Submitted by Terence Blackett
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line… – W.E.B. DuBois
Today the Black man still bears the Cross of Jesus Christ as Simon of Cyrene did on that most fateful day in earth’s history. As those Caucasoid Roman soldiers whipped, beat, insulted and spat upon my Lord and as those who called themselves Abraham’s children (Jews) and are not (crying vociferously, “let his blood be upon us and our children”) – but are of the Synagogue of SATAN* heckled, cajoled, laughed, maligned, jeered and scoffed as Jesus wobbled, stumbled and fell under the weight of the cross. Simon (the 13th Disciple) bore His burden up the hill.
And so upon the back of the Black man fell that cross of shame – a symbolic, archetypal reminder to Black folks everywhere throughout the ages that upon their shoulders rest the long arduous process of salvation for humanity. What Simon of Cyrene accomplished in the flesh for our beloved Lord and Saviour – we as the progenitors of that fulfilment would have to carry for mankind right down until the end of time.
Yet many still ask, but are not Black folks “the least in their Father’s house”?
What constitutes greatness can largely be a matter of opinion. Jesus reminds us that the least is oftentimes the greatest amongst us and MUST* be a “servant” to all – and the “first” will be the “last” and the “last” will be the “first”.
Do we consider a man’s greatness in part due to the degree to which his life and actions affect humanity for generations?
Had Napoleon been forced to stay on the island of Corsica – would the seeds of his destiny as Emperor become historical evident or would he not have become one of those “flowers born to bloom” remaining unseen and waste in the sweetness of the desert air?
As the subject of this discourse implies, many have bought into the “lies” of history regarding the greatest group of people God created on planet earth. Though disobedient on every level (and now “last”) – they have remained unparalleled as a force of nature especially when history is given the true resonance it deserves. Blacks began civilization and they will end it!
Post-deluvian history in Genesis 10:6–20 paints an account of the dispersal of the nations within the Mesopotamian Valley of IRAQ*. This geographical area known as the cradle of civilization from which emerged the world’s first known Black King (NIMROD) – the most powerful Black man that ever lived (after the Flood), who according to Scripture was “a mighty hunter before God” and someone who ruled from the stratospheric heights of the Tower of Babel. Historical accounts presuppose that no physical human structure like it exist today on the earth. Even with the Burj Khalifa which stands at [2,716.5FT] in downtown Dubai – it remains as an insignificant structure compared to the Tower of Babel.
In Genesis 11:6, God saw that the intent of the people’s heart was based on such solid “UNITY” that they would have literally built a stairway into the heavens. The story of Babel is truly profound because the Black man still struggles unlike any other race with this issue of “unity”. We all seem to speak a different language – often from a position of defence. Our focus is too tribal; too linguistic; too individualistic. Our focus like the kingdom of Nimrod is on building material edifices without any real tailored, spiritual accountability. As the Bible remind us – “Unless the LORD GOD* builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD GOD* watch the city in the night, in vain do the watchmen keep vigil.”
The post-exodus of mankind from the kingdom of Nimrod, resulting in Ham taking his son Mizraim and went off to Africa. Mizraim whose name is Egypt became the land from which Jacob’s family of [70] plus Joseph who was already Prince of Egypt, his wife Asenath, (the daughter of an African priest) and their [2] sons would call home for the next 430 years. Of the [70] who entered Egypt (this powerful Black nation) according to Scripture only (4) of them were female, (Asher’s granddaughter, Jacob’s daughter Dinah who had been raped, Leah & Zilpah).
For all the religious BIGOTS* who do not possess a shred of intellectual, far less spiritual honesty, it would be nigh impossible for them to acknowledge that the JEWISH* people began as a “RACE” of people (WHO DUE TO INTERMARRIAGE) were Black or for ethnological correctness – biracial where [66] men and [4] Israelite females were meant to keep the bloodline Semitic.
By the time God had decided to deliver the Israelites out of African bondage – a new despotic Pharaoh had emerged to wage ethnic genocide because of the population statistics in Goshen, Egypt. A new “hybrid” specie of Black folks had morphed into the landscape threatening to become a majority.
On the scene of action was another prince of Egypt (a Hebrew), Moses who had grown up in Pharaoh’s house. He was to be the deliverer of this people after spending some [40] years in Jethro’s house (a Black Midianite high priest) who knew of the true worship of YAHWEH long before even the children of Israel had been given a single commandment from God.
Scripture reminds us also that Moses’ Black Ethiopian wife Zipporah was at the center of ethnic, racial strife between Moses’ sister Miriam and others (due in no part to jealousy and stupidity) and would have suffered the retributive justice of a NO-NONSENSE God had Moses not arbitrarily intervened.
Right through the historical document of Old Testament Scripture, is peppered and laced with references, scenes, acts, stories and prominent roles by powerful Black men and women who altered the course of human history and destiny. This discourse is limited in its citations of what can be accredited to God’s original people but the proof is in the pudding. Taste and see that the Lord is good!
