why do people think that being rastafarian is just an excuse to get high when its not!!!???
we have our owns belifs and everyone hates us for it!!?? why is that... why are some of u people so mean and ignorant!?
we smoke and have our ways why dont u just leave us be!?
2007-02-16 07:59:16 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good vibrations and good meditations to you. People just dont understand how ancients, native americans, and most aboriginal peoples utilize aspects of mother natures bounty as a means of connecting with the divine spirituality and the oneness that is true love for your brothers and sisters,.
2007-02-16 08:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I honestly actually never believed that for the simple reason I've never ever gave a thought to Rastafarian's. Sure I've listened to the music ( long ago) but I really never ever took the time to think about Rastafarian's let alone hate anybody for being involved in it. Have another smoke, chill out and believe whatever you want to believe. By the way, I've never heard someone else say they hated Rastafarian's so I think that maybe you are overrating your own importance a bit.
2007-02-16 08:09:09 · answer #2 · answered by chocolatebunny 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I really didn't know that alot of people hated Rastafarians, I don't. To be honest this is the first question I have seen about Rasta on YA (I must have missed the others) Do what you want, it's no ones business but your own. Peace.
2007-02-16 08:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by alessa_sunderland 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People also think nudism and naturism are about hot sex. And materialistic Western Culture is always suspicious of altered states of consciousness.
People on the outside will always project their own expectations on something they aren't a part of. Catholics are all saint-worshippers. Protestants are Bible-thumpers. Muslims are mindless terrorists. Sikhs are knife-wielding maniacs. Buddhists are idolatrous wimps. It's all stereotype.
Perhaps if Rastafarians launched a public relations campaign to better explain their spirituality, people would understand them more. But people have so little time to listen these days.
2007-02-16 08:27:29 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be careful using maxims like everyone. I for example have no problem with Rastafarian's. I certainly do not hate them. I love the music that comes out of that belief system and know many others who do too. If you are being hated on by others join the club, I am hated on all the time for my disbelief in religion.
2007-02-16 08:05:01 · answer #5 · answered by Sara 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can Believe what you want to.
Don't know much about rastafarian's.
Getting High?
Did you know that Adam and Eve were High all of the Time?
Did you know all Other High's are copy's of the Original High?
People Trying to get back to what they know (deep within them)?
Using Counterfiet Highs?
Yep, and thats the way it is and Now for the Rest of the Story!
The Original High---GOD Flowing Through your Spirit.
When Adam and Eve Committed High Treason, GOD had to withdraw from them.
They were not High anymore.
GOD is LOVE, a Spiritual Attribute of GOD that when HE Flows Through you, you get High.
Ditto...............
2007-02-16 08:14:45 · answer #6 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rastafarian - Never heard of it. Don't care to hear what it is, but I'll convey one message to you - When God is left out of anything, Satan goes in. So deal with your own beliefs, but you'll deal with the devil too.
2007-02-16 08:11:18 · answer #7 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What on earth is a rastafarian? Good grief - it's hard to keep up with all the nonsense people can come up with.
2007-02-16 08:03:48 · answer #8 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Smoking is indeed sinful activity because it violates 7 Biblical principles......
1. Chemical addiction - Smoking has chemicals in it that make it many more times addictive than heroine or cocaine. According to Jesus we cannot have anything else master over us but God. (Genesis 4:7, Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13)
2. Bad for your health - If God created the human body which he called "good" (Genesis 1:31), why would you pollute it? If you got your kid a nice bike for his birthday, how would you feel if you later saw him leaving it lying around in the mud and rain and not taking care of it?
3. Setting a poor example for unbelievers - How can people glorify God by your example (Matthew 5:16, 1 Peter 2:12) when you are engaged in improper activity?
4. Setting a poor example for believers - How are we going to be mutually encouraged by each others faith if we are engaged in sin?! I am offended enough every time I smell someones 2nd hand smoke but to smell it coming from a believer?!?!?!?!!?
5. Setting a poor example for kids - But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. -Matthew 18:6
6. Using the resources God gave you for no good purpose - Smoking wastes money (Matthew 25:14), time, and your health. (things we can all use more of) Since God gave us resources, we need to use them to further the Kingdom, not live life the way we want.
7. Continuing in sin - Given the hundreds of times i have talked to smokers; deep down people know that it is wrong and is therefore SIN. If you continue to do that which you know is wrong you are allowing sin to rule your life.
Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. -Psalm 199:133
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. -Romans 6:14
2007-02-16 08:12:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who hates Rastafarians???
Stop telling lies woman!
2007-02-16 08:05:04 · answer #10 · answered by gnostic 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