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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

The African American Talmud

It's never been done before, but here it is.  the very first -- and hopefully not the last -- African American Talmud!!

Well, its not really the Talmud, but it's written very much like the Talmud with the sages arguing and discussing with one another.  The word "talmud" in Hebrew means teachings.  In this ebook is a compilation of the teachings of our sages.  And for commentaries I filled it with thought provoking analysis of the world we live in.

This is mainly a think piece to encourage dialogue and to dare someone to do better.

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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Fixing the World This Moment


Dr. Sebi called indigenous people, aboriginal people, black folks, Africans, he called them all "organic people."  Before that I didn't have a word for them and I called them all "earth people."  

Clearly we both knew that there was something significantly same with these types of people. 
But the big question is why are they all oppressed?  And even more importantly, how can they achieve self-autonomy again?

One thing these people have in common is many of their religions or spirituality is animist.  They believe that all things have a soul.  Many African-Americans believe more in Christianity.


Animists

In the case of animist, when there is an enemy, they will respond with force.  Head on.  They will boldly fight this enemy until the problem is gone.  That is the honorable way.  But when dealing with colonizers, that is not the right way.  They usually come with friendly smiles and gifts.  They come as cowards do pretending and relying on the person's good nature to receive them in kind.

This is the most important thing to drill in the youth's understanding.  That colonizers come in sheep's clothing.  Only when that attempt doesn't work, then they bring out the iron.

One thing that all these people have in common is that many are prone to reactive behavior.  They feel an emotion and immediately react with it.  It's as if they cannot control the spirit or emotion that they feel.  But that is natural.  Many are not even told that they can control their emotions.  It just feels like the right behavior at the moment.  No thought is given to it.

But if anything is to change, this must be learned!

Emotions are like spirits.  It's as if the spirits enters the body via the various glands and just like water is a conduit for electricity, the hormones are a conduit for the spirits that have entered.  Then the person feels the urge to react.  To do something that they feel "compelled" to do.

But it is important to hone and sharpen the rational mind so that it remains in control even over the emotions.  The rational mind must always be in control.

It almost seem as if this has been a fight for a long, long time.  In the Bible, there are many stories.  One interesting one is where God supposedly hardens Pharaoh's heart.  And then send Moses to convince him to release the Hebrew slaves.  It's almost as if Pharaoh had to understand in a cerebral way that the Hebrew slaves needed to go, rather than feel in his heart, or be moved by any spirit.  In the end of that story, however, he did pass the test.  He had to sacrifice a lot.  Many plagues befell him and his nation, he lost is son (God forbid), his land was ravaged, many, many people died.  Let's hope that we don't need to sacrifice so much.  We can all learn from this story, and take it as our own.  To see things with a rational mind is important and can save us a lot of suffering and afflictions.
And yet these same organic or earth people are the same ones who tend to have many deities or spirits that they worship and/or appease.  There's the spirit of the wind, the spirit of water, all manners of deities.  While this was fine before, there is a problem with it nowadays.


Christians

Christians, on the other hand, believe in one god, but that one god looks eerily like their oppressor.  There's an obvious problem with that as well.  But one often looked-over problem with this is that not only is the god supposedly just like their oppressors, they also seem to think of the Satan as on equal footing as the god.  It's as if Satan and god are competing and are equally powerful. 
This idea brings them right back to the level of the animists.


"The Name"

The Creator, the Beginning, The Root, God, The Universe -- whatever you want to call it -- for the sake of simplicity, let's use "The Name."

So, "The Name" creates the world.  He -- and any leader -- would never create something as equal as themselves.  Basic.  Why create a competitor?  The Satan is a spirit.  It is possibly on the same level of other spirits, but definitely not on the same level as "The Name" who created it.

The best model of a man is the Black man, the organic people, the earthy people.  They are 50 percent spirit and 50 percent animal. 

Both sides has its needs. 


The Animal Side:

The animal side needs strict discipline.  The more animal, the more discipline, rules, boundaries, restrictions, laws, and limitations.  This may not seem intuitive, but examine the dog.  They do much better in a home where they are taken for walks every day, they are communicated where their boundaries are, they know what they're allowed to do and what they are not allowed to do. 

Now see a dog without these limits.  Usually, Americans who love their dogs, know nothing about their dogs.  They just love them and decided in their mind that they're little babies.  As a result, these dogs don't know to not to jump on people; they think that is the way to be.  They don't know when to bark and bark incessantly.  The dog can become anxious and nervous in various situations because they don't know what is expected of them.  Everything is a free for all.  You don't know what to expect from such an animal.

For the animal side:  the person can either give the body that needed discipline.  Or not.  When they don't tame the animal side, then obesity sets in, over eating, under eating, oversleeping, under sleeping.  The body begins to pull the spirit in its direction.  Greed sets in in order to get more food, more money, more sleep, more everything, all manners of bad values and negative emotions are summoned to help the body in its flight against discipline.


The Spiritual Side:

The spiritual side of a person is the part that connects to the abstract world.  It keeps us connected to "The Name" and helps us to connect with other people, especially those that have the same spirituality as us -- not same religion, but same emotions, same value system, same character traits.  For this reason, it is very important to expose ourselves to good people, people with "good" values -- values that will be beneficial to the world, to people, animals, plants -- to life.

The spiritual part is like a light.  The body, the animal side is also a light, but a more coarse light.
So say the spirit was able to look at a body, a soul-less body propped up, it would see that propped up body, but in addition, the spirit would see a shadow.  When a bright light is put next to a dimmer, coarser light, you get shadows.

