Cynique

To me, black American culture has always been more about what blacks want, instead of what they need. Currently, captivated by a herd mentality, blacks want to see fictional super heroes with the same color skin as theirs, comic book characters thriving in a non existent country in Africa. What they need is to get real, and become inspired by the good authentic role models who look like them and live right here in this country.

So what else is new?

@zaji I found a long article about the Akashic records stored away on my computer, - a saved document I didn't even know i had. Maybe we come here knowing everything because we are each microcosms of a Supreme Intelligence, and during the course of our lives, events and incidents nudge our memory causing info to "come to us". Also, hasn't it been claimed that we are only using a small portion of our brain? So who knows what's stored in its unused lobes?

Well, the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremonies have come and gone. Hollywood's favorite night out was a glittering affair, bristling with glamorous and empowered females flexing their toned up muscles in a show of solidarity for the "Me, too" Movement, accompanied by male escorts keeping low profiles, and crossed fingers, hoping they wouldn't be the next lecher to be outed. Yawn. There weren't any surprise upsets when it came to the winners. Black folks were reasonably well-represented among the nominees which included Denzel Washington, Mary j.Bligh. Daniel Kaluuya, Octavia Spencer, Common the Rapper and, last but not least, Jordan Peele, who directed "Get Out", becoming the first black person to receive an award in the Best Original Screen Play category. (Oh yeah, Kobe Bryant, the sexual harasser who bought his accuser's silence, also won an award for his animated feature about basketball. ) Tiffany Haddish, the break-out star of the movie "Girl's Trip", Maya Rudolph of SNL, actresses Taraji P. Henson, Lupito Nyong'o, "Black Panther" star, Chadwick Boseman, and comedian, Dave Chappell were among the presenters. One of the few funny moments of the proceedings was when the brainwashed black boy toy from "Get Out", all wide-eyed and dressed in the garb he wore in the movie, skulked out on stage between presentations, slowly looked around, then yelled, "Get Out!" before fleeing the scene. All and all it was an evening of good harmless viewing. This is your pop culture vulture signing off...

Give it up, Troy. Pioneer can't wrap his brain around the explanation you offered because the word "NEVER" has become his security blanket. He needs to prove my opinion to be at least "partially" wrong, because this is the glue that holds him together. Your siding with me, shatters the little world he inhabits wherein he is ALWAYS right, and where he imagines himself to be a magnanimous font of wisdom who lectures to others about the error of their ways, while he embodies his "don't do as i do, do as i say do" credo. He incorrectly spells "congratulating" as "congradulating". You'd think somebody as precise as he considers himself would know how to spell common words. And his "wealth of information" hyperbole consists of him trying to fit round pegs into square holes. Since when did the names of the days of the week represent anything scientific?

It would be more encouraging if you'd stop jackin-off long enough to admit that you are wrong about science being the new religion. See ya!

I don't think this pop culture vulture has ever made any bones about my not giving a shit about Africa and especially when it concerns you. Gotta go. Academy Award nominee for best supporting actress, Mary j Blige, is singing on stage at the Oscars now.

YAWN. Whatever. i'm going to watch the Oscars. As insipid as this program is, its better than wasting my time bickering with you and Del.

There ought to be an easier way for you to get your jollies; maybe you should be a little more "hands-on".

Since you don't know whether Africans practiced cannibalism or not and since a movie about Africa omitted the practice of polygamy then you're dancing around the kettle rattling bones, and blowing a lot of hot air, as usual.

My statement/opinion was a generalization which is far more right than wrong. i really don't have to defend what i said because science uses BC/AD as a convenience not a tenet. If believing that i am wrong turns you on, then knock yourself out.

No, you don't know the reason because you can't figure out the obvious. Do you know that ancient Africans didn't practice cannibalism? Or are you just resorting to your favorite rebuttal of relegating everything you don't believe in as being white in origin.

Yes. This is what's known as being practical.

of course it has because you take yourself so seriously you have no sense of humor.

