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Ancestrally speaking, we are family first. Throughout history, it seems as though Africans wouldn't marry their siblings unless absolutely necessary. From what I read, however, I don't think cousins, aunts, and uncles were off-limits. Maybe our "tribes" are extended family members, and some family members by marriage. For example, my second cousin is married to a woman whose uncle is Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York. So, through marriage, one of my family/tribe members just escaped federal indictment because one member has ties with Donald. Maybe the primary reason tribes form from family members is protection.

IMO, humans are tribal by nature. In complex societies, people belong to more than one tribe.😎

I'll be watching out for this event with my new and improved vision! 🫨

In October, I lost my youngest twin daughter to breast cancer. She didn't have health insurance when she found out. Still, she got health insurance through Obamacare (Affordable Care Act.) Several months after cancer treatments, she went into remission after treatments. Still, she refused radiation because there was a possibility of leaving her mentally and physically disabled. By then, the cost of her treatment was nearly a quarter of a million dollars, a poisoned and mutilated body. She lost so much, but she refused to give up her way of life. The cancer treatments didn't extinguish her light, though. She was still helping others see what a gift life was to them and how they could use it to lift others up. When the cancer returned, this time to her brain, she again chose life, submitting herself to brain surgery and another quarter of a million dollars. She came through with flying colors, and two days later, we were sitting across from each other at this beautiful restaurant. A month after her brain surgery, my dear BabyGirl was brain dead. Before the doctor removed her breathing tube, her family, friends, and her former boyfriend made it to her bedside. We had her funeral right there, and a month later, my BabyGirl's Twin sister and her best friend threw the most incredible Celebration of Life for her. We miss...I miss her terribly. However, it didn't change how I feel about the way the establishment treats cancer. It is a money-maker for the healthcare industry at the cost of lives, whether we survive for a few years or die. In January, a month after what would have been my daughter's 33rd birthday, a debt-collecting attorney for the hospital sent a bill for $300,000 to her estate. I've always given cancer treatments the side-eye. I'm not even into the SGK "pink" tober bullsh*t. I wondered what was the point of all that poison, disfigurement, mutilation, and radiation that ended with my daughter's untimely death. Btw, I don't say "eff cancer" because cancer cells are very personal - cancer is your DNA which is why no one can catch it from another. And just like you want to live, so do your cancer cells. Kill cancer cells, and you will most likely kill your noncancerous cells, too. Cancer cells are just doing what any living thing does, which exists and even thrive. Except cancer cells eventually kill their host. So, keep your cortisol low, and take your wealth and health treatment seriously. Your health, wealth, and quality of life are on the line. Below are three journalists, two of whom have tackled breast cancer differently. Ananda Lewis, by the way, decided to do nothing in the beginning and is also against mastectomy and is in stage 4 cancer -(which means cancer has spread throughout her body - death is imminent.) However, she's still here, and she did alternative therapies. These three women express many things I want to share in this post, but they deliver it way better.

After watching a documentary about the Bloods and Crips gangs in Los Angeles and how they were founded and how they evolved, and the gang life among some AfroAmericans in various cities through out the United States in general....a few people actually described the different gangs and their sets (set = local subgroup of the much larger gang) as "tribes". When I heard this, I thought of our brother @richardmurray and how he often describes the various socio-political groups within AfroAmerica as "tribes". I've heard it said that Black people....not just in the United States but worldwide...are "tribal" by nature. That we look for different ways to group up and form cliques with eachother for the purposes of separating and distinguishing ourselves from eachother....often times JUST BECAUSE. Sometimes religion is used. Sometimes skin tone is used. Sometimes region and nationality is used. Sometimes the side of the city you're from (Eastsiders vs Westsiders) is used. And if you can't find a reason...MAKE UP one....like what color clothes you wear like the gangs in Los Angeles or what street/block you live on. How true do you think this is? Do you think was as AfroAmericans are actually "tribal" by nature or do you think this was instilled into our people by outside forces?

