NO. he's sexy.

I can understand people referring to American cultures like New English or Southern culture. "American" culture across the nation is mostly vapid beyond consumerism. It's a matter of fact that there are communities of extra-American cultures that are far stronger than more abstract notions of culture found in generations-removed whites.

Anyway, I don't like giving injunctives as to who or what cultures people identify themselves. I know most want to protect cultures from big bad homogeny while others want to abandon culture all together and be pure individuals, or something. Honestly, one of the few things I love about the United States is this cultural ambiguity. I can identify with my heritage from Ireland and Germany, which isn't so far back as one might assume, but in a sense there's still that "cultural frontier" aspect within the United States. In other words, I can have my place in history but without being strangled by it. It's entirely up to my whim to see myself in history in its many aspects, as it should be.

Matthew 10:34-39 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it."

I love yr quotes. Who are you? To me that always meant that people will disagree with you when you trust and have faith in Jesus. Your faith will ultimatley cause tension between you and others because they might disagree. Also it is saying to put God first because if you love god the most the rest will work out itself. And I hope to one day loose my life for his sake.;)

there are lots (EDIT: a fair few) of other examples of jesus preaching hate

on slavery: Titus 2:9 "Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again"

sure he preached love more. maybe the hate just when he was feeling a bit pissed? skipped breakfast or somesuch

I lol'd.

yr worst nightmare:mad:

haha only joking

pick yr favorite jesus love quote and ill dedicate it to you:)

I don't need your permission. If there was any permission needed in this relationship, it would be from me to you, to fuck dogs. And it would be continually denied. And yet you would continue to fuck dogs. Because you're a dog-fucking tower of AIDS.

i knew you'd react to the permission part.

i smiled because i imagined this guy saying it:

back to one of the point brought up here by sonic gail adn savage clone
i dont think that there is a time limit to when you are allowed to feel connected to your roots. i have over the past year or som been a bit lost as to what nationality i belong to, and what my roots and traditions actually are.
i have lived in israel for over half my life
before that i was born and lived in the states.
my mothers side of the family immigrated there from vienna in 39, and my fathers from eastern europe during the 1st decade of the 20th century.
so i dont really know where i belong and what i connect to.
when im ion israel i feel more american, when im in america, or see americans that come here i am reminded on how much i dont feel connected to them...
so yeah, boring post over.

i imagine he's saying everything glice posts, on the phone.

the only people that enjoy their irishness are americans who somehow think they can be irish when they havent lived here. really being irish is absolutely shit in every fucking way possible and you should be glad your relatives got out of this place.

i feel really sorry for the first humans who set out north from africa into europe, those pioneer primitives who were able to walk over areas that are now just ocean, due to the ice age. some of the poor fuckers ended up getting to a point were there was just ocean and a massive gap seperating them from america, which they had no notion of. and then of course the ice age ended and the ice melted and they couldnt get back, and so ended up on an island.

since those days everyone born here has either left or settled in for a life of alcoholism and settling for less.

the rest of us changed our last names. :o

I'm an ex-McEwen.

first and foremost:


thank you. sincerely.. I have been getting way to much shit for this for literally too many years now.



here I come.. whoa.. shuudiddwadiddidily whoa.. seen



seriously.



easy I iyah lyon.. cool and calm pon the scene every time, seen? (and the correct term there would be "pussy-clot")


yes I I-dren, give thanks kingmon, maximum raspect to all the heartical I-ses.


My sister, I honestly don't understand all the fuss. Yes, I am a white guy from Los Angeles, but I am also a 100% original Rastafari, Tewahedo Orthodox convert, Ethiopian Orthodox Parish School of Religion Instructor named Habte Selassie. Do you think eldery, well-respected Ethiopian clerics pass out African names like handshakes? Do you think those ranking big dread teach everyone to play the heartical nyabinghi (which is construed, "death to all white oppressors") drum?

I-man EARNED the stripes to claim my titles, and none of y'all as silly as you want to be folks can take them from me. Those who have eyes to see, have seen and are quite respectful. If it is in ignorance, now you know, and in the future we will see if you are like the others who are simply hating what they can't believe, which is odd for a bunch of supposedly open-minded indie/artistic folks like SYG.

also:

In case you weren't aware:





props. that was so funny, I broke out in hysterical laughter on the bus when I read it. (not sarcastic)

i'm not the one who's concious dear.
i frankly don't care that you're white.
i just wanted to know you were aware.
i think multiquoting is a terrible habit.
it's all very nice and interesting, but nothing is going to change the fact you were born a white boy probably named brian.
you're the one acting like there is something wrong with that.

I've known a lot of white guys that didn't act it. mostly, it was for attention.

not a single-one of the attention grabbers actually went so far as to attend an Ethiopian church.

in the very least, Ras has a sincere dedication toward the cause of promoting one-love.

respec'

shudeedadidilleeidileewoah-oh sudillwilldilleeidilywo-ah - am brah'd - am brah'd - am brah'der dan brah'dway

True that. He earned his stripes and I think it is very couragous of him to take his route, considering the fact that he must get shit about it daily in real life as well as on here. I have learned more about my faith from him than any priest or church.

