In the recent documentary "Marley" there's footage of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Apr 6, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Roger - >> Apropos of nothing, I was looking at >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups the other day and >> discovered that the Rastafari outnumber the Unitarians by about 70,000 >> adherents. They are locked in battle for the last place on that particular >> list, though they both outnumber the Scientologists. >> > I was recently pulled up short when I realized that the Rastafarians held > Hailie Selassie as a contemporary Messiah, the Christian God embodied. > > I had very romantic notions about the Rastafarian movement based almost > entirely on listening to Bob Marley's music. > > The deliverer of this ephiphany is a friend (born Ethiopia, raised > Egypt/Australia) whose father was one of those who risked their lives to > depose Selassie back in the day. I guess I didn't listen closely enough to > Marley's Lyrics. > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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