Ahh, youth!
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> 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 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Lion_Zion>. > > ============================================================ > 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 > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA me...@emergentdiplomacy.org mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merlelefkoff
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