Rastafarian Beliefs and Values

[mindphuk]

a friend of mine wants to be a rastafarian. is this just an excuse to be cool and never wash his hair. or does this religion have merit.

please help me understand?????

Had to post after I saw this on today's woot-off. woot! is selling these rasta colored ear buds and I lol'd after reading the ad copy:


Oh yeah. You’re pullin’ it off.

You really look like you’re embracing the Rasta lifestyle.

Attention college freshmen across America: you’re not Rasta. Seriously. We don’t care how many Bob Marley posters you hang or how much green, yellow, and red crap like Skull Candy Ink’d Rasta Earbuds you buy. Unless you’re actually worshipping Haile Selassie as the second coming you’re just a poser. And trust us, you’re a poser.
Yes, Rastas endorse the use of cannabis as a religious experience. Neato. It’s also a religion based on Afrocentrism and the rejection of western society. That’s right, western society. As in, “the kinds of people who buy things like earbuds.” And yes we’re oversimplifying it, but even in oversimplifying it we’re still giving it ten times more credit than just buying a poster and a blacklight and calling it a day.
If you’re seriously looking for an excuse to smoke pot, just own up to liking pot. It’s a more respectable position than “Well, shortly after moving out of my parents’ house in Connecticut I realized the evils of the white man and the spirituality of Jah really spoke to me, man.”
And if you’re white dreadlocks are out. Seriously. That’s non-negotiable. Stop it. You look terrible and you smell worse.

Condition: New

 

[crackerboy]

Had to post after I saw this on today's woot-off. woot! is selling these rasta colored ear buds and I lol'd after reading the ad copy:


Oh yeah. You’re pullin’ it off.

You really look like you’re embracing the Rasta lifestyle.

Attention college freshmen across America: you’re not Rasta. Seriously. We don’t care how many Bob Marley posters you hang or how much green, yellow, and red crap like Skull Candy Ink’d Rasta Earbuds you buy. Unless you’re actually worshipping Haile Selassie as the second coming you’re just a poser. And trust us, you’re a poser.
Yes, Rastas endorse the use of cannabis as a religious experience. Neato. It’s also a religion based on Afrocentrism and the rejection of western society. That’s right, western society. As in, “the kinds of people who buy things like earbuds.” And yes we’re oversimplifying it, but even in oversimplifying it we’re still giving it ten times more credit than just buying a poster and a blacklight and calling it a day.
If you’re seriously looking for an excuse to smoke pot, just own up to liking pot. It’s a more respectable position than “Well, shortly after moving out of my parents’ house in Connecticut I realized the evils of the white man and the spirituality of Jah really spoke to me, man.”
And if you’re white dreadlocks are out. Seriously. That’s non-negotiable. Stop it. You look terrible and you smell worse.

Condition: New

For once I am in complete agreement with Mindphuk. Not because I don't like the Rasta religion thing, but because I live near bolder Colorado and see these little wannabee white kids with dreads all the time. You all look ridiculous. And yes you do smell. All the pot in the world does not cover the stench of that nasty unwashed rats nest.

 

[dannyboy602]

Long as they don't go door to door im cool with them. I can't imagine having to sell my religion to anyone and so what that they stink. So did the French until the the twentieth century.