Mind vs. Emotions!!!

Today I had a very interesting conversation with my lil sis thats turning 14 in just a couple of weeks. I am posting it here cause it's kind of a continues (a part II) to something I posted a while ago (Click here for old post).

I hope you all enjoy it..

Participants:
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Uncle (who is me)
You rock! (who is lil sis)

Messages:
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Uncle: Hey sis
You rock!: hey bro
Uncle: How u doin?
You rock!: am fine u??
Uncle: I'm good
Uncle: Saw ur msg n u said u needed to talk
You rock!: ya
Uncle: Wassup
You rock!: now?
Uncle: Ya sure
You rock!: ok ya3ni umm
Uncle: Aha
You rock!: be4 i didnt used to get scared be4 tests now i do 4 no reason
You rock!: *about
Uncle: Do u study as much as u used to?
You rock!: ya
You rock!: ba3d akthar
Uncle: Great.. Mabrook sis
You rock!: :S
Uncle: U r growing up n u r beginning to realize what responsibility is
You rock!: stomachaches and nausea and not being able to sleep?
You rock!: thats responsibility?
Uncle: Exactly.. Thts y when u do anythin wrong we get so angry
Uncle: We r responsible for u la
You rock!: i dont get it that sounds like torture i mean the stomachaches and stuff
Uncle: :) now u have to remember there are two types of ppl..
You rock!: ya?
Uncle: Ppl that think with their minds n some that think with their heart (emotional ppl)
You rock!: aha
You rock!: i dont get what that has to do with this ... :D
Uncle: We all think with both but we use mind more then heart or some use heart more then mind
Uncle: All u need to figure is how to balance n control it
You rock!: and u think i use what more?
You rock!: oooooooooooh
You rock!: ok
Uncle: Heart.. That's why u get nausea
You rock!: soo i have to figure out how to control it like sort of mind over matter??
Uncle: If u use mind more.. U will be able to control ur emotions shweia n force ur self to sleep cause ur common sense says its more important
Uncle: Yes..
You rock!: can i ask u a question?
Uncle: There is no school that can teach u that.. U need to figure it out
Uncle: Aha
You rock!: did it happen to u b4?
Uncle: No one missed this experience.. Some ppl only got over it without realising it.. So their advice won't be like mine
You rock!: oh ok
You rock!: so its gonna take a long time maybe?
You rock!: it depends on me sa7?
Uncle: It depends on u.. I don't like things controlling me so I got rid of that phase quickly
Uncle: Yela sis gotta go now but
You rock!: mhm
Uncle: Will check on u soon..
You rock!: ok tc thnx
Uncle: Love u
You rock!: ok sure bye say hi 2 every1 there
You rock!: love u 2
Uncle: K
You rock! signed out.

In & Outside the Ring

Everybody’s watching fully concentrating on what’s happening in the ring. Echoes from all around just for the sake of some jabs and punches that will determine whose fate is it today.

I don’t understand what’s going on. Where is this place?!

His shots get wide and I can’t stop it, I’m thinking what is the right next move..
What can I do? I’ve been here before yet I wonder how can I stand a chance against something like this? This is chaos.



I am unconscious and something has taken over me. I hit back with small blows as I inch-up to him avoiding his punches but I haven’t regained my consciousness yet, these heart beats are all I feel.

Dear God who or what is this thing pushing me forward? Who’s controlling me?

The level of tenacity between us is what determines success. The one who controls both his and his enemy’s chaos is the one who leaves with victory?

How did I get here? Or should I be asking, why?
Is it Money? Fame? If I find a purpose than maybe I will figure out what’s the next best step for me. *Sigh*

My body is still throwing small blows, trying to close the gap between me and him, while I am still doing all I can do, I keep breathing cause it might make me last through the day.

And that’s when it hit me

“Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.”

It might not make sense but “Inspiration” is the act or power that arouses our emotional behaviour, changing the course of our usual activity by replacing an emotion with another, replacing sorrow with bliss, fear with sense or regret with success.