As a result of the flawed thinking and the misconceptualization of Scripture – we sadly arrived at medieval pre-Renaissance history – where the pendulum of time has swung decisively and indiscriminately towards those who would rule the world based on Daniel Chapter 3.
By the time Greece and Rome arrived on the world scene, Caucasoid people were in the ascendancy and set out to concoct a damnable lie* of historic proportions. This damnable heresy is then used as fuel and fodder for the next millennium to brainwash and indoctrinate the world into believing that the Black man had no major place, part or role in the Biblical historical narrative (and if so, to a diminished extent) but most importantly, that the descendants of Ham were a “cursed people” – a ploy to upstage and steal the most important vestiges of Black history.
Caucasian ministers, anthropologists, social historians, eugenicists and others throughout the Reformation period of the 16th century taught that the Black man was cursed based on the pronouncement in Genesis 9:24-25.
The Church spearheading this diabolical lie, gave sanction to the capitalists “rift-raft”, dodgy speculators and amoral profiteers to embark on a 400 year-old quest to squeeze every last drop of blood out of the soul of the Black man because as Scripture had said – “a slave shall he be to others”.
The conundrum of Scripture however for many so-called intellectual Biblical scholars is that Ham was not cursed (the “one” who saw his father’s nakedness) but Noah’s grandson Canaan – and many still ask why? Those who think they are so enlightened can provide a meaningful answer as to why this occurred.
Today, the modern Judeo-Christian construct is actually a matrix of disavowal of basic historical factors, [premises] and conclusions. According to Dr. Walter Arthur McCray in his book – “The Black Presence in the Bible: Discovering THE BLACK and African Identity of Biblical persons and nations”, he argues that “one of the more enlightening aspects of the study of the Black presence in the Bible has to do with the ethnological make-up of the Old Covenant community. Here we are speaking of the Blackness, whether implicit or explicit, of the Hebrew-Israelite-Judahite-Jewish people spanning the centuries from Abraham, the father of the Hebrew people with whom God entered into Covenant, down to Jesus Christ Himself, the Promised Messiah of God.” (p.122)
McCray further opines that “it is indeed possible for us to demonstrate [1] the Blackness of the Covenant-Messianic community; [2] the Blackness of the Messianic genealogical line; and [3] the Blackness of the Messiah Himself, Christ Jesus The Lord.” (Ibid)
The problem is – unravelling centuries of false indoctrination, brain (white) washing, lies and misinformation will be a mammoth task given the entrenched nature of our belief system but work we must to destroy the last barriers of resistance.
In conclusion, the New Testament like the OT is also peppered with historical accounts of Black privilege, involvement and control. Dr. John S. Mbiti, in his book “African Religions and Philosophy” argues that “the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch (Black Queen Candace’s Treasurer) described in the Acts of the Apostles predates Paul’s 1st missionary journey into Europe by several years. There is clear, historical documentation of the BLACK church in Africa by the 3rd century. Christianity was the dominant religion in North Africa and most notably Egypt. Egyptian and North African scholars such as Clement, Origen, Tertullian, and Athanasius are widely recognized as fathers of the church. One of the most undeniable instances was Lucius of Cyrene who with his comrade in Antioch, Simeon, who was called Niger – Niger simply means “Black.”
He contends that “by the year 300, Egypt had more than a million Christians. In the 6th century, Christianity spread to the Nubian Kingdoms, soon becoming the dominant religion. The Christian Nubian Kingdoms survived for 700 years, resisting attempted domination by Muslim conquerors for 600 of those years. The Egyptian Coptic Church in the Sudan and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church still exist today. Though persecuted, their presence is testimony to the historicity of Christianity in Africa.”
@ Zoe
In what year was Jesus born ?
This should be good. 😉
The above is me , playing with gravatar.com
@ de hood
So, BT what does being caucasoid have to do with leprosy?
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You tell us the difference hood. ….and even Broomsley boys can use google!!
@ GP
Now if the contraction of leprosy is the aetiology of Caucasian white skin we ought to keep far from them , as leprosy is contagious
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Do you wish to declare any personal interest here? LOL
…actually it would have been much better for black people if we had been able to “keep far from them”…. but alas some of us are married to them…. rotfl
…..man read yuh bible nuh!! – you will see that there were rules about which ones were contagious and which were OK to be around….
Given the views of some posters, one would suppose that the contraction of leprosy results in an instantaneous and complete change of skin colour. Further we have to imagine a number of lepers copulating, becoming pregnant and giving birth for this “leprosy-as-the-cause-of-white-people” theory. It is interesting to note that within the memories of some very old but still alive Bajans, there is the knowledge of lepers (mostly Black Bajans) being housed in buildings situated in Black Rock near the now UWI School of Graduate Studies i.e the Lazarretto. A place for housing lepers was often called a lazar house, after Lazarus, the patron saint of lepers.
