how has dreads affected you

oh hell yes ..becomming more confortable with your self ..feeling more like you..totaly understand it (btw notice how i knew he couldnt not respond? had to argue just to argue exactly as predicted)

dreads are about being a more natural you, you dont feel confy normaly in certain clothes or colors or styles but being more natural 1st style becomes less important, confort becomes key..feeling natural..free..i bet now as well when u get outta the shower instead of wrapping yoiurself in a towel till u dress u walk to the dresser as is without even thinking about it right?

 

Soaring, it seems you may have or had thoughts of my dreads being a bit neat for themselves. I agree they are more neat that most that I've seen. I didn't start them naturally (obviously). At first they weren't very spiritual although I tried to tie them to that as much as possible. Now I have the mentality that everything I do should be for God; meaning to insert Him into my everyday life as much as possible. HHB says "i dont believe a hairstyle shapes who or what you are in any shape form or fashion". I agree that it could be very easy to have a hairstyle with no meaning... but why pass it up? If your hair is cut short, let it be for reasons that God has given you. If you have dreads, let it be for reasons God has given you. Find a reason to credit God for everything you have in my opinion. It keeps me humble, and I've never been a humble person until the last 7/8 months. My thoughts now come into my mind, pass through my spirituality, and exit with humbleness instead of sharpness.

Anytime a brother or sister asks me about my dreads, it's a chance for me to credit God and let them know how happy I am. I'm not a Bible freak and I don't take everything literally. I claim all-one-God-faith and not a single religion because I don't like to be separated from all of you in any way. My dreads haven't created some condemning self-righteous person, but have led me to find the things that matter most in life to myself.

I love my dreads. Best of all I love that I feel God has nonchalantly placed them on top of my head in order to help me. And HHB, I fear the day that a part of me means nothing or changes nothing.

 

ONCE AGAIN, to each there own.

this body that my spirit is borrowing IMO has NOTHING to do with who or what my spirit is, this body is merely a vessel that my spirit travels in through this world..

it has NO BEARING on who or what i am its not MY BODY i am merely using it to pass through this world..

you may choose to believe differently,, what you choose is your choice as what i choose is mine..

you may believe that your hairstyle molds who you are,, that is your choice..

i just pray to the goddess you never have cancer and have your hair fall out because going by what you believe that would have a drastic altering of who and what you are..

in closing, i am not alone in my beliefs, many religions of the world feel the same way i do.

just because you choose to believe your somehow one with the body your borrowing,simply because you believe the hair on the body your borrowing shapes who you are spiritually does not mean everyone else on earth believes the same as you.. in fact the reality is you are a minority not i..

so i ask you to stop bein so condescending simply because one chooses to have a different faith than you,,..

IMO,its really not a "hippie" way of handling a difference of beliefs..

Have a nice day..

 

i see your point and theres truth in what you say.

but i see things alittle different.
the way i see it, it is our choises that make us who we are.

among many reasons i choose to get dreads beacuse it was a hairstyle witch i always liked, but never deared to take the step as i was to afraid of what people would say. or if i could take it being made fun of or laughed at at school for example, cuz as i mentioned ive always suffered with very low self esteem. was i then REALY being myself if i didnt dare to do what i wanted? think about it.

when i finaly did it however i desided i was gonna look the way i wanted to look, and not give a damn about what people thought about me or said to me, and quit being afraid. and first then i had the courage to realy be myself.

and beacuse of that dreadlocks are not just a hairstyle to me but a choise and also then a part of who i am.

 

hhb ODVIOSLY if you have cancer and lose all your hair it affects your life

come on justy go talkj to any cancer patient and see thats why locks of love exists
\because losing all your hair thru cancer can have catastrophic affects on your life your personality and your world virew
\think before you talk

maybe just for a minute ponder the question.. how has dreads affected your lkife
if you think about the qurestion instead of reacting just to argue u may find an answer

if your dreads are meaningless..shave your head... if u can shave your head right now and not feelk any different then you can go on saying they have no effect
ofcourse u wont shave your head to prove your poinrt.. why because you have no point ypour dreads have meanning meanning you dont yet understand..and have lkessons to teach you, which you might hear but deny

question.. which came 1st dreading or quitting drinking and what..after so many years drinking made u decide to stop?
could it be an unseeen foerce had a hand in giving u a lil guidance?
could it be u wanted to change and improve yopur life?
could it be yoiur dreads were the greatest gift to your life and your not giving them the respect they desserve?
if you shaved yopur head and were just another bald redneck with anger issues and a bad attirude what woiuld keepo u from being jusyt another drunk angry redneck?
your dreads set u apart enough to give u the strength you needed to rise above the stereotypes
give thanks..

