#blah blah inflammatory statements blah blah

[swiftfootedachilles]

MY BEHAVIOR AND RESPONSES REGARDING WHAT EXACTLY??? stop being vague and get fucking specific. unless you HAVE nothing to be specific about because i have done absolutely nothing to garner the hate ive been receiving for MONTHS. the only reason i even said that personal shit about my relationship or lack thereof with judaism in response to your ask is so you understand that i didnt wake up one day and go "today im going to spread misinformation on the internet" i was explaining that i try to learn my shit before i go posting stuff on the internet regarding cultures that i am not a part of and customs i do not follow. i wasnt trying to gain sympathy points, i wasn't doing a "woe is me" schtick. i couldnt care less about how you or anyone else on here feels about me. it was simply me stating that i wasn't trying to misrepresent, stereotype, or negatively convey any jewish cultural beliefs

i cannot "google it" because you didnt even say what specifically i misrepresented or fetishizes about jewish customs... i learned about jewish wedding traditions, then i made a post mentioning some of those traditions because i thought it wouldve been nice to see said traditions in regards to the fictional characters Ian Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich getting married in the television show Shameless. i did not write the episode where they revealed a shitty white supremacists to be also jewish. thats a completely separate conversation to have. i only brought up that episode because an anon was confused as to why i made a post mentioning mickey being jewish. that is what youre so pissed over. again, if i misrepresented something, i wouldnt know because - despite the fact that YOU are the one who send me an ask and made me aware that my post was apparently fetishization - you have not specified what i said to make you come to this conclusion

since you wont tell me what the hell i said that upset you so much and you refuse to respond to me privately, i guess ill have to explain myself here publicly

i can only assume that you already disliked me before today and are just looking for reasons to disassociate with me like all your friends are doing. luckily i still have followers, mutuals, and real friends who have critical thinkings skills and still support/love me despite whatever bullshit is going on in this dumbass fandom right now. whatever. i would love to hear from other people on this since the person who originally raised this concern is not responding to me. do you find it inappropriate or unethical to discuss - specifically in fandom spaces - communities you are not a part of? is that the problem here, or is there something i missed?

[mimilanella]

It was proven that the person is an anti can yall stop and know where the post oroginated from pann is literally where ppl post rumors to ruin people and that's where it was posted it was aimed to ruin him for no fucking reason if you cant stop dounting him then please go on your way stop bringing this he must not be innocent thing up i hate it here yall dont know the hell this has been it's all fake and yall are like ifnhe hasnt spoken blah blah do yall know lawsuits take time????

I am seeing a thousand rumours on twitter. At first it was found that it was a male anti, then it became his friend who wanted money from him, then a random person making rumours for fun... Idk what to believe anymore. And not to mention what lengths fandoms can go to to prove the innocence of their idols. I want to believe him i really do, all i want is a simple denial and a statement that it's false. Literally almost every newspaper has written articles about this. He has sued people for less inflammatory accusations than this before. All i said is him ignoring the issue is not helping his image. Like at all. It is only making us lose trust in him.

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

Origin of Black

Written by Adrian Bogopane Category:

 Friday, 18 September 2015 

The Ancient Egyptian Origins of the Word Black

There has been many a debate regarding the word “black” as it applies to the original people of the planet. Those who oppose the use of the word as an identifier of our people do so by advancing the argument that black is a color, and that it refers to the mental and legal status of individuals who are deemed incompetent to handle their affairs. The latter view is held by Moors who are followers of the teachings of Prophet Noble Drew Ali including their offshoots.

On the other hand, there are those who take pride in calling themselves black. They come from various groups ranging from Pan Africanists, Kemetic to Spiritualists and some none-affiliated. For them it represents beauty and originality. The worldwide web is saturated with slogans and poetry that embraces this ideology as much as that which is against it.

Then there are groups that have taken literally the negative definitions associated with blackness as given in western dictionaries, and would therefore have nothing to with black identity. All these divisions have escalated to varying levels, to the degree of some celebrity figures making statements that can be considered divisive, inflammatory or ignoramus depending on which side you take.

It is a known fact that the races which identify themselves as being white are but infantile on the planet earth. By all historical accounts, they have no history that can be traced beyond 6 000 B.C., and therefore do not have a language whose roots cannot be traced to the original languages that precede their presence. In 1787, Count Constantine de Volney -- a French nobleman, philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician stated the following:    "Just think,” de Volney declared incredulously, "that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery, and questioned whether Black men have the same kind of intelligence as whites!

Despite their historians having documented the facts of history albeit some questionable, there are to this day those from this race of people, who are anxiously engaged in reconstructing the accounts of history in order to fit an agenda of grafting themselves into events that are not effectively connected with them. The word black has become synonymous with all that is negative, evil and despised in the colonial systems. What then of the word black when it pertains to people? Should it be eschewed like a rotting carcass that is maggot infested or be embraced?

I’m not aware of any attempts to linguistically explain the origin of the word black and its connection to the autochthons of the planet. I’m not here referring to the already established etymologies that are skewed towards elevating the culture of oppression at the expense of those whose cultural values have been stolen, repackaged and reintroduced as new, but I’m talking about tracing the origin of the word black to the most ancient languages.

To effectively establish a connection to ancient languages, I will here begin with the already accepted etymological roots that seem to go no further.

The etymological roots of “black” according to the west, it comes from:

Old English blæc, meaning "dark," from

Proto-Germanic *blakaz "burned" (cognates: Old Norse blakkr "dark," Old High German blah "black," Swedish bläck "ink," Dutch blaken "to burn"), from

PIE *bhleg- "to burn, gleam, shine, flash" (cognates: Greek phlegein "to burn, scorch," Latin flagrare "to blaze, glow, burn"), from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn;"

The etymology dictionaries seem to make the word “black” synonymous with “dark”. However the root of blæc is from Proto-Germanic blakaz meaning “burned” which has its roots in PIE bhleg meaning to burn, gleam, shine, flash.

