tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post115413900231817226..comments2023-11-28T22:47:40.465-05:00Comments on Tales from FAR Manor: The Boy: America in Microcosm?Larry Kollarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-1154310246342391622006-07-30T21:44:00.000-04:002006-07-30T21:44:00.000-04:00Thanks, Paulo. That's pretty much what I thought t...Thanks, Paulo. That's pretty much what I thought too.Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-1154309417542205102006-07-30T21:30:00.000-04:002006-07-30T21:30:00.000-04:00I think that for the most part white kids who beco...I think that for the most part white kids who becomes Rastas do it for incredibly shallow reasons, much like teenage goth girls deciding to be Wiccan because they think it's scary. White Rasta kids do it because they like smoking weed. I'm not sure that it's prohibited for white people to convert, exactly, but despite the fact that modern Rastas denounce racism, there is still the whole "Black people should move back to Africa and be left alone by Whitey forever" theme that runs through the whole thing. I honestly don't think most of these kids know about that.Paulohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05411367281573682781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-1154224257166929012006-07-29T21:50:00.000-04:002006-07-29T21:50:00.000-04:00Dont really know FARfetched. I had lost contact w...Dont really know FARfetched. I had lost contact with my Rasta friend and a mutual friend dropped by and told me about it. It sounds like something he would do though.Family Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17101125448247590979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-1154205565463619822006-07-29T16:39:00.000-04:002006-07-29T16:39:00.000-04:00Ganja and Reggae are pretty much the two things th...Ganja and Reggae are pretty much the two things that everyone thinks about as being associated with Rastas. But I don't think the bigamy was part of being Rasta.<BR/><BR/>The German dad was about as nice a guy as the Rasta though, dumping his daughter on him & leaving like that. Did he not have any consideration about how <I>she</I> felt?Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-1154167487169315472006-07-29T06:04:00.000-04:002006-07-29T06:04:00.000-04:00Hi FARfetched. Years ago I used to have a friend ...Hi FARfetched. <BR/><BR/>Years ago I used to have a friend that was Rastafarian. The biggest thing I remember about him were ganja and reggae. Oh and that he married a girl in Germany, left and came back to the states and married another girl. The German father tracked him down, said here's your wife and left. I don't know how he ever worked the two wife thing.<BR/><BR/>As far as the country. I feel pretty much as you do. Just as with my children and the country, I can only hope for the best.Family Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17101125448247590979noreply@blogger.com