Tyson, you said,
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Put yourself in my shoes for a minute,
I spent 10 years researching the Ethiopian Church, its monasteries and bahetawi. It was difficult to find articles or pictures of bahetawi, but I managed to find some. What I discovered was a profound connection between Rasta's in this day and time and the primordial bahetawi. I wanted to share this relationship with my fellow Rasta people.
I learned about asceticism, how it prolongs life, transform your mind and body, makes you healthy, makes your hair and beard grow and turns you into an 'angelic being'. I learned about the direct relationship between Ethiopian Kings and asceticsm, a subject that has been overlooked by scholars and books on Rasta
Just as I am editing the final copy of the book, I see that picture of a bahetawi monk who clearly has been practicing asceticism and one that looks like H.I.M, and based on what I had just learned, I felt that there was a possibility that it could be His Majesty. I said thank you Jah for this photo because the conversations sourounding it will be helpful in my quest to share knowledge on the bahetawi. I even changed the title of my book.
Up until that moment, i wasnt sure what happened to His Majesty, I had heard in Ethiopia that he was a monk in the hills and my research had confirmed this possibility. Even if that picture is not H.I.M, he still could be a bahetawi and could be alive today.
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Now you are sure?
You said to put Iself in your shoes. Who the shoe fits, let them where it. I can't fit in your kind of shoes, I am not so easily tricked.
Didn't the I read that reasoning, this part here applies directly to what you said in that quote above.
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Don't just believe anything that comes along that appeals to your mind, especially if it is something that appeals to your mind. That is what the deceivers use to trick people, they find out what people want, and use their desires against them to manipulate them with deception.
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If it is true that the I was writing that book before the I saw the picture, then it is even more important that you keep watch so you don't get so easily tricked. If you were writing that book beforehand, I can see how that picture would appeal to your mind, because it would fit in nicely with your book. When I saw the picture of the monk, I compared it to as many Selassie I pictures I could find, to see what resemblance was there, and by doing that, I could see what is more important, what differences were there.
Much of the detail in the face could not be seen, so even if I didn't find the differences I found in the features I could see, I would not be so foolish to assume it is Selassie I, because I would need to see more details then that to get even remotely close to being convinced that it is Selassie I. But when comparing the pictures I could actually see differences, as I already mentioned in the Reasonings made about that monk picture (as linked to before), so the fact that there are those differences convinces I that it is not Selassie I. And this next part was not needed to convince I that it is deception, because it was already obvious that it was not Selassie I, but all the deception over the attempt at making that poster look like a picture by folding it and hiding the fact that it is a tourism poster; And all the deception that followed afterwards in the follow up videos, just makes it more obvious that this is a deception.
Although I am not a kind of person that can get tricked so easily, I can Iverstand how some people could allow themselves to be fooled and be convinced by a picture with so little detail, but what I can't Iverstand is how a person can still fool themself when actual differences from visible features are pointed out.
And when I see such things, I wonder if there is any use of trying to Reason with a person like that, because they prefer their own misunderstanding.
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