But I must digress and ask what affliction accounts for Chinese, Indian, Mongolian, Amerindian and even those not very Black in colour but very African people of Southern Africa such as the Khoikhoi and the San? Also many very Black-in-skin-colour West Indians must be in some discomfort as recent genetic studies have revealed that has much as 25% of their genetic makeup is from European i.e. White ancestry.
Well said Ping Pong
Anyone with a single functioning Betz cell can understand that leprous black people did not become white.
Also with regard to the videoe by the clown . If her thesis was true all whites who remove to tropic lands would become black over time and vice versa.
Some folk are clutching at straws
BT
@ man read yuh bible nuh!! – you will see that there were rules about which ones were contagious and which were OK to be around….
Please kindly note that ALL leprosy is leprosy. ALL leprosy is contagious.. In that day it carried the stigma that HIV AIDS carries today. In places where it is seen today it still carries that stigma. ALL lepers are separated from society as we once did at the Lazaretto.
Except fpr lack of melanin white skin and black skin is the same.
@ GP
Your quote:- “Also with regard to the video by the clown . If her thesis was true all whites who remove to tropic lands would become black over time………”
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Doc, man, all dis time yuh know exactly wuh is be ailing meh and yuh en gimme de diagnosis? Well tanx fuh lettin’ muh know now. Come to think of it ah did notice dat ah was gettin’ l’il darker & darker ova de years, man. 🙂
@ de hood, no man, there is nothing in the theology of Mormonisn, LDS, as I carefully detailed months ago here on BU, quoting extensively from with authorized LDS sources, showing clearly the ‘polythiestic’ (many gods) foundation on which Brigham Young, Joseph Smith et al, built their utterly false and erroneous theology, entitely contrary to the revealed WORD of God, the Bible, FOREVER settled in Heaven, so that “For instance, don’t we both agree that Jesus Christ is our Saviour…”
Absolutely not, as this seemingly ‘orthodox’ statement of yours is just a ploy to fool others that the LDS are speeking the same language, when in truth and fact, the Jesus of Mormon theology, is a vastly an entirely different person, to the ONE and Only Saviour of historic, orthodox theology, contained in HIS WORD, the Bible.
Whereas, in Mormon theology, Christ as a pre-existent spirit was not only the spirit brother of the DEVIL (Pearl of Great Price, Moses 4: 1-4, and later reaffirmed by Brigham Young in the ‘Journal of Discourses’ Vol. 13, p, 282), but according to Mormonisn, celebrated his own marriage to both “the Marys and Martha, whereby he could see his seed before he was crucified” (apostle Orson Hyde, “Journal of Discourses” Vol. 4, pp. 259-260).
Also, as we have seen previously, the Mormon concept of the virgin birth, ALONE, distinguishes their “Christ” from the Christ of the Bible.
So, there is NO WAY we believe in the same Saviour, as your Jesus, is NOT the Jesus of the Bible, God’s Words. In Christian theology, there IS BUT *ONE* God, (Deut 6:4, I Cor 8:4-6) NOT the crass polytheism, (gods) of Mormonisn, AND JESUS CHRIST, is His Eternal WORD made flesh (John 1:1 and 1:4).
@ “Saint” Zoe
I have but one statement to make on your “detailed” essay on the LDS church and that is………..You poor li’l fella, I’s feel fuh yuh!! Carry on smartly just as you are now. But remember, when one sows the wind one then has to be prepared to reap the whirlwind!
May you enjoy the rest of your day.
@ “Saint” Zoe
BTW, do you know of whom you so closely remind me. Let me tell you, you remember a guy who persecuted the early church to the point of even putting some members to death? He persisted until the good Lord was ready to sort him out on the road to Damascus, up to then he was known as Saul and thereafter he was called Paul.
Well, I don’t know if you may be so kindly treated but if I were in your shoes I would be a bit concerned as to when my time would come to be sorted out as well. Perhaps by then you would have really earned the salutation of “Saint Zoe”. You should then be able to add scripture (“The Epistles of Saint Zoe”). How yuh like dat, huh?
@ Ping Pong
Bush Tea sympathizes with your skepticism.
My comments were directed at those who claim that they believe that the bible is the inspired word of God.
So when my friend GP can say
“Well said Ping Pong
Anyone with a single functioning Betz cell can understand that leprous black people did not become white.”
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Now did the bushman not just show where GP’s bible gave at least three cases where persons became leprous – and as a result turned ‘white as snow’.
How is it that these bible people can quote chapter and verse when it suits their purpose and then hide from others when it does not?
Does it say in 2 Kings 5 that Gehazi was struck with leprosy and turned white as snow – (and that all his descendants would be similarly struck) or does it not?
Note well that the bushman has said NOTHING about what BT thinks….. only asked questions about what GP’s bible says….
