What is the RasTafari Movement?

its just a word used to describe the same thing

 

Sometimes I dont think you even use your brain before you type. I took positive lessons out of Rasta. I dont have to agree with everything to learn lessons that they have to offer. Just like you dont have to be Christian to learn about loving your neighbor. Some people who are Christian dont even follow that. Or in the case of Rasta, some people think ganja is good for insight and wisdom that ARENT Rasta. I'm not picking doctrines from religions. I dont believe H.I.M. was the messiah. I dont believe in afrocentralism. You need to read what I have to say before you attack me every time.
And FYI theres TONS of college classes that go over the relation of Moses, Jesus, and Abraham[Christianity, Judaism, and Muslims] they co-relate a lot. Idk why you refuted what I had to say. Obviously you're not very enlightened on the subject. I think you just want to argue with people no matter what.

 

well, i think that is a matter of opinion.

 

LOL that is seriously one of the dumbest things I have ever read. All this time you claim to be rasta yet you only like the word jah and thats why you consider yourself rasta?

Well I think Islam is a cool word. So I shall be a muslim from this day forth. And I wont bother following any of the actual principles of the religion. I will just be a muslim because the name Islam is cool

 

lol @ Pat. good point

 

i think vh was just saying she likes the shortened version Jah better than saying Jehovah.

 

Right. And that understanding is fundamental to ALL religions, not just Rastafari. Maybe you like Rastafari better. I favor certain religions because I can relate to the terms they use. But I don't associate myself with just one because I feel it's limiting to do so.

 

Truth be told. Concepts of Religious Studies in a nutshell ^^

 

Its like me and my veggieismssmimm views, I agree with some of the morals of vegans, but I don't say I'm one. Apparently you can't pick and choose to be bits of a a vegan AND a occasional meateater.. People laugh...

 

anyone ever heard of bedwardism? interesting to study alexander bedward if you are trying to understand the coming of the rasta movement

 

ha yea i've heard of bedward. he was ruled insane a couple times. he also walked into a town in jamaica expecting to be ascended with his followers. didnt happen. he got arrested.

bedward called himself a prophet. also a reincarnation of various actual prophets such as Moses and John the Baptist.

he was nuts.

 

i see you read the wiki page

 

now now, wiki's legit as long as it's not ALL you read.

 

lol i was commenting that his response is almost word for word as the wiki entry

 

lol

vigi- do you run into a lot of rasta people where you live? I live in a pretty big city and never met one (not to say they aren't out there)

 

ah, well now you know I didn't read the wiki

Maybe he knows so much that he actually wrote the wiki.

 

probably wrote it in the first grade.

 

i havent read the wiki page. those are just the main points about bedward.
theres probably more on wiki to be honest.

 

on wiki it says
he claimed to be Jesus Christ, Jonah, Elijah, and the others i mentioned earlier.
he also claimed that jamaica was the corresponding jerusalem in the western world.
that most of his followers became Garveyites or Rastafarians.
claimed that God was black.
refers to leonard howell and robert hinds as significant followers.

as a matter of fact, the wiki page doesnt look anything like my short passage whatsoever.

not surprising that you'd accuse me of such a thing though, np.
hate on. i need haters

 

lol,,,plagiarism chic. wiki-such a cute word no matter what it's teamed with.
I do believe in a higher power but it's a very personal thing. I'm not so into religious online debating.