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frankster

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  1. If you cannot see that then my explanation may not help you. Here is an example.... You are a defeated enemy combatant or yo are a poor destitute or a voluntary slave..One thing you are not is a victim of kidnapping. You are advise to escape and the sorrounding community is oblige to protect you from recapture. They can only be passed along if the slave wants to remain a slave for that family....every 6yrs to 7yrs or 50yrs by law and statute all in bondage must be given their freedom No it is not.... You have destroyed my home and you now must compensate me - enemy combatant slave You are destitute your family in exchange forMoney or room or board or farmland....sell a child into slavery as payment. If this is the result of a war then it is a killing..... but it is not murder. People who do not murder....but has killed are not consider killers No... I said escape slaves are protected by the society from recapture....that condoning For it to be support....then the society must allow and cooperative with your capture and re-enslavement.
  2. Ideologies can be Based on Biology or Social Constructs...Ideas based on Ideas Sex is based in Biology...it is not a Social Construct or Social Creation. Sexism and Chauvism are not biologically based .... They are Social Constructs - ideologies. Both Race and Racism are Socially Constructed Racism and Sexism is about the Ideas that differences percieved must be placed in a hierarchical lineage of Social Domain In Other words using real and or imagine differences to divide and oppress.... Obese individuals present differently from their siblings of the same family who are slim....are they then of a different Race? Are you in your dream or is there content in your dream....then Nature is there
  3. Race was constructed as a justification for racism. Show me where Nature is not?
  4. Let me repost it seems you did not see or just to ignore its implications 1 Corinthians 7:21 New Living Translation Are you a slave? Don’t let that worry you—but if you get a chance to be free, take it. Deuteronomy 23:15 New King James Version “You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.
  5. Social Constructs are ideas that we agree to and as such sometimes is not beneficial to all. The Social Construct that is Race is primary support for Racism. When carried to its extremes you end up with Chattel Slavery and the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews The quest for purity usually end up with genetic diseases or malformed offspring. Then we will just have to disagree on that... No matter how high low or sidesway near or far this reality or another spiritual mental or other....... you will find Nature there The Divine like all Beings is a Force or a Part in and of Nature....
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  7. Seriously....The bible is about liberty - for the soul of Man The Bible writes of three majors ways of becoming a slave.. 1. Spoils of War...Captured Enemy soldier or the members of the Community of the Conquered and Defeated. Consider this as a form Restorative or Reparative Justice for the harm and destruction cause by the war - Indemnification. 2. Debt Slavery...Destitute unable to pay off creditors or support oneself and family - Indentureship Common practice in poor so called third world countries today...in Haiti it is Called Restavek(sojouner) This is a means of Remedying or Alleviating Homelessness Hunger and Indigence Indigence and desparation is usually a breeding ground for criminality and disease. The Prerequisite of knowing the family and being born in the Land is to Mitigate against it becoming a business enterprise or a means to force on the weak and powerless. 3. Voluntary...explains itself Every Seven Years and every fifty years all must be release from their bondage enslavement or debt.. The Individual enslaved must freely agree to stay beyond these years Thats like saying you got 25 to life and you come out on bail in 15 or it gets commuted....or you get 20 life sentences. Anyway on the Year of Jubilee (every 50 yrs) they must be offered/given their freedom as per scripture/law/statues of Israel. I dealt with this already....to advise otherwise is to invite pain suffering and discomfort if not death on the victim. Best to be genuinely Stockholmed (syndrome) in hopes of achieving some sort of bonding (Lima syndrome) while keeping an eye out for escape. A strategy Sally Hemings successfully deployed...the Power of the Black (#oochie I cant....I just cant ......really tried You know that really depends.... The Taino's when face with enslavement by Europeans commit suicide in droves and killed their offspring as a matter of course rather than see them be enslaved. Not us Africans we fought and stick through it all and survived the worst treatments imaginable....and is overcoming. Here is the greatest difference I see between support and condone.. When it is supported...they are slave catchers and society is in cahoots with your continued enslavement and oppression. When it is Condoned...there are no agency of professional slave catchers and society is bound by law and statutes to protected and secure your newly won freedom I have often wondered....which is worst. Dying of Hunger thirst exposure or being a slave? I once read an article about why Rastafari grew so fast in jamaica in the 1930's to 60's...The Brits had so destroyed the economy of Jamaica that people who lived on crown land ran to the city to get themselves imprisoned so as to ensure three meals bed shelter and clothing....Rastafari offered a simple solution capture the land and farm it and face down the british armed forces. As an aside: - "Coral Garden Incident" is the most famous but the less famous 'the Dungle Tragedy" which was turned into a book written by Orlando Paterson called "Children of Sisyphus" is it in your collection?
