In search of your input on my dreadlock "goal"

You and everyone else took that out of context. It was supposed to be like a commemoration type thing. Not like some strict life guideline I follow...

So much irony, so many clowns, yall are just riiiidicccculous

 

I wasn't arguing with you about anything. I simply was interested and would have asked anyone else who said what you did the same question.

I don't even know that much about religion which is why I asked because I looked up Narzarite and was just inquiring.

 

Sure you weren't.

Pretty sure you argued whether or not the fact that Nazarite laws was brought up randomly as a question. Then I responded. Here we are now.

You've been served. thank you come again

 

You're really weird. You said you didn't say anything about nazarite and I just showed you that you did, there wasn't any arguing going on.

I really hope you get lots of laughs and enjoyment from posting such bizarre things.

 

Oh I do

 

Bingo

 

I'd be inclined to agree that he's a troll if I hadn't run across his handle elsewhere.

I know it's easier to believe that he's doing it all intentionally because it's hard to believe that such an easy target exists, especially with the repetition.

 

what do you mean by "his handle" ?

 

No, THAT is taking it out of context. It most certainly IS some strict life guideline, though we can see that you don't follow it.

I feel there's something romantic about the CCCP, but I'm not running around praising stalin... ("whoever does not miss the soviet union has no heart, whoever wants it back has no brain".... I can see this quote sort of applying to the nazerite vow as well )

Note that I'm not advocating taking it or anything, again, it's a happy peaceful loving vow full of happy peaceful loving sacrifice of yearling lambs.... But if you're going to do it, do it right.

 

lol ok. yea i forgot that other people can decide what my intentions are. sorry

 

can someone explain to me the vegetarian aspect of the rasta interpretation of the nazarite vow? since the judaic/ biblical tradition does seem to involve a lot of animal sacrifice. from what i've read. which isn't much.

also.. the rasta interpret the no hair cutting as being a much more holistic asceticism regarding vanity, yes? so no cutting, grooming at all? because again, what i've read of the biblical tradition seems to indicate that cutting occasionally for practicality, or grooming (wrapping, braiding etc) the hair for practicality was not violating the vow.

although it's all subject to interpretation of very old texts and traditions, obviously.

further, if the rasta interpretation indicates that the dreads are a natural result of neglect, then why does there seem to be a tradition of maintaining dreads (waxing etc) in rasta culture? or is that not the case? i'm fairly ignorant about this. clearly.

 

I said nothing about your intentions, fool.

Just about how you behave. Mussolini probably had the best of intentions from his point of view. It's the outcome that matters. So no matter what you intend, you still fail.

 

Lmfao, you're such a joke. I laugh almost every time I read your posts

 

Bit ignorant myself, but I was under the IMPRESION that hardcore rastas growing dreads for spiritual reasons generally pretty much don't touch their hair at all.

I thought the waxy rasta thing tends to be 14 year olds who just smoked their first joint and go buy the largest can they can find that says "instant rastafari" on the front, and "spread liberally with butter knife" on the back.

 

Ahoy Ficks, sure, umm, I’ll try a basic rundown.

The Vow is about living a clean / healthy life … ie, a clean / healthy body, leads to a clean / healthy mind, which in turn leads to a clean / healthy soul … well, that’s the reasoning ... I haven't kept consistant with it for long enough, besides being a Veg since 95', but I can imagine.

The abstaining from all meat diets is based on the aspect of the Vow relating to avoiding all dead bodies … some interpret it as avoiding flesh and are vegetarian, others interpret it as avoiding blood and are vegans.

There are two ‘states’ of the Vow … temporary and permanent. As much as many peeps today won’t commit to the Vow on a permanent basis, so was it in the millennia preceding AD. This is an age old difference in approach to life.

Where do Rasta fit in, well Rasta has two main aspects … continuing His Majesty’s Works and approaching life in a permanent state of the Vow, Rasta claim’s that the Rasta lifestyle is the continuation of those in a permanent state of the Vow and together with His Majesty’s Years indicates where ‘I and I’ are in Time, Place and Space …

… as reflected in the scriptures … ie, the King of Kings, the direct blood descendent of King David and King Solomon of Israel, who is from the Tribe of Judah, did sit on the Throne of Israel, alongside the Ark, which was brought to Ethiopia by Menelik … the son of Queen Makeda Of Ethiopia and King Solomon.

