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Prayers being answered appreciation thread
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RealAssanova
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yup.
all praises to the most high.
gotta stop bein a hypocrite though and only pray when i need help.
all praises to the most high.
gotta stop bein a hypocrite though and only pray when i need help.
one of the comments of the workers in this documentary
"you can't beat a praying man"
Struggles in Steel (1997)
Film & History
Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity (1996)
Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity (1996) - IMDb
This documentary tells the forgotten story of the African-American struggle for equality in the U.S. steel industry (based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). In a series of interviews intermixed... See full summary »
Directors:
Tony Buba, Raymond Henderson (as Ray Henderson)
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Struggles in Steel | Alexander Street
"you can't beat a praying man"
Struggles in Steel (1997)
Film & History
Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity (1996)
Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity (1996) - IMDb
This documentary tells the forgotten story of the African-American struggle for equality in the U.S. steel industry (based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). In a series of interviews intermixed... See full summary »
Directors:
Tony Buba, Raymond Henderson (as Ray Henderson)
preview
Struggles in Steel | Alexander Street
Yeah. His name in voudou is Agwé.
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
didn't know that
i have his face tattooed on my ribs
Glad to see another person on here who is into Ifa/Voudou . Do you have a altar for him?I got one for my ancestors.
Entrapta310
:umad?:
invoking the ancestral spirits
brujeria
brujeria
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
naw breh it's candomblé from brazil, similar to voudou but a lotta differences too. i really dont know much about voudou to be honest
I got one for my ancestors.
Oh that's what up. Saneteria, Voudou, Candomble,Palo and Ifa are pretty much all the same spiritual system. It's just a few differences that were cause as a result of the slave trade. Usually base in culture expressions and ritual ceremonies. They all have there own rules as well. And in Saneteria you see a lot of Catholicism.
Entrapta310
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dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
Yeah there's also Quimbanda and Umbanda
They have different degrees of european Christian influence but are very similar
Sometimes in Rio and SP it's all called macumba too
God is there for you spiritually this prosperity gospel stuff is for the birds.
Maybe it's because I've been blessed with a pretty stable life both financially and health wise thus far (Hope it stays that way) I never really had to ask God for "Big shyt" but I had an interesting talk with an older dude when I was like 17-18 talkin' about all you should really do is pray to god to help you do shyt or deal with the aftermath of shyt if it ain't work out instead of using him as a damned genie and then falling to pieces when shyt don't go your way.
As a Caribbean breh I've seen so many people get DEEP into Christianity and start professing shyt "God's gonna give me X, in his name! I shall have the victory! AMEN!" shyt don't happen and then they left at this sorta spiritual crossroads.
I asked, prayed & Donated. got nuttin. God ain't realI ain't get 'cause I need to pray/donate more.
So they either stop believing as much, get jaded with G.O.D. or feel that they didn't get it 'cause they didn't give back enough, they didn't pray hard enough, and they sorta go into a maniawith that shyt, but alot of folks like that normally come from less than stellar backgrounds.
Example, this chick I know who was all like "Blah BLah Date, My driving test, God done spoke to me, I'm gonna get my license and do blah blah, In his name! The Victory!" ....shyt rolled around and passed, I asked her about that shyt and she was all like "You remembered that? Oh, nah, The guy this...and That happened."I was like "Yooo...why didn't you focus more on practicing instead of believing that Jesus would just magically take the wheel and steer your ass into a passing grade? Why didn't you pray to the good lord above to help you get the shyts instead of just asking him to deliver that shyt to you automatically?"
She all like "What do you ask God for?" I'm like "lol. Help, bytch. Help me to do this, or help me to deal with that. Outside of that shyt, prayers for protection, but mostly I give thanks for all that he blessed me with."
Dealing with religious fanatics and their unwavering beliefs is tiring, though so I just keep my mouth shut on that shyt more than half the time.
My bad.dont forget sanse
That's what's up. In voudou some people represent the lwa (orishsas) as saints because during colonial times the europeans didn't allow us to practice voudou. So we fooled them by using saints to represent the lwas. In voudou you don't need a certian image or satute or anything in paticular to call on a lwa because that energy is present in all things. Just need to know how to call on it. Also in voudou/ifa a Hougan or Mambo doesn't have a problem with advising someone to go into a mosque,church or synagogue if that's where you need to find solace. Especially if you ancestors where fond of those places. We aren't bound to our spiritual systems like how muslims,jews and christians are to their religions.
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dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
Yeah syncretism is present throughout
Umbanda is really into that because it was created as the Brazilian religion, since it's a mix of native, African, Catholic, and Spiritist beliefs. Pretty much all the major religions of Brazil before these evangelicals arrived
I dunno how voudou works but you can see a lot of rituals on the streets of rio, even people I know that are atheist or hardcore Christian believe it has power