  8. How to do this....with bible verse written by the Enslavers themselves translated to support their unholy enterprise...Let the fun begin. The Book of Exodus's major story is about freeing slaves..Mass movement from captivity and enslavement to Freedom and Liberty. Exodus 6:6 Nevertheless the bible is replete with the folowing...Freedom, lay your burden down, Break every chain, Defend the weak poor and fatherless Set the Captives free and Break every Yoke freeing the oppressed clothing the naked and feeding the hungry. No.... the Bible does not Support slavery. The verse below is supporting.... death to those who traffick in human beings whether they be buyer or seller. Here is the Bible's clear stand against - Slavery Exodus 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. quote the verse?... Yes.... If you are Captive in the US Prison System Or on a Plantation ... I would be doing you a disservice if I told you not to obey the Corrections Officer or your Captors(Master/overseer). The Story of Joseph comes to Mind.....I slave who worked the system. 1 Corinthians 7:21 New Living Translation Are you a slave? Don’t let that worry you—but if you get a chance to be free, take it. Deuteronomy 23:15 New King James Version “You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.
  9. Support is when you promote and practice something....condone is when you tolerate and allow.
  10. No....I think it is much more nefarious than that...and well thought out - plan for the destruction of black communities... Once you malign and marginalize a community....you can do almost any thing to them and get away with it. No... The violence and criminality must stays in black communities how else are you going to be able to say "they are Animals anyways, let them kill themselves" - they not like us.
  11. I would think being enslaved is much worst... Genocide???? way to strong a word. Yes...Racist Agenda Can you name one Organization that you are sure without a doubt is pushing Racism? How can you say they do not care about black genocide? Racism creates and promote Criminalizing, Depraving, Dumbing Down and Polluting of the Black Communities Rap was personally politically and socially engineered to promoted violence and criminality - Gangsterism Hard to say...Currently the Republicans say to have more Racist in their Ranks(party reps) and file(voters) Can't agree MLKjr and Malcolm X proves that as inaccurate
  12. I do not think the bible supports slavery . Yes the bible condones slavery. lets see how good my understand/memory is The bible does not condone Kidnappers Yes....usually as prisoners of war Yes....again mostly in cases of war and as a result War Booty In Times of war or in the fog of war it is hard to say who is innocent....the enemies people are often killed - not murdered. Virgins are an exception....they are considered "Booty" Yes....usually if a man Rapes a maiden he is force to marry her or she him.... It is not always for Money or Wealth but in the end it results in that ....its really about Survival and Growth That I do not know about ...but it is certainly possible - I suspect for them its not the venue for such discourses. Gospel Singers I believe is using their platform to Uplift the Spirits and free the Soul.. The Bible in a sense is a Manual for Mankind...and so its versatility is any other tool - Capable of being used for Good or Evil. Yes... Not all I have known some good ones....who often speak out against corruption in and out of the Church. Yes ....God does provide Because they are Human and often experience weaknesses of the Emotional Kind Physical kind Mental Spiritual and Of the Soul. While others are just Raving wolves in Sheep Clothing - crooks scammers and such. If one understand that Entertainment is Entrainment then you know why.
