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joseph1013:
John Ogunlela

If I were foreign and my first and sole contact with the Yoruba culture was through the 'home videos', I would think the women of that tribe are shrieking, pugnacious idle hands who do nothing but design devices against men all day and spend the night at the spiritualist's shrine.

I will think the men are noisy and thoughtless wine bibbers who love strictly sex, easy money and pretence to wealth. I will think they all have a big tribal inferiority complex that makes them feel a trip to London even if in a fake visa is the meaning of life.

I will have the impression that the young men are vacant of mind and completely lacking in vision besides to become experts at swearing and cursing and toying with women when they take a break from armed robbery and doing crack.

The anger, pugnacity and aggression in those videos is overpowering and nauseating to be mild. The simplicity of the scripts venerate mediocrity, superstition and utter foolishness, elevating mediocrity to the point of worship.

They portray their tribe in the worst dingy light possible and present their children as objects of intimidation and oppression. Hardly do people keep their words and most friendships end up on the slaughter slab of treachery. You can safely predict the trusting friend who helped the other with school fees will end up getting poisoned by the friend he helped all so she can convert the title deed of his property to her own.

Revenge is the rule, forgiveness is hardly known except forced Intl the script and acted in a most unnatural manner.

The women are hardly ever portrayed as capable of putting their brains to use except in scheming to steal a friend's spouse. And they never achieve anything with their lives besides marrying a rich and often abusive man.

At a point I began to suspect this could be a sinister programme to destroy they Yoruba race through negative portrayal but look a bit closely and it is the product of the race itself!

Those videos are the products of hurried, underdeveloped ideas, quickly parboiled to be served to unthinking people whose daily lives run on base superstition and archaic traditions. The central theme is to sell and make a little money before the buyers of the movies can get a little education and stop hoping in a swarm of spirits and in blind luck.

Absolutely nothing of value is espoused in these movies apart from a desire to make money by providing a feed for shameful ignorance. It is the rise of the aggressively ignorant section of the people, taking advantage of cheap technology and a market of deeply ignorant stream of people who were spawned in the Years of the Locusts, the years of darkness.

They affirm these ignorant swarm and tell them they are okay the way they are and they need not aim higher. After all, their type have gone to London and have brought back a used car with the sound system maxed out. They even built a duplex in Lekki - and isn't this the zenith of life itself!

So, what happened! Did this people produce Wole Soyinka and Ola Rotimi? Were Herbert Ogun'nde and Duro Ladiipo acorns from their tree? Did D.O Fagunwa right in that language and was it that tribe that produce Sunny Ade, Twin 77, Art Alade, Jim Rex Lawson, I.K Cairo and Orlando Owoh? Wow! That was another Yoruba entirely. It couldn't be this one!

Yoruba movie makers are doing a great disservice to the race. They write stories that make you question the sanity of the writer and the IQ of the target audience. Everything has been stereotyped to the extent that you could predict where the movie is going minutes into the movie.

Imagine watching an almost two hours movie without gaining anything. They are uneducative, unimaginative and unrealistic. The writers are not even putting any effort at all.

I know piracy is a huge bane to them but mehn. In fact, I blame them for the prevalence of ritualist in Yoruba land.

People like Kunle Afolayan and Kemi Adetiba still give me hope.

joseph1013:
TALES FROM THE CREATOR

We should be grateful that the creator of the universe took the time to tell us about his creation--how he did it and what he made. But I've been reading the Bible and the Qur'an and he seems to have missed quite a few important things that he made. For example, he didn't mention:

Black holes
Dark energy
Dark Matter
Galaxies
Pulsars
Quasars
Solar systems
Supernovae
The cosmic microwave background
White dwarf stars

He didn't even mention gravity! The really weird thing is he mentioned several things he didn't make, like a firmament and windows to let the rain in.

I wonder why he ONLY described things the people he spoke to already knew about (or thought they knew about but didn't)? It's almost as if ignorant people made the whole thing up.

Surely not!

Yup, we won't even be calling dark matter and dark energy, dark (symbolizing their unknown nature), if the god had told us what they are.

