Menobista:
Friends is God a christian or a Muslim?

Menobista:
Friends is God a christian or a Muslim?

emrain:


God is everything. From the air you breathe to the brain cells in your head.

We are all connected, we are the body of God. God is not a being. God is energy or forces of these world. In fact anything you can think of is the manifestation of God. You are God yourself, you just have to wake up and enjoy your world.

johnydon22:
pantheism

emrain:


Lol, every state of mind got a label.

johnydon22:
Yeap. . . that actually is a default mode because pantheism maintains . "All is god and god is all" "everything that is, was and will be" and everything in existence is what we know as the universe. . . So pantheism is not really theism, the noun God is used to portray the notion that all is One. .everything in existence are just particles of one single whole.…

emrain:


and I thought I was the first of my kind.

johnydon22:
Lmao. . pantheism is an old ideology. . . its a kind of realism. . . . I have once asked a christian if he think he was made from a different material from everyother thing in the universe

emrain:


But the dictionary meaning of pantheism doesn't really explain what I've chosen to believe in.

johnydon22:
Pantheism is the belief that the Universe (or nature as the totality of
everything) is identical with divinity, [1] or that everything composes an
all-encompassing, immanent God. [2] Pantheists thus do not believe in a
distinct personal or anthropomorphic god.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

emrain:

Close. But that's not my state of mind.

emrain:
I believe we can do all things we really think we can do. The power in us is infinite, the universe actually is at our disposal. Choose to believe that there is God, heaven and hell and it comes into existence, when you sleep, you dream about it, however you think God looks like, your mind will create that illusions and that's exactly what you'll see. Whatever purpose you give yourself in this universe that's exactly how your life will turn out to be. Even a mad man is at peace with himself, he thinks he's living his purpose here on earth until someone (seemingly) cures him of his madness. But was he really mad? Or are we the mad people?

But we may not understand, until you try to live against everything you've ever believed in, then you'll start seeing that everything is what it is because that's what we want it to be.


Mehn, I can't really explain this state of mind. It's just amazing. Everyday I just keep seeing that things are not really what they seem to be.

I hope I'll be able to explain this state of mind one day.

musKeeto:
Has anyone seen this post?https://www.nairaland.com/2324982/shameful-myopia-average-southerner/6#35095696

Plaetti, weigraf, AllNaijaBlogger, francistony

musKeeto:
Has anyone seen this post?https://www.nairaland.com/2324982/shameful-myopia-average-southerner/6#35095696

Plaetti, weigraf, AllNaijaBlogger, francistony

wiegraf:


tis been deleted. no backups I suppose?

emrain:
I believe we can do all things we really think we can do. The power in us is infinite, the universe actually is at our disposal. Choose to believe that there is God, heaven and hell and it comes into existence, when you sleep, you dream about it, however you think God looks like, your mind will create that illusions and that's exactly what you'll see. Whatever purpose you give yourself in this universe that's exactly how your life will turn out to be. Even a mad man is at peace with himself, he thinks he's living his purpose here on earth until someone (seemingly) cures him of his madness. But was he really mad? Or are we the mad people?

But we may not understand, until you try to live against everything you've ever believed in, then you'll start seeing that everything is what it is because that's what we want it to be.


Mehn, I can't really explain this state of mind. It's just amazing. Everyday I just keep seeing that things are not really what they seem to be.

I hope I'll be able to explain this state of mind one day.

timonski:

So, what led you to this belief?

rationalmind:
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ATHEISTS IN NIGERIA IS REAL- A MESSAGE TO ALL ATHEISTS.

. . .

I hope this will serve as a lesson to other atheists or agnostics as the case may be. For those who are closet atheists, it's better to remain that way. Nigeria obviously hasn't gotten to a stage where one can openly admit to being an atheist.

CC: Plaetton, wiegraf, davidylan, urheme, mikedimeji, thehomer, muskeeto, macof, Chrisbenogor e.t.c

rationalmind:
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ATHEISTS IN NIGERIA IS REAL- A MESSAGE TO ALL ATHEISTS.

I would have opened a separate thread for this but anyone who remotely knows me can easily connect the dots.

Those who follow me will know I'm just fresh out of NYSC, job hunting. I do have a job but all I get is a five figure salary and I'm seriously looking for something better (a six, seven or eight figure salary ).

The search for something better made me apply for the recently advertised Nigerian Navy DSS 23 recruitment. While filling the form, as is usual of jobs of this nature, we were asked to fill in our religion. There were three options. Christianity, Islam, Atheist. I initially wanted to fill in christianity but on second thought, I felt there's really no need to lie about being a christian since I'm not. More so, as at that time of application, I couldn't see any direct consequence of being honest.

