A gentleman who read my blog titled ” A Summary of the Rastafari Movement” asked me to clarify the term Overstanding. “Overstanding” is a play on words like many other words in the Rastafari Language. These play on words originated as a symbol of separation from the Western ideology and as well as a continual (I-tinual) remembrance of the struggle for emancipation.
It is overstood that when one communicates, they are communicating an idea to another individual. Ideas are created by men thus the idea cannot be superior to its creator; similarly to the concept (I-cept) held by the Islamic ideology that man cannot be God because God created man.
The Rastafari philosophy asserts that every man woman and child are equal (hence the term InI) therefore the individual who is receiving the information is equal to the communicator of the information and superior to the idea being communicated. That being said, one should not “understand” or stand under an idea; when they absorb and correctly perceive an idea they “Overstand” it.
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This sounds disrespectful. Can you help organize awareness of this event on other Rasta blogs?
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N the mon he siad to the elder….
“Give thanks, my lord, I feel blessed to have been here n to have met with the bredrens, next year I try n come back….”
N the senior said to the youth….
“My child, why go back, when u can go forward???…”
Let I n I give thanks to the almighty, to di messengers, for enlighting blessed people, n allowing I n I to see things clear. For the blessed one who has seen the light threw rastafarI there is no going back again, we move forward, rogether. I n I overstand that we need to find means n ways to move away from Babyloon, go forward in livity, n find the true rythm of the heart, which we find in all our motherland, blessed Ithiopia. Repatriation is a must – no matter the couler of mon – skin, we are all ONE people, cjildren of Jah, n we all come from blessed Ithiopia, di tru Israel. Unity is a must. Love over hate, life over death. Love to all followers of the Holy Emmanuel I, Selassie I, Jah Rastafar I. Bless di page, spread the word everytime. Guidance n protection always!
give tanks, I overstand the reasoning. May JAH be with you.
Why do rasta say i and i?