kenyatta
01-26-2004, 04:18 PM
Peace and Blessings, Hetep, Asalaam Alakum, Shalom, Amani, and any others that I haven't printed here.
I've been reading various post here, and to be real about it, I see a lot of good things and a lot of bad. The good is that, no matter what, I see our yearning and desire for acknowledgement of a higer power than ourselves...which is universal among our people. That's a good thing. It's also a good thing that we move in and out of religions and beliefs. That's good simply because it means that those of us on a spiritual road are searching for something beyond the books we've been given to learn from, the beliefs our parents may have instilled in us that don't quite sit right with us....and then of course, there are those of us who follow the one signifigant statement of Amuwali, aka. Malcolm X. He stated that: "History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research".
This statement is a crucial one, especially in terms of what we believe and what we practice as a people. I once believed that religion, if we must have one, was a very personal thing to and with each person. That however isn't the case at all. We will find in all religions and creeds the elements of history, nationalism, social values and economics. The other issue is in the purposeful assasination of our character as a people historically and spiritually. Please allow me to give a small example:
If you are a Christian, where is your holy land ? If you are Judaic, where is your holy land? If you are a Muslim, where is your holy land? If you are a Buddist, where is your holy land? If you are a Gods and Earth or Five Percenter, where is your holy land? If you are of the Nation of Islam, where is your holy land? I could go on and on, but the point to be made here is this:
How is it that the oldest people on the planet who taught all others, who gave birth to all others, who gave civilization and science and spiritual concepts and even language now find themselves JUMPING OVER AFRICA to go to someone elses holy land ??? Did our people not have their own ? Sure they did. Did they not have THEIR OWN HOLY BOOKS OR SPIRITUAL WRITINGS long before there was a hebrew, european, indian or china man on this earth ? Sure they did. Or, for those of us who are only able to see some things and not others, are we trying to say that OUR PEOPLE WERE ON EARTH FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS WAITING IN HUTS FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO COME AND TEACH US ABOUT GOD OR A CREATOR?
This is just a little something I want everyone to think about, because I'm coming back with more and I want to take this slow and easy so that we have understanding and not conflict. I want harmony and enlightenment with our people and with those who may not have gone as indepth with our reality as others may have. As I stated somewhere on this site, I may be a teacher, but I'm just as much a student...and I'm sure there will be surprises for everyone here...for until history became the doorway upon which I walked, I was once a Christian, Muslim, Five per center, Buddist, Hebrew Israelite and everything else in my quest to reach the point I now find myself in time. History is a good thing, but it's dangerous also. It's good because there is freedom in it...but it's dangerous because of the emotional and mental energies it may cause one to go through as one learns that which we as a people have not been given yet...the truth.
We have before us two world powers...one is religion and the other is politics. We can understand how politics became a world power, but how can religion or truth be a world power in the face of so much corruption?...unless their sleeping together ? Peace, I will return.
Luv Ya
Keita Otiba Kenyatta
I've been reading various post here, and to be real about it, I see a lot of good things and a lot of bad. The good is that, no matter what, I see our yearning and desire for acknowledgement of a higer power than ourselves...which is universal among our people. That's a good thing. It's also a good thing that we move in and out of religions and beliefs. That's good simply because it means that those of us on a spiritual road are searching for something beyond the books we've been given to learn from, the beliefs our parents may have instilled in us that don't quite sit right with us....and then of course, there are those of us who follow the one signifigant statement of Amuwali, aka. Malcolm X. He stated that: "History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research".
This statement is a crucial one, especially in terms of what we believe and what we practice as a people. I once believed that religion, if we must have one, was a very personal thing to and with each person. That however isn't the case at all. We will find in all religions and creeds the elements of history, nationalism, social values and economics. The other issue is in the purposeful assasination of our character as a people historically and spiritually. Please allow me to give a small example:
If you are a Christian, where is your holy land ? If you are Judaic, where is your holy land? If you are a Muslim, where is your holy land? If you are a Buddist, where is your holy land? If you are a Gods and Earth or Five Percenter, where is your holy land? If you are of the Nation of Islam, where is your holy land? I could go on and on, but the point to be made here is this:
How is it that the oldest people on the planet who taught all others, who gave birth to all others, who gave civilization and science and spiritual concepts and even language now find themselves JUMPING OVER AFRICA to go to someone elses holy land ??? Did our people not have their own ? Sure they did. Did they not have THEIR OWN HOLY BOOKS OR SPIRITUAL WRITINGS long before there was a hebrew, european, indian or china man on this earth ? Sure they did. Or, for those of us who are only able to see some things and not others, are we trying to say that OUR PEOPLE WERE ON EARTH FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS WAITING IN HUTS FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO COME AND TEACH US ABOUT GOD OR A CREATOR?
This is just a little something I want everyone to think about, because I'm coming back with more and I want to take this slow and easy so that we have understanding and not conflict. I want harmony and enlightenment with our people and with those who may not have gone as indepth with our reality as others may have. As I stated somewhere on this site, I may be a teacher, but I'm just as much a student...and I'm sure there will be surprises for everyone here...for until history became the doorway upon which I walked, I was once a Christian, Muslim, Five per center, Buddist, Hebrew Israelite and everything else in my quest to reach the point I now find myself in time. History is a good thing, but it's dangerous also. It's good because there is freedom in it...but it's dangerous because of the emotional and mental energies it may cause one to go through as one learns that which we as a people have not been given yet...the truth.
We have before us two world powers...one is religion and the other is politics. We can understand how politics became a world power, but how can religion or truth be a world power in the face of so much corruption?...unless their sleeping together ? Peace, I will return.
Luv Ya
Keita Otiba Kenyatta