My childhood:
Unfortunately I can’t remember it a lot due to my memory problem but I think my past was as any kid’s ordinary life, full of joyful moments. The few anecdotes I remember are from boat trips with dad, mom fighting/struggling to fill my life with toys to keep me away from harm, and my cousins & I up to mischief that kept the whole neighborhood in constant alert.

My teenage moments:
From my teenage days, all I remember are silly moments I put my folks through. Moments you wouldn’t want to be in. I had my folks bail me out of jail for driving without license, I also remember staring at furious dad through a piece of glass after he was summoned by the headmaster because of classes that were skipped, and I also remember dodging a lifetime jail sentence for blowing up a house with this explosive substance a friend & I have created from PifPaf and some other stuff.

My life now:
I think the change in me is a miracle, from being the stupidest kid in planet earth to someone that thinks about the boring things in life AKA a good future. Now my ideal way of having fun varies from having a decent conversation over a cup of coffee to playing with gadgets or camping in the middle of nowhere. I seriously can’t think of a more boring way to live life but I guess that’s what age does to us.

I personally believe that we (Human Beings) go through constant changes throughout our lifetime and these experiences help us make decisions. But when I’m unconscious, lost, and can’t find a way I remember a quote from Marianne Williamson that says:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

Business solutions

I have just created a new blog to share some information about my researches and what I think of my business experiences.

At the moment I am not sure if it will be of any help to anyone but this has been one of my interests for the past few years and I don't see a better way then blogging it.

I will be updating it whenever I get the chance. I am hoping that means approximately every two weeks depending on how much I've had to read.

Your comments means alot.

Welcome to my new blog


G

Perfectionism

Desires, needs call it whatever you wanna call it but we humans have it in us that we always wanna be perfect.

Imagine that your emotions is a flying plane that gets hit by turbulence causing a sudden drop. A good pilot is trained to set the flying craft back on track before getting caught up in a “no escape situation”. A normal human is not trained to handle this unexpected drop of the flying object causing him to get into a state of panic.

Depression in my eyes is not a plane; however I like to think of it as a sudden drop to a human’s self-esteem. Some ppl fall into depression gradually and others fall into in a blink of an eye depending on the reason and circumstance.

We (the human race) are known as habitual creatures that think and react unconsciously making it a habit within our selves to pursue happiness for as long as we can breath. Sometimes we don’t ask for much nevertheless we call having – a one floor house, with a 4X4, a saloon car parked on the garage and a happy family – a perfect life.

Yet it’s not out of the ordinary to hear that we are selfish creatures that are never satisfied. Asking for more is one side of our habitual characteristics but my main argument today is the word “perfection”. We admire a perfect person or someone that is in pursuit of happiness, someone who has almost grasped what is so called perfection.

Which brings me to a quote I heard from a cartoon I follow:

There is no such thing as perfect in this world.

This may sound cliché, but it’s the truth.

The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it.

But, what’s the point of achieving perfection?

There is none, nothing, not a single thing.

I loathe perfection!

If something is perfect then there is nothing left.

There is no room for imagination.

No room for anyone to gain additional knowledge or abilities.

For scientists perfection will only bring despair.

It is their job to create things more wonderful than anything before it, but never to obtain perfection.

A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antinomy.

Accepting the fact that there is nothing called perfect in this world means that you’ve accepted the fact that things sometimes do not go in the way you were hoping it would be. Which I believe helps you somehow regain control of the un-excepted drop to your plane of emotions. Because you do not believe in perfection this will keep you alerted of any drop to your self-esteem making it a gradual slump.

Recognizing that things are not well is the first step of change and helps you speed up the process of recovery. Now all you have to do is make it a habit that you find your fix from that antinomy you are facing.

Those desires and needs you have are achievable, they just won’t be something that doesn’t exist, they won’t be perfect.