March 13-14, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse NASA: March 13-14, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse: Telescopic View Released Thursday, January 30, 2025 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5472 This week, on the evening of March 13 and into the morning of March 14, the moon will slide into Earth’s shadow, creating a wondrous and graceful event: a total lunar eclipse. The whole show, over three hours long, will be visible across almost the entirety of North America, Central America, and most of South America. From western Africa the moon will set while still eclipsed, and in extreme eastern Russia the moon will rise already in eclipse. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/where-and-how-to-see-total-lunar-eclipse-2025-blood-moon _____________________________________________________________________ This is so awesome! Even though there will be other lunar eclipses however, I think this one is extra special because it just so happens to occur in the middle of the month and even more amazing would be that it will happen in the month of March. The month of March is the scientific and universal New Year! March 14, is the scientific and lunar New Year! So if you count from March to September, it confirms this fact because Sept means 'the number seven (7)' and then the root word 'Oct' for the month of October means 'eight (8)' as in octagon. For America and western Calendars, the month of September is the ninth (9th) month, October is the tenth (10th) month and so forth. So for the earth to align with the moon becoming a full moon on the evening of March 13 is significant in how the solar system aligns at times. The vernal equinox will then occur in the third week of March. Eclipses though, are not always easy to see because of the nature of how they tend to pull up the clouds. But hopefully for those who may want to look up and witness this celestial event, the clouds will not gather and block the red moon.

If I were writing a dissertation, I would include your perspective on family and clan. While some people choose not to speak with family members as they age, it is absolutely a constant because it is necessary for survival. However, I would not attempt to defend the "social" by nature claim. There are too many outliers of human displays of asocial and antisocial behavior including those who display it in early years.

Correct. Humans are social creatures. Rarely does a human being go through life in solitude. Most belong to a tribe(s). Most tribes are formed the moment a man and woman decide to procreate and become a family.😁😎

Humans are not tribal by Nature....Humans are Social by Nature. As Social Beings we forms groups to aid in mutual survival. When these groupings are based on and in family and blood ties.....it becomes clanish and tribal. Gangs on the otherhand are more focus on terretories.....mainingly geographic but it can also be financial In that sense gangs are more political than familial grouping. I would not consider them tribes....language is living and usage give new and sometimes another meanings to words. All of the above are political in origin and essence masqueradaing as social religious colorism and terretorialism. No... we are not tribal by Nature I disagree Yes from village to city to state to nation many tribes live togather as almost One It is hard to say if it is family or clan....I think it is clan - often if you put family over clan you and your family will be ostracise or worst expelled. True....except among the ruling class. True True. In the situation given above your cousin is not a part of your family - but most definitely a part of your clan....but her uncle may not be a part of your clan - but can still be a part of your tribe.

Eastern standard time to view eclipse 1st penumbral phase: 11:57 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 13. 1st partial phase: 1:09 a.m. EDT on Friday, March 14. Totality: 2:26 a.m. EDT. 2nd partial phase: 3:31 a.m. EDT. 2nd penumbral phase: 4:47-6:00 a.m. EDT.

Oh boy! And, I would like to highlight that about two weeks later after the lunar eclipse, there was a solar eclipse! The type of solar eclipse that occurred was a partial solar eclipse. And, I will also add that, although many western scientist like to downplay is that right at the time of this solar eclipse, there was a catastrophic earthquake, a 7.7 on the Richter scale in China.

Okay. I am interested. This is one of my favorite passions, understanding how the planets and stars align, but I do not completely understand how the equinox occurs. I am challenged when it comes to understanding 'spacial' objects! Anyone that knows how I post may realize that I love Space Science, but nevertheless, it is still a challenge for me.

She is beautiful! May your precious daughter Rest In Power! I loved the video too, that you posted. Very informative.

