DonPikko:
Muslims with all kinds of voodoo

eluquenson:
The best of Aajo is to seek help from Allah alone.

hadjipapiey:


Bigot spotted

OkaNaUbe:
Many Africans claim to serve God but use voodoo for war/clashes (I don't want to mention any tribe or people but you know them), business success, cure of sicknesses and so on.

If you want to serve God, serve Him, if you want to be a traditionalist, be. Don't serve God and the devil.

HarkymTheOracle:
So traditionalists serve the devil?

hkidola00:
yes,i agree with him, it d devil

Naijamagician:


What are you saying? Why are you so ignorant.... You serve your God they serve theirs don't antagonise anyone otherwise we won't be able to live in peace.

tintingz:
Voodoo, jazz, juju whatever the nonsense is doesn't work, Africans should step up and stop believing in this useless sh*t.

Rilwayne001:

It works. That you've never experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't. Stop being confident of your ignorance.

tintingz:
If it works why was Africa colonized, if it works why is it not used in military force, if it works why are we not among the G7? Juju, voodoo are magic tricks, not what it's claim, I've personally challenge people that believe Juju is real to bring forward anyone for testing. Do you know the million dollars I will sell juju if juju is real like blulletproof juju?There has been a program where it opens for voodoo to be proven, but no one was able to prove it.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge

tintingz:
@Rilwayne001,
Here's a thread of a Nairalander that took the challenge when he traveled to Osun state to meet voodoo people, unfortunately the juju didn't work.https://www.nairaland.com/3290176/tomorrow-prove-me-atheists-voodoo

Rilwayne001:

I'm really hoping to come to Lagos one day and we can go on experience search of whether it works or not. I'm really going to put that into consideration now. What I'll continue to tell your however is that you do not discard what you've never experienced.

I must also concede the fact that even If i have never get to have a first hand experience, nevertheless I cannot authoritatively discard it based on that fact. The reason why I'm more inclined to believe that its real is for the sole reason that if actually it wasn't, why do we have virtually everyone believing in it?

You may say this is an appeal to bandwagon but then Why do we have some section of our local market selling, "Ori Eku" Ori Olongbo", antelope skin, live tortoise and all sorts of things used in making charms and stuffs? If actually these things are not working, why are still people still making huge sale from them? I have a woman selling these stuffs in my street here and believe she's built house and living comfortably from this business. Are you telling me those buying those stuffs are using it for fun?

Besides, when I was with my oga while I was learning a particular trade like that, my oga being a staunch believer make all sort of jujus and stuffs. He's supposedly a Muslim. A very person that understand the teaching of Islam and still yet goes about all these juju stuffs. He buys live tortoise. Grind all sorts of soaps and do all voodoo stuffs. Although I don't want to believe that these things are working, I must tell you that things are going pretty well for him. I had to leave when I couldn't take the whole shit again. But in front of him, you dare not say there's nothing like juju or voodoo stuffs, he's always going to prove its efficacy to you.

Besides, these voodoo stuffs isn't limited to Nigeria or Africa alone. Have you bothered to read northern America history as well as some parts of Asia and their view of voodoo before the modern world?

Finally, I'm not saying you shouldn't disbelieve in it, I'm saying you should stop saying it doesn't work blatantly until you've made your research quite well.

Rilwayne001:


This experience is not enough. It's just a single experience with some random guys. He should go to ijebu. Even you, I suppose you are from ijebu, no? Once whenever you're home, make your research. Not just about getting a cutlass to see whether it will penetrate or not or whether bullet will penetrate. There are lot of things that people use voodoo to do beyond all these.

tintingz:
When you're in Lagos buzz me.You are not sure about how potent juju is and you're arguing about it?

Because majority people believe in something doesn't mean it's true, there is a fallacy called argumentum ad populum

Majority believe in June so why is juju not used in military force? But You know why because juju is useless when we talk about nuclear weapons and advanced weapons.

Like I said juju is trick and also classical chemistry like mixing of herbs and those sorts, chemistry has been mordernized into mordern medicine and medicine are considered natural even juju is natural just that they invoke Gods or spirits to it and people believed in it out of ignorance.

Now let's make mordern Science as example, a medical doctor gave you paracetamol to cure your body pains, he told you to invoke the Gods name gravitete, quantumama and galaxipi and the medicine works, won't you be praising the Gods and the power of the paracetamol?

've made my research, challenged people but all are failure, there are many research about how useless juju, they are here on Nairaland.

Rilwayne001:


I'm not arguing about it rather I'm saying you shouldn't absolutely discard what you cannot substantiate.

Indeed it doesn't make it true, however we live in an environment these things are being experienced. That we haven't experienced it doesn't make it false. Once I asked a friend whether juju is truly real, they were actually talking about its efficacy, I then I just jokingly asked, the reply I got was that, "should we test it on you by beating you with it" I just like, oh no. Carry your wahala dey go.. Lol. I wish you were there just so they could test it on you hahaha.

Well, this is not enough reason to doubt it. Not enough.

You are talking herbal medicine now, we are not talking about that. I mean what sort of medicine do they use life tortoise to do? What type of chemical reaction results in making quick sale? What sort of chemical help in cajoling people with just few words?


You're still talking medicine, or do they use ori Olongbo to do medicine too? How about the skin of antelope? Even you see monkeys head in their shops. They have customers that buys these things often, do you think they buy it for fun? Or they buy it to make medicine? What type of medicine?

You haven't done enough. Coming here to argue against it is not enough.