I appreciloved the direct rasponse. I think an overall assessment of our respective discursive styles shows that in terms of directness, the I is only just catching up. You call it witty advice in your own manner of sarcasm... so pot calling kettle black slightly.
But in relation to the topic, I think I overs your approach. Referencing a cultural theorist to enhance the credibility of your understanding of the basis and 'development' of the irits of RasTafari livity... seems bigtime like a contradiction in terms. Which I guess pinpoints my perception of the inconsistency in your character... it often comes across as being a CONtradiction in terms. When I referred to your method of using Babylon measuring stick, this is what I was referring to. You grow in rasta and then draw for your babylon measuring stick to see how far it remains acceptable within the lines of modern discourse of the state and development of society. You want to make sure you can still check for your gay bredrins, and all manner of loose articles, while not looking like a hypocrite. That is fair enough. No one wants to look like a hypocrite.
Your irits display an embrace for the heavens RasTafari ights offers the individual. However, you are not willing to engage in an exchange with the Irits. Which is essential to the unlearning. If the I accepts the irits of redemption, then you should know of your own imperfection and identify the ways human divinity has been corrupted. Surrender (not submission) to the Irits, particularly at this intellectual stage of the trod is the reason WHY InI have the Nazarine vow, and the order to adher to. It is the reason why InI wear locs. It is admitting that we are lead astray, giving yourself to the ilaments for their perfect guidance, that we in our dis-ease have lost sight of... the only certain way at this moment (when only 13 per cent of our mental capabilities are in use) is the divine way - the way of the ants. The R way. I didn't make it up. It is the way of life, way of creation. A cultural studies student had nothing to do with that inception.
My overstanding of life and creation is that Man & Womban were made perfect in creation and even given divine dominion over the creation. We have degenerated from that position, obviously. So... cultural studies is, for me, a way to assess that denigration in terms of understanding the building blocks, and the builders of society. You have obviously swallowed what they told you in lectures, which is that man was made savage and backward, but with time; intellect and developments in cultural understanding has meant an improvement. So, further to that, you are coming with reconstructing societal understandings according to yet ANOTHER social theorist as a bid to improve mentalities... antiquated mentalities (lest we forget that antiquity apparently means outdated and not useful).
I am wary of people with your mentality... because it makes InI who found it valuable to gain higher education seem like we know something that those who never went to Uni don't know. Which is obviously a nonsense. My approach was to find academic representation FOR the antiquated, instinctive, ESSENTIALIST, humanist understanding of the dynamics of societal ORIGINS. What you are saying is very elitist, and is only a translation and extension of Babylon attitude status quo. It is saying that if people respond to the characteristics of this shitstem based on their intrinsic overstanding of wrong and right... they are being 'backward'. And what they need to do is understand what you are saying about deconstructions and all that madness, to formulate a new societal structure that supports the essentialist, fundamental values of the Nazirine, while coping with the intricacies of modern identity (a by product of Babylon dis-ease)?
Doesn't make any sense at all. I don't think you have a thorough overstanding of the prophecies of RasTafari... the significance of the rise in this Iwah. I think you remain uncertain of the weight of the mystic involved in this trod, hence your remaining reliance on the material world to justify the meditations of the ilaments... for fear of looking a bit out there and illogical.
I overs all of that. I think most of InI have been through that. Not to say, you haven't identified a superficial version of that earlier in your long trod... but have you really grappled with the notion that InI are in this world, but not of it. Have you ever realised the weight of the mystic blessing? I doubt it, otherwise you would rely solely on the mystic for your overstanding of the world, knowing that all can fade away but that one true reality... and so only seek information that eloquates and clarifies these eternal truths in material form... that the truths may be better communicated. For you though, you still think the truths are fluid... was that why you brought up Stuart Hall the other time... who said identity is fluid?
Did he say that identity remains a perspective, fluid or not. Identity does NOT change who you are. It can only change who you believe yourself to be.
Remain with the truths, my Sistah. Anything else will draw you away. That is another true thing.
You asked me to be more direct.
Selassie I first (antiquated and royal)
P.s. did you all know that during his political career, His Majesty's international peers accused him of being antiquated in his approach to the rulership of his empire (just cos he didn't put roads up and down, telegraph poles every damn where... and all those other marks of "modernity"). He was accused of being a "feudal despot".
Antiquated everytime. Anciency InI deal with. No you-never-see-ty couldn't hold me and tell me what they wanted I to beLIEve. I use their information for MY ends, they can't use mine for theirs.
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