Pissed off Afrikans

Why oh why are you so pissed off Afrikan? Why is it that we can't talk to each other and disagree intelligently not sarcastically? Now, I know this sound strange coming from me because I find that sarcasm used appropriately can be quite an entertaining art form, however, when we speak to each other with such nastiness and anger we are no better than the European that initially introduced us to individualism and selfish ways. Just because you have knowledge that you believe to be the end-all be-all doesn't mean that you have a right to be condescending to your kindred. If you want to each-one-teach-one, you must be teachable and reachable. We have enough wounds and damage to last a lifetime without stabbing and biting at each other.

Beautiful Sista

Yesterday the Creator was so good to me. I had just the right client at just the right time. I haven't seen her since like June last year I think, but she came when she was supposed to. We talked about all the changes that we have experienced over the time and I was able to ask her questions now that I see things more clearly. She was a part of my process and I am grateful.
She asked me who I talk to about my spiritual journey and I told her that I don't talk to anyone but my husband in person. The other sisters that I confide in are on FB and some ning accounts. That seems kind of sad, but I think it is as it should be for right now.

What do I believe so far? Changed due to new thoughts.

This is copied from a former post and as I have continued to learn I have changed some things. Everything in bold italic is new.

1. I believe there is a higher being that created all this stuff we see and don't see and the stuff we know about and don't know about.
2. I believe that either the being is asexual or is represented in both the male and female and thus represents the balance that we see all around us.
3. Although I was raised a Christian I no longer believe that Christianity is an original belief and know that it was plagiarized from ancient Kemetian beliefs.
   
4. I don't believe that religions should be advertised as historical truths if they are not able to be proven with the same standards that all other history is proven. I'm not so sure how I feel about this anymore. What I think now is that they don't need to prove their history as if it were a social studies lesson. They shouldn't, however, have stolen ideas, artifacts, etc and claim them as their own. You should never lie or use scare tactics to get someone to believe as you do.
5. I don't believe that spirituality has to fit into a particular religion. Ancient religions mostly believed that you follow the beliefs of your ancestors--whoever they are. If you are of mixed heritage then you may incorporate different aspects from the various cultures. I now know this because I went to see Native American exhibition and was SO MOVED by the drumming, acknowledgment of nature, and the ancestors. Beautiful.
6. Religions can bring either comfort or conflict or both. Religions do both, but spirituality on brings comfort because we would all be going to same direction but using different paths.
7. I don't think that people should practice religions that don't adequately reflect who they are (ie female, African, etc.)
8. I don't believe that you can experience the creator through the eyes of another. I should've said that you can't have your experience with the creator through someone else, but you can experience the creator through they eyes of another. You just have to make sure that you don't try and make their experience yours.
9. I believe that we are divinely connected, because we are divinely created.
10. I believe that a knowledge an appreciation for nature is a very necessary part of understanding the Creator. 
11. Any religion the claims to know the Creator, but doesn't teach it's followers to take care of their bodies and the earth is false or at the very least disconnected.

I will make changes as I grow. Grow with me.

Matriarichal vs Patriarichal...or balance?

The matriarchal vs patriarchal views have seeming been a discussion since almost the beginning of time. I have just recently begun to learn about thinking of things from different points of view. Things are generally not the way that they are presented to you and so you MUST ask questions.

I was thinking the other day about no matter how they try to rationalize patriarchy in government or positions of power, it just doesn't prove true. I reading an African historical fiction set in a patriarchal society, and in one part of the book the people had a saying that "Mother is supreme". The character who has multiple wives and children was asked why he thought they had this saying in their village. Of course the character was clueless as most men even now would be. He was told that the reason was that when we are in need or in trouble we always return to mother. All that to say this, our lives begin and end with mother. Now, I will be honest with you, I am a woman that is extremely close to her mother. I will drop you where you stand if you mess with my Mama, but my dad...not so much. They are married and have been for about 34 years, but I have come to a realization lately. My father and I don't get along. I was a dawta when he wanted a sun and I have never thought he liked me. Well, the truth is it started when I was 11 or 12. He just wasn't there and didn't do the things a dad should do. Until recently I kept holding out thinking that God was going to fix all that was wrong with us. I hoped that my forgiving him, being nice and avoiding certain conversations would gradually help us overcome our disconnection, but NOPE! I have decided that our relationship will probably never be anything more than what it is and that's fine. I am my mother's child. I have always been closer to her, she raised me because emotionally my father was absent, and she taught me how to love others. Most people I know are closer to their mothers and their mother's family.

At the root of is all, we do live in a matriarchal society, but the matriarchs simply don't get the credit. Everyday fathers walk away and nobody says anything. If a mother walks away we all search our hearts and minds to figure out what was wrong with her. I'm not a feminist by any stretch of the imagination, because in my house I like to practice balance. My husband and I are different, but equal. We are sun and moon, because the earth (children) would perish if either was to get to far from them. That said, I enjoy the set up my husband and I have, but unfortunately everyone doesn't believe that way and so things remain imbalanced. I don't know why the sexes are so at odds. The truth is that without the other we are imbalanced and can't even survive as a race/culture. Peace. Love. Balance.

Why couldn't we just stick with the way our ancestors did things before colonization and indoctrination?

Psalm 82 & Yoruba

Reading Psalm 82 once again a human is referred to as a god. Now, I realize that the lower-case "g" differentiates this from the upper-case "G" God. I am reading a book right now about Yoruba which explains that some of the Orisa (deities/gods) used to be human similarly the Kemetians held similar beliefs. What then, is the difference between the beliefs at points which concern gods, angels, Orisha, or Pharaohs? They all held to some deity outside of one central God. Okay, so I hear you. Christians don't worship humans in any form as God. Okay, but wouldn't Christianity still be technically polytheistic? How? The trinity (a word that appears nowhere in scripture). Yes, Christ said, "I and the father are one", but he said it while physically standing on earth and later implied that his followers were part of that oneness also. What the heck does that mean? I find it strange that all of this stuff makes sense to some weird degree surrounded by like thinking people, but when you are alone to question what went on, it suddenly becomes very nonsensical. I guess in my absence from church and being instructed what to think, I have begun to find that religions have more in common than they care to admit.

Perfection?

Is God perfect or just smarter and wiser than us by leaps and bounds? This question came me because I kept trying to wrap my mind around how a perfect being to make 2 sets of beings (angels and humans) and both of the creations have glitches. Remember the "devil" was supposed to be the best of the best, but then he wanted to take God's place. Then Adam and Eve messed up by listening to the aforementioned "devil". Now all of this is said to have happened due to our free choice option.
I wrote a paper in my philosophy class on free choice. I, at the time, was seeing the world through Christian glasses. I felt confident stating such at the beginning of my paper as free choice was always a last ditch effort to explain things that we couldn't find validation for. Of course it was second only to "God's ways are higher than our ways and His thought's than our thoughts". Anyhoo, as I wrote and looked up scripture to support the claim that we did have free will, I was baffled by the contradictions. It was so confusing. I could almost smell my brain frying as I tried to sort out what I was reading. This, after all, was a philosophy class not bible study. I was not going to be supported by like thinkers in this situation, but rather I was prove my stance beyond reasonable doubt. Well, needless to say, my paper ended in my conceding defeat because I was unable to prove anything with the book written by multiple authors, at multiple times in history, compiled by multiple editors.