  13. Yes yes Please Note it saids "traits" as in plural whilst "phenotype" is singular cool Hence it is social and politically motivated maintain and constructed - no basis in biology or science. Thanks Considered not accepted as fact. Considered not accepted as fact. Are you ceding ground? I know all humans originate from or out of Africa. They still Food...so long as the are agreeable healthy and edible All other considering is negligible I am making my own decisions and ideas.....with regard to whats factual and what is socio-political engineering
  14. True The ideology of Race It can only Categorize as Social Construct used to achieve political and economic goal and agendas...... The Supreme Being is Nature Yes it could be said....if you also believe that cars/automobiles can use humans beings ? It then begs the question what is using the Mind
  15. They are not Phenotypes ok Yes I stand by what I said and see no contradiction....Traits are not phenotype That was your confusion....not mine Seems like they are not sure and are just making it up....to suit a political agenda or another. ok So their is no distinct and discreet determination as to the when one is no longer considered a caucasian it is a guess based on personal opinion. Some remain caucasian...even after admixture? Others remain Africans...even after admixture? And what is the even mixed now a new race or both? They were Africans before calling themselves caucasians....even before mixing I See Two Human beings. Are there differences....yes My biological brother and I also have differences. What do you think ? new race? Or do you need A white man to decide for you?
  16. Nature Is As Our understanding of Nature grows....we create categories. Nature Traverse All Realms....if it exist it is of Nature. Yes... The Mind uses the Brain to exist/operate in physicality. The Mind is non-physical.
  17. Okay then what did you say? I Am sure I never said traits and Phenotype were the same.....What I said was traits make up phenotype or something similar. True Why Are they "TECHNICALLY CONSIDERED" Caucasians? How are the different from Caucasians? Of Those that have or include "admixture" are they Caucasians or Africans? You mean like how the Caucasians were originally Africans Not only have you adopted this idea of race from these IGNORANT racist....you are now making improvement to it - lol. Is "Mixed" then a new Race? Sure can....we all Africans
  18. Natural is still Nature....be it super or any other form. Yes....usually. Yes ....if it is his and her way of foreplay. Yes. Yes Yes cool Cool The Brain
  19. in simply words....a set of traits equal a phenotype. I Never said a trait were or was equal to phenotype In the USA today they would not be considered white....Arabs are not considered white neither are light skinned Indians. Are you saying Arabs are really White/Caucasians? Most racist whites would disagree...with them being of the same race as Arabs and Indians Most Arabs are mixed with Black and some are even black.....same applies to Indian in South East Asia If you mixed....What are you? It has been a fact for awhile now ..... Many of them were. The term "Native American" is used traditionally to represent a specific ethnic group... Nevertheless the Word "Native" in and of itself has a particular meaning which i would be correct in using it to referring to Africans who were here when and before Columbus. Those ethnic groups of peoples called Indians are not African..... They are descendants of Africans and some are mixed with Africans from before Columbus arrived in the Americas.
  20. Lol, have you forgotten your own statements so soon? Maybe you should read that again. No....They look primarily South Asian as in Indian and Middle Eastern as in Arabic than European to me The People were called Arya and Aryas....the land was called Iran.... Iran is a derivative or mispronunciation of Aryan I accept the idea that they came from Africa as fact I am saying many Africans were there when Columbus arrived...... Maybe even more than so called Native American No I am not saying they are Africans...at they time of Columbus they were very mixed with African...