Shadows connote darkness, evil, something lurking, wicked.  Etc.  This is the understanding of clean versus unclean.  Christians got it in that they think the body is "wicked" and needs to be disciplined.  Wicked is a bit of a stretch, but it certainly does need discipline.  And discipline doesn't mean a beating or whipping. 

For the spiritual side:  The person can connect with good values that promotes life.  Or not.  If they do not connect with good values, then they can connect to the wicked values that lead to destruction of the body, destruction of the spirit, and death.


Black folks:

But being the 50/50 human is the best and most optimal.  This person can do amazing things!  This is the Black person.  One of the -- if not THE oldest Homo sapiens.  They can hone both their spiritual and physical parts and really expand their abilities. 

This can be seen from the medical advancements, architectural expertise, and spiritual understandings in ancient African civilizations.  This can be seen in the building of "Wall Street" by African-Americans not to long from when they had literally nothing and their ingenuity which is only recently getting exposed.


The Imbalanced Ones:

Any different percentage creates an imbalance.  Then one side pulls on the other side.  One side taxes the other side.  They are like a walking battlefield.

The oppressors and colonizers tend to be mainly spiritual and not very animal.  When you have someone that is more spiritual than animal, that person doesn't value discipline, laws, or rules.  They scoff at such things and feel they are above it all.  But they would be big on attaching to other spirits and emotions.

This is why when they see the organic people, they think of them as "animals" and "plants" or even "fauna."  This is why when they look at earthy people, they can see a shadow and think they are the wicked ones.

Combined this with the fact that spirits are like vectors, they tend not to look back where they came from.  Not looking back means no repentance and no recognition of the Creator that created them.
This is why they are not "down to earth" and would prefer illusions, falsehood, and lies.  Down to earth is for the body, the animal side.  Many earthy/organic people walk barefoot upon the earth and stay connected to Truth, to wisdom, to knowledge.  Intuitively, we know this and call people who are practical and truthful as "down to earth."

But the oppressors and colonizers are not very animal.  They are very spiritual.  As a result, the good news for them is that they really appreciate emotions and spirits.  When they see a gathering of organic/earthy people filled with heightened and honed spiritual expression, or dancing, they want to be a part of it.  They try to wear their garb, wear their hairstyles, and talk like them.  We would call that cultural appropriation.

The spiritual bad news is that it only takes a bit of evil, a bit of bad to ruin the cluster of spirits.  So if there is bad amongst them, then very quickly the whole group becomes wicked. 

The good news physically, is that they are not caring too much about bodily comforts.  They can discard the body, inject implants, remove this, add that attachment to the body, it is not a big deal.
The bad news for them is that they have a disregard for discipline.  They can do a mock show of discipline, such as always being on time, on the clock.  Having a court system, police, clocking in and out of work on time, and so on.  But that is all a show.  With every people they have been involved with, they commit genocide, they oppress, they torture, they enslave, murder, in every way they have tried to kill that society of people and bring them to death. 

They have attached themselves to the worst spirits and emotions flying around and might as well be called the Satan now.  This cluster of negative spirits and emotions is like a wrecking ball everywhere it goes.  But if the organic/earth people rely on spirits, then the Satan has an equal chance of winning and the struggles goes on endlessly.


End the War:

It's time to end this war.  And the only way to end it is to rise above just appeasing spirits, calling out deities.  We need to reach to the Creator with no intermediaries.
This requires great amount of preparedness and boldness.

Preparedness:  Can you surmount emotions?  Can you rise above these deities, these spirits?  That will be needed before you can reach "The Name".  The only way that you will be able to mark that you have overcome your own emotions and spirits, is if you can hear an insult and not be affected.  This is not the same as hearing an insult and calming down your boiling blood.  Not being affected means understanding that they are trying to insult you in a rational way, but not having any movement in the spiritual realm.

Someone calling you a "ni**er" should have the same effect as someone calling you a "tree."
The rational mind must be developed.  And each day we are given a chance to work on it, be it fortunately or unfortunately.

Boldness:  Once you have achieved the preparedness level at least once or twice, then you know you are capable.  The next step is to be bold.  To boldly push for the needs of your people.  To think out of the box to achieve what needs to be achieved.  But what are you pushing against?  The will of the various spirits, the cluster of wicked spirits.  Previously, if a will was very strong, a storm wind, it was thought that its strength should be rewarded by conceding victory to it.  NO!  Not anymore.  No matter how hard the storm wind blows, it must be pushed against for its entire duration until it blows over.

The best and simplest way to do that is to say thank you to "The Name".  To envision the next need, put it out to "The Name" and to say thank you for that.  Each thank you is a step up the spiritual ladder.  But in order to do that, we must discard those that simply cannot go, those that have been too entrenched in the evil and have become like them.

Another tip is to nullify and minimize the evil.  This means if something can be reduced to 1/60th, then it becomes insignificant.  For example, if someone has a family member that is hurtful.  When it's time for a get together, the person invites an extraordinary amount of family members for the feast so that that hurtful one is rendered only 1/60th of all the people.  He becomes an insignificant amount compared to the whole.


Balancing the Imbalanced:

And if there are those amongst them who truly do want to end all the oppression, all the murder, all the negativity and death, it may be helpful for them to be disciplined with their bodies. To take on rules, statutes, and limitations despite what their spirit is saying.

Future Vision:

It is my hope that in this journey of life, we don't settle for eternal struggles.  But that we find concise and definite ways of ending problems and restoring paradise once again.