 

OK, FIRST OFF I QUIT DRINKING BECAUSE DILLIGAF LEFT ME,, NO OTHER REASON ZIP NADDA NILL!!

So please quit trying to make the correlation between me getting dreads and me quitting drinking.. there is no correlation..

once again i quit drinking because dilligaf left me over my drinking.. NO OTHER REASON!!!!

also,IM A 43 YEAR OLD MAN,OLDER THAN YOU IN FACT.. i am not some kid still growing into my spirituality.. i dont need some wannabe hippy guru tellin me whats right and whats wrong with my spirituality.

why not just shave my head? because 21 years ago i made a decision to never cut my hair or shave again and i intend on keeping that promise to myself..

i really dont care if you dont think i should have dreads, i sure as hell aint out to please you or anyone else for that matter.

to answer your question about catastrophic illness.. i cant speak for anyone but myself but NO it doesnt matter what happens in my life my spirit and who i am will remain the same..

ya know all this talk about dreads being directly connected to your spirit growing into a more tolerant peace loving human has me wondering why with your dreads bein 20 years old have you not grown enough spiritually to not be so condescending and belligerent towards anyone that has a differing view point or ideals than you.. if having dreads for 20 years is only gonna get me to the same spiritual level as you then i gotta say,, you proved my point that dreads have NO BEARING on my spirituality because your no better than i.. your just a hypocrite about it..

fact is your just as big a troll and flamer as anyone on this forum.. calling for people to be tortured,imprisoned,there wealth stripped from them simply because you dont agree with who they are or what they do.. you sling veiled insults on here just as much as i.hell ive even seen you justify stealing on here..

none of which are very "rainbow" now are they? so im so evil and "the least rainbow person you know"because i believe in my immediate family coming first when the SHTF. i believe in defending myself and my family. but yet theres nothing wrong with you calling for the president to be tortured or louisiana oilman to be imprisoned and stripped of his wealth simply because the job he chose??

wow thats real "rainbow".

this as you pay to gas someone up with that EVIL petroleum product gasoline that you demand people are imprisoned or tortured for producing.all so you can use it to go across country to a gathering where ALL NO MATTER WHO OR WHAT THEY ARE(this would indeed include those very people you demand be jailed and tortured) is to be accepted as family and shown love and compassion??

the fact is that you may want to have these kids believe your some hippy guru but your nothing more than a self righteous hypocrite..

now then once again ive explained my beliefs and answered your questions.

so why not go chase down one of your little teenagers and preach to them. your just wasting your breath on me..

have a nice day...

 

please stop calling me a little kid who is buying into mumbo jumbo beacuse im young.

did i attack your oppinion? did i say this is right and this is wrong? i respect your oppinion, but i just see things alittle different personaly.
you dont know me and dont know why i believe in what i belive, so dont judge me.

 

my apologies.
all i mean to say is that you have a lot of years exploring belief structures, faiths, ideals ahead of you when compared to someone my age. i feel quite sure what you believe now will transcend many levels over the next 10 to 15 years.

i believe i only used the term "mumbo jumbo" once in this thread and i dont feel ive said anything demeaning otherwise about your beliefs in this thread. i simply dont believe the same as you do.. i think thats my right isnt it?

once again
i did not intend to offend you..

if i did my apologies.

have a nice day..

 

damn u taske things way too far
cant u tell when someones being drammatic to get a point across
no because no other point but your own ever matters right

you made your point nothing ever affects you nothing will ever change yuou
you'll always be bitter you'll always be agro you'll alwayts strt fights..good for you who gives a shit...do u really need to continue comming back and arguing//

21 years ago u chose to never cut your hair again.. ok fine.. but..if yopur hair was meannin bgless if it had no effect on your life whatesoever then why not cut it?

could it be you decided to not cut it for... wait what was that.. reason? something thaty had meannig/
if its meanningless...... then cut it
if cutting it ....or growing it... meant nothing at all to you... and all that matterts is getting your point across winning every argument
then cutting it off after 20++ years to win an argument5 and prove a poiint would ..well prove a point

but.. since you cant or wont then that proves itr means something to you
you may not know whayt
hell i had no idea what till i cut my 1sty set off
but the fact remains,,youd cut it if it wasd meanningless... but 21 years ago you made a lifelong committment to growing it

that proves it has a ton of meanning to you
dedicating 1/2 your lifetime to never cutting it....geee could your hair maybe mean something to you?

sure seems that way woiuldnt u say/?