G

Love is a mind creation to avoid being alone

There is a thin line between what your heart desires and what your mind tells you to do. I lived 25 years of my life taught to mostly do to things:

Follow your heart

Or

Think before you do stuff

I’ve had a lot of good days in my life mainly because I do not ask for too much and I appreciate the little things that come my way. I remember times when some friends and I would just go out and have a blast, not carrying about all the worries in life or how successful we’d be in 20 years but of course there were times when dramatic stuff came our way and things just didn’t go the way they ware actually planned. My reactions to bad stuff is simply “Oh well! Life was never meant to be perfect and its not the end of the world.”

When tragedy comes your way and there is nothing much you can do but tremble. There is always something out there that can make you feel better and the way I see it, it all depends on what type of a person you are? Do you follow your heart or do you let your mind take control?

I remember going to pick my friend up from college one day. This was back in the days when I didn’t have a cell phone so it was quiet hard to get in touch with me unless you ringed up one of my friends. Anyways I am lounging there and about while he is walking towards me with a confused face. He pulls out his hand to say hello but instead he says “G, I am not sure how am I supposed to say this but I think you should contact your family because your dads wife passed away”. At that point in my life she was the closest person to me if not the only person that actually knew what I was thinking before I even said a word. Anyways my heart froze, my mind took control and the only thing on my mind was to get to my dad and sisters as soon as possible in order to support them through this tragedy. I only cried 6 days later when I was alone in the room and after I was sure that they are strong enough to carry on with their lives without messing up. I still kept an eye on them for a very long time.

I also remember other times when friends went through unwanted moments in their life, be it a relationship or a stupid mistake that was a result from someone dear to them. Being an ordinary person they’d snap, hold their feelings and say nothing, dismiss the other person, argue or if it was a fortunate day they’d forgive. What ever actions they took was resorted from the heart. Sometimes the actions they took were right and at other times they could have done better.

Some people that know me say I am heartless at times or I am very strict (bad to the bone) and should think from the heart. Being a product of my father, I was taught to always think first and then use your heart to be gentle. I also know that there is a limit to everything in life and one thing that’s not acceptable to be rude.

Sometimes I am not really sure what rule am I supposed to follow and to be quiet honest I use the mind then heart rule in a relationship, at work and in the house too. All I know is that there is a thin line between what your heart desires and what your mind tells you to do. Question is what is it that makes me a better person? Being smart or being a loving person?

When someone says I think I love you. Is that the heart or mind talking? lol

G

Needs, something everyone has..

A lot of people have needs (My bro has taught his 1 year old kid to say “I Got Needs”) lol

I believe that needs differ from person to person. Some people have sexual needs, others are looking for satisfaction in life, their jobs, family commitment and the list never ends. If someone was to ask me why do we need stuff?! I believe it’s because everyone wants to be someone important to someone out there. Others look for love and there is nothing in this world thats more important then their relationship.
Some others like my dad, He had to prove his existence in the world and he was able to accomplish that through work by being there for everyone within the organization and scoring big in his tasks. He has marked his name in the worldwide marine industry and I know that this is one of the main reasons he is living life now = a happy man.

A lot of other ppl think fame is what will fulfil their needs. I wanna be an artist, a poet or a famous author. I believe they touch people’s hearts by words and receive acknowledgments. One acknowledgment can make me take down an elephant.

That leads me to INSPIRATION. Just to words “GOOD JOB” is what I need to make me work harder then I did yesterday. My boss, my colleague, my friend or even a family member has inspired me to perfect the task I am currently doing and he/she doesn’t even know it. Great leaders owe their success to the network power they’ve got. In order to strengthen your network power you must be a social butterfly and communicate with your team. Ask them of their accomplishments and have them achieve better and harder goals. When they climb the ladder they’ll be lifting you above them and that means you climb the ladder with their successes.

