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FirstbornWds:
You dare to write about bad refereeing in La Liga and worst still use the EPL as standard?

Lmao

Yea, it's well-known your refs are not that good in La Liga.

See your fellow fans above lamenting about poor officiating of Madrid games in the league:

Devvy4:
Midway into this season, we have only gotten 1 penalty, while barka have gotten 5

Sniper04:
You Sef watch the game normally, ref too favour those guys, hazard no bad for this game

andrewbaba44:
So it’s no more epl that have crazy defenders but Laliga ?

Wonderful

I don't blame those crazy defenders in your league. Most of the refs in La Liga are bad in officiating games and don't protect their superstars like Hazard the way EPL refs do.

Decent game from Hazard. Madrid can return him to us (Chelsea) in January before the crazy defenders in La Liga wreck his career totally with injuries.

Obviously, he's still a great player.

[quote author=Zyxzzzz post=108643273][/quote]Hope Hazard justifies his inclusion in the starting 11.

IMAliyu:
Have you heard of the dark forest hypothesis?

No, what's it all about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9MxqFfBTzQ&feature=youtu.be

CAPSLOCKED:
HARDMIRROR. YOU HAVE TO TREAT RELATIONSHIPS LIKE YOU TREAT RELIGION, IF NOT, ONLY LOSES FOR YOU.
THEY'RE BOTH SIMILAR IN SEVERAL WAYS AND YOU MUST FOLLOW THEM WITH LOGIC RATHER THAN EMOTIONS.

Hmmm. It's easier said than done.

AnfieldFan:
What you're advocating for won't be solved with the eradication of every language on Earth bar one..
No matter your proficiency in English Language, an average Caucasian family would be uncomfortable with the thought of you marrying their daughter..
We are all humans, but each human is shaped distinctly from social experiences throughout his/her lifetime...It is because of these distinct experiences that we can't be one..
Inherent traits have predisposed us to certain behaviors of which most humans can't help but manifest..
Humans are greedy, but it doesn't mean we can't be selfless..
Instead of advocating for the eradication of things that make us unique, you should be advocating for pragmatism in dealing with our cultural practices and tolerance/appreciation while understanding that our differences ultimately push us or make us strive to achieve more...
I can appreciate a Muslim, Christian, Traditional worshipper, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist or a Yoruba, Urhobo, Esan Man because I appreciate their different differences...

Besides, the world would be very boring and monotonous if everything and everyone becomes Homogeneous...
Same sense of humor, material, dressing, dancing, entertainment etc...
Variety is the spice of life...

This is a thoughtful response. I wonder why a brilliant poster like Donjazet can't see that his ideas are highly unrealistic and detrimental to the local cultures and the principle of egalitarianism and self-determination.

I like your closing paragraph especially. Diversity makes the world rich and beautiful.

OtemAtum:
There are afterlives by defaults. We have the Anyxtens, etc. But no one stays forever in a single afterlife, we move from one to another, exploring.

Interesting. What's Anyxtens, and what language is the word in?

OtemAtum:
So the OP thinks the guy who committed suicide is now in his god's fire. So if the OP have the opportunity to meet the guy now, he will want to see him out inside fire. Like OP, like his god. What has the guy done to warrant fire forever? Even Jehovah will committed suicide in one of his reincarnations to the world, yet there was no fire for him in the afterlife.

According to the Book of Universal History, it is said the afterlife of a person has to do with the deceased continuing to live in his/her thoughts after the death of the physical body.

If afterlife exists, are people that died by suicide denied of anything in the afterlife perhaps by their ancestors?

BlueRayDick:
Why are u so hot tempered and overly reactive like this ?

Somebody posted a screenshot that states that the whitemen criminalized not wearing of clothes in the abakaliki province around July 1960 , I was surprised at how the Whiteman could do that and pointed it out that I actually understand why most people who hold anti-imperialist views do not like most things about the whiteman’s time in africa...... But here u are not taking ur time to understand my post but reacting on impulse thinking it’s an attack on u .

Teejay try dey cool down Na haba!

Okay, I got your point now.

Amoto94:
In a rush to reply without understanding their points you ended insulting the person. The person you quoted was actually supporting your view somehow but due to the persecution complex in you, you ended up feeling attacked

Stay off my mentions. I don't have the time or interest to engage petty posters.

