My Book Of Rants!

nah, i know him though

why?

lol humor me

if i am to tell him(i already have though)

who recognized him from the pix

he certainly doesn't know tubabie

and i am sure he is reading this now




ps:how did you recognise him from that distance?

@ariblaze

", a satisfied feeling filled me."

Your "feeling" was satisfied?

With what?

By what?

Now,that's a pathetic fallacy.

OH GOD! BY OLATUNJI OLOLADE OF REALITY BITES. (THE NATION)
I saw this piece and i just couldn't let it go. I've kept it wit me for about a month now. Feel it.
Back in  the days when i first made u tyrant, i was just a poor kid who knew no better.
Started of hope in our first flat, u fed me pain at d back of our 3-seater, faith started to to fled my hopeful heart. I remember how i hurled invectives at your name because it seemed the right thing to do. Despite my pleas, you let the portuguese clip the wings of eagles. How i hated you back then.
Perhaps you dont remember or choose not to. So i wont belabor my pain at the back of our 3-seater.
I wont mention moricas, where poverty hid and papa wizened, where mama hushed up wit folklore and itinerant faithful attacked up.
And since you wont recall the penitent bugle propagating have in lieu of prayer, i wont bore you wit memories of the fire that engulfed our window even though there was no spark. Afterall its just my life, passing moments in the hood of child. Thus i guess there's no need for sadness if the faces in the album remind of halima, the angel you gave to us and yet snatched from us because only you could do that. I could still cal you tyrant, but i should have faith. Faith, the wonder that keeps us sane, these days, it drives us insane. We have entered the age of the questionable faiths and we wont ask questions. That is why faith as rife as faceless myths afflict us; they strip us of reason and forethought. In search of grace, we forget to be human. Stil we make our lives a livin hell because we need to make heaven. Hell was boko haram. Our northern brothers still smart  from the ravage of the onslaught. They claim the slaughter was of faith. They said western education is a sin hence a carnage to silence it wit the lives of us who profit from the enlightenment. Wonder what they were thinkin, wonder what incense fired their passion. The christians say they were satanic, the muslims say they were devilish, the heathens stil hold their comment, but i think they were just hungry. I think their fight was of joblessness, perhaps a bit hopelessness, and if you like deviousness, but my pple wil not think so. I have found it comforts our faiths to castigate the whole for the sins of the few. We amass our madness and eccentricities in sordid packages and call them religion. Mischief has found shelter in our lives, confusion too. Tell me has it always been like this? The isrealites claimed you taught them to handle those who wont worship you thus- 'you shall annihilate them.-the canaanites, amorites, hittites, perizzites, hivites and the jebusites- just as the lord your God has commanded'. The logic, explained deutoronomy, was to ensure that the repugnant faiths of neighbors didn't influence on them. But in the book of judges, an isrealite leader suggested a live and let live pact wit the ammonites. Led by their convictions, the muslim extremists bandy the 70 virgins as prize for the faithful wit the bloodiest sword but suratul kafirun admonishes that we live and let live. 'to you be your religion and to me my religion' the message reads. Tell me could you be more confusing? The atheist say you suffer mood swings. These days, they propagate the theory of your confusion wit glee. They say your gift of monotheism left us wit a bad god. Little wonder we have bad faithful, they claim. Could the problem truly be wit you? These days i wonder how much of the word may truly be attributted to you. That is why i agonize on the need for the apocrypha. That is why i stil imagine the content of the gospel of barnabas. Truth seekers claim it contained the truest account of the gospel of jesus the nazarene, but the determiners of faith claim it belongs to apocrypha. We have moved from the age when they told us to make jesus our god, to to an era when we should make the hungry pastor our god and savior. Tell me is this accordin to your will? Stil i wonder if you told our pastors to sell salvation and prosperity to the highest bidder. Stil i wonder why muslim women must live in purdah. Truth sayers claim you never wanted so. Stil i wonder why our fathers misinterprete the koran. They claim that you wish that we keep a harem of wives. It doesn't matter that our kids grow uncared for. It hardly matters that they grow up knowin no love into a life of of crime. Stil i wonder why we treat the girl-child and our women as insignificant others. Stil i wonder why we pay lip service to the foreign faiths- islam and christianity- only to sneak like unrepentant thieves in the night into the shrine of impartial witch-doctors. Tell who is a witch doctor? Who isn't? Who is a heathen? Who isn't? Who does your bidding? Who doesn't? Tell me why should the traditionalist not make heaven? They call on olodumare. If you're olodumare, why would you forsake supplications of folk who slit no throat nor decapitate souls, in your name, save the times we sneak to them for money making rituals?

@scolfield bro i feel that writeup by olatunji,  but dont agree with all he said sha,  where is everyone nah???

