair?

[heron]

Theres not suppose to be an image attatched to having dreadlocks. There are many reasons why people have dreads. I decided to get mine as a spiritual expirience. For alot of people, its patience, and apreciation. Each dread, a life of its own. Like those who only have like 1 or 2 dreads, theres a deeper reason to why they have them, (usually). So, those who convey having dreads to one culture or religion... I dunno man, I usually just ignore ignorance.

Thank you sister! I have 3 major ones...two smaller ones that just popped up after not brushing my hair for years...

The 3 big ones were each a prayer and goal...deeply spiritual...and would be like losing my arm if i cut one....

I have had the longest one for about 4 years....the other two about 1 to 2 years....if i were a trend monger wanting to rip off the Rastas...which hate my race anyway...i would have gone to the salon, and got really pretty ones. And would have bought a Ethiopian color tam to put over it...

But, my hair represents my being in touch with nature...and living my life as close as I can to my ancestors of old....do you think the painter of Lascaux had clean curly hair and a shaven chin?

People wore dreads before they wore styled hair....all people...

[heron]

Im just saying, ther's a certain image and message one conveys with locks

Image....or stereotype?

[borat]

who or what inspired you to lock your hair?
sadhus, rastafaris, john butler, the guys at the reggae soundsystems...
i love my locks, but i am aware that i made them because of influences of society, me and everone else who has locks; ESPECIALLY the "hippy" ones of "freaks", who are basically just living up to a stereotype.

[dollydagger]

Image....or stereotype?Its an image. 100%.

And if it is a stereotype, I think its a good one.

[GypsiJoJo]

sadhus, rastafaris, john butler, the guys at the reggae soundsystems...
i love my locks, but i am aware that i made them because of influences of society, me and everone else who has locks; ESPECIALLY the "hippy" ones of "freaks", who are basically just living up to a stereotype.
Im sorry you think that way, but I love you anyway brother. So, how did you get your dreads?

[borat]

i made them with some help from my sister and with a comb.

[borat]

nearly everybody with dreads say that they don't follow fashions, and that it's purely spiritual and bla bla, yet still they all look the same, what's up with that??? hmmm

and another thing, i don't understand why people consider their "home made" dreads better than ones made in salons. come on, dreads are dreads...

i find many "hippies" a bit elitist and better-than-thou, which is sad

[heron]

its like this, there are those who tattoo for fashion...and those who tattoo for religion...thus is the division....and each sometimes judge the other

On a personal opion note: Since my dreads, as with some others, were done to be more natural, the idea of going to a salon to have them done is obsurd...the whole point in to not have my hair "styled"....Being natural just so happens to result in clumpy hair and dreads....not many options in that..

[borat]

^^^ i like your way of thinking... you do it your way. i don't see that alot.

[i_donatello]

Dreadlocks did not originate from the Rastas.... it originated from Egypt... but several people have dreadlocks for religious purposes as well. I'm not being harsh by any means but do some research :) Rastas werent the only ones and I dont think you are being disrespectful at all.

[tikoo]

respect life and everythings all right . a dred of family respects life . o yaya dred of family , respectful of what we share .

[slinkie]

Some rasta's view it as disrespectful due to their religious reasons behind them. Others could care less.
But history tells us that Vikings had dreads as well due to their beliefs, so.......poo on them then (rastas) if they can't let it go.

[GypsyCasey]

Dreadlocks did not originate from the Rastas.... it originated from Egypt... but several people have dreadlocks for religious purposes as well. I'm not being harsh by any means but do some research :) Rastas werent the only ones and I dont think you are being disrespectful at all.
Well said, Rastafarians didn't get dreads until the american slave trade when we started bringing slaves over from india and they escaped to the carribean.

but i do really want dreadlocks, and i dont think it would be disrespectful to rastafarians. i mean, i love jamaican people. I want nothing more than to just live there and I'm not getting dreads because i want to shit all over their religion or anything.

imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

[natural philosophy]

imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
don't imitate, be your own.

a dread can be a very empowered person, but don't think you're imitating anybody else. dread belongs to you as much as it does to jamaicans.

[PlaceboAddikt]

That flag is the eteopian(spelling?) flag................
people long before Rasta came about had dreads. In the middle ages people only washed their hair in the summertime, they wold get sick if they did in winter and they called them fairy locks, they thought fairies came at night and put them in and it was supposed to be bad luck if you brushed them out!
[/center]wow, what a cool tidbit of information! thank you.

[TattoedAquarian]

ahoy...
ive got a few dredlocks in my hair. but im not a rusta. is this disrespectful to the rustafari?


Hair is hair. If our personalities were limited to how we wore our hair then why don't we just change ourselves into a bunch of wigs.

Your personality is not in your hair. Shouldn't it be in your mind/soul/whatever you want to call it?

If you think your hair matters than you really need to take some time and think a little more about what's important to you.

[*dave*]

Yes u are being disrespectful dont listen to FreakyJoeMan, but you couldnt have possibley known that. Jah Bless and cut your hair/no disrespect


Peace

[salmon4me]

Yes u are being disrespectful dont listen to FreakyJoeMan, but you couldnt have possibley known that. Jah Bless and cut your hair/no disrespect


Peace
Who gives a sht what *dave* thinks. He sounds like a white dude from suburbia.

[lifelovefun]

Don't worry about being disrespectful or respectful, just enjoy yourself :)