I can’t do relationships but I’d love to be in one. I think it needs patience and that’s something I just don’t have. I am not close to my family for some odd reasons. Families like it when their brother, sister, cousin or uncle is there for them and especially when they receive the feel of being supported through personal problems. My problem is that I don’t share my problems with a lot of people which somehow means no matter how much I help any of my family member they won’t be able to return the favour. This habit is also bad because some times I enter my own world of “G” and fight my battles alone. A lot of people do not understand that simply because the “G” they saw was smiling and did not have a worry in life. When I enter that world of mine I somehow forget my self and dose off into an imaginable world. A friend of mine once called to inform me that he was having an operation tomorrow. I asked him to take care of himself and to avoid applying pressure on his knee even if it takes 4 months. Or he will never play sports again and all his movements will be NOT EASY. His life style will change some how. A few weeks later another friend comes up to me and was like “btw he said that he informed you and expected that you will tell the rest about his operation, u didn’t even show up to visit him”. I did not have a clue about the operation at that moment until he reminded me about it. He knows how I am and he has this way of making me see that, that conversation did actually happen.

Going back to my point, what I mean to say is I am only human and sometimes I do have mistakes and I know I forget or sometimes I loose my way in conversations. Last time I checked everyone in this world has a problem or two. Plus your problem is your problem so if you have a problem, why are you angry at me because I did not offer help? If I choose to offer my help then that should be considered as a bonus and not something you base your trust on.

LoL i understand the problem now. His or her needs were different then mine. He needed someone to support him through the problem and I was busy valuing something else. Life is full of measurements so when do we get to rest?! When we drive we measure the distance between the cars around us, when we work then we measure risks and stuff, when we talk we measure our words, when we eat we measuring how much we can take, etc.

I believe I’m growing up to be like my father, the guy who gets his needs (acknowledgement) through work and the legitimacy of his words. I’d love to grow up to be like the godfather only without the blood sheds. I would also like to write a book or two that will influence at least one person out of the 6 billion people in the world. My pops has a couple and I like to believe that I can possibly do it as well.

After writing all this, I am embarrassed to say that the only thing that will make me happy are the readers acknowledgments.

DAMN!!! WHY DO WE HAVE NEEDS?

G

Who are you, NOW?!

It's been a while since i posted anything here. I am not sure if I just didnt have the time + energy to do it or I just ran outta ideas and couldn't be bothered.I guess life is like that. Some things last forever and other things simply die and vanish.For some reason my life now involve the following words alot:

Strategy
HSE
Needs
Competence & Capability
Ensure
Control
Barriers
Risks

I am wondering what the hell happened to my music time, enjoying alcohol, being out and not carrying about "what time i'll get back home", etc.

I still think we live in a beautiful world and im always up to date with Naruto & Bleach. I can't wait to find out what are the new moves that Uzumaki will learn and How powerful is Ichigo's Hollow and how is he gonna kick the Arancarra'a ass..

Oh!! I almost forgot!!! WHO WATCHES ONE TREE HILL, unfortunately i am stuck in eps. 8 of season 5. Freaking hell I only wanna see the next episode and i can wait longer after tht..Lord plz send me someone that can help me..

Drinking in Ramadhan!!!

What the F*** is this about now..
I really think this is one of the worst decisions a country could take..
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Oman lifts Ramadan drinking ban

Thursday, 31 May 2007 08:59

The Oman government has decided to lift the drinking ban it imposes during Ramadan, but only for tourists staying at selected hotels and only during certain times.

The Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt, Shangri-la Barr Al Jissa, The Chedi, Intercontinental Hotel, Crowne Plaza and Al Bustan Palace will be able to serve alcohol after sunset from 7pm until 2am in allocated restaurants.

Alison Cryer, director of the UK's Oman Tourist Office, said: "The lift of this ban has taken a while to be agreed as it is a sensitive subject and part of Oman's culture.

"However, this step shows that Oman is taking on board western travellers' preferences and recognises the importance of being adaptable and catering to them".

Link Hurr

Cinema's New Pay method..

Aint this da shiznit..

We are delighted to inform that for the first time ever in Oman, a Cinema House has commenced accepting cards as a mode of payment.

BankMuscat has enrolled Shatti Plaza Cinema as its merchant in this new category for card acceptance. Under this arrangement, “ Shatti Plaza Cinema will accept card for purchase of tickets of OMR. 5/= and above.

