The BN Village - View Single Post

HLF · (#32 (**permalink**))

RLB wrote:

Quote:

[sup]All possible, but man has a tendency to mess things up when he attempts to work things exclusively through the physical realm.

Only the dumb ones.

From my own experience and conversations, there are even smart and intelligent people that lack spiritual knowledge and understanding.

I guess that you are implying that black people need to embrace Christianity or Islam. No thanks! Too many black people seem to think that they need the help of a 'higher power' to get their lives in order. They don't.

Here is a question of understanding for you: Why would I suggest something that has not worked for black people, religion and all of its offspring? What I speak of is spirituality and there is a difference between the two, know the difference.
Black people are a very intuitive and naturally spiritual people, there are certain basic truths they do know as a whole, but they go along all the wrong paths in relation to those truths.

This kind of thinking is one of the reasons why black people are scattered to the 'four corners of the eath' with reguards to our aims and objectives. A lack of spiritual thinking and understanding has broken black people up from operating on the same accord.

I know all too many guys who were compleate b'stards, then they join one of these 'cults' and start behaving themselves. WTF! As if for a black man to 'get it togther' is somethiing so difficult and so insurmountable that it requires the aid of a supernatural entity and hours of prayer and self flagellation. It doesn't, just a desire and a commitment to sort yourself out!

As the say, "think for yourself, seek knowledge for yourself, know yourself". With that being said and written, there is a huge difference between X number of religious cults and a few people on the path searching and building up knowledge of spiritual truth. We all have a spirit and if an individual undertands his own spirit and the source of his spirit, he can sort everything out.

There is a time for everything, but the proper foundation before anything else. Otherwise, it would only produce more minds to be quickly enslaved.

Only because black people generally don't stand alone. Many tend to follow fashion without the slightest thought for what it is they are following. You can see that on this board, just look at how many gouls come out the wood work to get their insults in when some one post a comment they someone disagrees with.

Have you ever noticed that there are only certain felds, styles of dress, jobs, hobies etc, that are considered 'black'. Usually if a person deviates from what is considerd 'sterotypeically black, then they are lablel 'sell out' 'uncle tom' or some other foolish name.

[/sup]What is needed is a little less 'black pride' ( a term I think is a p1ss take and is on par with 'girl power' and more 'racial pride'.

Religion 'which is what I think your hinting at' will only serve to[sup] divide an already divided community. It is more than possible to have a 'moral code', without the religious dogma attatched.

I think what is needed is more understanding; black people are a universal people.

Have you not learned throughout "history" and chronology that man with no spiritual fortitude or connection is easily corruptible when given power or over a certain amount of control over others?

Simply because these people have vary little 'racial pride'. If they had more, they would seek to do what is in the best intrest of the majourity not themselves. And when I say 'racial pride' I not' talking about shouting how much you hate YT or any of that nonsense. I'm talking about a genuine pride in the welfare of black people. Our pride leaves alot to be disired at this particular moment in time. Look at the open hostility in this board, do you think people here are pulling in the same direction?

If you know your science, there is very little science behind what is called "race". What you speak of is not "racial pride" at the root of it's essence, what you speak of is love, confidence and consideration for one's own people. That can only come from understanding and knowing the truth about your people. If black people really knew their people like they should, then knowing them would be the precursor and facilitation to loving them.

Promote racial pride, and most of the battle is won. I don't believe white people have nearly as much power as people give them credit.

I would say promote knowledge of self;pride is overinflated confidence with lack of being humble to me. The most powerful people has to be the most humble; it is the needed equilibrium.

Our failing is that we don't work together and use our numbers. For every black person who is intrested and actively woking for our cause there are more who couldn't really give a toss or who just pay 'lip service'.

What are numbers if the masses of that number cannot think as individuals to work dynamically, collectively and have no sound knowledge of the things that are most important for themselves because they would know it as being proven to be true (because they had the desire to know) and not by only taking another's word for it? Nothing more than non-thinking foot soldiers. I know the failing is not only not working together, that is only a surface observation to a deeper underlying root problem.

Have you heard of the black American tale of Tulsa, Oklahoma (also know as Black Wallstreet), where blacks reached a level of self-sufficiency? What did they lack? They worked together as a community, yet it was taken away from them. Ever heard of the saying, "What God gives, no man may take away?"

as for ''spiritual fortitude''

You have two types of eligious people, :-

those who try to dissarm your suspition by spouting loads of irrelivant non sense to keep you from seeing that they have their hands in you pocket

and

those who are so terrifyed of burning in hell that they will try to 'buy theire way into heavan by convert as many souls as possible offten, ruthlessly. They are incapable of seeing anything past their religion and view everything through the writings of a book writen thousands of years ago, not taking to complex needs and social situation into account.

Either way, religious people are the most corrupted of them all. I don't need anyone to tell me how to live a good productive life, I can do that on my own, we all can....after all, who dosen't know the difference between right and wrong?

Well then, since you know about the religious, then you must learn about the spiritual as well. Because if you don't, just like most white people, you will lump them all together as being the same.

Knowledge facilitates thinking in the understanding of right and wrong, but after people know what the right thing to do is, who will do the right thing? Maybe people know "the right thing" to do but they still don't do it. The people that do are the ones that have the desire in them to do it. That is why I say to all those who have the desire to do it, do it, do the right thing.
[/sup]