BlueRayDick:
I don’t know why the message in this photo is kind of hilarious to me; maybe cos whitemen tend to exaggerate things sha . So the white man is saying as recent as July 1960 people in Abakaliki in the present eastern Nigeria don’t even don a loin clothe and there was a move to prosecute them for it ?

Na wa o, now I understand the pain of some of these anti-imperialists people like teejay . Why criminalize not wearing of clothes if what is written in that screenshot is correct ?

Who criminalized not wearing clothes? Is everything okay with you?

Someone that's not bold enough to mention the poster he's referring to isn't worth my time.

Astrid4:
Donjazet was correct
@ d bolded was a lie

Interesting photo. What's the source of the picture?

donjazet:
Is this for A001? What's your beef with him?

Only the guy knows who high budget Wole Soyinka and low budget Wole Soyinka are, both of which are both fictional characters that only exist in his small mind.

Being a slave of the moongod and practicing a religion that encourages slavery and slave-trading, it's expected he would add the word budget when talking about a human being like the Muslim slave traders used to do today in the past.

Greatihex:
Point of correction. IGBO. There is nothing like Ibo.

Okay

The slave (head slammer) up there isn't bold enough to mention the poster he's referring to

Havertz10:
this right here is the problem, forcing people into different social brackets under the guise of culture, meanwhile you people use force to exert such conformity

It's true that culture forces people into social brackets.

Culture has its good and bad aspects, but it's important to maintain social order and peace.

Havertz10:
my culture doesn't reveal my core values, it reveals the values that fools have allowed the elders of my culture choose to exert not mine

You should criticize the English culture with the same energy because as far as you're concerned it's superior to the local ones.

donjazet:
You are jumping from point A to point F. You're not coherent enough in your thought process.

How does me championing a common language automatically translate to a disdain of my culture.

I am telling you that I am indifferent to my culture. Me being igbo adds nothing of value to my life. I don't hate it, neither do I love it, I just don't care.
Neither should you.

You know, this is not highlighted enough. It's egregious seeing a black man (not you) who prays to a foreign religious God, does a white man's traditional wedding {white wedding}, talk about espousing his cultural values. It's hypocritical.

But again, I don't personally believe in these things, we keep learning new ways of life {culture} everyday.
And again, I am not saying that speaking one language universally will automatically translate into us not having divisions but it will inevitably help in us understanding ourselves better. That is simply a practical use. We are both practicing that now.

Take this thread for example. All the participants of these thread are most likely from more than 10 different ethnic groups but we're able to share our love of football {white man's sports} together in English. We know the entertainment value of football to us and we share that joy together because we speak the same language. That's practical. Our culture has no use here.

It's disappointing and saddening you would say the highlighted.

If our cultures have no value, is it the English culture or the American that has value?

Is the English culture better than ours?

As a human, your culture is your identity and shows your core values.

If you value the culture of the colonial master, the English, over the Ibo culture, that makes you their slave.

What then makes you different from the religious people you criticize?

BlueRayDick:
Well as per the bold part of ur statement , my both parents are Yoruba; I guess I can say I’m a Yoruba person . Yet I don’t believe Yoruba is the best language in the world ; in fact I don’t believe there’s anything like “the best language in the world “. To me language is just a means/system of communicating with ur fellow humans , transmitting cultures over time , transferring knowledge , etc.

I understand ur point concerning Donj thinking the whole idea of universal is possible especially the line of thought that our own Languages/cultures having to give way for a universally acceptable one. I also don’t believe it’s possible or achievable in centuries to come. Human beings are too complex for such thing to come to fruition. Shey it is the Chinese that have held on to mandarin for centuries , refused to learn English nor speak it even when they understand it and are in a gathering of mostly English speakers ; are they the people that will embrace any universal language that is not mandarin ?

Okay.

donjazet:
Christ!!! Do you even know my position on these things at all?? How are you not understanding me?

You know I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the existence of a supreme being. So why would I clamour for the adoption of ANY religion in the first place??
God, Allah, sango, amadioha, oshimiri etc these are all fictional characters invented by our old societies to make sense of the things around them and as a means of control.

I have always championed the demise of religion. One less thing to divide humanity.
Please reason rationally. Don't be one of those people stuck in a rabbit hole

It's true differences in language and religion are a barrier when relating with other people.

But clamoring for English to become a universal language and saying you prefer the local languages with millions of speakers in Nigeria and abroad to die out is simply unreasonable.

