
Peace. I was building with my brother Khazire about the often over-used phrase "dealing in emotion/trapped in six" and how there is a certain image projected on being mastered by emotion, yet plenty of the Gods I know be angry as sh*t. Khazire weighed my rant and his response was "They over look anger as an emotion because its masculine, when in actuality losing self to ANY emotion is six sh*t." I agree. Anger is an emotion, damn near the basest of them as well. It doesn't take a supreme mind to express anger..yet the first attribute of Allah is the most merciful..which deals with compassion and empathy. *shrugs* I guess that's different. Nah, seriously though-the phrase that reverberates in my third is something I came up with a while back, which is "the Original Man is God, yet God is more than just the Original Man"(c)T.M.Allah. These emotional faculties are vibrational filters and are there for a reason. Emotion is a system of communication within you. It is an extension of your sensing. We should take care to study it rather than suppress it. A good portion of us being able to efficiently teach is hinged on psychology and sociology, which is heavily doused in the waters of emotion. This subject reminds me of a Bill Burr bit about how macho men gotta act to avoid being teased by other men. Considering that bit makes me think of Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul On Ice" and how he explains the Super-Masculine/Super-Administrative dichotomy as well. I can't help but see a connection of how Colored People's projection of our image is still being perpetuated in my beloved nation. I'm not surprised though, we carry many of the traits of the war-torn generations before us..regardless of how long our names may be or how fast we can quote degrees. There is an air that as men with knowledge of self we are to be devoid of emotion. I disagree. To do that would be to separate yourself from your own sensibilities. I think we are supposed to decipher through our emotions and still make the right and exact decision in order to remain just and true. We often undergo exercises in which we recite lessons under duress, we are to manifest righteousness under even more extreme duress as well. Living in the wilderness of North America, amidst every kind of attack possible is duress. The inner turmoil that results from these attacks is another form as well.Shine through all of that and you'll truly know what rising above six is all about. Peace.