Sister Rags said: Amanda, hun...if you want to wax, wax. I'm most definitely not here to tell you, Amanda, what to do with your hair. I can only share my own experiences.
Bradillz, right on.
A JAMAICAN accent? Damn, now I AM insulted. NO. My accent, sir, was a frank imitation of some certain black AMERICANS I know. UGH.
SikTh_Man and Amanda, I don't think dreads are the issue with either of you. I'm on the verge of getting just plain, mean, nasty, and rude because I'm not sure how to say...uhh..."you're not exactly comprehending this discussion" in a nice way. Perhaps this: "Subtleties are being lost on you"?
Uh, yeah, so that's about it. You're both fine, just as you are. I will stay awake allll night, chanting that mantra to myself.
they are of no concern becauser they cant afford products? wtf? sure they are they are being made out to be undesireables because they dont wax and use products and yools to have boring dreads.. these are the people who are at the hight of connectiveness with dreading (awkward sentence not exactly whart im trying ti convey my brains mush remember?) these people have worn dreads for thousands of years they are the dread community and may feel fashion dreads are an invassion into a spiritual community they may feel people like me and rags havent earned our dreads because we dont meditate and do gyogas and fast and prey every mommebt of ther day.. before dreads became a fashion they were a way of life these people were and are the dread community and anyone whos less religfiosly opr sprotualy connected to dreads are a guest withi9n that community and should earn the resypect of the dread community by remaining natural as can be living a spiritual life as possible paying respect to those who are higher then us on a spiruitual path and trying to be just aliittle more like them in at least some small ways free of vanity and greed etc
by making natural dreads seem unaceptible or undesireable johnny is basicly slapping the real dread s]community in the face
what do you think a sadhu wg=hos grown dreads for 60 years theyre 20 feet long and he spends all day ..no all his life in spiritual persuites thinks of a waxed crocheted felted and worked on dreads that took a day to make and 10 hours a weeek to maintain i can tell you hed think all that time was wasyed and the dreads were not earned
im not saying thast all dreads need to be grown im not saying made dreasds donmt desserve theyre dreads im not saying unspirutual people dont desserve respect to
im saying that if thety want to wear dreads they damn well better give utmost respect to those who sugffer and prey and spend a life in spirutual prsuites and profound poverty to rearn theyre dreads asnd stop acting like theyre so goddamn high an mighty because they can afford a comb and some gross sticky goop and can pay someone to make them look like they have some wisdom
thats what dreads were a sign of swisdom and spirituality not ws all they are is a cool symbokl a i smoke weed freakflag a im not a confomeist yet im, conforming so i wont stanfd out too muchj look
theres so much disrespect of the ones wyho truly desserve respect
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The people who can afford it are those things can afford products for dreadlocks. If they can't afford dreadlock products, then they aren't a concern in this debate because this debate involves people who can afford those products, not people who can't. And those same people probably can't afford internet access, thus they don't even know there is a debate or about the experiment.
Sister Rags said:Not everyone gets dreads for spiritual reasons. Some people do it because they can't afford to maintain their hair, some people do it because they like how it looks, some people (myself included here) like having long hair, but don't like it going all over the place in a gust of wind. Regardless, neglect dreads aren't the only way to go, and all dread styles should be accepted, not shunned. Nobody like being talked down to from someone sitting on a high horse, and as sadly, I'm seeing a lot of that being done on this site. Sister Rags said:It's interesting to me that in order to do the experiment as shown in the video one must be able to use/afford toilet paper, own or borrow a blow dryer, and have electricity. I wonder how many people in Trenchtown would be able to do that experiment...sadhus in India... the Nazarite in the mideast?Very interesting, thought-provoking. I'm really looking into my own dread journey more deeply as I am exploring the whys, hows, of dreading...who does it, where the people who dread live, spend their time, and what are their life experiences? What exactly is this journey about, and why are some of us called to be on it?