Devante's "The Foundation"

Devante is back with his sophomore 14 track album mixed & produced by no one but him-self. If you are in for a smooth classic RnB album then this is a good album to own.

The 22 year old explains, "This album is the foundation on which all great R&B music has been made. Contrary to what many may think, all music is not created equal. There is a formula to good songwriting and production, all of which I have implemented on this album. This album also represents the foundation on which I first built my career - Love, Life and Relationships. If you liked 'Ready or Not,' this is the same formula, only kicked into way high gear."

Track List:

1. Where You Are
2. Nobody Knows
3. What Am I Supposed to Do
4. Like Your Girl
5. Spend All Night
6. Things you Like (Pt. II)
7. A Woman’s Love
8. Pick Up The Pieces
9. She Is
10. 69 Ways
11. Threshold
12. Reflection
13. My Way
14. We Should Fall In Love

Click Hurr to enter Devante's site n watch a clip..

Nana

NANA (Even now i keep callin' your name)
A story of two strangers that bump into each other. Live together and go through life and the drama we our selves go through.

Both girls are coincidently called Nana. One is a band member that's tryna reach to a certain goal of fame. The other Nana is just an other blond chick that plays victim to every horny Jack & Bill.

Click me (A must watch clip of the anime)


If y'all into Punk songs check this out..

Click Me

Lyrics:

When I was darkness at that time fueteru kuchibiru

Heya no katasumi de I cry
Mogakeba mogaku hodo tsukisasaru kono kizu
Yaburareta yakusoku hurt me

Nobody can save me
Kamisama hitotsu dake
Tomete saku you na my love

I need your love
I'm a broken rose
Maichiru kanashimi your song
Ibasho nai kodoku na my life

I need your love
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes, and sing me, just for me

I wanna need your love...
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love...

When you were with me at that time
Anata no kage wo oikakete
Hadashi de kakemekete stop me
Tozaseba tozasu hodo motsureteku kono ai
Yuruyaka ni yasashiku kiss me

Nobody can save me
Kogoeru bara no you ni
Yasashiku nemuritai my tears

I need you love.
I'm a broken rose.
Kareochiru kanashimi my soul
Kuzureochiru kodoku na little girl

I need you love.
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
with your smile, your eyes,
and sing me, just for me

I wanna need your love…
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love…

I need your love
I'm a broken rose
Maichiru kanashimi your song
Ibasho nai kodoku na my life

I need your love
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes, and sing me, just for me

I wanna need your love…
I was a broken rose
I wanna need your love…

Me was tagged

Me was tagged by 3anoooooood

What will happen to your e-mail when you die?
It’ll die with me but much slower then I died

Did you try once to give the password to someone? If yes, what kind of relation that you have with this person to trust him/her and give him/her the key of your secrets?
Yeah I did give it to a couple of ppl, I wanted them to check something.. it doesn’t really matter to me I guess

Your famous nickname among your Friends?
G, Bufqa7 r the only ones I can remember

Your age?
24

Your horoscope?
Libra

Your qualifications?
MCSE, A+ and a couple of other courses

Your character "personality"?
Gay (kiddin), I really don’t know..

Some say charming, some say crazy n the list just goes on

What travel means to you?
Goin to another country where you are foreign n don’t know anyone

What do you purchase?
Music, music n more music. Not much of a spender but I can never stay with money (don’t know how)

Features taken from your dad
Stubbornness n anger

Features taken from your mom
She used to be very charming back in the day.

The most 6 things you hate-
Insects, nasty ppl, feeling sick, negative ppl, my bad memory & the sea

The most 6 things you love-
Music, Internet, Movies, travelling, when im busy with private work & ppl

What computer and internet mean to you
The world, Without them life sucks

You would like to pass this tag to:-
No ONE

One day imma buy this bike

If y'all love speed y'all gotta watch this..
CLICK HURR

My best RnB album of the year..