WHY DO YOU HAVE A SPIRITUAL HUSBAND OR WIFE :the truth none has told you

Some people while in a prayer houses will be informed they are been disturbed by a spiritual wife or husband. Haven heard about it, he and the pastor would rush into conclusion calling it an evil spirit. Next is to start abracadabra prayers, casting and loosing to no avail – otu abụghị n’ezi. The pastor will be blowing the microphone making noise like a lunatic, the congregation belief deliverance is taken place: to no avail _ otu abụghị n’ezi.
Kill her, the pastor said.
Let her die and leave.
I asked, how possible? Is it possible I ask?
Can you kill a spirit?
Have you heard or seen where one killed a spirit if not in the church where they kill spirit with mouth and microphone, yet things remains same and sometimes get worse yet?
Now listen, let me teach you wisdom: saying the truth because truth is life _ eziokwu bụ ndụ. This is why it set the captive free. The moment you know the truth. The truth you know must surely set you free.
As a human being, use event as seen in the land of the living to judge event as seen in the spiritual realm.
Sometimes, as it’s here on earth, so it’s in the realm of spirit
As its in the spiritual realms so it’s in the physical plane.
Take for example you see a woman and engaged to her as a young man.
After some while, both of you happen to marry happily. Marriage you must remember comes upon an agreement between two opposite parties. Now, after a while, you travel to another space for a mission, another destination where you now find comfort. If you forget calling to say hi to the wife, how will she feel?
Answer!
What if you are not calling or have lost contact, passion for her and she kept looking after you?
Haven gotten to reach out to you, you pretend not knowing her and denied haven nothing to do with her.
No matter what she does, you kept pushing her away and ignore all signs and signals. What do you expect the woman to do?
Would you not do anything mad if you were in her shoes?
Of course you will!
If you can as a legitimate wife, you are not against the law if you must suffer him anyhow without wasting his life.

This is what happens between those who got married to mariners before earthly visit. Stop been fooled by Christians and their ignorant teachings.
They are spiritual ignorant. All of them whom you call man of God are ofeke in spiritual matters. They are ignorant about spiritual affairs. They are pretenders and deceivers. The reason you must be careful about their false teachings.
They only shout and make noise like lunatic. They only know how to make noise not knowing that our spiritual engagement asked for quietness, peace of mind and solitude. The very moment they should spent with wisdom are given for selfishness. The reason wisdom is far seen from them. They lack truth. They know nothing about spirituality and wisdom.
Pastors are ofeke (fools) when it comes to spiritual matters. They know absolute nothing as e dey happen in the realm of spirits. They know nothing but go on deceiving people. They must pay the prize at the end of it all. It’s written, you shall reap what you sowed. That’s to say, you shall reap deception as a deceiver.
For crying out loud, this people are not deceiving animals. They are deceiving human being.
The image of the gods.
Turning black what nature has made to be white for their selfish interests.
Causing disunity, hatred, disaster between nature and mankind, bridging the gap between spirits and mankind.
Why people suffer today!
They must reap what they sowed at the end of it all.
Wisdom shall judge them!
So what is the remedy?
this is what a spiritualist will help you do. He/she will first engage you on a spiritual consultation to know if truly you are a mariner perhaps the cause of your problems and encounter. Because it’s not necessarily mariners who encounter spiritual wives. A witch can as well manifest herself as a spiritual wife to cause ruin to someone’s life.
Nevertheless, If you are and it happens that you are suffering as a result of spiritual wife/husband, the spiritualist shall consult further, knowing what must be done.
It’s then the wife/husband will have to name his or her prize owing to your position, agreement and periodic in the marine. Hence all mariners doesn’t share same position and agreement are differently. Upon this information, he get to inform you about what to be done. No matter what, it must involve a sacrifice!
We call it marine ritual settlement – ịkwa ibu mmiri nye ndị ọgbọ na uke.
During this sacrifices you have to accept him or her back.
We call it ‘ịkwa ibu udo na abụghị ibu nkewa’ a sacrifice for peace not separation.
When properly done, he/she will assist you in all aspects of life been in union. That’s the reason for sect (i di n’otu ndị mmiri).
Odogwuakataaka: That’s to say if he is good to go. Should he/she is wicked, so jealous. We e plead him or her to accept some things which he refused. If he do, good.
If not, we can then upon ọfọ na ogu talk about separation.
This you must know asked for wisdom hence his/her stubbornness might be as a result of her workforce, duty, services to deliver.
Do you know that these mariners (marine husband and wife’s) are destiny helpers? The very reason they are sometimes filled with jealous and must be treated with caution otherwise one’s life and destiny are placed on danger zone at the cost of services in the name of deliverance. Many are suffering this today!
Know whom you run to at the cost of spiritual matters.

: A spirit such as marine wife/husband might proof stubborn owing to agreement reached before your earthly coming. When we come across such like spirit person’s, we plead with him /her to allow you enjoy your earthly life as you wish. Remember, all these are done upon agreement, I as a priest stand to negotiate this as a third party upon ritual sacrifices. It’s not a thing we do by force as seen in the churches. Shouting with a microphone to draw attention of the people, proving how much we can speak in tongues and grammars. It’s never done that way for your safety, success, happiness and longevity.
Because it’s not all about today but tomorrow: the case must be handled with care.
This is the very reason igbo adage says ‘oké dibịa gbaa àjà, ọ dịka ewere nyee ndị mmụọ n’aka’ when a great/experienced priest performed ritual exercise, it looks like the items was given hand to hand to the spirits.
The result remains positive, settling all matters and causing light on one’s path.