  21. Yeah...I made them up based on what i have read and been informed by... Life is often a contradiction to those of us who are uninformed... By the definition of God Being Omnipresent and Omniscient...Only Nature fits those characteristic it depends on how you look at it..... cool cool cool cool Look up any word in the dictionary most will have several meanings. It is not wrong but incorrect unless it is a part of foreplay to make a baby the woman must be ovulating and the man should ejaculate in her vagina...that is the traditional and most common way. Yes ...it was evil No... it should not have been fought. Yet it was necessary....necessary evil It was necessary because the peoples involved were unable to settle their differences peacefully....change is a constant The same goal could have been reach peacefully. No...do not wait Evil does not exist....you thinking and behavior gives it the apparent force of existence. Man's interpretation of Scripture and Nature cool how so how so Good is absent. If so then you must believe God exist? Exactly it is not sensorial
  22. Thats because you are thinking in terms Newtonian Physics and Cartesian Dualism......to understand try Quantum Physics and Monism The following will only serve to confuse you... After the creation God said it was Good..... Are thoughts Real? Man ate of the tree and came to know Good and Evil....duality All action Is.....We label it one thing or the other - view from different perspectives or ends may appear to be opposites From our perspective: feeding a hungry man a chicken dinner is Good. From our perspective: it must be or seems Evil to or for the chicken that was dinner. War is an orgy of death and destruction.....death and destruction is considered evil - true or false? War is only necessary to those who do not know how to usher in change any other way.....Gandhi taught the unbelievers otherwise. Race doesn't exist....but it affects you nevertheless - especially since you believe it is Real No....It can not make sense - it is not Sensory It is of Mind
  23. Show where I said blue eyes and nappy hair was a phenotype? cool If Africa is the birthplace of humanity....then my point has been proven - All original peoples were black as in African...Runoko Rashidi Humans are Indigenous only to Africa....they migrated from Africa to all over the globe You are saying the Aryans came from the Caucasus mountains....I am saying they were indigenous to Iran Why did i say they were indigenous to Iran....because that is where the word/term Aryan Originated - it simply means noble civilize and city dweller. The people from the Caucasus were not city dwellers but nomadic tribes men or herds men/horsemen ....nor were they considered civilize or noble. In other words Aryan represented the Aristocracy of Iran....it was not a race tribe or ethnicity - they were sedentary agriculturalist A German racist name Max Muller wanted to find a way to prove his racist ideology created the Aryan race/invasion as opposed to the Semitic race and Hamitic race as been the progenitors of European civilization where in some of his followers or those who inspired him even said all the great achievement of humanity was done by people of Aryan blood peoples. Africans travel from Africa to the Caucasus mountains.... So even those people of the Caucasus mountains came from somewhere and that was Africa. Africa is the Homeland of All modern humans... Enough said...those are ones I am referring to. they were Africans based on words and metal assays etc
  24. No problem....traits are a subset of phenotype. Even within families individuals having differing traits No... My research is telling me that all peoples all over the world looked like Africans and originated in Africa. When you can show me where anatomically modern human beings originated anywhere else but Africa?...then i will do more research. All my research points to Africa as the birth place of man...so all of mankind's home is Africa. Maybe not their homes....but their homeland History as well as Religion are often used to further political goals At present their is an attempt by certain sectors of the American society is in the process of rewriting history. Columbus in his diary describe the locals he met in such a manner that to our knowledge could only be an African....And he was not the only one to describe them as such. Originally Africa....by way of Asia and Europe.
  25. Yes Because God is Nature Right and Wrong has to do with social and or religious values... Correct and incorrect has to do with proper way to do...in order to achieve success Words often have similar means but not necessarily the same.... Right has to do with moral and ethics as in Righteousness....Rules - straight line Correct has to with in accordance with or proper way..Model - straightened line I said as foreplay it is fine....it is not wrong just incorrect. Foreplay is the prelude to sex Your statement is correct but not accurate....again words with similar meanings but not the same. Yes The Ends That wars achieve never justify the Means..... Wars are sometimes necessary....they remain evil Yes... The Question as to whether or not Shadows exist....is relevant Here are the Characteristic/Aspect of Evil as I first describe then...keep things in context "Good is the Finite Verb for God. There is only Good....Evil is the absence of Good Evil the Absence of Good is Relative" In Short just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder....so too is Evil Or to quote Amelia Bassano Lanier..."There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"

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