Disturbing the Peace "DTB" is soul side
I must say if you like MJB u gotta like this new artist

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My best RnB album of 2006

Album Cover

My best Hiphop album of '06 is El Mariel of Pitbull

Ramen!!! I tried it

Herashai = Welcome

The Basics of Making Ramen:

First, mixing the ingrediants well, if not noodle wil not have a balanced flavor.
Next, you have to knead, if not there will be no texture to the noodle.
Then, stretching the noodles while keeping the thickness the same
Finally, adding it to the soup

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I personally like it with extra eggs inside it as well

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The steps of eating Ramen:

When eating a new Ramen, the first thing you should do is taste on spoonful of soup.

Next, you deep in the noodle into the soup to absorb the stock.

DeGoat SHIN MENU

I Finally had it..

I LOVED IT..

Global Orgasm For World Peace!!!

WTF?!?!?!
Ppl be ready for 22/12/06..

San Francisco: Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. But they don’t want you marching in the streets. They’d rather you just stay home.
The Global Orgasm for Peace was conceived by Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, who live together on a houseboat along scenic Tomales Bay in Marin County. Their immodest goal is for everyone in the world to have an orgasm on December 22 while focusing on world peace.
“The orgasm gives out an incredible feeling of peace during it and after it,” Reffell said on Sunday. “Your mind is like a blank. It’s like a meditative state. And mass meditations have been shown to make a change.” The couple are no strangers to sex and social activism. Sheehan, no relation to fellow Northern California anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, brought together nearly 50 women in 2002 who stripped naked and spelled out the word “Peace” on a hillside in Marin County. The stunt spawned a minimovement called Baring Witness that led to similar unclothed demonstrations worldwide.
The couple have studied evolutionary psychology and believe that war is mainly an outgrowth of men trying to impress potential mates, a case of “my missile is bigger than your missile,” as Reffell put it. By promoting what they hope to be a synchronised global orgasm, they hope to get people to channel their energy into something more positive.
“Religion, science, art, medicine—you name any great accomplishment that the human race has made and none of it has stopped war and aggression,” Sheehan said. “We thought, ‘What’s the next unbelievable, untested biological gift that we’ve all been given?’ The orgasm.”
The couple have been receiving 26,000 visitors a day to their site. Sheehan said she received “a letter from a man in Istanbul” who lamented that as he lacked a partner, he couldn’t take part. They assured him there were no rules for when, where or how the orgasm was achieved, as long as it was on the given day, she said. “It’s what ever turns you on,” Reffell said. Participants can identify one another through the “secret signal,” of a thumb and forefinger shaped to form the letter O.
The one guideline Sheehan and Reffell do encourage everyone to follow is to practice safe sex and use birth control, citing overpopulation as a source of many of the world’s woes.

Donna Sheehan & Paul Reffell

Naruto Wallpapers..

Bakuretsu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu











Touton No Jutso












Rasengan











Uzumaki Naruto













Harem No Jutsu











Henge no Jutsu











Kage Shuriken no Jutsu












Uzumaki Naruto Bunshin Gachandou












Uzumkai Naruto Nisen Renden











Uzumaki Naruto Yonsen Renden

Youjitsuba

El Mariel

Pitbull aka "305" and also known as “Tony Montana”

His previous album the gold platinum “M.I.A.M.I” (Money Is A Major Issue) is still playing in my car n house stereo.

His new album “El Mariel” is my fav album of the year 2006 and I just cant get enough of it..

Jamaican Rastafarians & Judaism!!!

Part I

King Solomon’s dynasty

It all starts with King Solomon the son of David (Prophet Suleiman the son of prophet Daud) being the wise ruler of an empire centred on the united kingdom of Israel.

In the Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament) he is identified as the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split.

In the time of King Solomon (prophet Suleiman), Queen Makeba aka Queen Balqis ruled over the empire of Sheba (Saba) which consisted of Ethiopia, Yemen, Egypt & parts of Persia. A well known story of Solomon says that he came to know about Queen Balqis through a talking bird (Hoopoe) that informed him of the great rich ruler that had people worshipping the sun. Solomon invites her to submit to “God the most Gracious & Merciful”.