If you must work on spiritual ignorance to disintegrate what shouldn’t be disintegrated, the subject (human) must suffer the penalty.
One true information people lack in spiritual matters remains the fact that spirits are not at lost (loosing end) in any matter as it involve humanity. The reason you must be careful and stop playing with your spiritual life.
Haven known these, I have to state it finally that spiritual husband and wife are not evil.
If they are, that’s to say you are evil also hence you are a mariner. If you are not a mariner, you can’t get married to a mariner as a wife or husband. The difference between you and him /her is only that you had the opportunity to exist on earth as a human being after pre-existence as a mariner in waters.
The lineage continues as you bear forth children on earth: especially, a case whereby you are a mariner and your earthly husband/wife is also a mariner, all your earthly children shall be mariners.
It’s divine
It’s a nature mandate!
It’s written and can’t be changed.
You can’t change what nature has caused to be neither will you condemn it.
Who are you to judge?
Do you judge upon wisdom or ignorant?
Who are you to condemned what nature has made to be?
How many years do you have to exist here on earth?
How many years do you think these matter have lasted, involving billions of people born and yet to be born?
Is it why you are here?
All these are meant for pastors to answer.
People who dwelt on ignorant, causing ruin to people’s life and destiny.
Sending people to early graves and are happy doing that hence it put food on their table.
Judgement await us all!
Ife onye metere, o weere isi ya buru (evil men do, leave with them and after them).
Wise man think and talk about tomorrow, a fool (ofeke) talk about today.
Today has only but 24hours in it, tomorrow is indefinite.
Don’t be deceived!
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joseph1013:
Know why we have stars?
God created them to give light to the earth.

Genesis 1:15

Are you not trying too hard & being intentionally biased here ?
Because the light that was mentioned was very specified ;moonlight & sunlight.

Great thread.

God/the First Cause/the Beginning/the All has nothing to do with religion, and nobody can really know the All.

Only a scientifically minded person can make some findings about the First Cause.

In other words, science is a crucial tool to understand the origin and evolution of the universe, and consequently get some ideas about the First Cause.

joseph1013:
Ijeoma Chinonyerem

I have absolutely no regard for pastors who preach faith healing. Pastors who encourage people to ditch their medications promising God's healing. Pastors who give people false hope and make their gullible members sow seeds in exchange for God's healing.

In 2010 I was an ardent member of Dominion City Abakaliki. One month, the G.O. David Ogbueli was coming to Ebonyi. The church publicized it. Billboards, banners, fliers, tv and radio jingles. We were urged to sow seed for the GO's welfare, clothing, feeding and everything inbetween.

That didn't seem odd to me. What was odd was that the resident pastor asked members to bring their sick family members from the hospital. Those using wheelchair, crutches, even mentally challenged people. That they'll see God in action.

Every Sunday till GO came, this was reiterated with full force.
"Are you not tired of keeping your loved ones in hospital? Of seeing them roam the streets mad? Of spending money on drugs? Bring them. Come and sow a seed. Daddy is coming with healing anointing."

On the D-day, the GO came midway into the service. First thing he did, he asked the ushers to pack all the sick people, mad, disabled, to the back of the church.

He didn't want to see them. They were distracting his service. He would attend to them after service.

Ok.

You know what happened? He climbed pulpit, preached for 30 minutes, stepped down, entered his car and left.

Service wasn't over. He didn't come back.

What the resident pastor did was ask for donations for a suit for GO seeing as he wore a white up and down instead of a suit. Also hotel bills, feeding, etc.

At the end of the service, members were told to go home with their sick family members who didn't even get to meet the GO let alone get prayed for. The excuse was that he was tired. They should all come back the following day.

The next day, GO came, finished the service and left without even acknowledging the sick people at the back. And money was raised for his welfare to "bless him for blessing us".

And that was what kept on happening till he left.

Why ask for mad and disabled people to be brought in the first place? Why give them hope?

I've told the story of my uncle and aunt who were hard-core members of The Lord's Chosen. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. They went to see Lazarus Muoka, the GO of Chosen who told them not to go to the hospital rather gave them a blessed handkerchief to rub on the breast. I can't remember how much they bought the handkerchief and olive oil.

The cancer metastasized and he urged them to continue rubbing. By the time my mother found out and screamed at them to go to the hospital, she was so sick. She was booked for double mastectomy.

2 days before the surgery, Lazarus called them assuring them that God said the surgery would be 100% successful. The next day, she died.

So any time I see a so-called MOG who preaches faith healing, first thing I do is to recoil.

Take care of yourself the best way you can. These people don't care. They may probably heal 2 or 3 people, but dozens die and thousands don't receive healings at all. That is what they don't tell you.
Take care of yourself.

Yep, invisible (read as non-existent) events require invisible reasons so that if an expected result does not materialize it is easy to blame the lack of invisible reasons. Such a scam.

Plus our health system in general doesn't help in some cases. You always hear of people saying doctors said they can't find anything and I wonder what kind of doctors they went to see.