@ de hood
Skippa, why don’t you
@BT
@ de hood
Skippa, why don’t you
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Why u doan finish de sentence. Yuh got meh in suspense, man. 🙂
@ de hood ….my apologies.
Skippa why don’t you….
….leave Zoe alone nuh!
…by the way, Mr Hood, any progress on the comparisons between leprosy and Caucasian’ ism? Look up vitiligo.
@ de hood, I resolutely defend, ‘Contend for the FAITH (doctrinal content & substance of God’s Word, the Bible) ONCE for ALL delivered to the Saints” (Jude 1) 2/3 of which the Apostle Paul was divinely Inspired to pen, NOT Saul, his pre-conversion name.
I would NEVER ‘You should then be able to add scripture…” NO! NO! NO!, my name is NOT JOSEPH SMITH, nor BRIGHAM YOUNG, et al Mormon ‘Polytheists” of many FALSE *gods theology, who have viciously ADDED to God’s Word the BIBLE, with the “Doctrine and Covenants’ the “Pearl of Great Price” and the “Book of Mormon’.
Regarding this nonsense of ‘white of snow’ suggesting this was becoming ‘white’ people, what utter bush tea folly!
“The Semitic root ‘ibn’ referred to a rage of light colours including the “white of snow” the light brown or creamy colour of fresh wood and manna, the grey of the moon, the white of yogurt (Lebanese Arabic), and, finally, either the white snow caps of the Lebanon mountains of their light coloured limestone. The Hebrew derivatives vary in their individual theological overtones.”
Laban. White. “Describes goats (Gen 30:35), peeled wood (Gen 1:8; 6:3), milk (Gen 49:12), and the infection of leprosy (Lev 13). Its theological significance is relatively limited. As the colour of leprous infection, it may represent corruption and death. Zechariah’s white horses, particularly in comparasion with the white horse of Revelation (6:2), may signify military conquest. In contrast, the white garments advocated by the Preacher accompany a restrained hedonism (Eccl 9: 7-9). In Gen 49: 12 the whiteness is probably descriptive and refers to prosperity and abundance.”
“Laban. Be white. ” A denominative verb derived from ‘laban.’ Its major theological motif relates whitness to moral purity. The cleansing which God brings to the sinner makes a sinner white as snow. (Ps 51: 7 [H 9]; Isa. 1:18). The cleansing of martyrdom also makes white (Dan 11:35). A fourth ( in the Hithpael) has been translated both reflexively ( Dan 12:10); RSV “make themselves white”; and passively (KJV ” made white”). While either translation is grammatically defensible, the latter translation avoids the misleading suggestion that such moral cleansing comes from self-reformation. The white tree branches of Joel 1:7 represent the judgment by voracious locusts.” (Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, pp. 467-468).
@Zoe
So, do you have copies of these works………Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Book of Mormon? And if so have you read and studied them? And if not, then WHY NOT?
@ Bush Tea
You suggested:- “Skippa why don’t you….
….leave Zoe alone nuh!”
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Man, BT, u wanna tek from me what eva l’li bit o fun I’s gets out of life or what?
@BT
by the way, Mr Hood, any progress on the comparisons between leprosy and Caucasian’ ism?
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No, BT, I figure that I had best not encroach on the Doc’s territory. I don’t want to run into trouble for practising medicine without a license. 🙂
@ Mr Zoe
Regarding this nonsense of ‘white of snow’ suggesting this was becoming ‘white’ people, what utter bush tea folly!
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LOL. The thing about bushmen sir, is that we can always excuse our folly – not having been schooled in the theology like GP and yourself.
Why so dismissive? Don’t you feel ANY inclination to set the Bushie on the right path of knowledge?
Before you embarrass yourself on this issue, the Bushman would suggest that you do a bit of research (and don’t limit yourself to your standard bible school nonsense suggesting a white Moses and white Jesus).
For a start look up words like ‘vitiligo’ and ‘albino’.
Look over 2 Kings 5 again and study what YOUR bible says about Aaron’s sister Miriam when they bad-talked Moses for his choice of a wife.
Explain these small details to us Mr Zoe, without coming to the conclusion that the ‘white’ race evolved post-biblical times from colonies of Albinos who were rejected by biblical societies…and who naturally migrated to more comfortable temperate climates.
As to GP’s assertions about what leprosy is – the bushman would have thought it was obvious that BACK IN THOSE DAYS, such fancy differences would have been unknown. Therefore REAL lepers, Albinos, Vitiligo, and plain ‘skin sores’ would all have been called “LEPROSY”. Obviously this is why the Priest did their 7-day tests to differentiate contagious leprosy from albinism etc.
…..anyway – you do some reading and come back. If you are smart, you will discover that the BLACK race is a VERY special race who, through the unprecedented slave trade and its consequences, have suffered and been scattered as was predicted for the descendants of Abraham….
…wait GP very quiet. …not a popular topic for you doc?