You cannot separate love and hate. Humans are hard hearted and alot of things in the bible take that into consideration. In the society of the time in which that was written it was common for people to have servants. Some were not slaves persay, but people that worked for food and shelter in a time that did not have consumerism and a wealth of jobs for a large population. Also it is symbolic of God being the master and we are the servants and that for our lives to be as peacefull as possible in this world it is best that we obey what he has told us. Because after all, sin usually harms the sinner more than anyone else.

thank god for consumerism and a wealth of jobs because there are no slaves anymore and people dont have to work for food and shelter?

I just love yr comebacks;)

I've been thinking...yr right jesus did not come to bring peace to the earth. He came as a wake up call to those who needed it so that we could all find peace in death (new life). So I guess alot of it comes across as hatefull to some...but he was just calling it as he saw it. Sometimes people don't like the truth.

maybe he had moodswings or something.

Possible, he had visions and such

thank god he's dead.

he's alive. rebirth

i doubt it.

all of my favorite songs are about jesus and heroin.

me too

sister if you can't see it then I'm done trying to explain. What is wrong with my cultural identity? Why does it trouble you so? What, am I supposed to work at the Gap, shop at Kohl's, eat at Red Robin, attend a local Presbyterian congregation where I play cheesy rock guitar in the church band, marry a boring plain jain white girl and name my kid Todd to appease your misconceived notions of who I-man is supposed to be?

When did I ever use such prejudice to judge you? Have I ever told you what culture your supposed to follow?



seriously. most Ethiopians don't even go to Ethiopian Church as much as I do ;)



thank you :)

At the risk of either fanning the flames or putting words into knox 'cunt' knox's mouth, the problem is largely not where you identify culturally. There's plenty of people who identify with cultures outside of their ethnicity, and the subject is vastly more complex than being reduced to skin-colour, relating, as it does, to a multitude of socio-economic factors. No, the problem is that you constantly - and I'd say largely unwittingly - identify white culture in entirely negative terms. Personally, I identify quite heavily with people like Oum Kalsoum or Munir Bashir, and I've been working quite hard on learning maqams and so on. I'm well aware that my relationship to Arabic culture is largely due to its esoteric nature - it's largely absent to me, except as rendered through British Arabs and ex-pat Arabs in Britain. But while this privileging of one culture is fair game, doing so at the expense of cultures closer to me isn't. Your situation is necessarily different - you say you live in a heavily black area, so the saturation of 'black' culture (obviously, culture shouldn't really be identified by colour) is expected. But the negation, or the stereotyping of 'white' culture in negative terms, is what gets people's backs up - regardless of their ethnicity. There's a (likely just) moratorium on identifying 'black' culture negatively, but the upshot of this should never be that 'white' culture be rendered as something to be avoided.

Oh, incidentally, Jains are rarely white.

moar like, thank god for consumerism because now people don't know they're slaves anymore and they pay for their own food and shelter instead of the slave master doing so

perhaps my rhetoric is bit harsher then my experience.

I do not have an affinity with the "white" culture that I am supposed to be. I do not like it, I do not enjoy it, I do not naturally gravitate towards it. I-man is a Rastafari since creation, and I fall towards it like a stone falls to the earth, having nothing do with race. OF COURSE, rastafari is a black nationalist movement so I have been caught up in 'whiteness' being its antithesis.

In regards to Ethiopianism, I have fallen head over heals in love with Ethiopian culture as an expression of my deep Christianity. In fact, did you know that from my conversion to Ethiopian Christianity, I actually found an affinity with my European Christian roots that as an American I had no knowledge of? I LOVE cathedrals, I love the historiography of European Christianity, I love to get in touch with Orthodoxy and roots Catholocism, as they relate to the current way I express my faith through the vehicle of Ethiopian christianity, its foods, its calender, its rituals, its songs, its clothing, its mannerisms, etc etc.

I guess all y'all have been acting defensively, assuming that when I mash on white culture, I am mashing on y'all, which is not the case I assure y'all.

another fundamental difference, is that where you might like elements of Arab culture, I LIVE Rastafari and Ethiopian culture, it is more than mere fascination. I LIVE this culture. I AM a Rastafari. I am Tewahedo Orthodox. This is culture. These are MY culture. I am also of European ancestry and have white skin, this is my geno/phenotype, irrelevant to culture. Perhaps what is hard for y'all out in SYG to understand is how I could possibly and truly BE a part of a culture which generally treats folks like us as outsiders, and that is as much a mystery to me as you. I was openly accepted, and I am a functioning member of these communities, not as an outsider who infiltrated, but actually the opposite. Technically, I am infiltrating white-american culture ;)

when I mash on white culture, I am mashing on y'all. I assure y'all.

other than that, I don't really care.

there's a good chance that I won't like you, regardless of coloUr.

wait i had to EDIT that out because i realised i couldnt give a fuck whatsoever

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seriously, I have been wondering why I have to explain myself so damned much here, because why do so many folks at lest feign to give a shit or even worse, dedicate so much time talking pure shit! I must have posted my autobiography across countless threads and as it has been said, it is beating a dead horse.

i used the kjv because i like it, but i haven't found anybody who disputes that it's slaves that he means and is specified in other translations.

if jesus was so caring and thought we should all be kind to each other and consider everybody to be equal, why didn't he condemn slavery in spite of the prevailing attitude of the time?

you can separate love and hate. one's kissy kissy and the other's punchy punchy