And so the queen responds by sending gifts to Solomon which offend him. He begins to make preparations for war as he returns the envoys of the Queen with the gifts. The queen then decides to personally visit him. Cutting the story short it is said that the Queen married Solomon converting her to the God of Abraham which she then changed her empire to, the religion was Judaism.

On her return, Balqis (Makeba) was pregnant by Solomon and had promised him that if she bore a son she would send the boy to Jerusalem for instruction by his father. The son was born in Eritrea and was named Menelik I, true to the promise the boy was sent having sworn that as heir and successor to the kingdom he would return to Ethiopia. When Menelik was leaving his father back to Ethiopia, King Solomon saw to it that he was accompanied by the sons of his priests; he wanted to ensure that the religion of Abraham would continue in Ethiopia.

Menelik I then became the first Emperor, King of Kings of Ethiopia. According to legend, he founded the Solomonic dynasty that ruled Ethiopia for close to three thousand years and 225 generations later ended with the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974.

Part II

The Lion of Judah

Within Judaism the Lion of Judah has its origins in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) where the Israelite tribe Judah had the lion as its symbol. It is said that the patriarch Jacob (Yaqub) referred to his son as Judah as a Gur Aryeh a “Young Lion”. With modern Jews, variations or translations of the word “Lion” have been used as a substitute name for Judah.

In Rastafari, “The Lion of Judah” represents His Imperial Majest Haile Selassie I being him the direct descendent of the Israelite Tribe of Judah. The name/family background that links him to King Solomon the son of David.

Part III

The Rise of Rastafari

Ethiopia had symbolized all of Africa for the slave-descended Jamaicans since as far back as 1784

Garvey the founder of “United Negro Improvement Association” in Jamaica had a prophecy known as the “Look
to Africa” which then became the seed for Jamaican Rastafari, the spark that started the revolution “Rastafarianism”.

Many wonder why was it named Rastafari?! It was so called that because “Ras Tafari” was Haile Selassie’s given name. To the Rastafarians he was the Living God of Abraham and Isaac, He Whose Name Should Not Be Spoken.

Matisyahu

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Born in West Chester, PA and raised in White Plains, NY, the young man formerly known as Matthew Miller would undertake a monumental odyssey before discovering his path - and voice - as Matisyahu (the Hebrew equivalent of "Matthew," and the name he became known by when he became observant). Via adventures in Colorado, Israel, Oregon, and New York City, he not only heard a profound spiritual calling, but also discerned a revolutionary way to share his discoveries and reflections, via the reggae and hip-hop sounds that had long been an integral part of his day-to-day soundtrack.

Matisyahu studied Torah seriously in Hadar Hatorah, a yeshiva for returnees to Judaism, and he wrote and recorded his first album while still a student there. He counts among his musical inspirations Bob Marley, Phish, and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, while giving credit to Rabbi Simon Jacobson's book Toward A Meaningful Life for the lyrical inspiration to the title song of his new album, Youth.

Matisyahu & Kenny Muhammad

The music, developed partly with his backing band Roots Tonic has a unique sound, mixing reggae, traditional rap, and guitar solos typical of rock music. His fans are of different walks of life, religions, and ethnicities. He sometimes performs with Kenny Muhammad, a Muslim beatboxer. Matisyahu's major label debut album was produced by avant-garde musician and producer Bill Laswell, with minor contribution by pop producers Jimmy Douglass and the Ill Factor.

His reggae vocal style is along the lines of traditional Rasta Roots stylings mixed with dub sound.

On Youth, Matisyahu explores his musical universe. Produced by legendary reggae and dub producer Bill Laswell, with additional production by Jimmy Douglass and Ill Factor. The character of the album's thirteen new songs span a wide gamut. From the stark acoustic guitar driven track "What I'm Fighting For" to the syncopated African rhythms of "Ancient Lullabye" to the bumping beats, burbling bass, and of "Jerusalem," YOUTH is definitely a creative step forward for the band, one they are excited to bring to their audiences.

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