RE: Marcus Garvey Was A Staunch Critic of Haile Selassie I

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luca1777 in ReggaeJAHM • 4 years ago

Great post, Justin! Respect.
So i read this book "Babylon must fall" from Girma A. Gebre-Selassie.
This book reported about Garveys criticism about Haile Selassie calling
him a "cowardish lion" for fleeing to England in the war against Italy...
King of Kings??
Great that you posted the whole original from Marcus Garvey... he "destroyed"
Haile Selassie in this piece.
I feel like Haile Selassie was put into this position through the prophecy, but he
never was "that King of Kings".
I think prophecies in general don't work. Most of the times they are metaphors for
a consciousness that comes or that was.... like "Jesus Christ" e.g. He's us=Je sus
The Reggae singer Tafari tought me that Tafari means Man, and Ras=natural.
So that's my heart-core overstanding of it.
Natural women (nefatari..?) and men living peaceful in harmony with Mother Earth
and God working through us, Reggae Music always close as Mother Earths Riddim...
and aware of how we eat...Life, #vegan #ital ....no dead flesh.
Rasta, it's a concept of heart not of color, still always respecting the African or Caribbean
origin.
Bless up.
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justinparke 4 years ago

Give thanks for your insight @luca1777. Yeah, I don't include Marcus Garvey in my Rastafari ideology, but instead give thanks Leonard Howell for being among the first to truly proclaim H.I.M. Haile Selassie I's divinity.

Where "prophecy" is concerned, I don't live in a supernatural world, so the only prophecies are self-fulfilling ones, and I waiting for no sky God to come down and fix everything because I prayed hard enough.

My study of history and the life of A&O caused me accept the divinity. I spent years trying to find information that would steer me away from JAH, tried Hinduism, Buddhism, even studied Haile Selassie's life from a pro-Mussolini point-of-view, and everything only served to further reaffirm my convictions.

That being said, we all make our own realities, so I don't expect any one person to have the same revelations I've had.

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luca1777 4 years ago

True, everybody has his/her perception of things... and different paths of Life bring different experiences
and wisdom. I just try to stay free in thinking... and what i don't like about prophecies, is that i can not question them, from the perspective of the "Believers".
Give thanks for your answer.
Greetings

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