Liberals ...

1895ss · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Good one...., and so true........!!!! Very Happy

Suzanne · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

AND has a problem washing hair.
HEY 1895ss!! Haven't seen you forever!! Howzit goin?

Suz

Vince · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:21 am Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Suzanne wrote:

AND has a problem washing hair.
HEY 1895ss!! Haven't seen you forever!! Howzit goin?

Suz

Thems' "dreadlocks" Suz...not sure if they wash them, but it takes them a couple of years to develop the hairstyle by (I think) rubbing big clumps of hair together so that it knots into a big hanging lump. This hairstyle was made popular by the Rastafarians' from memory.

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Ah, my old dog gets "dreadlocks" on his butt sometimes but we cut them off...

By the way, that is a wonderful example of "liberal" thinking!

radar · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Yep Vince you nailed it. Dreads are associated with the Rastafarian religion.
Yes it is a religion based on Christianity it evolved in Ethiopia where the word Ras means 'father'. It also incorporates the smoking of cannabis which supposidly expands the mind allowing communication with God....the Jamacian slaves bought it with them in the 1700s during the slave trading days. Great mellow music by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Black Uriah and others.
Here in NZ some of our Rastas became feral and were a major crime and drug problem in the mid 80s in a little town called Ruatoria.
Still plenty of Natty Dreads around and we have one of the largest Reggae music concerts in the world every year in Rotorua called Ragamuffin.
You can also get surf dreads which are generally tighter and shorter. I can tell some really funny stories about the dreads and Police but I'll hold onto them for another day.

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5944

radar wrote:

Yes it is a religion based on Christianity it evolved in Ethiopia where the word Ras means 'father'.

In Ethiopia Christians are all Orthodox traditionally any ways, with some Catholics in the mix.

It was created in the 1930's and used the King of Ethiopia as the second coming of Jesus. Because he was fighting with the Italians who were trying to take over the country in the 1930's. His original middle name was Tafari, and he being part of the nobility, he was titled Ras, similar to a Duke in English Royal Families, and typically they acted as a Governor of a region.

Bob Marley was converted to it by his wife, who claims to have became a believer after seeing Haile Selassie I display Stigmata when he went to visit Jamaica in the 1960's. Who afterwards tried to convert Rastafarians to the Orthodox Church by sending a Archbishop to Jamaica.

It was a Pan-African movement that turned itself into a religion to make it easier for people to think of it less of a political/social thing and more as religion.

But heck with dope and music, its easy for people to believe anything I guess, hence the girl in the picture.

Dimitri

Ominivision1 · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Here's another one D:

gelandangan · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

That girlie might not be a liberal tho..
She might be one that bow to the peer pressure to get unkempt and unwashed.

Such are the stupid young uns we got today.
Why cant they shave their heads bald or mohawk like we do when we are young?

Dawgdad · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Been posted here before but it is still true.....

If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!

If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Democrat will delete it because he's "offended".

1895ss · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Suzanne wrote:

AND has a problem washing hair.
HEY 1895ss!! Haven't seen you forever!! Howzit goin?

Suz

I'm doin' fine. I don't get much time to come here often being as I work 11 hr days. But I do read more often then post. Howzit goin for you?

radar · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:31 am Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

Dawgdad;
Based on that Im 100% Republican!

1895ss · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: Liberals ...

radar wrote:

Dawgdad;
Based on that Im 100% Republican!

Me too.... Very Happy