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thoth: This is really horseshit. I don't know how they made you to believe such insensible things, maybe you are caught with the glamor that you fail to see the real USA, In USA MONOPOLY RULES, what you hear everyday is congress passing some laws to give some corporation more powers to exploit the people, you see mergers almost every week, in fact it is even strange hearing somebody say this. Do you even know that almost all the news media in North America is owned by less than 4 people and these are thousands of small companies that most of the time has been violently acquired.

I believe in examples. Give me one single private corporation in USA that is a monopoly.

Mgbadike80: the west advanced faster at a time when communal ties were more bounding and their development have stalled since they went individualistic.be it an english puritan or italian catholic communality, they have strong social values that are violently defended. Let me ask you a question, would you buy an argument that says "Nigeria should regalise homosexualism and same sex marriage because it has no business deciding what should go on between two consenting adults in their bedroom" if your brainwashed enough to believe this crappy argument then you case is really serious.

I think you are confusing a lot of things. I don't know which west you believe has stalled. Or what you call strong social values violently defended. Can you give an example?

Talking about homosexuality, the government has no business deciding what I do with my body. Legalising marriage is another discussion because it is a civil or religious affair. At a time in South Africa, Blacks couldn't marry whites. I some countries, Christians couldn't marry muslims. etc. A society decides that but also suffers its consequences.

Onlytruth: Nwanne I think you misunderstand some of my points. I am NOT a protectionist -far from that. I am not a pro-censorship. Not at all.
I am only asking that Nigerians REVIEW AND ADAPT things to Nigerian reality. That's all.
I am for smooth international trade and relations. However, nations are expected to be smart in adoting things into their societies. Nobody will tell you this openly, but ALL smart nations do it.

This is why the USA remains above the so called "smart" nations. Individual freedom and competition. Do you know that in US, you must create competition for yourself if nobody else is competing with you? People need to start trusting in themselves and the human capacity to advance instead of limiting ourselves through some misguided "smartness".

texanomaly: *sneaks into thread. Looks around. Bites lip. Tip toes through*

Satan sees you.

"ALL MY TEACHINGS ARE EASILY APPLICABLE TO ALL TIMES AND ALL CONDITIONS." - SATAN

thoth: As you rightly observed the former governments was active in protecting the fabric of the society from these assaults but it is sad that we no longer has those kind of governments now.

Erasing local cultures is one of the imperatives and necessary conditions for an ultra capitalist system to thrive, these systems being quite exploitative and relying on human greed, selfishness, consumerism, corruption and lack of self control sees the *African local values as a threat to properly bringing the nation into the capitalist sphere for exploitation, the answer to that is bombarding these nations with Suggestive Psychological Manipulations which they most likely not being prepared for such intrusions unconsciously accepts.

Many Governments still protect their nations from such psychological invasions though the imperialist would like to interpret it as something else. Libya used to block certain foreign TV and radio stations from its masses, china still does, you can’t watch MTV, BBC, CNN in china.

Nothing is more damaging than the promotion of individuality, Individualism, the sort being promoted all over the world seeks to foster the thought that every man is for himself, it tries to cancel the importance of the community which is the strength of the nation. That is why statements like “It is his life and you can’t tell him how to live it” or “that is his body not yours and he wears what he likes on it” can be rationalized.

Again is the notion that anything western is modern and what we have is not, an even more bizarre concept is the extension of modernity to culture, Now we have a “modern culture” and people strive to be modern or at least identify with this modern culture. In truth culture can not be modern; any well read fellow knows that, the reality is that they adopt an alien culture which has been unconsciously suggested to them as the definition of modernity.

You can try to ask them this question; is this your modern culture your culture or a borrowed culture? If it is a borrowed culture then how can you say it is a modern culture since it is not even your culture at all.

I guarantee you none of them will try to answer your question rather they will tell you that you enjoy white man’s phone and computer, you live in white mans land and use his internet and you spew crap. That is the level we found our nation and its people in and it is very sad.


*1; not only Africans, Arabs, South Americans and Asian cultures share the same attribute of putting the community above individual interest and try to promote self-control in the interest of the society.

The west is advancing faster than other because the west understood one thing: if your culture is drawing you back, abandon it.

Even the Chinese you mentioned are currently abandoning their culture and copying the westerners. Community living should not infringe on individual liberties. If China thinks it's doing its country a big service by blocking foreign media, it's got another think coming. Those that really want to watch CNN will watch it. Others just travel outside and see the same thing. Censorship never works and unless your culture evolves and adapts, it is doomed.

Onlytruth, our Eze. I ga adi.

What you said is as clear as the morning and I believe you mentioned Nigeria because of the nature of this forum. The people you are actually speaking to are your people, the Igbos, but as we are currently yoked with other nations, we have to pretend to cater for their welfare as well.

Don't mind the western efulefus here talking through their backside as usual.

Although your write-up was filled with good intentions, I believe it is the wrong approach to what we acknowledge is a big problem that would get worse. I don't believe in protectionism and censorship. They may have worked for some countries last century when the world was not as open as it is today.

Take the example you mentioned about "Desperate Housewives", I don't agree with you that the woman should be prevented from watching it if she wants to. Even if she doesn't understand it, who are we to decide what people should watch. I would rather we compete with "Hollywood", and produce series that our Nigerian housewives would love and appreciate.

It is competition that will make us better, not banning foreign products.

I will say one controversial thing here. We deliberately make things bad for us due to greed and illiteracy. Take Abakaliki rice for example. In it's purest form, it is better than any foreign counterpart but the producers deliberately add chaff and stones to the finished product in order to increase the weight and volume. So we end up with cheap mediocre rice instead of quality we can be proud of. Competition forced the producers to reduce this practice but the name is already tainted.

My point is this: without govt. protectionism and censorship, our people will still patronise our local producers if they maintain top quality; and the only way to maintain top quality is by allowing competition.

Another yahweh injunction you won't hear in sunday school: Kill brides on their wedding day!

Deuteronomy 22:13-21

13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[a] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

Thank you Lord indeed.

Thank you the Great Chukwu of Aro

Imeela Chineke anyi.

Otito n'ima mma diri gi rukwaa mgbe ebighi ebi.

Can I hear Ramen?!

psalmdave: y not post this in religion section

Tell the mod to move it there. Thanks.

texanomaly: How's your day going Dear?

The evil one is trying to destroy me but Satan's protection is keeping me strong.

Loving yahweh shows his love

1 Samuel 15:3

3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

Satanic

The Question is would Yar'Adua or Jonathan have betrayed Taylor?

Why is the betrayal coming from only one tribe?

[quote author=Mr.T Anonymous]Insanity,that is all!!![/quote]Double GBAM! nothing to add.

texanomaly: Where's Alfa?

here

why i dey laff?
man no fit cry

MASSOB

In the morning
Early in the morning
In the morning
I will rise and praise the Lord.

NL anti-tithe campaign is affecting them. lol

^^^ what a load of balderash.

try and give a straightforward answer for once. for one who is omnipresent, that doG of yours is the most hidden being ever.