@BT,
“Obviously while climate will have an impact on the degree of darkness or lightness, the determining factor is melanin. ”
Obviously? LOL… How exactly does climate impact on the degree of darkness or lightness?
Vitiligo? You believe a European is an African with vitiligo? What about those Europeans that do have vitiligo… are they square-vitiligos or just doubly cursed? Did vitiligo straighten their hair too, or was that caused by fear of the witch doctors who looked at them funny?
By the way, I see ping got you ducking again LOL.
@GP
“Also with regard to the videoe by the clown . If her thesis was true all whites who remove to tropic lands would become black over time…”
Clearly you misunderstood the process of natural selection, as that is not a logical conclusion from her presentation.
Well well, is this not all very interesting stuff…? Should my family not be proud that so many think our history to be so important in their lives? Does my family really care for the well being of outsiders? Should my family really be concerned that Christians spout what they claim is theirs and scoff at us behind closed doors?
@ MME
…..you back on that rum and coconut water again…?? LOL
That is the only sane explanation for your illogical rant above.
You ever lived in a cold climate? or had a family member relocate? Did you not see an obvious complexion change?
Have you ever heard of TANNING? …as in “what happens to white tourist who come to Bim”?
…how do you mean “How exactly does climate impact on the degree of darkness or lightness?”
……get a strong coffee MME!!!
…as to vitiligo ….. cuddear, you think that BT is a teacher like GP? BT is not here to spoon feed you – BT is a parable speaker LOL. Are you telling the bushman that you did not look up related words like Albino? ….you did not google research done on the origin of the races? ….You did not uncover the directive given by King James to depict the biblical characters as white (in all the illustrations) despite all the evidence to the contrary ….. AND to decree that Ham was the father of the black race (since Ham was cursed…??)
…. you mean that you did not do your research MME….. disappointing!!! (you could be looking seriously at a straight triple A rating -without the plus LOl)
check http://www.pbs.org. click on Nova . it has a video on “the Birth of Humanity.
@ MME LOL
Vitiligo? You believe a European is an African with vitiligo?
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..of course NOT!
…but everyone knows that a Caucasian (and an Albino) is a Black without melanin rotfl.
When you have done your research, you will discover that all the existing races are subsets (can be derived from) the black race and ONLY the black race….. These are well established FACTS.
….no doubt many of us prefer to continue with our brainwashed dogma about being the cursed descendants of Ham….. so that presumably- it will be fulfilled that “in the last days, the first shall be last and the last first….”
BT,
Take your time… this is the statement you made: “Obviously while climate will have an impact on the degree of darkness or lightness, the determining factor is melanin. ”
Google “melanin” and read the first two links. Then read your statement again and see if it still makes sense to you. Again, HOW exactly does climate impact on the degree of darkness or lightness? What is tanning? What are the determining factors for melanin levels? If you take the time to think these questions through, the problem with your statement will become evident.
That all existing races are a subset of the black race is not in dispute. It is actually the starting point in the video presentation, and a reasonable conclusion based on available scientific evidence. Switching from vitiligo to albinism was a nice touch, but does not address the issue. Are you saying that a European albino is an albino squared? I still waiting to hear bout de straight-hair curse ROTFL. Getting back to the curse, I suppose when black parents give birth to an albino child the curse has skipped a generation LOL… come on BT, you are better than this.
One strategy of responding to the unscientific and ridiculous allegation that Ham was the father of the black race since he was cursed, is to make an equally ludicrous and unscientific claim in reverse… but that is not the level of discourse I have come to expect from you.
By the way… I see from your Gravatar image you appear to bear “the curse” from the neck down… Freudian slip? ROTFL
Techy,
Should it be “rastafarimakonnen” instead of “rastafarimakonem”?
@ MME
man let we drop this cause the bushman don’t know what scene you on…..
BT talking ’bout simple tanning and you gone to technical definitions….
Man when yuh go in de sun, yuh does get blacker!!! What technical bout dat? ROTFL
THE CAUCASOIDIZATION OF YESHUA AMACHIA
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Jesus/Jesus.htm
Does the Bush Medicine Tea Man not know the the Small Artificial Engineer is neither small, artificial nor Black?
Was Maurice not Egyptian? Should Blacks not be more concerned with Islam, a faith that willingly accepts them?
Micro Mock Engineer | October 12, 2010 at 11:44 PM |
Techy,
Should it be “rastafarimakonnen” instead of “rastafarimakonem”?
LOL …..MME
Ding ding!!
You won the prize!
I was wondering who on BU would be the first to pick up on that….lol.
That happens when hundreds of people have the same idea. I wanted to get Makonnen but everything close was used up so I asked forgiveness and permission to deviate from the original spelling for my cause….lol…….ya sharp tho!
“The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced today that it has moved UV tanning beds to its highest cancer risk category …” – WebMD Health News , July 28/2009 .