… and where Time in Place in Space is, is called Apocalypse, a period that starts with the last of the King of Kings, His Majesty, is followed by many years of wars and the rapid spread of Babylon, and which ends with the final, single war … End of Days.

The only true clarity that every Woman and Man now has until the End Of Days, is the teachings of the last Trinity of Israel, The Mother, The Father and The Child … Haile Selassie I … Power Of The Trinity.

The only true protection that every Woman and Man has until the End Of Days and the eventual Testament during the Judgement that follows, is the permanent state of the Vow … a strength blessed by Jah as it was for Samson.

OK, two aspects here … why grow locs and the grooming issue.

The first ties in with what I mentioned about the temporary and permanent state of the Vow. For those in a temporary state, cutting of the hair from time to time is acceptable. Ratsa on the other hand is the permanent state of the Vow, which means no cutting of the hair.

The first area to clear up about the grooming issue is that the Vow mentions that grooming of the locs with one’s hands is fine … and what is abstained from is grooming one’s hair with any implements, like combs.

The reason why grooming implements are forbidden is that one is meant to be able to utilise one’s hair as a timeline of one’s life. By inspecting different points of growth, one can see when one was healthier / unhealthier … stronger / weaker, and learn from it.

Obviously using something like a comb causes one to loose their loose hair, thus preventing this timeline or indicator of lifestyle from developing … and the best way for it to develop is to grow locs from short hair, and not having long hair that was prevented from matting and then later allowed to matt.

So it really isn’t to do with interpretation, the Vow is pretty clear … instead it has to do with tastes, individuality … some peeps just dig several big, ‘neglected’ as you called it, pulses … or congos as I have seen mentioned on this forum. Others prefer the locs of their hair matting, resulting in a lot more thinner ones … some prefer a combination of the two, but ultimately one’s locs are an artistic statement of the individual

OK, phew … that’s the basic rundown … yell if it doesn’t make sense

One Love!

 

So there are no exceptions to not eating meat?

My cousin was a vegetarian his entire life but started to eat meat because he was severely ill and had to eat meat to recover from his illness. Meat has so many nutrients in it that allow your body to grow/recover.

What makes meat so bad according to Rasta?

 

I'm sure you can see the darkness in killing something and taking its nutrients.

That said, I just finished a cheeseburger.

 

Ahoy NFL, as mentioned the starting point is not Rasta, it's the Vow … Rasta is the ongoing reflection of those in a permanent state of the Vow.

The foremost reasoning is that consuming meat is consuming something impure, it is not what Rasta have termed ‘Itel’ … ie. meat is not clean and that which is not clean has an eventual impact on one’s relationship with The Most High.

I don’t know what your cousin’s situation was, but what I do know is that every thing the body needs can be found in a well-balanced, non-meat diet. Meat is a quick fix, never forget that carnivores eat herbivores not for their flesh and blood, but for the nutrition in them that comes from a non-meat diet … it’s easier to just pick off a herbivore than stand all day slowly digesting plant life.

On a personal note, I had a very bad accident years ago. I was electrocuted by a stray spark from an overhead source on a train line … 22,000 volts, no kidding, flat-lined and everything. Apparently I was so stoned that my resistance was virtually zero, coupled with having Docs’ on, rubber soles, that the jolt passed through with ease.

The point being that I was fried, literally … and I mean third degree burns, on my face and everything. The doctor in the burns unit told me that the only way my burnt skin would recover is if I started eating meat again … I told him to ‘F*ck Off’, literally.

After a few days, my father took me out the burns unit, back home and hired a private burns specialist. The first day she popped over, she asked me if I smoke weed? I said for sure … she said I should eat every seed I find in it, seeds in weed in South Africa are pretty common, but the thing is that she told me they were loaded with Vitamins B and E …

… so I did, and I have very few visible scars today, especially on my face. All that one can see is that where I was burnt, I don’t have facial hair … LOL, which is virtually the whole right side of my face and neck.

I did ask her about the meat thing … she said it’s bull, conservative thinking. Up until the point that I came over to the UK, I ate ganja seeds all the time, drank weed tea from time to time, used it as a herb in food … and never had a lacking of the ‘so called’ Vitamins that can only be found in meat.

Praise H.I.M.

 

Whoops ... duplicate

 

A little red meat is nutritious and is as natural as it gets. Im pretty sure lions and tigers dont munch on spinach all day its a part of natural selection and life. Nothing wrong with not eating meat but there sure as hell is nothing wrong with munching on some tacos al pastor or fajita