Dreadlocks: functional or spiritual?

[Spartan]

Let me guess... she's probably against using soap too.

[ANGRYCivilian]

If you do not have scissors and a brush, or do not believe in using them, you might want to grow a set of dreadlocks.

This is probably why primitive cultures have worn them.

Yeah, they were dirty fucking animals; that's why they wore dreadslocks.

Some still do wear them. But in American culture, dreadlocks are either a low-maintenance way to keep your hair or a statement of rebellion.

Once again, dirty fucking animals.

But who wears dreadlocks? Bob Marley brought reggae music and dreadlocks to America in the late 1970s. White hippies and African Americans began wearing them in the '80s. Dreads became mainstream in pop culture among punks, ravers and rappers in the '90s.

Rastafarians wear dreadlocks for spiritual reasons. They believe their dreadlocks represent not being part of "Babylon," or the capitalistic society. Dreadlocks represent their beliefs about the world, God, and how to live. It is a relatively new religion that came out of Jamaica mostly by way of Bob Marley, the great reggae musician, and prophet as some say.

Fuck Bob Marley.

Laurie Vasquez is an older white woman who has been Rastafarian for the last ten years. She says "Rasta" started in Jamaica during the depression in the '30s when people moved to the hills and lived communally, growing their own food and being self-sufficient. The people there started to let their hair grow into long strands the way it naturally would. The British Authority said the sight of their hair brought "dread," thus the name dreadlocks.

Dirty fucking hippie.

Rasta elders teach that one of the main precepts of the Rastafarian religion is a "separation from Babylon" and unity with "Jah," or God. These elders also taught that Moses was Black, his hair was like a sheep and that Rastafarians should have a sense of Black identity and connection to the Old Testament of the Bible.

"Rasta symbolizes the separation from the war machine and the perpetuation of poverty," Vasquez said. "They say we are 'sheep for Jah.' We got the wool. He can find us. Also we can find each other. I can tell a genuine Rasta."

Vasquez says having dreads is a spiritual path. "You know you're not going to get rich having your hair in dreads. It is not a path of glamour. I hope that when people see my dreads they see that I am probably against war and for equal rights and justice. It is looking like the indigenous people of the world," she said.
The Lumberjack

What the hell does that mean? Are we, every single one of us, not indigenous people of the world?

[BadMuther]

When I saw it was Humboldt I wasn't surprised...


Pass the dutchie on the left hand side Wade!!!!

[RangerX]

Fucking soap dodgers.

Every time I see a girl with dreads, I wanna throw up.

Every time I see a white guy with dreads, I want to beat them with a stick covered in nails.

Every time I see a black guy with dreads, I have an urge to burn something and make some brownies.

[Darksaga]

If I remember correctly the pirate Blackbeard would have his hair and beard in dreadlocks. Prior to the ships being joined for boarding and hand to hand combat he would stick slow burning fuses in the end of each dreadlock and light them to give him a "hellish" appearance.