I woke up on Tuesday to receive news that applicants who will write the aptitude test have been shortlisted. I rushed to the portal, filled in my S/N and pin and thankfully, I was shortlisted.

The next step was to get my forms signed. One will be signed by the secretary to the local government, another by a Divisional Police Officer from my State of Origin.

Dad claims to know a DPO who can sign for me and helped take it to him while I went to the local government to sign the other one. I never bothered to tell him I claimed to be an atheist in the form since I didn't feel it was necessary and he never bothered to go through the form.

Few hours later, I received his call and he asked me why I filled in Atheist as my "religion". This time around, I couldn't get myself to tell him the truth and had to lie. I told him it was a mistake I made when I was filling the form and he ended the call.

Eventually when he got home at night,he called me to his room to have a discussion. I expected it. What I didn't expect was how angry he was. He told me he has never been embarrassed the way he was today. His DPO friend saw what I filled and asked him his religion. On telling him he's a christian, the next thing he heard was, how can you be a christian and your child is an atheist. He didn't even know what was happening and requested for the form only to see what I filled in. It was then he called me.

Well, to cut the long story short, the DPO told him he's never going to sign for an atheist. He humbly took the form and went to two other police stations and to his surprise, all of them, after going through the form, told him they can't sign for an atheist.

What I don't understand is the fact that, these DPOs weren't asked to stand as my guarantor. All they had to do was to state if I have ever committed a crime or not. I couldn't just see what that has gotten to do with being an Atheist.

To cap it off, I'm in a fix right now. I don't know if to walk into police stations myself and see if I can have the forms signed or just forget about it since I'm pissed off already and I've lost interest.

I hope this will serve as a lesson to other atheists or agnostics as the case may be. For those who are closet atheists, it's better to remain that way. Nigeria obviously hasn't gotten to a stage where one can openly admit to being an atheist.

CC: Plaetton, wiegraf, davidylan, urheme, mikedimeji, thehomer, muskeeto, macof, Chrisbenogor e.t.c

rationalmind:
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ATHEISTS IN NIGERIA IS REAL- A MESSAGE TO ALL ATHEISTS.

I would have opened a separate thread for this but anyone who remotely knows me can easily connect the dots.

Those who follow me will know I'm just fresh out of NYSC, job hunting. I do have a job but all I get is a five figure salary and I'm seriously looking for something better (a six, seven or eight figure salary ).

The search for something better made me apply for the recently advertised Nigerian Navy DSS 23 recruitment. While filling the form, as is usual of jobs of this nature, we were asked to fill in our religion. There were three options. Christianity, Islam, Atheist. I initially wanted to fill in christianity but on second thought, I felt there's really no need to lie about being a christian since I'm not. More so, as at that time of application, I couldn't see any direct consequence of being honest.

I woke up on Tuesday to receive news that applicants who will write the aptitude test have been shortlisted. I rushed to the portal, filled in my S/N and pin and thankfully, I was shortlisted.

The next step was to get my forms signed. One will be signed by the secretary to the local government, another by a Divisional Police Officer from my State of Origin.

Dad claims to know a DPO who can sign for me and helped take it to him while I went to the local government to sign the other one. I never bothered to tell him I claimed to be an atheist in the form since I didn't feel it was necessary and he never bothered to go through the form.

Few hours later, I received his call and he asked me why I filled in Atheist as my "religion". This time around, I couldn't get myself to tell him the truth and had to lie. I told him it was a mistake I made when I was filling the form and he ended the call.

Eventually when he got home at night,he called me to his room to have a discussion. I expected it. What I didn't expect was how angry he was. He told me he has never been embarrassed the way he was today. His DPO friend saw what I filled and asked him his religion. On telling him he's a christian, the next thing he heard was, how can you be a christian and your child is an atheist. He didn't even know what was happening and requested for the form only to see what I filled in. It was then he called me.

Well, to cut the long story short, the DPO told him he's never going to sign for an atheist. He humbly took the form and went to two other police stations and to his surprise, all of them, after going through the form, told him they can't sign for an atheist.

What I don't understand is the fact that, these DPOs weren't asked to stand as my guarantor. All they had to do was to state if I have ever committed a crime or not. I couldn't just see what that has gotten to do with being an Atheist.

To cap it off, I'm in a fix right now. I don't know if to walk into police stations myself and see if I can have the forms signed or just forget about it since I'm pissed off already and I've lost interest.

I hope this will serve as a lesson to other atheists or agnostics as the case may be. For those who are closet atheists, it's better to remain that way. Nigeria obviously hasn't gotten to a stage where one can openly admit to being an atheist.

CC: Plaetton, wiegraf, davidylan, urheme, mikedimeji, thehomer, muskeeto, macof, Chrisbenogor e.t.c