Earth
But the earth will get you all
in the end;
just look around and see
Where is Atlantis?
Where is ancient Greece
Where is Nebuchadnazzer
the one who made men to quiver.
Ask the souls sulking
in the sombre shadows, weeping;
all those who made desolate
their own times with hate.
They also will tell you sey
indeed the Earth gets everyone at last.
Others before you have come and gone
In their tombs lie their bones;
Cities more glamorous than your plasti-Cities
have raged and are now silent.
Deeper knowledge beyond your modern Universities
also existed thrived and passed.
Have you not scratched the Earth?
Did she cry out in pains?
O foolish generations
science and technology will pass away
fad and fashion must wither away
but love and justice shall remain always
the Earth also shall remain alive
and give live until tomorrow…
While your ruined cities
and fossilized bones
will stand testimonial
against those who run riot
with depravity.
Your future….surely
Voodoo Priest
Whereas I agree that mankind has messed up the pristine beauty & balance of Mother Earth, we Africans need to be careful not to be seen to be condemning science & technology whole sale.It cripples our youth by encouraging them to get the false notion that “hard sciences”is for the european & asian man.
After all Africans are the first scientists on the planet.
See the engineering feat of the Pyramids. The calendar that is still in use albeit now with greco-roman gab, numerous medicines & medical procedures (it should be Imhoteps Oath-not Hippocrates a mere pupil of Africans centuries after the former; an African Genius) from ancient times to present.
Our knowledge is always under scrutiny and danger of theft without due credit.
Science and its application in Technology can be applied in a manner that is Spiritual-does not destroy the eco-balance-is not rapacious.Our ancestors were not stupid when they treated everything on the planet as spiritual (and hence accorded due respect) plane!
Voodoo!
This spiritual outlook of material manifest is African Philosophy at its best.
Thus nuclear weapons for example would be unthinkable. over-Logging of forests-lungs of Africa in the Congo for eg or the Amazon in Brazil just to achieve vanity would not occur.
Human Beings would make things and provide services that ensure participation/connection to each other as human beings.
This is Ancient African Philosophy that can be applied in a modern sense to create a new (ancient) world of trust and respect.
Apart from food clothing and shelter, a spiritual being -the Black Man needs to “be connected spiritually” to his/her fellow human being.Period.
We were taught to laugh at this system of thinking by a people who lack spirituality. Painfully. Everybody knows-or should, how much depression is prevalent in the “materially loaded” western civilization.
People over eating to kill boredom! Massive sale of anti-depressants….”sad & soft,”as Bob sang.
Misuse of philosophy in science produces alienating, dangerous, hopeless vanity and life-degrading technologies.
We Africans MUST EMBRACE SCIENCE to build Africa with a spiritual and material balance. We are dual thinkers culturally. The european never understood this and has gone ahead and created many useless, depressing wonders.
Peace
Shallom.
The one limitation of voodoo would be the question of death. One could participate in all the wonderful and the living earth-respection works and still remain morally imperfect; might have all the understanding of voodoo sciences using herbs to cure ailments, be able to harness the powers of the fire, wind and water and turn them into useful concepts (or weapons of destruction as some do) yet be without love; one might even achieve, via voodoo doctrines, a reposed and calm state of mind with happiness with contentment but does this cheat death?
Is there any promise of eternal life as risen spirit beings who are no longer limited by matter, with real ability to travel through space and experience what manner of that same life is in the sun and the stars, and to visit the heaven of heavens, the throne of the Mighty Creator of life and stand before Him in perfect worship with the set-apart mighty ones He made? Does voodoo have the keys to the grave?
Shallom
Sogo Asks
“One could participate in all the wonderful and the living earth-respection works and still remain morally imperfect; might have all the understanding of voodoo sciences using herbs to cure ailments, be able to harness the powers of the fire, wind and water and turn them into useful concepts (or weapons of destruction as some do) yet be without love;”
Jahdey Responds:
Not possible. Before one gets to the level of Voodoo adept, one learns to love unconditionally! It is not like the Legions of Christ organization where one is appointed a priest or a pastor. Voodoo is self-growth and awarness. You grow for your self, you learn for yourself, you come to know thyself.
Sogo Asks:
“Is there any promise of eternal life as risen spirit beings who are no longer limited by matter, with real ability to travel through space and experience what manner of that same life is in the sun and the stars, and to visit the heaven of heavens, the throne of the Mighty Creator of life ”
Jahdey Responds:
Verily there is no promise of life after death in Voodoo. Because there is no death for a Voodoo adept. There is only a change of form. Life goes on eternally. You do right, right will judge you, and you do wrong, then the wrong you do will judge you.
The Almighty created the world and set rules over its operation. The laws are not partial. You will get whatever you deserve.
Quit with the whore-ship of men, angels, spirits and prophets. Throw away those cryptic sectarian books like the bible and koran which only enslave and confuse your mind.
See with your eyes, hear with your own ears, judge with your common sense, know thyself!
I shall then take it for granted that Jahdey speaks from personal experince and has tasted the essense of voodoo and has been granted understanding. So then when you have contemplated yourself, pray tell what you found.
The sight of the eyes physical eyes is not always reliable, as a matter of truth usually deceptive, and the quality of hearing is not as important as what is heard.
Common sense is purely in the realms of constructed domains we were all born into, they shape our personal view of the big picture, and our minds work according to our inherited collective mind patterns.
So with these limitations in view i ask you again; what have you learnt about urself?
BTW i do not advocate the worship of angels, prophets or men. I understand that the information gleaned is greater than the book, so i am not for book-worship either. I fear the unseen Creator and only Him do i want to serve and worship.
Shallom
Sogo, take nothing for granted except your own inspirience! For your inner reality, your energy, your chi, your ultimate self is the creator who owns you.
When you learn to see with your eyes, and recognize with your common sense that which is visible around you, then that which is not obvious or visible to you will become manifest.
When you let go of your own eyes, will you then see with mine?
When you have no common sense, how would you distinguish the worthy from the worthless?
When you allow the views of silly old books to rule you, circumstances will enslave you.
Forget your false gods, none of those illusions are alive, no one will save you but your own righteousness.
Who is the Almighty that you confessed has made the world and set rules over its operation? Do you know Him, and do you think He wants to be known?
The Almighty is not a “He”, soul seeker. The Almighty is not an attention whore like you.
The creator is not a “He” but a She! Use your common sense and get off the ignorance.
I was born from the womb of my mother. The old earth.
She alone is my love and Almighty.
The earth is my Lord, and the fullness thereof.
Bigger fool you!
In our genes, only from the male can you get male and female – XY, from the females alone, XX.
“For since the creation of the world His invincible attributes have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, both His everlasting power and mightiness, for man to be without excuse (of their ignorance)”. Rom 1:20
And since the earth is your lord, then the heavens of heavens are clearly beyond you! Stop and think (just a bit mate).
Pathetic fool! Where is the earth but in the heavens. It is one universe. Look out to the horizon, there is neither up nor down.
Again reflect and grow, how did Mary give birth to yahowa without the aid of a man? You are a bible junkie, perhaps you can educate us better?
How did Isis give birth to Horus? How did Maya give birth to Buddha?
The universe has taught you that there can be conception but in the womb!
There are yet more things in the earth yet beyond your little weak philosophies.