“A new analysis of about 20 studies concludes the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75% when people start using tanning beds before age 30.”- USA Today, 7/28/2009
@ BT, man, I have never once read any interpretation from the Bush Man, here on BU, from God’s Word, the Bible, that is sound, always laced in mystical, numinous, unaccountable, necromantic, sorcerous, witchy, unbiblical nonsense, but, that is consistent with one, such as the Bush-man.
I’ll leave you to GP, and the medical side of this crap you are so mixed up in; also, MME, is obviously a critical, objective thinker, way above your warped mind-set.
Regarding 2 Kings 5, once again you don’t have a clue re the correct contextual and historical interpretation of what transpired here.
Kingdom Dynamics
5: 1-15 Lessons in Sharing Healing Hope.
DIVINE HEALING.
Naaman the Syrian general was a good man, and apparently his leprosy was not a result of his wrongdoing. Thus, the episode furnishes us with some practical insights into God’s healing process when the sick person is innocent of known disobedience or action exposing them to their affliction. 1) See the importance of our sharing the hope of God’s healing with others. The door to Naaman’s healing was opened by a Jewish maid who recommended he seek out the prophet Elisha. Believers do good when they witness to others of both the saving and healing power of Jesus. 2) See how God knows what to deal with in each person. Naaman was instructed to dip seven times in the Jordan River, and this DISPLEASED him. His human BRASHNESS and hidden PRIDE were surfaced, and his obedience and submission opened the way to health. A similar call may face any of us, as healing often awaites obedient action. For example, Jesus instructed 10 lepers to show themselves to the priest, and they were healed AFTER taking that first step of OBEDIENCE (Luke 17: 12-14). People who have received prayer for healing somtimes give up when they do not see immediate healing, rather than seek God for a possible faith-building step of submission. (See also 2 Kings 20: 1-11)
Notice how the GREED of Gehazi, caused him and his descendants to have leprosy. “And he went out from his presence leprous, as white (descriptive) as snow.” (v.27)
@ Zoe
@ BT, man, I have never once read any interpretation from the Bush Man, here on BU, from God’s Word, the Bible, that is sound, always laced in mystical, numinous, unaccountable, necromantic, sorcerous, witchy, unbiblical nonsense, but, that is consistent with one, such as the Bush-man
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Thank you Mr Zoe….. just try not to crucify the Bushie please. We ‘parable speakers’ have a way of ending up nailed to large plus signs…..LOL
BTW, read your piece again and see if it makes any sense to you…. cause the point eludes me…..
black panther | October 14, 2010 at 1:54 AM |
“The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced today that it has moved UV tanning beds to its highest cancer risk category …” – WebMD Health News , July 28/2009 .
“A new analysis of about 20 studies concludes the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75% when people start using tanning beds before age 30.”- USA Today, 7/28/2009
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If you will visit my power point presentation you will learn why the above is so. You will be enlightened with respect to how UV light causes skin cancer by inducing the formation of pyrimidine (thymine) dimers. I have pictured it several times.
Bush Tea
Re …….the unscientific and ridiculous allegation that Ham was the father of the black race &
Re ……..the directive given by King James to depict the biblical characters as white (in all the illustrations) despite all the evidence to the contrary ….. AND to decree that Ham was the father of the black race (since Ham was cursed…??)
I MUST CONFESS THAT I HAVE NEVER PICKED UP THESE POINTS IN MY READING OF THE KJV. COULD YOU POINT ME TO THE TEXTS THAT INDICATES THUS, SIR?
Re You ever lived in a cold climate? or had a family member relocate? Did you not see an obvious complexion change? YES BUT I NEVER SAW THIS TEMPORARY CHANGE PASSED ON IN THEIR OFFSPRING
RE Have you ever heard of TANNING? …as in “what happens to white tourist who come to Bim”? YES BUT I NEVER SAW THIS TEMPORARY CHANGE PASSED ON IN THEIR OFFSPRING LOL
MME
Re @GP
“Also with regard to the videoe by the clown . If her thesis was true all whites who remove to tropic lands would become black over time…”
Clearly you misunderstood the process of natural selection, as that is not a logical conclusion from her presentation.
Please kindly explain your understanding of her thesis as it relates to natural selection and Mendelian inheritance. Thanks.
@BT… let me try a different approach… go and mix yourself a tall glass of mauby with crushed ice. Bring it back to the computer and sip it as you watch the video below.
…now consider this… the quantity of melanocytes (the skin cells that produce melanin) in a person’s skin bears no relationship to the race of that person.
The colour of a person’s skin is determined by how active their melanocytes are (i.e. how much melanin their melanocytes produce), how they are distributed and the types of melanin they produce.
These factors are in turn determined by hormones and the level of exposure to UV radiation in sunlight.