If you want religion to be wiped out because it divides people (which is true), then you should also clamor for language to be wiped out because it has the same effect.

But you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

It's unrealistic to think religion or language will die. But any particular religion or language can die with time paving way for new ones.

Yet, no one should gloat over or want their language to die because it means such a people will become slaves.

Once the language of a people is dead, their culture will also die naturally. That means such a people have lost their identity.

Every reasonable person strives to keep their language alive and prevent it from dying to preserve their identity and values.

With time, the two popular toxic religions (Christianity and Islam) will die naturally when more advances are made in science, and future people will be rationalists and regard things like music, football, etc. as their religion.

But religion can't die completely.

This sort of ill-thought ideas shouldn't be coming from an atheist (who are mostly highly intelligent people), but the adherents of the foreign religions and their gods because they're the ones that usually demonize anything indigenous to Africa.

donjazet:
My good friend. I know you're big on this African culture stuff. Your hatred for the religious encroachment of Islam and Christianity into Africa extends to your disdain of our own acculturation of the white man and his ideals.

But you need to let go of the past and look into the future. What is really the need for us to espouse our tribes?? Really look into that question.

Let me assume that you're yoruba. I'm Igbo.
What is the practical use of your language over mine?? Is it not this English language that is connecting both of us??
Does you being Yoruba add any special value over me being igbo.? All these affiliations are purely sentimental.

No need to brood over it. There is truly nothing wrong with our cultures dying. They have no practical use. Me being an Igbo man living, having a cultural identity as an Igbo man when I live in Maryland Lagos is useless.
I am Igbo in all but name.
You may think that espousing the English language means espousing the white man but that's not true.

The British that taught us the language don't even have an autonomy over the language again.

The English language has become the default language of the world. That's why it has even had variations of it. IE, American English, Australian English, pidgin English, Jamaican English {rastafarian} . Etc.

There is no use fighting change, we just have to succumb to it.

You're not realistic. You might as well start clamoring for Christianity, the religion of most English-speaking nations, as the universal religion all in a bid to have a united (utopian) world.

Your posts are a classic example of what it's called policy somersault common in successive governments of Nigeria.

So far, you've failed to give practical reasons why you think having a single language, religion will bring about a united world.

You've only shown your dislike/disdain for the Ibo culture like most Africans with deeply ingrained inferiority complex do as regards their local culture.

donjazet:
I do love that, don't I??
That's what you get for calling me mentally enslaved when that is what word is loaded.

I would like any Igbo man here to tell me when last he revered amadioha, or went to an ofala or new yam festival. Or believes in the supremacy of our kings on the village as our highest political authority. Or officially taught their children the Igbo language.
Our culture is dead. Nothing to chestbeat

Can you remind me again why you criticize Christianity and Islam because here you're stating the local cultures and languages are dead (even though they're not) and clamoring for English to become the universal language?

You might as well start clamoring for Christianity to become the universal religion since most Igbos don't revere Amadioha or Chukwu, who they call Yahweh or Allah ignorantly. These posts reek of utter confusion.

BlueRayDick:
What I don’t understand here is why u chose to highlight the first 4 lines in my post when I in fact I proceeded to explain further that point in subsequent lines.

Simply put what I was trying to say is the same thing u just said ; without the inferiority complex angle u tried to bring into it which I don’t agree with. ( except of course u are saying Wole has inferiority complex cos he speaks and writes big grammar)

The inferiority complex I mentioned doesn't apply to Wole Soyinka because he always promotes the indigenous Yoruba culture in his works, criticizes the foreign imported religions that stiffle the development of our local cultures and languages.

And he's forced to write in English because it's the language of our colonial masters and one of the most popular languages in the world.

To people like Wole Soyinka, English is an important language, but is not the best language in the world.

For a Yoruba person, Yoruba language is the best language in the world. It's only inferiority complex and/or mental slavery that will make a Yoruba person feel otherwise.

BlueRayDick:
[b]Africans take pride in speaking language like English , French because those are the languages Africans were taught in schools from formative years up to the university level. [/b]Most European countries are taught in their own local language and then a foreign language is added as optional( like we have French in some schools in Africa) . Africans are not as privileged as their European counterparts who weren’t really forced to learn and adopt a foreign language like English as lingua Franca .

