this is a side note...... sorry if you don't like it.. i don't care....check out this video i know it might not be appropriate... but none the less it is funny.... haaaa haaaa haaa haaa. i know in the rasifarian culture is cool to smoke weed but.. at the same time i dont view a religion to promote those sort of things. honestly if your 12 year old kid.. says hey mom i want to be Rastafarian.. and the kid is sitting in his living room rolling a joint and then smokes it....... is that a religion that you would let your child have..

don't take this out of contexts and I'm trying to hypocritical, sorry if i offended anyone.


the video was very different from what i expected.. comparing it to bob Marley. for instance they wake up at 3 in the morning that is a little different. i don't believe Marley would enjoy that also it seem that they are more conservative than the normal Rastafarian belief. comparing the people in this video to Marley it would seem that they are much more traditional then the norm. also the bible passages or the bible lessons on the trees to remind the people as they walk the village is also unique.

the system of symbols in this video include what they wear as turbine the clothing solid and colors red green black and gold. also they smoke the ganja for meditation purposes. a couple of interesting things in this video they talk about black supremacy and they show a sign that says black over white good over evil... i don't take this symbol literally for all circumstances but you cant have equality for all people (another one of their signs) if you don't except all races. more so then not the Rastafarian religion shown in this video is very spiritual and there is nothing wrong with a religion that has a strong traditional background and does not harm other people that religion is good for human kind

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Robert Nesta Marley was born on Feb 1945 in a small village of nine mile in the saint Ann parish. Bob Marley was face with racial discrimination as a young child because his father was a white English Jamaican and mother was a black Jamaican, but a perfect quote by bob Marley reflecting on his mix racial orgins.

"I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white"

Bob Marley religion was Rastafarian whose culture was tied to reggae a type of music that bob Marley played with a group called the wailers. the Exodus album that the produced was voted the #1 album in the 20th century. Marley was a deeply religious Rastafarian and there is nothing wrong with that ...but his love for his religion also could have killed him also. Marley had a malignant melanoma caused by a broadcaster on his right toe.. Marley could have had his toe amputated but it was against his religion Rastafarian's believed the body had to be "whole" Marley sought for voodoo type of treatment but the didn't work and 3 year later Marley died that last words were to his son.."money cant buy life".

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http://www.kingsolomonsgate.com/images/GezerSheba.jpg according to this website this is the first archaeological proof of the bible... proving that the stories are true.

Queen Sheba heard about King Solomon and his fame and fortune and wisdom that Solomon possessed so she went to listen to him speak and fine out for herself if what she heard was true. so she went to his kingdom and made several trip as did king Solomon. finally king asked her to stay at his house for awhile, but the made truce that the kind would not take her by force (virginity) and the king replied as to say as long as you do not steal from my house. well one evening the king prepared a feast to make the queen thirsty at night and as the queen searched for water the king "found her stealing water" so the truce was off and the slept together result in a son (Menelik).

in Ethiopia at this time women were not aloud to "know men" lost virginity so she was not able to still be queen but that was fine to her as long as the thrown stayed in her blood line and it did starting with Menelik.

this story in significant because it give the nation a starting point of king starting with Menelik this is important because I'm sure many Ethiopian can related to this part of history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_blending this link may help you understand conceptual blending and its background

Gilles Fauconnier describe conceptual blending by using metaphors and many short stories. the two that i liked the most are a clippers ship that sail in in the 1800's and a catamaran ship that is sailing the same course as the clipper ship but in 1993 and it is a race between the past and present. the other is a ski instructor teaching a beginner how to ski and uses metaphors to help the student learn to ski.. the metaphors is being a waiter and having a tray of croissants in one hand and in the other a plate of champagne theses metaphors are to teach the student the correct balance and position of his arms.. Gilles is using metaphors to enhance our thought process and creative thinking which in turn gives us meaning to the way we think feel and the activities in our life.

while Gilles does not talked about religion in conceptual blending it can offer tie that link the two things together. for example in church the a priest reads a story from the bible and uses metaphors to relay the example to the congregation he does this because he probably know more and understands the bible and how to interpret better than the people in church but more so he uses metaphors to help the people understand the bible and what God is trying to teach us or how he wants use to live our lives. there are metaphors everywhere in the bible. for example Noah's arc might have not have happened exactly the way it is in the bible but a lesson for people to read and understand how god want use to act or guide line for how we should act the like in the baseball field example what is considered out of bounds

religion vs religion

this is a great discussion about religion between two people that couldn't be farther apart on the political scale.... both have have a solid argument about religion...

i don't agree with bill maher about the idea the science and rationality should persuade us more the religious belief but i can say that i do agree when bill talks about religion is a bureaucracy with man...
one more thing bill says well if you were born in pakastan that you wouldnt be rasied christan. that point to me is very true and interesting becuase in christianity you must believe in god and jesus christ to be accepted in heave but what about religions that believe in a god but not the same god i believe in... that question is deep and must be hard to answer it may take a life time for me to have a rational answer but maybe someone else can help me

but i think that religion is a community where people can come together and everyone believe in a basic idea of a certain religion and that it does have a purpose in today society and hopefully in the future too.. i cant imagine when I'm 70 years old and more people believe in Scientology over Protestant or Catholicism that to me would be disappointing but we will see

here is another web site of bill maher on religionhttp://tr.truveo.com/Bill-Maher%E2%80%99s-Views-on-Religion/id/1033451638