The main purpose of melanin is to regulate the level of UV radiation our bodies are exposed to (allowing just enough for the synthesis of Vitamin D, but not enough to cause DNA damage). In geographical areas of low UV there was natural selection for less active melanocytes.
@GP… the reason you have not seen this “change passed on in their offspring” is because you are not 200,000 years old. Also, it is not likely to recur in the future since technology has altered selective pressure.
BAFBFP… verily I say unto you… your intelligent agent appears to be afflicted with achromatopsia.
Techy,
“I wanted to get Makonnen but everything close was used up so I asked forgiveness and permission to deviate from the original spelling”
That’s a relief… you were in danger of earning the title of Micro Mock Rasta 🙂
Micro Mock Engineer | October 14, 2010 at 10:46 PM |
Techy,
“I wanted to get Makonnen but everything close was used up so I asked forgiveness and permission to deviate from the original spelling”
That’s a relief… you were in danger of earning the title of Micro Mock Rasta 🙂
ROFLMAO…..
Micro Mock Rasta!!
No Sir, we can’t have that now can we?!?
😉
MME
Verily I say unto you, do you not think that we have the fullest confidence in our intelligence agencies? Are they not the best in the world?
BOW! MMR IN THE AREA
MURDERER
☸ Feel Free ☸ Contemplation ☸
@ Bust Tea, “BTW, read your piece again and see if it makes any sense to you…cause the point eludes me…”
Of course “…the point eludes me…” what else do you expect, If the light that be in you, IS DARKNESS, Oh’ how great is that DARKNESS.”
@ MME
Thanks for the video, that explains everything….
….everything else that you said is nonsense. LOL
For example, you introduce the role of the melanocytes and then went on to show that they were not relevant to the issue (??) … then you explain the role of melanin (which was never in dispute) (??)
Fact of the matter is that the determining factor in differentiating the races is melanin levels produced in the skin. Where your ‘melanocytes’ are not doing their job, you get white skin and the attendant characteristics like eyes and hair; and where they are ‘shotting properly’ you get blacks with ours.
It is that simple!
@ Zoe
Seeking to insult a bushman is like peeing into the air and then gazing up at it- in open-mouth wonder.
.. and you throw insults better than any 9 year-old that BT knows…. Bushie does not argue with children…. blessings.
@Bush Tea, “…just try not to crucify the Bushie please. We ‘parable speakers’ have a way of ending up nailed to large plus signs..Lol”
What a display of blasphemous ignorant ARROGANCE, though it was supposedly said in jest…man, you are not even worthy to be included among 9 year olds, you in still in Pre-School, diapers and ALL!
@ Zoe
….as was said, blessings to you. You will need them.
“Where your ‘melanocytes’ are not doing their job, you get white skin and the attendant characteristics like eyes and hair; and where they are ‘shotting properly’ you get blacks with ours.”
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LOL BT… yuh gone from bad to worse… now you are loosely introducing “attendant characteristics”? Please elaborate on these other attendant characteristics in eyes and hair besides colour that melanocytes are responsible for?
“Fact of the matter is that the determining factor in differentiating the races is melanin levels produced in the skin.”
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So BT… by your logic these two women are of the same race? ROTFL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangladeshi_woman.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ff5dKpORYN0/Sb–n0a4fyI/AAAAAAAAADc/tHOEiihIO3M/s1600-h/a1+-+Copy.jpg
…man tell de truth… you really din get that glass of mauby or watch de video. LOL
The swearing Zoe accuses the Bushman of blasphemy ……Priceless!!
@ MME
So as not to let you embarrass yourself (and jeopardize your triple A+ rating too boot);
…and since you seem to be so enamored with ‘links’ and ‘Utube documentaries’, the bushman has researched something for you to review…..
…. you get some crushed ice and a mauby (Aunt May’s is good)…. AND NO RUM….LOL
Let us know how you respond to this position espoused here at:
http://stewartsynopsis.com/chapter_7.htm
The “African” albinos look like Africans without dark skin and the “European” albinos look like Europeans with even ‘whiter” skin. I note albinism still occurs today in all races at a rate of about 1:20 000. Also albinism is not restricted to humans and is a genetic disorder seen in all vertebrates.
“the bushman has researched something for you to review”
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You read dah David?
…man I know I reach when I got de Bushman doing research. ROFL
But BT… cuh dear… the civil thing to do would have been to start out by retracting your earlier statement that “the determining factor in differentiating the races is melanin levels produced in the skin”. As the photographs of the two women above prove, that statement is patently false.
I have already dealt with the bad science presented in that article you linked to. The Youtube video it features doesn’t support your position… did you watch it? All it shows is a slideshow of photographs of albinos from both black and white races. If anything, the slideshow demonstrates that besides colour, melanin has nothing to do with other “attending characteristics” in the eyes and hair of different races as you claim.
