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[Arfool]

What do Rastas mean when they say "One Love".  Is it a meaningful idea or just a famous Bob Marley song?

I love my friends, my family, and pretty much everyone I meet (or at least I try to).  Surely only having one love is a bad thing? Or perhaps it means that all forms of love are the same "one love"?

[surfmon~I]

Greetings I,
It is like the rivers that run to the sea.  Water touches all things that live, and so there is an endless cycle.  Although the water on the surface collects in different places, and begins its journey of transformation, there are many things that it comes in contact with and seeps into.
I suppose the answer will be different for each.
In the time frame of the song ,when it was written, it meant for all the collective sufferers in Jamaica to wake up to the realization that they are ONE people with One home.  Africa, the land that they were taken from.
Now, the notion of OneLove has transformed just as the water, to a broadly accepted cry for Humanity to see we are One.  To Live Life and Give Thanks and Praises.

[Nazarite I]

The I Jahrealite gives a good answer.

Iman will also add that many use the blessing frivolously. Many of those you hear shouting 'One Love' are a million miles away from Rasta and forget the roots of both the song and the blessing. The key is in the line in the song "Give thanks and praise to the Lord, and all will be alright". Plenty of the people who say One Love to I one minute Iman see doing wickedness the next. They don't even try to Live to the fullness and take I and I concept of One Love in vain. Those sort of people Iman would recommend another piece of Rastafari music called 'Burn Dem Down' by Capleton.

Blessed love.