@scolfield the choice is always yours, the Big Guy aint puttn a gun at your head to serve him. Or His he? You remind me of a fella in my hood who always antagonise "foreign religion" he always say if things where turned arround wouldnt we be the exporters of ogun,obatala,sango etc. Yeah only IF.Good you aint an atheist, for our natural instincts screams there is a supreme being.Our minds cant stick with believing we came to being by chance, we can do the maths.So if the creator says we do something to please him then do it! Come to think of it, if we die and nufin happens then who cares but if we die and the stories we hear about afterlife is true. . . I better start doing good cos that would result to a  catastrophe. Me believe in the afterlife for our corrupt leaders should pay if not in this life then d hereafter.

@sino

holla

my yim is on my profile

@Scofield. All I can really say is eya. I'm a troubled soul like you. The way I see it, we've lost all hope of finding absolute truth. All we're left with is probable truth and our own convictions. Everyone will choose the path the makes the most sense to him. It's as simple as that. And dude, you might get on some people's nerves talking about Jesus that way. I'd have said we don't do religion here but rant na rant.

Now before anyone yabs me, let me yab myself. I know I said about the ace being back and the ace reviving this here thread etc etc. Well, the ace is sorry. The ace will do better when there're more humans over here. Damn!

@ibkaye, wtf?

T'sup vesc, i ain't doing religion here, just talking nigeria. Boko haram brought it up. And like said, isn't it high time we started questioning some things. Not askin questions is one of our greatest banes in this country.

Ah. The memories. We used to things the way you just did right now sino. I can't bring my creative juices to fore nowadays cuz I'm exhausted on one hand and my ramblings would ring too true if I begin. I'm distressed, you see? Kay9 has gone for rehabilitation after he quit militancy. Ariblaze is in a coma after Thatcher committed hara kiri forgetting her master/lover was on board. Bluespice just opened up a new restaurant where they serve lobster in the afternoon and whatever you want after midnight. Whatever you want. Sisi is truly and awesomely MIA. Your guess is as good as mine. Tubabie has had a dozen kids after she married the guinness world record holder for highest sperm count, mojiesther got a job as the new front for a ghastly mafioso outfit recently hiding in western Nigeria, epi committee suicide after we drew 2-2 with Tunisia. Actually she lost a bet. To her ex. She thought she'd die first than pay that creep. If I missed any absentee, it should be enough impetus to come here and have a go at me.

 @vesc are u serious!:oroflmao i cant stop laughing
@scofield do u mean ranters?
Its almost 3am, im seriously racking my brain if not cracking it to write a log of my activities for the past 4weeks! Cant really remember what i did yesterday ,well it ought to be a daily entry. . .Whatever.

Sorry man, but anger solves no problem in nigeria now, nothing does. And nepa or whatever they are now, you cant be angry wit them now. Tell me, if not for facebook, nairaland, yahoo etc, when last did you get a mail from any of your friend? At least they stil remember to send you mails. The govt? Dont you watch the network news, pls do and you'll see they're trying. At least they give out money even its a from me to you cycle. Aasu, put yourself in their shoes. They taught those ungrateful senators to be who they are today and now they're earning more than their teachers. Parents? Ask your dad, does he have a gsm when he was your age. Does your mom even know what a laptop his? They're just showboating.

mine is around the corner

why do i now, feel low?

why am i altogether snappish?

why do i feel disappointed

this isnt mine

if i had this,and then mine around the corner

someone i would have deprived of what is originally theirs

because of my insatiable need to just move one

he toiled and i toiled

he prayed and i prayed

probably his only chance

if i had gotten this, as soon as my corner comes

i would have dropped it and have them redo the process again

mine is around the corner

my corner is just a few steps away

my steps would be done in a few moments

lord give me the wisdom to accept

everything isnt designed for me, especially if its detrimental to another

please increase the pace of my steps

so i can go and get mine

just around the corner
















ps: i had something else written for today
might still share it later but now

i am not happy and cant say i am sad either
i am in a phase of understanding,
i am a better man for it, i think





@epi

nice one

No! You can write 'bite me' in bold comic sans across the paper before submitting.

It's weird Blaze but I feel exactly the same way though I'm sure it's for a different reason

I HAVE LEARNT THAT
sometimes you have to put the individuals ahead of their actions- thats why i wont blame aasu for leaving at home for three months.
We dont have to change friends if we understand that friends change- decided to wait for my old friends to change their ways instead of lookin for new unpredictable ones.
Two pple can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different- so i wont argue wit my friends who's to blame for this strike or who's the better of MI and mode9.
Writing as well as talkin can emotional pains- that shouldn't be new to landers.
Either you control your attitude or it controls you- epi, take a cue from that.
Its taking a long time to be who i want to be- guitarman was right in dream.
No matter how got and steamy a relationship maybe at first, the passion fades wit time- my girlfriend no longer tells me 'i love you' at the end of every phone conversation.
Heroes are pple who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences- rip fawehinmi.
You should always leave loved ones wit loving words, it may be the last time you see them- i love you mom, but someone should have warned me that i might return from school and not see you again.