The photographs of the Brazilian woman and children at the end of the article are interesting but misleading… in part due to some ‘creative’ journalism from the newspaper that originally published them… but I guess they have to sell newspapers. Do some research on that story before using it in defense of your thesis… I do hope you are able to figure it out for yourself, as trying to explain this to you is making my hair lose its melanin 🙂
@MME
You know when elephants rumbling ants does look fuh cover…lol
BT… on second thought, I am willing to reexamine your theory in light of recent new evidence… http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/barrack-goes-white-to-get-millions-owed/
@ MME
Don’t know if you noticed before, but to be quite honest, it matters zero to the bushman whether you are convinced or otherwise….. does not really affect my bush rice…. STS (smiling to self)
Feel free to continue to believe what ever it is that you so dearly wish to continue to believe about the origin of race…..
LOL, we can always add this to your intuitive faith in the belief that ‘evolution’ resulted in the complex, intricate, dynamic and delicately poised reality called ‘life on earth’.
Without question, it is a well researched, referenced and written paper that is logical, thought provoking and rational. Can we have your alternative explanations -beyond scoffing and posting meaningless music and pictures….??
Vitamin D promotes the absorption of calcium , which is essential for the normal development and maintenance of healthy teeth and bones.
The ‘vitamin D hypothesis’ is often used to explain differences in skin colour among human populations .
Vitamin D hypothesis : as modern humans spread out of Africa, they entered northern regions, like Europe, where sunlight is weaker and less conducive to synthesis of vitamin D by the skin. Thus, to maintain the same level of vitamin-D synthesis, there was strong natural selection to de-pigment the skin and let the sun’s rays penetrate it more easily.
The information presented below, demonstrates that the vitamin –D hypothesis is questionable.
The Eskimos ( indigenous people of the Arctic) are darker than northern Europeans.
The native North American Indians (who live at high latitudes) are darker than Europeans.
Several studies show that blacks have stronger bones than whites.
“ Black girls have higher calcium absorption and retention than White girls, despite lower vitamin D status. Vitamin D status does not predict calcium utilization in healthy Black or White adolescent girls at the time of their peak growth in the skeleton .”- J Clinical. Endocrinology Metabolism. 2008 October; 93(10): 3907–3914 .
“..at all calcium intakes, black girls retain more skeletal calcium than do whites, which may explain the higher peak bone mass in black adults than in white adults.”- (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 85, No. 6, 1657-1663, June 2007 ).
“..young, adult, black men and women have substantially greater BMD (Bone Mineral Density) than white persons ; this finding is true at all skeletal sites ..”-Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 82, No. 2 429-434.
“American blacks have greater bone mineral density than whites and that this may account, at least in part, for their lower rate of fractures, particularly hip fractures.
Higher bone strength in blacks could be due to several factors including development of a stronger skeleton during childhood and adolescence, slower loss of bone during adulthood due to reduced rates of bone turnover and greater ability to replace lost bone due to better bone formation.”- American Clinical and Climatological Association-2007; 118: 305–315 .
The vitamin –D hypothesis is questionable.
Robins (2009) disputed the role played by ultraviolet radiation (UVR), namely, the vitamin-D-producing wavelength of ultraviolet B (UVB) ,in the evolution of human skin colour.
He provided evidence to support the view that people can produce enough vitamin D in their skin, regardless of pigmentation.
Robins concluded that ‘‘. . . vitamin D status could not have constituted the fitness differential between lightly pigmented and darkly pigmented individuals at high latitudes that favoured the evolutionary selection of the former’’ (Robins, 2009)
@ Black Panther
Only those who dare where angles fear to thread- would risk to challenge your assertions!!
Any poster who could have so comprehensively exposed the Bushman as you did on the stroke of noon of 10/10/10 must be highly respected… LOL
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black panther | October 10, 2010 at 12:00 PM |
World’s most ancient race traced in DNA study
“The San people of southern Africa, who have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years, are likely to be the oldest population of humans on Earth, according to the biggest and most detailed analysis of African DNA. The San, ALSO KNOWN AS BUSHMEN, are directly descended from the original population of early human ancestors who gave rise to all other groups of Africans and, eventually, to the people who left the continent to populate other parts of the world .” – The Independent , 1/5/2009.
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@ MME
So BT… by your logic these two women are of the same race? ROTFL………
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Man, MME, they are two such perfect looking specimens that “de hood” would not mind one bit being cosy with either one. 🙂
@ de hood
You don’t know a Micro Mock Red Herring when you see one…?
@ BT
Bushie, man, you have me here fit to bust a gut. 🙂 Man I only dreaming. What de ole man hood going be doing cosying up to 2 such vibrant, young, and beautiful women. Dem would not even notice de ole man hey in de firs place! LOL.
@ BT
BTW, it’s been quite some time now since I last heard anything of GP. It’s not like him to be missing all the action here and on the other thread with Mia etc. Hope he ain’t ailing.
@ Hood
Fear not, GP is in good health.
One of these good days the Bushman will explain his challenge in black and white…..