A close examination immediately reveals the deception of the Germanic languages in that they seem to have altered the meaning of words for nefarious purposes. The word has completely changed from its original meaning. The word dark dark (adj.) derives from:

Old English deorc "dark, obscure, gloomy; sad, cheerless; sinister, wicked," from

Proto-Germanic *derkaz (cognates: Old High German tarchanjan "to hide, conceal"). "Absence of light" especially at night is the original meaning.

It’s clear from the above explanation that “black” and “dark” are not synonymous with each other. The application of the word and its association with color did not come into use until the 16th century. By reason of this I will disregard “dark” as a synonym and proceed to establish the original roots of the word “black”.

Linguists claim that Indo-European languages descended from a single tongue. Called Proto-Indo-European, or PIE, it was spoken by a people who lived from roughly 4500 to 2500 B.C., and left no written texts. In essence PIE is a construction of a linguist by the name of August Schleicher, and it has no historical foundation but is a scientific hogwash which by all appearances, seeks to palliate the facts regarding the origin of Germanic languages. As previously stated in this article, according to Count de Volney, Europeans were taught language by black ancient Egyptians. I therefore posit that it is to the language of ancient Egyptians one must search in order to find the roots and true meaning of the word black.

The word in Medu Neter that is the root for “black” is the word transliterated as /burqa/ by E.A. Wallis Budge with the meaning; to shine, to lighten, to glimmer, to sparkle, bright, shining. In the Sestswana/Sesotho we have the plural word /malakabe/ which comprises of a prefix /ma/, the double adjective /lakabe/ which is made up of /laka/ meaning flame, light, shine, sparkle, bright, blaze and /be/ meaning evil. This word /malakabe/ means bad light, flames, blaze etc. and it’s normally used in reference to fire flames. The singular for /malakabe/ is /lelakabe/. The word /laka/ is synonymous with the Chikaranga/isiZulu word for the sun i.e. /langa/.

The transliteration of into /burqa/ is close but should instead read /buraka/. The /bu/ and /bo/ are similar words etymologically as can be found in indigenous African languages. The prefix /bu/or /bo/speaks the condition/state of what follows and may be used to denote a designation/place. It is accepted that /r/ and /l/ are interchangeable and thus in this case, /buraka/ would become /bulaka/ or /bolaka/.  This means the state of being or condition of light, brightness, sparkle, shine etc. It can now be seen that the Proto-Germanic *blakaz has its root in bolaka/bulaka. By elision the /u,o/ was eliminated and it became /blaka/. By paragoge it became /blakaz/. The word /blakaz/ by elision became /blak/ or /blæc/.

I have here clearly shown that the PIE origin of the word black is but a fabrication as there is no such language. The ancestors of Europeans first learned the art of speech and writing from the Black Egyptian as already attested by their historians.

Contrary to the notions held by Moorish groups and opponents of the usage of “black” as a word that relates to the identity of the so called “Africans”, on the basis that it has associated negative connotations and accompanying legal consequences, I have with this expose removed the veneer of falsehoods that have been espoused by our people for far too long. Perhaps the only negative resulting consequences stem from ignorance and failure to assert the truth without equivocation.

All too often we as a people become trapped in the emotional intellectualization of beliefs that give the semblance of intelligence. There is a sure way and method of establishing the veracity of anything that has historical footprints. In a society wherein anyone can claim to be anything, it is advisable to thoroughly investigate such claims and weigh them against verifiable history.

Now the question remains:  Are we as a people to rely on the negative applications and connotations of words which are in their original use have no connection to the deceptive manipulations wrought on them by Europeans, or will we chose to embrace “black” and blackness as descriptive of our glory, splendor and magnificence? I hope we will finally accept that blackness has nothing to do with color or anything negative associated with it, but rather that it is a state of being and a condition to which we can aspire to ultimately reach; a luminous light of true blackness is our destiny.

Source: http://www.simamele.co.za/index.php/blogs/735-origin-of-black

[conversationsmystic]

322 – Is living to avoid death, living?

“Life without death is no life at all.”

It’s what Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, said during a lecture a few decades ago. I watched him talk about this subject of life and death on YouTube not long after my father said, “Everyone who eats peas will die.”

It’s ok. Take a deep breath. Peas don’t kill. As legumes, they’re chock-full of vitamin B1, iron and protein. Some consider them one of “The World’s Healthiest Foods,” because they’re an anti-inflammatory. Not to mention, they’re delicious when sautéed in butter with caramelized onions, lemon peel and slivers of fresh mint. (It sounds weird, but try it.)

The question is … do we eat our peas to delay death, or because they make life better?

My father’s comment came at the end of a relative’s monologue on alternative healing techniques that have been around for thousands of years, yet have had a recent surge in popularity as a way to heal and extend the length of our life. His rather dry statement was also met with a fleeting look of alarm.

Peas kill?

No. They don’t kill.

But no matter what we do, we will die. The same may not be said for living.

I asked The Mystic …

If we do things to avoid the inevitable (death), are we missing out on life?

Stepping out of the path of a speeding car and spending your every waking moment doing everything you're told will keep you from dying (take this pill; do this exercise; sleep on this kind of bed; never eat fat; you need coconut oil in your diet; blah, blah, blah...) are two entirely different things. Obviously, if you're compulsive obsessive about avoiding death, two things will happen: You will fail and you will successfully cheat yourself out of truly living.

Death only happens in the physical and even then you're not “dead.” The body dies and you change form. That's it. If you want to come back, go ahead and do it.

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