Mel I'm a firm believer in doing and promoting what actually WORKS to solve or cure a problem. Your daughter wanted to be treated by traditional medicine and in many cases that works, but in other cases the more alternative approach works which is why INTEGRATIVE Medicine is generally the best option for serious illnesses like Cancer. You can get the type of aggressive treatment needed and often times with minimal side effects. The problem arises over who's going to PAY for the various treatments because so many insurance companies act so janky when it comes to covering alternative and experimental treatments. This is just another reason we need Univeral Healthcare. If....in accordance with the theme of your thread...many of these healthcare providers are using these patients as ATM machines get as much money out of them as they can before letting them go, atleast the patients don't have to deal with the stress of arguing with these evil insurance companies over what they will and won't cover. President Obama said something he'd never forget and what pushed him to promote and sign in the Affordable Care Act was seeing his own mother spend the last few months of her life arguing with insurance companies over her hospitalizations and treatments. Or I wonder why my father didn't survive that bullet wound. Plenty of people survive getting shot. Maybe YOU wanted him to survive but depending on where he was shot and how badly he was wounded...would HE have wanted to survive? Sometimes people CHOOSE to exit this mug early. Earlier than we'd like them to...... As much as you love somebody sometimes you have to think about the suffering (the psychological stress alone) they may infact end up going through if they stay here and "tough it out". I just saw an article a few days ago about how a the death toll from that Columbine Highschool shooting rose by 1 because one of the students...now in her 40s recently passed away DECADES after being shot and paralyzed. Columbine shooting survivor dies 26 years after being paralyzed in massacre | Columbine | The Guardian Besides being paralyzed, she had been dealing with other complications from that shooting since the 90s. Everybody ain't built to go through that type of psychological stress. ProfD Powerful people understand religion is form of mind control. Absolutely When the Europeans and Arabs came into Africa...they first used RELIGION to subdue their victims mentally before conquering them physically. The Vatican is more wealthy than several countries combined. Sounds like the Mafia, lol. There's no coincidence that both the La Cosa Nostra (Mafia) and the Roman Catholic Church descended from the Roman Empire after it was broken up. Which countries have nuclear weapons? The ones smart enough to develop them. You don't think the Palestinians would develop nuclear technology...and USE that shit....if they had the ability to? Commititng violence against and oppressing other people is not a sign of intelligence. A bully isn't the smartest person. If we're talking about kids, yes. But if we're talking about adults.......unless they're disabled, why are they in a POSITION to be bullied by another adult in the first place? Especially when you're talking about GROUPS of people. I'm not saying there are no legitimate reasons....just asking what ARE those reasons? Here you are a healthy grown 6 foot 200 pound man...and a 5'5 160 pound man is steadily slapping you around, clowning on you infront of the ladies, and digging his hands all through your pockets taking your money and grinning. That sounds like a man with something "wrong" with him.

Is this a cultural problem, maybe more so in the United States, with this constant compete, Compete, COMPETE? When I was in college an instructor walked in the first day and said he was giving out 2 A's and 4 B's. Hadn't taught shit! And my senior yr in highschool I watched this White boy cry in class because he got a B. A friend in high school who was on the track team said the coach told him to ask me if I wanted to join because he watched me during PE class. No way Jose! I couldn't put up with it. I got straight D's in religion. That is part of why I ended up not laughing at that White boy. He had to have spent hours and hours and hours doing idiotic religion assignments to get straight A's in EveryThing! Is this society driving some people Nuts? .

Well, I think the incident falls in the category of "man-bites-dog" news and I have no problem with it going viral. If it hadn't, I would've never known that this type of behavior was not unusual. There are even humorous aspects to this cautionary tale. The girl who was hit claims to have been diagnosed with a brain concussion, incidentally. And GMA is not exactly desperate for ratings since its the #1 morning talk show. So, did you have a problem with reports of athletic coaches molesting their female trainees making headlines?

It all could've been avoided if the accused girl hadn't done what she was accused of. And I doubt if there has ever been a case before where one runner In a relay race hit another runner on an opposing team with a baton during the final stretch. So it is a newsworthy, human interest story imo, and a sign of the times along with the everybody-gets-a-trophy-custom and winning at any cost attitude that overshadows good spormanship and now passes for acceptable behavior,- thanks to Donald Trump. It certainly bespeaks of childishness and poor home training.

The coach and her parents apologised but she didn't. Also the fact that she didn't stop makes it look intentional. This was in my YouTube feed.

This is an open and shut case of unsportsmanlike conduct, assault and battery. This isn't one of those videos where they can tell folks you didn't see what you saw on the screen.😁😎