 

god you never shut up..
i said all im gonna say in this thread im not reading anymore of your dribble.

you get the last word mainly because im sick of having to decipher your spelling but also because of your gawd awful sig pic you insist on using every post you make. that and ive said how i feel over and over already. its painfully obvious your brain cant comprehend that someone dares to believe differently than you...

have a shitty day...

 

apoligie accepted
no hard feelings

and yes you have a right to belive in what you want wouldnt have it any other way

may you have good day to you too

 

exactly ya wasted all our times arguing with ya

the thread is for ppl to discuss how dreads affected theyre lives not wa wa wa im too dumb to know how its affected mine you posted how many times just to say they had no effect
ofcourse you wasted 1/2 your life growingf hair that means nothing//
21 years ago you made a choice to never cut your hair..ever.. and that had no meanning?
thaty had no effect on your life whatsoever?
are you sure about that?
youve grown it 1/2 your life its a part of you
do u really think youd be the same if u hadnt made the choices in life u made/

if its truly meanningless.... then prove it
snip snip snip
but ya cant can u
it wouldnt feel right
because...like the point of the thread..it affects you
these kids u bitch at are smart enough to know that
you are too
but you just have to always argue...about everything....
like dreads
evolution is a slow procccess

 

Soaringeagle you really should not be aloud to type dude I am 17 and my spelling is at least a 100 times better. Also you hair does not always change who you are, yes to some people it may make them feel better about themselves and what not, BUT it does not necessarily mean it has to effect everyone...Yeah rule of cause and effect BUT one litle change does not always change anything about you what so ever other than maybe some weird looks in public. It will not effect a 43 year old as much as it would a teenager, what you say may be true for some teenages and people in their like early 20's but a 43 year old..nah. Dreading hair is a choice it does not always have a meaning. Just like hhb not cutting his hair it was a choice does not necessarily mean it had a meaning not all choices are made because they have a meaning

 

anytime u choose 1 thing over another theres a reason, unless you literaly flip a coin, but if u flip a coin theres a reason u flipped it instead of making a choice
even if its a choice between apples and oranges theres a reason u chose 1 over another and choosing 1 over another affects u in a tiny way

every single life choice has a meanning (a reason u make it) and an effect on your life
every choice
wether your a teen or your 90

you think if a 90 year old suddenly takes up skydiving it wont affect theyre life

as a teen maybe theyd see the changes more drasticly being a time of change and growth but thats not to say that changes later in life dont have as drammatic (orsubtle) effects

the point of the threwad is to discuss these affects
not argue about how ressistent we maytbe to change
not how ignorant we maybe to how things affect us.. but to just talk aboutr how we have changed
and for those unwilling to recognize said changes why should they even bother comming into a thread like this/////
just to argue i bet


and if u dont like my typing buy me a new computer
85% of my typos are cause it screws up constantlky and retypoing every single word 6 times is a freakin pain if i can mannage to gety a sentence to not be totaly garbled then its an accomplishment

some sentences have to be retyped 10 times to get a single word to be recognizable so i think under these conditions i type prettyu damn well











(here is what that sentence said the 1st time i typed it "ssssssssssssssm reetcom wel" just so you know how badly it screws up... and even the backspace to edit can be extremely frustrating and not work... so i miss a few typos but get it to be genberaly understandable... if u dont like it then dont read it...but i waste alotta time trying to make it semi legitable...my computers haunted has a mind of its own... and fights me on every single word....get used to it

 

You are the one who starts all the arguments from what I have seen, 90 percent of the threads you post in you are arguing with someone and from what I have seen you are the one who starts it because nobody can have their own opinion they always have to agree with you or they are wrong until they do agree with you..Why is that?Not every choice you make has a meaning most this or that choices are like a coin toss or you go towards which you like more...It has nothing to do with "meaning". Now I'm not saying all choices dont have meaning just most dont...Dreads are a choice to some they may have meaning to others they may not why the hell cant you just accept that?

