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Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by Remmzy(m): 2:44am On Aug 28, 2006 |
why practice voodoo, when christ offers Life |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by IB7(f): 3:03am On Dec 03, 2006 |
If voodoo exist why not use it to better nigeria? |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by gbadex1(m): 7:36am On Dec 03, 2006 |
@ Seun: blanks? In Nigeria? Lmao, you definitely must be joking!! |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by macalurs(m): 3:30am On Dec 15, 2006 |
but who the hell hears gun shots in Nigeria and stays, moreso walks in and takes a good peep? Like c'mooon now, the story's missing some stages don't ya think? |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by goodguy(m): 8:52pm On Dec 15, 2006 |
Can you read at all? Didn't I say she was inside someone's house? Did I say she walked in and peeped? She was in the person's house and peeped through the window. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by macalurs(m): 12:32am On Dec 16, 2006 |
@good[i]boy[/i] I can read. (b.t-w: You never quite stated where her vantage point was. . . maybe you could go back over and add it on) The point is: Stories told and re-told lose originality, in that the stories always get sweeter. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by goodguy(m): 10:31am On Dec 16, 2006 |
I'm the first person to re-tell the story now. I don't think it has lost even 1% of originality yet. As for her vantage point, I expected anyone to know she didn't actually go outside. If she had gone outside, then there would have been no need to peep at all in the first place. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by BigSis(f): 11:47pm On Dec 19, 2006 |
Voodoo/Vodum, Is a religion, just like christianity. Hoodoo or juju is the magico aspect of the religion. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by Ndipe(m): 11:35am On Dec 21, 2006 |
Trust in Jesus Christ, for only He can save you. Neither can voodoo nor the rest of them , |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by macalurs(m): 5:23pm On Dec 21, 2006 |
Religion is fun, just like faith. I call it pre-occupation. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by adjain(m): 9:28am On Sep 13, 2007 |
Juju, Voodoo, and the whole muck-a-mucks. Maybe you do not believe in it, but doubt does not change the facts. Maybe until your brothey turns into a man-sized tortoise, then you will believe. "Blessed is he who has not seen yet believed." I strongly believe in voodoo (Or juju, whatever) but I also believe that He that is in me is greater than He that is in the World. And that is that. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by VoodooGal: 3:17pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
i want to know someone who practice Voodoo in Lagos Nigeria, I fully believe in it, if someone can help me find a local who can help me find a voodoo spell caster plz |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by VoodooGal: 3:19pm On Apr 30, 2009 |
i want to know someone who practice Voodoo in Lagos Nigeria, I fully believe in it, if someone can help me find a local who can help me find a voodoo spell caster plz |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by Funkstein(m): 5:28pm On Jan 24, 2010 |
dolldagg: I agree with dolldagg 100%, just as there is good and evil in your average Naija church. Voodun, Voodoo or whatever it is called all around the Diaspora is essentially a religion where the ancestors are venerated; the laws of nature are harnessed in respect of various deities whilst at the same time the belief in the almighty is propagated. A typical example of this belief that like it or not is part of our psyche, is the pouring of libation on a new car for example, our parents took this ritual very seriously and protection was sought from our ancestors, so like it or not most of us have partaken in this practice at some time in our life. An interesting article can be found here on the validity of these ATR African traditional beliefs from the Vatican’s viewpoint http://segundawodu.com/evbayiro2.htm This statement by the Pope is widely circulated around the internet as any search will reveal. My take on it is that there is good and evil in every aspect of our lives this is evident in all our religious practices be it Christianity, Islam or other traditional African religious concepts. It is also my thinking that Africa would be a better place without the intervention of the White man and his religious beliefs. As far as I am concerned the early Christian missionaries caused us untold grief, the effect of which our people are still reeling from around the world today, I will list just a microcosm of my thoughts below: The early Christian missionaries paved the way for the slave trade, in fact in one way or the other the church was complicit in its perpetration throughout West Africa. The concept of salvation only through Jesus Christ assumes that the African did not inherit the kingdom of heaven before the white man came to Africa forced his religion on us and saved our arses, . . . . . I find this notion fundamentally flawed on many levels. The Church of England was openly racist in its treatment of early settlers from the Caribbean, it is widely known that they were turned away from church on account of their race, this led to the proliferation of Pentecostal churches in the UK that catered for the ethnic minorities who were disenfranchised by the Church of England. I have often thought that there is a direct correlation between our country being the poorest, rich and morally corrupt country in the world and our fanatical adherence to Christianity, I would suggest that there are more churches per capita in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world as for Islam let us not even go there. . . . . I always smile when I remember a standing joke between some of my friends in Naija which reminds us that before your average Naija attempts to rip you off, he reminds you he is a Christian. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by Funkstein(m): 5:30pm On Jan 24, 2010 |
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Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by Whymee: 11:57pm On May 09, 2012 |
Voodoo, juju, witchcraft or what have you are platform of deceit. What shall be shall be. Believe in God and every other things will take smooth shape in you life time. We believe in destiny. There is nothing like voodoo, those who engage in it have access to lots of deceit. This deceit cannot be discover by those who approach them because, first you had set up you mind that solutions to ur problem can be solve there. They easily creat a virtual image of fear in you, ask you to make some sacrifices, after which they tell again the problem has been resolve. You must have parted with you wallet then. Our society psychology has been boxed, programed, default by various films and local movies that we watch right from our childhood age. ...so much that we can't reason out of the box. Result of this psychological effect is the tantamount crowd you see at various worship centers looking for miracle, theyve all been program, having believe that someone somewhere is hindering their progress. IF THERE IS ANYBODY WITH VOODOO/JUJU/WITCHCRAFT HINDERING THE LIVES OF ANYBODY, IT IS THE GOVERNMENT OF THAT LOCALITY. GOVERNMENT CONTROLS electricity, education, health, transpotation, employment, housing, feeding and other social amenities, economy is the whip use by government, and this whip can only be constructed when we have corruption in the system. If all these items are in place, then you,ll realize nothing like voodoo. |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by Jenwitemi(m): 9:06am On May 10, 2012 |
You don't even know what "Voodoo" is to begin with. You start a thread on voodoo and you go on to talk about people being cursed or haunted by underwater spirits and stuff. What has all that got to do with voodoo? None of those things you mentioned has anything to do with voodoo. Voodoo, which is a religion in it's own right, has all kinds of shades from dark to light just like in any other religion out there. School up first before starting a thread, dude. effects8000: As a Nigerian, we all have come across or heard about voodoo at on time or the other in our life. But are the so-called powers of African traditional religion real? |
Re: Voodoo: Do You Believe In It? by emofine2(f): 9:33am On May 10, 2012 |
Precisely Jenwitemi. This is what grates on me concerning the lack of knowledge and demonization of African traditional religions whilst glorifying outside faiths. |
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