Someone like Wole Soyinka takes pride speaking English language because that’s the language of instruction in Nigeria where he had most of his education. If the prof had been spanish born and bred in Spain he would probably have maintained that same pride writing books in Spanish language , getting international recognition doing it too. This is where I have issue with Reno’s point . He added people like Wole Soyinka who takes pride in speaking and writing English ( a foreign language ) , to a list of those who achieved great things with native names and then in the next paragraph he’s criticizing other Africans who do exactly same just because they bear white man’s name. I no just understand his point with those two contradicting paragraph.

Like I said earlier , I don’t think it makes much sense mocking u that didn’t grow to speak and learn English as first or second language like most people here.

As regards the highlighted: No, that's not why Africans take pride in speaking foreign languages. It's simply due to colonialism and inferiority complex the average African exhibits compared with other races, especially the whites and Arabs.

It's the colonial masters that introduced and enforced these foreign languages and foreign systems of education in those languages on their colonies.

Without unprecedented use of great force and violence and novel neocolonialism campaigns, the world can never be united under a single rule with a universal language, religion, political system, economic system.

It's mere wishful thinking and will never happen. Even if such happens in a world of fantasy, humans will still never be united.

To create a united world, you need humans to be perfect and enlightened without having traits like greed, lack of contentment, jealousy, envy, avarice.

But it's impossible to eliminate these traits in humans unless it's possible to engineer a new species of humans genetically with the traits you desire to have in the inhabitants of a united world.

All these are unnatural.

donjazet:
You have made good points, but it still doesn't take away from my main point of all these arguments.

Achieving global peace is a multi-pronged approach. There are key factors that affect humanity socially. LANGUAGE, RELIGION, POLITICS, TRIBAL CHAUVINISM, ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. etc.

We can solve these issues simultaneously but it will take time. We are already doing this on a global stage with relative success.

That the UN exists is testament to how united we are becoming as a society on the whole. This has never happened since the beginning of homosapiens civilization. Almost every person on earth is represented in the UN. Striking bargains everyday, averting crises and preventing major global wars like the ones we had.

Of course, it hasn't been perfect all around but it has been a gigantic step towards all human beings on earth understanding ourselves better and beginning to share common goals.


Language alone will not guarantee us a united world but it will be one step closer.

You're not being realistic and pragmatic with your takes on this issue. Obviously, English will become the universal language in this utopian world you're touting?

As intelligent species who have insatiable desires, the human race can never have one (universal) language, one religion, a unified economic system, etc. This is basic sociology.

For the singular reason that our wants and desires, abilities and talents, worldviews and predujices are diverse, humans can never a single language, religion, economic system, political system.

That feat has never been achieved in human history, and I don't think it will ever be achieved.

Even if in the future, a one-world government emerges, humanity will still never be able to have a single universal language, economic system, religion.

All these are unnatural.

How does it make sense saying our native languages should die out to enable the world have a universal language? This kind of thinking is simply due to mental slavery.

You might as well clamor for a return of the British colonial rule.

Once the language of a people is dead, their culture will also die naturally since language is one of the key elements in any culture.

Diversity is what makes the world beautiful; even nature is wonderfully diverse and encourages diversity.

NASA confirms next Friday for Webb Space Telescope launch

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson confirmed Friday that the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to blast off on Dec. 24. A European Ariane rocket will provide the lift from South America's French Guiana.

The $10 billion Webb—considered the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope—was supposed to soar Saturday, but was jolted by a clamp during launch preparations, resulting in a four-day delay.

Then a bad communication link on the rocket had to be fixed, postponing the launch another two days.

U.S. and European space officials signed off Friday on the launch date, following one last round of testing.

Nelson expects a smaller crowd at the launch site because of the holidays. Liftoff is scheduled for 7:20 a.m. EST.

"Since it's Christmas Eve, all the congressional delegations that were going down, all of that has evaporated," he told The Associated Press. Even the NASA and contractor team has dwindled, he noted. But he'll be there.

Already years late in flying, Webb will look back to almost the beginning of time, to when the first stars and galaxies were forming, while also examining the atmospheres of planets orbiting stars closer to home.

NASA is partnering with the European and Canadian space agencies on the mega project.

"There's so much riding on this," Nelson said, "opening up just all kinds of new understanding and revelations about the universe."

Is there a better Christmas present than seeing the telescope launch? Nelson answered by breaking into song: "All I want for Christmas are not my two front teeth, but for the success of JWST"—referring to the telescope by its acronym.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-12-nasa-friday-webb-space-telescope.html