 

nahthsts not true at all i dont argue woith most ppl i get along ptretty well with alotta ppl, but i do state my opinions ..and usualy leave it at that
but hhb and dili both have this real tendency to follow ppl around attacking them at every opportunity on every possible subject, they get a stick up theyre asses about some1 they invade every thread no matter the subject and go into attack mode...arguiong and attacking just trying to make people look bad... look around at other threads and you'll see that.. they take over threads dragging arguments from 1 thrwad to another unrelated thread and usualy its not even a matter of disagreeing on a subject its just needing to insult certain personalities they dont get along with...
some ppl have taken the shut the hell up your being a prick then walk away approach but then others have been specifiucly targetted by themn for systematic attacks
i had that happen to me for the past couple years because i forgot meeting him foir 2 minutes on a day i met 80 other forumers
ever since that day its been constant attacks so yea i dont take shit from him...it gets tirring
but no i never go out of my way to argue with anyone and theres hardly anyone on here i have any problems with at all
hhb though...he gets abusive... look around other threads hes just taken control of derailed and turned into a great big look at m,e session


look sat this thread aboiut how dreads affect us
he could say "they havent" and thats it and leave and wouldnt be a prob...but no its all look at me look at me look at me 15 posts to say "they havent" seems excessive wouldnt you say/??
its not about saying they havent...its about making everyone elkse who say they have look bad....arguing just to get attention on him
why else would he even be here//? 2 words would have been plenty wouldnt u think?/

 

itried to walk away in post number 8..

YOU KEPT RAMBLING AT ME AND ABOUT MY BELIEFS.

I TRIED AGAIN IN POST NUMBER 12

AGAIN YOU KEPT AT ME TELLING ME HOW I DIDNT UNDERSTAND MY OWN SPIRITUALITY YADDA YADDA..
THEN AGAIN IN POST NUMBER 16 I ASKED..

DID YOU AGREE TO DISAGREE? HELL KNOW YOU KEPT AT ME .



THEN IN POST NUMBER 18 I ATTEMPTED TO GET IT BACK ON TOPIC.

NOW TODAY just because i was mentioned in a post and i further explained my beliefs you start hammering at me again..

sorry to say,

YOUR THE INSTIGATOR NOT I..

GOOD FUCKING NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

They do not, trust me..I hear about what goes on every fucking day I read the forums just dont post...They post what they think and then someone attacks them so they attack back and oh wow over half the time it's you and you attackign them first dont give me the bullshit about them going in attack mode instantly all it's doing is making you look like a self centered moron...and honestly probally the only ones who would not agree with me are the ones who think of you as a happy guru when all you are honestly is a want to be who thinks he knows everything...Honestly I agree with hhb and dilli...not saying I agree with them on everything but most things I do agree with them on. And also in this thread hhb backed out and yet you still tried to keep the argument going and you still cant stop talking about him...Get over your facination with him and dilli...And no you dont "go out of your way" to argue because you have nothing better to do with your life than argue with them on the internet, they do not target you they disagree with you and what you say and post their opinions...that is not "targeting" you, Just seems like that because in your eyes you are always right and nobody else is aloud to be right.

 

sigh.. if u remember right way back i dared you to just try your hardest to not reply and you immediately replied..lol unable to even drop it when dared..and i hadnt replied in 2 days after that.. i replied to some1 else then and once again u jump back in


and again now ni reply to pita and again you jump back in...one more time i'll beg you if you have nothing more to say on the subject of the thread.. how dreads affect you or your life then do not reply to the thread.. if your even capable of not arguing...please.. try with all your might.. its not that hard to not reply

solme ppl would really like to talk about dreads again in this thread if you will let us

please please please i'm begging you do not reply to this do not reply to this thread if u have nothing to add to this thread

(i'd take bets on this though....you will anyway...but i wont)

 

dude,, gyuhuck if ya double dawg dared me id do it.. that would be way cool..

dare ?? what are you 12??

you aint got nothin id want to win off ya in a bet no way..

dare?? lol

I WOULD HAVE LEFT THIS THREAD IN POST 8 IF YOU WOULDNT HAVE KEPT AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as far as today, if you think im going to let someone misunderstand where i am coming from as i felt the poster did and not respond that i was just supposed to not better articulate my beliefs? its not my right? its not on topic being its what i believe concerning dreads do for me and why i feel that way,which was the title of the thread? yeah its a forum but im only allowed to participate how and when you say?

i dont think so.



to fuckin funny..

god i cant believe your ability to use me as a scapegoat for your ego running rampant.