Thanks for posting this Troy! It expresses my feeling about a slickly made movie based on a fictional comic book glorifying African royalty, co-opting all of the bravery and accomplishment of Black American slave descendants. Blacks in this country ought to get the stars out of their eyes long enough to give their heroic forefathers equal time! Because the black guys who made Black Panther realized that the African tradition of polygamy contributed absolutely nothing to the telling of their story. As long as irrelevant issues are being raised, the question could also be asked why there was no reference to cannibalism, another ancient African tradition. @Del Why don't you and Pioneer start advocating people eating each other to pay homage to the honest African choice of cannibalism. Throw that in the mix with sex and kill 2 birds with one stone.

Well, look whose back ready to inject a lot of disposed of points into the conversation, eager as ever to take on the role of never being wrong. And the definition of espouse was given, along with Mel's relating how she used hair curlers made out of brown paper bags, illustrating how people use items for purposes other than their intended use when something else is not available, as an example of science taking what was available in the case of BC/AD delineation.

@Mel I think Troy was responding something i directed to you 3 hours ago. Did you see that post? "Mel, that is so deep! I did not realize that a phenomenon i vaguely suspected existed, had a name. Your morphic resonanace explanation enlightened me! You give me more credit than i deserve. i am steady learning from you and others here who supply me with the names of ideas that have been rambling around in my mind over time; i am the pupil who was ready for teachers to appear. And you have. You all have put many of my metaphysical quirks into words. To me, this also has elements of reincarnation. Sometime i shock myself with the things i say off the top of my head, using myself as an authority. This is not to say that these are always proven to be factual, but i think they do have something to do with saved memories from another incarnation of myself because they are "opinions" that i didn't even know i had. And this is what tends to make me stand by some of them. "

Religious pastors taper their sermons and make them palpable to the mentalities of their flocks. They put the "universal message" within the context of fables, and personify God as the benevolent all-knowing father. To maintain their control, they embroider this into the fabric of the doctrines of their sects, all of which demand obedience. The unctuous Joel Osteen has claimed, with a grin plastered on his face, that he does not know why he is so successful and wealthy because all he does is preach the word. Actually he has successfully tapped into the meta-physical realm, aligning himself with the channels of prosperity, and captured the ear of those yearning to be reassured. Once this dynamic gains momentum, money and fame just flow to him. This is what all charismatic leaders do.

@Mel That is so deep! I did not realize that a phenomenon i vaguely suspected existed, had a name. Your morphic resonanace explanation enlightened me! You give me more credit than i deserve. i am steady learning from you and others here who supply me with the names of ideas that have been rambling around in my mind over time; i am the pupil who was ready for teachers to appear. And you have. You all have put many of my metaphysical quirks into words. To me, this also has elements of reincarnation. Sometime i shock myself with the things i say off the top of my head, using myself as an authority. This is not to say that these are always proven to be factual, but i think they do have something to do with saved memories from another incarnation of myself because they are "opinions" that i didn't even know i had. And this is what tends to make me stand by some of them.

i'll forgo proof, and settle for an opinion. This will clue me as to whether the articles reveal anything new to me.

Do any of these articles prove that science is the new religion? Or that the scientific community espouses the religious community? Or that individuals in the field of science go to church, and apply what they experience there to the work they do in their laboratories? And do these articles differentiate between spirituality and religion? Or are they simply acknowledging that some scientist ponder the "God" factor?

@Del Thank you for familiarizing me the religious persuasion of Isaac Newton. An equally brilliant scientific mind in the modern day world in the person of Stephen Hawking is an atheist. Mistake is right. That's a questionable metaphor. What religion do you know of that corrects itself and changes its dogma over a period of time because it is constantly making new discoveries? And what science does religion pay homage to?

Well i made the statement that science didn't "espouse" religion and that is at the core of my responses. What is similar about science and religion when it comes to "statistics and proof"?

@DelThanks for your non-opinion.